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“There’s a reason why you separate military and police. One fights the enemy of the State. The other serves and protects the People. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the State tend to become the People.” ~ Commander Adama, “Battlestar Galactica” (“WATER”, Season 1 episode 2, at the 28 minute mark.)

Welcome to Thinkwing Radio with Mike Honig on KPFT Houston at 90.1-HD2, Galveston 89.5-HD2, and Huntsville 91.9-HD2. KPFT is Houston’s Community Media. On this show, we discuss local, state, national, and international stories that may have slipped under your radar. At my website, THINKWINGRADIO-dot-COM, I link to all the articles I read and cite, as well as other relevant sources.

1. I have no compelling reason for including this story except that I found it interesting for a couple of reasons I’ll discuss at the end — New $10.5M Houston Police training center to break ground in mid-June; By Kevin Vu | COMMUNITYIMPACT.COM | 2:49 PM Jun 12, 2025 CDT/Updated 2:49 PM Jun 12, 2025 CDT. TAGS: Houston Police Department (HPD), Tilman Fertitta, Houston Police Foundation,
   10. A new $10.5 million firearms training center for the Houston Police Department is anticipated to open by early 2026, according to a June 5 news release.
   11. … The two-story, 44,000-square-foot facility will provide HPD a dedicated space for advanced training using the latest technology, techniques and best practices in law enforcement, per the release, including: Twenty 100-yard shooting lanes; Life-like simulations; [and] Safety systems.
   12. Charlene Floyd, the executive director at Houston Police Foundation, a nonprofit organization supporting HPD projects, police equipment and new technology, said in an email to Community Impact that the new facility is important for HPD as the Police Academy currently has only five lanes to train recruits.
   13. [Said Tilman Fertitta, Houston Rockets owner and chairman of the board of the Houston Police Foundation,] “This project is a crucial investment in public safety. We’re providing our officers with the best tools and environment to prepare for the challenges they face every day.”
   14. … The new training center will be named “Ferititta Family Firearms Training Facility,” in honor of Feritta, who donated $2.5 million for the facility’s construction.
   15. The facility will be located … near HPD’s Academy Center and the Tilman Fertitta Family Tactical Training Center, another $10 million training facility that opened in 2020, according to previous Community Impact reporting.
   16. According to the news release, the Firearms Training Facility will be entirely funded through private donations, with no tax dollars involved. Floyd said $6.5 million has currently been raised for the project so far.
   17. MIKE: I know of Tilman Fertitta, but frankly don’t know much about
   18. MIKE: I found this story interesting mainly because I think that a wealthy person’s charitable giving says something about that person’s sense of priorities and what they consider important.
   19. MIKE: My interest was piqued by this story because I don’t know of much charitable giving to police departments. But to be fair, I looked up other gifts made by Fertitta or his foundation.
   20. MIKE: There have been substantial gifts to the University of Houston College of Medicine; UH Athletics; the Annual Houston Children’s Charity Gala. Fertitta also has numerous charitable foundations that make contributions to worthy causes.
   21. MIKE: I found an interview that includes Fertitta’s philosophy for charitable giving:
   22. MIKE: The questioner asked: As a philanthropist, you’re involved with the Houston Police Foundation and the Houston Children’s Charity. What’s your philosophy on giving?
   23. MIKE: A Tilman’s response: “My philosophy on philanthropy is, a lot is expected, but it’s not just about money; it’s also about doing things. I’ve given away a lot of money, but I haven’t given away a lot of money. You’ve got to remember, I’m still out there building. I’m still spending. If I sold everything and had a few billion dollars in the bank, that would be my life — to give money away. But I’m still creating gigantic projects. I can give a few million here, a few million there, but not a crazy amount.”
   24. Fertitta has also made many maximum allowable political contributions to Republican Parties and Republican candidates because no one is perfect.
   25. His support of the Republican Party has recently been rewarded with an ambassadorship to Italy.
   26. The more you know …
2. ‘Houston at its best’: Mayor John Whitmire praises protesters and police for peaceful No Kings event; By Keri Blakinger, Staff writer | HOUSTONCHRONICLE.COM | June 14, 2025. TAGS: Houston Mayor John Whitmire, No Kings Rally, Houston,
   1. Houston Mayor John Whitmire had only praise for the way the No Kings rally unfolded.
   2. [Whitmire said in a mid-afternoon phone call on Saturday,] “I just think we witnessed Houston at its best – I’ll use the word ‘spectacular. For over 15,000 people to come together in a peaceful protest and march, that just makes a statement about Houston.”
   3. As of 2 p.m., he said, no one had been arrested. No windows were broken, and no buildings tagged with graffiti.
   4. [Whitmire told the Chronicle,] “It’s truly a statement to the police using such measured police work. I can look at other cities on social media, and they’ve got helmets and shields, and it brings out the wrong energy in a crowd.”
   5. There were “numerous” plainclothes police in the crowd, he said.
   6. “There were no surprises; we knew what we were doing,” [Whitmire] added.
   7. Though several local agencies pitched in to keep the protest secure, Whitmire said there were no National Guard troops at the event.
   8. [Whitmire said,] “I felt with confidence we could handle the protest and march and we did, by ourselves. And now people don’t want to leave; they’re still enjoying themselves under the shade trees. I deal with problems all week, but today is not a problem.”
   9. MIKE: I think that Mayor Whitmire handled these protests correctly and constructively, and since he’s the head of the city, I think he deserves credit for that. I would also encourage listeners to visit the story that I’ve linked to in this show post for the photos and the very short video of the march.
3. But meanwhile — Group aiming to recall Mayor John Whitmire have set timeline for gathering signatures; By Yvette Orozco, Staff writer | HOUSTONCHRONICLE.COM | June 14, 2025. TAGS: Mayor John Whitmire, Recall For Houston, Recall Petition,
   1. The group aiming to oust Mayor John Whitmire has set a timeline for its efforts to petition for a recall election.
   2. Recall For Houston announced it is eyeing to begin collecting signatures in the fall.
   3. In the meantime, the group will work to generate awareness and assemble volunteers as it moves forward on its mission to remove the mayor from office through a recall vote.
   4. The group, made up of Houstonians, hopes to collect the 64,000 signatures needed to initiate a recall process.
   5. The petition will require 63,000 signatures collected in a 30-day period. …
   6. In the group’s initial mission statement, it cited “halted federally funded projects” by [Whitmire’s] administration, and claimed the city’s residents’ needs were not being met as they related to public safety, flooding and infrastructure. The groups also claimed the mayor doesn’t work in collaboration with council members or the county judge, and cited a bungled firefighter contract deal. …
   7. Whitmire told the Chronicle via email, “I am accountable to Houston — all of it — and I welcome any review of my work. It makes me a better mayor.”
   8. MIKE: Not much to say here except that I’ll be interested in seeing if this progresses.
4. Houston partners with Reliant to open 22 cooling centers this summer; By Kevin Vu | COMMUNITYIMPACT.COM | 2:42 PM Jun 12, 2025 CDT/Updated 2:42 PM Jun 12, 2025 CDT. TAGS: Reliant Energy’s Beat the Heat program, Houston,
   1. Reliant Energy’s Beat the Heat program marks the 20th year the energy company and the city will provide cooling centers for Houston residents during the summer heat, officials announced during a June 12 news conference.
   2. … Twelve city multi-service centers, nine county precinct centers and one community family center will be used as cooling centers throughout the summer until September. …
   3. [MIKE: The cooling centers will be scattered around the Houston metro area, including in Pasadena, Baytown, Channelview, and Seabrook. Addresses are in the story. Continuing …]
   4. A cooling center is a public, air-conditioned space that provides a place for residents to avoid the heat, [and] accessible to anyone in the city, [according to] Reliant Energy’s website. Snacks, water and activities will be provided in the cooling centers, as well as an energy adviser who will answer questions residents might have on their energy bill, Reliant Energy spokesperson Megan Talley said.
   5. Reliant will also donate $78,000 to provide more than 200 air conditioning units to Houston residents, according to the news release.
   6. Bill Clayton, vice president of customer care at Reliant Energy, said during the news conference that cooling centers not only provide a way for residents to avoid the heat, but also to connect with their neighbors.
   7. [Clayton said,] “It can be hazardous to seniors, it can be hazardous to children and so we’re making a stand for everybody to come into the cooling centers to have some fun.”
   8. Council member Mario Castillo said the heat impacts senior citizens, children and those with health issues. He urged residents to tell their neighbors about cooling centers and encourage them to visit them when needed.
   9. [Castillo said,] “We want people to use the cooling centers. It’s a way to seek relief, it’s a way to get a break on your energy bill.”
   10. MIKE: I visited the Reliant Energy website linked in the story. It lists cooling centers not only in Houston, but also in Corpus Christi, Lubbock, and North Texas. North Texas currently includes Dalla and Fort Worth.
   11. MIKE: There is also a link to the CARE program. It stands for Community Assistance by Reliant Energy. “[It provides] financial assistance to customers facing hardship to help pay their electricity bills. … [It also says that if] you need help paying your electricity bill, call 2-1-1or visit orgfor agency assistance near you.”
   12. MIKE: There is more helpful information on the Reliant pages.
5. City of Houston and Harris County at odds over funding to combat homelessness; By Dominic Anthony Walsh | HOUSTONPUBLICMEDIA.ORG | Posted on June 13, 2025, 6:18 PM. TAGS: City of Houston, Harris County, Housing, Houston, Houston Mayor, Local News, Politics, Harris County Commissioners Court, homeless in Houston, homelessness, homelessness in Houston, Houston Mayor John Whitmire, Hurricane Harvey,
   1. Houston and Harris County are again at odds over funding for Mayor John Whitmire’s ambitious push to “end street homelessness” as the city’s fund for the initiative remains short of its goal.
   2. The tension continued [the] mixed messages from the respective housing departments over the past month, and the city has begun looking to federal sources to boost its homelessness initiative.
   3. On Thursday, the Harris County Commissioners Court reallocated $20 million from an embattled guaranteed income program. Commissioners split the funding up into $8 million for eviction protections, $8 million for homelessness initiatives and $2.5 million for food insecurity.
   4. The city’s housing department claimed the $8 million for homelessness would “go directly towards the Mayor’s Homelessness Action Plan” — which remained short of its $70 million annual goal as it awaited $16 million from the county and $20 million from private philanthropy … [Houston’s housing] department director Mike Nichols said, “We are actively exploring how we can use eviction prevention funds.”
   5. Thao Costis, [Harris] county’s housing department director, told Houston Public Media that the county “wouldn’t call it the mayor’s program.”
   6. [Costis said,] “We are in discussions with the (nonprofit) Coalition for the Homeless [of Houston and Harris County] about supporting and bringing dollars for the system to support the big initiative that covers all of the county. We’re not calling it the mayor’s plan necessarily because the mayor is focused on … downtown. Yes, ending street homelessness is something that we all want, and we’re trying to contribute to the bigger ‘end street homelessness plan’. We’re just not calling it the mayor’s plan.”
   7. The mixed messaging continued a trend from May, when Nichols told the city’s budget committee that Costis indicated “$8 million is coming forth, and another $8 million they’re looking to use for eviction protection, they’re negotiating to see if it can be a little broader.” Costis told Houston Public Media at the time that no dollar figure was finalized, and the departments were “all trying to find the resources and come to an alignment about how and when and how much.”
   8. Whitmire’s $70 million goal relies heavily on contributions from outside the city’s own coffers. Houston has contributed $3.5 million from its general fund along with $14 million of its federal funding, while the Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County (METRO) contributed $10 million. Houston First Corporation, a marketing arm of the city government, gave $2.6 million.
   9. … In addition to seeking dollars from the county, the city’s housing department is looking to fund the homeless initiatives with other federal dollars.
   10. With a looming deadline to spend federal disaster recovery funds from Hurricane Harvey before they expire, the housing department wants to divert $12.5 million from programs like home buyouts and economic revitalization toward the push to end street homelessness.
   11. Nearly $40 million of the more than $600 million in recovery funds from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) remains unspent — eight years after Hurricane Harvey inundated Houston, damaging more than 200,000 homes and apartments.
   12. On Wednesday, Houston City Council gave the greenlight for the city’s housing department to request reallocations of the remaining funds. Along with the diversion of funds toward homelessness, the update includes the establishment of a nearly $20 million fund for down payment assistance for residents impacted by Harvey, and a nearly $5 million boost for a home repair reimbursement program.
   13. Those changes would be funded by reductions to programs targeting single-family development, buyouts of homes at risk of flooding and economic revitalization. The Texas General Land Office (GLO) and HUD will need to approve the plans.
   14. [Nichols said,] “If you remember Harvey, people experiencing homelessness were devastated during that time. There were, of course, injuries and deaths. People who are living outside need shelter, and we need that kind of resilience for future storms, and that’s an appropriate expenditure of disaster recovery funds.”
   15. Nichols said the $12.5 million would go toward “hubs” for homeless people, including one location in central Houston along with three to four facilities further out.
   16. [Nichols added,] “We’re hoping to use existing emergency homeless beds for people experiencing homelessness, and we’re contracting with a variety of nonprofits, particularly faith-based nonprofits, who have these emergency beds as people transition into either appropriate services, mental health, substance services, or permanent housing.”
   17. Nichols said he expects negotiations with the GLO to wrap up within a few weeks or months. A spokesperson for the GLO said the agency is “working closely with the City of Houston through the federal grant process to make sure every available dollar of disaster recovery funding from the Hurricane Harvey grant is used to benefit Houstonians before February 2027.”
   18. Approval of the fund diversion toward homelessness would be a major boon for one of Whitmire’s flagship initiatives. His initiative to end street homelessness remained $40 million shy of its $70 million goal due to ongoing efforts to obtain up to $16 million from Harris County and $20 million from private philanthropy. Without funding for services and housing, city officials are reluctant to begin removing homeless people from public spaces without anywhere for them to go.
   19. … Julia Orduña, southeast Texas regional director for nonprofit advocacy group Texas Housers, called the repurposing of funds for homelessness “politics at its worst.”
   20. [Though she praised the creation of the $20 million down payment assistance program, Orduña said,] “The federal government intended this money to support recovery of Houstonians from the worst disasters that the city has ever seen, and instead, Mayor Whitmire is using these Harvey unmet needs as funding for extra dollars to fill their budget gaps.”
   21. The historically frosty relationship between the city and [the] GLO has thawed over the past 18 months. In 2021, former land commissioner George P. Bush initially withheld funds from the city and Harris County, despite them bearing the brunt of the damage from Harvey in 2017. In 2024, after years of squabbling between the city and state, Whitmire and new land commissioner Dawn Buckingham signalled willingness to work together to spend $200 million in leftover funding before it expired.
   22. [A spokesperson for the GLO said,] “Over the last 18 months, the relationship between the GLO and the City of Houston has drastically improved due to the leadership of Commissioner Buckingham and Mayor Whitmire and their shared mission of serving those we are supposed to serve.”.
   23. For housing advocates like Orduña, the diversion of Harvey recovery funds toward homelessness compounded frustration with the city’s plan for $315 million in recovery funds tied to three federally declared weather disasters last year, including Hurricane Beryl. Despite finding $229 million in unmet housing needs, the city plans to spend more than half of that grant on backup power generators at city facilities — and none on housing.
   24. [Orduña said,] “While I’m not shocked, I am concerned that the trend of making deals with the state to fill the budget gaps instead of addressing the root causes is continuously seen.”
   25. When it comes to funding from the 2024 disasters, city officials have said they’re considering changes based on public input. The final of three virtual meetings is scheduled for 5:30 p.m. Tuesday.
   26. MIKE: I’m actually inclined to agree with Julia Orduña of Texas Housers.
   27. MIKE: This is another example of why Mayor Whitmire should have used that one-time legal property tax increase to fund the city instead of taking money from essential programs like storm recovery to fill the gaps in other essential programs that Mayor Whitmire has decided better align with his personal priorities.
   28. MIKE: Instead of robbing Peter to pay Paul, with a relatively modest but still important property tax increase, both Peter and Paul could have gotten what’s owed them.
   29. MIKE: And have I mentioned lately that I think property taxes should be progressive?
   30. MIKE: I know that Conservatives hate progressive taxation, but its only fair that people that have more, pay more.
6. In digital privacy news — Airlines Don’t Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS; By Joseph Cox | 404MEDIA.CO | Jun 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM. TAGS: FOIA, Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Privacy, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Delta, Southwest, United, American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, JetBlue, Lufthansa, Air France, Air Canada, U.S. Travelers’ Domestic Flight Records, Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), Travel Intelligence Program (TIP),
   1. A data broker owned by the country’s major airlines, including Delta, American Airlines, and United, collected U.S. travellers’ domestic flight records, sold access to them to Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and then as part of the contract told CBP to not reveal where the data came from, according to internal CBP documents obtained by 404 Media. The data includes passenger names, their full flight itineraries, and financial details. 
   2. CBP, a part of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), says it needs this data to support state and local police to track people of interest’s air travel across the country, in a purchase that has alarmed civil liberties experts.
   3. The documents reveal for the first time in detail why at least one part of DHS purchased such information, and comes after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detailed its own purchase of the data. The documents also show for the first time that the data broker, called the Airlines Reporting Corporation (ARC), tells government agencies not to mention where it sourced the flight data from.
   4. [Senator Ron Wyden said in a statement,] “The big airlines — through a shady data broker that they own called ARC — are selling the government bulk access to Americans’ sensitive information, revealing where they fly and the credit card they used.”
   5. ARC is owned and operated by at least eight major U.S. airlines, other publicly released documents show. The company’s board of directors include representatives from Delta, Southwest, United, American Airlines, Alaska Airlines, JetBlue, and European airlines Lufthansa and Air France, and Canada’s Air Canada. More than 240 airlines depend on ARC for ticket settlement services.
   6. ARC’s other lines of business include being the conduit between airlines and travel agencies, finding travel trends in data with other firms like Expedia, and fraud prevention, according to material on ARC’s YouTube channel and website. The sale of U.S. flyers’ travel information to the government is part of ARC’s Travel Intelligence Program (TIP).
   7. [MIKE: As a side note, the story doesn’t link to that YouTube channel, but I have included one. Continuing …
   8. A Statement of Work included in the newly obtained documents, which describes why an agency is buying a particular tool or capability, says CBP needs access to ARC’s [Travel Intelligence Program (TIP)] product “to support federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies to identify persons of interest’s U.S. domestic air travel ticketing information.”
   9. 404 Media obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. 
   10. [MIKE: There is then an image of 404’s FOIA request. Continuing …]
   11. The new documents obtained by 404 Media also show ARC asking CBP to “not publicly identify vendor, or its employees, individually or collectively, as the source of the Reports unless the Customer is compelled to do so by a valid court order or subpoena and gives ARC immediate notice of same.”
   12. The Statement of Work says that TIP can show a person’s paid intent to travel and tickets purchased through travel agencies in the U.S. and its territories. The data from the Travel Intelligence Program (TIP) will provide “visibility on a subject’s or person of interest’s domestic air travel ticketing information as well as tickets acquired through travel agencies in the U.S. and its territories,” the documents say. They add this data will be “crucial” in both administrative and criminal cases. 
   13. A DHS Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) available online says that TIP data is updated daily with the previous day’s ticket sales, and contains more than one billion records spanning 39 months of past and future travel. The document says TIP can be searched by name, credit card, or airline, but ARC contains data from ARC-accredited travel agencies, such as Expedia, and not flights booked directly with an airline. “[I]f the passenger buys a ticket directly from the airline, then the search done by ICE will not show up in an ARC report,” that PIA says. The PIA notes the data impacts both U.S. and non-U.S. persons, meaning it does include information on U.S. citizens.
   14. [Jake Laperruque, deputy director of the Center for Democracy & Technology’s Security and Surveillance Project, told 404 Media in an email,] “While obtaining domestic airline data — like many other transaction and purchase records — generally doesn’t require a warrant, [they’re] still supposed to go through a legal process that ensures independent oversight, and limits data collection to records that will support an investigation. As with many other types of sensitive and revealing data, the government seems intent on using data brokers to buy their way around important guardrails and limits.”
   15. CBP’s contract with ARC started in June 2024 and may extend to 2029, according to the documents. The CBP contract [for which] 404 Media obtained documents … was an $11,025 transaction. Last Tuesday, a public procurement database added a $6,847.50 update to that contract, which said it was exercising “Option Year 1,” meaning it was extending the contract. The documents are redacted but briefly mention CBP’s OPR, or Office of Professional Responsibility, which in part investigates corruption by CBP employees. 
   16. [A CBP spokesperson said in a statement,] “CBP is committed to protecting individuals’ privacy during the execution of its mission to protect the American people, safeguard our borders, and enhance the nation’s economic prosperity. CBP follows a robust privacy policy as we protect the homeland through the air, land and maritime environments against illegal entry, illicit activity or other threats to national sovereignty and economic security.” CBP added that the data is only used when an OPR investigation is open and the agency needs to locate someone related to that investigation. The agency said the data can act as a good starting point to identify a relevant flight record before then getting more information through legal processes.
   17. On May 1, ICE published details about its own ARC data purchase. In response, on May 2, 404 Media filed FOIA requests with ICE and a range of other agencies that 404 Media found had bought ARC’s services, including CBP, the Secret Service, SEC, DEA, the Air Force, U.S. Marshals Service, TSA, and ATF.
   18. 404 Media found these by searching U.S. procurement databases. Around a week later, The Lever covered the ICE contract.
   19. [MIKE: There is then an image of the “Statement of Work”. Continuing …]
   20. Airlines contacted by 404 Media declined to comment, didn’t respond, or deferred to either ARC or DHS instead.
   21. ARC declined to comment. The company previously told The Lever that TIP “was established after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to provide certain data to law enforcement… for the purpose of national security matters” and criminal investigations. 
   22. [Sen. Wyden’s statement added,] “ARC has refused to answer oversight questions from Congress, so I have already contacted the major airlines that own ARC — like Delta, American Airlines and United — to find out why they gave the green light to sell their customers’ data to the government.”
   23. S. law enforcement agencies have repeatedly turned to private companies to buy data rather than obtain it through legal processes such as search warrants or subpoenas. That includes location data harvested from smartphones, utility data, and internet backbone data.  
   24. [Referring to the purchase of airline data, Laperruque says,]  “Overall, it strikes me as yet another alarming example of how the ‘Big Data Surveillance Complex’ is becoming the digital age version of the Military-Industrial Complex.”
   25. [Laperruque added,] “It’s clear the Data Broker Loophole is pushing the government back towards a pernicious ‘collect it all’ mentality, gobbling up as much sensitive data as it can about all Americans by default. A decade ago, the public rejected that approach, and Congress passed surveillance reform legislation that banned domestic bulk collection. Clearly, it’s time for Congress to step in again, and stop the Data Broker Loophole from being used to circumvent that ban.”
   26. According to ARC’s website, the company only introduced multifactor authentication on May 15.
   27. MIKE: This story is, to say the least. Troubling.
   28. MIKE: I’ll point listeners to this excerpt, because I think it’s important, so listen carefully: “ARC contains data from ARC-accredited travel agencies, such as Expedia, and not flights booked directly with an airline. … [I]f the passenger buys a ticket directly from the airline, then the search done by ICE will not show up in an ARC report.”
   29. MIKE: Many travel websites — such as Expedia — ask you to book travel directly through them, as opposed to through the airline or other site. Aside from the problematic extra layer this creates if you want to change your travel plans, there is now another reason to use a travel site that sends you directly to the airline or other conveyance. That reason is “PRIVACY”!
   30. MIKE: Assuming that I am understanding this story correctly, I now have another reason to use sites like Kayak, which sends you directly to an airline, hotel, or car rental to make your reservations.
   31. MIKE: This story actually got me thinking about other aspects of data mining and data sales.
   32. MIKE: Companies like Google and almost any other website make money by bundling and selling your information. This personal data is supposed to be anonymized, and probably usually is, but enough anonymized data from enough sources can actually pinpoint you pretty effectively.
   33. MIKE: Maybe it’s time that internet users got a piece of the action.
   34. MIKE: Suppose a law was passed that guaranteed you a royalty of some percentage every time your user information was shared with another company. And suppose that you not only got a payment each month for these data sales, but maybe you also got to see the purchasers of your data.
   35. MIKE: And further suppose that you not only got a royalty and buyer information, but that you could also block certain buyers from acquiring that data.
   36. MIKE: This would be a revolutionary change in the whole “free use for registration” model, as well as the paid user model where your data also gets sold.
   37. MIKE: Now, as a user, you would not only be the product, but just like in the entertainment industry, you would also be a paid product provider.
   38. MIKE: I’d be interested in what you think. Consider leaving a message on this show’s Facebook page.
7. From CBS News — Trump clears U.S. Steel sale to Nippon Steel, but details of merger still unclear; By Joe Walsh & Richard Escobedo, CBS News | CBSNEWS.COM | Updated on: June 13, 2025 / 7:59 PM EDT. TAGS: U.S. Steel, Japan-based Nippon Steel, United Steelworkers Union (USW), President Donald Trump,
   1. President Trump on Friday cleared the way for Japan-based Nippon Steel to potentially acquire U.S. Steel, though details about the structure of the deal — including a possible “golden share” held by the federal government — remain unclear. 
   2. The president signed an executive order that says Nippon can buy the iconic Pittsburgh-based steelmaker as long as both parties sign a “national security agreement.”
   3. The two companies announced in a joint statementFriday that they agreed to the terms of the government’s national security agreement, which they said mandates $11 billion in new investments by 2028 and provides for “a Golden Share to be issued to the U.S. Government.”
   4. Nippon and U.S. Steel said they expect the deal — referred to as a partnership — to be “finalized promptly.” They thanked Mr. Trump, saying they “look forward to putting our commitments into action to make American steelmaking and manufacturing great again.” 
   5. Some details about the Nippon-U.S. Steel partnership are not clear. Trump said earlier this weekthat the government’s golden share would give the United States “51% ownership” and “total control” over U.S. Steel, but Japanese news outlet Nikkei Asia quoted an unnamed Nippon executive who said the company needs “management freedom” over the combined company.
   6. Trump announced he would allow a “partnership” between Nippon and U.S. Steel last month.
   7. The deal between Nippon and U.S. Steel has faced tumult and uncertainty since a nearly $15 billion merger was first proposed in late 2023. Former President Joe Biden rejected the deal on national security grounds in the waning weeks of his time in office, but Mr. Trump ordered a new review of the deal and suggested Nippon could agree to “invest heavily” in U.S. Steel’s facilities rather than fully acquiring the company.
   8. U.S. Steel has said the Nippon deal will allow for new investments in the company’s aging facilities, including its Mon Valley Works in the Pittsburgh area. If the deal isn’t approved, U.S. Steel has warned it may need to move its headquarters away from Pittsburgh and focus on cheaper ways of making steel than Mon Valley’s blast furnaces, putting scores of jobs into jeopardy.
   9. But the United Steelworkers union is staunchly opposed to the deal, calling Nippon’s promises to invest in steel mills “public relations” and accusing the company of job-costing unfair trade practices.
   10. Rival steelmaker Cleveland Cliffs — whose offer to buy U.S. Steel was rejected — has also blasted the deal, accusing Nippon of dumping cheap steel in American markets and saying U.S. Steel “rejected an all-American solution and insisted on pursuing a doomed-to-fail cash out sale.” In a lawsuit against the government in the waning days of the Biden administration, Nippon and U.S. Steel accused Cleveland Cliffs and the steel union of undermining their planned merger. 
   11. Meanwhile, Mr. Trump doubled tariffs on foreign steel imports last month.
   12. MIKE: One item in this story leapt out at me: “Mr. Trump said … that the government’s golden share would give the United States “51% ownership” and “total control” over U.S. Steel … .”
   13. MIKE: That starts to sound a lot like socialism to me. It also sounds a little like extortion since the US isn’t even promising to invest any money for the suggested 51% share. It’s more like, “Nice steel merger you’re proposing here. Be a shame if anything happened to it unless the US government get to wet its beak.”
   14. MIKE: As for the rest for the story itself, my reading is that it’s still up in the air pending lots of details being worked out, put on paper, and signed off.
   15. MIKE: So, to be continued.
   16. REFERENCE: Steel industry experts react to Nippon Steel, U.S. Steel deal; By Maya Wilkins, Post-Tribune | CHICAGOTRIBUNE.COM | PUBLISHED: May 30, 2025 at 9:52 PM CDT. TAGS: U.S. Steel, Japan-based Nippon Steel, United Steelworkers Union (USW), President Donald Trump,
8. Meanwhile, In Illinois … This story is from June 1^st, but I didn’t have space for it last week — Lawmakers advance measure prohibiting public schools from denying students based on immigration status; By Jeremy Gorner – jgorner@chicagotribune.com, Chicago Tribune and Laura Rodríguez Presa – larodriguez@chicagotribune.com, Chicago Tribune | CHICAGOTRIBUNE.COM | UPDATED: June 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM CDT. TAGS: Gov. JB Pritzker, Illinois Public Schools, Immigration Status, Immigrant Rights, States Rights,
   1. On the final day of the spring legislative session, Illinois legislature sent to Gov. JB Pritzker a bill that would prohibit public schools from denying a student access to free education based on that child’s immigration status or that of their parent, a move aimed at reinforcing long-standing constitutional federal protections amid renewed scrutiny of immigrant rights at the state level.
   2. The bill, whose main sponsor was Chicago Democratic Rep. Lilian Jiménez, would prohibit a child within Illinois from being deprived of free public education through high school “based on the child’s perceived or actual immigration status or the child’s parent’s or guardian’s perceived or actual citizenship or immigration status.” The legislation also says a school must not exclude a child “from participation in or deny a child the benefits of any program or activity” for those same reasons.
   3. [Lawrence Benito, executive director of the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, said in reaction to the bill’s passage,] “In the face of federal threats to our schools and students, our communities came together and organized to demand that our state leaders stand up for education for all Illinois children.”
   4. The Senate passed the bill Saturday … after it had advanced … in the House earlier in the week [with 3 Democrats voting against the measure …]
   5. The Tennessee state Senate earlier this year passed a bill requiring citizenship or immigration documentation for schoolchildren in the state. Though that legislation has since fizzled for now because of pushback from opponents, … it highlighted a broader national tension
   6. In Illinois, Rep. John Cabello, a Republican from Machesney Park, said he voted against the bill because he believes free education should be reserved for citizens.
   7. [Cabello said,] “I’m Mexican, but I still believe that you should be a tax-paying citizen to receive anything free from the government. Why would we give people that are not from our country free schooling?”
   8. [MIKE: I’ll note here that undocumented immigrants do pay taxes on everything they buy. They also get taxes withheld in their paychecks if they’re on the books, and they pay real estate taxes through their rent. I’ll also note that it’s not in the national interest to have an uneducated underclass in this country. But continuing …]
   9. [Rep.] Jiménez said she grew up with a parent who was undocumented, and after Donald Trump’s second presidential victory, she feared for the future of families like hers.
   10. During the House floor debate, Jiménez noted that federal law prohibits denying or eliminating access to public education based on immigration status, but said that the right to public education “is eroded whenever people are afraid to exercise it.”
   11. [Said Jiménez,] “In our state, there are parents who are afraid to send their children to school and children afraid to be at school. This is not conducive to learning. It impacts all of our schools, families and communities. This bill is an opportunity to reassure families and students that their schools are safe as can be and to restore a proper learning environment.”
   12. State Rep. Dagmara Avelar, a Democrat …, recalled growing up as an undocumented student. She said not a day went by without her fearing immigration authorities would go after her parents at work.
   13. [Avelar said in support of the bill,] “This was something that I was thinking about when I was a young person. Yet, decades later, it seems that we’re seeing the same struggle and the same trauma with children happening right now.”
   14. The bill would require a school to develop procedures for reviewing and authorizing requests from law enforcement agents trying to enter a school by July 1, 2026. It would also allow anyone aggrieved by a violation of the measure to file a civil lawsuit up to two years after the alleged infraction occurred.
   15. Chicago Public Schools has maintained a firm, clear policy to not allow U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to access school facilities unless they present a criminal judicial warrant signed by a federal judge. The district will also not share student information with ICE without a court order or parental consent.
   16. [MIKE: “CPS” is not defined in the story, but from research, I do believe it’s Chicago Public Schools. Continuing …]
   17. In a statement, a CPS spokesperson said that “in alignment with state and federal law, CPS strictly prohibits any form of discrimination or harassment and ensures that no student is denied access to educational services based on their immigration status.
   18. [The statement said,] “CPS policies firmly uphold that every child residing in Chicago — regardless of background — is entitled to a high-quality education in a safe and supportive environment.” …
   19. In an interview last week, Jiménez said her legislation is especially important in light of the Trump administration’s decision to rescind a Biden-era policy to protect certain areas like churches and schools from immigration enforcement. She also noted how last month, agents from ICE tried to enter one or two schools in Los Angeles but were not let in.
   20. Jiménez also noted there were double-digit percentage drops in attendance in certain schools in January in her district, which includes schools with large Latino populations …
   21. Her district includes undocumented and “mixed-status” families, she said.
   22. Data obtained by the Tribune through a Freedom of Information Act request shows that attendance rates fell at all schools across CPS the week of Jan. 20, when the 47th president was sworn in. Over 50% of students attending the 10 schools that experienced the biggest attendance drops are Latino, according to enrollment data on the district’s website.
   23. The names of the schools are being withheld at the request [of Chicago Public Schools] out of concern for potential retaliation from the federal government.
   24. The bill, Jiménez said, remains a priority for the legislative Latino Caucus. She added that she has been working with the Illinois attorney general’s office to make the bill more resistant to any federal action. For her, it is personal.
   25. [Jiménez said that] Her mother was undocumented for the majority of her life “because of the difficulties with the immigration system.”
   26. Though her mother never had a criminal record and was an “exemplary” volunteer in her community, Jiménez said someone else in the same situation as her mother “is being targeted right now.”  She wants to ensure that families in that same situation have peace of mind amid so much uncertainty.
   27. [Jiménez said of the Trump administration,] “They’re knocking on people’s doors. They’re going to schools. Also, the fact that they’re throwing due process out the window … Everything they’re doing in the courts is completely unprecedented.”
   28. MIKE: This story actually brings up a lot to consider.
   29. MIKE: First, as I mentioned, an uneducated underclass — documented or not — is not in the national interest. Also as I mentioned earlier, undocumented immigrants have no choice but to pay taxes, so they are paying for a school education for their kids.
   30. MIKE: There’s also the public health danger created by fear of ICE or CBP arrest because if any person is sick and fails to seek medical care out of fear of deportation, they can make others ill, and even start a local epidemic.
   31. MIKE: In other words, we want all people residing in this country to be healthy and not to fear seeking medical assistance.
   32. MIKE: There was a provocative political cartoon I saw this week titleDd “Schrodinger’s Immigrant.” On the one hand, Rightwingers object to lazy immigrants taking free government benefits while also claiming that immigrants are taking jobs from Americans. Upon a moment’s consideration, both cannot simultaneously be true.
   33. MIKE: Things that make you go, “Hmmmm.”
9. In international news, I ran across a post on Facebook that is worth reading here. It’s from June 12, and is entitled — From a military perspective, there is little question that Israel was right to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities; The author has some credentials. According to Wikipedia, the author, Yaakov Katz, is an American-born Israeli journalist, the author of four books on the Israel military, and the former Editor-in-Chief of The Jerusalem Post. TAGS: Israel, Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas, Syria, Nuclear Facilities, Atomic Bombs, Non-Proliferation, Military Conflict, Israel-Iran War,
   1. This is what he says:
   2. From a military perspective, there is little question that Israel was right to strike Iran’s nuclear facilities. It took advantage of a unique window of opportunity that stemmed from three primary factors.
   3. The first was the degradation of Iran’s regional proxies. For years, when the issue of attacking Iran would come up around the cabinet table, one of the main arguments against it was the retaliation Israel would face — from Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, and Iranian forces in Syria. That concern is no longer what it once was.
   4. Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria has fallen and, due to Israeli airstrikes, has lost nearly all of its strategic military capabilities. Hezbollah, while still dangerous, is a shadow of its former self – its arsenal has been significantly degraded, and its freedom of movement within Lebanon is more constrained. As for Hamas, it may have succeeded in dragging the IDF into what feels like a never-ending war in Gaza, but its ability to strike inside Israel is almost non-existent.
   5. What remains are a few dozen Houthi missiles in Yemen and Iran’s own and powerful arsenal of a few thousand long-range ballistic missiles.
   6. We know that the Israeli strike against Iran also targeted missile launchers and storage sites, hopefully succeeding in limiting Tehran’s ability to retaliate. This makes the potential cost of such a strike lower than it would have been two or even three years ago. 
   7. The second factor was operational capability — whether Israel can actually pull off such a strike. This has long been one of the most difficult questions, involving a mix of logistical, technological, and strategic challenges: Can the Israeli Air Force reach Iran? Can it drop munitions on a wide-range of targets, and can it penetrate heavily fortified underground facilities like Natanz and Fordow where the regime enriches uranium?
   8. Until recently, this was mostly theoretical. But even before today, we knew more. In April and again in October last year, Israeli Air Force jets — including the advanced F-35I — flew more than 2,000 kilometers into Iranian airspace and struck a couple dozen targets, including Iran’s Russian-made S-300 surface-to-air missile systems. These systems had been considered the primary deterrent to an Israeli airstrike and their destruction has now made Iran’s airspace wide open.
   9. Penetrating fortified sites remains a challenge, but there is reason to believe Israel has the means. Over the past two years, the IDF has demonstrated advanced bunker-busting capabilities in Gaza’s tunnel network and, more dramatically, in Beirut last September when it eliminated Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah in a heavily fortified underground command center — a facility many had assumed might be beyond the Israel Air Force’s reach.
   10. The third factor was the change in Washington. While President Donald Trump said he preferred a diplomatic deal with Iran, negotiations have stalled. Trump initially expressed optimism about reaching an agreement, but just this week he sounded more skeptical, citing Iran’s continued insistence to enrich uranium on its own soil as the main sticking point.
   11. We now know that Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were coordinated and that the comments coming out of Washington, that a deal might still be possible, were part of a planned ruse to put the Iranians to sleep.
   12. The window of opportunity needed to be used since it was not going to remain open indefinitely. The more time passes, the more Iran will rebuild — its air defenses, its proxies, and its offensive capabilities.
   13. In Gaza, we already see signs of Hamas reconstituting its forces and replenishing its weapons stockpiles. In Lebanon, Israel struck multiple buildings in Beirut just last week where Hezbollah was reportedly producing explosive drones. Iran will do the same.
   14. But here’s the harder question — the one no one really knows how to answer: What happens the day after a potential strike?
   15. There is no doubt that Israel’s attack can and will cause serious damage to Iran’s nuclear program and set it back. But will it stop Tehran’s pursuit of a bomb? 
   16. The likely answer is no. If anything, it could accelerate the regime’s drive to achieve a nuclear weapons capability, especially if it believes that military action will now be the default response and determine that the only real deterrent is an independent nuclear capability.
   17. And unlike Iraq in 1981 or Syria in 2007 — both of which relied on foreign actors to build and run their nuclear programs — Iran has the technical expertise, data, and knowledge to rebuild on its own. It won’t need French or North Korean scientists: The know-how is indigenous.
   18. Some argue that a strike could spark a popular uprising and that the oppressed Iranian people — suffering under decades of brutal ayatollah rule — might finally rise up and take to the streets. But the opposite could just as easily happen. The regime might use the attack to unify the population around the flag, bury its nuclear infrastructure even deeper where it will obtain the bomb, and buy even longer political survival.
   19. All of which underscores why the strike needed to be coordinated with the United States.
   20. There is one final issue — arguably the most troubling — and that is the crisis of trust within Israel itself.
   21. In today’s fractured political environment, with faith in the government at an all-time low, it is hard to imagine any operation of this magnitude being viewed purely through the lens of national security. Many Israelis would see it instead through the prism of politics and personal survival – particularly that of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
   22. This is unfortunate. A mission like this, that touches on the very existence of the State of Israel, and which could escalate into a larger regional war and trigger unprecedented attacks on Israeli cities, should ideally be undertaken when the public is united, when its government has broad legitimacy, and when the people believe their leaders are acting out of strategic necessity, and not personal preservation.
   23. That is not the situation in Israel today.
   24. Does that mean the attack shouldn’t have happened? No. Israel could not miss this window of opportunity — and if the intelligence was sound, the moment right, and the objectives clear, then there was room to decide that the mission needed to go ahead.
   25. But for that to happen, Netanyahu will need to do something he has not done in a long time: rebuild public trust. And he needs to start doing that now.
   26. MIKE: Donald Rumsfeld’s odd but brilliant summation applies here: “[T]here are known knowns, … things we know we know. … [T]here are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don’t know we don’t know. …”
   27. MIKE: I remember seeing that news conference, and when he said this, Rumsfeld’s convoluted-sounding explanation got some chuckles from the reporters present, but it’s actually a brilliant analysis of how to view complex problems with serious potential consequences.
   28. MIKE: One known unknown from a public perspective is whether Iran was as close to being able to build a bomb as Netanyahu claimed. The Israelis may know this and maybe the Americans know this, but the public just has to take Bibi’s word for it.
   29. MIKE: A known known is that the military threat potential to Israel from Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, and Iran and its proxies has been seriously degraded. Just how degraded is a partially known known by Israel and the US. Only the actual players know for sure.
   30. MIKE: Absolutely unknown unknowns are the short-, medium- and long-term ramifications of Israel’s actions.
   31. MIKE: In no particular order: How effective will Iran’s retaliation be against Israel? Do any of Iran’s proxies have a meaningful capability to aid Iran against Israel? What will the US role be in these actions, even while the US is claiming non-participation? What will Israel do as a follow-up to their initial strikes?
   32. MIKE: Is there any danger of radiation leakage as a result of Israels attack on nuclear facilities, and how serious is that danger? What will other countries and extra-national entities do in response? Will any countries in the region that Iran has actively been attempting to destabilize see this as an opportunity to act against Iran in some ways, while not appearing to support Israel?
   33. MIKE: Will any of this actually destabilize Iran’s Islamic government in a way that might lead to regime change, while also remembering that overthrowing one bad regime does not automatically lead to a better one?
   34. MIKE: And the great, big, scary question: What is the danger that this exchange — is it too early to call it an Iran-Israel war? — will grow into a much bigger regional war? And even one that might bring in major powers from far outside the immediate region?
   35. MIKE: Here’s the ultimate unknown unknown: Major wars can cause huge and almost entirely unforeseeable consequences. What nations will these changes ultimately favor, and which nations will suddenly be disadvantaged?
   36. MIKE: About 5 years ago, I started saying on this show that it was feeling like we were in a pre-war period comparable to the 1930s. At the time, I was imagining east Asia and the Pacific. I admit that I didn’t see these current conflicts coming, but I’m not yet ruling out the Asia-Pacific region.
   37. MIKE: The danger of a conflict with China is now in the so-called “Davidson window“. Quoting Google AI: “This term originated from Admiral Philip Davidson, the former commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, who testified to Congress in 2021 that China might be prepared to act on its ambitions to control Taiwan by 2027.”
   38. MIKE: I’ve suggested that the window is actually from 2025 to 2030. I base that on my readings that China’s military-age population, their military build-up, their economy, and their industrial capacity might peak within that time frame.
   39. MIKE: On the other hand, also within that time frame, the US is in a military rebuilding period. In order to pay for military hardware upgrades, we’re retiring old aircraft, ships, and other equipment in order to pay for the new stuff.
   40. MIKE: That means that when China is at its peak of military potential, the US might be at its nadir as it rebuilds it navy, air force, and ground assets. And let’s not even talk about the US’s current inability to produce large amounts of weapons and ammunition quickly. And the US is looking to be in this “readiness valley” until about 2035.
   41. MIKE: Add to that the number of regions where the US is already extended almost to the point of being over-extended.
   42. MIKE: Plus, our current national leadership is both corrupt and incompetent, and has worked hard at alienating our traditional allies.
   43. MIKE: And then add on to that that we can’t be sure that Trump wouldn’t be perfectly happy to have a war in order to make himself a wartime president and less vulnerable to things like, say, impeachment somewhere down the line.
   44. MIKE: These are indeed dangerous times.

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