“A Miami Gardens resident opened fire after his next-door neighbor alerted him about an armed attempted robbery overnight, killing the subject, police said. Miami Gardens Police units responded to reports of a shooting …. ‘Upon arrival, we found the subject of an armed robbery on the ground with a gunshot wound to the head,’ said Miami Gardens Police spokesperson Diana Delgado. The subject was transported to [HCA Florida Aventura Hospital] where he was later pronounced deceased, according to Delgado. According to investigators, an intruder who was attempting to rob a home awakened a couple residing there at around 1:30 a.m. Investigators said the female victim, the homeowner’s girlfriend, ran to her next-door neighbor’s home for help. Shortly after, the neighbor retrieved a firearm and came to the couple’s home. ‘That neighbor fired his weapon, striking the subject in the head,’ said Delgado.” (06/09/26)
“When Missouri and Kansas agreed to a border war truce in 2019, the agreement was widely celebrated as the end of an expensive and counterproductive competition. After spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars moving jobs back and forth across State Line Road, both states agreed to stop subsidizing the relocation of existing employers within the Kansas City region. The agreement, which consisted of legislation on the Missouri side (which sunset last year) and an executive order from the Kansas side, was a good idea. But I argued at the time that Kansas Governor Laura Kelly’s executive order contained a glaring weakness.” (06/10/26)
Source: Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression
by Marie McMullan
“We need to talk about Bama. The University of Alabama delivered a real blow to the student magazine editors, writers, and photographers who staffed Alice and Nineteen Fifty-Six last December. UA shut down these publications, which focused on women and black students, citing a nonbinding memo from then-U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi that warned against the use of ‘unlawful proxies’ for discrimination. What followed was a scene from a student media horror story: Student journalists lost access to their old facilities, and administrators refused to reopen the publications, even after condemnation from student press advocates — including FIRE’s Student Press Freedom Initiative — came flooding in.” (06/10/26)
“The United States launched new attacks on Iran last night and Tehran retaliated against American targets across the Middle East, a second day of strikes following the downing of a U.S. military helicopter. Iran’s military announced that the Strait of Hormuz, the key trade route it has largely blocked through the war, is now closed to all marine traffic in response. U.S. Central Command maintained the key waterway was still open. Three Indian nationals were killed after the U.S. military fired at a Palau-flagged tanker off the coast of Oman, India’s minister of ports, shipping & waterways said.” (06/11/26)
“Ukrainian drones have struck a historic museum in Russia-annexed Sevastopol in Crimea and the occupied [sic] port of Mariupol, as Russian authorities slashed nighttime train schedules amid intensifying air attacks across the peninsula and deep into Russia. Sevastopol’s Russian-installed governor, Mikhail Razvozhayev, announced the damage on Telegram early on Wednesday. … The attack on the port of Mariupol caused a blackout at the site, according to Ukraine’s military. Several of the port’s key facilities were struck, including energy and maintenance infrastructure, which has ‘significantly limited’ the city’s capacity as a logistics hub, the military said. … In Novokuibyshevsk in Russia’s Samara oil hub region, hosting Rosneft refineries, regional governors said authorities repelled drone attacks while urging one million residents to seek shelter. Russian OSINT channel Astra confirmed the Kuibyshev oil refinery was burning after at least 29 drones attacked.” (06/10/26)
“The Libertarian Party expelled its New Hampshire chapter from the national party. For years, the Libertarian Party of New Hampshire (LPNH) has prided itself on being the radical vanguard of the liberty movement and made itself a public relations nightmare for the wider libertarian movement. Its chair, Jeremy Kauffman, became notorious for tweets he posted from the New Hampshire chapter’s account, including implying that historically black colleges and universities were ‘chimp factories’ and declaring that ‘Anyone who murders Kamala Harris would be an American hero.’ Faithless to the wider party, the LPNH endorsed and campaigned for Donald Trump over the Libertarian Party’s own presidential nominee, Chase Oliver, in 2024. When the vote by the Libertarian National Committee to eject the LPNH finally came during the party’s national conference, it was swift and decisive.” (06/10/26)
“President Donald Trump on Wednesday spent nearly a full hour ranting about the new-look Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool, trashing Democrats as ‘Dumocrats’ and downplaying the sky-high inflation that his war against Iran has caused before nearly forgetting to do the one thing he’d brought reporters into the Oval Office to see. As White House aides attempted to usher the White House press pool from the room after Trump ended the event by thanking reporters …. someone pointed out that he hadn’t actually signed the bill — at the signing ceremony in the Oval Office — he quickly pivoted to attacking his predecessor’s use of an autopen as he took out his bespoke Sharpie and inked a signature on the page as House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso and others watched over his shoulder.” [editor’s note: Too bad some idiot reminded him – TLK] (06/10/26)
