🇮🇷❗️🇺🇸 An Iranian Shahed drone brought down the U.S. Apache helicopter, - CNN

The US is performing shoddily militarily and dishonestly politically. It’s shocking.

Alarm bells of worth should be clanging for the USA. A few hours ago Trump assured the world that Iran was close to a deal. Then the Iranians turn around and shoot down an advanced and expensive piece of US equipment.

Weight lifting and other forms of resistance training can increase bone density, lower diabetes risk and boost mental health

The pressure is on to open the Strait of Hormuz. This is from Dow’s presentation at today's Wells Fargo conference. (via Vital Knowledge) #$DOW

President Trump's eponymous meme coin, "$TRUMP", has netted his family $616 million. People who bought the coin have lost about $700 million as its value cratered. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Since the 2024 election, the Trumps have, as a family, generated more profit from crypto than any U.S.-listed company.

President Trump's crypto ventures have been a jackpot for his family, which has raked in about $2.3 billion in profits since he took office, a Reuters analysis found. And it's been a very bad bet for people who bought his crypto. They've lost more than $2 billion. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Trump's approval rating is in freefall

“In 2025, we suffered the largest decline in international tourism in over two decades, with four million fewer visitors than 2024 and $8 billion in lost income for American businesses.”

Striking graphic in this latest Reuters piece, which finds that while President Trump and his family have profited by at least $2.3 billion since he retook the presidency, their more than a million investors have suffered $2.3 billion in net losses. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

And thanks to Tina Peters and Jared Polis may believe they will get away with it and become heroes

Big differences this time around, as I see them: a) the GOP is now fully bought-in to election denialism and ran off those who aren't b) the legal activism wing of the GOP has spent years cooking new schemes c) many state/county election boards are now full of people eager to screw with counting

Hope everyone is buckled up for midterms this year. I expect this sort of election denialism stuff is going to make 2020 look quaint in comparison.

Do read. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

“.. at least 37 times. That’s the number of times he’s said directly — in social media posts, public appearances and phone calls with the media — that a deal was nigh or claimed Iran was desperate ..” @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/06/09/p...

“We have a red-flag system here, where if there’s anything that gets really out of whack, they can immediately tag the milk, and it doesn’t go to anything but cheese,” he said. “Because...cheese is resistant to pathogens.” But research has shown that raw cheese is **not** resistant to pathogens.

While raw milk enthusiasts often claim it's safe and healthy, most health experts disagree. Raw milk: *Has no proven nutritional benefits compared to pasteurized milk. *Cannot treat/cure disease. *Subjects consumers to >100x the risk of foodborne illness. www.fda.gov/food/buy-sto...

NEW: Donald Trump Jr. invests in a co. trying to build an oil refinery in the U.S. Then the richest man in Asia invests... in the same company. Then... his co. gets policy concessions from the Trump Admin. @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @justinelliott.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

U.S. ECONOMY TEETERING ON EDGE OF RECESSION, WARNS MOODY'S CHIEF ECONOMIST

If you can safely attend a game at Madison Square Garden, you don’t need a ballroom.

BUFFETT INDICATOR HITS RECORD 238%, FLASHING EXTREME MARKET OVERVALUATION WARNING

If you credulously do a segment about the vote in California in which you don’t say the president is lying, you’re spreading disinformation to your listeners.

Putin’s central bank chief Elvira Nabiullina is missing. Clearly all going swimmingly in Russia and the economy is booming.

Possibly the pettiest loser government in the world. The US has withdrawn Iran’s allocation of World Cup tickets for supporters days before the tournament starts, Iran’s football federation said.

Jared Kushner’s leading role in the bungled negotiations makes him complicit in what, by most accounts, has been a costly and humiliating defeat for the administration—and for the nation. Check out our latest cover story: tinyurl.com/7feeb4hw

A real page on the White House website

NEW: Trump administration officials earlier this year killed a federal criminal investigation into the coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice, the Republican former governor of West Virginia and a close ally of the president’s. By @justinelliott.bsky.social @josh-kaplan.bsky.social

lol what an obvious conjob www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/o...

BREAKING: Ken Paxton’s own lawyer just endorsed James Talarico: “I defended Ken Paxton for years in the impeachment trial and in state criminal cases. But in my view, I think Ken has lost sight of his core mission, which is to represent the people of Texas.  That’s why I'm supporting you.”

SMALL BUSINESSES ACROSS U.S. HIT BY 36% JUMP IN BANKRUPTCIES

As outlandish as this might seem, Trump has now extended clemency to almost all of the Republican congressmen convicted of felonies in the 21st century. The latest pardon was issued late Friday night, when the White House hoped it’d go unnoticed. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Indeed. No national news outlets have reported on this yet:

"This is a profound level of corruption" that'll be included in future US history books.... Attorney Brendan Ballou, who is representing two Virginia community organizers who've sued to stop the UFC event this weekend at the White House =====>

Time to point to the sign again

That is something I have NEVER heard about before. Not once!! And I am a very informed person. 🤯🤯🤯

The organized Asian-American groups committed little of the violence but they were important in filling out the crowd and in whipping up enthusiasm with flags, banners, speeches. And they self-documented with a LOT of video.

Yes. And if these were members of Vietnamese diaspora you're talking about, that story was also totally ignored by the media. There was vast amounts of organizing in expat Chinese and Vietnamese communities, huge groups attending. And South Vietnamese flags all over the US Capitol.

This is a misrepresentation of Jan 6. It was not a spontaneous action by a violent mob. It was a planned action to storm the Capitol building, conceived of by politicians and led by 200+ Proud Boys who tried to avoid the violence themselves, and goaded the crowd to act instead. 1/

“.. weighed by favourable weather conditions and the absence of renewed Chinese demand for U.S. crops.” - @reuters.com

We may need a new definition for "ceasefire" www.bloomberg.com/news/live-bl...

Contrary to the American report: CENTCOM assisted with intelligence and air coordination for Israeli strikes and defense against missiles - Hayom News.

"Defense Minister Israel Katz has suggested the entire Palestinian population of Gaza should eventually be concentrated into a dystopian “humanitarian city,” built on the ruins of Rafah. Nobody would be allowed to leave the zone unless they emigrate,..."

ISRAELI SOURCE TO CHANNEL 14: OUR OPERATIONS AGAINST HEZBOLLAH IN LEBANON CONTINUE

Spotted in NYC

Rosie O’Donnell on Trump: “If you grew up in New York, you knew he was an asshole and a liar from day one. He is a con man, a narcissist, and, if you ask me, a psychopath.”

IDF SAYS PROJECTILES FIRED TOWARD TROOPS OPERATING IN SOUTH LEBANON