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The annual World Statistical Report of Energy released today. Largely the only thing that matters to civilization.

In a shocking admission that torches the narrative peddled by CNN, The New York Times, and the Associated Press, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Esmail Baqaei has confessed that Iran’s nuclear facilities have, in fact, been badly damaged in the precision strikes carried out under President Trump’s order. “I have nothing to add on this matter because it’s a technical issue. Our Atomic Energy Organization and other relevant agencies are working on it. But yes, our nuclear installations have been damaged — that’s for sure — because they have come under repeated attacks by Israeli and American aggressors,” Esmail Baqaei.

Caitlin Clark is assaulted by Chennedy Carter in a June 2024 WNBA game. Clark had no idea this was coming. ===================================================================== It looks like the WNBA, the worst sports league in the history of mankind, has finally killed its Golden Goose, Caitlin Clark. Former Iowa basketball player Caitlin Clark is the all-time greatest scorer in NCAA basketball. Along the way, she also broke most of the NCAA assist records. Iowa’s Caitlin Clark broke every record imaginable in women’s AND men’s basketball in the 2023-2024 season. • D-I scoring leader (3,951 pts) • only D-I player w/ 3,500 pts, 1,000 ast...

Do lefties fall in love and marry like normal people do? Well, not hip, elite lefties, the kind who start NGOs or who might party with guys like Ezra Klein. The New York Times put out this elaborate wedding story, about what happens when the leftist elites fall in "love" and marry each other: "When Rachel Kelly Atcheson and Sean Adrian McElwee first met at a West Village coffee shop in June 2022, it was too tense to be a meet-cute. Ms. Atcheson — at the time, the senior assistant to Mayor Eric Adams — was planning to chew out...

Who do the Obamas think they’re fooling? The American public has watched for years as Barack and Michelle Obama have carefully curated their image as the gold standard of modern marriage — smiling for the cameras, penning love notes on social media, and trading playful banter on talk shows. But lately, the cracks in this carefully staged production have become impossible to ignore. Divorce rumors have been swirling for months, fueled by Michelle’s conspicuous absences from major events and Barack’s public admissions of marital strain. Yet through it all, the Obamas continue to insist that all is well behind the...

A 51-year-old Dallas letter carrier, Jacob Taylor, died over the weekend after collapsing on his route. Taylor's cause of death is still unknown pending the results of an autopsy. The National Association of Letter Carriers fears his death could have been related because of how similar it was to the death of Eugene Gates, who died of heat exhaustion two years ago.

Its inter-agency members sought to sabotage the Russian-US rapprochement. Reuters reported in mid-June that the Trump Administration had recently disbanded a secret inter-agency working group overseen by now-dismissed National Security Council members tasked with formulating strategies for coercing Russia into concessions to Ukraine. According to their three unnamed US official sources, Trump’s hitherto refusal to escalate American involvement in the conflict led to this initiative losing steam, though he could still potentially reverse gears in the future. At any rate, what’s most significant about Reuters’ report is that it confirms that a secret group of officials from the US’ permanent...

Way back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, democrats had some semblance of class and seriousness. People like Patrick Moynahan, a democrat from NY, used to argue all day with Newt Gingrich but kept it civil and classy and largely honest. Today that's a lost art. Now we witness people like Jamie Raskin, who is a perpetual liar In case his lie wasn't heard the first time, Jamie Raskin doubles down on the "very fine people" hoax again.How many times is the left going to repeat this line? pic.twitter.com/qr7v5fYkuI — Media Research Center (@theMRC) June 24, 2025Even Snopes debunked it but...

The cases that remain https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/06/the-cases-that-remain/

Experts still trying to figure out cause of Saturday's rapid fluctuation in water levelsAlan Auld of Shuniah, Ont., said he stepped out to look at Lake Superior on Saturday and was among people who saw the waters receding — something he compared to the draining of a bathtub. "At first we joked to everyone saying, 'Who pulled the plug?'" said Auld. "To see Lake Superior, the largest freshwater lake in the world, can do something like that, that's quite powerful. So we were in awe." On the east border of Thunder Bay, Shuniah is a municipal township along Lake Superior's...

The left-wing Denver city council voted unanimously to shutter its anti-theft auto license plate tracking system because ICE could use the data to deport illegals. In May, the council voted against renewing the $666,000 contract with Flock that was launched about a year ago. The camera system monitors the area around 70 Denver intersections and was set up to screen for car theft. The system, which reportedly scans 2 million cars per month, has already resulted in the recovery of 170 stolen cars and 300 arrests. The camera data has also helped the Denver Police Department (DPD) to investigate hit-and-runs...

The Supreme Court will be announcing Opinions from the bench for the October 2024 term at 10:00 this morning. Scotusblog will be liveblogging as the Opinions are released and we will be following along to try to make sense of the Court's decisions. There are ten cases remaining undecided from this term. That does not include the cases on the emergency docket.

The cars and small trucks at the site were those of concrete workers trying to cover up the top of the shafts. Nothing was taken out of facility. Would take too long, too dangerous, and very heavy and hard to move!

Azealia Banks pulled out of a London festival and alleged that “the promoters” pressured her to support Palestine. The 34-year-old singer slammed festival promoters in a lengthy post shared June 24 on X. “So guys, I am cancelling Boomtown and Maiden Voyage, the promoters have been stressing me out for weeks trying to force me to say free Palestine and threatening to cut me from the bill because I won’t say free Palestine and I’m not dealing with the threats and I’m not putting on a f***ing hijab,” she wrote. Banks was slated to perform at Burgess Park, London’s Maiden...

DEVASTATING BLOW: Unelected Harry Reid-appointed Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough just STRUCK DOWN the DEFUNDING OF MEDICAID FOR ILLEGALS in the Big Beautiful Bill...AND defunding "gender-affirming care" under Medicaid and CHIP! No, I am not joking! A 2012 Democrat lackey is gutting the bill right before our very eyes! She says the provisions that limit federal dollars for states that give illegal aliens Medicaid benefits require 60 votes, not 50+1. She also struck out limits on Medicaid, Medicare and ACA premium tax credits for non-citizen immigrants, per Punchbowl. IGNORE THIS, OR FIRE HER, Mr. Thune ... The Senate Parliamentarian must be...

A Lakeview family says they are in disbelief after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents detained 64-year-old Mandonna Kashanian, an Iranian-born woman who has lived in the United States for nearly five decades. Kashanian was taken into custody Sunday morning in front of her home on Woodlawn Place. According to her family, she was picking figs with neighborhood children when three unmarked vehicles pulled up around 10 a.m. and officers handcuffed her without saying a word. Her daughter, Kaitlynn Milne, said the arrest happened within 60 seconds while she and her father, Kashanian’s husband of 35 years, were inside the...

Initial probe finds Hamas operative threw bomb inside combat engineering vehicle in Khan Younis; soldier seriously hurt in separate incident; Katz says troops fought heroically ============================================================== Top row, left to right: Lt. Matan Shai Yashinovski, Staff Sgt. Ronel Ben-Moshe, Sgt. Ronen Shapiro; Bottom row, left to right: Sgt. Maayan Baruch Pearlstein, Staff Sgt. Niv Radia, Sgt. Shahar Manoav, and Staff Sgt. Alon Davidov. The IDF announced that the seven soldiers were killed amid fighting in the southern Gaza Strip on June 24, 2025. (Israel Defense Forces) Seven soldiers were killed during fighting in the southern Gaza Strip after an armored...

Republicans are putting Jill Biden’s longtime aide on blast, claiming he’s “running scared.” Committee Chairman James Comer delivered a scathing statement over Anthony Bernal’s refusal to testify before Congress on Joe Biden’s obvious cognitive decline while occupying the White House and announced he will be issuing a subpoena to “compel” him to testify. “Now that the White House has waived executive privilege, it’s abundantly clear that Anthony Bernal – Jill Biden’s so-called ‘work husband’ – never intended to be transparent about Joe Biden’s cognitive decline and the ensuing cover-up. With no privilege left to hide behind, Mr. Bernal is now...

https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/59003 The Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Khamenei, addressed the nation: – I offer my congratulations to the great nation of Iran; first, congratulations on the victory over the fake Zionist regime, and secondly, the victory over the American regime. – The Americans entered the war directly because Israel would have completely lost and become hopeless otherwise. – The U.S. gained nothing from this intervention, Trump greatly exaggerated what happened, and our nuclear sites remain unaffected. – The enemies don't seek an end to Iran's missile or nuclear program, they seek an unconditional surrender, which our powerful nation will never...

He went on about how America is racist at its core, sexist towards women, and homophobic. The whole woke alphabet was being recited, but where things go off the rails, and where you don’t need to pay him any more mind, is when he said that the rates of cancer, obesity, and heart disease are higher among black Americans because of the n-word. I’m not kidding. "'m a black man in America. The reason why heart disease and cancer and obesity and diabetes are bigger in the black community is because of the stress we carry from having to deal...