Law, Power, and Justice

SATURDAY 27 JUNE 2026

LIFE AND NEWS NOTES FROM A CHILDLESS CAT LADY (per J.D. Vance) WORKING AWAY IN A SUB-BASEMENT OF THE MINISTRY OF SNARK

AMVO (Steve Bannon’s Channel)

Bannon’s show War Room is on a rant about Marxists. They are playing video of Trump thanking Texas for mandating religious (protestant) teaching in schools.

I watch Bannon’s channel for a little time every day. It’s good to know what the enemy is on about.

Bannon is raving about Mandani this morning. He is saying that people not born in America 1) hate America, and 2) won the election for Mandani.

The right won the vote in Texas but Bannon is whining about “Marxists” trying to win. It took a “monumental effort.”

MSNOW

“Connect” with Jacob Soboroff

· Closed door meeting with Trump descended into a screaming match.

· There is a bipartisan housing bill that Trump, at the last minute, refused to sign. George Conway: Nothing is going to happen until this man is removed from office. There is “nothing in it for him” the housing bill. The housing bill, however, would, for example, prevent corporations from buying up single-family homes to rent out. This is something that has made it more and more difficult for people to buy houses.

· Massey: “We’re bankrupting the country.”

· Even with illegal redistricting, Republicans will lose the House and possible the Senate.

· George Conway: Trump is mentally ill, and is becoming incedingly self-destructive. But, the problem is that the blast radius is large. The blast radius includes us. “He’s doing whatever he wants.” “It’s all about him and he’s going to take everybody down with him. And the question is do we have the moral courage as a country to put an end to this before he causes maximum destruction.”

· Soboroff does a good section about the effects of climate change on people. Well worth watching. This is a show worth recording (which I do) and then coming back when you have time.

· “the old communist bougybman.” Rekpublicans trying to divert argument.

· The Mandami coalition:

(Just put the bird feeders back up. Yesterday I was afraid the bird/squirrel feeders were going to be blown through the windows, so I put them on the porch floor. The squirrels thought they had hit gold this morning when they found them. What a mess they make.) The titmice are back.

APPLE NEWS

· Both the U.S. and Iran claim their attacks in the Strait were responses to attacks by the other.

LOCAL GEORGIA NEWS SHORTS

· An unprecedented fish kill in the Chattahoochee river brooks caused by an overflow of oxygen depleted water from the city of Atlanta’s combined sewer system a report from the Georgia Department of natural resources said.

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NEW YORK TIMES SHORTS

· “The trump administration backed Exxon mobil’s effort to be compensated for oil and gas assets confiscated by the Cuban government in 1960”

· “The case was one of two disputes this term over the extent to which thousands of Americans can get compensation in US courts from entities that hold or profit from property taken by the Cuban government in may the justice is overwhelmingly sided with the US owned port business that sued major cruise lines that have used confiscated docks in Havana”

· President trump is squeezing Cuba blocking oil shipments to the island from Venezuela and from Mexico the administration had backed exxon’s position in the case telling the justices that such a lawsuit was critical as a diplomatic tool for dissuading investment in Cuba yeah stop

· “The three liberal justices dissented…. The statutes the majority sites she wrote says not one word on the topic of piercing the traditional immunity of foreign governments.”

· (Note: After the revolution, U.S. investors tried to sue through the Justice Department. But decades later, “… Congress passed the Cuban liberty and democratic solidarity act also known as the Helms Burton act which declared that resolution of the property claims were a central condition for restoring economic and diplomatic ties with Cuba a provision of the law allowed Americans to sue in federal court over the trafficking or use of assets seized by the Cuban government until the first trump administration however president of presidents of both parties have suspended the provision permitting the lawsuits which reviewed it’s politically and diplomatically controversial.”

· The U.S. however, sparked the trouble leading to the act in 1996. Cuban fighter jets shot down two planes flown by members of the Cuban exile group Brothers to the Rescue. (Note: After referred to as part of the Miami Mafia). Three U.S. citizens were killed. This incident was the basis of charges brought against Raul Castro in May by the Trump administration.

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· (Note: Bahrain reports Iranian drone attack.)