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Allison Gill: Happy Obama Appreciation Day
A personal tribute to an inspirational leader
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Obama won the 2008 election in a landslide, and after nearly a year of applying to every job available at the San Diego VA Health System, I was finally offered a job as an entry level GS-5 clerk. Miraculously, I took the executive oath of office on the same day Obama took his oath. It was also my birthday: January 20th, 2009. I raised my right hand, Obama tattoo on full display, and repeated the words:
I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
So this June 14th, we celebrate Flag Day and Barack Obama Appreciation Day. And nothing else.
Thank you, President Obama, for being an inspiration.
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Home of the Brave: This Week in Epstein News
Reporting from the Situation Room, Oversight appearances, and a damning poll.
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The week of June 8 was chock-full of news about the Epstein files. With so many stories competing for media attention, no single story received its due attention. Home of the Brave collected the week’s most significant updates on the Epstein files to ensure that the news cycle does not drown out the extent to which the Trump administration continues to resist transparency and investigation. We’ll continue to consolidate Epstein news into one easily viewable place for our readers who remain interested and concerned about the Administration’s handling of the Epstein files.
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Jason Sattler: You shouldn’t be able to pull off an IPO and a pogrom in the same week
White solidarity as social blight …
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Robert Reich: The Non-Victory
Compared to where we were before February 28, it’s a terrible failure
Trump again claims victory in Iran. He’s claimed victory before, but now he has a so-called “agreement” with Iran.
That agreement, which appears to be no more than a memo of understanding — that is, a set of principles to which Iran and the United States have agreed — stops the fighting and reopens the Strait of Hormuz but it does not deal with the issue that caused Trump to initiate the conflict: Iran’s nuclear program.
Keep that in mind as you hear various renditions of what’s been decided. Recall that the Strait of Hormuz was open before Trump began bombing Iran. At best, the agreement Trump is touting restores the status quo to where it was when he commenced hostilities. Remember also that Iran had agreed to limit its development of nuclear-grade materials in its treaty with the Obama administration, which Trump revoked in 2018.
(Robert Reich more…)Jennifer Rubin: A Concept of a Plan for an Iran Deal
Lucian K. Truscott IV: The new rules of the world after Trump’s war with Iran
Charlie Sykes: Donald Trump’s Birthday Present… To Iran?
New York Sun: Trump and Iran: The Art of an Even Worse Deal
Unconditional surrender would have been a better war aim than an accord that protects Tehran and will be celebrated by Hezbollah.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – June 14, 2026
On June 14, 1775, the Second Continental Congress … established the Continental Army.
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Ken Klippenstein: New Military Recruitment Ad’s Hidden Message
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Heather Cox Richardson: Week Three in 250 to 250
This was the third week of videos from the 250 to 250 Project that we’re producing to honor the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
We designed the videos to emphasize the agency of Americans—mostly everyday Americans—to change the country. …
https://www.youtube.com/@twofiftytotwofifty
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semianalysis: Export controls have not stopped Huawei and SMIC from shipping advanced silicon, but they have forced a different path
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Ruth Ann Crystal MD: Dr. Ruth Report, 6/14/26
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Thom Hartmann: Chapter 2: The Courtroom Showdown
Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: “Who Killed the American Dream: The Greatest Political Crime Ever Told”
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Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting
resources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak
Apocalypse Early Warning System
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker
ICE Accountability Project
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
- April 16: Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt
- March 25: Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano
- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam
April 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide - January 24: Alex Pretti
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz
- January 9: Parady La
- January 7: Renée Good
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter
Suffering Under President Obama
NACDL Criminal Case Tracker
Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks’ journey to Washington
Walk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas
Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive
Accountability Initiative ICE List
GriftMatrix
Trump Action Tracker
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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