June 18, 2025

Trump Taunts Iran, Israel Preps Strikes, RFK Jr. Snaps the Vaccine Panel – Oh, and It’s 110 Degrees

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President Trump raises tensions with Iran, calling its Supreme Leader an "easy target" while Israel warns Tehran residents to evacuate. Meanwhile, a dangerous heat dome threatens over 170 million Americans with record-breaking humidity and extreme temperatures. And in Washington, RFK Jr. fires all 17 members of the federal vaccine advisory committee, prompting backlash from the scientific community.

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Callaroga Shark media from Washington, DC, where we just signaled

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for your unconditional surrender. This is ballad. That's right, mister

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Supreme Leader, and we know where you are. President Trump

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was sending some pretty clear signals about Iran on Tuesday,

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and they're not exactly subtle. After cutting his Canadian G

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seven summit short, he posted on truth Social that we

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know exactly where the so called Supreme Leader is hiding.

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Then he added, almost casually, he is an easy target

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but is safe there. We are not going to take

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him out kill, at least not for now. That parenthetical

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kill is doing a lot of work there. When the

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President of the United States has to clarify what take

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him out means, you know, the diplomatic temperature has risen considerably.

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The smart thing would have been not to say kill.

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That way, Trump could have backpedaled and said he was

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just inviting the Supreme Leader for dinner. Trump followed that

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up with a statement that our patients is wearing thin,

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and then, in true Trump fashion, posted a separate two

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word message unconditional surrender, which is also what con signaled

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to the Enterprise in Star Trek two. Meanwhile, Israeli defense

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Minister Israel Cats announced that Israel was preparing to attack

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very significant targets in Tehran, advising residents to evacuate. An

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Israeli Defense Forces spokesman said that while it's too early

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to assess their current campaign's success, strikes on Iran's nuclear

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facilities are deepening every day. That's military speak for we're

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not done yet. Trump also claimed on social media that

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we now have complete and total control of the skies

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over Iran, crediting US military equipment for Israel's air superiority.

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Reuters reported that the US is deploying more fighters and

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warplanes to the region, which suggests America's involvement is expanding

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beyond just cheerleading from the sidelines. The uss Nimits Aircraft

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Carriers Strike Group is heading to the Middle East ahead

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of schedule, the first major movement of American military assets

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since Friday. When an aircraft carrier changes course, that's generally

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not because someone forgot their sunglasses. Vice President JD. Vance

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tried to thread the needle on Tuesday, praising Trump's remarkable

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restraint and keeping the military focused on protecting troops and citizens,

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but then he added that Trump may decide he needs

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to take further action to end Iranian enrichment. That's the

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kind of statement that makes diplomats reach for their ant acids.

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At this point, calling it escalation feels like calling a

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hurricane a bit breezy. We've moved well past subtle diplomacy

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into the realm of public ultimatums and aircraft carrier deployments. Well,

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if you thought the Middle East was heating up, wait

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until you see what Mother Nature is planned for the

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rest of US. A new weather report shows that extreme

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humidity is about to hit around forty states over the

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next two weeks, affecting roughly one hundred and seventy million Americans.

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That's more people than voted in the last election, and

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they're all about to feel like they're living inside a

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wet sock. The first wave of muggy weather is building

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through Thursday in central and eastern States, which means millions

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of people are about to rediscover why their grandparents had

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those little paper fans at church. Around one hundred and

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seventy million people will also experience temperatures above ninety degrees,

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which is Nature's way of saying you thought your electric

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bill was high before this humidity surge. Contributed to deadly

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downpours in West Virginia last weekend, and it's expected to

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fuel severe storms hitting the plains in Midwest through Wednesday

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before reaching the East coast on Thursday. So we're getting

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the full meteorological experience, extreme humidity, dangerous storms, and temperatures

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that make you question your life choices. The culprit here

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is above average ocean temperatures in the Gulf of America

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and western Atlantic, combined with southerly winds. Ocean temperatures are

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so high that parts of Florida near Tampa experienced record

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humidity levels in May, creating what scientists are calling a

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marine heat wave. When the ocean gets so hot that

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it has its own heat wave, that's probably not a

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good sign. And here's the really fun part. This is

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just the opening act. A second stronger surge of potentially

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dangerous heat and humidity is expected this weekend as something

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called a heat dome forms. A heat dome sounds like

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either a really bad reality TV show or a medieval

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torture device, and honestly, it might be both. Let's look

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at what some major cities can expect. Washington, d C.

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Will hit extreme humidity levels which sounds like a weather

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category that shouldn't exist. Philadelphia gets the same extreme rating,

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with very high humidity Wednesday and Thursday, coinciding with severe thunderstorms.

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New York will experience extreme humidity from Sunday through next week,

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which should make commuting even more delightful than usual. Chicago

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will see very high humidity becoming extreme with dangerous heat

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arriving Friday. Minneapolis is forecast to hit extreme humidity levels

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this weekend. When Minneapolis feels like the Tropics, something has

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gone seriously wrong with the weather. Houston, meanwhile, will experience

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extreme humidity, but the report notes this is common along

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the Gulf Coast during June. The concern is that its

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unrelenting nature this month could break records. So Houston isn't

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just getting extreme humidity, It's getting record breaking extreme humidity,

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which is like winning the lottery, but in reverse. The

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heat risk is so significant that Noah has created a

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four level scale, and parts of the country are expected

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to hit Level four, described as rare and or long

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duration extreme heat that will likely affect health systems, heat

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sensitive industries, and infrastructure. When weather forecasters start talking about

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threats to infrastructure, you know it's serious. Health and Human

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Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior has fired all seventeen

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members of a federal vaccine advisory committee, and the ousted

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scientists are not taking it quietly. They published an editorial

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in the Journal of the American Medical Association arguing that

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their dismissal has left the US vaccine program critically weakened.

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Kennedy announced what he called a clean sweep in The

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Wall Street Journal last week, claiming the Advisory Committee on

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Immunization Practices was plagued by conflicts of interest and had

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become a rubber stamp for all vaccines. That's quite an accusation,

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essentially saying the nation's top vaccine experts were just going

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through the motions for decades. Kennedy told ABC News that

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the new members wouldn't be anti vaxxers, but credentialed scientists

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and physicians who would be objective and follow evidence based medicine.

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He also said the current list of recommended childhood vaccines

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would be reanalyzed because he doesn't trust the science behind

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their initial approvals. That's a remarkable statement from the Health

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and Human Services secretary, essentially saying he doesn't trust the

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scientific process that has guided American vaccine policy for decades.

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It's like the Secretary of Transportation announcing he doesn't trust

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traffic lights. Whether you think this is long overdue reform

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or dangerous policymaking probably depends on how much you trust

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Kennedy's judgment versus the judgment of the scientist he just fired.

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But either way, it's certainly not boring. Portions of today's

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show were made with the help of AI