THE BEGINNING OF KRAZY JUNE

There are 153 days to the mid terms.

The news of Trump’s War continues to be bad for Trump: This morning, Iran announced it was suspending talks with the United States following Israeli strikes and an increased military offensive in Lebanon, which Iran had set as a condition for any ceasefire. (Israeli terrorist/now “Security Minister” Itamir Ben Gvir said Friday that Israel was doing everything it could to torpedo the peace talks with Iran - further proof that with Israel as a “friend,” we need no enemies.) Nitwityahoo ordered attacks on Hezbollah-controlled neighborhoods in southern Beirut today. Iran said it was now considering a full closure of the Strait of Hormuz just hours after Trump told critics to “sit back and relax” and let him handle the now cancelled negotiations. Iranian state media Tasnim news agency reported Iran’s negotiating team was halting “talks and exchanges of texts through mediators.” At 1:02AM, in the midst of another midnight meltdown, Trump posted to Lies Anti-Social: “Iran really wants to make a deal, and it will be a good one for the U.S.A. and those that are with us. But don’t the Dumocrats, and various seemingly unpatriotic Republicans, understand that it is MUCH tougher for me to properly do my job and negotiate, when political hacks keep negatively `chirping,’ at levels never seen before, over and over again, that I should move faster, or move slower, or go to war, or not go to war, or whatever. Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end-It always does!” Minutes later, the news arrived of Iran’s withdrawal from the talks due to US and Israeli lies. Reaction to Trump’s midnight post was swift across the board: “Maybe if he hadn’t been telling us for three months that a surrender deal with Iran was imminent he wouldn’t have to post at 1:02 AM that he has no idea how to get out of this war while accomplishing anything meaningful,” said Ron Filipkowski, MeidasNews editor in chief. “Another reason to just walk away. Does America benefit at all from playing referee between Israel & Lebanon? Prior to the war, Iran couldn’t dictate terms in Lebanon, but their control of the Strait of Hormuz gives them the ability to do so. Cut our losses & just leave,” Joe Kent, ex-Trump administration insider and former director of the National Counterterrorism Center. A source told Axios that Trump had made significant changes to the proposed Memorandum of Understanding between the U.S. and Iran, with the edits based around the clauses involving removal of the enriched uranium and access to the Strait of Hormuz. The official said Trump had been informed any response from Iran would take up to three days. “They’re literally in caves and they’re not using email.” Iran’s response to Trump’s constant bad faith in everything he does came in a matter of hours, using email. This proves the Trumpmorons can’t find their ass with both hands on a clear day with a two hour advance notice.

How fucking stupid are the southern-fried MAGAts? This fucking stupid: This morning during an interview with Newsmax following reports that Iran had suspended talks with the U.S. after Israeli strikes and an increased military offensive in Lebanon, which Iran had set as a condition for any ceasefire, Rep. Sheri Biggs (R-SC) said Americans need to trust the president on what comes next with the ongoing conflict. “I think we have to trust him. The American people elected President Trump for a reason, and it’s because he has the backbone, the intelligence to get things done. We have to put America first, and as I’ve said before, if you don’t love this country, get out.” (I haven’t heard “Love it or leave it” in 55 years.)

As of last night Sundowning Grampa Fatso Fatass has gone from being pissed off that all the “Third Rate Talent” decided that entertaining him for his birthday when they thought they were celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and performing for all Americans was not what they wanted to be part of and announced they wouldn’t be performaing at his “State Fair.” He then decided to substitute himself with a big rally for all the dentally-challenged drooling hay shaker and shit kickers, but somehow reality set in and he rememberd not so many of them show up to watch him do his bad imitation of a social klutz trying to dance at Studio 54 50 years ago. So last night he announced :fuck it, there won’t be anything.” Since whatever he was going to do would have been a desecration of the celebration of 250 years of freedom from asswipes like him, that’s a goo thing. I’d rather see no celebration than a celebration of this dimwitted Russian stooge and his fellow Confederate traitors as they do their best to try and destroy the United States and all we stand.

Proving there has been no “rehabilitation” as idiot Colorado Governor Jared Polis has claimed in deciding to grant her clemency and an early release from prison for her crimes of sedition in support of the attempted January 6 coup, Tina Peters walked out of a Colorado prison this morning and headed for Steve Bannon’s War Room, where the convicted election denier told the MAGA faithful she wants a job in the Trump administration. “I would like for President Trump - I’d like to be more involved in prison reform,” Peters said on the podcast, adding she’d pursue it “if that’s the way the Lord leads me.” Peters, 70, was released Monday from La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo after serving less than a one-fourth of her nine-year sentence for election interference. Colorado Democratic Gov. Jared Polis commuted her sentence to four and a half years last month following a sustained pressure campaign by President Donald Trump. Peters also made it clear she has no intention of abandoning her election-conspiracy crusade, citing recent and upcoming races - including New York City mayoral winner Zohran Mamdani and Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D) - as evidence that Democrats cannot be trusted at the ballot box. “I know that the Democrats are going to cheat,” she said, “and no one’s really addressing the problem.”

In addition to all the other bad news for Trump/Good news for America that happened in the federal courts on Friday, there is also this:

U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta of D.C. ordered the TrumpDOJ on Friday to provide a fuller justification for seeking to dismiss the indictments of Oath Keepers convicted of seditious conspiracy, including founder Stewart Rhodes. In additions to commutations and pardons of Jan. 6 defendants by the president, the TrumpDOJ has moved to wipe the historical record clean of the indictments and convictions arising from the attack on the Capitol.

Matthew Petracca, the rookie federal prosecutor who brought the “86” case against former FBI Director James Comey, has dropped off the prosecution team and withdrawn from other criminal cases he was handling in the Eastern District of North Carolina. “Petracca had contemplated leaving the Justice Department altogether, according to two people familiar with the matter, but instead remained a Justice Department employee after taking a week off.”

The TrumpDOJ’s retributive prosecution of the Southern Poverty Law Center came after an earlier IRS review of the civil rights organization’s paid informant program in 2019-20 concluded that it was legal, CBS News reports: “The tax portion of the investigation, which has not been previously reported, was initiated during President Trump’s first term as an expansion of an FBI probe into whether that same former chief financial officer may have embezzled money from the SPLC, the sources said.”

In announcing the arrest of Christian Castro, the ICE agent indicted up on state charges of shooting an undocumented immigrant through the closed door of their residence during Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis and then lying about it, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty said her office has more than 30 other open investigations of ICE and CBP agents who took part in Operation Metro Surge, including the fatal shootings of American citizens Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

The war crimes continue: A total of four U.S. strikes last week against alleged drug-smuggling boats brought the murder toll in the lawless high seas campaign to more than 200. The first strike on Tuesday killed one and left two survivors, a Wednesday attack killed two men, Friday, three men were killed, and on Saturday, three more were killed. Military expers have warned that this campaign leaves service members open to being charged with war crimes. Maladministration II has never presented any evidence that any of the boats it has sunk or people it has murdered were involved in the narcotics trade. The strikes have had no effect on cocaine smuggling to the U.S.

Hogsbreth gets kicked hard in the family jewels: This morning, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit affirmed a preliminary injunction protecting currently serving troops from the Hegseth Policy, the February 2025 Pentagon directive implementing Trump’s executive order barring anyone with a history of gender dysphoria from serving in the U.S. military. The court vacated the injunction for prospective recruits. Writing for the majority, Circuit Judge Wilkins found the policy “both arbitrary and based upon animus,” driven by what he called a “bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group.” The government, he noted, never contested that the plaintiff servicemembers - who have collectively served 130 years and earned more than 80 commendations - “served honorably” and “satisfied the rigorous standards” required of them. The majority were withering in their criticism of the government’s courtroom performance. Rather than defend the policy on its merits, the administration’s “strategy seems to be one of willful ignorance,” the court wrote, deflecting from the executive order’s explicit language targeting people who express a “false gender identity.” In the majority’s plain-language summary of what that order actually proclaims, Trump “labeled transgender persons as dishonorable, undisciplined, arrogant, selfish liars.” The government offered no evidence to back that up. The ruling echoed District Judge Ana Reyes’ original March 2025 finding that the ban is “soaked in animus and dripping with pretext” and called it an “unadulterated expression of animus.” The ruling is the latest courtroom defeat for Hogsbreth. Since taking office, federal judges have blocked his Pentagon press restrictions, enjoined his censure of Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), and blocked his blacklisting of Anthropic, with courts repeatedly finding his actions driven by retaliation rather than legitimate policy. The case, Talbott v. United States, now heads back to the district court. A class action motion that would extend protections to all affected servicemembers is scheduled for hearing on June 30.

A former Trump White House aide who once brokered a plot to seize voting machines, went on a racist Telegram rant, and built a nonprofit around publishing Biden family dirt, just struck out at the Supreme Court. Today, the justices declined without dissent to hear a petition from Garrett Ziegler, ending his bid to squeeze more protection out of California’s anti-SLAPP statute. The case traces back to a 2023 lawsuit alleging Ziegler had impersonated a Democratic fundraiser to extract information about Hunter Biden’s laptop, then published his target’s personal contact details - triggering a torrent of harassment. Ziegler responded with an anti-SLAPP motion, a legal tool designed to protect defendants from suits that target free speech activity. He lost most of it. The dispute began with a 2022 phone call. The plaintiff picked up believing he was speaking with a Democratic operative. After the call, he received an image of a squid, the phrase “NOTHING IS BEYOND OUR REACH,” and the words “Marco Polo.”

In response to news that Senate Republicans are debating restrictions on how Trump could use his $1.776 billion “Anti-Weaponization Fund” as part of their reconciliation package to fund immigration enforcement, Senate Democrats are mounting a coordinated campaign to eliminate the controversial fund, with Chuck Schumer vowing to use every procedural tool available to force the issue to a vote. In a letter to Democratic colleagues Monday, Schumer announced that Senate Democrats would pursue multiple legislative avenues to shut down the fund, which critics have labeled a taxpayer-funded slush fund benefiting President Donald Trump and his allies, including former January 6 defendant. Schumer wrote: “This week, Senate Democrats will launch a coordinated effort to kill the slush fund before one cent goes out the door. If Republicans return to reconciliation, we will be ready with amendments to shut the fund down. If they try to bury the issue, we will force them to the Senate floor. If they try to sneak behind appropriations, we will fight them there too.” Senators Adam Schiff, Mark Kelly and Elissa Slotkin separately introduced legislation they called the “Drain the Slush Fund Act,” which would ban payments stemming from lawsuits brought by the president or vice president, retroactive to Jan. 20, 2025. Democrats are unlikely to have the votes to kill the fund outright, but the campaign is widely seen as a political maneuver designed to put Republicans on the record ahead of the 2026 midterms, when control of both chambers could hinge on a small number of competitive seats. There are also 12 GOP senators who have stated their opposition to the fund; things could get “interesting.”

A month ago, California Democrats were worried that both candidates for Governor could be Republicans. Right now, it doesn’t look like there will be a Republican candidate forthe office on the November ballot, according to a recent poll. A new poll shows Xavier Becerra holding a 6-point lead as the frontrunner. The Emerson College Polling/Inside California Politics survey released Saturday found Becerra receiving support from 28% of voters, followed by billionaire Tom Steyer at 22%. Former Fox News commentator Steve Hilton is behind at 21%. Only 5 percent of Golden State voters are unsure who they will vote for tomorrow.

Guardian US media reporter Jeremy Barr reported that “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley confronted new executive producer Nick Bilton and another CBS executive this morning in what Barr described as a “heated meeting,” pushing back forcefully on last week’s mass firings. Pelley didn’t mince words about who he held responsible. “She’s murdering 60 Minutes,” Pelley said of CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, according to Barr. “She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that.” Producers were present and showed support for Pelley during the meeting, Barr said. The firings Pelley pushed back on included veteran correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, fellow correspondent Cecilia Vega, executive producer Tanya Simon, and executive editor Draggan Mihailovich - all ousted last Thursday as Weiss installed Bilton, a tech journalist with no experience in broadcast television, to lead the broadcast.

Remember, you are not the crazy ones, and we were made for these times. Regardless of what you may feel right now, act as if you believe that and redouble your efforts.

“Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government, nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might; and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty, as we understand it.” - Abraham Lincoln

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