A spokesman for the Israeli government summed the whole thing up nicely:
“This wasn’t humanitarian aid. It’s Instagram activism,” Israeli government spokesperson David Mencer said. “Meanwhile, Israel has delivered over 1,200 truckloads in the last two weeks. So who’s really feeding Gaza and who’s really feeding their own ego? Greta was not bringing aid, she was bringing herself. And she’s not here for Gaza, let’s be blunt about it. She’s here for Greta.”. //
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🥪 The ‘selfie yacht’ is safely making its way to the shores of Israel. The passengers are safe and were provided with sandwiches and water, and are expected to return to their home countries.
🤏 The tiny amount of aid that wasn’t consumed by the “celebrities” will be transferred to Gaza through real humanitarian channels.
🚛 More than 1,200 aid trucks have entered Gaza from Israel within the past two weeks, and close to 11 million meals were transferred by the GHF directly to civilians in Gaza.
There are ways to deliver aid to the Gaza Strip — they do not involve provocations and selfies.
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Karen Bass: People are protesting peacefully
Rob Bonta: There is no emergency
LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell: We are overwhelmed … There is no limit to what they are doing to our officers
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REPORTER: Do we need the national guard?
LAPD CHIEF: "Tonight, this thing has gotten out of control."
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🚨LAPD CHIEF: The arrests we've made PALE in comparison to what will be made.
We have video of everything. We will find those individuals, and arrest them all — "VERY AGGRESSIVELY!"
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That said, the past few days have demonstrated how eager U.S. lawmakers are to abdicate their constitutional responsibilities entirely. House leaders — or, should I say, “leaders” — have reportedly welcomed the release of the “pocket rescission” paper, because it gave them a roadmap to lower federal spending without lawmakers having to vote on spending reductions. You know, the thing that taxpayers pay them to do.
The whole episode makes Nancy Pelosi’s “we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what’s in it” seem trivial by comparison. It also illustrates how Congress has transformed into an episode of The Simpsons, where lawmakers’ posture on reducing spending amounts to “Can’t Someone Else Do It?”
In that sense, the “pocket rescission” strategy would not only constitute a major change in the relationship between the executive and legislative branches. It also would let lawmakers “off the hook” and absolve them for their role in creating an unsustainable federal budget — an absolution they do not deserve.
THE BOOK FOR AMERICA'S 250th!
FINDING OUR WORDS: Words That Made America is a collection of some of the most inspiring words spoken by American leaders since the nation’s founding.
It is intended for all ages: for advanced readers to enjoy in leisure learning, or aloud in groups with all levels—even beginning readers. It may be used exclusively or in conjunction with other works for the study of language arts, U.S. history, civics, statesmanship, and elocution.
From the time I started my adventure in homeschooling over a decade ago, I have wanted to collect some of the most inspiring words spoken by American leaders since our founding — eloquent and soaring words, rooted in the wisdom of the ages. The desire emerged from reading those great words of American history aloud with my daughter, contrasting them with the words we heard daily all around us, and realizing that something priceless had been lost.
American education, not long ago the envy of the world, has become a corrupt, bloated, and failed institution. This has been happening for over a century and there is no sign of recovery. The loss can be summed up in one sentence: We have lost our words. We no longer read the greatest spoken and written words of all time in the fields of history, literature, poetry, philosophy, and politics, and so we have lost the understanding of words that our ancestors lived by. More critically, however, we have lost what those words have represented. //
Third, when we read extraordinary works, we encounter words which we might be able to understand in context but not define. To build our vocabulary, we need not to dread the “hard” words but look forward with hope to acquainting ourselves with them.
For this subject, the English word “vocabulary” is lackluster. I prefer the German word for vocabulary: Wortschatz. Wort means “word” and Schatz means “treasure”… word-treasure.
The pen is mightier than the sword, and words are a greater treasure than diamonds and pearls. Do not leave your treasure scattered among the pages. Gather your words as you go and store them in your treasure chest. //
Including the entire sentence has done more than just help us to remember the word; it has shown the word at the pinnacle of its career. It is exasperating and essentially a waste of time to use pre-made vocabulary card sets that usually cast strong and noble vocabulary words into the dungeon of absurd, illogical, and demeaning sentences. Adorn your own word-treasure cards with sentences from the greatest works of all time. //
Fourth, elocution was once a standard part of school curricula. It has not been so for the last hundred years or more, and we hear the results all around us. Finding Our Words is not an elocution course, but a few tips can get us started. When having children read aloud, encourage them to incorporate a manner of expression appropriate to the text. Encourage them to project their voices. A favorite word we have used in reading the speeches in this book is “stentorian.” In the days before microphones and speakers, a stentorian voice was required if one wished to be heard.
There are many ways to measure the success of education, and while money and education are often good metrics, they cannot be the only metric we use. //
Homeschooling has always looked a little different from traditional education. That’s sort of the point. No two children are alike, so why should their education be? However, this freedom for the student has meant frustration for the scholar, as homeschooling’s multifaceted nature makes rigorous academic study challenging. //
Different values give rise to different outcomes. Based on the data, it seems that long-term homeschoolers do not value high pay and further education nearly as much as they value faith and family. It is entirely possible that the lower income, employment rates, and educational attainment reflect choice, not capacity. Employment and income could be lower for long-term homeschool graduates because they choose to forego a second income and have one parent stay home with their kids. //
The outcomes for homeschool graduates are as myriad as the methods of and reasons for homeschooling. It would be the peak of foolishness to claim that someone’s education was not successful because they do not meet arbitrary metrics, particularly when they may not hold those metrics in high esteem. Rather, we must determine if an individual is meeting their own values and goals, not those set for them by statisticians. High pay cannot fix depression, and college degrees do not equate to community.
In September 2007, Hillary proposed giving every American child a $5,000 “baby bond” at birth. The Republican National Committee immediately condemned it as a “budget busting baby fund.” Rudy Giuliani dismissed it as pure “pandering” to voters.
They were right then. What changed?
Trump’s version offers $1,000 per child — originally branded “MAGA Accounts,” now called “Trump Accounts.” With around 4 million births annually, taxpayers face a minimum $4 billion yearly obligation. The same policy framework Republicans spent months attacking has somehow become Republican orthodoxy. //
From a corporate finance perspective, this program creates perverse incentives that benefit wealthy families and financial institutions while providing minimal help to working Americans.
The structure allows families to contribute an additional $5,000 annually to these government-seeded accounts. Wealthy families who can afford maximum contributions receive ongoing tax shelters, while working families get a one-time $1,000 payment they likely can’t afford to supplement.
Meanwhile, Wall Street firms are already positioning to manage these accounts. Billions in new assets under management mean substantial fee income for financial institutions. Taxpayers fund the initial deposits, Wall Street collects the management fees, and wealthy families get tax advantages — a perfect trifecta for everyone except the middle class citizens who foot the bill.
Trump’s version contains another critical flaw that makes it worse than Hillary’s income-restricted proposal: no income limits and minimal citizenship verification. While children must be U.S. citizens, parents only need Social Security numbers.
This creates a massive incentive for illegal border crossings. //
Genuine America First policy should focus on proven strategies: cutting spending so working people aren’t killed by government-caused inflation, reducing regulatory burdens on small businesses, curtailing the skyrocketing costs of health insurance by repealing Obamacare, and eliminating corporate welfare programs that benefit connected elites.
Instead of creating new government programs, Republicans should expand existing vehicles like Education Savings Accounts and Health Savings Accounts that already provide tax advantages without requiring taxpayer funding.
Real pro-family policy means letting families keep more of their own money through tax cuts and other conservative reforms, not redistributing taxpayer dollars through government accounts managed by Wall Street firms.
President Trump and Sen. Cruz are sound conservatives who received bad advice from establishment insiders. But they can still correct course.
The test of conservative leadership isn’t avoiding all mistakes — it’s recognizing bad advice quickly and changing direction.
Paul Harvey's 1992 speech claimed climate change was a hoax in the making.
Rooftop Koreans: An example advocating for the importance of citizen ownership of firearms
Rooftop Koreans or Roof Koreans refer to the Korean American business owners and residents who armed themselves and took to the rooftops of local businesses to defend themselves during the 1992 Los Angeles riots.
Photos of damage to the fuselage of an American Airlines Boeing 787-9, registration N839AA, caused by a lightning strike, are spreading through social media. The incident occurred on Monday’s Tokyo Narita to Dallas – Fort Worth flight.
On Monday, June 2 2025, American Airlines flight 780 took off from Philadelphia for Naples, Italy. They sent the wrong plane – and passengers wound up having to land 124 miles away in Rome.
Normally this flight is operated by a Boeing 787-8 aircraft. However, on Monday American used a larger Boeing 787-9 – which isn’t permitted at the Naples airport. //
Normally the American Airlines Boeing 787-8 and 787-9 are going to be pretty interchangeable. It isn’t for the Naples flight. And they clearly didn’t flag that restriction or program in logic to prevent this. That’s a big operational failure, reminiscent of when American sent the wrong Airbus A320 – a legacy US Airways plane not certified for extended overwater operations – to Hawaii.
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Californians pay the bills for the federal government.
We pay over $80 BILLION more in taxes than we get back.
Maybe it’s time to cut that off, @realDonaldTrump.
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JD Vance on the Elon - Trump feud:
President Trump took a bullet for this country. He is doing more than anyone to bring the American Dream back & this bill is a big part of the agenda he promised. War between them isn’t good for America
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🚨 JD Vance says DOGE found that for "every dollar we were spending on humanitarian assistance, $0.12 was actually making it to people who needed it."
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He also confirmed that Elon had been working for free. //
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“It is my job, obviously, to provide the President honest counsel...he talks to everybody. I think it's why he's in touch with normal people.”
7:52 AM · Jun 7, 2025
There were more than 2,000 active generation interconnection requests as of April 30, totalling 411,600 MW of capacity, according to grid operator ERCOT. A bill awaiting signature on Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk, S.B. 6, looks to filter out unserious large-load projects bloating the queue by imposing a $100,000 fee for interconnection studies.
Wind and solar farms require vast acreage and generate energy intermittently, so they work best as part of a diversified electrical grid that collectively provides power day and night. But as the AI gold rush gathered momentum, a surge of new project proposals has created years-long wait times to connect to the grid, prompting many developers to bypass it and build their own power supply.
Operating alone, a wind or solar farm can’t run a data center. Battery technologies still can’t store such large amounts of energy for the length of time required to provide steady, uninterrupted power for 24 hours per day, as data centers require. Small nuclear reactors have been touted as a means to meet data center demand, but the first new units remain a decade from commercial deployment, while the AI boom is here today.
Now, Draper said, gas companies approach IREN all the time, offering to quickly provide additional power generation.
Gas provides almost half of all power generation capacity in Texas, far more than any other source. But the amount of gas power in Texas has remained flat for 20 years, while wind and solar have grown sharply, according to records from the US Energy Information Administration. Facing a tidal wave of proposed AI projects, state lawmakers have taken steps to try to slow the expansion of renewable energy and position gas as the predominant supply for a new era of demand.
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Where this goes is anyone's guess. The lawsuit by the Democrat Attorneys General seems a bizarre claim to entitlement. Likewise, the GAO opinion ignores the law it claims to enforce, as the Trump administration has not refused to spend the funds, but is reexamining how those funds are used. In a sane world, the Democrat lawsuit would fail for lack of standing, as no one is entitled to federal funds. Even though no one was found to have requisite standing to challenge the 2020 election results in court, we're seeing a new legal philosophy in play under President Trump where anyone has standing to challenge any act by the administration.
Ultimately, I think the Supreme Court will have to rule on the legality of the Impoundment Control Act. This was enacted by a hostile Democrat Congress against the efforts of a Watergate-damaged Richard Nixon to stop spending on stupid stuff to bring inflation under control (some of this should sound familiar). It was one of at least two pieces of legislation intended to make the president into a servile butler rather than the Chief Executive. The other piece is the, in my opinion, facially unconstitutional War Powers Act. There is a large amount of evidence that, previous to the Impoundment Control Act, presidents treated Congressional appropriations as a ceiling that could not be exceeded, rather than a mandatory number to be achieved. The former makes sense if the president controls the executive branch; the latter only makes sense if the president's only function is to do as he's ordered. As we're seeing with the struggle in Congress to cut spending, the only way to control the budget is for presidents to have the right to refuse to spend.
The administration is on course to bring all "independent" agencies under the control of the White House.
It will push the envelope until the impoundment issue reaches the Supreme Court, and I think it will win.
A federal judge has stranded three ICE officers and their convicted-criminal deportees in Djibouti, Africa, after an order was handed down grounding their flight.
The eight illegal immigrants were on their way to South Sudan in late May when US District Judge Brian Murphy stepped in, claiming the Trump administration "unquestionably" violated a March decision on deportations. The flight then landed in Djibouti, a small nation on the Horn of Africa, with ICE agents being ill-equipped to deal with the "outrageous" conditions. //
The Trump administration has appealed to the Supreme Court to step in regarding this case, but so far, nothing has happened. As I've said before, regardless of what legal arguments exist, the longer this constant stream of lower-court decisions usurping executive power is allowed to continue without any new guardrails put in place, the less credibility the judiciary will enjoy. That's not a good thing for the country, and I sincerely hope this doesn't reach the point where court orders have to be ignored, because if that happens, there's no putting the genie back in the bottle.
Global Greening From Higher CO2 Hits “Striking” New Heights | Chris Morrison, The Daily Skeptic
But the legacy media won’t tell you about it
Significant new evidence has emerged of widespread and significant increases in plant vegetation across the Earth due to the recent rise of the trace gas carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. //
The Spanish researchers do not quantify the amount of new vegetation but conclude that 38% of the world’s land surface shows significant vegetation change. It was found that 76% of the change total showed more greening and, interestingly, those areas with more plant life showed higher rates of additional growth. //
Far from being a politicised ‘pollutant’, CO2 is rightly known as the gas of life. A group of American scientists recently highlighted 2020 as an “historic landmark” since it registered as the greenest year in the satellite record from 2001 to 2020. //
The authors of a recent science paper, Charles Taylor and Wolfram Schlenker, recently found what they called a consistently large fertilisation effect of a 1 ppm increase in CO2, equating to a 0.4%, 0.6% and 1% higher yield for corn, soybean and wheat respectively.
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In a unanimous decision that restores sanity and reaffirms the true meaning of civil rights, the Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a misguided judicial doctrine that had, for decades, warped Title VII protections into a one-sided tool of “equity.”
Ames v. Ohio Dept. of Youth Services is not just a technical correction of legal doctrine, it is a resounding declaration that equality under the law still matters more than identity-based scorekeeping.
For years, some federal courts imposed what was known as the “background circumstances” test, a requirement that majority-group plaintiffs (read: white, male, heterosexual, or Christian employees) provide extra proof that their employer was the rare kind that discriminated against the majority. //
Writing for a unanimous Court, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson said plainly what constitutional conservatives have argued all along: “Title VII’s disparate-treatment provision draws no distinctions between majority-group plaintiffs and minority-group plaintiffs.” The law, she explained, “makes it unlawful to discriminate against any individual… because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” //
Justice Clarence Thomas, joined by Justice Neil Gorsuch, filed a separate concurring opinion that went even further, calling out the root cause: judge-made doctrines that create unequal burdens under the guise of helping the marginalized. “Such a rule is undoubtedly contrary to Title VII, and likely violates the Constitution,” Thomas wrote. “[T]here can be no such thing as either a creditor or a debtor race.” //
Equality > Equity
This case is more than just a victory for a woman who was passed over and demoted in favor of candidates who checked more fashionable demographic boxes. It’s a victory over the growing trend of replacing equality with equity.
Equity, as practiced in far too many corporate HR departments and public institutions, demands unequal treatment to engineer equal outcomes. That’s not fairness, that’s retribution disguised as justice. In this case, it meant denying Marlean Ames the same legal protections everyone else enjoys, simply because of her orientation and perceived privilege.
The Ames decision, by contrast, restores the foundational principle that every American, regardless of background, deserves to be judged on the content of their character and qualifications, not on their demographic label.
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I really don't see a peace deal happening here. Two many confounding factors. Too many incentives on both sides to continue. Trump should step away from this until they show signs they're serious.
Putin is evil but Zelensky is a fool. No need to make a terrible situation worse by diminishing US prestige further.
These people have fought for centuries. So long as they don't expand the aggression, it's in God's hands.
wish it were otherwise but Putin is a monster and Zelensky is a selfish goon.