Here's a recap of the damage. Several EF-3 tornados. https://abc7chicago.com/post/chicago-illinois-weather-tornadoes-leave-damage-area-streator-nw-indiana/19280623/

@wtg said: Not even one Scaramucci's worth. LOLOL

https://abovethelaw.com/2026/06/court-sanctions-lawyers-from-both-sides-in-the-same-lawsuit-for-filing-briefs-with-ai-hallucinated-cases/ Court Sanctions Lawyers From Both Sides In The Same Lawsuit For Filing Briefs With AI-Hallucinated Cases You know it's good just from the headline. Imagine you being the clients realizing your megabuck legal fees ultimately went to feed an AI model to argue against itself.

There were a couple books (fiction) about these librarians that I enjoyed a while back. One was The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes. I remember my mom-in-law coming out of my sunroom saying, “I love this book!” She was in early stages of dementia then; she doesn’t read any more. So thanks for the article, and also for the sweet memory!

Is our children learning yet?-- GWB

In seriousness, people keep saying this happened today, but he’s owned the same amount of SpaceX for a long time. It’s just that it became easier to estimate the value of his stake today. He was a trillionaire last month too.

What Bernard said. Most of us would like to look forward.

This is great. I’ve always been somewhat skeptical of hydrogen since, to date, it has basically been a battery technology not a true energy source. But this is different. Apparently there are around 2x the recoverable reserves of hydrogen as there are of nat gas. I had no idea!

Out for a walk around a local Wildlife Trust area with ponds and river and there were loads of ox eye daisy, flocks and campion. And lovely water lilies [image: 1781236077354-20260607_120015-resized.jpg] Meanwhile my sisters garden is in full bloom with yellow scabious [image: 1781236426195-20260609_130953.jpg] A pure white peony [image: 1781236447723-20260609_130813-resized.jpg] And rampant fragrant rose with clematis [image: 1781236523498-20260609_130719.jpg]

It’s clearly the work of those same aliens responsible for crop circles.