Hurricane forecasters will soon lose access to government satellite data vital to tracking hurricanes overnight " and to preventing what meteorologists once called a "sunrise surprise," when a storm unexpectedly strengthens or shifts in the darkness. The Pentagon said Monday that it would wait until the end of July before it stops sharing the data " a month later than initially planned " in response to the high level of concern after the move was first announced last week.
A dark money group paid $80,000 to Noem's personal company when she was governor of South Dakota. She did not include this income on her federal disclosure forms, a likely violation of ethics requirements, experts say. read more
When political scientist Seth Masket shared this story on Bluesky yesterday, I couldn't believe it was real. The right-wing Washington Times reported that at a press conference at the NATO Summit in the Netherlands on Wednesday, Trump revealed that he had given Iran permission to bomb the U.S.'s Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar in retaliation for the American bombing of their nuclear sites. "They said, We're going to shoot them. Is one o'clock OK?' I said it's fine," Trump said. "And everybody was emptied off the base so they couldn't get hurt, except for the gunners." I poked around for other major coverage of this extraordinary admission, and landed only on a transcript of the press conference. And yes, amid a characteristically meandering monologue, Trump actually said that he let a foreign adversary bomb an American military installation.
As evidence mounts that voters in Trump country are getting hammered by his biggest initiatives, an economist paints a dark picture of just how bad the sum total of these policies will be for working people.
"Many in the rest of the world look to the United States to see what democracy is, to see what democracy ought to be," Kennedy said during an online forum about threats to the rule of law. "If they see a hostile, fractious discourse, if they see a discourse that uses identity politics rather than to talk about issues, democracy is at risk. Freedom is at risk." read more
Don't worry, everything is just fine in fantasyland.
Trump: We got some gas stations where a few weeks ago it was $1.98.. we got the gas down low. pic.twitter.com/hCVvXyldgk" Acyn (@Acyn) June 18, 2025
LOL so those couple of people can't rent trucks? What good does that do when they come by the dozen?
If they can strip citizenship from any American then they can take it from you.