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[Nikki Haley @NikkiHaley]

Iran will never follow through on any MOU.
Iran will never agree to a deal.
Iran will never give up its nuclear ambitions.
Iran will never voluntarily give up control of the Strait.
Iran will never stop supporting terrorists proxies.
Iran will never be a normal country under this regime.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Not-entirely-trollish suggestion: I think the World Cup should pause for ~3 days in between the group and knockout stages so people can fill out brackets.

Granted, mostly an American thing, but this is a very important mechanism for the NCAA tournament for bringing in casuals.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Hey @KenPaxtonTX that's not your wife

[11 Yanks @11Yanks]

Asia has not had a good World Cup. Only 2 out of 9 teams making out of their group.

Africa on the other hand, 9 out of 10 👀

[Samuel Luckhurst @samuelluckhurst]

Barcelona should be having a hard look at themselves over why they bought Gordon for more than double the price they could’ve bought Rashford for. Rashford twice the player.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Phang: Inside his order, Judge Sullivan said that I am likely to succeed on the merits of my lawsuit, which speaks to the bigger success. Because the ultimate goal is the entirety of the Epstein files being produced, including the shit that Blanche continues to sit on, making sure it’s properly redacted.

Who’s supposed to find out if it’s properly redacted? The special master. And so it all kind of fits together in the bigger picture puzzle.

[JBrickJr @JBrickJr1]

@EYakoby First step towards a centrist party. Former republicans should be invited. Would be wonderful for the moderate middle majority to flush out the extremes of both current primary political parties.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

BBC isn’t backing down.

Trump sued them for $10 billion, which means discovery cuts both ways. Now the BBC wants his phone logs, private schedules, daily diaries, and communications from November 2020 through January 20, 2021.

They aren’t just defending the case. They’re asking a simple question: did their documentary damage Trump’s reputation, or did January 6 do that all by itself?

Lawsuits open doors, and discovery is fair game 💥

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

I love that Ukraine now has free rein to hammer the shit out of strategic targets in Moscow as Putin's air defenses collapse.

Russia is losing this war. Crimea will fall soon.

Putin should avoid...windows.

[Paul Niland @PaulNiland]

What the BBC did. They played clips of Trump out of chronological order. He complained. They apologised. That should have been it. But he sued them for $10 billion.

So the BBC is going to fully litigate all of Trump's actions surrounding the attack on the Capitol.

Excellent.

[Jonathan Greenblatt @JGreenblattADL]

People chanting "From the River to the Sea, Palestine will be free" at a @nycDSA victory party, attended by @NYCMayor.

Quick reminder: The phrase “From the River to the Sea” refers to the entire territory between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, including all of Israel.

Let me be clear: Supporting Palestinian rights is not antisemitic. But calling for the elimination of the world's only Jewish state is.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

3rd-place team advancement status:
Sweden: clinched
Ecuador: clinched
Bosnia: clinched
Paraguay: almost certain
Senegal: in good shape
South Korea: iffy
Scotland: in deep shite

[OU Daily @OUDaily]

Former #Sooners quarterback Baker Mayfield joins investors in OKC soccer team.

https://t.co/CoOc4ouQ5D

[Travis J Davidson @TravisSkol]

Texas fans are on here arguing that they’d rather have a Director’s Cup than a baseball National Championship.

I never thought I’d see the day.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

@KatiePhang @MeidasTouch I mean... this is just striking

Judge Emmet Sullivan's order says the Justice Dept must "produce to the public" a series of Epstein files records by July 2

The judge had ordered Justice Dept to respond to Phang's case filings by 1pm today.

The Justice Dept didn't do so

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

Katie Phang on the latest in her ongoing Epstein-documents lawsuit: You know what the best part about this order is? It says that Blanche must produce "to the public" -- not to just Ms. Fang, but to the public. And this is why I brought this lawsuit. We needed this transparency as the American public, and we had to force the DOJ to have to do this.

[ESPN @espn]

The Major League Baseball Players Association on Thursday proposed a ban on prop betting on individual players to help combat harassment from disgruntled gamblers, a union source told ESPN. https://t.co/zL6TYK49kw

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Ho-lee-shit!!!

Thanks to journalist Katie Phang and Trump's corrupt and incompetent acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, the Epstein files are about to explode into one of the biggest scandals in American history.

A federal judge dropped a bombshell ruling Thursday, ordering the Justice Department to stop protecting explosive documents that the Trump administration has desperately fought to keep hidden from the public.

U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan slammed the DOJ, siding with Katie Phang in the first-ever lawsuit enforcing the Epstein Files Transparency Act — a bill that passed Congress with near-unanimous support in 2025.

Now Acting AG Todd Blanche is forced to explain why he's been illegally blocking the release of shocking material, including:

ㆍ Names redacted from emails referencing a "torture video" and sexual activity with minors

ㆍ Identities of co-conspirators listed in a draft federal indictment

ㆍ FBI interview notes from a victim who says Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump when she was just 13 years old — and that Trump assaulted her

Instead of doing his job, Blanche arrogantly claimed the court had zero authority to even hear the case. That gamble just blew up in his face.

When you refuse to contest the allegations in federal court, those allegations are legally admitted. Judge Sullivan called it straight:

"The Attorney General has conceded that he is in violation of the Act."

Blanche also never reviewed foreign-language documents in the files and has blown past the legal deadline (December 19, 2025) to explain his shady redactions — by more than six months.

This ruling is massive because the original transparency law had no real teeth. Katie Phang's legal team cleverly used the Administrative Procedure Act to crack the door wide open. Now any journalist, researcher, or watchdog can walk through it.

The judge flat-out rejected the DOJ's excuses. "There is no competing harm to the government” from simply following the law," he wrote.

[Gina Milan @ginamilan_]

So let me get this straight…

You can shove your fist into a player’s fucking throat while she’s lying defenseless on the ground, and the WNBA thinks that’s only worth a ONE game suspension?

Absolutely disgraceful.

[Jason Cohen 🇺🇸 @JasonJournoDC]

💥NEW: James Carville: “I actually do think it's time for Democrats to talk the S word: ‘Schism’ ... there's just some sh*t that I can't be in the same tent with ... I'm done ... I don't want to be in a political party that denies the right of the state of Israel to exist.”