TFP - June 30, 2025
Border crossings, password leaks, and court rulings.
Taking a midsummer break - no TFP next week! Enjoy the 4th. :)
❗️3 THINGS THIS WEEK
Southern border crossings are down 93% from 1 year ago.
16 billion passwords were leaked due to security breaches for Apple, Google, and Meta.
Lots of court rulings: AI can learn from published works, states can require ID to view porn, federal judges can’t freeze presidential policy, Medicaid doesn’t need to cover Planned Parenthood, and criminal migrants may be deported anywhere.
🌎 WORLDWIDE
✌️ Israel & Iran entered into a ceasefire and both violated it within 24 hours, but it seems to be holding.
It led to Trump’s irritated “they don’t know what the f** they’re doing!” quote that got meme-ified this week.
🇺🇦 Ukraine is likely to receive additional air defense following Trump’s meeting with Zelenskyy.
🇮🇷 Iran says they will no longer cooperating with the International Atomic Energy Agency following our airstrikes, preventing further assessment of the amount of damage done.
🇺🇸 USA
🗽Dem Socialist candidate Zohran Mamdami won the NYC democratic nomination for mayor, making him very likely to be NYC’s next mayor.
Between his dem socialist beliefs, being an immigrated citizen, and being Muslim, he has been taking blows from several sides.
☢️ New York is building a new nuclear power plant - the first new one in the United States since 2010.
📉 Southern border crossings are down 93% from 1 year ago.
❄️ MINNESOTA
🛥️ Beginning tomorrow, boaters must be 21 & pass a “Driver’s Test” to drive a boat with over 75 horsepower boats unsupervised.
🌲 You soon may be able to purchase state park passes when you renew your vehicle registration.
🔫 An 11 year old boy was shot & killed in North Minneapolis; no arrest has been made.
🏛️ WHITE HOUSE
🔄 After we bombed Iran, Trump posted about “Making Iran Great Again” & doing a regime change, similar to the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
This post came less than 24 hours after several in his admin, including VP Vance, specifically said the opposite.
💣 Trump was frustrated after the Pentagon released a report saying the bombings on Iran only set their nuclear program back a few months. EU released similar findings.
He subsequently announced intent to limit sharing of classified info with Congress as “war on leakers”; shortly thereafter, the CIA released a statement agreeing with Trump.
📜 LEGISLATION
🧠 As Republicans launch 4 probes into Biden’s mental acuity during his presidency, they will include his physician & 9 former senior aides.
The aides will not be protected by executive privilege.
🌱 Gov. Abbott (R-TX) vetoed a pending state law that would have banned THC.
🧾 Trump’s “big, beautiful (budget) bill” got extra cuts due to Senate budget rules (aka the Byrd rule).
Byrd rule says that budget bills may only contain budgetary provisions… but enforcement seems to be subjective.
It ultimately got the votes to move forward s
⚖️ JUDICIAL
🤑 Federal judge: Trump admin must restore NIH funding.
🌉 Federal judge: DOT may not tie federal funding for roads/bridges to whether a city enforces immigration law.
🤖 Federal judge: AI may train LLMs on published books without attaining author permission.
👩🏻⚖️ Lots of SCOTUS decisions, saying:
Yes, Texas (& 20 other states) may require an ID to view online porn.
No, Trump’s “birthright citizenship elimination” may not be stopped prior to a future court date.
No, a federal judge may not implement “universal” injunctions (freezing of a presidential policy).
No, South Carolina is not required to include Planned Parenthood in its list of covered Medicaid providers.
Yes, American victims of terrorist attacks in Israel may sue pro-Palestine groups in America.
Yes, criminally convicted migrants may be deported to countries other than from where they originated.
👮🏻♂️ CRIME
🛻 A gunman opened fire on a Detroit church, but beyond the shooter, there were no deaths & only one injury
One church staff member promptly shot the gunman and another ran him over with his truck.
💔 A Kansan was sentenced to 30 years in prison for child sexual abuse material, including sodomization of their own infant son.
Despite the severity of the case, it will be in minimum security prison, due to requested access to trans acceptance programs.
🪦 A woman was charged with the death of a US Border Patrol agent in January in Vermont, while traveling with another individual suspected of having just killed a Californian man.
They are believed to be a part of a Zizian cult group.
🧫 HEALTH & SCIENCE
☀️ Melanoma, the worst kind of skin cancer, is rising in women and those under 50, due in part to tanning bed use.
🧬 Startup “Bootstrap Bio” is working on creating GMO embryos (aka designer babies), seeking to eliminate inheritable diseases or “undersireable traits.
Critics say it’s eugenicist & potentially dangerous.
🍾 Study: Glass bottles contain more microplastics than plastic bottles, due to the paint on the inside of caps.
📝 EDUCATION & KIDS
🇵🇸 Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia pro-Palestine student demonstrator, was released following a federal judge’s orders last week.
He immediately joined another protest.
🍔 There has been a slight decrease in fast food consumption by children since 2013 - from 14% of their calories down to 11.4%.
💉 CDC’s new vaccine advisory committee is reviewing the childhood vaccine schedule, including Hep B and measles.
🏦 ECONOMY
📈 S&P closed at an all-time high in the post-tariff news rebound.
⛽️ Despite ~20% of oil going through a strait by Iran, the markets didn’t react to our bombing of Iran, indicating that they expect this conflict will be short-lived.
🎥 MEDIA
🚗 Tesla did a limited launch of 10 robotaxis in Austin, planning to ramp up to 1000 within a few months.
The robotaxi service is expected to becoming 90% of Tesla’s income within 5 years.
🦊 Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) is suing Fox News for defamation, asking $787M, for saying Newsom lied in denying that Trump called him during the LA fires.
😬 16 billion passwords were leaked due to security breaches for Apple, Google, and Meta.
✌️CULTURE
🥵 50 US cities hit new heat records last week.
🛸 Pixar’s “Elio” debuted last week, making is their worst ever box office debut weekend.
😎 Vogue’s Anna Wintour is resigning after 38 years.
💍 Bezos got hitched in a $76M wedding.