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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.)
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One day that captures how Trump has gone from unpredictable to chaotic
— Read on www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/06/trump-congress-iran-midterms/687704/ -
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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LIFE AND NEWS NOTES FROM A CHILDLESS CAT LADY WORKING AWAY BUSILY IN ONE OF THE SUB-BASEMENTS OF THE MINISTRY OF SNARK
19 JUNE 2025
UKRAINE (Telegraph Podcast, Ukraine the Latest, 6/19/26)
· Ukraine has taken the momentum after attacks on Moscow last night.
· Internet video shows Muscovites filming themselves and expressing shock. There are several airports closed. Russian land defenses are missing Ukrainian drones, even though drones are low and slow. Nobody knows why. It is possible that the Russians are using less capable forces in central Moscow or older munitions?
· There is a cooling of rhetoric between Belarus and Ukraine. There is speculation that this may be Moscow getting message out that Russia is ready to negotiate.
· Russians are claiming that a Ukrainian drone hit a bus. Ukraine is denying it.
· Britain is devoting additional funding to Ukraine.
· Laura Loomer (right-wing podcaster) admits falling for Russian propaganda about the war against Ukraine.
· Slava Ukraini (Battle cry for Ukraine)
SHORTS:
· Medication abortion will be available in Missouri for the first time since 2018. A judge determined most of the state’s challenged abortion regulations are unconstitutional (Missouri Independent)
· The Qatari 747 jumbo jet converted to serve as Air Force One, would deliver, says Trump “a level of luxury that nobody’s ever seen before.” “Qatar was so nice,” Trump told service members. “See, a normal president wouldn’t do this.” No, that’s certainly correct. (Washington Post)
· (ABC News). Two companies received no-bid contracts to repaint the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The cost has now ballooned to more than $14.65 million. In addition to repainting the National Park Service paid $1.74 million to install a system to kill algae, using a similar no-bid contract. (Note: What is the gd, mf, reason for any no-bid contract?) Two companies that received contracts for resurfacing and filtration systems, the project is set to cost more than $16 million.
· (Reuters, 6/19/26) At least thirty people have died since the beginning of May at one camp for displaced civilians in northeastern Congo. This could indicate that Ebola is spreading fast. Many of the families refused testing the living or the dead at the camp. All had symptoms associated with Ebola.
Shorts: (6/19/26) New York Times
· Despite the cease-fire deal between the U.S. and Iran, it is likely that Netanyahu will continue military action against Hezbollah in Lebanon. (Note: Guest on Chris Hedges argues that it is unlikely that Netanyahu can stay in power if he stops attacking Lebanon).
· Thomas Friedman: “”Trump sold out America’s ally in the war, Israel, and the Arab Gulf states for the swing states of Pennsylvania, Georgia and Michigan….He had to stop the war now to get prices down by November….Do, Trump did what he always does: He abandoned all principle and all allies and put his personal interests above all other considerations.” “I am shocked by the outcome so far – by the sheer cynicism with which Trump and Vance have gone from damning Iran….to praising its leaders, and how this deal has left Iran stronger and all its neighbors more vulnerable to Tehran’s whims.”
· Friedman writes that a) “The deal not only puts off the question of the disposal of Iran’s near bomb-grade uranium to future negotiations – negotiations in which the Trump administration has already given up its military leverage….it clearly leaves open the possibility that Iran will be able to charge a toll in the future….” The agreement reads “no charge for 60 days only.” b) The deal is silent on any commitments by Iran to curb its development of long-range missiles and its support for proxies….it also makes the 60-day negotiation on Iran’s nuclear future contingent on Israel’s halting its military operations in Lebanon against Iran’s mercenary army there, Hezbollah….Trump and Netanyahu inspired Iran to develop a weapon of mass disruption, a chokehold on the Strait of Hormuz….we are cutting and running….” Trump said “missiles aren’t the problem.
Shorts: (Financial Times, 6/19/26)
· Cuba: Cuba has promised urgent reforms in the way it runs its economy under US pressure and the threat of US military intervention. This includes opening the door to private real estate development, “allowing private banks to operate and the sale of stakes in state-owned companies to private investors, including foreigners.” President Diaz-Canel admitted that the country’s economic problems were not all caused by US sanctions. A state Department spokesperson said; “These gradual “economic reforms’ are modest, long overdue and ultimately superficial smoke signals….” “The US pressure has deepened an economic crisis that took hold when the Covid pandemic devastated the island’s tourism industry.
Saturday 20 June 2026
SHORTS:
· (Reuters, 6/19/26). Poland is going to strip Zelensky of a top honor for naming an army unit after a nationalist group who massacred Poles during WWII.
· The NYT (6/19/26) is reporting that U.S. intelligence does not expect Israel to stop strikes on Hezbollah. The MOU is “deeply unpopular” in Israel. It fails to address Iran’s missile program, for one. My understanding is that if the Iranians have a highly effective system of missiles there is little Israel can do to attack with without being shot down.
· Sam Clemens, now known as Sam Clemens Cheyanne Johns Duggan has grown at least six inches longer since last night. I can’t believe it. He is going to be a sausage. From the time I get up to the time I open the door, he frets and paces and generally makes himself a nuisance wanting to go outside. He rarely eats his breakfast he’s so excited about going outside.
· (NYT 6/19/26) Trump plans to end AIDS funding for South Africa. The claim is that SA has failed to “repeal a law allowing for the expropriation of land without compensation, to exempt American companies from Black empowerment laws and not to align with US enemies such as Iran.
· There’s an exquisite soft green to te march this morning edged by a soft lime as it reaches the brown streak further out The egrets are up flying about choosing breakfast no doubt.
· The cats, especially Sam, are stir crazy to go out, but it’s only 6:30. We have had a ton of rain in the past week. The water is almost up to the bottoms of the small bridges.
· O.K. Sam is outside. I couldn’t deny him his primary job any longer. It’s amazing. This is a kitten we found screaming his head off in the pouring rain outside by himself, trying to steal our outside feral’s food (Willa). But, he is afraid of nothing, not rain, wind.
· MSNOW The Weekend (6/19/26) Israel was not at the table when this MOU was agreed to.
· There are no squirrels playing this morning in the live oaks. Maybe they know something we don’t.
· I am supposed to go to a Trump rally at 11:00. Wondering if it’s going to be raining by then. Who knows.
· Well, after days of heavy rain, the dock I slippery. I, of course, ignored all the evidence and went prancing down to the floating section. Fell flat on my butt and I couldn’t get up. Had to phone Mike. What are we going to do when he cannot just lean down and pick me up? Lord only knows.
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A group of orange cats lounges in the sun, while two black cats investigate a dark shadow on the ground. The scene is set in a colorful, lush park.
— Read on fineartamerica.com/featured/playful-qcats-in-a-vibrant-park-christina-johns.html
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