June 10 2025
LA riots; Greta Thunberg; RFK Jr. fires vax panel; AI hurts news traffic; Documentary on US manufacturing
Trump Deploys Marines to Los Angeles to Quell Immigration Protests, Defying Governor
Israel Deports Greta Thunberg After Intercepting Gaza-Bound Activist Aid Boat
Health Secretary RFK Jr. Fires Entire CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel, Citing Need to "Restore Trust"
Major Publishers See Search Traffic Plummet by Over 50% as AI Upends News Model
Viral Documentary Reveals Depth of "Hidden Crisis" in U.S. Manufacturing
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1. Trump Deploys Marines to Los Angeles to Quell Immigration Protests, Defying Governor
A. Roughly 700 Marines are deploying to the Los Angeles area to protect federal buildings and personnel in the wake of protests over immigration that have already led President Trump to federalize National Guard troops, the U.S. military said Monday. The troops…won’t engage with protesters, the U.S. Northern Command, which is responsible for U.S. military operations in North America, said. A senior administration official told reporters on Monday evening that the move came in light of increased threats against federal officers and federal buildings. The unusual decision marks the first time in more than three decades that Marines have been sent into a U.S. city to address civil unrest. It came over the objections of California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, who has called the federal intervention an intrusion on state sovereignty and sued in response. “They shouldn’t be deployed on American soil facing their own countrymen to fulfill the deranged fantasy of a dictatorial President,” Newsom wrote in a message on X. Later Monday night, he said he would file a lawsuit to prevent the Marines from being deployed.
WSJ
B. Will Democrats ever learn a political lesson on immigration and crime? It doesn’t appear so judging from their response to the migrant protests in Los Angeles that turned violent on Sunday night. Chaos on the streets will increase public support for a hard-line restrictionist agenda. Protests against Mr. Trump’s immigration raids escalated Sunday evening as activists torched cars, looted businesses and occupied a major freeway. Law enforcement and immigration officers were pelted with rocks and fireworks. Activists also smashed concrete bollards outside federal buildings where they were protesting, using chunks as weapons.
WSJ OPINION
C.
.@DecisionDeskHQ average: Trump's net approval has increased by 8.2 points since late April — highest level since March 10
— InteractivePolls (@IAPolls2022) June 5, 2025
April 27: -9.2%
JUNE 5: -1.0% pic.twitter.com/LzmftCt1YK
2. Israel Deports Greta Thunberg After Intercepting Gaza-Bound Activist Aid Boat
A. Israel deported climate activist Greta Thunberg on Tuesday, a day after Israeli forces intercepted her and a group of other volunteers on a sailboat attempting to take humanitarian aid to Gaza. Thunberg was flying to Sweden via France, according to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, which earlier said that the activists on board the boat were awaiting deportation at the country’s Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv. Those who didn’t sign deportation documents would be brought before a judicial authority, the ministry said. Thunberg, who is 22, was detained on Monday after Israeli forces boarded a small boat carrying 12 people that sought to bring food, medical supplies and other items to Gaza in defiance of an Israeli naval blockade. The boat was taken to Israel’s port of Ashdod, north of Gaza. The Freedom Flotilla Coalition, which organized the effort, said the craft was stopped in international waters. Israel said that any humanitarian aid should be distributed through established channels and promised to deliver the items that the ship was carrying. Israel says its naval blockade of Gaza is intended to stop weapons smuggling and permits it to stop ships on the high seas under some circumstances.
WSJ
B. Published June 23, 2024 on WSJ OPINION page
Did I see climate warrior Greta Thunberg wearing a kaffiyeh? Sure enough, there she was last month in a mob screaming “Shame on you!” outside the Eurovision Song Contest, where an Israeli performer competed. Welcome to the Omnicause. If you protest one thing, you protest everything... Viewed through the lens of oppression, every cause is linked Segments of the Omnicause are usually anticapitalism, antigrowth or pro-world-government. Climate hysteria scores a perfect trifecta. Using twisted logic, socialism is apparently the cure for racism. But the backlash is enabling a political move to the right in Europe, South America and, if polls are to be believed, the U.S. So why the Omnicause? My theory is that society is afflicted with a bad case of affluenza. Life has become too easy. We google and use artificial intelligence instead of thinking, shoot up Ozempic instead of exercising, and rely on ObamaCare instead of working. Even the well-off need to complain about something, so they complain about everything.
WSJ OPINION
3. Health Secretary RFK Jr. Fires Entire CDC Vaccine Advisory Panel, Citing Need to "Restore Trust"
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the U.S. health secretary, on Monday fired all 17 members of the advisory committee on immunization to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, saying that the move would restore the public’s trust in vaccines. About two-thirds of the panel had been appointed in the last year of the Biden administration, Mr. Kennedy pointed out in announcing his decision in an opinion column for The Wall Street Journal. The C.D.C.’s vaccine advisers wield enormous influence. They carefully review data on vaccines, debate the evidence and vote on who should get the shots and when. Insurance companies and government programs like Medicaid are required to cover the vaccines recommended by the panel.
NYT
4. Major Publishers See Search Traffic Plummet by Over 50% as AI Upends News Model
The AI armageddon is here for online news publishers. Chatbots are replacing Google searches, eliminating the need to click on blue links and tanking referrals to news sites. As a result, traffic that publishers relied on for years is plummeting. Traffic from organic search to HuffPost’s desktop and mobile websites fell by just over half in the past three years, and by nearly that much at the Washington Post, according to digital market data firm Similarweb. Business Insider cut about 21% of its staff last month, a move CEO Barbara Peng said was aimed at helping the publication “endure extreme traffic drops outside of our control.” Organic search traffic to its websites declined by 55% between April 2022 and April 2025, according to data from Similarweb. At a companywide meeting earlier this year, Nicholas Thompson, chief executive of the Atlantic, said the publication should assume traffic from Google would drop toward zero and the company needed to evolve its business model.
Editors note: citizen journal is on track to reach over 200k views this month across our various Kansas-focused local, state, and national coverage, up over 200% from last month. So at the risk of talking my own book, the problem isn’t AI, its their content.
WSJ
5. Viral Documentary Reveals Depth of "Hidden Crisis" in U.S. Manufacturing
A popular YouTube educator has released a documentary exposing the hidden crisis in American manufacturing – and his four-year journey to make a simple kitchen tool reveals just how deep the problem runs.
Destin Sandlin, who runs the educational YouTube channel "Smarter Every Day" with over 11 million subscribers, set out to manufacture a grill cleaning tool - the "Smarter Scrubber" - entirely in the United States. What started as a straightforward goal turned into an eye-opening investigation into America's eroding industrial capabilities. The resulting video, released this week, documents his struggles to source basic components like steel bolts and metal chain mail from U.S. suppliers, and his shocking discovery that many American factories no longer even make the tools needed for their own production.
The video resonates with growing concerns about U.S. manufacturing independence, particularly after pandemic-era shortages exposed America's dependence on foreign supply chains for critical items like medical equipment. Sandlin's experiment offers a ground-level view of deindustrialization's real impact on American communities and workers. His findings paint a troubling picture: from injection molding facilities that outsource their tooling to China, to the near-extinction of skilled trades like tool and die making that once formed the backbone of American manufacturing. I HIGHLY recommend this 49min video:
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