Source: Show-Me Institute
by Patrick Tuohey
“Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas is talking in circles. The city is suffering under a $55 million operating deficit. The mayor pointed out in a 2023 budget letter that ‘The demands of a City this size in square miles and infrastructure age far exceed affordable options for residents and available resources.’ What to do? The answer is obvious: dedicate more public tax dollars to private corporations. And not just baseball, but women’s soccer, too! Kansas City leaders are once again proposing public subsidies for a sports facility.” (06/22/26)
https://showmeinstitute.org/article/corporate-welfare/kansas-city-mayors-circular-reasoning-on-stadium-subsidies/
Source: BBC News [UK State Media]
“A new species of spider which weaves a catapult-like silk trap to snare a single type of ant has been discovered in the remote rainforests of northern Australia. Researchers believe the nocturnal predator developed the unique hunting method to make meals of aggressive ants which are notoriously dangerous – and unusual – prey for arachnids. The snare’s ‘exceptionally high power’ flings the ant into a bigger web at ’15 times the most extreme g-forces experienced by jet pilots,’ said lead researcher Prof Ajay Narendra. Though it is yet to be formally named, scientists have nicknamed the tiny spider ‘ballista,’ after the ancient weapon used to hurl stones in battle. ‘The snare mechanism seems to have evolved as a highly specialised way of allowing the spider to ‘pick off’ potentially hazardous prey one at a time and transport them a safe distance away from ant trails and nests,’ researcher Dr Jonas Wolff said.” (06/23/26)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70y138y995o
Source: Crooked Media
“Pool Me Twice, Shame On You.” (06/23/26)
https://audioboom.com/posts/8919740-pool-me-twice-shame-on-you
Source: Cobden Centre
by Dr. Frank Shostak
“The view that an increase in the money supply could revive an economy is based on the idea that money transmits its effect through the aggregate expenditure. With more money in their pockets, people will be able to spend more and the rest will follow suit. Money, however, only enables one producer to exchange his produce with another producer.” (06/23/26)
https://www.cobdencentre.org/2026/06/why-increases-in-money-supply-cant-cause-economic-growth/
Source: Common Dreams
by Medea Benjamin & Nicolas JS Davies
“The 60-day extension of the ceasefire between the United States and Iran may lead to lasting peace or it may be over within a week, doomed by the dysfunctional alliance between the US and Israel. If it holds, it could mark the beginning of a transition away from the doctrine of ‘low-intensity conflict’ that has shaped US foreign policy for decades. Talks between the US, Iran, Pakistan, and Qatar began in Switzerland on June 21. But Iran was firm that it holds the United States responsible for Israel’s violations of the US-Iran memorandum and cannot move forward with other parts of the agreement until the US fulfills its part in Article 1, which requires an actual Israeli ceasefire and withdrawal from Lebanon.” (06/23/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/iran-challenges-us-war
Source: Engadget
“China has taken the world’s fastest supercomputer crown for the first time since 2017. LineShine from the nation’s National Supercomputer Center hit 2.198 Exaflops of performance, beating the previous champ El Capitan (1.809 Exaflops), located at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in the USA. Lineshine, a previously unlisted machine, is the first supercomputer to exceed two exaflops of ‘sustained double-precision performance using CPUs only,’ according to Top500.org. China’s new machine was able to beat its US counterpart despite technology embargoes because it doesn’t rely on GPUs like other leading models. Instead, it’s designed around a custom 304-core processor, with 13.79 million cores running at 1.55GHz and linked by a proprietary interconnect. It draws around 42.2 megawatts of power, for an efficiency of 52.07 Gigaflops per watt.” (06/23/26)
https://www.engadget.com/2199608/china-lineshine-supercomputer-is-worlds-fastest/
Source: The Bryan Hyde Show
“It’s my weekly chat with Eric Peters from Eric Peters Autos. If you’re needing a quick reality supplement, this is an extra-strength dose, served up in less than 30 minutes.” (06/23/26)
https://www.podbean.com/ep/pb-82vuf-1af6aac
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Wanjiru Njoya
“Mark Twain popularized the phrase, ‘There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.’ This phrase could equally well be adapted to depict the role of socialist narratives taught as ‘history’—narratives that wreak even more economic havoc than outright lies. Lies can be debunked with facts, but socialist narratives appeal to political and moral ideologies that are less easily dislodged once they take root.” (06/23/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/lies-damn-lies-and-history-capitalism
Source: Astral Codex Ten
by Scott Alexander
“The most controversial part of last week’s article on the Midjourney ultrasound scanner was medical experts’ recommendation against whole-body screening (including existing whole-body screening technology using MRI). Isn’t this crazy? Whole-body screening can save lives by detecting serious diseases like cancer. The experts counterargue that it finds so many false positives – minor zit-like imperfections that would never have caused problems, but which cost patients time, money, anxiety, and side effect burden to investigate – that it ends up net negative. But isn’t this just a problem of setting thresholds correctly? Can’t you commit to only investigating the most obviously bad things, then ignore the rest?” (06/22/26)
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/should-people-avoid-whole-body-screening
Source: SFGate
“The Rev. Al Sharpton’s staff and advisers stood around him just outside the doors of a cozy theater, where some of his most fervent supporters waited to greet him in the newly renovated headquarters of the National Action Network. When doors flung open, Sharpton entered to a standing ovation that continued until he was perched behind a lectern, on a stage decorated with a floor-to-ceiling video screen. The audience was not anticipating a call for justice. Instead, the rabble-rousing youth minister turned go-to national advocate was there to declare his organization was officially an owner, no longer a renter, in the historically [b]lack Harlem neighborhood it has called home for more than two decades. ‘I want to make something permanent,’ Sharpton said recently to the gathered crowd of NAN board members, local clergy and other allies. ‘When people see that you’ve bought a building, they say, ‘Wait a minute, they’re not going nowhere.’’ (06/23/26)
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/from-renter-to-owner-sharpton-locks-in-national-22316653.php
