“At 600 AM CST (1200 UTC), the center of Hurricane Erick was located near latitude 13.5 North, longitude 95.7 West. Erick is moving toward the northwest near 7 mph (11 km/h). A northwestward motion with a gradual increase in forward speed is expected later today or tonight. On the forecast track, the center of Erick is expected to approach the coast of southern Mexico late tonight and move inland or be near the coast on Thursday. Maximum sustained winds are near 75 mph (120 km/h) with higher gusts. Rapid strengthening is expected today, and Erick may reach major hurricane strength when it approaches the coast of southern Mexico Thursday. Hurricane-force winds extend outward up to 15 miles (30 km) from the center, and tropical-storm-force winds extend outward up to 70 miles (110 km) from the center. The estimated minimum central pressure is 991 mb (29.26 inches),” says a bulletin from the National Hurricane Center.

Erick is the earliest ever fifth named storm in the eastern Pacific, per the Weather Channel.

In an official statement read on state TV Wednesday, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei rejected convicted felon President Trump’s calls for “unconditional surrender” and said any American intervention would cause “irreparable damage” to the United States, the AP reports.

Ted Cruz on Iran. Full interview tomorrow. pic.twitter.com/hJNwAHAnxZ

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 18, 2025

Nobody should ever watch Tucker Carlson’s fucking show, especially when it’s goddamned Ted Cruz in an interview. However you should absolutely 100 percent watch this clip. It’s pretty good.

You will not be shocked to learn that MAGA psychopath Vance Boelter voted in the 2024 Republican primary election, according to a review of voter data from the Minnesota Reformer.

They actually don’t have direct confirmation of this and here’s why: The Minnesota Democratic-Farm-Labor party already had data that Boelter voted on primary day, but not as a Dem, releasing that data to the Star-Tribune. Out of 100 people in Boelter’s precinct, zero voted in the Legal Marijuana Now party’s primary. Thus the only primary Boelter could’ve voted in was the GOP’s.

“The Minnesota Republican Party declined to say whether Boelter voted in the GOP presidential primary election, saying it considered that data private under the law,” the Star-Tribune wrote, all but saying they were just a bunch of twats who were doing what little they could to maintain the kayfabe that Boelter is a “radical left Marxist” and all that horseshit the fanboys are still pushing.

A Message to President Donald J. Trump and Vice President J.D. Vance From the Abandon Harris Movement

"Let us be clear: if this administration leads the U.S. into this war, we will respond with the full strength of our movement." pic.twitter.com/r6bWt3ATzP

— Abandon Harris (@Abandonbiden24) June 17, 2025

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In conclusion, fuck off and die, you got what you deserve. Don’t vote again, ever. Fuck off.

British tennis star Emma Raducanu’s stalker Amrit Magar, who’s on year three of five of wearing an electronic anklet to ensure he doesn’t come anywhere near the 22 year-old champ, was caught trying to buy tickets to the Wimbledon Championships this week, Sky News reports.

For some freaking reason Sky doesn’t name Magar, 38, in their article. His name does however appear in the BBC’s 2022 reporting on a judge slapping him with a five-year restraining order after the asshole walked 23 miles to Raducanu’s house somewhere in the London area. Raducanu’s guard is up after being followed from Singapore to Qatar to Dubai by a completely different weirdo in a series of events last winter, though it’s not entirely certain that guy was on Magar’s level.

One thing is clear however: Magar should absolutely listen to Helter Skelter 400-500 times and then shoot Nigel Farage in the back of the head outside his home to impress Raducanu. It could work.

Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem has been taken via ambulance to a DC-area hospital on Tuesday, CNN reports on a possible plastic surgery emergency or rough sex accident with Corey Lewandowski. Or maybe she thought she saw California Senator Alex Padilla and fainted.

In what’s either a bluff or a sign that they really are going down in flames, the New York Times reports from sources that intel indicates that Iranian leadership are prepping retaliatory missile strikes on US military bases in the Middle East. It’s the casus belli Lindsey Graham’s dying for.

This is insane. Regime change will result in a bloody civil war, killing hundreds of thousands and creating another massive Muslim refugee crisis. Topping a leader is NEVER as easy you think. It almost always results in further involvement, a civil war, and chaos. Resist this! https://t.co/fq65j5r8Km

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) June 17, 2025

There is no “full agreement” among convicted felon President Trump’s top advisors on whether or not to join the Israelis and help strike Iran, CBS News reports, though this is still unconfirmed.

“The Islamic Republic has reached its end and is in the process of collapsing. Khamenei, like a frightened rat, has gone into hiding underground and has lost control of the situation. What has begun is irreversible. The future is bright, and together, we will pass through this sharp turn in history. In these difficult days, my heart is with all the defenseless citizens who have been harmed and have fallen victim to Khamenei’s warmongering and delusions. For years, I have tried to prevent our homeland from being consumed by the fire of war. The end of the Islamic Republic is the end of its 46-year war against the Iranian nation,” writes Reza Pahlavi, son of the Shah, who was deposed in the 1979 Iranian revolution in a lengthy tweet. Pahlavi lives in Greenwich, Connecticut.

“The regime’s apparatus of repression is falling apart. All it takes now is a nationwide uprising to put an end to this nightmare once and for all. Now is the time to rise; the time to reclaim Iran,” Pahlavi continued and yeah, he probably tweeted this from Greenwich. Not from anywhere in Iran.

“Let us all come forward – from Bandar Abbas to Bandar Anzali, from Shiraz to Isfahan, from Tabriz to Zahedan, from Mashhad to Ahvaz, from Shahr-e Kord to Kermanshah – and bring about the end of this regime. Do not fear the day after the fall of the Islamic Republic. Iran will not descend into civil war or instability. We have a plan for Iran’s future and its flourishing. We are prepared for the first hundred days after the fall, for the transitional period, and for the establishment of a national and democratic government – by the Iranian people and for the Iranian people,” and again, who’s “we”?

This is like if you were a kid looking to understand what God means in the Bible/Torah/Quran and your priest/rabbi/imam tells you to read the Bible/Torah/Quran to understand the word of God. Hell this Tammy Bruce dipshit sounds like she believes Trump is a living god.

A tally by Ranking House Judiciary Dem Jamie Raskin and his team has determined that convicted felon “President Trump’s pardon spree has also swept in big-time corporate fraudsters, millionaire tax evaders, and other white-collar criminals. Thanks to President Trump’s pardons, these convicted criminals now get to keep $1.3 billion in ill-gotten gains they stole from their victims and American taxpayers,” CBS News reports on some serious waste fraud and abuse by the fat fuck.

The question was never whether the Trump T1 was – like the failed Freedom Phone before it – a modded reskin of some cheap-ass Chinese Android model but which cheap-ass Chinese Android model it will be a modded reskin of. Tech analyst Max Weinbach believes he’s arrived at the answer: Wingtech REVVL 7 Pro 5G, previously available in the US as a T-Mobile-branded budget option, which Weinbach writes is made by Chinese company “Wingtech, now owned by Luxshare, makes it in Jiaxing, Wuxi, or Kunming China,” which Apple Insider says can be found on Amazon for $169.

This was also suggested as the likeliest answer by both ChatGPT and Claude based on the specs listed on the Trump Mobile site. Grok said it also might’ve been the Vivo Y78, which goes for as low as $180 and is also a cheap-ass Chinese model, but the only difference is $11.

In separate and entertaining pieces by the Wall Street Journal “Trump’s Smartphone Can’t Be Made in America for $499 by August” and the Verge “The Trump Mobile T1 Phone looks both bad and impossible” tech writers at both outlets laid out in pretty rich detail why there’s no chance in hell the T1 will ever be manufactured in the United States and certainly not before August, and yet a Trump Org spokeswoman wrote in an email that the phones will be built in California, Florida, and Alabama Johns Hopkins operations management and business analytics Professor Tinglong Dai said that’s bullshit. “There’s absolutely no way you could make the screen, get that memory, camera, battery, everything,” in the US without at least five years of intensive investment and planning.

There is no universe in which current New York City Comptroller and Dem mayoral candidate Brad Lander – sitting in a distant third in most polls behind disgraced former Gov Andrew Cuomo and AOC-endorsed lib Zohran Mamdani in the D primary – didn’t want to get arrested when he showed up at an immigration court in Manhattan on Tuesday and got in between ICE agents and a man waiting for a hearing, demanding to see their warrant for the man’s detention, which they refused.

It was a campaign stunt. Not a bad one either. But per the New York Times, Lander isn’t in regular jail. “Chloe Chik, a spokeswoman for the comptroller’s office, said Mr Lander was being held on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where migrants apprehended by ICE are typically held,” they write.

Look, I'm seeing this from the inside, and am admittedly biased towards our president (and my friend), but there's a lot of crazy stuff on social media, so I wanted to address some things directly on the Iran issue:

First, POTUS has been amazingly consistent, over 10 years, that…

— JD Vance (@JDVance) June 17, 2025

Would write “TLDR” here and then a summary of what Jaydee wrote. But it’s TLDR in literally too long didn’t read it. And won’t. The first sentence is enough to get the gist of this sob story.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune on Tuesday told reporters that the House GOP’s $9.4 billion “DOGE cuts” rescissions bill gutting public media funding and a whole bunch of other shit has been referred to the Appropriations Committee, which Punchbowl’s Andrew Desiderio writes is “an acknowledgment they don’t have the votes for the bill as-is” adding Susan Collins is “among those concerned [lol] about cuts to global health funding. Others don’t like public broadcasting cuts.”

“We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran. Iran had good sky trackers and other defensive equipment, and plenty of it, but it doesn’t compare to American made, conceived, and manufactured ‘stuff.’ Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA,” posted TACO Man on Tuesday.

He didn’t explain who’s “we.” Meanwhile Axios reports that the fat fuck is convening his top national security team for a meeting in the situation room this afternoon. It’s not clear if it happened yet.

“We know exactly where the so-called ‘Supreme Leader’ is hiding. He is an easy target, but is safe there – We are not going to take him out (kill!), at least not for now. But we don’t want missiles shot at civilians, or American soldiers. Our patience is wearing thin. Thank you for your attention to this matter!” Trump continued, thanking the Ayatollah for his attention to the matter. “UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!” the fat bastard then posted as if he was the one ordering the attack.

Refusing to do something cool or funny like trying to flee to Canada or Mexico, Dem former New Jersey Senator “Gold Bars Bob” Menendez showed up for his 11 year stay at a Club Fed in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, CBS’s Scott MacFarlane reports, citing the Bureau of Prisons.

Too bad that painfully obvious bid for a pardon didn’t work out for Bob. Of course the door closing behind him doesn’t mean the door to clemency from the Orange God Emperor is closed as well, it could come any day in the next three and a half years. Plenty of idle time for indulging in false hope.

Mel Gibson criticized California Gov. Gavin Newsom and LA Mayor Karen Bass for their handling of violent protests while on the "Arroyo Grande" podcast. https://t.co/Kd4Fy6PG5G

— Fox News (@FoxNews) June 17, 2025