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Cheers and Jeers: Tuesday [1]

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Date: 2025-06-24

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Follow Netroots Nation via BlueSky and Facebook here. That’s it for now. Stay tuned for the announcement of keynoters and other fun stuff in future updates.

And now, our feature presentation...

Cheers and Jeers for Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Note: Now on sale in the C&J gift shop: the new limited-edition, hand-painted porcelain Tranquility Lighthouse rectal thermometer. Lights up and makes authentic ocean sounds! Upon insertion hear the lighthouse keeper yell, "Ahoy there!" Motion activated. Requires 4 size D batteries (not included). The perfect gift for all the assholes in your life.

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By the Numbers:

4 days!!!

Days 'til Terrorize America's Pets With Fireworks Day: 10

Days 'til the National Cherry Festival in Traverse City, Michigan: 4

Current main interest rate in the U.S. and U.K., respectively: 4.3%, 4.25%

Amount hackers with possible ties to Israel have drained from Iran’s cryptocurrency exchange Nobitex: $90 million

Percent chance that the U.S. terrorist group "The Proud Boys" will follow through on their promise to cut ties with Trump for bombing Iran in violation of "America First" something something: 0%

Penis size of the average Proud Boy: 1"

Expected high today in Portland, Maine: 101F

NBA Finals Oklahoma City beats Indiana 4 games to 3 to win the championship.

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Puppy Pic of the Day: Hugo's favorite toy wags…

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JEERS to the big whiff. Good morning, The Planet. How are you? I am fine. Look, there's simply no way to sugarcoat this, so I'll state it plain: our country, the United States of America, sent a bunch of military jets to bomb Iran's stockpiles of enriched uranium so they won't, like us, the world's current most-unstable country, be able to build nuclear bombs willy-nilly. The president even crowed Saturday night that we'd "completely and totally obliterated" the targeted sites and their precious radioactive fuel. Now please DON’T FREAK OUT OVER WHAT I'M ABOUT TO TELL YOU. Keep an open mind, The Planet. It's just a little…correction:

The smoke had barely settled from the United States' bombing campaign against Iranian nuclear facilities over the weekend when it became clear that—contrary to President Donald Trump's claims—Iran's nuclear facilities were not completely destroyed and their capabilities were only damaged. And it appears that the president's thirst for spectacle and suspense may actually have given the Iranians the advanced warning they needed to thwart anything worse from happening to them, conservative attorney George Conway wrote on X Monday morning.

Sure, we may have elected the most incompetent warmongers into office. But we're still the birthplace of Twinkies, nylon stockings, and the pet rock. So…bygones?

CHEERS to today’s edition of Hey Little Marco, Did You Borrow That Spray-On Hair From Stephen Miller?

This has been today’s edition of Hey Little Marco, Did You Borrow That Spray-On Hair From Stephen Miller?

CHEERS to the 19th century comeback kid. Grover Cleveland ran this crazy republic from 1885 to 1889, sat on the sidelines for four years after losing to Benjamin Harrison, and then bounced back to wrangle the White House for another term in 1892, making him both #22 and #24 in the history books. And speaking of paper currency: while Lincoln has to make do with the $5 bill and Washington only gets the buck, Cleveland gets the friggin' grand…

Anyway, he shuffled off his mortal coil 117 years ago today at age 71 and so far he hasn't bounced back from that. But as a wise zombie once said: "Never say die."

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BRIEF SANITY BREAK

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WHOOPS to pissing off the wrong people. 149 years ago this week, in 1876, General George Armstrong Custer and his 7th Cavalry met their Waterloo at the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana. Moments after the shooting stopped, a corporal arrived on the scene with an urgent message from HQ: "Duck!" Fate is a cruel master.

CHEERS to Greg Abbott's high water mark. He's one of America's most sadistic governors. Among his favorite activities is using taxpayer money to wrap immigrants in barbed wire, load them into a catapult, and launch them at New England. But wedged into his 110-gallon hat (by law his gets to be bigger than everyone else's) there appears to be a microscopic dab of functional brain tissue, because on Sunday he terminated the suspense and did the right thing for once:

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott vetoed a bill Sunday to ban all THC consumables, allowing the booming market flush with THC-infused vapes, gummies and other products to continue to be sold across the state. Casting your eyes on Governor Abbott can turn you into a pillar of barbecue, so here’s an armadillo pic instead. Abbott, a Republican, waited until the final moment to veto the bill in what would have been one of the most restrictive THC bans in the country and a significant blow to the state's billion-dollar industry. Texas has some of the strictest marijuana laws in the country, prohibiting all recreational use and providing a limited medical marijuana program. The consumables market has allowed residents to legally access goods giving a similar high to marijuana.

The snack food industry issued a one-word press release: "Phew." (Ironically, it was a joint statement.)

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Ten years ago in C&J: June 24, 2015

JEERS to a crude response. Hey, let's see how all the new whiz-bang technology the fossil-fuel industry says is making cleanups faster and more thorough is going in California. I bet it's awesome:

Along a stretch of beach heavily marred by a crude oil spill, workers in hard hats and white protective suits use wire brushes and putty knives to scrape the black liquid off cobblestones and cliff faces. … Scrubbing rocks by hand will take time, however. "It's a very labor-intensive process, but that's where we're at now," Carl Childs of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, one of several agencies involved in the cleanup, said recently.

But I hear the hard hats are very advanced.

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And just one more…

JEERS to today’s weather for Portland, Maine. Let’s turn it over to our director of meteorological operations, who we sent out onto the sidewalk for this live report on the heat dome currently in full swing up here:

“I’m gonna get you for this, Bill, you son of a...”

Hey, thanks! Join us for our next live outdoor weather update, when we’ll check and see if our assistant director, Joanie Baconrasher, is ready to be turned.

Have a tolerable Tuesday. Floor's open...What are you cheering and jeering about today?

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Today's Shameless C&J Testimonial President Donald Trump may have just hurled America into the Cheers and Jeers kiddie pool because he was mad nobody liked his recent military parade. —Rex Huppke

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