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GOOD JOB DONALD & BIBI: 🤬 #Israel Threatens To Make Tehran 'Burn' After Iranian Retaliatory Strikes @reuters.com 🤯 With Israel saying its operation could last weeks and urging Iranians to rise up against their rulers, fears have grown of a regional conflagration dragging in outside powers.

Binyamin Netanyahu’s decision to strike Iran was audacious, even reckless. The Israeli offensive is a gamble which may not work https://econ.trib.al/uNSrZMG

Donald Trump’s anti-war pledge tested as Israel’s attack on Iran splits Maga base https://www.ft.com/content/3431e349-94d3-4250-a21d-a91f635af2b4

God is angry. No Kings.

Unlike the battles Donald Trump is having with universities or law firms, the confrontation in Los Angeles involves actual troops. Regardless of who provokes violence, it could escalate and spread https://econ.trib.al/QxrTUDM

Meeting in emergency session today, the UN General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution demanding an immediate, unconditional and lasting ceasefire in Gaza. The United States & Israel were among the 12 voting against. news.un.org/en/story/202...

The UN is reporting a full internet blackout in the Gaza Strip, likely due to military activity damaging the last cable into the enclave, which has paralyzed aid operations.

Safe to predict that Trump will eventually turn on Gen. Caine, just as he has with so many other appointees he was once enamored with. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

#Iran Announces a New Nuclear Enrichment Site After UN Watchdog Censure @apnews.com Iran said it has built and will activate a third nuclear enrichment facility, ratcheting up tensions with the U.N. on Thursday immediately after its atomic watchdog agency censured Iran

North Korea Claims Warship Launch Successful on Second Try | BBC News The 5,000-ton destroyer was damaged when it capsized during the first attempted launch in May.

It is hard for liberals to imagine the Trump regime actually accomplishing its goal of whitening America. We think the country is just too diverse. But that’s a failure of imagination, which is a failure of strategy. It can and will get much worse. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

“Military personnel rolling into the streets of our cities and towns in armored vehicles is not normal,” says @lizagoitein.bsky.social

Another day, another dozen migrants were transferred to Guantanamo Bay, the offshore immigration detention site that has the capacity of housing fewer than 200 immigration detainees. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/12/u...

PATENTLY UNLAWFUL AND UNCONSTITUTIONAL, but they will keep pushing unless and until SCOTUS stops them. White House Looks To Freeze More Agency Funds — and Expand Executive Power @politico.com

(Reuters) - The role of Elon Musk's SpaceX in an ambitious new U.S. missile defense system is in question following the dramatic feud last week between the billionaire entrepreneur and President Donald Trump, according to three people familiar with the project. www.reuters.com/business/aer...

They sold MAGA merchandise on Fort Bragg before Trump's speech. The Army complained. They were overruled.

US Sues New York Over Law Blocking Immigration Enforcement Near Court @reuters.com • Lawsuit alleges restrictions on immigration enforcement violate U.S. Constitution • New York vows to defend 2020 law • Trump administration has sought to ramp up courthouse arrests

Iran Retaliates With Missile Attacks on Israel, as Netanyahu Urges Iranians To Stand up To Regime | BBC News www.bbc.com/news/live/c9... 1/8

State department planning to lay off hundreds of US-based staff https://www.ft.com/content/78c7559e-ab23-469c-8ac5-dd744704d1b7

COLUMN: Israel’s true target may be much larger than Iran’s nuclear program, writes our senior foreign affairs correspondent @nahaltoosi.bsky.social.

Europe will build NATO 2.0 without the US, but doesn't plan to abandon the transatlantic alliance, focusing on a United States restored to rational thinking after the departure of Donald Trump. www.ft.com/content/c8cc...

This is a good idea. www.wsj.com/tech/army-re...

National Coordinators Advance Work on Icebreaker Collaboration Effort - Canada.ca 👍 Representatives from Canada, Finland and the United States met to discuss the next steps in the collaboration to build Arctic and polar icebreakers www.canada.ca/en/public-se...

Ex-South African Envoy To US Unrepentant About ‘Supremacy’ Remarks - The Africa Report.com ☑️ “A supremacist narrative had to drive Trump to power in US,” he says, part and parcel of an effort to intimidate senators or members of Congress. That same narrative was then used “to put Europe on terms”.

Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, June 13, 2025 | Institute for the Study of War Key Takeaways: ⤵️ www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

Panama risks boiling over as Donald Trump’s threats supercharge protests https://www.ft.com/content/c64f880e-8afe-4dfd-9e82-0ef1c1739c1f

Iran’s Down. But Far From Out. @politico.com 😬 “Everything that they have prepared in their lives in order to cause damage to Israel is going to be used because this is the world that everybody was prepared for,” warned Kuperwasser. “They’re not going to keep it for rainy days. Rain is falling now.”

Iran Update Special Edition: Israeli Strikes on Iran, June 12, 2025 @thestudyofwar.bsky.social Key Takeaways: ⤵️ www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder...

BEYOND STUPID: Trump Upends Historic Columbia River Basin Agreement, Bringing Uncertainty To Salmon Recovery Efforts @opb.org A new memo from the president unravels a 2023 deal that put a halt to decades of lawsuits over the endangered fish

Despite Success, WA Cuts Funding for Homeless Encampment Removal Program @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social 🤮 The program was WILDLY SUCCESSFUL, closing nearly 80 encampments in which more than 2,200 people were living. [CA & SF, PLEASE NOTE WHAT WORKS]

Opinion | Democrats Botch Immigration . . . Again @wsj.com California hands Trump the showdown he was hoping for, as the left continues to bungle the politics of deportation. 🤮