Source: The Weekly Dish
by Andrew Sullivan
“Multiracial harmony, globalized joy, and love for America. The World Cup saves the 250th.” (06/26/26)
https://andrewsullivan.substack.com/p/dude-lmao-this-is-a-gas-station-b5f
Source: France 24 [French state media]
“An icon of the Italian way of life, the Vespa was celebrating its 80th birthday on Saturday, as thousands of riders paraded through Rome on the legendary scooters. A few donned biker jackets despite the scorching heat while others opted for t-shirts, the hum of their machines filling the capital with a colourful buzz. … The Vespa, which means ‘wasp’ in Italian – a reference to the sound of its engine – was born on 23 April 1946, when the first patent for its manufacture was filed in Italy by Piaggio. It is still produced at the Pontedera site in Tuscany. … Thousands of ‘Vespisti’ from all over the globe turned up in the scooters, which are instantly recognisable because of their rounded lines, their brightly coloured metal bodywork and their round headlight mounted on the handlebars.” (06/27/26)
Source: Heartland Institute
“We’re Winning! Climate Alarmism Is Losing Its Grip.” (06/26/26)
https://heartland.org/podcasts/were-winning-climate-alarmism-is-losing-its-grip/
Source: Law & Liberty
by Peter Campbell
“Historical illiteracy has become a real problem in our time. The downsides of this have become rather glaring lately, as for instance in Tucker Carlson’s 2024 interview with Daryl Cooper, whom Carlson called ‘the most honest popular historian in the United States.’ Cooper claimed that Americans’ understanding of WWII was deeply flawed and that the true villain was Winston Churchill. The fact that some young Americans found this message sympathetic is very troubling and speaks volumes about our failure to educate the young about history. I regularly tell my students that reading history is their best defense against disinformation.” (06/26/26)
Source: Persuasion
by Rashmee Roshan Lall
“There’s only one winner of the Iran deal—the country that made it happen.” (06/26/26)
https://www.persuasion.community/p/pakistan-has-never-looked-so-important
Source: New York Post
“Several Iraqi political officials were arrested early Sunday on corruption charges, Iraq’s state-run Iraqi News Agency reported. It said the arrests were based on statement made by former Deputy Minister of Oil Adnan al-Jumaili, who was arrested last month, and ‘included members of Parliament whose immunity had been lifted.’ Iraqi security forces sealed off all entrances to the capital’s heavily fortified Green Zone early Sunday and carried out raids inside the compound that houses key government institutions and foreign embassies. A security agency report obtained by The Associated Press said that seven people were arrested, among them five members of Parliament.” (06/28/26)
Source: Serious Trouble
“At Least the Fancy Lawyers Are Still Getting Rich.” (06/26/26)
https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/at-least-the-fancy-lawyers-are-still
Source: Exiled Policy
by Jason Pye
“A new USPS rulemaking will prevent mail-in ballots in states that won’t comply with the administration’s demands.” (06/26/26)
https://exiledpolicy.substack.com/p/trumps-latest-election-power-grab
Source: The American Prospect
by Naomi Bethune & Ryan Cooper
“Thursday was a decision day at the Supreme Court, and the American people got to enjoy the familiar experience of waiting on tenterhooks yet again to see which rights were going to be deleted this time. The answer was residency rights for hundreds of thousands of nonwhite immigrants. The most important of Thursday’s decisions was also the worst one: Mullin v. Doe, which overturned a lower-court order barring the Trump regime from removing Temporary Protected Status (TPS) from hundreds of thousands of nonwhite refugees. For months now, Haitian and Syrian recipients of the TPS program have been in limbo, with their legal status being held up by fragile pauses in lower-court rulings.” [editor’s note: shrewd commentary or whining nonsense? You be the judge – SAT] (06/26/26)
Source: United Press International
“President Donald Trump on Saturday announced that he nominated former Oklahoma state trooper Lance Schroyer to be director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Schroyer, a senior advisor at the Department of Homeland Security and retired U.S. Marine, will replace former acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, who announced in April that he would leave the agency on May 31. Trump announced that he is nominating Schroyer for the position in a post on Truth Social, touting his 29 years in law enforcement, including in previous partnership roles with ICE.” (06/27/26)