🇺🇸 This is wild. Laura Loomer – a major #MAGA blogger who once praised Putin as a “defender of traditional values,” wrote for RT, and called Russia freer than the US – sent reporter Andrew Moore to Ukraine. Now, Loomer admits: “We fell for Russian propaganda. I fell for it.” 1/3

She says Russia poses as an Orthodox Christian country while killing young Christians in Ukraine and promoting real US neo-Nazis. She also admits she repeated anti-Ukraine talking points without realizing how online propaganda manipulated her as a conservative, Trump supporter, and American. 2/3

The world's most expensive assisted living facility

AXIOS: “How will you control Israel from attacking Lebanon? TRUMP: “They have a lot of respect for me, and they do as I say.” REALITY: Israel is still attacking Lebanon to collapse negotiations with Iran👇🏽

GUARDIAN: “1/6 defendants who assaulted police are pursuing legal claims for millions from the Trump admin using an obscure federal process with minimal oversight… be paid from the same pot of💰Trump’s $1.776 BILLION slush fund was going to draw from.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

This is BIG. After spending over $1 BILLION on the purchase of multiple commercial warehouses that ICE planned to convert into the largest jails/prisons in the nation, ICE is now largely abandoning the idea and will aim to sell off multiple warehouses at a loss.

Another brazen lie from Captain Condescension JD Vance gets community voted 👇🏽🤥

This is a stunning strategic defeat and Trump is without parallel as a strategic loser. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/u...

The related false belief that (1) a majority of Americans are secret leftists, and (2) most nonvoters are attuned to politics and make a deliberate decision to not vote based on ideology, should have died when Bernie Sanders couldn’t get a majority even without Republicans voting in the primary.

Maybe it's my nerdly dysfunction, but I just don't get why people need to accumulate so much more than they need, specially when people, like in military families, have trouble paying the bills. www.independent.co.uk/us/money/cra...

A loss we all have to live with, all because the president untethered himself from the Constitution to use force with no authorization and for no good reason.

Has the MOU actually been signed, as the U.S. has claimed? Seems the Trump administration has been lying to the world about that, which is reckless and offensive and insane

JD Vance blows up the rationale for Trump's ballroom: "We're protected. Like, we have so many layers of protection. We have 50 Secret Service agents just in this room."

This cannot be broadcast in Maine often enough between now and November

Sub-optimal. @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/06/16/p...

He obsessed about this stuff for months.

Blaming JD Vance for the Iran fiasco is like blaming Witkoff/Kushner for the USA being pro-Putin. They are lies that make honest political discussion impossible in the USA. Both the Iran and Russia are policy catastrophes were driven for and by Donald Trump alone. Face facts.

One possible reason for not disclosing details of the US-Iran memorandum of understanding is it involves the US giving Iran a lot of money—and/or otherwise making rather than receiving apparent concessions—and the White House doesn't want a week of criticism and negative headlines before signing it.

A leering UFC dipshit concluding a Bud Light-sponsored fight convened on the White House lawn for a semi-comatose president’s birthday by howling that a Black former First Lady is a “man” really feels like rock fucking bottom, man. I’ll update this post tomorrow when we hit a new one.

Sen. Chris Murphy on Trump’s emerging Iran deal: “It's a total humiliation. But it's a necessary humiliation. The war is just going to get worse. Iran's going to get stronger. So I basically will support any agreement that ends this war. But let's just be honest, we're surrendering.”

Why did they specifically choose an athlete who took a massive pay cut to play in New York City as their example to argue that players might not be willing to accept less money to play in New York City

This is the costliest unconditional surrender I’ve ever heard of.

Wall street folks are celebrating Elon Musk for creating 4,400 millionaires. Fine. Did any of them celebrate Joe Biden's IRA, ARP, CHIPS for creating millions of good paying jobs? Our barometer should be opportunity & stability for the majority, not simply wealth for the few.

Assuming Democrats ever re-obtain power, they cannot treat it as a mere change of party control, the next swing in the perpetual metronome of American democracy. They must characterize it as an AMERICAN RESTORATION, a new birth of constitutionalism in a dark sea of corruption and absurdity.

YOU HAVE TO TEAR DOWN THE SYMBOLS OF THE REGIME, SO THAT FUTURE REGIMES KNOW THAT THEIR ABUSES WILL BE IN VAIN

Yale Law School.

Trump turned 80 with cage fights on the White House lawn. Pure distraction. Underneath it: Epstein files, Iran, and 35 federal judges trying to stop what I’d call the most brazen kleptocracy attempt this country has seen. This week matters. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Has cancel culture gone too far? Is wokeness run amok? These have been the defining concerns of a lot of nominally centrist media for the last few years. Next week there will be a Thomas Chatterton Williams essay on how, somehow, this is just the woke right responding to identity politics.

Worth revisiting…

The gullible idiots are, as always, those who thought Trump might do something good for the Iranian people.

So Trump has spent tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, sent gas prices soaring, depleted the U.S. arsenal and further alienated our allies, all to get Iran to restore the status quo that existed before Trump started the war and that’s it? Explain to me what I have wrong?

I’m not saying Trump is actually a Manchurian Candidate, but if our adversaries wanted to create one, they couldn’t have done better.

In the latest NBC News poll, Democrats have a 5-point lead over Republicans in terms of preference for control of Congress among registered voters. And Democrats have a 17-point advantage among non-registered voters. But it won’t matter unless these people register and then actually vote. So do it!

Trump and Iran strike a deal to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, which was open before the war started, but announce no agreement on the nuclear program, ballistic missiles, sanctions or any other issues that divide them. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...

@jenrubin.bsky.social : “Trump launched a war to topple Iran’s regime, eliminate its missile program and navy, end its support for terror proxies, and, most important, obliterate (really this time) its nuclear weapons program. He achieved none of those.”

So, under this memorandum of understanding, Iran will receive $324 billion in exchange for agreeing not to develop nuclear weapons. But please keep going on about the $400 million in cash that Obama authorized to Iran as part of the JCPOA.

It’s worth mentioning in every news story that this deal is substantially worse for the US, and far more lucrative for Iran, than the Obama nuclear deal Trump blew up almost a decade ago.

I think Democrats should say “expose the corruption” instead of “impeach”. Set the table first, then eat the meal.

JD Vance on CBS is still trying to Catholic-splain to the freakin' Pope

Last image from tonight (short film in the morning): this brother out here with his Singer sewing machine, gifting people a custom embroidery on their jerseys and hats with the name and the date, was more artistic than anything at Burning Man and ad gorgeous as a Caravaggio. Magic! Goodnight.

“It’s basically a surrender document from [Trump] to the Supreme Leader … I mean, $100 billion of taxpayer money already put into this war, 14 Americans dead, and we get a deal that just reopens a strait that was already open before he started this stupid war.” www.mediaite.com/media/tv/bas...

I think Eleanor Ross sucks and should resign or be impeached, but the way conservative bloggers like Josh Blackman are reveling in the lurid details of a Black woman’s misconduct while also bending over backwards to explain away Trump judge Ryan Nelson’s sociopathic parking lot meltdown is…notable

Religion aside: Gill calls Talarico's reference to God as nonbinary "blasphemous," but while that term has a modern context, belief that God is beyond gender is super common in Christianity. E.g., the Catechism of the Catholic Church: "In no way is God in man's image. He is neither man nor woman."

VAN SUSTEREN: Who is our best friend in South America at this point KRISTI NOEM: We've worked so much with El Salvador ... Costa Rica has been fantastic (El Salvador and Costa Rica, dear reader, are not in South America)

Keep in mind that if this deal does open the Strait of Hormuz, that just means a return to status quo ante, which is Latin for “What were you thinking when you did this?” www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Trump's primary function at this point is to profane that which is sacred.