They lifted an injunction blocking the maps a couple of weeks ago without much explanation, so they’re probably going to be pissy about the lower court not reading their minds.

South Carolina’s primaries are on June 9. Please Sen. Graham, talk enough shit about Trump’s plan to get him to endorse someone else before then.

The article also speculates that Trump’s surrender in Iran could be very bad for Israel, thanks to Iran’s control of the Straight of Hormuz:

In a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, Trump reportedly explained that the United States was negotiating a “letter of intent” with Iran that would “formally end the war and launch a 30-day period of negotiations” on Iran’s nuclear program and the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. The purpose and effect of such an agreement should be clear: The United States is walking away from the crisis.

According to one U.S. official, Netanyahu’s “hair was on fire” after the call with Trump—for good reason. The Iran war may end up as the single most devastating blow to Israel’s security in its brief history. On the present trajectory, Iran will emerge from the conflict many times stronger and more influential than it was before the war. It will exercise leverage with dozens of the richest nations in the world, all of which will have an acute interest in keeping Iran happy. They will be unlikely to take Israel’s side in any conflict that it has with Tehran or with its proxies in Lebanon and Gaza, because Iran will have the means to punish them if they do. Israel will emerge more isolated than it has been at any time in its history—and not least from its only reliable protector, the United States. When Trump turns his back on Israel, as he must do to implement this policy, MAGA will gladly follow. The bipartisan anti-Israel consensus in the United States will grow and harden.

The people who use “plummet” to describe a 1% drop.

The nine-person jury found that Musk waited too long to file his lawsuit and missed the deadline for the statute of limitations.

Why did there even need to be a trial? Couldn’t the statue of limitations have been applied before it got that far?

Both NPR and the New York Times did the legwork to find that Duffy’s reality show isn’t funded by public money—it’s being underwritten by a nonprofit chartered in 2025 called, you guessed it, The Great American Road Trip Inc. Who are its sponsors? A ton of corporations subject to Duffy’s regulations, like Toyota, United Airlines, and Boeing. (A Toyota logo is given a conspicuous glamour shot in the trailer, something I clocked immediately.) Oh, also, the person behind the nonprofit is Tori Barnes, who previously lobbied for General Motors and the U.S. Travel Association, the latter of which is an organization that lobbies Duffy’s own department on behalf of the tourism industry.

So, basically, a recently created nonprofit—bankrolled by a laundry list of corporate interests—has facilitated a reality show that doubles as a cross-country pleasure trip for a high-powered Trump Cabinet member and his family. When the Times asked Barnes about the naked potential for graft in this arrangement, she pointed to a memorandum signed by the Department of Transportation and The Great American Road Trip Inc. that reads, in part, that the nonprofit won’t be compensated with “any favorable consideration for any future federal financial assistance, action, contract, or other financial award” by the federal government. But as the paper points out, there is no language in the memorandum extending that agreement to any of the companies sponsoring the organization. (A few more, while we’re at it: Shell, Chase Travel, Yellowstone Vacations, and, tellingly, Royal Caribbean Group.)

Basically it’s just one more avenue for paying bribes.

If the US had a federally controlled payment processor they’d just end up with Republicans trying to limit what it could be used for. No porn, no abortions, etc.