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🇺🇸🇮🇱🇮🇷 Trump reportedly called Netanyahu a “con man” in private. The upcoming book "Regime Change" by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan reveals:Trump told an adviser he didn’t want “any part” of a war with Iran on Netanyahu’s behalf. He described Bibi as a “con man,” one of Trump’s harshest personal insults. His view of Netanyahu apparently swung wildly behind closed doors. This is going to be explosive. Source: Tabz (Telegram) / Writer: Val

NEW | According to information gathered from the sources currently available to us, the ceasefire in Lebanon is not effectively in place. Israeli strikes continue to occur regularly, while Hezbollah attacks and launches are also ongoing.

U.S. intel agencies (CIA in particular) issued a similar warning to the Biden administration about Netanyahu & setting a post-war plan for Gaza in 2024: cnn.com/2024/06/07/pol…

she should resign. this is a scandal

Non-stop movement of Iranian oil tankers from the Strait of Hormuz 🇮🇷🇮🇷‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️

A 36-page bill moving through the North Carolina House would make it illegal for anyone serving on a state or county election board to make public statements encouraging people to vote. Not biased statements. Not partisan ones. Any statement encouraging or promoting voter turnout, full stop. The same bill expands the ability of private citizens to challenge whether any individual voter has the right to participate in early voting - a tool right-wing activists in other states have used to sow chaos, delay results, and erode confidence in the count itself. It adds new photo ID requirements specifically for military and overseas voters, a provision that traces directly back to Appeals Court Judge Jefferson Griffin's failed attempt to overturn his own 2024 election loss by challenging thousands of military and overseas ballots on exactly that basis. He lost the legal fight. The legislature is now trying to write his argument into law anyway. The bill also hands Sam Hayes, a GOP operative running the State Board of Elections, expanded power to hire and fire the staff who investigate election fraud and campaign finance violations for purely political reasons. Republicans hold a veto-proof majority in the state Senate. They are one vote short of that in the House. Governor Josh Stein is expected to veto it if it reaches his desk, and that veto would likely be the end of it. The bill passed committee on a party-line vote. Every Democrat present voted no. That's currently the only thing standing in its way.

US President Donald Trump unveils a replacement Air Force One aircraft gifted by Qatar, which has raised ethical, constitutional and security concerns. u.afp.com/SzXg

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Last year world leaders averted their eyes as the RSF militia in #Sudan, backed by the UAE, slaughtered and raped civilians around the city of El Fasher. Now the RSF may be poised to do the same around the city of El Obeid. Will President Trump or other leaders press the UAE to stop this?

Siding with SpaceX and the attorney general’s office, the Texas Supreme Court on Friday ruled that environmental groups did not have a right to sue to preserve public access to a beach that has been closed during rocket launches. bit.ly/4aDP9pC

Lebanese environmental activist Mona Khalil has died from wounds sustained in an Israeli strike earlier this month, family and friends say. For more than 20 years she was a dedicated & stubborn protector of Lebanon’s sea turtles. She had stayed at her home on the beach in Mansouri, southern Lebanon, despite the war. I had the privilege of interviewing her in 2017 when she was resisting the construction of a beach resort backed by powerful local players.

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13 Israeli air strikes were reported in the first hour after Israel told President Trump it had agreed to a ceasefire with Hezbollah on Friday. Continued Israeli artillery shelling also reported in multiple locations. The pattern has continued in the last 8 hours. “It’s not feeling like very much of a ceasefire,” Heidi Pett reports for Al Jazeera ⬇️

Mass censorship and surveillance laws like the UK’s social media ban (or KOSA here in the U.S.) and allow governments unprecedented control over online speech and only serve to entrench the power of big tech. Read the full piece below 👇

Scientists are wary of glyphosate. MAHA loathes it. And our yearlong investigation shows California is spraying it everywhere. motherjones.com/politics/2026/…

🇵🇸☦️ Greek Orthodox Patriarchate Condemns Israeli Seizure of Church Land in Silwan The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem condemned the seizure of land adjacent to the Monastery of Saint Onuphrius in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan on June 15, 2026, as an "unlawful and illegitimate seizure" that "sets a dangerous precedent." During the operation, the Patriarchate's representative was forcibly removed from the property, his equipment was confiscated, trees were uprooted, and the property was enclosed with fencing and gates. Police used force against the Church representative, and the seized land, officially registered in the name of the Patriarchate, is located next to the ancient monastery and has high archaeological and religious value. The authorities justified the raid with a municipal "greening" order from 2019, whose validity had already expired in April 2024. The Patriarchate argues that reliance on this expired order provides no lawful basis for uprooting trees, removing the lawful caretaker, sealing off Church land, or denying the Patriarchate access to its own property. The World Council of Churches strongly condemned the actions undertaken by Israeli authorities on June 18, stating that "the reported seizure and enclosure of Church-owned land constitute a serious violation of church rights and raise profound concerns regarding respect for religious freedom." The Patriarchate characterized the events as falling within "a wider pattern of escalating assaults aimed at weakening the indigenous Christian presence in the Holy Land," citing 111 Israeli attacks or acts of violence recorded against Christian clergy, nuns, worshippers, and church communities in 2024, including 35 attacks targeting churches, monasteries, and religious symbols. The Patriarchate has initiated legal proceedings to reclaim the property and defend its rights.

These 19 election deniers and vote suppressors are on the ballot in the midterms. We should be worried. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/th…

Some of the SpaceX investors in the records are easy to identify: the Indian politician Abhishek Singhvi; Betsy DeVos, the former U.S. secretary of education. But others on the list are shell companies whose ultimate owners remain hidden. propublica.org/article/spacex…

I hope people can wake up and see what this is really about: controlling access to information. The internet democratized access to news and information, and people in power do not want that!

Critics say the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission's decision ignores public outcry for more meaningful protections for the prized Miracle Mile trout fishery and the critical Ferris-Seminoe bighorn sheep herd. wyofile.com/feds-advance-p…