2026-06-19 03:05:55
Vance postpones Iran talks trip (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/19/us-iran-talks-vance-switzerland-trip-postponed-white-house
http://www.memeorandum.com/260618/p142#a260618p142
Vance postpones Iran talks trip (Barak Ravid/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/06/19/us-iran-talks-vance-switzerland-trip-postponed-white-house
http://www.memeorandum.com/260618/p142#a260618p142
Vance Delays Trip to Switzerland for Direct Talks on Iran Deal (Zolan Kanno-Youngs/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/us/politics/vance-delays-trip-to-switzerland-for-direct-talks-on-iran-deal.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260618/p147#a260618p147
Potential sponsor of Sean Duffy’s controversial ‘road trip’ reality TV show pulled out over ethical concerns, report says | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/sean-duffy-road-trip-show-sponsor-b2977998.html
TikTok launches TikTok GO in the US for users to book hotels, attractions, and experiences directly in the app, partnering with Booking.com, Expedia, and others (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/12/tiktok-now-…
U.S.-Iran talks postponed as Vance cancels trip and Israel intensifies strikes in southern Lebanon (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/us-iran-talks-postponed-vance-cancels-trip-israel-strikes-lebanon-rcna350830
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p26#a260619p26
Cowboys’ 6,500-mile nightmare has Jerry Jones' team facing serious challenges https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/dallas-cowboys/news/jerry-jones-cowboys-face-serious-challenges-6500-mile-trip/b2f95cc25…
An upstate New York resident sued US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)
for sending federal officers to his house with a warning over an email he sent to the agency’s one-time head.
David Streever, who is a US citizen, was on a trip to Finland when two officers showed up to his Rochester home in June
and presented his wife with a warning notice informing him that the email he sent months earlier was considered a threat, his attorneys said.
Streever sent the em…
Iran Delays Nuclear Talks With US as Lebanon Clashes Worsen (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-19/vance-delays-swiss-trip-as-white-house-says-talks-never-simple
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p35#a260619p35
Journalist Recounts How Border Agents Targeted Him Over Coverage Of Ayatollah's Funeral https://thedissenter.org/journalist-recounts-how-border-agents-targeted-him-over-coverage-of-ayatollahs-funeral/
Italian foreign minister cancels trip to US over Trump's comments about Meloni (Jennifer Hansler/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2026/06/19/politics/italy-trump-meloni-tajani
http://www.memeorandum.com/260619/p38#a260619p38
The White House directed Kash Patel, the F.B.I. director, to oversee a leak investigation into reporting by The New York Times
about security issues with the new Air Force One,
leading to a flurry of subpoenas to several Times reporters Friday night, according to people with knowledge of the situation.
Mr. Patel scuttled a planned trip to Chicago and spent roughly eight hours at the White House on Friday,
running the investigation from there rather than F.B.I. headqua…
LOL: "One critic called the president’s Finals appearance the ‘most expensive taxpayer funded nap’ in history"
Trump appears to doze off during controversial trip to watch NBA Finals in New York | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-asleep-finals-knicks-madison-square-garden-b2992124.html
As reported by his wife in #AlanHale has passed away yesterday at 68: more in the thread https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/topic/119679184 and https://www.facebook.com/groups/227002358661288/posts/1786784712683037/. In this picture from an astronomy-minded fantastic trip to Iran in 2000 - see https://bsky.app/profile/cosmos4u.bsky.social/post/3lulglljezs2d - Hale ist on the far left (and yours truly in postion 5; it also includes comet personality Charles Morris at position 6 and on the far right astronaut Bruce McCandless II who was capcom on Apollo 11 and made the first untethered spacewalk - both also no longer with us).
Duffy's 'Great American Road Trip' Prompts Ethical Concerns (Karoun Demirjian/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/us/road-trip-duffy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p30#a260514p30
Glaciers in the Alps are melting at an alarming rate.
The brief video shows what we witnessed two days ago at the end of our work trip in Tyrol and what the locals confirmed to us as extreme levels (not that it wasn't obvious)... It shows different tributaries and stages of outflow of remaining glaciers of the Weißkamm and Kreuzkamm feeding into the Rofental, a small side valley of the Ötztal. Two kilometers downstream is the confluence with a similarly intense drainage from the neighb…
Rod Stewart praises King Charles for putting 'little ratbag in his place' on US trip (Paul Dallison/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/rod-stewart-praises-king-charles-putting-little-ratbag-in-his-place-on-us-trip/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p17#a260512p17
Chaos erupts behind the scenes of Trump's China trip -- including trampled White House aide (Emily Goodin/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/14/world-news/us-chinese-officials-in-shouting-and-shoving-matches-behind-scenes-of-trump-xi-summit/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260514/p90#a260514p90
The Israeli government approved on Sunday the allocation of approximately NIS 27 million (9 million US dollars)
to develop and construct hotels in the West Bank to promote tourism in the area.
The stated goal of the initiative is to build hotels to
transform the West Bank from a
“day-trip destination”
into a destination for overnight stays
According to the Tourism Ministry, one of the main obstacles to developing the tourism industry in the West Bank is the l…
Trump brings controversial 'Rush Hour' and 'Melania' director Brett Ratner to China aboard Air Force One (Andrew Feinberg/The Independent)
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/brett-ratner-trump-china-trip-air-force-one-melania-rush-hour-b2975336.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p126#a260512p126
Rod Stewart tells King Charles he put 'that little ratbag in his place' during US trip (Judy Kurtz/The Hill)
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5873662-charles-us-tour-stewart-approval/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260512/p38#a260512p38
CIA chief makes historic trip to Cuba as US blockade chokes island's energy supplies (Chloe Taylor/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/15/cuba-cia-john-ratcliffe-oil-blockade-trump-blackouts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p13#a260515p13
Trump insists US-China relations are in a good place despite differences as he wraps up Beijing trip (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/trump-xi-taiwan-iran-trade-e7a3cdf161c608de152ac1c6e5755452
http://www.memeorandum.com/260515/p31#a260515p31
Trump to make rare trip to Camp David as Iran tensions rise over US strikes (Emily Goodin/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/26/us-news/trump-to-make-rare-trip-to-camp-david-as-iran-tensions-rise-over-us-strikes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260526/p46#a260526p46
Buckingham Palace in talks on King's US trip after Washington shooting (Milena Wälde/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/buckingham-palace-in-talks-on-king-charles-iii-us-visit-after-washington-shooting-donald-trump/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260426/p51#a260426p51
Trump Shouldn't Expect Much From His China Trip (Jacob Dreyer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/opinion/china-us-trump-summit.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260503/p3#a260503p3
In other random consumer news… imagine a pickup trip costing only $US 8950 in 1990 ($23,000 adjusted) and being small enough for an adult woman to see *over the roof*. 😂
Yes, sometimes I watch The Price is Right clips on YouTube. 😝 guilty pleasure. I loved Bob Barker!
#DoubleInflation #inflation #tpir #consumer
Trump Administration Live Updates: President Takes First Trip on Air Force One Jet From Qatar (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2026/07/01/us/trump-news?unlocked_article_code=1.ulA.FJL6.JD85wZsQYZ69&smid=nytcore-ios-share
http://www.memeorandum.com/260701/p131#a260701p131