Kids are pretty thirsty in Pittsburgh this summer because the city only has only one plumber and he has not been able to get around to turning on the water fountains. The city says that they probably won't be able to do it this year. Maybe next year, kiddos!
💸 The Federal Reserve did not lower interest rates in its meeting on Wednesday and signaled one rate cut is coming this year.
🏳️⚧️ San Francisco announced it will become the first sanctuary city for people who identify as transgender.
📦 California set a new record for the number of people moving out of the state.
🇲🇼 Saulos Chilima, the Vice President of Malawi, was confirmed dead after the wreckage of a military plane that he was on board was found. Nine others died in the crash.
🔥 U.S. inflation rose 3.3% in May, which some are calling a win because it is down from 3.4% in April. But it still means that prices are up, they are just up by less.
🇺🇦 Two U.S. Congressmen are asking Secretary of State Antony Blinken to investigate an antiwar list published by the Ukrainian government meant to smear anyone who opposes aid to Ukraine.
💉 The U.S. and European Union will order bird flu vaccines from CSL Seqirus, a vaccine manufacturer funded and advised by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
🏊🏼♂️ Transgender swimmer Lia Thomas lost a court appeal that would allow him to compete in the women's category in the Paris Olympics.
The U.S. is expected to sign on to at least ten more years of supporting Ukraine, God help us!
The G7 summit of Western leaders kicks off this week in Italy and President Biden is expected to use this occasion to "commit the US to 10 years of arming and training the Ukrainian military and helping build up the country’s military-industrial complex. The agreement is not expected to specify an amount that the US will spend on supporting Ukraine."
And what of those of us who do not want to continue to support this war? Could we reverse this by voting Biden out of office? Probably. According to Antiwar.com, "The deal could also be easily reversed by a future administration since it will be an 'executive agreement,' not a formal military treaty, which requires the approval of the Senate."
Hamas wants assurances that Israel will withdraw from Gaza in order to agree to the U.S. ceasefire proposal but U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinkin says that these proposals are not "workable."
The U.S. would never presume to ask Israel to withdraw from Gaza. Especially since Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has made no bones about his desire to keep IDF presence in Gaza. He has not committed to withdrawing from Gaza in any way, despite this peace proposal.
Hamas wants assurances that the ceasefire would be permanent and Israel would withdraw from Gaza, which is a fairly rational request. Many Israeli officials want that too but they fear that Netanyahu's bloodlust will tank the deal. It seems those fears are founded.
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House Republicans voted to hold Attorney General Merrick Garland in contempt of Congress because he refuses to hand over tapes of President Biden's interview with special counsel Robert Hur.
This means that they will refer him to the Department of Justice, which Garland is in charge of, so the DOJ will not likely prosecute. Which means that this could go to the courts.
The special counsel decided not to prosecute President Biden for his possession and handling of classified documents because they decided he was too elderly and frail to stand trial. The tapes of his two-day interview with the counsel have been classified at the highest level after the president invoked executive privilege to do so.
AG Garland said in a May 15 letter to the president that the “committee’s needs are plainly insufficient to outweigh the deleterious effects that the production of the recordings would have on the integrity and effectiveness of similar law enforcement investigations in the future.”
Deleterious effects for who exactly? Similar law enforcement investigations of who exactly? You see what is happening here, right?
#BringBackLikesis trending for people who say that they don't want likes to be hidden.
El Salvador is trending because the government made a huge bonfire out of a 2.7-ton pile of cocaine worth an estimated $67 million. It reminds me of this scene from Romancing the Stone.
News By The Numbers
Photo credit: New England Patriots
12 That is how much pop star Gary Glitter was ordered by a court in the U.K. to pay a woman who sued him for sexual abuse when she was 12 years old.
£508,000. That is how much pop star Gary Glitter was ordered by a court in the U.K. to pay a woman who sued him for sexual abuse when she was 12 years old.
50. That is how many girls at a private school in Australia had fake AI nude images of them posted online. What a nightmare! A teenage boy was arrested for taking photos of the girls from their social media pages and manipulating them with AI into nudes.
X, formerly Twitter, will now hide likes on the individual level. They will still count and show how many likes a post gets but it will not show who what the posts specifically.
This is an important change because we live in a world where people have been punished for just liking things that are considered wrong-think. One university president was reprimanded and nearly fired for liking Tweets that are critical of surgery for trans-identifying minors. This amounts to social persecution for mere thought. The academic in question did not specifically SAY these things himself. He just indicated with a heart button that he agreed with someone else's freedom to say them.
Users can still track what they have liked and the post's author can too but no one else can so the mob cannot punish people for how they feel. Admittedly, I myself have stopped myself from liking posts for this very intimidation but no longer! I'm about to like with wild abandon now!
This newsletter is written and researched by Natali Morris. Please feel free to reach Natali at [email protected] for any editorial feedback.
