Source: Common Dreams
by Tom Engelhardt
“That subhead of mine is certainly repetitive of me (me, me), but how can you not be repetitive in the distinctly repeated world of Donald J. Trump (Trumped, Trumped)? I mean, twice already and who really knows what’s to come? Here’s the question nobody seems to be asking right now, though: What country will Donald Trump attack next? Yes, at the moment, he’s still wildly wound up in his Iran war/truce/peace/or you name it (tomorrow). Yesterday, it was, of course, Venezuela, and next week it might be Cuba or Greenland, or who on (or off) this planet knows where? … who knows what I’ve forgotten or what to expect in this increasingly bizarre world of ours from the president who swore repeatedly in his third election campaign that he would never, never, never go to… yes, of course, war?” (06/22/26)
https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/donald-trump-president-of-endlessly-stupid-wars
Source: The Corbett Report
“You want the right to repair your own property, don’t you? Then, you have two options. Either you call your congressman to let him know you want him to pass the latest legislation going through the house (but not the fake legislation that’s designed to water down the real legislation!) … or you try this alternative strategy.” (06/22/26)
https://corbettreport.com/the-right-to-repair-solutionswatch/
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by George Ford Smith
“Trust: allow someone to have, use, or look after (someone or something of importance or value) with confidence: I’d trust you with my life. Most people don’t trust politicians, yet they dominate our lives. How did this arrangement come about? Trust is a critical consideration in every relationship. Do people mean what they say? Do they deliver on their promises? If enough people didn’t trust Amazon it would have folded long ago. Friends would cease being friends if they proved untrustworthy. We don’t trust politicians but we are stuck with them, at least for now.” (06/22/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/who-do-you-trust
Source: The Daily Economy
by Lawrence W Reed
“If we must tolerate government control of currency, we should emulate Hans Luther’s fearless defiance of political pressure.” (06/22/26)
https://thedailyeconomy.org/article/the-central-banker-who-defied-hitler/
Source: The New Republic
“Krugman: Trump’s Unnerving Mental Breakdown Signals Nation in Decline.” (06/22/26)
https://newrepublic.com/article/212119/krugman-trump-unnerving-mental-breakdown-signals-nation-decline
Source: Seattle Times
“The Supreme Court on Monday reinstated a murder conviction in the 1979 disappearance of 6-year-old Etan Patz. The justices, by a 6-3 vote, granted an appeal from New York prosecutors who had urged them to undo a federal appeals court decision that overturned the verdict. The three liberal [sic] justices dissented. Prosecutors had been preparing to try the man, Pedro Hernandez, for a third time. … Etan vanished while walking to his downtown Manhattan school bus stop on May 25, 1979. Hernandez worked at a nearby convenience shop at the time, but the Maple Shade, New Jersey, resident didn’t become a suspect until 2012. Etan was among the first missing children ever to appear on milk cartons, and the anniversary of his disappearance became National Missing Children’s Day. Hernandez already has been tried twice. A jury deadlocked in 2015, and then a different panel of jurors convicted him at a 2017 retrial.” (06/22/26)
https://archive.is/oxET6
Source: The Dispatch
by Surya Gowda
“Identity-based movements are ‘the bat signal for every loser.’” (06/22/26)
https://thedispatch.com/article/white-nationalism-elitism-hanania/
Source: Washington Monthly
by Kainoa Lowman
“n the run-up to SpaceX’s historic initial public offering on June 12, commentators worried about who would get hurt. Their top concern was for everyday retirement savers …. But these are speculative victims, losers only if SpaceX stock plummets. There’s another group, however, that has definitely suffered real harm on the road to Musk’s becoming a trillionaire: Americans in the nation’s most rural communities. For decades, they have lived without the high-speed broadband service that the rest of us take for granted. This ‘digital divide’ was set to close thanks to a federal program created by President Joe Biden’s administration. But at Musk’s urging, Donald Trump’s administration sabotaged the effort, changing the rules to funnel money toward Starlink, SpaceX’s satellite internet subsidiary, while diverting billions of dollars from higher-quality competitors.” [editor’s note: So far as I can tell, Starlink is head and shoulders above other rural competitors, on both cost and quality. I have to suspect Lowman’s real problem with Starlink is that it doesn’t use tax money to subsidize digging ditches – TLK] (06/22/26)
https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/06/22/trump-rural-broadband-musk-starlink-spacex/
Source: South China Morning Post [Hong Kong]
“A court sentenced a former South Korean justice minister on Monday to 25 years in prison for his role in ex-president Yoon Suk-yeol’s brief and disastrous declaration of martial law in 2024. Park Sung-jae was found guilty of involvement in ‘insurrection,’ the Yonhap news agency reported from the Seoul Central District Court. Yoon’s December 2024 martial law declaration lasted only about six hours as lawmakers raced to the assembly building and voted it down in an emergency session. He has since been convicted of leading an insurrection, and is in detention while appealing a life sentence. Yoon was also given a 30-year jail term earlier this month for sending drones to North Korea to ‘manufacture a national crisis’ to justify his martial law.” (06/22/26)
https://archive.is/PjeNE
Source: Antiwar.com
“Trump Threatens Iran During Switzerland Summit, US Announces Airstrikes in Somalia, and More.” (06/21/26)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7M3kYk2geHE
