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As of June 14th, 2025, more than 400 scholars from over 30 countries -including 31 Nobel Laureates- have signed an open letter warning against the global resurgence of authoritarianism:
14. Juni 2025
Ein Jahrhundert später: Ein erneuter offener Brief gegen die Rückkehr des Faschismus
Am 1. Mai 1925, als Mussolini bereits an der Macht war, veröffentlichten eine Gruppe italienischer Intellektueller einen offenen Brief, in dem sie das faschistische Regime verurteilten.

But doesn’t israel have the right to defend itself against the people it is starving?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun/17/dozens-killed-in-gaza-waiting-for-food-trucks-says-health-ministry
…

Trump Media and Technology Group files an S-1 with the US SEC to launch a spot Bitcoin and Ethereum ETF, allocating 75% to bitcoin and 25% to ether (Oliver Knight/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/06/16/d…

Donald Trump's Truth Social Files for Dual BTC and ETH ETF
The move follows registration for a standalone Truth Social bitcoin ETF earlier this month.

Wie der Videospielcrash in den Achtzigern die erste VR-Brille hervorbrachte
Kein anderes Jahrzehnt prägte die Entwicklung der Virtual Reality so sehr wie die Achtziger. Entscheidenden Anteil daran hatte das Beinahe-Ende der Videospiele.

Turbulent relations between France and Israel are nothing new,
but even by those historical standards the crisis caused by President Emmanuel Macron’s apparently⭐️ imminent readiness to recognize a Palestinian state is acute.
https:…

France’s Macron Faces Dilemma With Intention to Recognize Palestinian State
The French-Israeli relationship has always been turbulent, but the prospect that President Emmanuel Macron may recognize a Palestinian state has brought tension to a new level.

When I say that I wish the bubble would burst so we could start having actual conversation, this is the kind of thing I’m talking about.
In the meantime, not being a researcher myself in any kind of position to critique the paper, I’m happy to just look at it and cherry-pick the conclusion that I think is unequivocally helpful regardless: we all (students in school, students of life) should cultivate active, engaged minds that work with ideas by •doing• and •creating• instead of simply passively receiving.

Some conservative authors are turning to podcasts to promote their books; publishers say Joe Rogan can boost book sales by 3,000 to 4,000 copies immediately (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/14/books/conservative-books-podca…

Trying to Sell a Conservative Book? Go on a Podcast.
Many of the most popular shows welcome right-wing arguments and freewheeling conversation. Publishers of other political stripes are noticing, too.

Today:
https://toot.cafe/@aardrian/114665570548133546
File it here:
https://www.

#syrien #bikini

‼️Die #Petition
"Verbot von Deepfakes von echten Menschen vom 19.03.2025"
hat bisher 934 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 29066 Unterschriften bis zum 23.07.2025.
https://

Citizen science illuminates the nature of city lights: #LightPollution

"New File Format Research and Documentation on the Sustainability of Digital Formats" | The Signal https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/06/new-file-format-research/

Congress confronts its own trauma (Burgess Everett/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/16/2025/congress-minnesota-lee-smith-trauma
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p54#a250617p54

My favourite #summerbeverage with #caffeine: A lungo directly from the Espresso machine into a mug full of ice cubes made with an ice cube machine. Result: Ice-cold #coffee with crema. 😋 No sugar or milk …

Degrowth as an Essential Part of an Eco-Socialist Transition
by Anna Gregoletto, on DegrowthUK
https://degrowthuk.org/2025/06/12/degrowth-as-an-essential-part-of-an-eco-socialist-transition/
Also
Degrowth: …

Degrowth as an Essential Part of an Eco-Socialist Transition
by Anna Gregoletto* In the series Prospects for Degrowth Many thanks to Mark Burton for encouraging me to write this article and offering so many helpful suggestions. Thank you also to my comrades …

"Bangladesh aims to revive five critically endangered plants"
#Bangladesh #Plants #Environment

Bangladesh aims to revive five critically endangered plants
For the first time in its history, Bangladesh is attempting to protect five species from extinction by increasing their numbers and strengthening their population in the wild. The floral species are bulborox (Bulbophyllum roxburghii), the small-bulb orchid Bulbophyllum oblongum, dwarf date palm (Phoenix acaulis), chaulmoogra (Hydnocarpus kurzii) and bash pata (Podocarpus neriifolius). All of them are […]

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40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead continue their 20th anniversary celebrations in #berkeley, the middle night of 3, a 5pm start. early summer ’85, show #2.
soundboard:

Esta época lluviosa 2025 se viene con todo, espero que las distintas comisiones de emergencia y comunidades estén preparadas, porque estamos recibiendo las primeras ondas tropicales y ya tenemos los suelos saturados, y ojo, no han empezado los huracanes del Atlšntico.
Fuente de la imagen Instituto Meteorológico Nacional de Costa Rica

from my link log —
Implementing dependent types in pi-forall.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2207.02129
saved 2025-06-06 https://dotat.at/…

Implementing Dependent Types in pi-forall
These lecture notes describe the design of a minimal dependently-typed language called "pi-forall" and walk through the implementation of its type checker. They are based on lectures given at the Oregon Programming Languages Summer School during July 2023.

Good morning everyone! We are starting into our second week of vacation. We'll be seeing some friends.
Meanwhile, enjoy this photo from a bike and hike we did last year.
#hiking #wandern #mountains

Visiting family today and they have a kitten which is always exploring so is called Dora, but ended up on my lap. #Caturday (a day late)

No Kings Day in Fresno : Indybay
https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2025/06/14/18877247.php

#potd Diving in Neufeldersee for AOWD http://domm.plix.at/potd/2025-06-14.html

📢 Mindestens 14 Tote bei Luftangriff auf Kiew
Bei einem russischen Luftangriff auf die ukrainische Hauptstadt Kiew sind nach Angaben der städtischen Militärverwaltung mindestens 14 Menschen getötet worden. Ersten Angaben des Innenministeriums zufolge wurden mehr als 40 Verletzte gezählt.
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Mindestens 14 Tote bei Luftangriff auf Kiew
Bei einem russischen Luftangriff auf Kiew sind nach Angaben der städtischen Militärverwaltung mindestens 14 Menschen getötet worden. Laut dem ukrainischen Innenministerium wurden zudem 44 Menschen verletzt.

Benefits of remote work: I get to microwave fish, and nobody complains about it.

https://minnesotareformer.com/2025/06/14/a-democratic-legislator-was-assassinated-right-wing-influencers-coughed-out-disinformation/

Voor de liefhebbers is er vanaf 20 juni het nieuwe seizoen van Vers op tv.
Tegenvaller voor de fans: dit zijn alle afleveringen, maar er schijnt ook een 'special' aan te komen.
T goeie nieuws: in elk geval kun je ze alvast bekijken. Dit is NLziet, maar ik neem aan dat dit ook op NPOstart kan.
#NPO #NLziet

Auditory gamma-frequency entrainment abolishes working memory deficits in a rodent model of autism #40Hz sensory entra…

Auditory Gamma-Frequency Entrainment Abolishes Working Memory Deficits in a Rodent Model of Autism
Individuals on the autism spectrum often exhibit atypical responses to sensory stimuli and difficulties with behavioral regulation, reflecting altered functional patterns in core sensory-motor circuits. These sensory processing differences suggest the potential for using patterned auditory stimulation to modulate neural activity and mitigate symptoms. While impairments in higher cognitive functions are a hallmark of autism, they remain underexplored in rodent models compared to basic sensory-mo…

Guilty as charged. https://mastodon.social/@richaesthetic/114692763538469720

RIVM rioolwaarden update.
Net als afgelopen vrijdag zien we een plateau.
Twee nieuwe dagen in de data: 10 en 11 juni, met resp. 45% en 15% van de meetstations.
#qp2t

Update #bloomscrolling am #klexenhaus, die glutrote "Duftzauber" fängt mit reicher Blüte an.
#roses

Your values are euros and cents. https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114699001106153315

Fairphone 6: Neuer Leak verrät viele Details
Ein Händler hat offenbar viele Ausstattungsdetails des Fairphone 6 verfrüht veröffentlicht. Schon vor der Vorstellung sind technische Daten durchgesickert.
https://www.…

A survey of UK academic integrity violations finds nearly 7,000 proven AI cheating cases in 2023-24, or 5.1 per 1,000 students, up from 1.6 per 1,000 in 2022-23 (Michael Goodier/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.co…

"Es klingt absurd, nach dem Angriff, zwischen so vielen Beamten, teils mit Maschinengewehr: Die Stimmung war fantastisch. Die Leute vor Ort sind eben schlimme Sachen gewohnt. Die lassen sich davon aber nicht unterkriegen. Die Neonazis wollten das Fest kaputtmachen und uns auch. Und nichts davon ist ihnen wirklich gelungen."
#BadFreienwalde

Lawmakers are poised to extend Pell Grant eligibility to short-term credential programs.
With few guardrails in place, it could incentivize an explosion in unaccredited and for-profit providers.
https://www.insidehighered.com/ne…

Workforce Pell Would Extend Grants to Unaccredited Programs
Lawmakers are poised to extend Pell eligibility to short-term credential programs. With few guardrails in place, it could incentivize an explosion in unaccredited and for-profit providers.

Saudi Arabia executes prominent Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser, who was arrested in 2018 over Twitter posts alleging corruption within the Saudi royal family (Committee to Protect Journalists)
https://cpj.org/2025/06/saudi-arabia-e

Saudi Arabia executes journalist Turki al-Jasser on treason, terrorism charges  - Committee to Protect Journalists
Washington, D.C., June 14, 2025 — Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Interior announced the Saturday execution of prominent Saudi journalist Turki al-Jasser, who had been detained for seven years on charges of treason, foreign collaboration, funding terrorism, and endangering national security and unity.  Saudi authorities arrested al-Jasser in 2018 and seized his devices, believing that he...

How to Beat Back Trump on Trans Rights -- and Much Else (Ezra Klein/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-sarah-mcbride.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p59#a250617p59

‼️Die #Petition
"Erhalt des freien Zugangs zur Psychotherapie vom 16.04.2025"
hat bisher 4217 Mitzeichnungen.
Es fehlen noch 25783 Unterschriften bis zum 22.07.2025.
https://

It does say something about the sheer magnitude of the No Kings protests that we could for a moment believe the photo was in fact from yesterday.

"Climate futures: What’s ahead for our world beyond 1.5°C of warming?"
#Climate #ClimateChange #ParisAgreement

Climate futures: What’s ahead for our world beyond 1.5°C of warming?
This story is the first article of a two-part Mongabay mini-series exploring possible climate futures. Read Part One. Humanity stands at a critical juncture in the climate emergency: As countries worldwide prepare to submit their climate commitments for the next decade, scientists report mounting evidence that we are very close to breaching the 1.5° Celsius […]

'Severe Overreaction': Fox News Host Blasts Secret Service For Attacking Padilla | Crooks and Liars
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/06/severe-overreaction-fox-news-host-blasts

Candidate Dark Galaxy-2 - Validation and Analysis of an Almost Dark #Galaxy in the Perseus Cluster: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/adddab -> „Dunkle Galaxie“ im Per­seus­hau­fen ent­deckt: https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/2025/dunkle-galaxie-im-perseushaufen-entdeckt/

womp womp
https://www.reuters.com/business/google-scale-ais-largest-customer-plans-split-after-meta-deal-sources-say-2025-06-13/

#NowPlaying - and rainy sunday hootenannying with the not-quite (grateful) dead boys, live in 1981. was very honored to write liner notes for this, owsley's last time mixing/recording the band before moving to australia in advance of the oncoming ice age. @…

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#usa #america #fascism

Reddit unveils two ad tools with "community intelligence": Reddit Insights and Conversation Summary Add-on, which lets brands show positive user posts under ads (Kerry Flynn/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/16/reddit-ai-community-intelligence…

Exclusive: Reddit releases new "Community Intelligence" ad tools
The new insights tool and ad format draws from Reddit's 22 billion posts.

Instant Pot Brands plans to offer a “45/47 Collaboration” featuring various products branded with those numbers and Trump’s signature “Make America Great Again” tagline. 🤮
https://bsky.app/profile/semafor.com/post/3lrq3syd56z2a

Europol, Germany, and more dismantle Archetyp Market, a darknet drug marketplace active since May 2020 with 612K users processing €250M in Monero transactions (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

'Have you no decency?' Read the scathing letter a Minnesota US Senate staffer sent to Mike Lee (Robert Gehrke/Salt Lake Tribune)
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/06/16/minnesota-us-senate-staffer-sends/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p55#a250617p55

As much as I’d love to believe that the 2024 election results were the result of covert ballot tampering, I land in @…’s camp here. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the evidence here isn’t extraordinary. It isn’t even passing.
Sorry. I’d love to believe it. But I don’t.
1/ https://federate.social/@mattblaze/114684093459547741

‘I’m an American, Bro!’: Latinos Report Raids in Which U.S. Citizenship Is Questioned - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/us/hispanic-americans-raids-citizenship.html

Someone educate the admins at mastodon.social that holocaust and Holocaust are different things. Note the capitalisation.
What israel is perpetrating in Palestine is *a* holocaust, not *the* Holocaust. And yes, it is genocide. And yes, they’re also guilty of close to eight decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler colonialism. All these things can be (and are) true at the same time.
Basically, if you’re defending israel in any way, shape, or form right now, you’re the w…

Sable Shade🇦🇺 ☮️4️⃣🇺🇦🇵🇸 (@Sable_Shade@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image @aral@mastodon.ar.al And holocaust free, according to mastodon.social #Palestine #GENOCIDE #HOLOCAUST #childMurders #siegheilisrael #abomination #disgrace #evilAsItGets #theHumanVirus #whatsWrongWithUs

finally sinking into @…'s newly revived LCD program guide & savoring every dang page. astonishing work by @… & co., like '90s ray gun-style overload but readable. definitely need to snag a 2nd copy so i can hang the centerfold sched…

Der #Säuregehalt der #Ozeane hat laut neuer Analyse bereits die sichere planetare Grenze überschritten.
Besonders in 200 Meter Tiefe sind 60 Prozent des Wassers zu stark #versauert. Das…

The US SEC rescinds 14 rules the agency proposed under the Biden Administration, including two relating to DeFi and digital asset custody (Martin Young/Cointelegraph)
https://cointelegraph.com/news/sec-axes-biden-era-proposed-rules-o…

So far the Social Security agency’s core functions — like sending monthly checks to 74 million Americans — have remained largely intact.
But under pressure from Musk’s team, nearly half of the Social Security Administration’s 140 senior executives, and thousands of employees overall, have taken buyouts or retired.
As many as 12 percent of staff members, out of a bureaucracy that numbered around 57,000 people, are expected to depart their jobs as part of DOGE’s cost-cutting plan.

Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.

'It would 'waste time': Trump says he won't call Minnesota Gov. after lawmaker shootings (Sarah D. Wire/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/17/trump-tim-walz-call-minnesota-shootings/84239937007/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p51#a250617p51

Statista expects the global influencer marketing industry to grow 36% between 2024 and 2025, reaching $33B, as brands tighten overall ad budgets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-14/influen…

“On June 8th, I was kidnapped in international waters by Israel.”
– Rima Hassan; EU MEP
#europe #eu #europeanValues

‘Trump Inc.’: Filings Show Staff Profited From Being in the President’s Orbit - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/15/us/politics/trump-inc-filings-show-staff-profited-from-being-in-the-presidents-orbit.html

#NowPlaying - rainy sunday hootenannying with the soft boys, live in 1978 as out-of-time surrealist acoustic barbershoppers. tea-shaded coziness. @…

Known as “white” asbestos,
chrysotile asbestos is banned in more than 50 countries
for its link to lung cancer and mesothelioma,
a cancer that forms in the lining of internal organs.
White asbestos, however, has been imported for use in the United States for roofing materials, textiles and cement as well as gaskets, clutches, brake pads and other automotive parts.
It is also used in chlorine manufacturing.
Last year the Environmental Protection Agency, u…

E.P.A. Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos
The Trump administration’s move sets back a decades-long effort to end the use of the material, which is widely banned in other countries.

Senate overhauls Trump's tax bill, setting up brawl with the House (Jacob Bogage/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/16/trump-tax-bill-senate-republicans-child-tax-credit/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p57#a250617p57

Sorority cites Trump while slamming trans sister in discriminatory court filing - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/06/sorority-cites-while-slamming-trans-sister-in-discriminatory-court-filing/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

#NowPlaying - alien sculptures/shapes/sounds by ka baird with a heady all-star para-jazz cast almost completely absorbed into the colors/textures. kinda wish each piece was much longer & more subsuming. https://

Trump appears eager to create optics that support his claim that public dissent constitutes an existential threat to the nation.
He also apparently seeks to get the American public used to seeing our armed forces in a new light.
In the president’s version of America, the military should be seen less as an apolitical body loyal to the Constitution.
-- Rather, it should be viewed as an institution that serves at the behest of a leader and his ideological and political agen…

Opinion | Trump Wants You to Get Used to This
The president wants to get Americans used to seeing the armed forces in a new light.

NYC Mayoral Candidate Mamdani Seeks $70 Billion of Debt to Fund Affordable Housing (Martin Z Braun/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-17/mamdani-seeks-70-billion-of-nyc-debt-to-fund-affordable-housing
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p58#a250617p58

Search for suspect in shooting of two Minnesota lawmakers leads to one of his vehicles in rural area
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2025/06/15/search-for-suspect-in-shooting-of-2-minnesota-lawmakers-leads-to-one-of-his-vehicles-in-rural-area_6742371_4.html

#NowPlaying - in which animal collective's geologist deconstructs/reanimates a bunch of doug shaw's solo acoustic guitar videos. works much better as a full album than standalone tracks, moving (but not necessarily flowing) through jagged, jeweled terrains.

Italian filmmaker @_elena and her friends have made an OUTSTANDING short film, which explains why people should quit the fascist social networks and join us in the fediverse.
Watch, and share the link everywhere
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRJHIJy5Nno

Bernie Sanders, seven other senators urge Democrats to break with billionaire donors (Maeve Reston/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/17/sanders-democrats-billionaire-donors/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p52#a250617p52

"I do not want to be the one who keeps questioning why we are not enlarging our tent and actively trying to engage more of our communities.”
Teachers union president Randi Weingarten resigns from DNC - POLITICO
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/15/weingarten-dnc-00407364

@… https://greilmarcus.substack.com

Greil Marcus / Letter in the Ether | Substack
Everyday culture and found objects. Click to read Greil Marcus / Letter in the Ether, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Trump governs today in the wake of the near-complete dismantling of checks and balances on the executive branch -- at least in the foreign policy and national security realm.
Since the 9/11 attacks, Congress has granted the presidency more and more power over foreign affairs
and declined to take any of it back,
and the Supreme Court has been reluctant to provide any meaningful restraints.
Trump inherited an ever-expanding national security apparatus that operates wi…

Imperial President at Home, Emperor Abroad
American foreign policy in an age of unrestrained executive power.

A Senator's Fall From Grace Ends in a Grim Federal Lockup (Tracey Tully/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/nyregion/prison-robert-menendez.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p40#a250617p40

The Rapid Response Network of Kern is a collaborative of local organizations, community leaders, and immigrant rights advocates supporting our immigrant communities.
The Rapid Response Network of Kern was established in February of 2018 to respond to the needs and challenges of our immigrant communities who are targeted by increased immigration enforcement activities.
Call our hotline to receive rapid help against ICE, including in person support, legal help, grocery delivery, …

#NowPlaying - picked up a copy of mike heron's "smiling men with bad reputations" after overhearing the below recommendation at the @… record fair. besides the occasional r&b & semi-zep moves, can feel that

ChatGPT Just Got 'Absolutely Wrecked' at Chess, Losing to a 1970s-Era Atari 2600 - Slashdot
https://games.slashdot.org/story/25/06/14/0421247/chatgpt-just-got-absolutely-wrecked-at-chess-losing-to-a-1970s-era-atari-2600

Starmer Picks Up Trump's Papers, and 2 Small Political Wins (Mark Landler/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/world/europe/trump-starmer-trade-uk-g7-summit.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p45#a250617p45

On the orders of the Donald Trump administration, National Park Service employees hung two highly controversial signs this week at Manzanar National Historic Site, a museum examining the property’s former role as a prison where the U.S. government incarcerated more than 10,000 Japanese Americans during World War Two
Displayed on a site where American citizens were held against their will for more than three years,
the signs encourage visitors to report any depictions of U.S. his…

Fed's 'Wait and See' Approach Is Intact as New Risks Cloud Economic Outlook (Colby Smith/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/business/federal-reserve-interest-rates.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p44#a250617p44

Ukraine’s military said on Sunday it had attacked a Russian drone factory about 1099 kilometers from Ukraine
-- in the city of Yelabuga in Russia’s Tatarstan region.
The Ukrainian military general staff said the factory produced, tested, and launched drones at Ukraine,
in particular against energy and civil infrastructure.
Videos on social media showed an explosion said to be at the factory in Yelabuga, also known as Alabuga,
which builds Iranian-design…

How Ivermectin Became Right-Wing Aspirin (Benjamin Mazer/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2025/06/ivermectin-miracle-drug-right-wing-aspirin/683197/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p42#a250617p42

Netanyahu said:
“There’s so many false reports of conversations that never happened, and I’m not going to get into that.”
“But I can tell you, I think that we do what we need to do, we’ll do what we need to do.
And I think the United States knows what is good for the United States,”
Anonymous administration officials had claimed that the Israelis reported they had an opportunity to kill the top Iranian leader, and that Trump waved them off of the plan

South Africa Built a Medical Research Powerhouse. Trump Cuts Have Demolished It. (Stephanie Nolen/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/health/south-africa-medical-research-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Pk8.ZEjN.PrSZsqsRX0m6&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p46#a250617p46

Central Pa. sheriff criticized over Facebook meme showing blood-covered 'Protester Edition' truck (Christine Vendel/PennLive)
https://www.pennlive.com/news/2025/06/central-pa-sheriff-criticized-over-facebook-meme-showing-blood-covered-truck-protester-edition.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p43#a250617p43

It’s authoritarianism and in-your-face grift all in a neat little uniquely American package
That it it’s his personal brand, not the state, is just the cherry on top.
https://bsky.app/profile/scottlincicome.bsky.social/post/3lrqa6jslpy2x

Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome.bsky.social)
So the guy who can singlehandedly set US tariffs on smartphones is launching his own US smartphone company do I have that right

Immigration raids in Los Angeles hit small business owners: 'It's worse than COVID' (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/immigration-raids-los-angeles-hit-small-business-owners-its-worse-than-covid-2025-06-17/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p41#a250617p41

Donald Trump urged Iranians to evacuate Tehran,
citing what he said was the country's rejection of a deal to curb nuclear weapons development.
Trump was due to leave the Group of Seven summit in Canada later on Monday -- a day early -- due to the Middle East situation, the White House said.
Fox News reported Trump would convene his National Security Council.

The Trump administration is thinking about adding 26 more countries
—most of them African
—to his travel ban list.
The Washington Post obtained a Trump administration memo that would give the 26 countries listed 60 days to capitulate to State Department demands.
Some countries were flagged for having “no competent or cooperative central government authority to produce reliable identity documents or other civil documents,”
or “government fraud.”
There was …

Trump Wants to Ban a Quarter of the World From Traveling to the U.S.
If put into effect, it could jeopardize future events like the 2026 World Cup and 2028 Olympics.

Trump denies reaching out to Iran, threatens to 'come down so hard' if Tehran strikes US assets (Kevin Shalvey/Reuters)
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-denies-reaching-iran-threatens-hard-tehran-strikes/story?id=122920648
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p56#a250617p56

Donald Trump on Sunday directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities,
a move that comes after large protests erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities against the Trump administration’s immigration policies.
Trump in a social media posting called on U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials
“to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in Hist…

Trump directs ICE to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities
President Donald Trump has directed federal immigration officials to prioritize deportations from Democratic-run cities after large protests have erupted in Los Angeles and other major cities against the Trump administration’s immigration policies. Trump in a social media posting Sunday called on ICE officials “to do all in their power to achieve the very important goal of delivering the single largest Mass Deportation Program in History.” He added that to reach the goal officials ”must…

The Army parade was a massive success (Christopher Tremoglie/Washington Examiner)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/beltway-confidential/3444045/army-parade-was-massive-success/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p53#a250617p53

In 1967
artist Michael Bowen advertised
"A Gathering of Tribes for the Human Be-In"
in the underground newspaper the San Francisco Oracle
to bring together the "tribes" of psychedelic San Francisco hippies and Berkeley anti-war activists.
https://exhibits.library.uc…

Trump says he won't call Gov. Tim Walz after Minnesota shootings: 'He's a mess' (Megan Lebowitz/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/trump-says-wont-call-gov-tim-walz-minnesota-shootings-mess-rcna213432
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p49#a250617p49

Former Sen. Bob Menendez set to report to prison for 11-year sentence in gold bar bribery case (Dareh Gregorian/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/bob-menendez-set-report-prison-gold-bar-bribery-case-rcna212989
http://www.memeorandum.com/250617/p50#a250617p50