"Trump and his team, in record time, just lost a war to a militarily mediocre—but nonetheless extremely dangerous—adversary," @RadioFreeTom argues. theatln.tc/S4UnNxgt

To all those who berated me on this platform for doubting that Trump cared about the human rights or democratic aspirations of the Iranian people, I accept your apology.

Are you telling me my tax dollars are being sent to rebuild all the shit that Pete Hegseth blew up also with my tax dollars

An Israeli soldier extrajudicially kills a young Palestinian man in Hawwara town, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.

Israel killed 344 Palestinian footballers between 2023 and 2024 alone

Once I admired Penny Wong. Her response to Israeli cruelty & murder has been absent or at best muted & reliant on the word of Israeli leadership. It is for those reasons that I have completely lost confidence in her as a person and as a minister in this government. Just saying.

Fan sneaked tequila into the stadium in a flask disguised as a mobile. Mexicans are light years ahead of us.

Blue bags up. Japan 2, Netherlands 2 — an absolute thriller in Arlington. And then the real show started. The Japanese end pulls out thousands of bright blue bags. First they wave them like flags, bouncing and chanting until the whole section is one giant wall of blue. Then — same bags, new mission. They fan out across the stands and scoop up every bottle, wrapper and cup till the seats look brand new. And who's right in the middle of it, grinning with a bag in his hand? Jameis Winston. Giants QB. Heisman winner. Out there cleaning up with the Samurai Blue like it's the best gig of his summer. No chore. No lecture. Just a party that cleans up after itself. Best fans on the planet. 🇯🇵💙

No question that Israel is now worse off because Netanyahu persuaded Trump to attack Iran rather than negotiate. trib.al/KsdnXTN

There has never been a more perfect metaphor. He didn’t drain the swamp, he literally installed one.

South Korean fans stand in solidarity with Palestine during the World Cup. 🇵🇸❤️

This CNN photo seems to confirm that Trump is punishing the Kennedy Family and America for making him remove his name from the Kennedy Center—a name he put up illegally, knowing it was illegal to do so—by covering *Kennedy's* name via a *permanent* tarp. I hope he burns in Hell.

I requested a simple band of rubber from my host. She gestured to a drawer, and the very gesture told me everything I needed to know about American chaos. One drawer. Every household. Always in the kitchen, and it holds the same things in every home in the nation: batteries of unknown charge. Rubber bands. A screwdriver too short for any screw. Birthday candles. Soy sauce packets. Three pens, one of which works. And a key. The key is the part I cannot release. I have now surveyed eleven households. ALL have the key. NONE know what it opens. "What does this open?" I asked Sue, holding it up. "No idea. Been there since we moved in." "Then why keep it?" She looked at me as if I had proposed burning a shrine. "You can't throw away a KEY." She is right. I felt it the moment she said it. A key answers to a lock somewhere. To discard it is to abandon a door you may never find. Eleven households, each guarding one orphaned promise, between the candles and the takeout menus. In Japan, we made a national art of putting things in their proper place. I assumed the junk drawer was that art's absence. Wrong. The junk drawer IS the proper place — for things whose place has not yet been revealed. Not disorder. Faith, with a handle. I confess my crime. I once organized Dale's junk drawer while waiting for him. Small bins. Categories. He opened it, stood silent, and said, "Where's the thing?" He could not name the thing. He knew only that it could no longer be found. I had alphabetized a treasure map. We do not speak of it. The drawer does not need order. It needs to be opened with hope, and closed with acceptance. I keep a junk drawer of my own now. This week it accepted a battery, a twist tie, and a key I found in the yard. I do not know what the key opens. Into the drawer it goes. Someday, the door will announce itself.

A plumber knows more about plumbing than you. A pilot knows more about flying than you. A scientist usually knows more about science than you. That doesn’t make them automatically right. But it does mean the burden of proof is on the person claiming thousands of experts got it wrong. Science isn’t a democracy. It’s not decided by likes, vibes, or confidence. It’s decided by evidence. And evidence doesn’t care who wins the argument.

Of course, I am happy that the Strait of Hormuz will soon be open. That's a good outcome for the entire global economy. But the Strait was opened before the war. We did not need a war to keep it open.

When the idea of a military parade to showcase American power was raised, President Eisenhower gave a blunt response: “Absolutely not. We are the pre-eminent power on Earth. For us to try and imitate what the Soviets are doing in Red Square would make us look weak.”

Israel, if everyone is lying, open Gaza. If the ICC, the UN, international human rights organisations, Israeli rights groups, journalists, doctors, humanitarian workers, aid agencies, witnesses, and survivors are all lying, then open Gaza. Let independent investigators, forensic experts, journalists, and UN monitors in. A state confident in the truth does not fear investigation. A state afraid of the truth blocks access. Open Gaza.

So after all this death and destruction, the idiot Trump will end up with a deal far worse than Obama’s JCPOA agreement with Iran back in 2015. This is spectacular folly and incompetence. abc.net.au/news/2026-06-15/t…

🚨DONALD TRUMP FELL ASLEEP AT HIS OWN UFC SPECTACLE His White House UFC event was an enormous logistical headache and likely cost taxpayers millions. It’s worse than you think: ⚫️ Secret Service deployment ⚫️ Presidential motorcade operations ⚫️ Air support and aviation assets ⚫️ Military and federal security personnel ⚫️ Temporary infrastructure and staging ⚫️ Barricades, fencing, checkpoints ⚫️ Additional law enforcement staffing ⚫️ Traffic control and road closures ⚫️ Emergency medical and response teams ⚫️ Communications and security equipment ⚫️ Event setup and cleanup ⚫️ Weather contingency operations ⚫️ Coordination across multiple federal agencies ⚫️ Disruptions to White House operations ⚫️ Security sweeps and venue preparation All so Donald Trump could throw himself a massive UFC-themed birthday spectacle and reportedly fall asleep. What a tremendous waste.