Tuesday, June 23, 2026

Huge -- Finally Some Adulting -- "Due Process" -- Fraudulent Interpretation -- June 23, 2026

Locator: 51043ARCHIVES.

One last cry. Link here. MADE WITH AI.  Lana Del Rey did not sing this song! This is so interesting, so remarkable on so many levels. I shared it with my wife: she heard the opening lines and said she hate it. So, there's that. I love it. 

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Deportations

Geiger Capital will applaud this.

Link here.

Zach Montague, June 23, 2026.

From the linked article: 

In a 2-to-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel ruled that the president can expand the procedure, previously used primarily near the border, to arrests nationally.

A federal appeals court on Tuesday allowed the Trump administration to resume using a fast-track deportation process throughout the country that is typically reserved for people apprehended shortly after crossing the southern border.

The decision revived a pillar of President Trump’s mass deportation plans, after a lower court ruled last August that attempts to use the procedure to potentially remove millions of people without immigration hearings most likely violated their due process rights and risked wrongful detentions.

In a 2-to-1 vote, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that it did not violate immigrants’ rights to to expand a process to the outer limits of what is allowed under the law. Judge Justin R. Walker, a Trump appointee, wrote the majority opinion, joined by Judge Neomi Rao, also a Trump appointee. Judge Robert L. Wilkins, an Obama appointee, wrote in a dissent that he would have let the lower court’s ruling stand.

Writing for the majority, Judge Walker wrote that Congress had delegated to the executive branch decisions about which migrants to designate for expedited deportations. He included a short history of how different administrations had expanded and reduced expedited removal.

Some Things Simply Work And That's All There Is To It -- June 23, 2026

Locator: 51042ARCHIVES.

A musical interlude: Imelda May, "Tainted Love." Link here.

Movies:

  • Casablanca
  • Chinatown

Television:

  • Leverage with Timothy Hutton (Nathan Ford)

YouTube Music

  • "Blondie"

Technology:  

  • Apple -- the entire eco-system
  • chatbots 

US government:

  • Department of Defense (Department of War) 
  • USAF - USN - USA - USMC 

Fast food

  • McDonald's 

Retail:

  • Walmart
  • service stations 

e-Retail:

  • Amazon Prime

Streaming

  • Spectrum --Philips smart TV -- Hulu  

Toys

  • Lego

Cars

  • Honda 

US State

  • Texas 

Investing

  • Schwab  
  • Roth IRA 

Taxes

  • my tax accountant  

Highways

  • US interstate system 

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Two New Permits; Eleven Permits Renewed

Locator: 51041B.

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Back to the Bakken 

WTI: $73.21.

Active rigs: 28.

Two new permits, #43060 and #43061 --

  • Operator: Formentera Operations;
  • Field: Baukol Noonan, Divide County
  • Comments: 
    • Formentera has permits for two Laguna Vista, SESE 13-162-96; 
      • to be sited 608 FSL and 419 / 535 FEL.

Eleven permits renewed:

  • BR (7): seven Sequoiafill permits, Hawkeye oil field, McKenzie County;
  • Lime Rock Resources (4):  three Jore Fed permits, and one Sten Rav permit; all in Sten Fork, McKenzie County.

US Economy Doing Just Fine -- Olivia's First USAF Jet Flight -- The "White Rocket" -- June 23, 2026

Locator: 51040ECONOMY.

Northrop's T-38 Talon. YouTube. The T-38 is the jet that the US astronauts have at their disposal for training and transportation. 

See also this link. 

June 12, 2026:

Grandchild #2 -- jet fighter flight today. Some weeks ago, Olivia, shaved her head to the scalp. Think Demi Moore. LOL. 

I see she is letting her hair grow out. T-38 jet / F-5. She's at the USAF test flight base, Edwards Air Force Base. She arrived at Edwards AFB the day the B-52 crashed, killing eight members on board. She was scheduled to take this flight on June 15, 2026. Because the runway was closed after the B-52 crash, her training took her back into the simulator. 

Her jet fighter instructor start out in life as a helicopter pilot. What an incredible model.

I flew many, many flights / sorties in the F-15D practicing air combat maneuvers, the F-5 fighters from  RAF Alconbury, England. So, "it has" come full circle.

Olivia.

 

Olivia (no sunglasses) and SeaDub (with sunglasses) 

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Other News


Apple (AAPL)
: the Apple -- Intel announcement comes at exactly the right time. Link here.

Amazon Prime Day (days / week): starts today, ends Friday. 

There was a recent article comparing Target's subscription program with Amazon Prime. In my mind, there's no question, and we live next door to a Target. In addition to everything else, we get a lot of exclusive NASCAR races on Amazon Prime Television (streaming). I don't think Target has a streaming network; could be wrong. Target definitely doesn't the SKU volume that Prime has.

Manufacturing PMI: does one need to go back to 2022, right after Covid, to see these numbers? 

World's Largest AI Supercomputer Has Come On Line -- MSFT -- Wisconsin -- June 23, 2026

Locator: 51039COMPUTER.

I track supercomputers here. Up until now, this website was for "traditional supercomputers." I guess we start adding "AI supercomputers" now. 

Right on the lake. North of Chicago, south of Milwaukee and southeast of Madison.