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Tuesday, 16 June 2026  ·  Afternoon Edition  ·  Vol. 1 No. 188
MJD 61207.75

LEAD — GOVERNMENT

H.R. 915, Small Business Technological Act of 2025
-- Congressional Budget Office

As reported by the House Committee on Small Business on June 3, 2026

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GOVERNMENT

▸ H.R. 826, COVID Fraud Transparency Act of 2026
-- Congressional Budget Office
As reported by the House Committee on Small Business on June 3, 2026

▸ The Status of the Highway Trust Fund in 2026
-- Congressional Budget Office

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INTERNATIONAL

▸ BHV: Frédéric Merlin se défausse et cède le magasin à ses proches collaborateurs
-- Mediapart
L’homme d’affaires a annoncé se séparer du fonds de commerce du grand magasin parisien, à la dérive depuis qu’il l’a repris fin...

▸ LGBTphobies: «On en a marre de compter nos morts et d’avoir peur»
-- Mediapart

▸ Aymeric Caron relaxé après avoir été accusé d’injure antisémite et raciste par Rachel Khan
-- Mediapart

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CULTURE & SPORT

▸ Iran Forced Out Of U.S. Immediately After Playing Best Match Of World Cup
-- Defector
For many players, just lacing up the boots and throwing on the national team jersey for a World Cup match marks the pinnacle of...

▸ The Circus Came To San Antonio
-- Defector

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WORLD

▸ Struggling Pizza Hut chain to be sold for $2.7bn
-- BBC News
The decision comes after a prolonged period of difficulty for the chain, which has faced increasing competition from a range of...

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IN BRIEF

• Presentation: Automating the Web With MCP: Infra That Doesn’t Break -- InfoQ
• Coinbase Postmortem Reveals How a Localized AWS Failure Triggered a Multi-Hour Trading... -- InfoQ
• AI Coding Agents Get a Stack Overflow of Their Own -- InfoQ
• PostgreSQL 19 Beta Introduces SQL Graph Queries and Concurrent Table Repacking -- InfoQ
• Java News Roundup: A2A Java SDK 1.0, Jakarta EE 12, JNoSQL, GraalVM, Micrometer,... -- InfoQ

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SECTIONS

Tech Talk: Expanding our U.S. digital wellbeing fund #tech
Politics Fightbox: My Friend Asked Me for a Professional Favor. Helping Her Would... #politics
Tinseltown Tour: Pluribus Season 2 Gets A Positive Update From Series Creator... #film
Science Showcase: NASA data reveals weird x-ray changes in the exploded ruins of... #science
Gaming Greatness: Xbox Game Pass lineup for late June 2026 announced #gaming
Fascination Station: Vuvuzela #culture
USA News Firehose: Family throws surprise birthday party at Eagles tailgate for... #USnew...

All the results of 2025's U.S. elections are in. @taniel of @bolts has crunched the numbers: The Democrats flipped 21 percent of GOP-held legislative seats while the GOP flipped zero; in special elections contested by both parties, the Democrats performed 13 percentage points better on average than they did in the 2024 presidential race.

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#USNew #USPolitics #Politics #Elections

#Femicide was literally #CharlieKirk 's brand. The murder of these two girls was #PoliticalViolence. This is what #Charlie promoted. What Charlie caused. #Patriarchy #Misogeny #MAGA #Republicans #GOP #Conservatives #RightWing #FarRight #USNew #USPoli #US #News #Poli #Politics

#CharlieKirk said their deaths were a good thing. Never forget that. #Kirk #Guns #GunViolence #Shootings #MassShootings #2A #GunRights #GunLaws #FarRight #MAGA #Pepublicans #Nazis #DeathCult #NRA #Trump #GOP #POTUS #USNew #USPoli #US #USA #News #Politics #America

#Poltics #USNew #News #Video

Aaron Parnas 9/4/25

https://open.substack.com/pub/aaronparnas/p/news-trump-will-flood-democratic?r=ymxmu&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=false