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Today’s facts …
Once a year, I help a young friend raise money to buy cereal for kids. The link is https://bit.ly/3FQlCwK. Please add “Stephanie Lewis” in the comments if you donate.
Grok and ChatGPT are exacerbating the LA protest disinformation.
The majority of LA is going about life normally.
The paid Craigslist protestor ads were bait for a livestreamed prank show.
LA encompasses 500 square miles. The protests are confined to an area of less than 1 square mile.
The LA curfew, which only applied to one square mile in downtown, has been lifted.
Concerns are growing about fake ICE agents in LA.
Several journalists have been injured while covering the protests in LA.
June 14 is No Kings Day for protests nationwide.
Trump says anybody who protests his military parade will be met with very heavy force.
The First Amendment guarantees the right of US citizens to protest.
Texas Republicans are considering redrawing congressional district lines before the midterms to maintain a GOP majority in the House.
The White House has broken ground on projects ordered by Trump to pave over the Rose Garden grass.
Elon Musk has posted that he regrets some of his recent Trump posts.
Consumer prices increased 2.4% in May.
Delta, American Airlines, and United are selling your domestic flight data to a data broker for the US Customs and Border Protection, including names, flight itineraries, and financial details.
Many US states are suing to block the sale of 23andMe personal genetic data without customer consent.
The new iOS 26, coming from Apple, is now named to align with the year, thus the jump from 18.5 to 26.
Trump plans to phase out FEMA after this year’s hurricane season.
The “Dirty Dozen” is an annual list of the top nonorganic produce tested for pesticide residue. Spinach tops the new list, with more pesticide residue by weight than any other produce tested, followed by strawberries, kale (along with mustard greens and collards), grapes, peaches, cherries, nectarines, pears, apples, blackberries, blueberries, and potatoes.
