06/24/26
Good morning! It’s Wednesday, June 24th.
National Pralines Day
Did you know pralines have been around since the 1600s? They’re French, oui oui. They became popular in New Orleans when the French nuns began arriving in the city with the habits and… their habit of making this little treat.
And now, the news.
Chico Library Shooting
-via ABC News
We start how we start here in America – with two people dead and one injured after an 18-year-old, who has been arrested, opened fire in a Chico, California library just after 5PM on Friday.
Now, if you heard “a teenager opened fire in a library” and had chilling flashbacks to Columbine, apparently that was intended. According to police, the suspect wanted a Columbine-style massacre and didn’t know the victims.
The suspect was a part of an online fandom of mass killers and was even wearing clothing similar to Eric Harris, one of the Columbine shooters.
Authorities believe he acted alone.
Update: Iran
The tenth time’s the charm when it comes to the Senate trying to pass the war powers resolution, which would pull back some of Trump’s power in Iran. In theory – it’s mostly symbolic because Trump is still the commander in chief of the military and Pete Hegseth would never tell Trump no and actually our military isn’t even supposed to be there anyway because Congress is the only branch that gets to say whether or not we’re doing war and he never even asked so this whole thing is illegal but a sitting president can’t be charged with a crime and the Supreme Court already said president’s can do anything their little brains come up with so really when you think about it… it took ten times for like… a thought experiment. “Hey, wouldn’t it be interesting if we pretended we had the power here?”
I say all of that to say, this vote doesn’t mean Trump’s gonna suddenly be like “my bad! Everyone, retreat.” But it lays the groundwork. Congress is saying Trump needs to bring troops home and when he doesn’t? They can at least point to it as yet another way that Trump’s using his high heels (sorry, lifts) to overstep.
Credit where credit’s due. The four Republicans that voted for it last time, did so this time. Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski, of Maine and what I can only, Kentucky’s Rand Paul, Louisiana’s Bill Cassidy, and Susan Collins, of the Maine and Always Deeply Concerned Collinses.
Pennsylvania’s John Fetterman, barely a Dem at this point, voted against it.
It passed on a 50-48 vote, with Pennsylvania’s Dave McCormick out, as well as Kentucky’s Mitch McConnell.
McMitch has been out since being admitted to the hospital on June 13th. Since then, no one has given an update or any information about why he was admitted to the hospital at all. No clue if he’s still there or down to clown in Cabo.
Either way, he missed this vote.
And negotiations are continuing between Iran and America, with Tuesday being a great example of how things are going currently and really how they’ve gone this entire time. Because Trump announced that Iran had “fully and completely” agreed to allow for nuclear inspections, while officials for Iran said there were “no plans” for inspectors to return. And while Veep Vance said the inspections could start as soon as this week, Trump said there was no rush for the inspections to resume.
So no worries everyone, it’s all going exactly as you’d expect.
Charges in ICE Center Attack
-via CBS News
Eight people have been sentenced for a 2025 attack on an ICE detention center in Texas, after receiving terrorism-related charges. There is one more person waiting to be sentenced.
As a reminder, last year, on the 4th of July actually, police were called to the facility after reports of a suspicious-looking person hanging around. Once the police got there, they saw someone with a gun. While engaging with that person, an unknown number of suspects opened fire. An officer was shot in the neck – he survived.
Of the eight people, the shortest sentence is 30 years. The apparent leader of the group was sentenced to 100 years.
Yeah. 100 years.
Now, look. Obviously what they did was wrong. But I also think this Department of Justice of making an example of these folks. In Texas, shooting at or attempting to shoot a police officer typically results in a charge of Attempted Capital Murder of a Peace Officer. This is a first-degree felony and carries a mandatory minimum of 25 years to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
100 years?
Because he wasn’t just charged for the shooting. He was also charged with terrorism-related charges.
Do you think it has anything to do with the fact that they were protesting ICE?
I’m not saying anyone did anything right here. I’m just saying… reasonability, ya know?
The Supreme Court (Still)
-via ABC News
Once again, the Supreme Court…
In a 6-3 decision (that’s how you know it’s gonna be a bad one) the Supreme ruled on Tuesday that green card holders who MAY have committed a crime involving "moral turpitude" can now be deported.
So, what’s happening here (here’s what’s happening) is that U.S. immigration law says anyone with a green card who legally leaves the U.S. for a short period of time can reenter, with a few exceptions. One of those is if they’ve been convicted of, or admitted to committing, "a crime involving moral turpitude."
Convicted of, or admitted to committing
Our judicial system rests on a few clear pillars. One of which, and I realize it doesn’t always get applied, and when it does it is certainly not applied equally, but one of those is that you are innocent until proven guilty.
So just being accused of a crime isn’t the same as being convicted.
But Tuesday’s decision, which stems from a case where a green card holder was at first denied readmission into America because he was facing, but had not yet been found guilty or, in this case, admitted guilt, to state charges in New York (he eventually was allowed conditional readmission), now says – hey, just the accusation is good enough.
If you are a green card holder, and you step a toe out of this country, if you’re accused of a crime (not found guilty. Haven’t even gone to court. Haven’t even had a chance to see the evidence provided against you.), you can now be denied readmittance to this country.
Then what? It’s not clear. The ruling doesn’t outline the next steps, which makes this even harder. It’s not like after six months, if the government never proves your guilty. You get to come back.
It’s more like – you’re denied readmittance and then you’re at the border or airport or wherever and need to go back to your country of origin while the CBP treats you like a new applicant for admission and spend maybe months, likely years, trying to get back to the place where you factually lived. At least, that’s what it appears is the case right now. Again, there’s no real clarity.
All because you were falsely accused of a crime.
Trump’s Supreme Court, Ladies and Germs.
Federal Judge Rules Against ICE
-via NY Times
And, once again, here’s another story about how the Supreme Court does its thing while other courts actually work still.
A California federal judge ruled on Tuesday that ICE agents need to stop making arrests inside of the immigration courts, calling the decision-making processes “arbitrary and capricious,” and saying they failed to consider alternative options and noting that they themselves once were concerned that courthouse arrests would “disincentivize” immigrants from attending hearings.
Which – duh! Of course it would.
These ICE agents are so full of it. “Come here the right way. Gotta come here the right way.” What on earth do you think is happening at these immigration courts, you absolute bozos?
World Cuppa Records
-via BBC
And finally, for all my soccer-heads – Messi is not the only record breaker out there on the pitch. Portugal’s Cristiano Ronaldo became the first player to score in six different World Cuppas on Tuesday, after scoring twice in a 5-nil match against Uzbekistan.
He also, this is just a fun fact, is the third player to be his country’s oldest and youngest goalscorer at the World Cuppas.
Messi is another of those three. Career-wise, Ronaldo and Messi get compared a lot. And there are a lot of comparisons to be made. Like that fun little fact about the age.
But here’s something wild – of all the records they’ve broken, or are chasing, there is one their share – they both share the record for the longest gap between a player's first and last goal: 20 years 11 days. That’s wild, that out of the randomness of the schedule, the DAYS would be the same.
Fun soccer facts. That’s why the people tune in!
And that’s it. That’s the news.
I’m proud of Cristiano Ronaldo. He’s also, on top of all of that… a little cutie.
Also pralines. They’re also little cuties.
But more than pralines, because I do believe we have the nuns to thank for you as well… I’m proud of you.