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<\/a><\/p>\nAnup Roy, Shruti Srivastava @ Bloomberg<\/em>: Extreme Heat Is Already Stifling Economic Growth in India<\/a><\/h2>\nToo hot to work<\/em>
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\n\u201cMy productivity is down 40%,\u201d Iraqi says, his brow glistening with sweat. \u201cWorkers can\u2019t survive in this heat without proper hydration and cooling.\u201d<\/p>\nIt\u2019s a scene playing out across India as summers become increasingly unlivable. Heat and humidity have been rising for years, and on any given day last month, the vast majority, sometimes all, of the world\u2019s 50 hottest cities were in India. The impact is showing up across the economy, from operating costs to inflation and power demand.<\/p>\n
In April, the federal government issued a heat advisory directing businesses to reschedule working hours, provide hydration breaks and rest areas, and slow the pace of work. Schools, most of which don\u2019t have air conditioning, closed for summer vacations weeks earlier than usual in several states or revised timetables and shifted classes online.
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James Eagle: Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil assets have hit a record high<\/a><\/h2>\nUkraine\u2019s drone campaign is becoming an economic war inside Russia. Bloomberg\u2019s chart shows at least 30 hits on Russian oil facilities in May, the highest monthly count since the full-scale invasion began.<\/p>\n
The target choice is not random. Oil funds the Russian state, supplies the military and gives Moscow pressure in energy markets. Striking refineries, pipelines, ports and tankers forces Russia to defend a vast industrial system far from the front.
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Prof. Lawrence O. Gostin: I\u2019ve spent my career fighting ebola. Trump\u2019s policy response could be catastrophic.<\/a><\/h2>\nRight now the United States is choosing to stand on the sidelines, rather than take on a leadership role in confronting the ebola crisis<\/a>. Instead of taking active measures informed by sound public health data, our government is banning travelers, including health and humanitarian workers returning from affected countries, while stranding<\/a> vulnerable US citizens on foreign shores. This comes after the administration has systematically de-funded<\/a> the very organizations created to respond to such a crisis, and waged a broader war against scientific expertise<\/a> in general and the public health<\/a> community in particular.<\/p>\nThe result is an ineffective response to an outbreak that threatens to spin out of control. I know because we\u2019ve been here before. After the 2014 ebola outbreak in West Africa\u2014the largest<\/a> in history\u2014I served as senior advisor to the United Nations Secretary General\u2019s post-ebola commission. At the time, we proposed<\/a> \u201ca bold new agenda for global health preparedness\u201d in order \u201cto effectively prevent, detect, and respond to future global health emergencies.
\n…<\/p>\nThere is a better way.<\/em> The United States\u2019 response to the 2014 outbreak was the gold standard for exactly this sort of crisis. Back then, the US sent<\/a> in the military and public health service, and surged resources to West Africa, the epicenter of the crisis. These actions alone almost certainly prevented hundreds of thousands of ebola infections, and untold numbers of fatalities. …
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Jason Easley: Trump Has Lied Dozens Of Times About A Deal With Iran That Isn’t Even A Deal<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump has claimed at least 40 times that the US was close to a deal with Iran, but what is being negotiated isn’t the final deal, but the terms for negotiations of a final deal.<\/em><\/p>\nDean Blundell: Trump\u2019s Alleged \u201cVery Strong MOU\u201d With Iran Is the Art of the $300 Billion Surrender<\/a><\/h2>\nStop me if you\u2019ve heard this one before.<\/p>\n
Donald Trump starts a fight he can\u2019t finish, declares victory before the deal exists, and then quietly agrees to terms so lopsided you\u2019d think they were written by the other side.
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – June 12, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\nToday was the deadline set by Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for Donald Trump\u2019s name to come off the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, more commonly known as the Kennedy Center.<\/p>\n
In his ruling of May 29, Cooper noted that \u201cCongress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it,\u201d and Congress stipulated that \u201cno additional memorials or plaques in the nature of memorials shall be designated or installed in the public areas\u201d of the Kennedy Center.<\/p>\n
As soon as he took office in early 2025, Trump replaced trustees on the Kennedy Center board and appointed himself a trustee as well. …<\/p>\n
Late this afternoon, the board of the Kennedy Center filed an emergency appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court, asking for a stay in the order to remove Trump\u2019s name from the Kennedy Center. It was, perhaps, hasty work. …<\/p>\n
For the first time, the board alleged that \u201cThe Bylaws of The Trump Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Foundation state, unequivocally,\u201d that the board must strip all funding from the Kennedy Center unless Trump\u2019s name stays on it. Dye notes: \u201cIf the bylaws were amended, they were amended since Judge Cooper issued his order\u2014prob[ably] yesterday. This is the Board choking off funds and saying \u2018you have to let us break the law, or we\u2019ll lose all the funds.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
According to a lawsuit filed yesterday by the Washington National Opera, about $17 million of the money Trump appears to be claiming from the Kennedy Center belongs to the Washington National Opera. For fifteen years, the suit says, the opera and the Kennedy Center had a contractual relationship, in which the center managed donations to the Washington National Opera for the opera\u2019s benefit.<\/p>\n
\u201cBy the second half of 2025, the Kennedy Center stopped performing many of its obligations under the governing affiliation agreement, including marketing, fundraising, and administrative support, as well as timely reporting on the growth of WNO\u2019s funds,\u201d the suit says. \u201cDespite repeated requests from WNO, the Kennedy Center did not remedy its non-performance. Instead, it proposed that the parties end their long-standing affiliation. That affiliation came to an end in January 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n
And then the Kennedy Center refused to return the WNO\u2019s money, instead using it as collateral for its own line of credit.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nMaxine Joselow @ NY Times<\/em>: Judge Blocks National Parks From Removing \u2018Negative\u2019 Signs and Depictions of Slavery<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Borowitz: Police Investigating 8647 Markings on National Mall Find Unusual Hat at Scene of Crime<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Amanda Marcotte: Why MAGA cares so much about the L.A. mayoral race<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Robert Reich: They don’t want you to know the REAL reason Social Security is in trouble<\/a><\/h2>\n… the Social Security payroll tax applies only to earnings up to a certain cap.
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\nBack in 1983, the cap was set so the Social Security payroll tax would hit 90 percent of total income in America. That 90 percent figure was built into the Greenspan Commission\u2019s fixes. …<\/p>\n
Today, though, the Social Security payroll tax hits only about 83 percent of total income in America. It went from 90 percent to 83 percent because a steadily larger portion of the nation\u2019s total income has gone to the top.<\/em>
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Paul Krugman: Elon Musk, Human Ponzi Scheme<\/a><\/h2>\nYesterday I took a short trip. I began with a ride on the local Hyperloop, which ran through a tunnel dug by Boring Company. Then I used my neural implant to summon a fully self-driving Tesla robotaxi. While enroute I read the latest news from the Mars colony.<\/p>\n
OK, none of that actually happened, because those products don\u2019t exist. There are no working Hyperloops. The Boring Company has not dug any commercial tunnels. Tesla has a few self-driving \u2014 though not fully self-driving \u2014 taxis in Austin and nowhere else. (Google\u2019s Waymo driverless taxis are operational in several major hubs.) Neuralink<\/a>, which is purportedly pioneering brain implants, has tested its products in a handful of patients but done no more than that. And of course there is no Mars colony: there have been no manned flights to Mars, nor the prospect of any for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\nYet at various points over the past decade Elon Musk promised<\/a> that each of these services would be available by 2025 if not sooner.<\/p>\nGranted, Musk has had some real successes. Tesla was ahead of the EV curve, and Starlink is a critically important service as well as a viable business.<\/p>\n
But these achievements weren\u2019t enough to make Musk the world\u2019s richest man. His wealth has, instead, historically rested mainly on self-fulfilling faith \u2014 investors believing in Musk\u2019s genius have piled into stocks in Musk-controlled companies, and the rising value of these companies has enhanced his reputation for genius.<\/p>\n
We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They\u2019re called Ponzi schemes. And Elon Musk is basically a human Ponzi scheme.
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Andrew Wyrich:
\nFBI raids Ohio voter registration group in \u2018systematic effort\u2019 to attack elections<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Heather Delaney Reese: You can tell who Trump fears by who he attacks<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n\u201cMy productivity is down 40%,\u201d Iraqi says, his brow glistening with sweat. \u201cWorkers can\u2019t survive in this heat without proper hydration and cooling.\u201d<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a scene playing out across India as summers become increasingly unlivable. Heat and humidity have been rising for years, and on any given day last month, the vast majority, sometimes all, of the world\u2019s 50 hottest cities were in India. The impact is showing up across the economy, from operating costs to inflation and power demand.<\/p>\n
In April, the federal government issued a heat advisory directing businesses to reschedule working hours, provide hydration breaks and rest areas, and slow the pace of work. Schools, most of which don\u2019t have air conditioning, closed for summer vacations weeks earlier than usual in several states or revised timetables and shifted classes online. Ukraine\u2019s drone campaign is becoming an economic war inside Russia. Bloomberg\u2019s chart shows at least 30 hits on Russian oil facilities in May, the highest monthly count since the full-scale invasion began.<\/p>\n The target choice is not random. Oil funds the Russian state, supplies the military and gives Moscow pressure in energy markets. Striking refineries, pipelines, ports and tankers forces Russia to defend a vast industrial system far from the front. Right now the United States is choosing to stand on the sidelines, rather than take on a leadership role in confronting the ebola crisis<\/a>. Instead of taking active measures informed by sound public health data, our government is banning travelers, including health and humanitarian workers returning from affected countries, while stranding<\/a> vulnerable US citizens on foreign shores. This comes after the administration has systematically de-funded<\/a> the very organizations created to respond to such a crisis, and waged a broader war against scientific expertise<\/a> in general and the public health<\/a> community in particular.<\/p>\n The result is an ineffective response to an outbreak that threatens to spin out of control. I know because we\u2019ve been here before. After the 2014 ebola outbreak in West Africa\u2014the largest<\/a> in history\u2014I served as senior advisor to the United Nations Secretary General\u2019s post-ebola commission. At the time, we proposed<\/a> \u201ca bold new agenda for global health preparedness\u201d in order \u201cto effectively prevent, detect, and respond to future global health emergencies. There is a better way.<\/em> The United States\u2019 response to the 2014 outbreak was the gold standard for exactly this sort of crisis. Back then, the US sent<\/a> in the military and public health service, and surged resources to West Africa, the epicenter of the crisis. These actions alone almost certainly prevented hundreds of thousands of ebola infections, and untold numbers of fatalities. … Trump has claimed at least 40 times that the US was close to a deal with Iran, but what is being negotiated isn’t the final deal, but the terms for negotiations of a final deal.<\/em><\/p>\n Stop me if you\u2019ve heard this one before.<\/p>\n Donald Trump starts a fight he can\u2019t finish, declares victory before the deal exists, and then quietly agrees to terms so lopsided you\u2019d think they were written by the other side. Today was the deadline set by Judge Christopher R. Cooper of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia for Donald Trump\u2019s name to come off the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, more commonly known as the Kennedy Center.<\/p>\n In his ruling of May 29, Cooper noted that \u201cCongress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it,\u201d and Congress stipulated that \u201cno additional memorials or plaques in the nature of memorials shall be designated or installed in the public areas\u201d of the Kennedy Center.<\/p>\n As soon as he took office in early 2025, Trump replaced trustees on the Kennedy Center board and appointed himself a trustee as well. …<\/p>\n Late this afternoon, the board of the Kennedy Center filed an emergency appeal to the D.C. Circuit Court, asking for a stay in the order to remove Trump\u2019s name from the Kennedy Center. It was, perhaps, hasty work. …<\/p>\n For the first time, the board alleged that \u201cThe Bylaws of The Trump Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Foundation state, unequivocally,\u201d that the board must strip all funding from the Kennedy Center unless Trump\u2019s name stays on it. Dye notes: \u201cIf the bylaws were amended, they were amended since Judge Cooper issued his order\u2014prob[ably] yesterday. This is the Board choking off funds and saying \u2018you have to let us break the law, or we\u2019ll lose all the funds.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n According to a lawsuit filed yesterday by the Washington National Opera, about $17 million of the money Trump appears to be claiming from the Kennedy Center belongs to the Washington National Opera. For fifteen years, the suit says, the opera and the Kennedy Center had a contractual relationship, in which the center managed donations to the Washington National Opera for the opera\u2019s benefit.<\/p>\n \u201cBy the second half of 2025, the Kennedy Center stopped performing many of its obligations under the governing affiliation agreement, including marketing, fundraising, and administrative support, as well as timely reporting on the growth of WNO\u2019s funds,\u201d the suit says. \u201cDespite repeated requests from WNO, the Kennedy Center did not remedy its non-performance. Instead, it proposed that the parties end their long-standing affiliation. That affiliation came to an end in January 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n And then the Kennedy Center refused to return the WNO\u2019s money, instead using it as collateral for its own line of credit. … the Social Security payroll tax applies only to earnings up to a certain cap. Today, though, the Social Security payroll tax hits only about 83 percent of total income in America. It went from 90 percent to 83 percent because a steadily larger portion of the nation\u2019s total income has gone to the top.<\/em> Yesterday I took a short trip. I began with a ride on the local Hyperloop, which ran through a tunnel dug by Boring Company. Then I used my neural implant to summon a fully self-driving Tesla robotaxi. While enroute I read the latest news from the Mars colony.<\/p>\n OK, none of that actually happened, because those products don\u2019t exist. There are no working Hyperloops. The Boring Company has not dug any commercial tunnels. Tesla has a few self-driving \u2014 though not fully self-driving \u2014 taxis in Austin and nowhere else. (Google\u2019s Waymo driverless taxis are operational in several major hubs.) Neuralink<\/a>, which is purportedly pioneering brain implants, has tested its products in a handful of patients but done no more than that. And of course there is no Mars colony: there have been no manned flights to Mars, nor the prospect of any for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n Yet at various points over the past decade Elon Musk promised<\/a> that each of these services would be available by 2025 if not sooner.<\/p>\n Granted, Musk has had some real successes. Tesla was ahead of the EV curve, and Starlink is a critically important service as well as a viable business.<\/p>\n But these achievements weren\u2019t enough to make Musk the world\u2019s richest man. His wealth has, instead, historically rested mainly on self-fulfilling faith \u2014 investors believing in Musk\u2019s genius have piled into stocks in Musk-controlled companies, and the rising value of these companies has enhanced his reputation for genius.<\/p>\n We have a term for enterprises that look successful because they keep drawing in new investors and keep drawing in new investors because they look successful. They\u2019re called Ponzi schemes. And Elon Musk is basically a human Ponzi scheme.
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\n(Anup Roy, Shruti Srivastava @ Bloomberg<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nJames Eagle: Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil assets have hit a record high<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nProf. Lawrence O. Gostin: I\u2019ve spent my career fighting ebola. Trump\u2019s policy response could be catastrophic.<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(Prof. Lawrence O. Gostin more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nJason Easley: Trump Has Lied Dozens Of Times About A Deal With Iran That Isn’t Even A Deal<\/a><\/h2>\n
Dean Blundell: Trump\u2019s Alleged \u201cVery Strong MOU\u201d With Iran Is the Art of the $300 Billion Surrender<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Dean Blundell more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nHeather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – June 12, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\nMaxine Joselow @ NY Times<\/em>: Judge Blocks National Parks From Removing \u2018Negative\u2019 Signs and Depictions of Slavery<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nBorowitz: Police Investigating 8647 Markings on National Mall Find Unusual Hat at Scene of Crime<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(Borowitz more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAmanda Marcotte: Why MAGA cares so much about the L.A. mayoral race<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nRobert Reich: They don’t want you to know the REAL reason Social Security is in trouble<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nBack in 1983, the cap was set so the Social Security payroll tax would hit 90 percent of total income in America. That 90 percent figure was built into the Greenspan Commission\u2019s fixes. …<\/p>\n
\n(Robert Reich more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nPaul Krugman: Elon Musk, Human Ponzi Scheme<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Paul Krugman more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\nAndrew Wyrich:
\nFBI raids Ohio voter registration group in \u2018systematic effort\u2019 to attack elections<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nHeather Delaney Reese: You can tell who Trump fears by who he attacks<\/a><\/h2>\n
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