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Weird Ross Douthat: Who are the good guys and the bad guys? I’m no longer sure.
Bruni ‘n Bretbug laff riot in NY Times Opinion: Doesn’t anybody want to win this thing?
Pull quote from today’s NY Times Bruni & Bretbug bit: Fauci and the Democratic Socialists of America both have a lot to answer for.
Yahoo Finance video: Why Goldman Sachs, BlackRock & other Wall Street giants have endorsed crypto's CLARITY Act
NY Times opinion tease: Why do we tolerate Elon Musk’s racist commentary?
Bretbug column: A blunt warning for Israel
Six Months Tom sez: Mamdani’s Netanyahu stunt a waster of his talent and our time
Chart of SPCX stock price showing steady decline to 109 and change.
Weird Ross Douthat: Why Vance still trumps Rubio
Chart showing rapid decline in SPCX stock to 112.70
Adjoining posts in TL: Kushner defends $2billion Saudi investment, Saudis sign nuclear agreement with Mad King
Republican hack Kristen Anderson: America has eight political tribes. Which one do you belong to?
Weird Ross Douthat: A new critique of Trumpism goes too easy on elites
Front page of today’s Boston Globe: L. FOR TRUMPTHE 250TH PARTY GOES ON AND ON R. MAN FATALLY SHOT IN MAINE DURING AN ICE OPERATION
NY Times A1 lead story: Iran’s hubris could bring bigger war
NY Opinion today: The Far Left is yada yada yada by Bretbug
NYT op ed: history portends disaster for places that drive away their richest residents.
NY Times op-ed from Weird Ross Douthat: My fellow Americans, let us begin again
A Declaration alone does not make us free. What makes us free is constant determination to listen to our better angels, not to those who would divide us in the interests of their own power and wealth. Pray that enough of us survive this bloody moment to build a new nation on the Declaration’s ideals. But Lord help us if we win this war, yet fail to honor the principles for which so many gave their lives. - Yvonne Abraham
Real estate ads in Sunday Globe: Cambridge Brattle St $15.8m, South End townhouse $9m
Boston Globe A1: “I don’t see any hope. Haitians in Mass. face possible deportation after Supreme Court backs Trump
NYT Opinion tease: Is it time for a new sexual revolution? On the next episode of Weird Ross Douthat's podcast.
NY Times lede: Vance balancing disruptive boss and a wily rival
NY Times update: President Trump weighed in on the likelihood that the Iran deal will actually hold and be signed Friday, once the text is finalized. “I’ve gone into deals that were 100% — and they don’t happen. I’ve gone into deals that there’s no chance of getting them done — and it happens, and they happen easily,” he said. “You never know with deals, but you’re going to find out pretty soon.” He finally added: “I think it’ll be done, they want to sign.”
Bretbug in NY Times opinion: Trump got spooked and Iran stood firm
NY Times headlines above the fold 6/13: SpaceX IPO makes Musk the first trillionaire, Super PAC tied to AI giants muscle into a NY House race, and Officials Clear Merger’s Path at Paramount
Weird Ross today: Does UFO disclosure threaten faith?
National Review Dave: Trump is also transforming the Left
Bretbug ‘n Bruni: Is there nothing voters won’t forgive?
NY Times headline: The Battle for the Senate Could Come Down to Hopes and Fears in Maine Graham Platner’s primary victory in Maine sets up a high-stakes contest between an insurgent progressive with political baggage and a battle-tested but vulnerable Republican senator.
David French column: The fire of stupidity cannot be contained
Jamelle Bouie reprints an email from a reader brimming with crude racist slurs and hate speech.
Bruni ‘n Bretbug wasting another full page in NY Times opinion today: Big swells of rancor are capsizing America
Boston Globe business page: Boston needs its swagger back. Is a new marketing campaign the answer?
NY Times home page tease: #Bretbug - Deal or No Deal with Iran
NY Times food front: They who see a list of the best as a dare
NY Times op-ed: The simple answer to taxing the rich is the best answer
NY Times, 0200 ET: Trump says peace deal is near
NY Times page 1 lead story: Tentative US-Iran Deal Defers Thorniest Issues
NYT home page lead: US and Iran signal move toward peace deal but details remain murky Iran projects victory in potential deal with Washington Lebanon’s fate rests with outside powers Israeli leaders say little about Trump’s potential Iran deal
National Review Dave says he’s spotted a non-vile Republican. Tune it tonight!
NYT Op Ed Page devoted to the comedy stylings of Bruni ‘n Bretbug
Some climate change denial hack says Democrats don’t have to campaign on climate change anymore in, you guessed it, NYT Opinion.
Post Editorial headline: Jeff Bezos' taint tastes like roses Subhed: Which is why he deserves $240 billion and a trophy wife
Today’s Bretbug pos: The banality of evil, again
Others appeared relatively unfazed. Lloyd Blankfein, the former chief executive of Goldman Sachs, was sitting with CBS News journalists toward the front of the room when the emergency occurred. As the confusion unfolded, Mr. Blankfein turned to his seatmate and asked, “Are you going to finish that salad?” -- NY Times
NY Times tease: The four lessons liberals should consider after Orban’s defeat
Iran tightened its grip on the Strait of Hormuz again on Saturday, asserting that it was “under strict control” by Iranian forces — just hours after Iranian officials and President Trump had raised hopes for an end to the war by announcing that the waterway had reopened. Iran’s military said in a statement that the strait had now “returned to its previous state” unless the United States ended its own blockade of Iranian ports. A shipping monitor run by the British navy said Saturday that it had received a report of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards firing at a tanker in the strait.
NY Times home page tease: Bruni 'n Bretbug: The second coming of Donald Trump
NY Times photo package on A1 teasing story on A12: A Child Care Crisis
Guardian home page lead: US sanctioned ships pass through strait of Hormuz
NY Times headline: Someone has to be happy. Why not Lauren Sanchez Bezos?
NY Times: Iran war live updates: Trump says US will ‘blockade’ Strait of Hormuz after peace talks fail
NY Times print lead Sunday: Vance leads negotiations to end war he opposed. Vice President faces high-profile test of diplomatic skills with Iran talks
NY Times home page lead: Cease-fire tested by confusion over strait and strikes on Lebanon
Iranian navy threatens ships in strait of Hormuz without permission The Iranian navy threatened ships attempting to pass through the strait of Hormuz without Tehran’s permission with destruction, adding that transit through the waterway remained shut, according to several shipping sources. “Any vessel trying to travel into the sea ... will be targeted and destroyed...” the message said. (The Guardian)
Guardian home page lede: Middle East crisis live: Trump uses expletive-ridden social media post to threaten Iran’s infrastructure US president tells Iran: ‘Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell’
Boston Globe front page: Measured voice from Southie atop ICE
NY op-ed conversation between Frank Bruni and Bretbug: The moral rot beneath Trump’s hideous tastes.