The Evening Blues - 6-3-26
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This evening's music features Delta blues musician who made it in Chicago, Muddy Waters. Enjoy!
Muddy Waters - Got My Mojo Workin'
"Life is a sleazy stranger, who looks vaguely familiar; flirting with a bimbo named disaster at the end of the bar."
-- Ani DiFranco
News and Opinion
Thousands Of New Yorkers Just Attended A Nazi Parade For Israel
Multiple far right Israeli ministers attended New York City’s Israel Day Parade on Sunday, including Israel’s genocidal finance minister Bezalel Smotrich.
Smotrich is ideologically not significantly different from a Nazi. Which means New York City just hosted a Nazi parade that was attended by thousands of people.
Israel Day Parade in NYC: Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and other far-right Israeli lawmakers and American politicians march on Fifth Avenue
NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani decided to skip the event | @Etanetan23
Video:… pic.twitter.com/8lARnXk4yy
— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) May 31, 2026
New York officials are acting shocked and appalled by Smotrich’s appearance at the march, but “I can’t believe there were Israeli officials at the Israel parade” is kind of a hard sell. This is just what supporting Israel looks like: standing shoulder to shoulder with genocidal extremists and making common cause with them. That’s what Israel is.
Rania Khalek SLAMS Chuck Schumer’s Israel 'Anxiety’
Democrats and War Criminals FLOOD NYC For ISRAEL DAY PARADE
Sleazy, Israeli government-promoting Democrats embarrassed by their connection to their true constituency in public ...
Several prominent New York Democrats who participated in the city’s annual Israel Day parade on Sunday have condemned the participation of Bezalel Smotrich, the far-right Israeli finance minister and a leading figure in the Israeli settler movement, in the event. Smotrich was among several Israeli lawmakers and cabinet officials who marched in the parade on Sunday. His appearance marked his first trip to the US in more than a year, and came less than month after he said the international criminal court (ICC) was seeking an arrest warrant against him.
The parade drew a broad roster of New York political leaders, including the New York senator Chuck Schumer; the House representatives Dan Goldman and Jerry Nadler; New York’s governor, Kathy Hochul; the state’s attorney general, Letitia James; the Bronx borough president, Vanessa Gibson; the city council speaker, Julie Menin; the city’s comptroller, Mark Levine; and others. New York City’s mayor, Zohran Mamdani, drew criticism from pro-Israel figures for declining to attend, citing his opposition to the Israeli government.
In the aftermath of the event, several high-profile attenders released statements distancing themselves from Smotrich, saying they were unaware that he would be present and publicly denouncing him. Their statements reflected the difficult dance facing pro-Israel Democrats who must contend with Israel’s increasingly extremist government representatives and declining support for the country among their own voters. “Bezalel Smotrich is a far-right extremist whose hateful and divisive rhetoric is fundamentally at odds with the values we hold dear in New York,” Hochul said on Monday on X. “Yesterday’s parade was a celebration of Jewish pride, community, and unity. I strongly condemn his participation.”
James similarly criticized Smotrich, writing on social media that “Islamophobia has no place in New York. I unequivocally condemn Bezalel Smotrich’s hateful rhetoric.” A spokesperson for Schumer told the New York Times that the senator’s “condemnation of Smotrich’s extremism is longstanding, public and unchanged”.
Questions also emerged about how Smotrich came to attend the parade. Mark Treyger, chief executive of the Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC-NY), the parade’s lead organizer, told the Times that they did not know that Smotrich and other far-right Israeli officials, which included government ministers Ofir Sofer, Yitzhak Wasserlauf and Amichay Eliyahu, were attending. Treyger said that Smotrich and other officials appeared to have been brought to the parade with a group from Israel’s consulate general in New York.
Larry Johnson : Does Iran Have the Bomb? Part 2
US and Iran launch fresh strikes amid stalled ceasefire talks
The US and Iran have exchanged fresh missiles and drone strikes, further jeopardising efforts by Washington to secure a new ceasefire agreement with Tehran. US forces fired a Hellfire missile to disable a tanker attempting to break through the American blockade of the strait of Hormuz on Tuesday, and later said they repelled Iranian reprisal attacks in the region and attacked sites on Iran’s Qeshm Island.
Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) said it attacked the US Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain with missiles and drones in response to the strike on Qeshm, a claim the US military’s Central Command (Centcom) denied.
The latest exchange of fire began when Centcom said it targeted an unladen tanker – Botswana-flagged M/T Lexie – on Tuesday. Centcom said aircraft fired a missile to disable the tankers engine, as it passed through international waters toward Iran’s Kharg Island, north of the strait near Kuwait, after the crew ignored repeated warnings over a 24-hour period.
Soon after, Kuwait’s military later said its air defences were intercepting missile and drone attacks and urged the public “not to approach or touch any debris, shrapnel, or unidentified objects that may result from intercepting hostile aerial targets”. Sirens also sounded in Bahrain. Centcom said two Iranian missiles fired at Kuwait “fell short or broke apart enroute”, and that three missiles targeting Bahrain were intercepted by US and Bahrain.
US forces also said they shot down three one-way attack drones “launched by Iran toward civilian mariners that were rightfully transiting regional waters” but gave no further details. American forces also conducted strikes on an Iranian military ground control station on Qeshm Island. The latest exchange of strikes underline the lack of political progress in resolving the Middle East crisis, despite upbeat claims by US secretary of state Marco Rubio in his first appearance before the Senate foreign relations committee since the US and Israel launched their war on Iran.
Iran BOMBS Kuwait After US ATTACKS Oil Tanker
BREAKING!
Iran just struck US targets in Kuwait after the US struck Qeshm today. Also, alarms just went off in Bahrain, seems Iran is striking there too.Iranian source tells me Iran has stopped playing the tit-for-tat game. Instead, it's now striking back "at least 1.5x as…
— Trita Parsi (@tparsi) June 2, 2026
TRUMP INFORMED "IRAN MAY HAVE NUKES" - w/ Political Analyst Robert Barnes
Iran Targets US Bases in Kuwait and Bahrain After US Bombs Oil Tanker and Qeshm Island
The Iranian military has announced attacks on the US Navy’s Fifth Fleet in Bahrain and a US air base in Kuwait after the US struck a tanker attempting to reach Iran’s Kharg Island, as the region is again on the brink of plunging back into full-scale war.
Iran also said that its attacks came after the US bombed a telecommunications antenna, and Iranian media reported blasts on Iran’s Qeshm Island. “Following the US attack on a telecommunications antenna and an Iranian oil tanker, we targeted the United States Fifth Fleet and a US air base in the region,” the Iranian Armed Forces said in a statement, according to Iran’s IRIB broadcaster.
US Central Command had announced the strike on the tanker hours earlier and later put out a statement on the Iranian attacks, claiming the drones and missiles Iran launched were defeated. CENTCOM also confirmed that it bombed Qeshm Island, framing the attack as “self-defense” despite engaging in a blockade against Iran, a continuation of the war of aggression the US and Israel launched on February 28.
Iran SMASHES US Bases in Kuwait & Bahrain, Trump's Bluff CALLED | Mohammad Marandi
Trump Insists Negotiations Between the US and Iran Haven’t Stopped
President Trump insisted on Tuesday that the negotiations between the US and Iran have continued despite Iranian media reporting that Iranian officials have cut off the talks, which were being mediated by Pakistan.
“Fake News Reports that the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the USA, stopped speaking a few days ago are false and erroneous,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“The conversations between us have been going on continuously, including four days ago, three days ago, two days ago, one day ago, and today.
Rashida Tlaib FORCING Major Vote in Congress to END US Support For Israeli War in Lebanon
Israel strikes southern Lebanon despite Trump’s effort to shore up ceasefire
Israeli warplanes have launched dozens of strikes across southern Lebanon despite a new agreement supposedly brokered by Donald Trump aiming to bolster the tattered ceasefire in Lebanon. The US president said on Monday that he had stopped an imminent Israeli strike on Beirut and that he had spoken to Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and representatives of Hezbollah and both agreed that “all shooting will stop”.
But on Tuesday, Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency reported 30 Israeli strikes across the south. Near the city of Sidon, rescuers recovered the bodies of six members of the same family, including two children and a woman, after an Israeli strike. The Israeli military also issued a new evacuation warning for the southern city of Nabatiyeh before new strikes, accusing the “Hezbollah terror organisation” of violating the ceasefire.
A deal to reduce or stop levels of violence between Israel and Hezbollah, a militant Islamist movement with close links to Tehran, would support Washington’s efforts to reach a new ceasefire agreement with Iran. Trump on Tuesday denied reports from semi-official news agencies in Iran that Tehran had paused negotiations until Israel stopped its offensive in Lebanon. “The conversations between us have been going on continuously, including four days ago, three days ago, two days ago, one day ago, and today,” he said in a social media post.
Hezbollah has not claimed any recent strikes in Israel, saying instead it attacked Israeli troops who have pushed into Lebanon to establish a security zone between 5 and 10 kilometres wide. The Israeli military said on Tuesday it intercepted two projectiles fired overnight from Lebanon towards the northern city of Safed, while a drone struck a military position in western Galilee, close to the border with Lebanon, the Times of Israel newspaper reported. No injuries were reported.
Israeli Castle Takeover BACKFIRES As Hezbollah FPV Drones SWARM
It’s all talk. Just withhold foreign aid to Israel for a month and they’ll stop bombing their neighbors - instant peace, the Strait of Hormuz can be opened, and gas drops $2 a gallon. Israel has been, and continues to be, the biggest welfare recipient from American tax payers. https://t.co/VzAQYbMIpO
— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) June 2, 2026
Israel Attacks Tyre Hospital, Killing Four and Wounding 127
Israel continued its attacks on southern Lebanon after President Trump announced he’d received assurances from both Israel and Hezbollah aimed to reduce fighting in the country. At least eight were killed in Israeli strikes since that announcement, including two children.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ordered attacks on Beirut on Monday, and those attacks were apparently postponed after the Trump phone call, but Defense Minister Israel Katz says that not only will attacks on the south continue, Israel is already assessing the possibility of expanding the attacks.
Israeli officials presented this as something of an agreement whereby Israel would hold off on attacks on the capital city of Beirut in return for Hezbollah ending their resistance to Israel’s invasion and occupation of southern Lebanon, which is going to continue. The city of Tyre seems to be a focus of those strikes.
As the attacks on the south continued apace, Israel attacked and badly damaged the Jabal Amel Hospital in the coastal city of Tyre. The strikes on the hospital killed 4 people and wounded 127 others. The IDF claimed that they weren’t directly attacking the hospital as such, but rather were attacking “terror infrastructure” and the hospital happened to be in the way during the attacks.
“You Either Leave Right Now or You Die”: Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing in Lebanon with Lylla Younes
US Pressuring Neutral Oman To Cut Ties With Iran
The US has been pressuring Oman to pick a side in its war against Iran and to sever ties with Tehran, despite Muscat’s history of acting as a neutral mediator in the region, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.
Sources told the Journal that at the start of the US-Israeli bombing campaign against Iran, Oman’s neutrality allowed it to open a backchannel with Iran that allowed Gulf states to reopen flight corridors, but that now, Washington views Muscat’s neutrality as being hostile toward the US.
President Trump recently threatened to “blow up” Oman if the country didn’t “behave,” comments he made when asked if the US would accept a short-term deal that involved Iran and Oman jointly controlling the Strait of Hormuz. His threat was followed by a threat of sanctions from US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who said that Oman would be “aggressively” targeted if it “facilitated” a tolling system for the strait.
Pepe Escobar: Iran Issues FINAL Warning to US & Israel – Immediate Decisive Response
Dozens of members of Congress and Capitol Hill staffers have enjoyed lavish gifted travel to Israel funded by an Aipac affiliate since 7 October 2023, amid Israel’s expanding wars on its neighbors and despite plummeting levels of support among Americans for the country’s policies, a Guardian analysis has found. Congressional ethics filings and other public records show the trips, led by the American Israel Education Foundation (AIEF), revolved around one-sided briefings on Middle East politics and Israeli domestic and foreign policy. Lawmakers and their staffers from both parties met Israeli officials, military contractors and civil society figures, including Benjamin Netanyahu and advocates for the annexation of the West Bank and the displacement of Palestinians from Jerusalem.
The American Israel Public Affairs Committee (Aipac) and other pro-Israel groups have sponsored such trips for years, and both Democratic and Republican lawmakers have joined. But the continued participation of Democratic lawmakers and their staff on recent trips is particularly noteworthy given how much sympathy for Israel has ebbed among Democratic voters, and the pains that some Democratic politicians have recently taken to distance themselves from the lobby group. A recent poll found that eight in 10 Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents have an unfavorable view of Israel, along with six in 10 Americans broadly.
The congressional ethics filings show that members of Congress and their staffers were hosted at luxurious hotels, dined at top-tier restaurants and received briefings in at least one West Bank settlement. While one of the trips referenced in this story has previously been reported in broad terms, the Guardian is revealing details relating to itineraries, costs and other trips for the first time. Since 7 October 2023, at least 26 Democratic and 52 Republican representatives have attended AIEF trips in at least 15 delegations for members of Congress and their staff. The Guardian analysis found that the group paid more than $4.2m for those delegations – an average of over $26,600 per member. A few members – including Democrats Steny Hoyer, Greg Landsman and Brad Schneider – took multiple AIEF-funded trips during this period.
“These trips have been a standard tool for building support for Israel on Capitol Hill,” said Stephen Walt, a professor of international relations at Harvard’s Kennedy School who has written widely about the pro-Israel lobby. “Agreeing to go on one of these trips is also a litmus test for politicians who want to signal a pro-Israel position to Aipac and to important donors.”
AIEF is a charitable affiliate of Aipac, and enjoys non-profit status that allows Aipac to skirt federal prohibitions on lobbying organizations funding overseas travel for US officials. AIEF, incorporated in 1988, is the vehicle through which Aipac funds the week-long Israel trips that have become a fixture of foreign policy education for new members of Congress and their senior aides. Though legally distinct, AIEF relies on Aipac infrastructure, including office space. In 2019 alone, the Intercept reported, the foundation sponsored 129 trips totalling $2.32m, bankrolled by a small number of Jewish philanthropic foundations including those of Paul Singer, a Republican mega-donor.
Marta Havryshko: Zelensky Pays Tribute to Nazi Leaders
Pentagon appoints convicted January 6 rioter to sensitive counter-terrorism role
The Pentagon has appointed a rioter convicted for his role in 6 January, 2021 insurrection to a sensitive national security role dealing with counterterrorism, overriding insiders’ concerns about his past record. Elias Irizarry, who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge in connection with the storming of the US Capitol, has been appointed to a position in the US Department of Defense’s special operations and low intensity conflict office which manages highly classified military operations, causing alarm among Pentagon officials.
The story was first reported by the Washington Post, which published a picture of Irizzary – holding what appeared to be a metal pole and wearing a pro-Donald Trump Make America Great Again (Maga) hat – looking over a wall on the day of the riot. Irizzary was 19 at the time of the attack, which took place after Trump supporters marched on the Capitol seeking to prevent the certification of the 2020 presidential election, which was won by Joe Biden but which Trump falsely claimed was stolen.
He expressed regret and apologized for his actions in court, but was criticized by the judge in his case for failing to stop the violence, despite having been in a position to do so. Irizzary has since graduated from the Citadel military academy in Charleston, South Carolina, where he was a student at the time.
It was unclear who was responsible for his appointment, the Post reported. But Pentagon officials are said to have voiced dismay that someone involved in a full-frontal assault on US democracy could be installed in such a sensitive post.
New Jersey sues Geo Group, private operator of Delaney Hall ICE facility
The attorney general of New Jersey on Tuesday filed a lawsuit against the private company operating the Delaney Hall Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention center, demanding access for health officials amid allegations of “inhumane and unsanitary conditions”.
Immigrants locked up at the federal detention center in Newark began a hunger and labor strike more than 10 days ago to protest against conditions, while demonstrations built up outside that veered into violent scenes after dark.
Tuesday’s lawsuit, filed by Jennifer Davenport, the state’s attorney general, asks the state superior court in Newark to order the private operator, the Geo Group, to grant the New Jersey department of health full access to the facility to conduct inspections.
New Jersey’s governor, Mikie Sherrill, and other elected officials went to Delaney Hall over the Memorial Day holiday weekend after the hunger strike started but a statement from Davenport’s office on Tuesday said: “GEO Group refused to respond to demands by the governor, elected officials, and protesters for full transparency into conditions at Delaney Hall.”
Last Thursday, New Jersey department of health inspectors were allowed a limited inspection of the detention center but, Davenport’s office said, were barred from inspecting crucial areas such as the medical unit, sleeping, bathing and toilet areas. “If the GEO Group – with a $1bn government contract – has nothing to hide and the conditions inside Delaney Hall are as safe and as sanitary as this private corporation and the Trump Administration claim, then there is no legitimate reason why my health inspectors are being kept from full access throughout the building,” Sherrill said in a statement on Tuesday.
Acting attorney general says Trump’s $1.8bn ‘anti-weaponization’ fund is scrapped
The federal government is abandoning an effort to create a $1.8bn secretive fund to compensate Donald Trump’s allies, but is maintaining an agreement that prohibits the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) from auditing Trump, his family and related entities, the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, said on Tuesday.
“We are not moving forward with the fund, period,” Blanche said during a House appropriations committee hearing on Tuesday. “The reasons for the fund is something that President Trump talked about for a long time, which is the fact that there were a lot of people in this country who had their government weaponized against them. The reasons for the fund, I think, remain as important as they were before, but we are not moving forward with the fund.”
He later added that the justice department would continue granting immunity to Trump and his family members on tax matters before the agreement was reached last month. He did not say why the department was dropping the weaponization fund but proceeding with the anti-audit provision.
Blanche insisted on Tuesday that the agreement allowing for immunity from audits was normal, but former IRS officials have said they are not aware of a single other similar instance. “Whether you are the president or Joe the Plumber, people expect the same tax rules and enforcement framework to apply to everybody,” Daniel Werfel, a former IRS commissioner, told NPR.
Others have said the agreement may run afoul of the constitution’s emoluments clause, which bars the president from receiving a personal financial benefit from the position. Discharging the president’s potential tax liability could be a financial benefit.
Hamawy wins Democratic nomination for New Jersey's 12th district
“Dr. Hamawy won this race the old-fashioned way by outworking his opponents, out-organizing the establishment, and building the progressive coalition needed to deliver his people-first vision to New Jersey working families,” said Alexandra Rojas, executive director of Justice Democrats, a political action committee that supports progressive candidates. “AIPAC, Crypto, and AI wanted to buy this seat and interviewed various candidates, but while they couldn’t choose which corporate shill to back, the left united behind a political outsider with a vision that spoke to the needs and priorities of Jersey voters.”
Dismay as Trump officials to dismantle key ocean monitoring system
The Trump administration plans to dismantle a $368m deep-sea observation system that has for more than a decade provided crucial data on ocean systems and climate change. In a notice, the National Science Foundation (NSF) announced that it had “initiated descoping of the Ocean Observatories Initiative” (OOI), a vast ocean observation network comprising more than 900 instruments that collect data on ocean health, including current patterns, climate variability and marine biodiversity.
The notice, issued on 21 May, came just days after Trump fired all members of the independent board that oversees the NSF. It outlined plans to remove all in-water infrastructure from observation sites off the coasts of North Carolina, Oregon, Washington and Alaska, as well as from the Irminger Sea, a marginal sea between Greenland and Iceland.
Some scientists expressed dismay at the plan, while Democratic lawmakers said they would fight it, including Senator Chris Van Hollen,of Maryland, who called it a “shortsighted move” that would “end up costing American taxpayers more not less”, the New York Times reported. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, a Rhode Island Democrat, said on
“Fossil fuel is heating our oceans by the zettajoule, so Trump’s corrupt fossil fuel stooges want to turn off the monitors.”
Following the announcement, the OOI’s principal investigator, Jim Edson, said the NSF’s plan involves a phased recovery and infrastructure removal process expected to take place over the next 15 months. “As infrastructure is recovered from each array, the associated real-time data streams and observing capabilities at those locations will come to an end,” Edson said. The move will bring to an end more than a decade of continuous ocean monitoring after the system first became operational in June 2016.
Describing the network as having “delivered the world’s most advanced continuously operating ocean observing systems”, Edson added: “We are profoundly grateful for the extraordinary efforts of the scientists, engineers, operators, educators, students, and partners who made this facility possible and who continue to advance its legacy through the use of its data.” The dismantling of the OOI marks another step in the Trump administration’s rollback of science and climate initiatives. It also follows Trump’s push to expand deep-sea mining and loosen fishing regulations, a policy that has alarmed ocean scientists and climate experts.
Six US states sue Trump administration over deal to kill windfarm project
Six states sued the Trump administration on Tuesday over its decision to cancel a major offshore wind lease off the coast of New York. In March, federal officials announced they would pay nearly $1bn in taxpayer dollars to French energy firm TotalEnergies in exchange for the company killing plans to erect two offshore windfarms off New York and North Carolina. TotalEnergies agreed to terminate the projects and pledged not to develop any new offshore wind projects in the United States, while investing hundreds of millions of dollars in oil and gas projects.
The deal was unlawful, says the lawsuit, led by Letitia James, New York’s attorney general. “The Trump administration is once again trying to kill clean energy projects and destroy good-paying jobs for New Yorkers,” she said in a statement to the Guardian. The administration’s agreement with TotalEnergies came after federal judges repeatedly struck down the president’s executive orders and stop-work directives which aimed to halt offshore wind development, ruling them unlawful and arbitrary.
In the lawsuit, James and the attorneys general of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Rhode Island and Vermont assert that the deal violated the Outer Continental Shelf Lands Act, which restricts the interior department’s ability to cancel offshore wind leases. It also breaches the Judgment Fund Act – which regulates appropriations used to pay court judgments, awards and compromise settlements – they said, among other allegations.
Appellate Court Tosses Youth Case Against ‘Unconstitutional’ Trump Orders Fueling Climate Crisis
A federal judge in the District of Montana last year “reluctantly” dismissed a lawsuit filed by young Americans challenging a trio of President Donald Trump’s anti-climate executive orders and invited the US Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to correct him—but the panel on Tuesday again tossed the case.
Backed by attorneys at Our Children’s Trust and Public Justice, Eva Lighthiser, Rikki Held of Held v. State of Montana, and 20 other children and young adults sued in May 2025 over Trump’s executive orders (EOs) boosting the coal industry, declaring a “national energy emergency,” and calling on federal agencies to accelerate fossil fuel development.
After the first dismissal from US District Judge Dana Christensen, the young Americans and their lawyers vowed to appeal. However, the 9th Circuit on Tuesday found that “plaintiffs can only speculate that the executive orders are the cause of the many agency actions they allege will exacerbate climate change,” and “they have not plausibly alleged that enjoining federal agencies from implementing the executive orders is substantially likely to prevent agencies from taking similar emissions-inducing actions under other lawful authorities.”
Issuing an injunction sought by the plaintiffs “would effectively place one federal district court in charge of executive branch energy policy—'an extraordinary and unprecedented role’ for a member of the ‘unelected and politically unaccountable branch,’” the appellate court also concluded. “Further, by effectively challenging hundreds of current and anticipated agency actions in one lawsuit, Plaintiffs seek to circumvent the jurisdictional and procedural rules Congress has established for challenges to agency actions.”
Julia Olson, chief legal counsel and co-executive director of Our Children’s Trust, declared in a Tuesday statement that “this decision lets the president direct a sweeping fossil fuel agenda, with no authorization from Congress and no meaningful judicial review, and then tells the children harmed by that agenda that they cannot challenge it until it is unconstitutionally implemented piece by piece. That is not how the Constitution works.”
“The court did not decide whether these executive orders are constitutional. It did not decide whether the federal government may knowingly endanger children,” she explained. “Instead, it slammed the courthouse doors on children fighting for their lives and told them to file hundreds of cases against every agency action carrying out the president’s unconstitutional executive orders. Courts do not become policymakers when they stop unconstitutional government action. That is their job. These young people deserve a court willing to do it.”
The lead plaintiff, Lighthiser, stressed that “the court never said we were wrong. They never said the harm isn’t real. They just said they wouldn’t stop the harm.”
“They had the power to act. and they chose not to,” she continued. “By the time we are harmed enough to satisfy them, it will be too late. I am a young person. This is my life, my health, my future. And I deserve better than this. We all do.”
The decision comes as Trump and his allies continue to serve the interests of the fossil fuel executives who helped him return to power, regardless of the consequences for people and the planet—from gutting key agencies and attacking clean power projects to dismantling a deep-ocean monitoring system that helps researchers understand the impacts of the climate crisis.
“The Trump administration is responsible for a children’s health emergency by obligating federal agencies to take actions that dramatically increase greenhouse gas emissions and climate change,” Dan Snyder, director of Public Justice’s Environmental Enforcement Project, said Tuesday. “The 9th Circuit makes no mention of this emergency. Indeed, the 9th Circuit’s decision is shocking in what it lacks.”
“The court didn’t even consider US Supreme Court decisions—or decisions from within its own circuit—which would require it to reach a very different decision than the one it did today,” he highlighted. “The court ignored significant and undisputed facts that Trump’s executive orders are causing real-world injuries to our children today. And the court ignores its most basic responsibility: finding workable remedies that provide relief to the uncontested injuries being inflicted by the Trump administration on our kids.”
Prepare for imminent return of El Niño, UN warns
The world must prepare for the imminent return of El Niño and the supercharged weather extremes it brings, the UN has warned.
The powerful natural weather pattern, which raises global temperatures and worsens some rainfall, has an 80% chance of forming before September and a 90% chance before November, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday.
It found most models projected the return of the cyclical phenomenon in the ocean and atmosphere to be “at least moderate” in strength, and possibly strong.
Scientists have previously warned that it could be the strongest this century. However, the WMO stopped short of backing such projections and said forecasters were still in a window of uncertainty.
“The spread is large,” said Celeste Saulo, the secretary general of the WMO. “There are models that are not providing any indication of a strong El Niño, while others are doing so.”
Also of Interest
Here are some articles of interest, some of which defied fair-use abstraction.
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Craig Murray: The Power of the UK State Over Scotland
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‘A rude awakening’: more doctors running for office in rebuke to Trump’s health policies
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A Little Night Music
Muddy Waters ~They Call Me Muddy Waters
Muddy Waters – Sting It
Muddy Waters w/Little Walter - Just To Be With You
Muddy Waters - Rollin' Stone
Muddy Waters – Boom, Boom
Muddy Waters – Highway 41
Muddy Waters ~ Muddy Waters' Shuffle
Muddy Waters – I'm Ready
Muddy Waters – Why Are People Like That
Muddy Waters - Walking Thru The Park
Comments
Thanks for the muddy waters
.
He's got a great mojo woikin'.
Perhaps it is time for the US to turn tail
and get the hell out of west Asia in spite of
the Zion agenda before they get more
embarrassed. Is it really worth it to sink the
world economy for the sake of some tiny regime?
Don't think so but US lost the plot already. We will
pay $10/gal and just suck it up. For what?
Zionism is a social disease