CHILDLESS CAT LADY, LIFE AND NEWS NOTES, TRUMP, “sir”, MIAMI MAFIA, HOUSING, COMMUNISTS, EBOLA, LEBANON, MEN SERVING IN IDF WITH WOMEN, MEN DRAFTED

LIFE AND NEWS NOTES FROM A CHILDLESS CAT LADY WORKING AWAY IN ONE OF THE SUB-BASEMENTS OF THE MINISTRY OF SNARK

Wednesday 24 June 2026

Shorts from Morning Joe:

· Ohhhhhh Goddddddd, Trump is doing his impersonation of the “Sir” person asking him about the propriety of letting Iran have missiles. “Sir,” he said…It is just all so humiliating and stupid and Marco Rubio (Mr. Sell Your Soul for Power enough to Destroy Cuba) stands beside Trump, looking like the most miserable person in the world.

· That’s what you look like when you are mean as a snake and part of the Miami Mafia, just waiting to take revenge on every living soul in Cuba for trying to establish a new country. Aside from Trump, Rubio is just the trashiest…

· It is my opinion that in Pennsylvania, Trump was pumped full of drugs.

NYT Shorts:

· Trump abruptly canceled signing a bipartisan housing measure and demanded that Republicans impose voting restrictions “despite their protests that the votes don’t exist to do so.” Trump wanted the Republicans to weaken the filibuster in order to pass an election overhaul bill, “…which would require proof of citizenship to register and substantially reduce the opportunity for voting by mail.”

· Trump is criticizing Democrats by saying to reporters that they were “pushing communists” as elections candidates.

· Ebola: On Wednesday French officials identified the first case of Ebola in the country. A doctor who had traveled to the Democratic Republic of Congo tested positive for the virus. In Congo, the center of an outbreak in central Africa at least 260 people have died of Ebola and there have been more than 1,000 confirmed cases.

Shorts Haaretz:

· Netanyahu announces that Israel will not withdraw from Lebanon “as long as I am prime minister.” (Haaretz, 6/24/26).

· Nationwide Haredi protests block traffic over IDF draft evaders’ arrest. “It is unacceptable for someone who studies Torah to be arrested like the last of the criminals,” ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party leader MK Yitzchak Goldknopf told Haaretz. Protests against conscription is not new but “an uptick has been recorded over the past several weeks, in response to the police’s decision to hand over to the Military police 19 yeshiva students arrested after the attempt to storm the home of Supreme Court Deputy President Noam Sohlberg.”

· “…it is becoming clear that, post-October 7, the ultra-Orthodox parties that have kept Netanyahu in power are increasingly becoming a burden rather than an asset to his bloc…”

· (4/30/26) The High Court ruled that state authorities must immediately withhold financial benefits from draft-dodgers. The ruling “that was outstanding in its sharp tone,” determined that the state “must take away the discounts that yeshiva students currently receive in housing, property taxes, day care costs and public transportation from draft-dodging students.” The judges also ruled that the police must stop evading enforcing the law and start making arrets. In addition, the Attorney General said that donors funding institutions in which draft-dodgers are studying will not be eligible for tax benefits. United Torah Judaism’s Moshe Gafni, said: “This is a declaration of open war against the world of Torah and Judaism in the State o Israel.” Gafni called the prime minister asking that the Attorney General be fired.

· (6/24/26) “…Rabbis of 25 yeshivas combining Jewish religious study with army service, said they will no longer allow students to serve in the armored corps citing women integration. The Israeli military is short of thousands of soldiers and needs every male and female soldier to fulfill its mission. “…the rabbis of 25 hesder yeshivas, which combine Jewish religious study with army service, have announced that they will no longer allow their students to serve in the armored corps ‘due to the integration of women combat soldiers.’ “In April, the High Court of Justice unanimously ruled that the Israel Defense Forces must allow women to apply for all combat rules.” In response to a question from Haaretz, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said: “We’re lowering standards for the girls.”

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