Source: In These Times
by Rebecca Burns
“‘I urge you guys to freeze the rent, because we want our students to succeed.’ That was the appeal Alyssa Wright made to the nine members of New York City’s Rent Guidelines Board (RGB) earlier this month, a little more than halfway through a packed, four-hour hearing in the Bronx on whether to freeze rents in the city’s some 1 million rent-stabilized apartments. Wright serves as a campus supervisor for a pilot program connecting City University of New York (CUNY) students with housing, healthcare and food resources. It’s a challenging role: Just that week, Wright said in her testimony, she had counseled five students facing eviction. Some 38% of CUNY’s 240,000 students experience housing insecurity, a condition that makes them twice as likely to withdraw or be placed on academic probation, according to a 2025 study based on a representative sample of students.” (06/26/26)
https://inthesetimes.com/article/labor-tenant-union-mamdani-rent-freeze
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“The world’s biggest superconducting magnet for a nuclear fusion reactor has passed final tests as part of China’s CRAFT ‘artificial sun’ project, eclipsing international performance benchmarks. The assembly comprises two coils: a toroidal-field magnet that acts as a magnetic cage, and a central solenoid that serves as the igniter. The results, achieved by researchers with the Institute of Plasma Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, clear a major engineering hurdle on the path to confining a plasma hotter than the sun’s core, state news agency Xinhua reported on Saturday. The project – the Comprehensive Research Facility for Fusion Technology – aims to create a miniature sun at over 100 million degrees Celsius (over 180 million Fahrenheit) and trap it inside a doughnut-shaped metal cage to generate electricity.” (06/28/26)
https://archive.is/iV8hX
Source: The Tom Woods Show
“2026 Is the Best Time to Be Alive, and It Isn’t Close.” (06/26/26)
https://tomwoods.com/ep-2773-2026-is-the-best-time-to-be-alive-and-it-isnt-close/
Source: Antiwar.com
by Andrew P Napolitano
“Since its inception, the government of the United States has inexorably exceeded its powers under the Constitution. All three branches have been complicit in a consistent pattern of constitutional indifference. … that behavior is nowhere as manifest and harmful as war.” (06/26/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/andrew-p-napolitano/2026/06/25/war-and-constitutional-indifference/
Source: New York Times
“Iran’s armed forces struck a container ship that was passing through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, according to U.S. and Iranian officials, undermining efforts to restore shipping traffic through the crucial waterway. The attack came hours after Iran, demonstrating its control over the strait, had warned ships that the only route through the vital pathway for oil and natural gas was through its waters. Many ships had been using a route on the southern side of the strait, hugging the Omani coast.
The strike halted traffic through the crucial waterway, contradicting President Trump’s claim that Iran did not control the strait and his assurances that it was open once again to shipping. Oil prices jumped after the attack, with the price of Brent crude, the global benchmark for oil, rising over 2 percent to about $75 a barrel.” (06/25/26)
https://archive.is/4eOLK
Source: Garrison Center
by Thomas L Knapp
“My solution has three parts. Part one: Drain the pool. Part two: Zone the pool ‘commercial.’ Part three: Auction the pool off to a new, private sector, owner. I mean, it’s prime commercial real estate, right? Smack in the middle of a busy tourist area, lots of people walking around all day long with money in their pockets. And have you ever noticed what that tourist area’s called? ‘The National Mall.’ But good luck finding a Nordstrom or Bath & Body Works there. It’s mostly just museums and statues of, or for, dead people.” (06/25/26)
https://thegarrisoncenter.org/archives/20714
Source: JimBovard.com
Video by Jim Bovard. (06/25/26)
https://jimbovard.com/blog/2026/06/25/video-george-s-custer-deserved-the-little-bighorn-massacre/
Source: Yahoo! Finance
“Roughly $10.63 billion in Bitcoin (BTC) and Ethereum (ETH) options expire on Deribit Friday. The settlement drops into a market that keeps sliding lower while traders hunt for a floor. Bitcoin trades near $60,200 after a 2% daily drop, while ether sits around $1,580 after a steeper 4.43% fall. Both rest far below their options max pain levels. Friday’s settlement ranks as the quarter’s largest options event on Deribit. The bulk of expiring value sits in Bitcoin, with notional contracts worth about $9.06 billion against ether’s $1.57 billion. Max pain marks the price where the most options expire worthless.” (06/26/26)
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/options/articles/10-63-billion-bitcoin-ethereum-082102564.html
Source: Law & Liberty
by Graham McAleer
“In the long history of the world, the nation-state is anomalous. In 1900, only 25 percent of the global population lived in a nation-state; today it is close to 100 percent. Nearly 50 percent of today’s states were founded in the thirty years after WWII. … After Nations tells a great historical story, yet plebian uprisings against oligarchy are one of our oldest political tales. Resentment seems as likely a part of our digital future as emancipation. [Rana] Dasgupta thinks, maybe correctly, that oligarchy can jettison the creaking state.” (06/25/26)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/what-comes-after-the-nation-state/
Source: The Guardian [UK]
“The US supreme court has found in favor of the former Monsanto company in a ruling that is expected to block thousands of lawsuits filed by people alleging the key ingredient in the weed killer Roundup causes cancer. The decision was made in a 7-2 vote, with Justice Brett Kavanaugh offering the majority opinion and justice Ketanji Brown Jackson writing the dissenting opinion, joined by justice Neil Gorsuch. The case, Monsanto v Durnell, specifically dealt with the question of whether a federal law that gives the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulatory authority over pesticides preempts state claims that a company failed to warn users of certain product risks when the EPA itself has not required such warnings.” (06/25/26)
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jun/25/monsanto-supreme-court-pesticide-case
