The reality is that Netanyahu 🇮🇱 attacked Iran 🇮🇷 not primarily to prevent a nuclear weapon but to prevent a nuclear agreement between 🇺🇸 and 🇮🇷. He was key in driving Trump to leave the original 🇺🇸 🇮🇷 JCPOA deal, and now wanted to prevent a new one. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Proposed sale of millions of acres of public land under GOP budget bill prompts backlash trib.al/yc3pgu2

Israel's defense minister says that Iranian leader Khamenei "can no longer be allowed to exist" after a war-crime attack in an Israeli hospital. Would he apply that same principle to Israeli war-crime attacks on hospitals in Gaza? trib.al/y9U1aFP

When the writer Alistair Kitchen was stopped by Customs and Border Protection last week, after flying to Los Angeles from Melbourne, a border agent told him, “explicitly and proudly,” why he’d been pulled out of the customs line. nyer.cm/kVMUIUB

BREAKING NEWS: MUSK ADMITS HE PLANS TO TAMPER WITH GROK TO MAKE IT LIE FOR HIM

Israeli strikes in Iran killed 639 people, including 263 civilians, U.S. rights group says haaretz.com/middle-east-ne…

A viral video that shows the destruction caused by Israeli strikes in Gaza has been verified as real. The footage is of mass destruction at the Jabaliya refugee camp. dw.com/en/fact-check-…

HBO now has two documentaries on how broken Ohio is… The one on Jim Jordan is apparently ranked at #1. The other describes why Ohio is considered the #1 state in the nation when it comes to corruption. Leading in all the worst ways, while we trail in GDP growth,

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred the Trump administration from conditioning transportation funding on their cooperation with ICE, saying the effort by Secretary Duffy has no statutory authority, violates the constitution and is too vague to enforce. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

NPR has heard from more than 50 veterans around the country who are upset about the VA cutting a program that was helping vets avoid foreclosure. Veterans now have worse options than most Americans. npr.org/2025/06/19/nx-…

Ghazala Hashmi, the Dem LG nominee in Virginia, first ran for office after Trump's 2017 ban on travel from Muslim countries. A Muslim American born in India and brought to the US as a child, she quoted Langston Hughes: "I, too, sing America"

“Dictator Approved,” a new 8-foot-tall sculpture on the National Mall, is a response to the June 14 military parade and authoritarianism, according to a permit issued by the National Park Service. wapo.st/43RBoAT

President Trump, who ran on making Juneteenth a national holiday in 2020, has a Juneteenth message for the masses

He speaks much differently about this stuff when it’s an election year.

"One year out of college and with no apparent national security expertise, Thomas Fugate is the Department of Homeland Security official tasked with overseeing the government’s main hub for combating violent extremism."

“Things aren’t just getting worse. They’re getting worse faster,” said study co-author Zeke Hausfather. “Some reports, there’s a silver lining. I don’t think there really is one in this one.” washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…

Wow. Read this sentence: —> Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s new group of vaccine panel appointees “fails to include experts on any diseases that vaccines prevent. Or experts on vaccines themselves. Or experts on infectious-disease epidemiology. Or experts on clinical trials,”

Trump: They should give me the Nobel prize for Rwanda and have you looked at the Congo? You could say Serbia. You could say a lot of them. The big one is India and Pakistan. I should have gotten it four or five times. They won't give it because they only give it to liberals.

Trump senior adviser Kari Lake guts Voice of America My story npr.org/2025/06/20/nx-…

it’s such a fitting coda to 2000s paranoid internet culture that George W Trump is doing every despotic thing this guy used to rant about—masked abductions, drone surveillance on Americans, FEMA camps, neocon wars—and he aggressively shills for it. The perfect full circle👌