June 26, 2025 Trump Administration, Weather
Miami’s ABC affiliate reports: On Monday, the U.S. Department of Defense announced it would immediately stop ingesting, processing, and transmitting data essential to most hurricane forecasts. The announcement was formalized on Tuesday when NOAA distributed a service change notice to all users, including the National Hurricane Center, that by next Monday, June 30th, they would no longer receive real-time microwave …
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June 26, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
The Associated Press reports: U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said the country is pulling its support from the vaccines alliance Gavi, saying the organization has “ignored the science” and “lost the public trust.” A video of Kennedy’s speech was shown to participants at a Gavi meeting in Brussels on Wednesday, where the vaccines group was hoping to raise …
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June 26, 2025 New York City, Trump Administration
Mediaite reports: Trump administration border czar Tom Homan warned NYC mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani that it was “game on” after the Democratic primary winner vowed to “stop ICE agents from deporting” the city’s citizens if he wins. Mamdani, a 33-year-old state assemblyman from Queens, has openly slammed the Trump administration and ICE deportations as “fascist” and branded himself “Trump’s worst …
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June 26, 2025 Healthcare, Politics
The Guardian reports: The Supreme Court has paved the way for South Carolina to kick Planned Parenthood out of its Medicaid program over its status as an abortion provider, a decision that could embolden red states across the country to effectively “defund” the reproductive healthcare organization. The case, Medina v Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, centers around a 2018 executive order …
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June 26, 2025 Christianists, Republicans
Posted to the Family Research Council’s website: Dozens of members of Congress have warned that the most common method of abortion in America may not just kill unborn babies and harm their mothers, it may also pollute America’s drinking water with forever chemicals that could impact declining fertility levels. Some 25 congressional Republicans signed a letter calling on the Trump …
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June 26, 2025 Republicans, Trump cultists
The Huffington Post reports: The Senate parliamentarian said that major Medicaid cuts in the GOP’s massive tax and spending package violate the chamber’s rules — a big setback for President Donald Trump’s legislative agenda. Republicans already were having big disagreements over the Medicaid provisions of their so-called Big Beautiful Bill, and the parliamentarian’s ruling threatens to blow up the legislation …
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June 26, 2025 Trump Administration, Trump Lies
Reuters reports: The White House embraced the moniker of “daddy” for Donald Trump in a video that it released after NATO chief Mark Rutte used the term in a conversation with the U.S. president. “Daddy’s home,” the White House posted, along with the video featuring the song “Hey Daddy (Daddy’s Home)” by Usher and images of Trump at the NATO …
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June 26, 2025 Democrats, New York City
The New York Post reports: Andrew Cuomo will drop out of the mayor’s race after his humiliating defeat against socialist Zohran Mamdani, sources told The Post — as the ex-governor’s donors and backers desert him and weigh whether to boost Eric Adams. Cuomo’s bruised backers are eyeing shifting their support — to Adams or even an independent candidate — after …
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June 26, 2025 News, Politics
The BBC reports: Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, delivered his first video message since US strikes on his country and Iran’s ceasefire with Israel. In a speech broadcast by state TV Khamenei says “nothing significant” occurred to the nuclear sites struck by the US earlier this week, a remark that directly opposes Trump’s assertion that Iran’s nuclear programme had …
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June 26, 2025 Healthcare, Republicans
The Washington Examiner reports: The Senate parliamentarian ruled against a provision of the GOP megabill that would have prevented Obamacare subsidies for health insurance plans that cover abortion services. The provision in President Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act would have been a victory for the anti-abortion movement, which has been trying to prevent taxpayer dollars from funding abortion …
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