British prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday convened an emergency meeting of his cabinet to discuss a “grave and volatile” situation amid concern the US military might strike Iran from the joint Indian Ocean base on the island of Diego Garcia, the Financial Times reports.

A letter to the editor at Talking Points Memo raises an extremely important reason to doubt convicted felon President Trump will actually go through with joining the Israeli attack on Iran.

Reader “PT” writes that Trump “needed something that could chase the parade and the protests off the front page and put him back in a way that was not humiliating to him. Voila! He changed his tune on Iran. Having done that, of course, he’s now doing what he learned to do from reality TV: he’s tuning his daily messages on the topic to keep it front-and-center, and this is accomplished by teasing the final decision for as long as possible, keeping everyone on the edges of our seats while we wait to see what he’s going to do. Given his motivations, though, the last thing he wants to do is to actually send in US military forces. Why? Because then he stops being the center of the story!”

“The center of the story becomes the actual US military forces that are carrying out operations, the actual state of the fight in Iran, etc. Plus: it would let Netanyahu preen as the guy who was so powerful he coerced Donald Trump into supporting Israel’s fight against Iran. In other words, once he does that, he sets the stage for Netanyahu to be the big hero in the media, not Trump. Given that background, Trump simply has to snub Netanyahu and avoid moving the actual military into the center of attention,” the letter continues and damned if that does not ring pretty effing true.

After all, it’s been two days and the Israeli attack’s only going to last so much longer. Shouldn’t the US military have gotten involved already if they were ever going to?

“Teens get a month of free rides when they fail their driver’s test” says Uber in a blog post linked from a push notification sent out Wednesday afternoon, kind of incentivizing failure.

Of course the details of the promo are quite a bit short of “a month” of free rides: “If your teen fails their driver’s test this summer, Uber teen accounts has them covered with one month of free rides (up to 6 rides, max $20 per ride, while supplies last). Terms apply” and those terms being “Expires the earlier of 7/18/2025 or until all offers have been redeemed. Max discount of $20 per ride on up to 6 Teen rides, per Teen account. Discount expires 30 days from account application. This promotion is valid only for Teen users who have never taken a ride or ordered with Uber and/or have an existing Uber teen account and have not previously redeemed this offer. Offer does not apply to rides requested by an adult on the teen’s behalf,” and blah blah blah you already got the point.

Still, $120 of free Uber rides is very far from nothing to a middle class 17 year-old and if it’s not incentivizing failure it’s definitely incentivizing false reporting of failure. Of course Uber might have better resources than other companies to figure out whether or not a failed driver’s test is real or not but you should still be bullish about the kids’ chances. Plenty are going to take Uber for a ride.

Responding to convicted felon President Trump’s repeated demands that the Federal Reserve Bank lower interest rates, chairman Jerome Powell lowered them by 0.0 percent on Wednesday, a bold move signaling Powell’s level of confidence in Trump’s stewardship of the American economy.

Senator Ted Cruz demands regime change in Iran. He’s not interested in the details.

(0:00) Why Does Cruz Want Regime Change in Iran?
(6:28) Is the US Currently Acting in Its Own Best Interest?
(7:49) Was Regime Change in Syria Beneficial to the US?
(12:31) Was the Iraq War a… pic.twitter.com/iIdENogQ2T

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) June 18, 2025

Airfares from European travelers headed to the US dropped 2.8 percent in May 2025 from May 2024, Reuters reports on more economic losses incurred from the Trump error. Hilariously travel from Western Europe fell 4.4 percent while travel from Eastern Europe rose 4.6 percent at the same time because of course the less wealthy, trashier former bloc states love their Orange comrade.

Speaking to CNN’s Manu Raju on Wednesday about the Iran situation, dainty South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham claimed that convicted felon President Trump is “very focused, very calm” and thus capable of handling it. “I feel like when he says no nukes for Iran, he means it. He gave them a chance for diplomacy. I think they made a miscalculation when it comes to President Trump.”

NEW: @EricTrump explains the philosophy and values of Trump Mobile.@AlexMarlow: It's tough to make this stuff in America. Can you guys pull it off?

TRUMP: Give us six months, and it's going to be pulled off.

Our overall aspiration is to make phones in America, by Americans,… pic.twitter.com/9iMF0wuCiW

— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) June 18, 2025

“Get ready to experience the power of TrumpSM Mobile. Our MADE IN THE USA ‘T1SM Phone’ is available for pre-order now. Reserve your phone TODAY!! The ‘T1SM Phone’ will be available in September 2025,” says TrumpMobile.com’s marketing copy for the phone a message in tension with what Eric Trump just told some Breitbart chode about “six months” and that having them onshored is “aspirational” and emphasizing that the customer service is based in the US.

Three Iranian government aircraft, including the presidential plane, landed in Oman’s capital city of Muscat on Wednesday, Haaretz reports, while writing “The purpose of the flights is still unknown, and it has not been reported whether they were arriving for negotiations in Oman, or whether any of the passengers were trying to flee the country.” They should probably look into that.

Testifying at a preliminary hearing on Monday, a detective told a Sen Bernardino County, California court that it was a wiener insult that finally prompted 62 year-old Michael Sparks to brutally murder and then dismember the corpses of his neighbors Dan Menard, 79, and his wife, Stephanie, 73, on the grounds of the Olive Dell nudist resort in Redlands in August 2024, the Press Enterprise reports.

A fellow inmate at the jail where Sparks is currently housed came forward last year and “said Mr Sparks told him the incident started over a hot dog that Daniel Menard had purchased for him,” Redlands Police Department Detective Thomas Williams told Deputy District Attorney Sean Han from the stand. “He said Mr Sparks felt that the hot dog was a jab at him, making him feel like he was worth only a dollar hot dog, and that’s what set him off that day,” Williams continued.

Sparks had long feuded with the Menards over Stephanie’s personal distaste for the neighbor – who was otherwise popular among the resort’s 100 or so nudists – who she called “sinful,” a dispute over tree branches between their adjacent trailers, and other personal slights real or perceived.

The inmate “said Sparks went outside and struck Mr Menard in the head until his head caved in. Mrs Menard came out yelling, ‘No! No!’ and then he began striking Mrs Menard and Mr Menard with a rake, a hoe and a hammer,” Williams said before detailing how Sparks took the Menards’ corpses into a bunker he had built beneath his trailer where he dismembered Stephanie Menard and then mutilated her husband, he told the inmates. Cops later found the body parts in several black plastic bags and an orange Home Depot bucket, Williams said. Sparks also drowned the couple’s Shih Tzu, Cuddles, in a sink and then tossed her body into the nearby hills where he presumes coyotes ate it.

Convicted felon President Trump rambled angrily to reporters at length on the White House lawn about Fed Chairman Jerome Powell on Wednesday, getting to the point where he asked out loud if he could appoint himself to the post as if it were the goddamned Kennedy Center board. The fat fuck also claimed the Iranian leadership asked if they could come to the White House to negotiate.

“The Biden Administration has abandoned its responsibilities to secure the border and Texans are suffering as a result. The problems along the border are only getting worse due to President Biden’s inaction. Property is being destroyed, deadly drugs and illegal weapons are being smuggled into communities throughout the state, law enforcement is having to redirect their resources, and county judges and mayors are facing skyrocketing expenses. Texas is doing more than any state has ever done to protect the border, but it is clear that more is needed. In the Biden Administration’s absence, Texas is stepping up to get the job done by building the border wall. Through this comprehensive public safety effort, we will secure the border, slow the influx of unlawful immigrants, and restore order in our border communities,” said Texas Governor “Low Energy Greg” Abbott at a June 16th, 2021 press conference, announcing that the Lone Star State was going it alone.

Four years, one day, roughly 8 percent of the 805 miles identified for the project constructed, and $3 billion in taxpayer money later the Texas Tribune reported that the state is abandoning the wall.

And quietly so as there’s been no official announcement from Abbott’s office. Republican state Senator Joan Huffman did however confirm it to the Tribune. “It’s not that we don’t think it’s an ongoing need to secure the border. It should have always been a function of the federal government, in my opinion, and that wasn’t really being done,” said Huffman, as if convicted felon President Trump’s regime has announced with great fanfare that they’re going to pick up the slack and build the wall using Mexican taxpayer funds like they were supposed to eight fucking years ago.

In an interview published on September 10, 2021 by Fox News, convicted felon President Trump said then-President Joe Biden’s administration “should have never taken the military out first – you take the military out last, after all of the people are out,” with Fox News writing that the fat fuck was specifically “referring to the American citizens and Afghan allies left behind after the US military evacuation mission, which expired on Aug 31,” with Trump then adding “No man, no woman left behind. But we left, what could be, thousands,” emphasizing what he saw as an atrocious betrayal of the Afghans who worked as tipsters and interpreters for US troops during the nearly 20-year war.

It’s a moment that serves as the perfect intro to what happened in San Diego last week, per the Times of San Diego: An unnamed Afghan man who worked as an interpreter for US troops for three years was detained by masked ICE agents as he shouted “I came here to make a better life. I didn’t know that this would happen… I worked with the US military. I worked in a very dangerous part of Afghanistan with the US military.” The man was detained at a courthouse as he showed up for his asylum hearing – a hearing for which not showing up would’ve been grounds for deportation.

“Once in a lifetime opportunity”: @WhizBuckleyNFH on President Trump weighing involvement in the Israel-Iran conflict pic.twitter.com/lJyIfhtObn

— FOX & Friends (@foxandfriends) June 18, 2025

A Fox and Friends guest who goes by “Whiz” on Wednesday advised the President of the United States to unleash the nation’s military might against Iran, calling it a “once in a lifetime opportunity” to involve American servicemen and women in an armed conflict between Middle East powers.

The brief clip from the broadcast of the right wing network’s daily morning show did not offer any further information about how the guest, billed as a former fighter pilot and proprietor of an entity called “Topgun Options LLC,” acquired his urine-themed nom de guerre. Admittedly that could be seen as a concern secondary or even tertiary to the more troubling issue of what this man’s qualifications are and that he is knowingly increasing the chances that the president orders a military strike on the Islamic Republic of Iran given reporting from the New York Times indicating that it was indeed Fox News programming that has influenced the president’s willingness to enter the conflict. Then again one could argue plausibly that “Whiz” is something of a salience in the overall fraught situation: A guy who calls himself another word for piss is excited to put American lives on the line. Like his name might as well be “Jizz” because he’s that amped for war.

Meanwhile a White House official tells Politico Playbook that “The movement right now is away from diplomacy and toward US involvement. We are moving toward taking out Iranian nuclear facilities.”

“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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