The British Ministry of Defence has just given an update on what happened in the English Channel between a UK-flagged yacht and a Russian warship today.

Several California schools were named in a global list by U.S. News & World Report.

The adult in the room.

1. Hillary Clinton says when she was Secretary of State there was “constant” and “relentless” pressure by Prime Minister Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Ehud Barak to secure U.S. backing for a military strike against Iran.

Iranian soccer fans appear truly discouraged on videos after FIFA demanded them to take down Iranian flags during the FIFA WC match feat. Iranian team they traveled to support.

So the new take is just ignore the MoU, they are trying so hard to justify this mess. “People shouldn’t read too much into the language of the MOU,” one US official said, describing the agreement as a “political document.”

SCOOP: The chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency created by the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to protect American workers from discrimination, moved to delete the agency’s affirmative action rule that was implemented almost 50 years ago. interc.pt/4vlftNM

@cheetah.bsky.social: The Vice President is teetering the edge, accepting that he is the main architect of a minimally binding agreement between the U.S. and Iran meant to lead towards a more permanent agreement, but also accepting the blame if it fails. lnk.thebulwark.com/4gqi4RD

The Obama Presidential Center just dropped its grand-opening performance lineup, and it may go down as one of the best Chicago concerts of the last 50 years. Obama Presidential Center opening brings out all the stars www.axios.com/local/chicag...

America’s unions are more united than ever, and we’re ready to take on greedy bosses, billionaires, a trillionaire, and anti-worker politicians - so working people can enjoy a future that works for ALL of us. @meidastouch.com

For the 250th anniversary of the United States, San Francisco will launch a rare display, changing its usual location of July Fourth fireworks.

We now know that the Vice President is part of the Epstein files cover-up. What conversations has he been having? What directions has he given? We need answers.

Baseball is powered by autism! He would know that if he spent five minutes around the people who run it, play it, and cover it.

“The President owns and operates a bank” is satire-level corruption

NEW EPISODE: Days after the Callais decision, Tennessee became the first state to eliminate a majority-Black congressional district. Memphis was cracked into thirds in just 72 hours, with no hearings, no community input and no requirement to notify voters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JibI...

RFK is so relentlessly full of shit on anything remotely medical or scientific.

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."

Iran was ordered to leave the U.S. and return to Mexico directly after their first match of the World Cup. The team had expected to spend the night in California, but was told after their match that everyone must immediately get on a plane for the 140-mile trip back to Tijuana, Mexico.

Bonhoeffer was an anti-Nazi Lutheran theologian, executed in 1945 by the Nazis. Brandon Gill, man of the people, is a Dartmouth grad with a history degree. Oopsie.

Is it live or is it Memorex?

Trump’s comments on Iran at the G7 summit were “desperate rationalizations from a man who cannot face facts and admit defeat,” @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues in The Atlantic Daily.

In bad news, with disability education oversight being moved to the Department of Health and Human Services from the Department of Education, that means Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will have power over disability policy positions. New from me at @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It’s a cabal.

This is bombshell stuff.

Trump's new and allegedly improved reflecting pool, as photographed today (Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty)

New: Trump’s ill-timed moves bedevil his own agenda 1ST. Ballroom money delayed reconciliation. 2ND. "Weaponization" fund caused a GOP revolt, stalled it two more weeks & handed Dems political ammo. 3RD. Bill Pulte as acting DNI stalled FISA 702; it just expired. www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

If only the President of the United States had access to experts and specialists who studied and understood Iran ... but apparently they were all fired or reassigned, and he wouldn't listen to them anyway.🤷‍♀️

Boutros again.

NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

according to wikipedia there were 128 school shootings in america in the 1960s en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

🚨BREAKING: Republican lawmakers in North Carolina are trying to ban state election officials from publicly encouraging people to vote, part of a massive proposed overhaul of elections that a state legislative committee approved Tuesday. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump further guts the Education Department by shifting oversight of special education and civil rights to other federal agencies

Letters from an American June 15, 2026 Full letter available here: https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-15-2026 @hcrichardson.bsky.social

This shit right here really pisses me off, these World Cup players from Uruguay are being treated like hardened criminals rather than that the premier athletes that they are. Trumps America is racist AF! I said what I said!! ⚽️⚽️

Perfect photo, no notes.

If you believe someone can go 21 years in the United States, attend college until their senior year, and be ignorant of the meaning of a burning cross, the reaction should be one of horrified outrage at a society that can produce such a person in the land where Klan lynchings regularly occurred.

NEW: A federal court denied the DOJ's request to file a statement of interest in a pro-voting challenge to Ohio's documentary proof of citizenship mandate. It found the DOJ's statement unhelpful and untimely — a rare move that demonstrates the department's incompetence.

Exactly

NEW: For more than two decades, a sheriff in a rural but large North Carolina county has faced accusations of racial profiling and racist statements against Latino residents. He's typically avoided major electoral challenges; but he faces a pastor-turned-sheriff-candidate this fall. Our story:

NEW: "Trump’s Family Crypto Firm Is Expected to Get Federal Banking Privilege." It'd allow World Liberty Financial to— 💰️ settle financial transactions 💰️ publicly issue USD1 domestically, without having to go through an intermediary 💰️ skirt some state regs @jeffstein.bsky.social for @notus.com

"Two Dudes With A Pool Vacuum On A Stick LLC" charging the gov a 30% markup over retail for a job that's going to need enough bottles of HP to fill a gasoline tanker. The smartest business men on the planet right now.

He's been saying this thing about how easy it is to walk over the Qatar-Iran border for many months now. Clearly no one around him is brave enough to correct him. That's pretty terrifying.

PLEASE read this. About the importance of throwing sand in the gears—of stubborn collectivism—of focusing on the meaning of “WE” I stress this most nights on “A Few Thoughts For Those Who Can’t Sleep” on my YouTube channel (Gift article) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/o...

for iphone users, if you very suddenly regret NOT turning off biometric unlock, press the lock button on the side 5 times in row - this will lock your phone and require the passcode before biometric unlock can be used again, preventing police from using your face to unlock it against your will.

I love this.

It is reported that the Russian ship "Admiral Grigorovich" opened fire on a British yacht in the English Channel. This is the exact vessel Russians use to escort 'shadow fleet' tankers. www.ft.com/content/ddbc...

A very flawed paper that anti-vaxxers use to support the false conclusion that vaccines cause autism was retracted last week because of “concerns about methodology…and conclusions”. Of course RFK Jr. in his role as HHS Secretary is now demanding an explanation. Here it is: the data are shite.