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#1 House and Senate Fail to Pass Short-Term Extension of FISA Ahead of Friday’s Expiration Deadline - ABC News, Speaker Mike Johnson (community note)/Thomas Massie, Tim Burchett, Mario Anderson, Congressman Josh Brecheen, and Nick's Dank Memes on X
The House and Senate on Thursday failed to pass last-minute, short-term extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which is set to expire on Friday. The House failed to pass a three-week extension of the spy program in a 198-218 vote, well short of the two-thirds majority needed. Nineteen House Republicans voted against the bill. Seven House Democrats voted in favor of it. In the Senate, three separate efforts to unanimously pass short-term extensions of FISA authorities also failed. The House and Senate are expected to now leave town as it grows increasingly likely that FISA's legal authorization will lapse for the first time in the program's history...
#2 Elon Musk Poised to Become World’s First Trillionaire With SpaceX IPO - Julia Shapero for The Hill, Reuters, Pubity, FOX and Friends, The Kobeissi Letter, Axios, and Gunther Eagleman™
Elon Musk is poised to become the world’s first trillionaire with SpaceX’s highly anticipated stock market debut. The world’s richest person, who is currently worth about $790 billion, is expected to see his wealth top $1 trillion once his spacecraft and satellite communications company goes public Friday. Such a milestone would set Musk’s wealth far and above his fellow billionaires, the closest of whom already sits several hundred billion dollars below the SpaceX and Tesla CEO...
#3 El Niño Is Here to Turn the World’s Weather Upside Down - Brian Kahn for WIRED, James Spann, The Edition, Believer, India Today, and Daily Mail US on X
The wait is finally over: El Niño has officially begun. On Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared that the semiannual climate phenomenon has arrived. Congratulations if you took the pre-July 1 prediction on Kalshi. Prediction markets aren’t the only places with a lot riding on El Niño. The phenomenon—characterized by hotter-than-normal waters in the eastern tropical Pacific—has a huge impact on weather in nearly every corner of the globe. And with this year’s iteration projected to be among the strongest ever recorded, the impacts are likely to be particularly acute...
#4 Florida CFO Flags $470 Million In “Wasteful Spending” In Miami-Dade Budget - Danielle Shockey for Tampa Free Press, Eric Daugherty, Libs of TikTok, Ron DeSantis, Tracy Beanz, and Tom Fabricio on X
Florida Chief Financial Officer Blaise Ingoglia is calling out Miami-Dade County for what he describes as excessive spending in its upcoming budget, urging local officials to cut the waste and pass the savings directly to taxpayers. During an announcement in Miami today, the CFO reported finding over $470 million in “excessive, wasteful spending” within the county’s 2025-2026 budget. This follows a similar review last year that flagged more than $302 million in the county’s General Fund. According to Ingoglia’s office, the county has overspent by a total of $807,361,670.15 over the past three years...
#5 Chicago Bears Legend Brian Urlacher Slams Illinois Democrats as Team Prepares to Leave State - Jackson Thompson for Fox News, Darren Bailey, Niagara Independent, Commentary: Rush Limbaugh News, GRANDPA's FREE ADVICE/John Parsons, and Jack Thompson/Kurt Fries on X
Chicago Bears legend Brian Urlacher is not happy about his team leaving Soldier Field. "I don’t like them leaving Soldier Field," Urlacher told Fox News Digital. "I can’t picture them playing anywhere. It doesn’t matter if it’s Indiana or somewhere in Illinois, I can’t picture them leaving Soldier Field." Urlacher placed blame on Democratic leaders in Chicago and Illinois for the planned relocation to Hammond, Indiana. This year, Illinois lawmakers failed to pass legislation providing the property tax certainty and public infrastructure funding the team required to build a new stadium...
#6 Democratic Senators Question DOJ Decision to Drop Case Against Billionaire - Chloe Atkins for NBC News, United With INC, EpicIndHistory, Aprajita Nafs Nefes Ancient Believer,
Democratic senators are questioning why the Justice Department moved to drop fraud charges against billionaire Indian businessman Gautam Adani, a significant reversal in a high-profile case. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut wrote a letter asking acting Attorney General Todd Blanche about the “reportedly ‘transactional nature’” of the decision to forgo the case. Adani, who is estimated to be worth more than $100 billion and was considered the richest person in India, was indicted in 2024 in the Eastern District of New York over his suspected role in a massive fraud and bribery scheme, in which he is accused of defrauding U.S. investors and paying off Indian government officials to win a bid to develop the country’s largest solar power plant. He called the accusations baseless...#7 Trump Says He Has Canceled Plans to Strike Iran, Claiming Deal Is Near - The Washington Post/MSN, Neural Newscast, zerohedge/Pay Attention, US Homeland Security News/azcat92, Moneyweb News, and CBS Detroit on X
President Donald Trump said Thursday that he had canceled scheduled attacks on Iran after progress on a potential peace deal, his latest reversal in a months-long pattern of threatening attacks and walking them back. Speaking in the Oval Office, Trump asserted that an agreement to end hostilities would be signed “maybe this weekend,” after which the United States would immediately lift its naval blockade of the country. The deal would bar Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons, Trump said, an objective he has named as key in deciding to strike the country. Trump asserted that Iran’s leaders had signed off on the agreement, but Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said it would not move from its red lines. “Iran has not yet reached a final conclusion on the agreement,” he said in comments reported by state media...
#8 Apparent Anti-Trump Message Etched Into National Mall - PBS News, Mustache Bob/The Washington Post, abc27 News, Steven Harp, Eric Daugherty, and Big Breaking on X
The Interior Department says it's investigating what appears to be a large anti-Trump message appearing in dead or discolored grass of the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Seen from above, the faint outline of the numbers 8647 can be seen; 86 is slang for remove or to get rid of something, and Trump is the 47th president. Officials say they take any threat against the president very seriously; 8647 is the same term that former FBI Director James Comey once shared on social media, spelled out in shells. He's been charged with making threats against the president, which he denies...
#9 Democrat-Led States Skip Great American State Fair - Michael Katz for NEWSMAX, PigWar/PatriotPup, Nevada Political Journal, What Now Tim, Linda Hill, Patrick Folan, and Moment on X
At least seven states have withdrawn from participating in the Great American State Fair, a 16-day celebration tied to the festivities on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., surrounding the nation's 250th anniversary. The governors of the seven states — Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, Oregon, and Washington — are all Democrats. Massachusetts and North Carolina said they declined to participate in the fair, set to begin June 25, because of budget constraints, The New York Times reported. Some states are instead holding celebrations of their own, many years in the making...
#10 Built on Your Dime: The Special District Scheme Sweeping the Nation - Tracy Beanz and Michelle Edwards for The HighWire, LilPatriot75, Jeff Brandes/Amb Ace/Holly Bullard, Scott Turner/Icheegoooo, and Jason Lewris on X
You toured the home. You loved it. You bought it. The neighborhood looked pristine, the sales agent was friendly, and nothing about the closing table suggested what was coming next. Then the first property tax bill arrived. Buried inside was a charge that had nothing to do with schools, county services, police, or fire protection. It was your share of the infrastructure debt the developer used to build the roads, sewers, drainage systems, water lines, lighting, and amenities that made the neighborhood possible. Welcome to the neighborhood. Hope you read the fine print. You may pay it every year for the next 20 to 30 years. When the bond debt is finally retired, the maintenance fees may continue indefinitely...
