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Benjamin Netanyahu Flees to Athens as Iranian Retaliation Begins

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https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-857619

The Wing of Zion, Israel’s own version of Air Force One, took off from Ben-Gurion Airport on Friday morning as Israel initiated an assault on Iranian nuclear facilities as part of Operation Rising Lion, Israeli media reported.

The aircraft, which serves Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Isaac Herzog as their official vessel of transportation during international visits, departed for Athens on Friday morning amid fears of an Iranian retaliatory attack.

The aircraft was also previously flown out of the Nevatim Airbase, in the northern Negev, during Iran’s attack on Israel in April 2024.

Shortly after Wing of Zion departed for Greece, IDF Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Effie Defrin told a press conference on Friday morning that Iran had launched over 100 drones toward Israel.

The IDF has not officially confirmed that every single drone was shot down, and there could be many more launched, but at this time, enough were shot down to make the home front instructions temporarily more lenient.

The instructions could quickly become strict again at some point if and when Iran launches another large attack.

Yonah Jeremy Bob contributed to this report.

This is a developing story.

Senator Padilla set up by the FBI

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Sen. Alex Padilla Tells MSNBC FBI ‘Escorted’ Him To Trump DHS Presser They Claim He Crashed

https://www.mediaite.com/media/news/sen-alex-padilla-tells-msnbc-fbi-escorted-him-to-trump-dhs-presser-they-claim-he-crashed

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) told MSNBC’s Jacob Soboroff that he was “escorted” to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s press conference by FBI agents, where he was then manhandled by agents under the claim they didn’t know who he was.

Sen. Padilla found himself at the center of a maelstrom when he tried to ask a question Thursday at Noem’s briefing on ICE protests in Los Angeles and was brought to the ground and handcuffed by Secret Service and FBI agents. Noem and her agents falsely claimed Padilla didn’t identify himself as a U.S. senator and accused him of “lunging” in a threatening manner.

The incident sparked widespread shock and criticism, and an impassioned response from Sen. Padilla after his release.

On Thursday night’s edition of MSNBC’s The Beat with Ari Melber, Padilla gave his first sit-down after his release, and called out several inaccuracies. He told Soboroff he didn’t “barge” into the presser, he was signed in and escorted, and was listening in the room for 10 minutes before he tried to ask a question.

(follows with excerpt from the interview)
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Top RFK Jr. aide attacks US health system while running company that promotes wellness alternatives

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https://apnews.com/article/calley-means-rfk-maha-wellness-ethics-f2702b2e26c2883f15dc281f02fe3008

WASHINGTON (AP) — Calley Means has built a following within the “Make America Healthy Again” movement by railing against the failings of the U.S. health system, often pinning the blame on one issue: corruption.

Means, a top aide to Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., was hired as a White House adviser in March. He has used that perch to attack the nation’s leading physician groups, federal agencies and government scientists, claiming they only protect their own interests in the nation’s $4.9 trillion-a-year industry.

In recent interviews, speeches and podcasts he has called the American Medical Association “a pharma lobbying group,” labeled the Food and Drug Administration “a sock puppet of industry,” and said federal health scientists have “overseen a record of utter failure.”

Means, however, has his own financial stake in the sprawling health system. He’s the co-founder of an online platform, Truemed, that offers dietary supplements, herbal remedies and other wellness products. Some of the vendors featured on Truemed’s website are supporters of Kennedy’s MAHA movement, which downplays the benefits of prescription drugs, vaccines and other rigorously tested medical products.

Kennedy has pledged to run the Department of Health and Human Services with “radical transparency,” but Means has never had to publicly disclose his own financial details or where exactly they intersect with the policies he’s advancing.

“It reeks of hypocrisy,” said Dr. Reshma Ramachandran, a health researcher at Yale University. “In effect, he is representing another industry that is touting nonregulated products and using his platform within the government to financially benefit himself.”
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Stephen Miller sells Senate on White House border security plan

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https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2025/06/12/congress/stephen-miller-border-security-plan-00402994

Top White House adviser Stephen Miller lobbied Senate Republicans Thursday to support approving an influx of cash for immigration enforcement in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill,” seeking to rally the conference amid some internal divisions about the level of funding for border security.

Sens. Lindsey Graham, chair of the Senate Budget Committee, and Rand Paul, who leads the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs panel, are expected to release competing proposals for how much money to spend on border security activities and infrastructure. Paul, whose committee has official jurisdiction over this portion of the GOP tax and spending package, has suggested he supports paring back the tens of billions of dollars that would be made available through the House-passed version of the megabill.

Sen. Ron Johnson, a key holdout on the larger legislation, said there was previously “frustration” among some members about the lack of clarity around the administration’s justification for requesting a certain dollar amount be met for border security efforts, adding that senators were looking for “some basic numbers because they weren’t quite adding up.”

Senate Homeland was instructed in the budget resolution paving the way for the megabill to spend as much as $175 billion, the vast majority of which would be for border security.

After Miller’s presentation, Johnson said he believed the administration’s border security funding pitch was sound, even if it was hard to predict what it would ultimately cost: “I don’t think we’re gonna move the number up, but we’re not going to shortchange it ... This is a mess we have to clean up.”
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4 Escape From World's Shitiest Migrant Prison Camp

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Apparently the wall they breached was just wire mesh and drywall. Genuinely.

Four detainees escaped when tensions boiled over at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility known as Delaney Hall on Thursday in Newark, the Department of Homeland Security confirms.

Officials have not said how the detainees managed to escape or when.

"Additional law enforcement partners have been brought in to find these escapees and a [be on the lookout] has been disseminated," DHS said in a statement Friday. "We encourage the public to call 911 or the ICE Tip Line: 866-DHS-2-ICE if they have information that may lead to the locating of these individuals."

On Thursday night, tensions rose after reports of inhumane conditions and lack of food inside the federal immigration detention center. One woman whose husband was held inside told CBS News New York that a fight broke out during lunch.

Family members said detainees were allegedly not fed for 20 hours and, even then, were given only a small amount of food.

"We came to visit one family member we have here inside. He called yesterday saying that he was very worried about what was happening inside, because they weren't feeding them, they weren't getting food and everybody got crazy," one family member said.

One man who was recently released said he was held there for 28 days and described being treated worse than an animal. He said the conditions were unhygienic, he wasn't given enough food to eat and no one would answer questions about why they were being held.

>https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/newark-ice-delaney-hall-escape/
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Birth Rates Are At All Time Low!

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Boys Are Turning Into Girls.!
Women aren't putting out.!
More virgins today than ever before!
WTF is going on !??
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/06/05/asia/japan-birth-rate-record-low-intl-scli
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BlackRock Is Accused of a Plot Against Coal. The Firm Says That’s ‘Absurd.’

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/climate/blackrock-coal-texas-lawsuit.html

Did some of the biggest investors in the world buy up shares in coal companies to force them to produce less coal?

An unusual lawsuit in Texas claims that investment firms including BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street did just that, illegally colluding with one another to reduce coal production as part of a conspiracy to fight climate change.

In a federal court in Texas on Monday, a lawyer for BlackRock told a judge that the claims “defy economic reality” and that the lawsuit should be dismissed. “The complaint ignores that the coal market has been declining for decades for a host of reasons well before this alleged conspiracy,” said Gregg Costa, a lawyer with the firm Gibson Dunn, speaking on behalf of all three defendants.

A lawyer for Texas, which filed the suit late last year along with 10 other states, said BlackRock’s chief executive, Laurence D. Fink, has written in the past that corporations should set targets for greenhouse-gas reductions. For coal companies, that means “reducing output,” said the lawyer, Brian Barnes of the firm Cooper & Kirk.
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South Korean diplomat installs cameras in women's bathroom in the US and collects child porn

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https://n.news.naver.com/article/014/0005360325?sid=102

https://x.com/zip99900/status/1932802966777704668

Mr. Choi, an employee of the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was caught installing a hidden camera in the women’s restroom at the consulate in Hawaii.

During the police investigation, more than 30 pieces of child sexual exploitation material, including some involving children under the age of 12, were found on his phone.

A U.S. court sentenced Mr. Choi to 10 years in prison.

South Korean diplomat sexually assaults a white New Zealand woman


https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/politics/south-korean-diplomat-hongkon-kim-convicted-of-sexually-assaulting-nz-staffer-in-wellington/Y3IATVBMJBH4DBZQFWJEY5Y7TU/

https://newsroom.co.nz/2024/09/02/korean-diplomats-assault-on-kiwi-shades-luxons-visit/

https://www.koreatimes.co.kr/southkorea/law-crime/20240830/korean-diplomat-gets-suspended-jail-term-for-sexually-harassing-foreign-worker-in-new-zealand
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Trump quells insurrection in LA

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Trump orders National Guard to LA after clashes

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gkyggekgyo

US President Donald Trump has ordered 2,000 National Guardsmen to Los Angeles to deal with unrest over raids on undocumented migrants.

Trump said the federal government would "step in and solve the problem", after the Californian city saw a second day of clashes between protesters and federal agents.

Tear gas was used to disperse crowds as residents of the predominantly Latino Paramount district clashed with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents earlier in the day.

As many as 118 arrests were made in LA this week as a result of ICE operations, including 44 on Friday. California Governor Gavin Newsom has condemned the raids as "cruel".

Trump thanked the National Guard for a "job well done" in Los Angeles late on Saturday night. Despite this, the troops did not appear to have arrived in the city.

Early on Sunday the New York Times website quoted a federal official as saying that the force would arrive within 24 hours.

Trump criticised the city's Democratic governor and mayor in a post on his Truth Social platform, calling them "incompetent". He also said protesters would no longer be allowed to wear masks.
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700 marines, 4000 natl guard

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Trump just doubled the number of national guard and has deployed 700 marines to LA. Their purpose is to protect the safety and well-being of federal buildings and federal employees.
https://apnews.com/article/insurrection-act-trump-troops-newsom-military-national-guard-a842f79e1c0e244039be274a6f266a7a
What to know about Trump’s deployment of National Guard troops to LA immigration protests

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Marines and additional National Guard troops were headed to Los Angeles on President Donald Trump’s orders in response to protests over immigration raids.

The authorization came amid mostly peaceful protests in the city on Monday.

California officials sued Trump on Monday to roll back the administration’s National Guard deployment, saying the president trampled over the state’s sovereignty. Local officials and Gov. Gavin Newsom don’t want the military presence and the police chief has said it creates logistical challenges for safely handling protests.

The 2,000 Guard members authorized Monday are an addition to the 2,100 Guard troops the president previously mobilized for the protests Sunday morning. Trump also deployed 700 Marines to help them Monday.

Trump, a Republican, said in a post on his social media site that the city would have been “completely obliterated” if he had not sent Guard members.

This appears to be the first time in decades that a state’s National Guard was activated without a request from its governor.

Here are some things to know about the lawsuit, the protests and the guard’s deployment:
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