The app would be independent of Meta's other social media offerings, although sources told the NYT that those social sites could direct users to engagement with the app.
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Tuesday, 23 June 2026
'I Saw It': Trump's Reflecting Pool Excuse Gets Bigger Every Time He Tells It
Donald J. Trump's whole vandalism narrative is collapsing in real time. The president claimed a "350-foot slit" was cut through the pool's lining with a "box-cutter or a knife of some kind," saying, "I saw it. They cut it. They cut it very violently."
However, it got interesting when CBS's Ed O'Keefe pressed him on it. O'Keefe noted that reporters had visited the site and found no evidence of a slit, and Trump's response was essentially, "go ask the Parks Department."
Here's the kicker: neither the Interior Department nor the White House has provided any evidence that the pool lining was cut. And the story keeps changing — on Saturday, Trump claimed the gash was 250 feet long, and by Monday, it had grown to 350 feet. Classic.
Meanwhile, the actual story, in real life, is pretty straightforward: the Reflecting Pool has been plagued with algae and peeling paint since the Trump administration completed the renovation, which cost more than $16 million — $4 million over the original estimate.
To top this shitshow off, Trump is threatening to sue ABC for reporting on the Reflecting Pool cost overruns, saying, "I like their money."
The pattern is classic: another expensive government project fails, so he manufactured a villain rather than admit the $16M paint job didn't work.
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Monday, 22 June 2026
Google DeepMind bets $75M on AI’s future in Hollywood with A24 deal
Google DeepMind and A24 are teaming up to build AI filmmaking tools.
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Trump Holds Security Funding Hostage Until States Adopt His Election Reforms
Donald J. Trump's latest bit of inanity: The president is dangling billions in Homeland Security grants (you know, the anti-terrorism and disaster prep money) and threatening to slash 20% unless states ditch their voting machines.
Then, to comply, the states must switch to hand-marked paper ballots and run voter rolls through his favorite citizenship database, according to documents obtained by CNN.
Yeah, sure, he’s 'securing the homeland' by using hurricane money as a bargaining chip for his form of election reform.
The new policy is the latest move in Trump's ongoing push to combat what he calls widespread voter fraud — a claim researchers have repeatedly debunked — while increasing federal control over state-run elections. The announcement arrives as several states have moved to legally block federal interference in how they conduct elections.
Under revised rules tied to several DHS grant programs, states would be required to make a series of changes: phasing out certain electronic voting equipment in favor of hand-marked paper ballots, and running their voter rolls through a DHS citizenship verification database that has drawn significant criticism.
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Sunday, 21 June 2026
Fox Host Tries And Fails To Defend Trump's Surrender To Iran' Iran If Strait Remains Closed' Iran If Strait Remains Closed
Looks like those "peace talks" are going about as well as expected. Trump ran to one of his favorite reporters on Fox again with more threats against Iran:
Donald Trump told Fox News on Sunday that he threatened to “take over” Iran if the Strait of Hormuz was not immediately re-opened.
The president’s latest round of threats came in response to news Saturday that Iran was once again closing the key waterway, just days after signing an agreement to ensure that traffic could flow through. Iran announced that it would close the Strait of Hormuz after Israeli forces continued an all-out assault into Lebanon aimed at dislodging Hezbollah militants.
Fox’s Trey Yingst reported on Sunday that in an early morning phone call, the U.S. president said he’d warned Iranian officials directly that "you close [the Strait of Hormuz] and you won't have a country.”
"You won't even make it back to your f**king country,” Yingst said the president claimed to have relayed to the Iranians, adding: “We'll take over the rest of the country."
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Fox Host Tries And Fails To Defend Trump's Surrender To Iran
Fox host Rachel Compost-Duffy took a break from filming her husband's reality TV show to play propagandist for Trump's surrender to Iran, attacking the far right and the left at the same time:
Israel and the neocons want regime change at all costs, even if it takes US boots on the ground.
Obama and the Dems didn't even like Operation Midnight Hammer, which set Iran's nuke program back a decade.
Trump's looking out for American workers and families who want their gas prices lower and their boys brought home. And who doesn't want world peace? That's something we can all celebrate this 4th of July. The president didn't want this to be a forever war. He always wanted peace, and the left said they wanted the war over, too.
But now that the deal is signed, liberals are saying that we're waving the white flag.
It's funny how Barack Obama hasn't been president for ten years, yet he is still living rent-free in every MAGA skull.
Unfortunately for Compost-Duffy, her propaganda is awfully short-lived, since Iran has already closed the Strait of Hormuz again, gas prices are on their way up again, and there is no way in hell that any soldiers are coming home anytime soon. If anything, Trump is sending more overseas.
Not that Compost-Duffy cares. She gets paid to lie anyway.
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Italian Newspaper Headline Tells It Like It Is About Trump
Just like his stupid attack on Iran, President Dealmaker just blew up his relationship with one of his closest European allies for no good reason.
As we’ve previously reported, Donald Trump insulted Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni by claiming she had “begged” him to take a picture of them together at the G7 summit. He said he had only done so because he had “felt sorry” for her.
The backlash was swift and fierce.
Italian foreign minister Antonio Tajani canceled a planned visit to the U.S. this weekend.
Meloni posted a scathing video on social media Friday, headlined, “Italy and I never beg." She also said, “I don't know why the president of the United States behaves this way with his own allies. … I can only say it's a shame he doesn't show the same determination with the enemies of the West, with the enemies of the United States, with leaders with whom instead he proves to be much more accommodating.”
Italy’s right-wing daily paper, Libero answered Meloni’s question about why Trump shivs his allies.
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