Althouse: A sharply clear waning crescent moon at 4:44 a.m./36 minutes later, sunrise.

June 12, 2026

A sharply clear waning crescent moon at 4:44 a.m./36 minutes later, sunrise.

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Lem Vibe Bandit said...: Most of what is on Social Media is people acting like they are 12 and a minority acting like they are older than 12.

YouTube: The “every one is 12” theory

The parents of the convicted high schooler, 12 years old both.; 6/12/26, 6:37 PM
Mason G said...: Gavin Newsom on X:

"The system is rigged."

I've seen the voting results in LA and I have to agree.; 6/12/26, 6:46 PM
Meade said...: Lem, that guy explains it to me like I’m a 12 year old-old 🤣; 6/12/26, 6:59 PM
Meade said...: 72 is the new 12.; 6/12/26, 7:01 PM
narciso said...: No 2

Circling back as will drake has noted

David koepp as well as spielberg has lost the plot; 6/12/26, 7:02 PM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/12/26, 7:02 PM
rehajm said...: I received the office draw for the footie. I drew Australia and New Zealand. I’m told no chance. If it was a Risk board I’d be getting extra armies right quick..; 6/12/26, 7:05 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: US and Iran have agreed to wording of a deal to end their war, Pakistan’s prime minister says ~ FOX News

@ FOX News: It seems you mistakenly reposted the article of two days ago. And four days ago. And the week before. And the six weeks prior..

I miss the days when the JCPOA prevented Iran from doing what Trump is spending hundreds of billions of dollars to stop them from doing after he killed the JCPOA.; 6/12/26, 7:08 PM
narciso said...: Denis villeneuve based on source material from doug chiang eeally waa an inventive take; 6/12/26, 7:09 PM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/12/26, 7:14 PM
Jaq said...: Trump’s own version of The 39 Steps.

I hope it’s true, because the man who put Americans first in American foreign policy is the man that I voted for. We are still in the fog though, and anything can happen, and probably will.; 6/12/26, 7:17 PM
Breezy said...: For some, it’s tough keeping up with foreign affairs, it seems.; 6/12/26, 7:19 PM
narciso said...: Minority report as i mentioned (probably a conventional unfilmable project) from the mind of pld; 6/12/26, 7:21 PM
narciso said...: https://x.com/MollyBeck/status/2065470753261166869; 6/12/26, 7:21 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Screenplay idea: Groundhog Day but for the Iran deal
(ht narciso); 6/12/26, 7:22 PM
narciso said...: Anyways kubrick then ridley scott seems to hsve lost the plot
(Eyes wide shut being based on late 19th century vienna; 6/12/26, 7:31 PM
Aggie said...: #1, how crisp every thing looks. Finally, a clear morning. Must have been before 05:00, with that light.; 6/12/26, 7:48 PM
narciso said...: The sunrise really looks beautiful; 6/12/26, 7:49 PM
narciso said...: This comment has been removed by the author.; 6/12/26, 7:49 PM
Caroline said...: 4:44 and there’s that much morning! A long day. I am having some long days. It’s travel season, so keeping toddlers back to back for our kids, their parents…I am some tired, but in a good way. I don’t know how I did it, have kids I mean. And they turned out wonderfully well. Good night, all, it’s 8:00, my new bedtime.; 6/12/26, 7:56 PM
Mr. T. said...: Rapist Maine Kampf SS Gruppenfuhrer Graham Platner is being supported by ::checks notes:: Hunter Biden.

The jokes write themselves. Seriously cannot make this stuff up...

KKKak/Richsockpuppet/paidActbluetrollaccount(TM)

Is there anyone in your democrat paymasters who isn't a crackhead/arsonist/murdere/rapist/child molester/terrorist/islamist cultist/fraudster/grifter/ nazi?; 6/12/26, 7:59 PM
narciso said...: Thats a rhetorical question

That must be hunter burning himself on a crack binge

Of course his brokerimg influence over nuclesr matetial kazakh
Rare earths congo and other places is the real scandal; 6/12/26, 8:03 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Trump's forty-fifth claim that the war is over meets with skepticism in some liberal circles. If Trump can get a deal made on his 47th claim he can still win the expectations game.; 6/12/26, 8:12 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Democrats are lining up behind Graham Platner. Less surprising when you remember they need four senate seats.; 6/12/26, 8:13 PM
Maynard said...: I wonder what Kaki is getting paid. Just like the Harris campaign, he gets paid despite delivering zero results.

Does anyone ever read he/she/its posts?; 6/12/26, 8:18 PM
narciso said...: Gill at the grill - Don Surber https://share.google/Wzf5bvC6bdeJkijCA; 6/12/26, 8:19 PM
narciso said...: He does seem to dredge the worst sludge like dana ward alias semanticleo a lecturer from pomona on indefinite sabbatical; 6/12/26, 8:22 PM
Mason G said...: "Does anyone ever read he/she/its posts?"

Not on purpose.; 6/12/26, 8:41 PM
Humperdink said...: USA over Paraguay at the half, 3 nil. Nil? What’s this nil stuff? (Sarc); 6/12/26, 8:58 PM
bagoh20 said...: I'm really tired of Trump trying so hard to have a peaceful resolution, when he could just destroy the country and kill lots of people instead. That sounds exactly like someone who would support a man who joined the military "to kill people" and "had an excellent time" doing it.
Leftist morality is a bottomless pit appropriate for a death cult.; 6/12/26, 9:04 PM
bagoh20 said...: "What’s this nil stuff?"

Metric system.; 6/12/26, 9:05 PM
Eva Marie said...: via CFP:
Jonathan Turley says California extended vote counting is coming to an end:
“A majority of the justices were prepared to say that when federal law says election day, they mean election day.”; 6/12/26, 9:05 PM
paminwi said...: And Althouse has a hard time figuring out why Platner is a pig.; 6/12/26, 9:09 PM
Eva Marie said...: If every branch of the military was a hard liquor:
https://x.com/RealTraderJill/status/2065575353741955338/video/1?s=46; 6/12/26, 9:11 PM
Eva Marie said...: Spencer Pratt on his plans
https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2065480031275544812/video/1?s=46; 6/12/26, 9:13 PM
bagoh20 said...: If Trump tries 147 times to get a peace deal and then bombs them, it will suddenly be the rash decision of a war monger.; 6/12/26, 9:16 PM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: The peace deal is for Trump what for us is the Horizon. Seems close but as you approach it moves further distance.; 6/12/26, 9:23 PM
Iman said...: How ironic! That tracks with your pursuit of an IQ of 100, TinyEE™️ @9:23pm.; 6/12/26, 10:38 PM
Peachy said...: X Eric Dougherty:
DNI TULSI GABBARD JUST INFURIATED THE DEEP STATE: She exposed 120+ TAX-FUNDED "biolabs" across 30 countries, SPECIFICALLY calls out Anthony Fauci and "gain of function research"

GABBARD: "It has been INTENTIONALLY covered up." 🤯

"Politicians and so-called health professionals like Dr. Fauci...lied repeatedly to the American people about the existence of US-funded and supported biolabs. Not only did they LIE, they threatened those who threatened to expose the truth."; 6/12/26, 10:43 PM
Peachy said...: Spencer Pratt is not finished. (love the inserted crying jimmy KKKimmel(D) - lolz); 6/12/26, 10:54 PM
Ampersand said...: Has anyone else been noticing the conjunction of Venus and Jupiter in the western sky in the early evening?; 6/12/26, 11:10 PM
wildswan said...: if Trump wasn't talking about how the deal was fixed and then how conditions have to be met and then it was fixed and then conditions have to be met and then he bombs them and then the deal is on and then conditions have to be met, etc - well, if Trump weren't doing that, isn't that exactly what Iran would be doing? I'm sure the government and the people of Iran want peace and the IRGC does not. So any negotiations are a matter of yes and no. He's simply negotiating the same way they do in their weird situation. The power is in the hands of a group that can't be trusted at all but the government and the people want peace.; 6/13/26, 12:49 AM
wendybar said...: Damani Felder
@TheDamaniFelder
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7h
A white teen was murdered, but the Left has poisoned so many black people with anti-white racism that some of them actually believe they're the victims here. Physical chains: Gone Mental chains: Firmly in place
https://x.com/TheDamaniFelder/status/2065400936948744567?s=20; 6/13/26, 3:10 AM
wendybar said...: It ain't over, until it's over.

Spencer Pratt
@spencerpratt
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Follow
Saving LA - Phase III

https://x.com/spencerpratt/status/2065480031275544812?s=20; 6/13/26, 3:16 AM
JZ said...: You gotta get up pretty early to get those pictures.; 6/13/26, 3:37 AM
wendybar said...: US Oil & Gas Association
@US_OGA
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6h
Hello Senator....

This November it will be 50 years since you were first elected to Congress, so we want to be the first to say .

"Happy 50th Anniversary of drawing a taxpayer funded salary."

That is quite an achievement.

In fact - you are 2nd longest-still serving member in Congress.

It has been a long time since you held a private sector job.

AND yes 50 years ago - in 1976 (it was America's Bicentennial that year) - people still punched clocks back then. The world has changed a lot.

During your 50 years in Congress - you watched as the creators and inventors and producers changed the world, creating trillions in new wealth, millions of new jobs and dramatically raising living standards for everyone rich and poor alike.

And for 50 years you have voted to raise taxes and regulate and oversee every move of the private sector.

You have never created or invented or produced. Just taxed and regulated and outraged.

But thank you for using the platform the "TRILLIONAIRE class" has provided to the entire world for free to tell us all how disgusted you are.

We would never know otherwise.
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Ed Markey
@EdMarkey
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17h
Elon Musk just became the world's first trillionaire. While working people struggle to get by, the billionaire class is becoming the TRILLIONAIRE class. It's disgusting. I'm fighting to tax the rich so we stop rewarding trading stocks over punching clocks.

https://x.com/US_OGA/status/2065636354940129345?s=20; 6/13/26, 4:35 AM
wendybar said...: Terrence K. Williams

@w_terrence
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4h
You know what I’ve been thinking about? There are far more racist people in this country than I ever realized.

I have been blown away watching people celebrate the death of a White teenage boy simply because the person who killed him was Black.

This teenager was not on drugs. He was not a troublemaker.

He had never committed a crime.

He played sports, made good grades, respected his parents, and was loved by so many people.

Yet some people have found joy in his death because they care more about race than right and wrong.

That is not justice. That is racism, hatred, and pure evil.

A teenage boy lost his life. Anyone celebrating that should be ashamed.

https://x.com/w_terrence/status/2065667256411967956?s=20; 6/13/26, 4:46 AM
wendybar said...: MAZE
@mazemoore
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10h
This clip of Charles Payne during Obama's second term is really incredible. Well done Charles.

In 2010 Obama put the federal government directly in charge of lending money to students. Eliminating private lending made the loans much easier to get, but they were not less expensive.

Before Obama took office, outstanding student debt was less than $100 billion. By 2015, outstanding student debt was approximately $800 billion and almost a third of the borrowers were in default. Of course the price of college continued to soar the entire time.

This is the best part. Payne predicted that someday the politicians would be promising to forgive student debt as a way to buy votes. He was spot on.

There are people like Ro Khanna on this site right now arguing that Elon Musk should be paying down the student debt when it's a problem that politicians created.

https://x.com/mazemoore/status/2065586223813701752?s=20; 6/13/26, 5:29 AM
Leland said...: Rand Simberg posted <a href="https://x.com/SamaHoole/status/2065390399498150051>this</a> over at his blog under the title “trust the experts”. It’s a twitter post that’s excellent.; 6/13/26, 7:51 AM
Rustygrommet said...: Does anyone ever read he/she/its posts?

Nope. Too much stupid.; 6/13/26, 7:58 AM
Aggie said...: I wonder if Trump is putting a stake in the sand each time the Iranians agree in principle to a peace deal, only to see them crawfish away from the table after announcing their agreement. I wonder if eventually people will come to a realization that the desire for a peace deal is sincere only from one side, while the other sees it as a way to buy time, hoping that their opponent will tire and lose resolve.

The Iranians might see this as exploiting a weakness to preserve their status quo, but on the other hand, bad faith is called into question each time it falls through. With enough repetitions, eventually Trump will have license to do pretty much anything.; 6/13/26, 8:12 AM
Indefinitely Extended Excursion™️ said...: Pakistan says US-Iran deal to be signed within 24 hours ~ Reuters

So, the deal is actually to extend the cease-fire. A cease-fire that hasn't actually seen a cessation of hostilities.

I'm wondering how Trump will manage to present this as the best deal of all time?; 6/13/26, 8:29 AM
Meade said...: Great links, wendybar. Much appreciated.; 6/13/26, 9:15 AM
Meade said...: “ I'm wondering how Trump will manage to present this as the best deal of all time?
6/13/26, 8:29 AM”

Wonder away wonderboy. Whenever this concludes, even you will finally, with a shrug, understand.

Thank you for service.; 6/13/26, 9:23 AM
Saint Croix said...: US soccer player Folarin Balogun became an American by accident when an airline refused to fly his mom back to the UK while she was pregnant. So he was born in the USA and scored twice in our first game at the World Cup.

USA! USA!; 6/13/26, 10:51 AM
Saint Croix said...: I only bet $2 on my own country. Oof. Cheap bastard. $116 if I win.

I found some coins in the sofa cushions and bet $3 on Scotland. $1,400 if I am right.

Also, I dumped Belgium and added South Korea. I got a sweet 16. I'd like to dump Ecuador if I could, but nobody wants to buy Ecuador.; 6/13/26, 11:07 AM
Bruce Hayden said...: “ I'm wondering how Trump will manage to present this as the best deal of all time?“

We know that you really aren’t worrying about this. You just want to sow doubts about Trump and his Administration. Once or twice might work, but nigh after night, post after post, of the same nonsense gets pretty boring.; 6/14/26, 5:10 AM

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