Tootfinder

“US signals a willingness to renew talks with Iran and avoid a prolonged war”
https://www.bostonherald.com/2025/06/22/us-signals-a-willingness-to-renew-talks-with-iran-and-avoid-a-prolonged-war/
…

US signals a willingness to renew talks with Iran and avoid a prolonged war
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Sunday that America “does not seek war” with Iran in the aftermath of a surprise attack overnight on three of that country’s nuclear sites.

Missing Link: "Sie werden ein größeres Boot brauchen" – 50 Jahre "Der weiße Hai"
Am 20. Juni 1975 startet "Der weiße Hai" in den US-Kinos. Steven Spielbergs Monsterfilm wird ein beispielloser Erfolg und verändert nicht nur Hollywood.

Inside the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, whose 3.2-gigapixel camera will produce 60PB of space image data over 10 years, to be analyzed using ML and deep learning (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/science…

How Vera Rubin Telescope Scientists Will Deal With 60 Million Billion Bytes of Imagery
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will make the study of stars and galaxies more like the big data-sorting exercises of contemporary genetics and particle physics.

NYT over ICC-casus. Europese landen en politici komen aan de orde.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/technology/us-tech-europe-microsoft-trump-icc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q…

Europe’s Growing Fear: How Trump Might Use U.S. Tech Dominance Against It
To comply with a Trump executive order, Microsoft recently helped suspend the email account of an International Criminal Court prosecutor in the Netherlands who was investigating Israel for war crimes.

This The Beaverton article is so funny, and not funny.
https://thebeaverton.com/2025/06/canadians-travelling-to-the-us-advised-to-not-fucking-do-that/

Canadians travelling to the US advised to not fucking do that
OTTAWA - Canadians thinking of planning a trip to the United States are being advised by the Government of Canada to perhaps consider going anywhere else on the entire fucking planet for their summer vacations. 

“Our president will start a war with Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He's weak and he's ineffective. So the only way he figures that he's going to get reelected, and as sure as you're sitting there, is to start a war with Iran.”
— Donald Trump on Barack Obama in 2011

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/20/richard-angle-nsa-cyber-command-00415619
“The Trump administration has been searching for permanent leadership for the powerful signals intelligence agency, as the outbreak of war between Israel and Iran r…

So, @… is working on using LLMs to process XML Except for, the models can’t write legal XML. So he’s using the model to generate a sloppy-XML parser: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/202…

My First Open Source AI Generated Library
In a first for me, I published some agentic programmed AI slop to PyPI.

De 'Vlaamse vleestraditie'? Die bestaat eigenlijk niet, leert de geschiedenis ons | #VRT NWS: nieuws
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2025/06/20/vlees…

Message from Kyiv.

Trump admin shortens ACA enrollment window (Maya Goldman/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/20/trump-admin-aca-coverage-changes
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p21#a250621p21

Open Dylan 2025.1 released.
https://opendylan.org/release-notes/2025.1.html

“The Americans must understand—any US military incursion will undoubtedly lead to irreversible consequences.”
Experts believe one of the repercussions of US military adventurism against the Islamic Republic would be the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, which Iran controls.
According to Tanker Trackers data, more than 80 percent of oil passes through this narrow strip 
-- and if it’s closed, the global economy and energy sector will be dealt a heavy blow.
Most multi-nation…

Strait of Hormuz closure in event of US aggression against Iran to paralyze world economy
As regional tensions escalate amid the Israeli regime’s brutal aggression against the Islamic Republic, the possibility of the closure of Strait of Hormuz is a possibility, according to experts.

Im letzten Teil meiner Serie zu Wegwerfnummern habe ich virtuelle Nummern, Profi-Tools und Reise-SIM getestet.
Und dabei etwas erstaunt festgestellt, dass man mit Kryptowährung einfach so eine funktionierende österreichische Handynummer bekommt. Ohne Identitätsnachweis, ohne Name, ohne E-Mail-Adresse. Aus Singapur. 🤔

Virtuelle Nummern, Profi-Tools und Reise-SIM – Wegwerfnummern Teil 4
Travel-SIM, API-Dienste und Kryptowährung: Finden sich damit leichtere Wege, um an eine Wegwerfnummer zu kommen?

Business cat has important kitty business to attend to (sleeping 20 hours a day) :neocat_flop__w_:

In the last 2 months, 2 of my brilliant 🚲 PhD students have graduated.
https://nerds.itu.dk/2025/05/23/ane-defends-her-phd-network-analysis-of-denmarks-bicycle-infrastructure/

2025 Molecular Ecology Prize goes to Rosemary Gillespie, for harnessing molecular phylogenetics to understand community assembly and ecology
https://www.molecularecologist.…

ByteDance's publishing imprint 8th Note Press began informing writers and agents in late May that it was closing and returning publication rights to authors (Alexandra Alter/New York Times)
https://www.

Buzzy Publisher Started by TikTok’s Owner Abruptly Shuts Down
8th Note Press informed writers and agents that it is abruptly shutting down and returning publication rights to authors.

[Economist] Patrick Artus: 'In the US, attacks on the public research system and universities compromise growth prospects'
https://www.lemonde.fr/en/economy/article/2025/06/21/patrick-artus-in-the-us-attacks-on-the-public-research-system-and-universities-compromise-growth-prospects_6742589_19.html

Check out my new health related blog post: “Inspired by George Couros”
#health

40 years ago tonight, the #GratefulDead open their summer ’85 tour on a rainy evening at alpine valley in wisconsin.
sometimes distorted soundboard: https://archive.org/details/gd85-06-21

stecke seit donnerstag im schlagerstrudel vom hessentag fest
bitte helft mir

Good morning! Here's a photo from my bike and hike last week (video and photos still pending) to the #Benediktenwand
I started cycling at 7am and saw this scene when the ☀️ peeked over the mountains. I passed a photographer a couple of minutes earlier who discovered a chamois in the distance, we had a quick chat and continued our ways.
To me it's just a good motive f…

You just need 20 minutes, a kettlebell and this metcon workout to help you build total body strength at home https://www.tomsguide.com/welln…

You just need 20 minutes, a kettlebell and this metcon workout to help you build total body strength at home
Build lean muscle and strength from your living room

Marine Rosset, socialiste et homosexuelle, nommée Š la tête des Scouts et guides de France : le malaise d’une partie de la communauté catholique
https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/202

Scouts et guides de France : remous après l’élection de Marine Rosset, socialiste et homosexuelle
Depuis que l’élue du 5ᵉ arrondissement de Paris a pris les rênes du mouvement, des voix réactionnaires et une partie de la communauté catholique font entendre leur opposition à ce choix.

Zelfs Eddy van Hijum komt (terecht) niet terug in de TK na de verkiezingen.
Zoals het er nu uitziet.

Nigerian communities to take Shell to high court over oil pollution https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/20/nigerian-communities-shell-high-court-oil-pollution

Just to say, this could be expanded to the rest of the population.
https://mastodon.ie/@GurgelSegrillo/114728951805347927

Plonger dans le dossier de presse sur les affaires OKC qui s'étend de 1997- Š 2025 !
Comment nos sociétés traitent la question des dérives sectaires et la place des enfants mineurs dans ce genre de dérive ?
#PressKit #ChardonsBleus

"The #bible insists you have to be #gay"
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sin
🤣

When humans feel powerless, especially after traumatic events or retraumatization or ~ gestures generally at C-PTSD ~ what often helps is having an area of control over choices, decisions, and outcomes (especially outcomes that have positive side effects like humans liking the action/work/result)
And thus I flew to LA for a weekend and got a tattoo.
#BloomScrolling

“The band said: ‘You know what’s “not appropriate” Keir?!’ They then used an expletive to accuse the prime minister of arming a genocide.
Israel has strongly denied allegations of genocide relating to the ongoing war in Gaza.”
– BBC
israel has strongly denied that it’s raining, have they, BBC? So tell me, what do you see when you look out the fucking window?
#bbc

Onebrief, which makes military workflow software, raised a $20M Series C extension led by Battery Ventures at a $1.1B valuation, taking the round total to $70M (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-softw

Exclusive: Defense tech startup Onebrief hits $1.1B valuation
Onebrief's Series C extension was led by Battery Ventures.

‘A good day’: Detained U.S. citizen said agents bragged after arresting dozens at Home Depot.
https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-06-20/border-patrol-agents-brag-in-front-of-detained

Detained citizen says agents bragged after arresting dozens at Home Depot
A U.S. citizen who was tackled and arrested by border agents after filming and yelling at them said his 'blood was boiling' when agents high-fived each other after grabbing dozens at Home Depot on Thursday.

After the Trump regime jumped back into the Middle East wars by bombing Iran, the New York Times 'analyses' that the US is 'pulled back' into those.

Unicef waarschuwt voor watertekort in Gaza: ‘Kinderen zullen sterven van dorst’ - #NRC
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/06/21/unice

June 20, 2025 -- Individuals in plain clothes with their faces covered and without badges ... (Heather Cox Richardson/Letters from an American)
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-20-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p23#a250621p23

Trump's political operation has reportedly launched a new political action committee (PAC) to oust Rep. Thomas Massie, a Kentucky Republican.
On Sunday, Axios reported that Trump's team had created the Kentucky MAGA super PAC after Massie slammed Saturday's strike on Iran.
Senior Trump advisers Tony Fabrizio and Chris LaCivita were expected to run the organization.
According to the report, the PAC was in the works before Massie's criticism. LaCivita said the g…

Scoop: Trump launches MAGA PAC in effort to oust Rep. Massie from Congress
By going after Massie, Trump's team is looking to put wayward Republicans on notice that they're ready to play hardball.

heise | heise Update vom 20. Juni 2025: Lesetipps fürs Wochenende
Der wöchentliche Newsletter mit Remote-Katzenbetreuung, E-Bike-Motor, Mac-Speicher befreien, Open Source statt Abhängigkeit, Google-KI-Suche, Solaranlagen-Talk

Senate disclosure: Florida judge Ed Artau was lobbying for a federal judiciary nomination when he sided with Trump in the case against the Pulitzer Prize board (Hailey Fuchs/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/20/ed-artau-trump…

AOC floats Trump impeachment over Iran strikes
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/22/aoc-trump-impeachment-iran-democrats

RIVM rioolwaarden update.
Met de data van gisteren uiteraard.
Waarin een (vooralsnog lichte) daling te zien is. Twee nieuwe dagen in de data met behoorlijk lage waarden: 16 en 17 juni, met resp. 30% en 20% van de meetstations, zitten beide onder de 200. Deze zouden nog fors opgehoogd kunnen worden maandag, maar ook 14 en 15 juni, met resp. 50% en 40%, geven duidelijk lagere waarden dan de 260-270 waar we op zaten de laatste dagen.

England’s rivers ‘under threat’ as water extraction surges to record levels https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/20/england-rivers-water-extraction-record-levels

Super Idee, #Gardena! Verwenden wir "5900/4” gleich für zwei unterschiedliche Produkte und schreiben das Alleinstellungsmerkmal "automatik" gleich auf die andere Schachtel ebenso rauf, die keine "automatik" ist.
Hat offenbar auch das Fachpersonal im #Baumarkt verwirrt, da sie…

Keir had not been the same since he rented his mouth hole to the Bovine Excrement Delivery Company. https://mastodon.ie/@bullivant/114727764609793797

Mahmoud Khalil first interview after release.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/nyregion/mahmoud-khalil-interview-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Q08.HTeB.obr8qCCCPN8C&smid=nyt…

Mahmoud Khalil Discusses 3-Month Detention in First Interview Since Release
The Columbia graduate and pro-Palestinian activist returned to New York after more than three months in detention. The Trump administration is seeking to deport him.

A look at Apple's conservative approach to M&A, which may need to change to catch up in AI by acquiring a startup like Perplexity, Cohere, Sierra AI, or Mistral (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/…

Pelosi raked in millions last year -- and her portfolio out-performed every large hedge fund with stunning returns (Gabrielle Fahmy/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/21/us-news/pelosi-added-millions-to-net-worth-last-year-report/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p25#a250621p25

Washington braces for an unpredictable response from a cornered but determined Islamic Republic.
While the Iranian government downplayed the impact of the U.S. attack, noting the depths of its nuclear know-how built over decades of study,
U.S. military officials said its precision strikes against Iran’s three main nuclear facilities caused “extremely severe damage and destruction.”
A senior Israeli official told The Times that Jerusalem was so satisfied with the operation th…

U.S. braces for response as Iran weighs its options
U.S. military officials said its precision strikes against Iran's three main nuclear facilities caused "extremely severe damage and destruction."

Here’s the thing: fuck the ayatollah and his mullahs and fuck Hamas (neither of those bastards would hesitate to put a bullet in the head of an atheist apostate like me) but that doesn’t mean you attack the people of Iran (most of whom oppose the regime) or Palestine (who also suffer under the yoke of Hamas – an organisation that, furthermore, was funded and supported by Netanyahu’s regime to sabotage the peace process).
If you cannot separate authoritarian regimes from the people bein…

Ohh ... Gaat t echt nat worden?

Trump: Parts Of My Megabill Are A "Giant Scam" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/06/trump-parts-of-my-megabill-are-a-giant-scam/

#Österreich verbietet #Dickpics
https://www.heise.de/news/Oesterreich-verb

We kijken toe en laten de kinderen in Gaza sterven.
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/06/21/unicef-waarschuwt-voor-watertekort-in-gaz…

Unicef waarschuwt voor watertekort in Gaza: ‘Kinderen zullen sterven van dorst’
Drinkwater in Gaza: Het VN-agentschap benadrukt dat de watercrisis van de ene op de andere dag kan worden opgelost als Israël de aanvoer van brandstof weer toestaat in Gaza. „Geen van deze problemen is logistiek of technisch van aard. Ze zijn politiek. Ontkenning is beleid geworden.”

The Senate parliamentarian rules that a Republican effort blocking US states from enforcing AI laws for 10 years will remain in Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

What was that thing about fucking around again? https://mstdn.social/@990000/114727246131708813

@990000@mstdn.social (@990000@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image Fun. https://bsky.app/profile/newseye.bsky.social/post/3ls75oteuxs2r

“Between enabling Israel in Gaza and all of its operations across the Middle East,
and now these strikes in Iran,
we are setting the foundation for the next generation’s ‘War on Terror,’”
said Wes Bryant, who served until earlier this year as the senior analyst and adviser on precision warfare, targeting, and civilian harm mitigation at the Pentagon’s Civilian Protection Center of Excellence.
He questioned the Trump administration’s abrupt shift from negotiating with I…

Self-Proclaimed “Peacemaker” Drags U.S. Into Another War
Heeding the request of Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump dispatched U.S. warplanes to bomb Iran.

LA Dodgers to donate $1M to help immigrants hit by ICE raids (Russell Contreras/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/21/la-dodgers-donate-million-immigrants-ice-raids
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p28#a250621p28

Trump's Iran strikes face swift bipartisan blowback in Congress
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/22/trump-iran-strikes-republicans-democrats-congress

Austin-based PE firm Haveli Investments agrees to acquire Couchbase, which offers a cloud database for AI applications, for about $1.5B (Akash Sriram/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/hav…

The goal of the NATO-summit is pleasing Trump and giving him a win. Just to have some extra time for the European alternative to NATO that needs to be formed.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/21/trump-nato-defense-spending-00416118

Trump’s statement tonight was a farrago of contradictions:
He said, for example, that the main Iranian nuclear sites were “completely and totally obliterated”
—but it will take time to assess the damage, and he has no way of knowing this.
He claimed that the Iranian program has been destroyed
—but added that there are still “many targets” left.
He said that Iran could suffer even more in the coming days
—but the White House has reportedly assured Iran thro…

The United States Bombed Iran. What Comes Next?
President Trump is taking an enormous risk.

Trump Sends Envoy to Belarus, Courting Ties With Russia's Close Ally (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/world/europe/trump-belarus-envoy-russia.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p37#a250621p37

Trump attacks Watergate laws in massive shift to ethics system - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/06/21/trump-watergate-presidency-congress/

Microsoft’s 2025 work trend index report found that many workers are increasingly grappling with “infinite workdays”,
which start before sunrise and stretch late into the night.
They are interrupted by some 270 pinging notifications along the way, about one every two minutes.
https://www.…

Breaking down the infinite workday
To unlock AI’s full potential, we need to clear one key barrier. A follow-up to the 2025 Work Trend Index.

Scoop: Trump's backchannel to Iran failed after supreme leader went dark (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/21/trump-iran-turkey-negotiations-israel-war
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p32#a250621p32

Holy fuck.
"**President Trump announced the United States had struck Fordo, Iran’s heavily fortified nuclear facilities, as well as two other sites.**"
Live Updates: U.S. Enters War With Iran, Bombing Key Nuclear Sites - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06/21/world/iran-israel-trump

B-2 Stealth Bombers Depart Whiteman AFB for Andersen AFB, Guam, Amid Iran Conflict (Kai Greet/The Aviationist)
https://theaviationist.com/2025/06/21/b-2-guam-amid-iran-conflict/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p24#a250621p24

One under-scrutinized federal agency has been crucial to the Trump administration's effort to detain and deport noncitizens who protested Israel’s war in Gaza (many of them students who are in the U.S. on visas or green cards):
Homeland Security Investigations
-- the investigative arm of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (which markets itself as an elite force that targets human traffickers, drug smugglers, and war criminals).
As it built dossiers on Khalil and o…

Mahmoud Khalil Won His Freedom Despite the Best Efforts of ICE’s Intelligence Unit
Homeland Security Investigations once targeted human traffickers and cartels. Now it’s leading the charge against student protesters.

Senate GOP's plan to push food aid costs onto states axed from megabill (Grace Yarrow/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/21/senate-republicans-snap-cost-share-plan-axed-megabill-00416367
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p20#a250621p20

Alpine County, perched like an emerald on the crest of the Sierra Nevada, is as rural as rural California gets.
Vast distance separates its sparse settlements, tucked among forests and crystalline streams. The views, unobstructed by city clutter, go on forever.
There is no hospital,
no supermarket, fast-food restaurant or shopping mall anywhere in its 743 square miles.
The only stoplight is temporary,
put in place for a bridge repair.
And yet if all goes …

California mystery: Why does a small rural county vote like SF?
Rural usually means Republican. But this county is a Democratic speck in California's sea of red.

Trump and GOP's tax bill would sell off USPS's brand-new EVs (Jacob Bogage/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/06/21/trump-usps-trucks-taxes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p34#a250621p34

“In the US, we have a set of electoral and legislative institutions that drive us toward only having two parties,”
Mark Copelovitch told us.
“That allowed the 20 to 25 percent of people that support the far right to basically take over one of the two parties,
and everything in our system is weighted towards the Republican constituency
— the Supreme Court, the gerrymandered House, the way the Senate is apportioned.
All of these things basically bias the electo…

“Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party”
Mark Copelovitch unpacks his signature phrase.

'Petty and unserious': Padilla blasts Vance for calling him 'Jose Padilla' (Giselle Ruhiyyih Ewing/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/21/alex-padilla-jd-vance-fight-00416393
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p36#a250621p36

"Putin is afraid to admit how many [Russian] people have died. Because if the moment comes when he needs to mobilize, his society will be afraid," Zelensky said.
Ukrainian authorities have confirmed that at least 20 of the bodies Russia returned as Ukrainian were actually Russian soldiers.
"Sometimes these bodies even have Russian passports," Zelensky said.
He also cited the case of a deceased Israeli citizen fighting on Russia's side, whom Moscow had …

Russia 'afraid to admit' scale of losses, trying to hide by dumping soldiers' bodies on Ukraine, Zelensky says
Ukrainian authorities have confirmed that at least 20 of the bodies Russia returned as Ukrainian were actually Russian soldiers, President Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Louisiana's Ten Commandments Law Is Unconstitutional, Appeals Court Says (Rick Rojas/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/20/us/politics/louisianas-ten-commandments-law-appeals-court-unconstitutional.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p39#a250621p39

In an article entitled While the Media Chases Trump’s Distractions, Here’s the Story They’re Not Telling You,
Lev Parnas discloses that he hasn't slept in two days.
"I’ve been on the phone nonstop, speaking to sources across the globe" he said, noting that
"what the media isn’t reporting is even worse" than what journalists are currently disseminating.
They’re not asking the real question:
Why now?" he asked.
"They’re not ta…

Trump's former 'trusted operative' spills Iran story 'they're not telling you'
A man who was once Donald Trump's "trusted operative" spilled details he said you won't find on CNN or MSNBC.Author and former Trump insider Lev Parnas, who has reported on Trump's purported "humiliation" by Russia's Putin, on Sunday wrote about his take on Trump's military strike on Iran's soil.Par...

AOC floats Trump impeachment over Iran strikes (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/22/aoc-trump-impeachment-iran-democrats
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p49#a250622p49

Youth Who Fought the Climate Crisis in Court Are Now Targeting Trump
Many of the young plaintiffs have taken part in similar lawsuits before
-- and won key victories in Montana and Hawaii.
https://grist.org/justice/youth-climate-activis…

Youth climate activists won lawsuits in Montana and Hawai‘i. Now they’re targeting Trump.
Per the plaintiffs, “Trump’s fossil fuel orders are a death sentence for my generation."

American Democracy Might Not Survive a War With Iran (Robert Kagan/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2025/06/democracy-iran-israel-war-trump/683269/?gift=5aUYI8dJ_4U5JTdJqsIAqwzbXk7nlcFLPaxDqLj0C5E
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p46#a250621p46

With new Senate legislation, Congress is one step closer to gutting the Inflation Reduction Act
The so-called Big Beautiful Bill targets the tax credits designed to put the U.S. on the path to net-zero carbon emissions
https://grist.org/politics/big-beautif

With new Senate legislation, Congress is one step closer to gutting the Inflation Reduction Act
The so-called Big Beautiful Bill targets the tax credits designed to put the U.S. on the path to net-zero carbon emissions.

U.S. has "no interest" in putting troops on the ground in Iran, Vance says (Donica Phifer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/06/22/iran-us-war-nuclear-weapons
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p48#a250622p48

The GOP budget bill’s $75 billion in supplemental funding for ICE
is now under increasing scrutiny
as reports and viral images emerge of protests against indiscriminate immigration raids and the violent arrests of U.S. citizens by masked and heavily armed federal officers.
Trump has made it clear that he is intentionally using ICE to terrorize blue cities with Democratic mayors and large immigrant communities.

Trump’s ICE Agents Are Arresting US Citizens. GOP Budget Would Hire 10,000 More.
Billions of dollars for ICE and border patrol in Trump’s budget bill would supercharge the chaotic crackdown.

White House wary of Iran counterattack as Trump strikes triumphant tone (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/22/white-house-wary-of-iran-counterattack-as-trump-strikes-triumphant-tone-00416470
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p47#a250622p47

Katie Porter for California Governor
Deadline June 30
https://katieporter.com
https://www.instagra…

Katie Porter for Governor | Official Campaign Website
What California needs is a little bit of hope and a whole lot of grit. Join our team today to help Katie Porter stand up to Donald Trump and lower costs for Californians.

Playbook: Trump, Iran and the known unknown (Zack Stanton/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2025/06/22/trump-iran-and-the-known-unknown-00417199
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p52#a250622p52

On Thursday evening, the night of Juneteenth, Donald Trump took to Truth Social with a classic “old man yells at cloud” complaint:
Americans get too much time off work.
“Too many non-working holidays in America. It is costing our Country $BILLIONS OF DOLLARS to keep all of these businesses closed,” he wrote.
“It must change if we are going to, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
For good measure, he also opined that workers themselves agreed with him on this.
The presi…

Trump’s Truth Social rant on Juneteenth is part of a nasty history
On Juneteenth, Donald Trump took to Truth Social with a classic “old man yells at cloud” complaint: Americans get too much time off work.

Exclusive: Israel seeks swift action on Iran, sources say, with a split U.S. administration (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-seeks-swift-action-iran-sources-say-with-split-us-administration-2025-06-21/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p47#a250621p47

Federal funding ensures that your local public radio and TV stations can continue to give you access to
-- essential educational, local, and cultural programming;
-- trustworthy, in-depth news;
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'There is not a singular voice': On trade, countries don't know who in Trump's circle to listen to (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/06/22/there-is-not-a-singular-voice-countries-cant-figure-out-who-in-trumps-circle-to-listen-to-on-trade-00415851
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p56#a250622p56

Bernie Sanders response to Trump’s attack on Iran
https://bsky.app/profile/krassenstein.bsky.social/post/3ls5xdjda2s2n

When Hegemons Backslide -- Trump has been [cough] gunning for the US international order since long before he was inaugurated. (emptywheel)
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/22/when-hegemons-backslide/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p41#a250622p41

Donald Trump just launched a strike on Iran — without Congressional authorization,
violating the War Powers Resolution.
This is an illegal act of war.
If Congress lets this slide,
it greenlights future unjust attacks.
Sign if you agree:
Impeach Trump now for this reckless, unconstitutional attack!

US urges China to dissuade Iran from closing Strait of Hormuz (Jasper Ward/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/us-urges-china-dissuade-iran-closing-strait-hormuz-2025-06-22/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p39#a250622p39

The Republican Majority on the Senate Banking Committee released a press release Friday confirming that they were intentionally eliminating
the “duplicative Office of Financial Research (OFR)”.
According to sources I’ve talked to in the Senate, Republican committee members have shown little concern with the elimination of the Office of Financial Research.
They also seem aware of the concerns over SOFR, because both their “one pager” and “section by section” documents clai…

The “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” Eliminates the Office of Financial Research—Threatening the Stability of the Treasury Market
Early last week I started working on a piece on why the Federal Reserve didn’t step in during the Trump Tariff Financial Panic. The basic idea of that piece is simply that “repo rates”- the interest rate at which you can, in essence, borrow funds with treasury securities

Investors brace for oil price spike, rush to havens after US bombs Iran nuclear sites (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/middle-east-tensions-put-investors-alert-weighing-worst-case-scenarios-2025-06-21/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250622/p44#a250622p44

Pakistan to nominate Donald Trump for Nobel peace prize (Associated Press)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jun/21/pakistan-trump-nobel-prize-recommendation-india-ceasefire
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p26#a250621p26

Abandoned by Trump, a farmer and a migrant search for a better future (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/interactive/2025/trump-farmers-grants-freeze-usda-migrants
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p27#a250621p27

"Neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party" (Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/mark-copelovitch-interview-2025
http://www.memeorandum.com/250621/p17#a250621p17