Source: euronews [EU]
“Ukraine said it struck a major blow to Russia’s grip on the occupied Crimean peninsula, announcing the destruction of a key railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal in a series of strikes. The bridge is the ‘first one’ to be eliminated, Kyiv’s troops said. A railway bridge over the North Crimean Canal near the village of Rozdolne ‘no longer exists,’ Ukraine’s Special Operations Forces (SOF) said on Tuesday …. The strike on the bridge will further complicate Moscow’s efforts to move troops, ammunition and fuel by rail, the crucial backbone of Russia’s military logistics.” (06/23/26)
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2026/06/23/ukraine-says-key-crimea-rail-bridge-no-longer-exists-after-drone-strikes
Source: Responsible Statecraft
by Sam Fraser
“Even if the framework agreement to end the U.S.-Israel-Iran War is successful, economic fallout from the conflict will persist at least through the end of the year. And the consequences for the global economic system — particularly the centrality of the U.S. dollar and its dominance of the oil trade — may be more far reaching. Analysts have suggested that the war may spell the end of the so-called petrodollar, or alternatively that it could bring about an era of renewed dollar dominance, or that really, the petrodollar ceased to be a meaningful driver of U.S. monetary hegemony decades ago. The latter vein of analysis is largely correct.” (06/23/26)
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/us-dollar-iran-war/
Source: Roll Call
“The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that federal border officials can use an indictment or other accusation to temporarily strip green cards from immigrants as they reenter the country. The 6-3 opinion, written by Justice Clarence Thomas, says the officials do not need to have ‘clear and convincing’ evidence of offenses at the time of the decision to suspend the status of a Lawful [sic] Permanent Resident, commonly known as a green card holder. Under federal immigration law [sic], green card holders are presumed to be able to reenter the country. But there are certain exceptions, such as when the immigrant has ‘committed’ certain offenses, or admits to doing so, within five years of receiving the green card.” [editor’s note: “Federal immigration law” is found in Article I, Section 9 and Amendment 10 of the US Constitution, and forbids the US government to regulate immigration – TLK] (06/23/26)
https://rollcall.com/2026/06/23/supreme-court-backs-us-power-to-strip-green-cards/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Jeffrey L Degner
“One of my earliest memories growing up in Kalamazoo, Michigan, was a visit to the bakery at the A&P grocery store at 5800 Gull Road. It was one of a handful of places my parents could afford to shop at in the midst of the great stagflation of the 1970s. My mother made amazing birthday cakes for us as kids, and I presume she was there for some ideas. I had other things in mind. They gave away free ‘donut holes’ to kids who were presumably well-behaved, leading to my temporarily angelic behavior whenever we went there. Little did I know then, A&P was once regarded as a retail behemoth. A monopoly needing to be cut down to size. Their crime? Volume discounts. This allegedly nefarious practice was at the center of anti-chain-store sentiment that reached a fever pitch with the passage of the Robinson-Patman Act in 1936.” (06/23/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/when-congress-waged-war-on-cheap-groceries/
Source: American Greatness
by Victor Davis Hanson
“The tentative ‘memorandum of understanding’ with Iran has caused glee on the Left and furor among many on the Right. The Left might welcome ‘peace,’ but surely not as much as it enjoys infighting on the Right over the details. If last week Democrats were calling Trump a fascist warmonger, now they deride his peace efforts as those of a Neville Chamberlain patsy. Within 24 hours, the Left’s talking points shifted from a mad bomber-style Curtis LeMay in the White House to an impotent appeaser. A week ago, some Republicans were arguing that not one of the prior seven presidents had dared to use force to stop Iran’s nuclear program. Now some of them are deriding him as an Iranian enabler.” [editor’s note: Poor Vic never seems to handle the failures of his approved schemes very well – TLK] (06/23/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/06/23/dont-forget-the-broader-context-of-the-iranian-memorandum/
Source: US News & World Report
“Turkish authorities detained 209 people in anti-terrorism operations on Tuesday, prosecutors said, a day after Ankara imposed restrictions on public gatherings ahead of next month’s NATO summit. Opposition groups said the raids were part of what they called a broader crackdown on democracy and civic freedoms in Turkey. The Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office said arrest warrants had been issued for 241 suspects under investigations into several militant organisations, including Islamic State and the far-left DHKP-C, MLKP and TKP/ML groups. It said 209 suspects had been detained and efforts to locate the remaining suspects were underway. … The operations came a day after the Ankara Governor’s Office announced a 13-day ban on demonstrations, press conferences, and other public gatherings from June 28 to July 10, citing security concerns related to the July 7-8 NATO summit.” (06/23/26)
https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2026-06-23/turkey-detains-209-in-anti-terror-raids-as-security-tightened-ahead-of-nato-summit
Source: The Hill
“Robby Soave delivers his radar on Elon Musk’s new trillions, and Democrats’ promises to both rein in his wealth and prosecute him once they return to power.” (06/23/26)
https://thehill.com/hilltv/5931929-rising-june-23-2026/
Source: Brownstone Institute
by Michael Tomlinson
“If there is one thing we have learned since 2020 it is the power of confirmation bias. The public health establishment has presented a mass of data and analysis to show that it was right all along about the Covid-19 pandemic and saved millions of lives. This finding has been accepted at face value and incorporated into policy, but rests on shaky foundations. We need to look at the big picture. Apologists for vaccination generally use point-to-point comparisons – they pick an arbitrary date near the peak of the epidemic curve and compare it to a later date to show that an intervention is correlated with a reduction in infections or mortality. This is open to case-counting window bias and immortal time bias – another selection of dates could yield an entirely different result.” (06/23/26)
https://brownstone.org/articles/interpreting-epidemic-curves-the-big-picture/
Source: Libertarian Institute
by José Niño
“No War Powers Resolution has ever successfully survived a presidential veto in U.S. history. The vote is therefore largely symbolic but politically potent as a sign of fracturing GOP unity. And for Massie, an outgoing congressman with nothing left to lose, it represents a final stand for the constitutional principle he spent his career defending. Massie’s resolution will almost certainly die in the Senate or fall to a presidential veto, not because the constitutional argument is weak but because the bipartisan addiction to executive war-making is stronger than any single congressman’s principles.” (06/23/26)
https://libertarianinstitute.org/articles/thomas-massie-leads-the-republican-revolt-against-trumps-iran-war/
Source: Christian Science Monitor
by staff
“This month has seen two tightly contested runoff elections in South America. The results from Peru’s poll, held more than two weeks ago, are still not official – but indicate a razor-thin margin of 35,000 to 40,000 votes for the conservative candidate. The count of Sunday’s vote in Colombia has been much quicker, showing a win for right-wing political outsider Abelardo de la Espriella, by a 1% margin over his rival. In the wake of highly polarizing campaign rhetoric, some observers might see the results as confirmation of a deep, irreconcilable divide within the electorate. But, viewed through a different lens, the results point to the virtually equal desire among citizens for safety and rule of law – as well as policies that offer pathways out of poverty and high economic inequality.” (06/22/26)
https://www.csmonitor.com/Editorials/the-monitors-view/2026/0622/Colombians-want-security-with-rule-of-law
