The majority of VOA - some 85% of the workforce - has been laid off since Trump ordered it dismantled.

The US president warns Iran of future attacks if they retaliate.

Before signing Senate Bill 17 into law, the governor signaled support for it on security grounds. Opponents warn the bill encourages widespread anti-Asian discrimination.

The attack marks a major escalation in the burgeoning war between Iran and Israel and came despite years of promises by President Trump to keep the U.S. from entering another Middle East conflict.

The measure is expected to draw a legal challenge. A similar law in Louisiana was blocked when a federal appeals court ruled Friday that it was unconstitutional.

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MATA_BOT_COP examines his rifle. The clerk shouts: "Let em through, MB!"

MATA_BOT_COP glances at girl: "Kids these days..." He opens the massive metallic doors into Metacity.

Puffy: "Stay close."

Girl stares with her mouth open.

It's a towering city full of advertisements and millions of apartments, cars and antennas.

Welcome to Metacity, child...

Do not fall.

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The Oak Cliff Film Festival, a regional event in Dallas’ Oak Cliff neighborhood, has announced details of its 14th edition, which will take place June 26-29, 2025.

The four-day event presents 26 feature-length films, including 19 movies screening for the first time in Texas and two films having their world premiere. Additionally, over 60 short films will be shown in genre-based and thematic blocks. Screenings will be held at the historic Texas Theatre, Bishop Arts Theatre Center, the Kessler Theater, and other nearby venues. 

This year’s festival opens with the Texas premiere of Ernie Bustamante’s Street Smart: Lessons From A TV Icon. The documentary shares the story of Sonia Manzano, who played Maria on Sesame Street from 1971 to 2015 and was one of the first Latina characters on national television. Opening night also features musician and filmmaker Albert Birney’s new sci-fi film OBEX, which chronicles the surreal journey of a boy searching for his lost dog.

Additional highlights include Memory Hole: ANIMALS ARE OVER! by the Los Angeles-based artist collective Everything Is Terrible!; the Texas premiere of Matthew Perniciaro’s Long Live the State, which highlights the career and impact of the 1990s MTV sketch-comedy troupe The State; and a never-before-seen director’s cut of Todd Stephens’ Gypsy 83, a 2001 queer, coming-of-age cult-comedy. 

Tickets for individual screenings are available online or at the door for $14 each. VIP Badges provide access to the full schedule of events for $225. 

Learn more about the Oak Cliff Film Festival via the organization’s website and see the full program here. 

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Ohio Congressman Max Miller alleges a man threatened him in an antisemitic attack earlier this week. The suspect has pleaded not guilty.

Islamabad says Trump helped end recent fighting with India, but New Delhi denies he played any role.

Baytown, TX – A very recognizable and well known ExxonMobil building, labeled as the “White House”, is scheduled for implosion this Saturday June 21, 2025 at 8 A.M. The 10-story office, which once operated key components for this large company, will be demolished as part of a larger reconstruction project for the area.

ExxonMobil officials have reportedly stated that there will be no public viewing and all residents in the area a recommended to avoid the demolition site for safety. While this can be a dangerous process, engineers and safety crew have been assuring the safety of the area for the past few weeks while meeting all safety protocols. The demolition will be managed by a specialized large-scale industrial contractor.

Although this building was once one of the most important ExxonMobil offices, it has remained vacant for many years. Employees, supervisors, and project had been relocated while the well known building has stood on Decker Drive, empty. And for many Baytown natives, the demolition of the “White House” is more significant than most would see it.

A former employee who worked with the company for over two decades called the planned implosion “bittersweet. It was more than just concrete and steel — it was where a lot of people spent most of their careers”.

The company has not released details on the plans for after the demolition, however it seems to look like an encouragement to continue the ExxonMobil presence in Baytown, as this office was one of the largest petrochemical facilities in the country.

The actual implosion is reported to only last a couple of seconds, but its overall deeper meaning will make a larger impact on the community as a whole. Think of this as making space for future endeavors while remembering the importance of the past and all of the accomplishments that came with it!

An 80-year-old man has told police he was wrong to drive down Rome’s famed Spanish Steps after firefighters had to recover his vehicle from the landmark in the early morning hours. What do you think?

The post Elderly Man Gets Stuck After Driving Down Rome’s Spanish Steps appeared first on The Onion.

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The outer walls of Metacity.

Protect all the wonders of proprietary debauchery.

The most secure place on what remains of Earth.

Or so they would want you to think.

Girl and Puffy walk past a refugee camp outside the walls.

Puffy: "Refugees. Most never make it inside."

Girl: "But how do we get inside, master?"

Puffy: "We have the golden ticket."

Puffy is holding a MATACORP AI SCRAPING PERMIT.

Puffy and Girl stop by a security checkpoint. Puffy talks to the clerk. Girl stands by, looking at a MATA_BOT_COP.

Girl: "Did you know that the current sgx rayrifle firmware has an unpatched vulnerability that allows the attacker to remotely discharge it?"

The clerk lets them through.

Puffy: "Ready?"

Girl: "Ready."

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WASHINGTON—Stressing that the facade informs nearly every aspect of his daily life, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) told reporters Thursday that his Christian faith is an important part of who he pretends to be. “Whether I’m delivering a speech calling for theocracy in front of dozens of cameras or talking to my children at the kitchen table about God’s separate roles for men and women, I mean it when I say the mask I wear in public is the same one I wear at home,” said the 45-year-old lawmaker, who confirmed that Christianity has been the foundation of his public-facing identity ever since he was a shameless young prep school student with his sights set on Yale Law School. “The power of telling people you pray is incredible. My Christian faith is a pretense that’s only grown stronger as I’ve aged. It’s so strong that, sometimes, I almost forget it’s all an act.” At press time, Hawley added that he is grateful to represent all of his Christian constituents through the faith he uses as a guise to seek power. 

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WASHINGTON—After weeks of eliminating what many lawmakers called “frivolous” and “unnecessary” provisions, Congress reportedly passed a blank bill Thursday in which President Donald Trump can simply write whatever law he wants.  “Today we are sending to the president’s desk 200 completely clean sheets of paper that are hereby codified such that anything he chooses to fill those pages with will have the full force of law,” House Speaker Mike Johnson said as he ushered the bill through his chamber, overcoming minor pushback to ultimately win bipartisan support for the measure, which gives Trump the power to enact federal statutes, declare war, or spend the entirety of the U.S. Treasury without a single check or balance. “With this bill, the president will finally be able to take any thought that crosses his mind, write it down, and have it instantly become an enforceable part of the U.S. Code,” Johnson added. “Americans have spoken, and they want Donald Trump to have carte blanche to do whatever he wants. It’s our job as members of Congress to simply get out of the way.” Just hours after the bill’s passage, President Trump took to Truth Social and sharply criticized Congress for making him write down anything at all. 

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Timothée Chalamet and Kylie Jenner, one of Hollywood’s most talked-about couples, have been together for over two years. The Onion presents a timeline of the stars’ relationship.

January 2023: Timothée passes a note to Kylie’s publicist.

April 2023: The couple becomes NDA official.

August 2023: Kylie agrees to date Bob Dylan for a month and come back with notes.

November 2023: Timothée and Kylie face their first big test when she calls him over to help catch a bat loose in her attic.

March 2024: Kris Jenner files for full custody of Timothée Chalamet.

September 2024: Kylie and Timothée officially go public on the New York Stock Exchange. 

May 2025: The couple steps out for a Knicks game, where Kylie goes 24/6/4 shooting 65%.

June 2025: The couple is spotted shopping for surrogates at a boutique on Rodeo Drive.

September 2026: Travis Scott realizes that Kylie Jenner broke up with him.

The post Timeline Of Timothée Chalamet And Kylie Jenner’s Relationship appeared first on The Onion.

According to members of the team, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders received a 400% raise last season, with specific rates having not been released. What do you think?

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Hiring a plumber without vetting them across multiple Facebook community forums

Starting a movie after 9 p.m.

Texting without your glasses

Eating a Costco hot dog

Celebrating the one-year anniversary of ignoring your car’s “check engine” light

Sitting under the ceiling fan you installed after taking two gummies

Vacationing without your CPAP machine

Parking in a space reserved for shoppers with toddlers

Not holding the handrail while riding an escalator

Driving after dusk

Refusing to complete your podiatrist’s online intake form

Pretending you haven’t heard that scratching sound coming from your attic

Fixing a bowl of cereal without sniffing the milk first

Believing you can seamlessly transition from an Android to an iPhone

Buying standing-room-only tickets to see a ska band you loved back when you thought sciatica was just a small town in upstate New York

Having two drinks after 9 p.m.

Taking cold medicine that expired during the first Obama administration

Walking your dog on uneven sidewalks

Talking about “retirement” like it’s a real possibility

Blaming self-checkout for your hypertension and your chronic shoplifting

Answering “Unknown Caller”

Sleeping with your AirPods in to drown out your partner’s wild-boar-like snoring

Hopping on your Peloton with a belly full of Smashburger

Doing anything after 9 p.m.

In brief: We explain what’s behind the quiet Atlantic start this season. We also look at how wet bulb globe temperatures can more adequately qualify the severity of the heat next week in the Eastern U.S.

The calm Atlantic continues

This morning at our Houston-focused site, Space City Weather, I explained to our local audience sort of why things have been quiet in the Atlantic. I am reposting that here today, as we have no further items to discuss at this point in time tropics-wise.

Today is June 20th, and to this point I don’t think we’ve said a word at Space City Weather about hurricanes or tropical storms. It’s a refreshing change of pace after recent seasons. In fact, the last year that we did not have a storm in the Atlantic before July 1st was back in 2014. It’s been a while.

Meanwhile, the Pacific has been churning out storms apace this season, with five so far. Of course, only one of them (Erick, which just made landfall yesterday) was a big storm. Still, the conditions to this point this hurricane season have strongly favored the Pacific. You can thank dust and wind shear in the Atlantic for one, but those things aren’t abnormal, even in recent Junes. So there has to be more at play here.

We often talk about the “background state” of the atmosphere. You have individual tropical waves and systems and such through the year, but the background state is important. Are the overarching global weather conditions favorable for development or unfavorable? So far this June, we’ve had the majority of rising air, or a “favorable” background state for tropical development sitting over Central America. Rising air is what helps thunderstorms to develop. Since tropical weather generally moves east to west across the planet, this has meant that most seedlings for development are being planted in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Sinking air sits over Africa and extends all the way across to the Caribbean islands. Sinking air tends to suppress cloud development and dry the air out a bit. By the time any waves can really get going, they more than likely end up over land or kicked into the Pacific.

Over the next couple weeks, this pattern is unlikely to change a whole heck of a lot, but we may start to see slightly more favorable conditions emerge over Africa or the far eastern Atlantic by early July. That said, there are no guarantees that actually means anything. Realistically, the next 7 to 10 days look calm and the 10-to-14-day period has no signs of meaningful change yet.

We do still expect an average to above average hurricane season; June’s activity has no real correlation to the rest of the season, so you can’t decipher any relationships. But when you can get a hassle-free month in hurricane season, you take it without complaints.

Bottom line: You still have time to prepare for hurricane season.

Qualifying a major heat wave

No, it’s not “just summer.” The upcoming heat wave in the Eastern U.S. is expected to break a number of records.

In Houston, we’ve adapted our readers to looking at heat in a more nuanced way. Heat and humidity are common issues here in Texas. We deal with low to mid 90s almost daily from June through early September, with a face-full of humidity and hotter temps periodically peppered in. It’s not pleasant. So things like “heat index,” which is commonly referred to as real-feel or apparent temperature doesn’t always help us to explain heat. Some days can have a 105 degree or 110 degree heat index, but what does it actually mean?

That’s why we often utilize the wet bulb globe temperature (WBGT) for expressing heat risks here in Texas. Our forecast is pretty normal right now, without any real significant heat on the horizon. So when you look at our WBGT, you’ll see it sits in the moderate to high range for the next week. High heat is normal in Southeast Texas. But we do not rise to the level of extreme with this forecast.

What is WBGT? It factors in more than heat index (which is just temperature and humidity). A heat index of 105 in Houston means something much different than a heat index of 105 in New York City. So we need more variables. WBGT factors in latitude, sun angle (time of year), wind, cloud cover, temperature, and humidity. It’s a lot more “stuff” than just heat index, so it becomes more valuable. It also helps that it’s a medically accepted guideline for qualifying heat as extreme or high.

So what of the upcoming heat in the Eastern U.S.? Well, let’s let the WBGT guide us. Let’s start in New York City, which is of course the center of the universe. The upcoming heat rises to “extreme” levels by a fair margin.

This is a hazardous heat for the City. Even at night, we still retain moderate heat values which can cause problems of its own.

Let’s look at Richmond, Virginia. There, where higher heat is a little more common, the WBGT levels are forecast to just barely get to extreme levels.

Since the region of the country is what sets the scale, extreme heat starts with a WBGT of 84 in New York but 90 in Richmond. Let’s move to Chicago, where they’ll likely see borderline extreme heat too.

While the focus is on the East, let’s not forget the Upper Midwest. A short-lived but powerful dose of heat is going to set in this weekend, with Minneapolis likely experiencing two days of extreme heat before temperature fall off a cliff.

In some places, the heat is going to sit around deep into next week, and it’s possible that some forecasts will need to be adjusted hotter over time. The ridge of high pressure responsible for this heat wave should begin to break down next weekend.

So what is the point of this? Extreme heat is not “just summer,” and when you utilize metrics like WBGT, the data becomes very clear. Also critical is the duration of the heat and how warm it stays overnight. In New York, for example, nighttime lows may struggle to drop below 80 degrees. That is exceptionally warm there. Going back to the 1860s, Central Park has only recorded 69 nights that failed to drop below 80 degrees. Over a third of those have occurred in just the last 30 years, due in part to climate change and warming oceans. It’s been a minute since nighttime temperatures that warm have occurred in New York, with the last 80 degree night recorded in July 2020. The longer those warm nights occur, the more compounding impact the daytime heat has, and the more hazardous it becomes, particularly for elderly people and those with poor air conditioning.

Anyway, bottom line, be smart about the heat in the East next week. Practice heat safety and drink plenty of water.

Food banks have less to give this summer since the federal government cut millions in USDA funding.

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Ah, but in real life, Johnny is last chair with the preschool band.

In brief: Mostly minimal shower and storm coverage this weekend in Houston will increase by a good bit next week. Additionally, we take a look at why this hurricane season has started quieter than most recent ones.

Hurricane season so far

The forecast is pretty straightforward today, and we’ll get into that below. First, today is June 20th, and to this point I don’t think we’ve said a word at Space City Weather about hurricanes or tropical storms. It’s a refreshing change of pace after recent seasons. In fact, the last year that we did not have a storm in the Atlantic before July 1st was back in 2014. It’s been a while.

Meanwhile, the Pacific has been churning out storms apace this season, with five so far. Of course, only one of them (Erick, which just made landfall yesterday) was a big storm. Still, the conditions to this point this hurricane season have strongly favored the Pacific. You can thank dust and wind shear in the Atlantic for one, but those things aren’t abnormal, even in recent Junes. So there has to be more at play here.

We often talk about the “background state” of the atmosphere. You have individual tropical waves and systems and such through the year, but the background state is important. Are the overarching global weather conditions favorable for development or unfavorable? So far this June, we’ve had the majority of rising air, or a “favorable” background state for tropical development sitting over Central America. Rising air is what helps thunderstorms to develop. Since tropical weather generally moves east to west across the planet, this has meant that most seedlings for development are being planted in the eastern Pacific Ocean. Sinking air sits over Africa and extends all the way across to the Caribbean islands. Sinking air tends to suppress cloud development and dry the air out a bit. By the time any waves can really get going, they more than likely end up over land or kicked into the Pacific.

Over the next couple weeks, this pattern is unlikely to change a whole heck of a lot, but we may start to see slightly more favorable conditions emerge over Africa or the far eastern Atlantic by early July. That said, there are no guarantees that actually means anything. Realistically, the next 7 to 10 days look calm and the 10-to-14-day period has no signs of meaningful change yet.

We do still expect an average to above average hurricane season; June’s activity has no real correlation to the rest of the season, so you can’t decipher any relationships. But when you can get a hassle-free month in hurricane season, you take it without complaints.

Bottom line: You still have time to prepare for hurricane season.

Today

We had a slightly higher coverage of showers yesterday than we did Wednesday, and today should be fairly similar. Most of us will stay dry, but some areas could see up to an inch of rain or so in a cooling downpour. We hit 95 yesterday officially, and we should make a run for that again today.

Weekend

The coverage of showers may actually decrease some this weekend. Both Saturday and Sunday carry something like a 15 to 20 percent chance of a shower. Doesn’t mean it won’t rain, but it does mean the odds aren’t high! Sunday probably carries a slight edge over Saturday in terms of higher shower coverage. Temperatures will be steady with low to mid 90s for highs and mid to upper 70s for lows away from the coast, with low 80s at the coast.

Next week

While this week was pretty quiet after Monday, next week should be a bit busier each day. We’ll probably carry 30 to 40 percent or even higher rain chances each afternoon, with pop up thunderstorms.

The culprit will actually be the high pressure system responsible for record heat that I’m sure you’ll hear about in the news across the Eastern U.S. As that anchors over the Appalachians, it will actually open the door to added Gulf moisture in Texas. Precipitable water (or how much moisture is available in the atmosphere) increases about 25 percent or more next week compared to today. That should help boost thunderstorm coverage each day.

The increased coverage of storms probably means we see more low-90s for highs and 70s for lows areawide next week.

Hello

It’s been a little while since I last updated the blog. In fact, I think it’s been a lot of a while since I spoke to the community at all! Sorry about that.

Since my last update on what we’re going with ErrantScience things have been very, very busy. In the interest of keeping this update short and punchy, here are the highlights of what I’ve been up to: drew lots of cartoon commissions, helped write some books, illustrated some books, started a company, edited a magazine, gave lots of training and switched coffee blend.

Sadly, in all that, I dropped the ball both on the ErrantScience blog and then more recently on producing regular ErrantScience cartoons.

Both of which I very much enjoy doing, and both of which I miss having the time for. So I’ve decided to stop missing having the time for them and start making the time for them. Which sounds totally simple and easy when I put it like that and not at all a lot of work… gulp.

The blog

First off, from now, we’re going back to a regular ErrantScience blog schedule, as a trial. ErrantScience hasn’t had blog content for quite a while, and I’m not sure how it’ll do and if it’s even something people want. So we’re going to tun the trial for 6 months, check the stats and then review it. Which means if you like it please tell us, comment on it or share it! Writing blog article for the void is a lot less satisfying that writing then for people that are actually enjoying them

The blog is going to be kept up-to-date by our amazing new volunteer, Anna. I’ve managed to write enough blog posts for a few months ahead of time, and Anna is going to be responsible for removing all the typos and getting them out to everyone on time.

Cartoons!

We’re also going back to daily cartoon posting on social media. It will take some time to build up the drawing schedule with new content, so bare with me as I get back to regular cartooning. I’ve got a bunch of outstanding suggestions from our followers (I do take suggestions) and I have a very large set of notes and sketches ready to start working through. But to start with, it will be a lot of archival content.

Archives!!

Speaking of archives… we have a proper cartoon archive now. It is still being built, and we’ll write a more detailed post highlighting it, but if you’ve read this far you can go have a browse before everyone else finds it.

The archive is a permanent repository of all the ~2000+ cartoons I’ve drawn over the years, with proper licensing and DOI links so you can use them in your presentations and papers! As of this blog article, we are at around 25% of the way through uploading cartoons. The metadata is quite time-consuming to prepare, but we want them uploaded and archived properly.

The archive site was set up by the wonderful people at Figshare who gave us this home about 4 years ago. It was very nice of them to give us this repo and I’m very grateful… even if it’s taken a while to use it properly!

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So that’s it.

I’ve been very busy, but I’m back now, I’m working hard on getting regular content out, I’ve got some great help, and most importantly my coffee is far more delicious than ever.

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LOS ANGELES—Confirming that doctors had performed the procedure successfully, sources reported Friday that Sabrina Carpenter had undergone a state-mandated lobotomy to cure her medically diagnosed nymphomania. According to eyewitnesses, the 26-year-old artist arrived at a state mental hospital early this morning strapped to a gurney so that she could not act on her depraved sexual thoughts. Several reports indicated that Carpenter muttered “Hor…hor…horny” as an anesthesiologist secured a breathing mask over her head and a neurosurgeon brandishing an ice-pick-like instrument prepared to insert the tool into her frontal lobe in compliance with a court order issued by a California judge. At press time, a doctor was reportedly standing by the singer’s bedside asking if she still felt like man’s best friend.

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Tina Webb, 25, died Saturday night, becoming the fifth assistant that Xander the Magnificent has burned through in as many weeks.

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