One of the two best comics ever. Here's why: https://open.substack.com/pub/therepublicofletters/p/calvin-and-hobbes-and-the-price-of

🤖 🇺🇸 🚜 Autonomous robot driving through the field at night. no chemicals. no pesticides. just UV light killing pathogens and pests while everyone sleeps. this is TRIC Robotics.

this is what chemical-free pest control looks like at scale.

📝 🇸🇻 Nayib Bukele:
The key to saving the environment is not looking backward, it’s moving forward.

I realized this the first time I visited Italy twenty years ago. Everything was clean and green. The rivers sparkled. The lesson for me was obvious: the answer is not underdevelopment. The answer is progress.

When China was poor, the air was so polluted that people could barely see the blue sky. Today, blue skies have returned to their cities. Development does not only create wealth, it also provides the resources needed to restore and protect the environment.

Some environmentalists want us to preserve every aspect of our biodiversity, including the mosquitoes for example, so that researchers can fly in once every ten years from their universities (which build particle accelerators and billion-dollar laboratories with their pocket money), study our ecosystems, and count how many people died from dengue outbreaks.

They want to buy our air through carbon credits. If carbon credits were such a great deal, they would be selling them to us, not the other way around.

Cleaning every river, lake, and water source in El Salvador, and ensuring they remain clean and sparkling, would cost roughly $12 billion. Where is that money supposed to come from without economic development? Carbon credits?

The path forward for our country is the path of Japan and Singapore, not the path of the Congo.

📎 Danny Bernstein

😢🕯 https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/doom-soundtrack-composer-bobby-prince-dies-aged-81-3377729/

#Iran 🇮🇷: Iranian Revolutionary Guards (#IRGC) Navy members released a video from Persian Gulf.

The Navy unit apparently operating domestic speedboats armed with 107mm Naval 11-Barrel Rocket Launcher and Type 54 / MGD-12.7 heavy machine guns.

https://x.com/i/status/2065450557192491428

‼️🇮🇷👉🇺🇸🏴‍☠️🇮🇱 The Strait of Hormuz is closed again.

🔺The Central Headquarters of the Iranian Armed Forces' Military Command "Khatam al-Anbia":

"In connection with the obvious treachery and violation of obligations by the USA regarding the non-fulfillment of the first paragraph of the memorandum on the cessation of war, as well as in response to the continuous and systematic violations of the ceasefire by the Israeli regime in southern Lebanon, mass killings and forced displacement of hundreds of thousands of defenseless people in this land, and also in connection with the refusal of the Israeli occupation forces to leave the territory of southern Lebanon, it is announced that the Strait of Hormuz will be closed to the passage of ships.

It is noted that this step is the first response to the treachery of the enemy. In case of continuation of aggression, further steps will be planned and taken to compel the enemy to fulfill its obligations."

World Map according to Population
https://redd.it/1uas92m
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Inside a Wasp Nest
- What's really happening inside a wasp nest? From hidden nurseries to busy worker corridors, discover the incredible structure and organization of one of nature's most fascinating insect colonies.

Did you know? 🎓

⁣DECOYS
The Scud Hunters Book: Chapter Six

On January 21, the Director for Operations of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Lieutenant General Thomas W. Kelley, held a press conference where, among several topics, he discussed Iraq’s SCUD attacks on Israel and Saudi Arabia, which continued unabated despite the massive infusion of coalition airpower which, according to General Kelley, were working “big time” to locate and destroy the Iraqi launchers. General Kelley cited bad weather as one of several factors hampering the allied counter-SCUD effort, noting that the Iraqi use of SCUD decoys was also “somewhat of a problem. I can’t quantify it.” But Kelley did acknowledge that the Iraqis “do use decoys, and they use them well.”

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Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra's Main Cathedral Burns After Strike
https://redd.it/1u6bbye
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"The newly discovered sermons deal with the Old Testament story of the Witch of Endor from the First Book of Samuel. "Saul believes himself to be in a hopeless situation shortly before a battle against the Philistines. God does not listen to his prayers. He turns to a witch," explains Tornau. At Saul's request, she conjures up the supposed spirit of the deceased prophet Samuel, who predicts his death in battle.

"The story raises a theological question: "Why can a necromancer summon the spirit of a prophet? This in turn opens up the theodicy problem: how can an omnipotent God allow this or is he not really omnipotent?" says the Latin scholar. There are two interpretations in theology: Either it must be a deception on the part of the witch, or God allowed the incantation to warn Saul of certain death.

"The sermons play with these interpretations. "The first was preached during the Sunday service and ends with the theodicy question and the interpretations. It was not until the second sermon on the following Wednesday that the options were weighed up," says Tornau. The church audience was therefore given a certain amount of freedom to form their own thoughts on the biblical passage."
https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/einblick/single/news/two-new-sermons-augustine-discovered/#:~:text=The%20newly%20discovered,the%20biblical%20passage.

"President Trump on Saturday said the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool will likely have to be drained to make the necessary repairs after vandals took a knife and put a 250 foot long gash into the pool and poured corrosive chemicals in the water."

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/06/just-president-trump-says-lincoln-reflecting-pool-will/

Austrian president claimed that a time will come when ALL WOMEN should wear a hijab to fight "Islamophobia."

“With increasing Islamophobia, we might have to ask ALL women to wear a headscarf to show solidarity with those who do so for religious reasons.”

Happy Father's Day

I don’t have a lot of thoughts on the subject at the moment, to be honest, other than to say that there is no accomplishment or achievement that rivals the experience of fatherhood.

https://sigmagame.substack.com/p/happy-fathers-day

"The Patriarchate stated that the events in Silwan fall within a wider pattern of escalating assaults aimed at weakening the indigenous Christian presence in the Holy Land. It noted with deep concern the rising Israeli attacks against Christians and churches amid unacceptable international tolerance. In 2024, 111 Israeli attacks or acts of violence were recorded against Christian clergy, nuns, worshippers, and church communities, including 35 attacks targeting churches, monasteries, and religious symbols.

"In Gaza, the Patriarchate recalled the Israeli army’s strike on the compound of Saint Porphyrius Church on October 19, 2023, which killed 18 civilians, and the strike on Holy Family Church on July 17, 2025, which killed 3 civilians and injured Father Gabriel Romanelli."
https://orthodoxtimes.com/erusalem-patriarchate-silwan-land-grab-violates-jerusalems-historic-christian-presence/#:~:text=The%20Patriarchate%20stated,Father%20Gabriel%20Romanelli.

Extra bright but short chemiluminescence reaction!

Reagents used: 500 ml ethyl acetate (solvent), 250 mg rhodamine B (fluorescent dye), 15 g bis(2,4-dinitrophenyl)oxalate, 40 ml 30% hydrogen peroxide (oxidant).