Dem Establishment hell bent to learn nothing from Mamdani and NY Primaries; Trump Admin’s dirty propaganda comparing immigrants to alien creatures; Join Team Algae in the Reflecting Pool drama; Hegseth can’t even lift; Alyssa makes a mixtape

Note: the memo labeling many people “terrorists” is NSPM-7, not NPSM-7

• Four years after the fall of Roe

The Reflecting Pool

• Some background on the Reflecting Pool renovation
• Arghavan’s first and second carousel about the Reflecting Pool saga

Lessons From NY Primary

• Mamdani’s candidates win
• Jaime Harrison’s tweet about Democratic politics
• New York AG’s comments about Mamdani

Dehumanization via Government Propaganda

• "Dept of War" UAP website: https://www.war.gov/UFO/
• Racist, xenophobic Aliens.gov site
• SCOTUS’s decision on Temporary Protected Status for Haitians and Syrians
• Hegseth works out with the military
• Longer video of Hegeth’s workout shows he does almost everything half-heartedly. What a warrior!
• Summary of Prairieland case
• Prairieland sentences

💊Take Two and Call Me in the Morning💊

• Pentagon reinstates flu vaccine mandate
• Reactions to JD Vance patting Usha’s knee
• Alan Opts Out Mixtape
• June 26 - Come see Alyssa and Courtney Maum at Book Passage in Corte Madera

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• Production by Arghavan Salles & Alyssa Burgart
• Editing by Alyssa Burgart
• Music by Joseph Uphoff
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