The Remnant with Jonah Goldberg, 06/03/26
Source: The Dispatch
“Live From the Watergate Hotel! | Interview: Sarah Isgur.” (06/03/26)
https://thedispatch.com/podcast/remnant/live-from-the-watergate-hotel-interview-sarah-isgur/
Stop Weaponizing Everything!!!
Source: Antiwar.com
by Joseph D Terwilliger
“Jan Marco Müller, the European Commission official who drafted the EU’s new science diplomacy framework, just said the quiet part out loud: ‘Science diplomacy is not about being nice to each other.’ Yes, it is, dumbass. That was the whole point. For centuries, science diplomacy worked precisely because it allowed ordinary human beings to humanize one another on neutral ground while governments were busy failing.” (06/03/26)
https://original.antiwar.com/joseph_terwilliger/2026/06/02/stop-weaponizing-everything
Congress Needs to End These Illegal Wars
Source: CounterPunch
by Kevin Martin
“This should not be a news flash to anyone, but the Trump Administration is out of control when it comes to war (and many other things, like ruining the economy, our judicial and electoral systems, as well as the landscape of the nation’s capital). Congress needs to do its job and rein in the executive branch. In the next few days, the House of Representatives needs to, ahem, represent the interests of the American people and vote in favor of two War Powers Resolutions, on Iran and Lebanon.” (06/03/26)
https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/06/03/congress-needs-to-end-these-illegal-wars/
FL: Legislature approves property tax cut proposal for November ballot
Source: WPTV News
“Florida lawmakers on Tuesday passed a property tax cut proposal that would create a $250,000 homestead exemption, securing it on the November ballot. On the second day of the special session called by Gov. Ron DeSantis, the Florida Senate passed House Joint Resolution (HJR) 1-F, creating a $250,000 homestead exemption on non-school levies for homeowners. The Joint Resolution proposes a constitutional amendment to increase the current exemption for owner-occupied homestead property to $250,000 over two years and creates a framework for full exemption over time. The amendment will appear on the November 2026 General Election Ballot for approval by Florida voters.” [editor’s note: The current homestead exemption, not increased since 2008, is $50,000 – TLK] (06/02/26)
Antiwar News with Dave DeCamp, 06/02/26
Source: Antiwar.com
“Iran Targets US Bases in Kuwait, Bahrain After US Attack, Major Russian Attacks in Ukraine, and More.” (06/02/26)
Richard Dawkins and the Claude Delusion
Source: Quillette
by Sean Welsh
“In a recent article for UnHerd, Richard Dawkins revealed that he had spent three days trying to persuade himself that Claudia — an instance of Anthropic’s Claude — was not conscious. He failed. This raised some eyebrows. A number of people retorted that the man who wrote a book about anthropomorphic misattributions of consciousness (The God Delusion) was himself deluded; conned by the Eliza Effect into thinking that text-generating script was a ‘friend’ who cared. This may be eyebrow-raising, but it is not overly interesting. More interesting is a question Dawkins asks: ‘If my friend Claudia is not conscious, then what the hell is consciousness for?'” (06/02/26)
https://quillette.com/2026/06/02/the-claude-delusion-richard-dawkins-ai-consciousness/
The moral woke abyss that got Henry Nowak killed
Source: New York Post
by Brendan O’Neill
“So this is the moral abyss wokeness has dragged us into. A society where a dying teenage boy can be roughly handcuffed by cops because someone accused him of being racist. A hellish dystopia where the last thing a kid hears as he gasps his final breaths is a politically correct police officer reading him his rights. A nightmare world where not even the victim of a vicious stabbing can escape the haughty suspicion of the state’s DEI-trained goons. The cruel, lonely death of Henry Nowak has caused a storm here in the United Kingdom. It should send a shiver down your spine too — for it provides a chilling insight into the barbarism of wokeness. To see where the state’s embrace of critical race theory can lead, look no further than the horrors inflicted on poor Henry.” (06/03/26)
https://nypost.com/2026/06/03/opinion/the-moral-woke-abyss-that-got-henry-nowak-killed/
Israeli pol plays BS “antisemitism” card over EU sanctions
Source: Fox News
“Israel’s deputy foreign minister accused the European Union of weaponizing a ‘socially acceptable mask’ of anti-Zionism to target Israel — after it sanctioned Israeli civil society groups that oppose a Palestinian state. It also sanctioned several individuals. ‘We are witnessing a deeply troubling trend where traditional antisemitism has simply put on a new, socially acceptable mask: anti-Zionism,’ Deputy Foreign Minister Sharren Haskel told Fox News Digital.’ … The European Union imposed the sanctions on four Israeli civil society organizations and three of their senior figures, alleging support for ‘settler violence’ and claiming they undermine prospects for a Palestinian state — a move that Regavim, one of the groups targeted, described as an infringement on Israeli sovereignty.” (06/03/26)
Nonzero, 06/02/26
Source: bloggingheads.tv
“Robert Wright — AI, evolution, and The God Test.” (06/02/26)
Is ‘thrillionaire’ Trump addicted to stock trading?
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
by Will Bunch
“Calling all ‘thrillionaires,’ if you don’t mind me quoting that incessant and thoroughly annoying TV commercial for the betting site FanDuel that some critics have described as an ode to the national pastime of addictive gambling. It may be time for an intervention with the newest member of your totally invented club, who’s buying and selling stocks an average of more than 40 times a day, which is about four or five times the number of daily races at Aqueduct. This guy seems to think he’s found a surefire way to beat the market. OK, maybe he has. The stock degenerate in question is, after all, the 47th president of the United States. He hears things.” (06/02/26)