French President Macron and Indian PM Modi raised alarms at the G7 summit that the U.S. could cut off access to American AI overnight — a fear the Anthropic blackout just made real.
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Wednesday, 17 June 2026
J.D. Vance Goes On The View To Try To Make People Like Him
Via Rolling Stone, J.D. Vance is watching his future political prospects dim as he continues to stand by The Trump. A disastrous foray into Iran, an economy in turmoil, an administration riddled with the kind of corruption that will rebound for decades in court cases and investigations. Faced with the prospect of becoming even more entrenched as an avatar for the failures and broken promises of Trump’s second presidency, Vance is embarking on a media tour to try to remind people that they supposedly liked him at some point, starting with an appearance on The View. (When was that?)
The ladies of The View have long been some of the favorite foils of Trumpland, and it turns out the hosts of ABC’s flagship talk show came prepared to spar. Vance seemed unprepared to actually defend the actions of the administration in which he serves.
The hosts repeatedly questioned the vice president about Trump failing to follow through on his campaign promises — on everything from the economy to the Epstein files — instead focusing on his own self-enrichment and self-aggrandizement.
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Tuesday, 16 June 2026
Trump Casually Dismisses Iran's Enriched Material After All The Buildup
During a presser with the media at the G7 summit in Evian-les-Bains, France, Trump claimed that after bombing an Iranian mountain, it may not be worth finding the leftover enriched uranium "because it's not really valuable."
Enriched uranium is the main ingredient to produce a nuclear weapon, and there is no such thing as worthless enriched uranium.
Trump attacked Iran over enriched uranium, for fuck's sake.
Trump keeps using an analogy called "nuclear dust" after he bombs what they claim is a nuclear facility, but that is a ridiculous comparison.
"Nuclear dust" is fallout from a nuclear explosion or radioactive material after a nuclear disaster. Not whatever this moronic president pretends it is.
"My second term, we sent in the B-2 bombers, and we terminated their – I call it the nuclear dust – their enriched material, right?" Trump said. "And totally effectively."
Huh?
TRUMP: So the Atomic Energy just reported that it was one of the most devastating bombings that they've ever seen.
The whole mountain collapsed on top of it.
And frankly, to go get it – we're going to go get it – but to go get it is a big deal because they say only China and us have the equipment where you can even get – the whole mountain has collapsed on top.
We have cameras on it.
You could make the case why you're even bothering, because it's not really valuable.
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Trump 'Furious' Over Possible Leak Of Epstein Situation Room Tapes
Trump aides are freaking out that recordings of Situation Room meetings about the Epstein files made their way to New York Times reporters. Rep. Ro Khanna joined Chris Hayes to discuss the Axios report, which claims that Donald Trump "is furious about the blow-by-blow accounts."
Senior White House officials suspect that Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan got their hands on audio recordings from Situation Room meetings for their upcoming book, Regime Change — a potential breach that has the administration rattled, according to Axios.
Recording devices are strictly prohibited in the Sit Room, making this, if true, an extraordinary security violation.
"We're afraid some of our most sensitive conversations were being recorded," one administration source said. "And we have no idea which ones."
The suspicion stems from the almost verbatim dialogue that appeared in early excerpts covering the Iran war and the Epstein files, published ahead of the book's June 23 release. The authors drew on more than 1,000 interviews for the project, which chronicles Trump's second term.
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Monday, 15 June 2026
Classic: Hegseth Claims Victory, Then Brennan Drops The Reality Check
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth took a minute from doing his prancing Pete tippy toe dance, to strut onto CBS's Face the Nation Sunday to deliver what he clearly believed was a devastating flex — the U.S. has totally, completely, absolutely controlled the Strait of Hormuz this entire time, zero Iranian ships, boom, mic drop.
Host Margaret Brennan then gently inquired why, if all that's true, we're negotiating with Iran to reopen it. Hegseth did not have a great answer for that. If you're an oldster like me, you remember the lies that got us into previous wars, but this administration is really bad at it.
"By the way, I think your viewers need to remember, Project Freedom never stopped, and we've run 125 million barrels of oil through the straits, and Iran couldn't do anything about it," Hegseth said. "How many ships from Iran have transited our blockade?"
"Zero," he continued. "Zero."
Here it comes.
"We have controlled the straits this entire time," he insisted.
"You're going to negotiate with them to reopen it," Brennan corrected him.
Jinkies, I don't know, guys, but it seems to me that if you need negotiations to reopen any fucking thing, then you probably weren’t controlling it. Still, Hegseth is saying "Mission Accomplished" while they're still negotiating.
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Sunday, 14 June 2026
UK may ban social media for children under 16
The U.K. seems to be following Australia's lead in banning a wide swath of social media for teens.
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Trump Announces Peace Deal, Then Threatens To Nuke Iran
For the zillionth time, President Deal Maker once again announced the U.S. is on the verge of a great deal with Iran. “The Deal is scheduled to get signed tomorrow, and immediately after it is signed, the Hormuz Strait is OPEN TO ALL,” Donald Trump declared on his social media platform Saturday.
That claim came after Trump spent nearly a paragraph shitting on President Barack Obama’s Iran deal – you know, the one that kept Iran from developing a nuke until Trump ripped it up and before deciding to start an unwanted and unnecessary war with Iran.
Then, after touting his supposed deal, which is really only an agreement to make a deal, Trump added, “We look forward to working with Iran, and the entire Middle East, long into the future. Hopefully, this process will work out quickly, easily, and smoothly.”
And nothing makes that seem truer than following up with a threat to drop a nuclear bomb! Trump’s next words were, “If it doesn’t, we have the ultimate alternative, hopefully never to be used again! Thank you for your attention to this matter!!!”
That bluster should tell you that a) Donnie Deal Maker is desperate (the Iranians will surely see it that way) and b) that Trump's deal is worse than Obama’s.
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