Source: SFGate
“President Donald Trump ratcheted up tensions with Senate Republicans on Wednesday by abruptly canceling his signing of a bipartisan measure to make housing more affordable. Republicans had hoped to show voters they care about affordability ahead of the November elections. But the president blindsided them by insisting that Congress first pass a bill imposing federal rules on state-run elections. Trump had already planned to lunch Wednesday with GOP senators increasingly frustrated by his diversions from the party’s agenda and his unclear Iran war strategy. Trump also has a face-to-face Wednesday with NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte, two weeks ahead of the annual summit of the military alliance, as the Pentagon reviews the U.S. military footprint in Europe.” (06/24/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/politics/article/the-latest-trump-will-head-to-capitol-to-speak-22318468.php
Source: The Dispatch
“Who Will Lead the U.K.? | Interview: Francis Dearnley.” (06/24/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/remnant/who-will-lead-the-u-k-interview-francis-dearnley/
Source: The American Conservative
by David Brady
“The Fed chair’s first meeting was largely uneventful but laid the groundwork of challenges for his tenure.” (06/24/26)
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/is-warsh-his-own-man/
Source: The Daily Economy
by Raymond C Niles
“Zoning laws drive up housing costs and freeze cities in the past. New York City is a clear example.” (06/24/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/why-much-of-manhattan-would-be-illegal-to-build-today/
Source: NBC News
“State Attorney General Alan Wilson has won the Republican nomination for governor of South Carolina, NBC News projected Tuesday, after a closely watched runoff that featured President Donald Trump’s unusual double endorsement of two candidates. Wilson is now heavily favored heading into the general election in South Carolina’s first open governor’s race since 2010. Republican Gov. Henry McMaster was term-limited and could not seek re-election. Democratic candidate Jermaine Johnson won his primary this month.” (06/23/26)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/south-carolina-governor-runoff-election-winner-wilson-rcna351122
Source: Free Talk Live
“Jay Noone has built something most people only talk about: a real community of like minded families on a working farm in New Hampshire, where kids learn blacksmithing, animal butchering, diesel mechanics, and how to carry themselves as competent, self reliant people.” (06/23/26)
https://soundcloud.com/freetalklive/mesjaynoone
Source: Cato Institute
by Jeffrey Miron
“Industrial policy — government efforts to favor certain sectors, technologies, or firms — has a long history. Far from a fringe idea, politicians across the spectrum have promoted such policies for centuries. But the results are far more problematic than its current popularity suggests.” (06/23/26)
https://www.cato.org/blog/industrial-policies
Source: Town Hall
by Edward Ring
“A very successful businessman (and a major contributor to Democratic Party candidates and causes) once explained to me why he talked, acted, and thought like a Republican but never considered supporting any Republican candidate, ever. ‘We’ve already got the Republicans’, he told me. This is the transactional essence behind corporate support for Democrats in California, the one-party state. Republicans have no political power, and whenever the Democrats in the state legislature are surprisingly split on a matter of concern to business interests, the handful of Republican politicians will invariably cast pro-business votes. This has been going on for a long time. Democrats have controlled both houses of the state legislature since 1997 and the governorship since 2011. A signature moment came in 2010 when Jerry Brown defeated the hapless billionaire Republican Meg Whitman to begin his second two-term stint as governor.” (06/24/26)
https://amgreatness.com/2026/06/24/how-steve-hilton-can-become-californias-next-governor/
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“France has confirmed its first case of Ebola – a doctor who had returned from a humanitarian mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The doctor was ‘immediately admitted to a specialised facility’ and is in a stable condition, the French health ministry said on Wednesday. DR Congo announced an Ebola outbreak last month, but experts believe the virus had been circulating for weeks previously. More than 260 people are confirmed to have died from the virus in the central African country, while 1,000 people have been infected. This is the first Ebola case to have been confirmed in Europe, although an American doctor who tested positive in DR Congo was treated at a German hospital last month. DR Congo’s neighbour, Uganda, has also confirmed Ebola cases. The World Health Organization (WHO) says 20 people are known to have been infected there and two deaths have been confirmed.” (06/24/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj9gzr9rdjlo
Source: National Public Radio [US state media]
“Why AI groups are spending millions to influence midterms.” (06/23/26)
https://www.npr.org/2026/06/23/nx-s1-5866759/why-ai-groups-are-spending-millions-to-influence-midterms
