Today's News: Keep on truckin' and just maybe you can win! Plus, updates on Epstein-gate, CUSMA, and Pride

In sports, today's message is "keep on truckin' and just maybe you will win!"

First, a spectacular comeback win by The Knicks

This is the only time ever in the NBA Finals that a team had overcome a 29-point deficit at half-time. They broke the Trump Curse and all of New York was just ecstatic.

Cast of Laocoön and his Sons (Roman version of a lost Greek original), 100BC-50AD

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— ArtButMakeItSports (@artbutmakeitsports.bsky.social) June 10, 2026 at 9:51 PM

That winning basket was tipped in by OG Anunoby, who was a Raptor in 2019 when they won the NBA Finals (though he missed the postseason due to an emergency appendectomy, he had played 67 regular-season games for the team that year and so he officially earned his first ring.)

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Loved those Swiftie shirts too:

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Even the US soccer team was cheering the Knicks:

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It took the first half of the game to get Trump's stink out of Madison Square Gardens:

Knicks fans burning sage outside MSG ahead of Game 4 to purge the bad luck left behind from Trump’s attendance

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— The Independent (@the-independent.com) June 10, 2026 at 2:44 PM

Wu Tang Clan is credited for changing the MSG vibe at their half-time show.

ok they got wu tang clan instead and it worked

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— mtsw (@mtsw.bsky.social) June 10, 2026 at 10:14 PM

Next, it was great to see Serena Williams and Vicki Mboko win their tennis match at the 2026 Queen's Club, London tournament round of 16. Terrific to see Williams playing again, and Mboko is extraordinary.

But some awful news today that Mboko twisted her knee at her singles match against Karolina Pliskova and has had to withdraw from the tournament. So she and Williams won't be playing in the quarter-finals after all.

Williams is due to play doubles again at the Berlin Open next week, with Czech player Karolina Muchova.

Next, how about those San Francisco Giants!
In the 8th inning, they were down by a score of 9 to 1 against the Washington Nationals. Then they won the game 11-10!



Next, the World Cup is starting this week.
I wish I could get more excited about it but Trump and his CBP Gestapo have sucked the joy out of it for millions of people. 

That said, I have seen some good posts today.

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Meanwhile, in the "home of the brave"...

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The US isn't going to get any respect:

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Some of the team photos are amazing:

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And in Somalia

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This is just shameful - Infantino whines "...we try to do our best..."

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Finally, I thought this was helpful, for all of us who never played soccer and know little about it:

Feeling left out during #WorldCup or soccer conversations? While Savannah Ridley can’t turn you a total soccer buff, she just might be able to help you fake it. ⚽ trib.al/gUOMZpT

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— Toronto Star (@thestar.com) June 10, 2026 at 11:01 AM

Epstein-Gate Update
The New York Times dropped a major article today

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Here is a gift link to the New York Times article, by reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan

On July 17, 2025, at around 6 o’clock in the evening, President Trump’s top officials filed into the White House Situation Room — the secure bunker where classified and high-stakes national security matters are discussed and decided. This was where President Barack Obama, along with Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and the president’s national security team, watched the raid that ended with the death of Osama bin Laden in 2011.
Now, however, Trump’s most senior advisers had gathered — without him — to figure out how to gain some measure of control over a very different kind of crisis threatening to engulf the presidency: the Epstein files.
Ten days earlier, the Justice Department and the F.B.I. had jointly released a memo that bluntly stated that their review had found no “client list” of powerful men for whom the notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein had allegedly procured underage girls and young women. Intended to put to rest years of speculation and end the pressure campaign to release the voluminous material in the department’s possession, the memo instead had the opposite effect, setting off a backlash that was notably loud among the MAGA base.
And it was about to get worse: The Wall Street Journal was preparing a damaging article about Trump’s relationship with Epstein. The president’s desperate attempts to kill the story had failed. His team now had to get everyone onto the same page about how to counter the growing swarm of attention. They needed a gesture of transparency to appease an increasingly angry base, but also a way to convey the message that the president was sympathetic to his supporters’ concerns. Which itself was a problem, because he clearly wasn’t....

Later on, the story explains Trump's "nipples" scandal:

... In the emails, Ransome claimed that she knew a girl in Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring named Jen, who said she had sex with Trump. Ransome also claimed that Jen had told her that Trump had a predilection for nipples and that he had aggressively flicked and sucked hers. Ransome wrote that she had seen evidence when she shared a bathroom with Jen. “They looked incredibly painful as they were red and swollen and I remember wincing when I looked at them,” she wrote.
...Some of Trump’s advisers in the Situation Room had never heard of the nipple claim; those who had seemed to have only a passing familiarity with it. Many in the room thought this was all just discredited nonsense. But it might not matter.
... One official would later describe it as a “surreal” experience to be discussing nipples in the White House Situation Room.
This was, in miniature, the entire problem the White House had with the Epstein files: Piles of accusations were impossible to disprove and equally impossible to make go away. Every door they opened led to another room, and in every room were more claims from more women...

In a sidebar article [gift link], Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan summarize their main points:

... The government’s national-security bunker became an Epstein war room...
The president wanted the whole thing buried...
Vice President JD Vance wanted to release all the files — even the unsubstantiated material about Trump...
Expletive-laden blowups fractured the top of the Justice Department...
Advisers found themselves having a surreal debate over an unverified allegation about Mr. Trump...
More than a year later, the files were still damaging the president...

Trump’s staff meeting in the Situation Room about the Epstein cover-up is like a fire drill where everyone brought gasoline just to be safe.

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— 𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 (@sundaedivine.lol) June 11, 2026 at 2:04 AM

Moving on, today's least surprising news story is that Trump says he doesn't want to continue CUSMA.
Canada responds ...

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Canada agrees with Tod Maffin "We're not mad. We're just done."

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Carney, in the meantime, is so well known that he is getting his own Lego videos now

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