DL Open Thread: Tuesday, June 2, 2026
For three months, President Trump has been deeply engaged in the Iran conflict, planning the 38 days of attack, struggling to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and proclaiming “a whole civilization will die tonight,” then backing away to declare a cease-fire and a naval blockage of Iranian ports.
But on Monday, after days of haggling with Iranian officials through intermediaries on a preliminary agreement, Mr. Trump declared it was starting “to get very boring.”
“I don’t care if they’re over, honestly,” he told Eamon Javers of CNBC when asked about reports that the Iranians, angry at continued Israeli strikes in Lebanon and low-level conflict with the United States in the Persian Gulf, were threatening to stop negotiating. “I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less. If they’re over, they’re over.”
But even for Mr. Trump, who has veered from threatening the Iranians with annihilation to declaring that they had already agreed to American terms to fuming that they have not, it seemed strange that he thought the whole conflict was becoming a bore.
Back in March, Mr. Trump confidently predicted the conflict would be over in a few weeks, saying it was not possible to suffer from boredom while facing off against a longtime American adversary: “Somebody said today, they said, ‘oh, well, the president wants to do it really quickly. After that, he’ll get bored.’”
“There’s nothing boring about this,” he added.
It isn’t, until it is. I’m sure the families of troops in harm’s way share his boredom.
“You Murdered 60 Minutes”. Good for Scott Pelley:
“60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley accused CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss of “murdering” the venerable newsmagazine at a staff meeting Monday with Nick Bilton, the technology journalist tapped to oversee the show, according to an audio recording and a source who was in the room.
Bilton, a documentary filmmaker and former tech columnist at The New York Times, told “60 Minutes” staff members that Weiss “loves this institution,” the source said. (That, my friends, is a demonstrable lie.) Pelley interrupted Bilton and pushed back.
“She is murdering ‘60 Minutes.’ She does not love this place,” Pelley told Bilton, according to the audio recording. “She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that.”
The meeting was intended to be Bilton’s introduction to the “60 Minutes” team. In another tense exchange, the source said, Pelley said Weiss has “no qualifications for her job” and told Bilton he has “slender qualifications” for his new role as executive producer of “60 Minutes,” the leading newsmagazine on television.
86 47 Is Free Speech. Can we stop the vengeful prosecution of James Comey now?:
Plaintiff, an unincorporated association that maintains a 24/7 demonstration calling for the impeachment and removal of President Donald Trump on National Park Service (“NPS”)
land, moves for an emergency order temporarily restraining the Superintendent of the National Mall and Memorial Parks Kevin Griess and the Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum or their delegees “from taking enforcement action against them because of their display of a flag with the legend ‘8647.’” Dkt. 10 at 1. For the reasons that follow, the Court will grant Plaintiff’s motion.The question whether “8647” constitutes a true threat cannot be resolved in the abstract, without consideration of context, and, here, the relevant context makes clear that no reasonable observer could have viewed Plaintiff’s display of the flag as a threat to the President’s life or physical safety. To start, the flag itself contains no symbols of violence; it is red, white, and blue, and is simply adorned with white stars. It contains no knives, skulls, nooses, or other threatening symbols. Even more to the point, the flag was displayed outside the courthouse, as. part of an ongoing demonstration seeking President Trump’s impeachment and removal from office.
Nor is there any evidence that Plaintiff or the volunteers who staffed the demonstration engaged in any threatening speech or conduct. To the contrary, when approach by the Secret Service on May 12, the volunteer was cooperative and friendly.
There’s more, but it’s clear that this was simply more fascism aimed at silencing free speech.
32 Minutes Of Jon Ossoff. He’s my current choice for President in 2028:
But only if Georgia elects a Democratic Governor. That way, she can name his successor.
Only Aryan Males Need Apply–When Hegseth’s The Boss:
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reportedly blocked the promotions of at least seven officers, including two female and two Black officers, to the Navy’s one-star admirals list, according to multiple reports.
Women account for 21% of active-duty Navy, and people of color account for 38%. However, of the 22 nominees up for promotion, just two non-white officers made the list, and none were women, The New York Times reported on Monday.
Although senior Navy admirals make the promotion recommendations, Hegseth has repeatedly blocked some of them for what seems to be political motivations. In a similar move in March, Hegseth blocked two Black army officers and two women army officers from being promoted to one-star generals. The promotion list of about three dozen people ended up being largely white men.
Hegseth has long railed against diversity, equity and inclusion in society and has openly stated that he believes women should not be allowed to serve in combat roles (though he has recently softened his tune on the latter). Also, he has called for following a “warrior ethos” instead of what he described as “woke garbage” in the military.
Hegseth’s words and actions show a pattern of him intentionally ruling out the promotions of minority and female officers who may not align with his far-right ideals, while also seeking to install his close allies, who may prove more likely to be loyal and subservient.
O-O-Oklahoma Where The Oil Comes Flowing Through Your Pipes:
Kara Meredith can tell you the exact day her life turned upside down: Aug. 23, 2025.
She was at her home in Fort Gibson, Oklahoma, caring for her 5-week-old son, when one of her daughters ran to tell her there was water all over the bathroom floor. Her husband, Mitch Meredith, wasn’t worried — until he saw the dark liquid bubbling up around the base of the bathtub. Mitch and his relatives worked all night trying to contain it. It was near dawn when his uncle said, “This is oil.”
The United States is the largest oil and gas producer in the world. All of that drilling produces hundreds of billions of gallons of toxic wastewater each year. For decades, energy companies have disposed of that briny fluid by shooting it back underground using high-pressure injection wells. But across Oklahoma, the fluid is spreading uncontrollably belowground, blasting out of old, unplugged wells, polluting land and contaminating drinking water.
In a new documentary from The Frontier and ProPublica, reporter Nick Bowlin investigates a scourge of oil field wastewater seeping into the lives of Oklahomans, about half of whom live within a mile of an oil and gas operation.
I know what Trump means when he talks of ‘hell-hole’ countries. To me, it sounds a lot like Oklahoma.
What do you want to talk about?
BREAKING: Delaware to partner with Jefferson to open Delaware’s first medical school. To be located at the U of D:
https://www.inquirer.com/health/jefferson-sidney-kimmel-medical-college-delaware-20260602.html
Anybody have thoughts on this?