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Oh are we doing ceasefire again? Nobody knows, certainly not Trump, who is threatening to blow up Oman now, why not. (Noah Berlatsky at Public Notice)
E. Jean Carroll is Trump’s Final Boss. Good Laura Bassett on Trump’s rapist hits. (Nightcap)
The Supreme Court wouldn’t hear a case from Florida suing California and Washington for the tort of Let Illegals Drive Trucks Sometimes, and Clarence Thomas is pretty sure that’s a warrin’. (Balls and Strikes)
Louisiana Republicans managed to put every Black voter in the state into one district. Boy, they are good at this! (NOLA)
Trump on the $250, because fuck it. (Yahoo! News)
Meanwhile, his Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins has cut 700,000 children off SNAP — just in the 12 states with data available. (CBPP)
Meanwhile again, $5 million for coating horse statues in gold. (NOTUS)
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Trump will make the list of voters, then he will send the list of voters to the Post Office and they mayn’t deliver mail ballots to anyone else, and a Trump judge just said that’s fine. (NPR)
Yikes, this seems to be the second time “Students for Trump” founder Ryan Fournier has assaulted a girlfriend with a deadly weapon? Yikes! (Defector)
The private equity vultures are buying up all your apartment buildings, hope you love mold and roaches! (Popular Info)
The Pentagon loaned a Trump Jr. company $620 million after the White House demanded it? Is that bad? (ProPublica)
New 60 Minutes chief sounds like idiot. (Semafor)
Let’s all sue the January 6 crime-droog slushfunders for 3x their payments! (The American Prospect)
The “anxious” masculinity of Texas Republican men. (Paul Waldman)
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Gen Z has a mission, should they choose to accept it: Destroy AI. (Harvard Gazette)
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ANKLE RECOVERY UPDATE
The good news is that I am finally back on my feet. I'm still using crutches, and standing for any length of time I'm proving difficult, mainly because it's hurting my knees and my back.
I'm hopeful that June will be the last month i leave you all without a Cakes We Like post. I'm going to aim to get you a July post, even if it is something that's a lot simpler than I'd usually make and relies on a few cheeky shortcuts.