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An Abelardo de la Espriella Presidency Threatens Colombia’s Climate Policies

He campaigned on expanding oil, gas, and mineral extraction, and said the country should do “all the fracking possible.”

The President Has No Authority to Impose Tolls on the Strait of Hormuz

Or anywhere else.

Trump news at a glance: president’s pool project plagued by peeling paint – and algae blooms

Trump’s claims that ‘vandals’ are to blame don’t hold water so far – key US politics stories from Monday 22 JuneDonald Trump is claiming – without providing evidence – that the sorry state of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool weeks after a $14m renovation is the work of “vandals”.On Monday, Trump was adamant it was not the pool company to blame for the algae blooms and peeling paint, instead pointing to five people arrested for vandalism and five more are under investigation. Continue reading...

President Trump Takes Questions from the White House Press Pool

Following an oval office signing event where President Trump signed two executive orders intended to speed up the implementation of Quantum Computing within the U.S. Government, President Trump took questions from the assembled press pool on current events. The Q&A begins at 16:24 of the video below (prompted):  . Posted in media bias, President Trump, […] The post President Trump Takes Questions from the White House Press Pool appeared first on The Last Refuge.

Iran's president heads to Pakistan as U.S.-Iran teams work on war-ending deal

President Masoud Pezeshkian's visit to Islamabad comes as technical teams were working on details of the deal, following high-level negotiations in Switzerland on Monday led by US Vice President JD Vance and Iran's parliamentary speaker, Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf.

Ex-UN delegate thrown in social media 'jail' for flagging Trump ally's Epstein ties: claim

Human rights diplomat Mohamad Safa, who’s currently working on an “upcoming human rights report” on the “Epstein files,” accused trillionaire and owner of the social media platform X Elon Musk Tuesday of “censoring” him on the platform and throwing him in “X jail.”Writing on X, Safa accused Musk, a fierce ally to President Donald Trump, of having “flagged” his account to reduce his posts’ engagement online. The alleged censorship began, he said, after Musk reposted one of Safa’s social media posts about files related to Jeffrey Epstein.“Elon joined my call for a global revolution over the Epstein files,” Safa wrote. “I responded to that with, ‘You’ll be included in my upcoming Human Rights report on Epstein files and complicity in Gaza genocide through Starlink and X.’ Elon flagged my account so that all my posts are sent directly to /dev/null.”Like a number of Trump allies, Musk was exposed in the millions of Epstein-related files first released by the Justice Department last year. In one email dated Nov. 25, 2012 – several years after Epstein had been convicted of soliciting sex from a minor – Musk asked the disgraced financier “what day/night will be the wildest party on your island?”In another email, Musk asked Epstein in 2013 on Christmas Day “when should we head to your island,” likely referencing Epstein’s private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands known as Little Saint James.“Not enough people are talking about the relationship between Elon Musk and Jeffrey Epstein!” Safa, a former permanent representative to the United Nations for a major human rights organization, wrote. “We do, but Elon is censoring this content and anyone who posts it. Can you please do whatever you want to let him see this tweet as I am in X jail. Or better yet, make this tweet one of the most liked tweets ever. Send him the message that he can't manipulate the public anymore.”Elon joined my call for a global revolution over the Epstein files.I responded to that with, “You’ll be included in my upcoming Human Rights report on Epstein files and complicity in Gaza genocide through Starlink and X.”Elon flagged my account so that all my posts are sent… pic.twitter.com/dOvjtCd2yL— Mohamad Safa (@mhdksafa) June 23, 2026

President Trump Just Ended The New York Times

Trump's 'pitifully impotent' presidency torn apart as PR disaster spirals

A conservative commentator argued that President Donald Trump and his MAGA movement, instead of seeming all-powerful, are instead appearing to the world as “impotent.”“The state of the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool is a sort of moron-populist version of Chernobyl,” wrote The Dispatch's Nick Catoggio on Monday, referencing the Soviet Union’s infamous mishandling of a nuclear power plant leak in Ukraine in 1986. “In both cases, the government’s incompetence and corruption created a vexing ecological problem. And in both cases, the government undertook to cover up its culpability in the matter.”After adding that the nuclear meltdown in 1986 was more consequential than the Reflecting Pool’s algae growth in 2026, Catoggio noted that the Reflecting Pool crisis occurred because the White House valued cronyism over competence.“Instead it awarded a no-bid contract for a quick fix to a firm owned by a Trump donor—except that the quick fix, applying sealant to the pool’s bottom, didn’t solve the issue of water leaking between the concrete slabs,” Catoggio wrote. “Days after the renovation was finished, the pool had more algae in it than at any point in June over the last five years.”Despite using hydrogen peroxide and “advanced nanobubbler technology” without killing the algae, Catoggio argued that Trump made himself look worse by blaming saboteurs without basis instead of his own ineptitude for the blue sealants cracking and being ripped off in chunks.“Former Fox News talking head turned U.S. attorney Jeanine Pirro dutifully vowed zero tolerance for pool-peelers,” Catoggio continued. “And she meant it: One man arrested by Park Police on Friday claims he did nothing more than touch a piece of floating debris before the cuffs were slapped on. At last check, armed members of the National Guard had been hastily deployed to stand watch over a basin that’s now almost as green as the Chicago River on St. Patrick’s Day.”Yet Catoggio concluded that the fundamental problem facing Trump is his own inability to get things done, whether in cleaning up the Reflecting Pool or winning the war he waged against Iran.“Between the war on algae and the war abroad, Trump has never looked more pitifully impotent than he does right now,” Catoggio wrote. “The perfect metaphor for his first year back in office came when, without warning, he demolished the East Wing to make way for his precious ballroom. That episode captured the political zeitgeist of 2025: Americans had elected a caudillo who cared not a bit about the country’s civic traditions and would bulldoze them—literally—to get what he wanted, whether the other branches liked it or not.”He added, “The reflecting-pool idiocy is the perfect metaphor for his presidency in 2026, coinciding as it does with our national humiliation in Iran. Postliberalism promises effective problem-solving through energetic authoritarianism, but as things stand, not only can’t the authoritarian in chief forcibly open the Strait of Hormuz, he can’t even successfully clean a public pool in D.C. The zeitgeist has flipped.”This is not Catoggio’s first harsh critique of Trump and his administration. Earlier this month he noted that Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, despite being ostensibly as right-wing as Trump, refused to kowtow to him — and that this further reflects his waning power.“After 10 years of degrading bootlicking obeisance by the president’s many courtiers, it was startling to see someone who needs a relationship with Trump assert her dignity against his insults,” Catoggio said regarding Meloni’s harsh reply to Trump’s insistence that she “begged” him to “take a picture with him.”When Meloni rebuked Trump by saying that neither she nor Italy begs for anything, Catoggio commented that “casually demeaning someone because he bears them a grudge is as instinctive to Donald Trump as applying bronzer or bloviating about ‘strength.’”He continued, “But those who need to stay on his good side — like, say, every Republican official in the country — are doomed to follow the Ted Cruz career arc between 2016 and 2021, broadly speaking. That is, if Trump insults your wife, you find a way to let it slide and salute when he asks you to help him stage a coup.”Meloni refused to play along, though.“And so the prudent, if pathetic, thing to do when an imperious postliberal goblin insulted you was to bite your tongue,” Catoggio wrote. “Not Meloni, though. She’s had enough.”