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Monday, June 16, 2025

Soros, 94, absent from son’s wedding, at ‘intimate family service’, insider insists ‘in good health’

 Billionaire George Soros was not at the Saturday wedding of his son Alex Soros and Hillary Clinton aide Huma Abedin, Page Six can exclusively reveal.

But while the top Democratic donor skipped the Saturday nups, the father of the groom, 94, did attend a smaller Friday family service, which was reportedly officiated by a rabbi and an imam in celebration of both Abedin’s Muslim faith and Soros’ Jewish heritage. 

Guests at the blowout Saturday event at Alex’s sprawling estate in Water Mill, N.Y., included Bill and Hillary Clinton, Kamala Harris and Doug Emhoff, Nancy Pelosi, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries, “The Tonight Show” host Jimmy Fallon, Vogue icon Anna Wintour and Nicky Hilton Rothschild.

A source close to the elder Soros told Page Six that the philanthropist and his wife Tamiko Bolton, “hosted an intimate family service on Friday morning at their home.”

George Soros did not attend the Saturday wedding of his son, Alex.via REUTERS
The insider added that Soros is “94 years old and in good health,” when asked if the billionaire might’ve skipped the Saturday event for any health reasons.

It wasn’t otherwise clear why Alex’s dad didn’t attend the bigger bash.

We previously reported that Boyz II Men — the band behind ’90s hits like “End of the Road” and “Motownphilly” — performed on Saturday night, while toasts were made by speakers including Abedin’s son, Jordan (whom she shares with ex-husband Anthony Weiner), and the prime minister of Albania, Edi Rama.

The billionaire father-of-the-groom did attend a smaller Friday family service.
Page Six exclusively revealed that Soros and Huma Abedin were engaged.@humaabedin/Instagram

Reports said that Alex’s brother Jonathan, Hillary Clinton and Wintour also spoke at the Saturday event, where the menu included agnolotti pasta, chilled pea soup, American Wagyu steak and grilled prawns.

“Anyone who was anyone was there,” an insider said of the star-studded wedding where guests also included Microsoft scion Rory Gates.

According to Vogue, the bride wore two custom wedding dresses for the two-ceremony celebration: one by Erdem and one by Givenchy.

The event was at Alex’s Water Mill, NY, estate.INSTARimages.com
Guests at the wedding included Bill and Hillary Clinton and other VIPs.INSTARimages.com

The mag reported: “On Friday, there was an intimate service at Soros’s father’s home in Southampton with family and friends, to sign the Nikah in honor of Abedin’s Muslim faith and the Ketubah in honor of Soros’s Jewish heritage.” And, “On Saturday, a larger celebration took place at the couple’s home nearby.”

Earlier this year, top Dem donor George Soros and Hillary Clinton were awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, by then-President Biden at a White House ceremony. 

The Hungarian-born hedge-fund billionaire gave more than $175 million to Democrats during the 2022 midterms, according to Federal Election Commission records — and in 2024 gave another $60 million for House and Senate Democrats and other left-wing causes through his Democracy PAC, records showed. 

Soros and Abedin got engaged last summer.
The band Boyz II Men played the nuptials.@alexsoros/Instagram

Page Six exclusively revealed earlier this year that billionaire Soros’ 39-year-old son and Clinton’s former aide, 48, sent out save-the-date cards for their New York nuptials in February.

Page Six also broke the news of the power couple’s engagement last summer. “It’s a classic Clinton world couple,” an insider subsequently told us. “Alex is the perfect match for Huma. He’s insanely wealthy and powerful — everything that Huma cares about.”

Abedin was previously married to disgraced Democratic politician Weiner, but she filed for divorce in 2017 — nine months after his infamous “Carlos Danger” sexting scandal surfaced.

https://pagesix.com/2025/06/16/society/george-soros-absent-from-son-alexs-wedding-to-huma-abedin/

Iran comes crawling back to the negotiating table -reports

 

Is Israel getting Iran good?

Sure looks like it, with this report from the Wall Street Journal:

DUBAI—Iran has been urgently signaling that it seeks an end to hostilities and resumption of talks over its nuclear programs, sending messages to Israel and the U.S. via Arab intermediaries, Middle Eastern and European officials said.

In the midst of a ferocious Israeli air campaign, Tehran has told Arab officials it would be open to returning to the negotiating table as long as the U.S. doesn’t join the attack, the officials said. Iran also passed messages to Israel saying it is in the interest of both sides to keep the violence contained.

Reuters has a very similar story here.

The Journal notes that Israeli aircraft are flying freely over Tehran and there's not a thing the mullahs can do to stop them.

This is one example of what that means, among many:

The moment the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting TV studios was struck by Israeli rockets. pic.twitter.com/zdnGspVBj5

— Raymond Arroyo (@RaymondArroyo) June 16, 2025

They had their cheerleaders in the Western press. but the backdrop of the building on fire is a beaut:

It’s his real account. 😬 https://t.co/OHtaN8Xeor

— Christina Hoff Sommers (@CHSommers) June 16, 2025

And the mullahs are reportedly not coping well:

JUST IN 🔴

Israeli official says Khamenei is in a troubled mental state, struggling to cope with the loss of close associates and unable to adapt to their replacements. - Channel 12: pic.twitter.com/4nLdRGX50i

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) June 16, 2025

So now they want to return to the negotiating table -- after some fifty years of bloodcurdling rhetoric and vicious warfare, from themselves and their crummy little proxies. 

Now Israel is having its way.

What it tells us is Israel must really have them on the ropes, having taken out their proxies in Hamas and Hezb'allah and to some extent the Houthis, and then disabling their air force. Doing that has allowed Israel to dispense with expensivee missile strikes, and just send the fighter jets in to take out everything that needs to be taken out.

As President Trump has noted, these clowns had their chance, but instead of cut a deal with President Trump, they blew it.

Now they're getting the stick, and they're crying uncle.

Well, so long as Israel has the wherewithal to win in this war against Iran, they really ought to finish the job, so Iran won't make them come over again. Most of the world is sick and tired of these lunatics who are now getting what they deserve. Let's hope Israel, to the extent it practically can, and the U.S., ignore this call for more endless talks which are likely only a bid to buy time and arm up some more.

What Iran' mullahs need to be doing now, if they want to survive, is start surrendering unconditionally. At this late date, and after all they've pulled, the solution for them is a complete surrender, a complete rebuilding, much as Japan had to take at the end of World War II.

They had their chance, and now it's time for something different.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/06/iran_comes_crawling_back_to_the_negotiating_table_reports.html

Cracks in the OpenAI-Microsoft relationship are reportedly widening

 OpenAI and Microsoft may be reaching an inflection point in their relationship, according to a report from The Wall Street Journal.

The report, citing anonymous sources, says OpenAI executives have considered publicly accusing Microsoft of anticompetitive behavior throughout their partnership. OpenAI executives also mulled whether to seek a federal regulatory review of their contract with Microsoft.

OpenAI is trying to loosen Microsoft’s grip on its intellectual property and computing resources, but the startup also needs the tech giant’s approval to complete its for-profit conversion.

The two companies are in a standoff over OpenAI’s $3 billion acquisition of the AI coding startup, Windsurf. OpenAI doesn’t want Microsoft to get Windsurf’s intellectual property — which could enhance the cloud provider’s own AI coding tool, GitHub Copilot — according to the report.

While Microsoft was once a major accelerant to OpenAI’s growth, the companies’ relationship has grown tense. In recent months, OpenAI has reportedly tried to reduce its reliance on Microsoft for cloud services.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/16/the-cracks-in-the-openai-microsoft-relationship-are-reportedly-widening/

'Trump to Abruptly Depart G-7 After Calling for Tehran Evacuation'

 

President Donald Trump is set to abruptly depart the Group of Seven leaders’ summit in Canada, hours after he took to social media to call for the evacuation of Iran’s capital Tehran.

Trump’s change of plans was announced about an hour after he urged Iran’s leadership to sign a deal to limit its nuclear program and Israel signaled strikes would continue.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said Trump was leaving for Washington “so he can attend to many important matters,” and in a follow-up post on X said the departure was due to “what’s going on in the Middle East.”

It wasn’t clear if Trump knew of a fresh round of attacks Israel may have planned for the city, which has a population of more than 9 million people, nor what the next steps will be for the US when the American president arrives in Washington. Despite the abrupt announcement, Trump is expected to participate in a dinner before leaving the summit Monday evening.

Israel had earlier warned one Tehran neighborhood to evacuate and video showed massive traffic jams as people sought to escape. Soon after Trump’s post, Iran’s Fars news agency reported several explosions east of the city.

“Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign,” Trump wrote in a social media post. “What a shame, and waste of human life. Simply stated, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON. I said it over and over again! Everyone should immediately evacuate Tehran!”

In another pair of Truth Social posts, Trump appeared to hit back at Republican-leaning critics who’ve warned against US entanglement in Israel’s offensive against Iran. “AMERICA FIRST means many GREAT things, including the fact that, IRAN CAN NOT HAVE A NUCLEAR WEAPON,” he wrote in one.

Trump’s comments jolted markets with US equity index futures turning modestly lower and crude contracts erasing declines.

Earlier in the day, Trump had said Iran wanted to make a deal, and “as soon as I leave here, we’re going to be doing something.” He didn’t provide any more details.

French President Emmanuel Macron suggested that Trump’s early departure from the G-7 meeting could mean a positive development in the ongoing conflict between Iran and Israel.

“If the US can obtain a ceasefire that is a good thing,” Macron told reporters in Alberta.

Alex Pfeiffer, a White House spokesperson, denied claims on social media that the US would join Israel in its military offensive against Iran.

“American forces are maintaining their defensive posture, and that has not changed,” he said in a post to X.

Ongoing campaign

Israeli officials have said their forces have taken control over much of Iranian airspace and severely damaged key facilities used in Iran’s missile and nuclear programs since the assault was launched Friday, sparking fears of a widening conflict in the Middle East.

“They want to stop and continue producing the weapons of death, both the nuclear weapons that threaten our existence and the ballistic missiles, but we are committed to destroying these two threats,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a press conference Monday, before Trump’s latest comments. “If that can be achieved in another way, please – but we gave it a chance for 60 days,” he added, referring to the period that ended with Israel’s attacks Friday.

The Wall Street Journal reported earlier Monday that Tehran has indicated that it wants to de-escalate hostilities with Israel and is willing to resume nuclear talks with the US as long as Washington doesn’t join the Israeli attacks. The newspaper cited Middle Eastern and European officials it didn’t identify. A similar report by Reuters says Iran conveyed the message through Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Oman.

Oil fell on the WSJ report, with Brent futures dropping around 4% after rising over 10% Friday. US Treasuries pared earlier drops and European bonds gained as traders reacted to diminishing concerns about inflation.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran has never left the negotiating table,” Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said in a phone call with European officials Monday. “But naturally, our focus at this stage is on response to Israel’s aggression that is both effective and leaves them with regret.”

The conflict showed no sign of letting up. Iran fired several waves of drones and missiles over the last 24 hours, while Israel continued hitting Tehran, killing one more senior military official and setting the state-television complex ablaze with a strike during a live broadcast.

About the same time as Trump was speaking in Canada, Iran’s semi-official Mehr News Agency cited a senior security official as saying the country is prepared to deliver a “major blow” to Israel following its recent strikes on Iranian cities and targets. Shortly afterward, air raid sirens sounded as Israel reported it had detected more missile launches. Later, authorities gave the all clear and there were no reports of new missile strikes.

In a telephone call with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian reaffirmed that his country will respond to Israel’s ongoing strikes with proportional retaliation.

“We do not seek to escalate the conflict, but we will respond to any attack on Iranian soil in a manner that will make them regret it,” Pezeshkian said.

Since Friday, 224 people have been killed in Iran, according to the government, which said most of the casualties were civilians. Iranian attacks killed 24 people in Israel, according to the Israeli government press office, and injured 592.

Israel’s campaign is “ahead of schedule,” Strategic Affairs Minister Ron Dermer said in an interview with Bloomberg Television on Monday, declining to say how long it’s expected to last.

“We’re going to go about our operation to remove these two threats,” he said, referring to Iran’s missile and nuclear programs. “Whether Iran will decide to meet with the United States and agree to terms that they should have taken a month ago, or two weeks ago, or two months ago, you know, that’s up to Iran to decide.”

Netanyahu told ABC News on Monday that his military was seeking to end what he called half a century of conflict, and didn’t rule out targeting Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to achieve the goal. He added that it’s in Washington’s interest to support Israel in the mission to end Iran’s nuclear program.

The exchange of missile salvos between Israel and Iran is the most serious escalation after years of shadow war. Analysts fear it might push the Middle East into a regional conflict, causing wider human loss and potentially disrupting energy flows and vital trade routes.

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-says-iran-wants-talk-190547812.html

Importing the Village: San Diego school district to bring in foreign teachers to school illegals

 


As they say, it takes a village...

Nowhere is that more obvious than in the decision by the woke San Diego Unified School District to import foreign teachers to teach foreign illegals enrolled in U.S. public schools.

According to Fox 5 News (emphasis mine):

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — The San Diego Unified School District Board of Education recently announced a partnership with an international group to help fill open positions for the upcoming school year.

The board signed an agreement with International Alliance Group (IAG) on Tuesday that is intended to conduct outreach for qualified educators and fill openings that are typically considered hard to staff, including in special education.

“Nationwide, we are dealing with the reality that there are not enough certified special education
teachers to meet the needs of our students,” said Dr. Fabi Bagula, the district’s interim superintendent.

According to the board, recruits will be brought in on a temporary work visa for up to three years to fill openings in the following areas: Mild/Moderate Support Needs, Extensive Support Needs and Bilingual, Cross-Cultural Language and Academic Development.

They must be current educators in their home countries, undergo a comprehensive screening process and meet state and federal law for employment in California. Additionally, they must get teaching credentials in California.

Lots of things don't add up in this story and Fox 5 didn't go much beyond what the district claimed in its announcement. Teacher salaries here are bloated, averaging six figures plus bennies and summertimes off. And the district has lost 12,000 students as residents, many of them young families, flee the state, including 31,000 in San Diego alone.

But the big one is that little slipped-in detail about importing foreign teachers for foreign language speakers, of which San Diego has been inundated with since Joe Biden's border surge.

That can't be anyone but illegals.

The irony is, these illegal migrant kids could get these same teachers back home, but because they are here in the states without authorization, the district is going bring in their teachers for them, too, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer.

These kids aren't going to assimilate here and adopt the U.S. ways with this arrangement. They're going to get the same education here that they would get back home.

The U.S. is being used as a money vessel to pay for the same teachers here that would normally be paid for by the citizens of the countries these kids come from.

The Voice of San Diego notes that the IAG specializes in importing teachers from Latin America and the U.K. (read: South Asia) whose organized crime syndicates have been major suppliers of illegal immigrants currently in the U.S.

Import illegals, import their villages. And you can bet it doesn't stop at teachers.

This is why, despite the migrant sob stories out there, illegal migrants need to be sent back. It's pretty obvious they want to use gringo as a money machine, hooking it up to their whole transplanted village here, nothing different from what they had back home except for the bottomless money supply.

That's not a good, let alone sustainable, picture, for those of here in the U.S. Migrants are constantly sold to us as bringing value to the U.S. but in this instance, all we see is another siphon on the public money spigot.

https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2025/06/importing_the_village_san_diego_school_district_to_bring_in_foreign_teachers_to_school_illegals.html

Immigration Riots and America’s Fascist Party

 


Over the past twenty-five years, both sides of the political spectrum have accused the other of being captive to fascism or its offshoot Nazism. With the Democrat party’s unabashed promotion of riots and violence in America’s cities, ostensibly on behalf of criminal illegal immigrants, and rampant antisemitism, it can no longer be denied that the party is captive to the tenets of fascism and its progenitor, Marxism, and utilizes the tactics the Nazi’s employed to seize and retain power in perpetuity.

While there are a number of inescapable and disturbing ways in the which the Democrat party emulates the Nazis, there are two intertwined similarities that puts to rest any question that the Democrat Party is little different than the Nazis.

The first is the use of indoctrinated militant cadres to foment street riots, property damage, extortion, and gratuitous violence supposedly on behalf of those they define as “oppressed” while blaming others as the instigators of the violence. The second is a psychopathic obsession and exploitation of race and its inevitable manifestation of rampant and unabashed antisemitism.

Both tactics work in tandem to achieve a pre-ordained objective—economic, societal, and cultural upheaval that leads to permanent one-party rule.

In the 1920s and early 1930s, the Nazi’s, seeking any excuse to riot, eventually settled on a specious claim that they were bringing attention to the dire economic plight of the average German. Behind the façade of concern for the average German, they utilized their militant cadre, the Sturmabteilung (SA), to instigate riots, damage property, and brutalize any opposition as a means of projecting power through intimidation while blaming the government or political opponents for the violence they incited.

The Nazis did not care about the suffering of the citizenry. Instead, their distress was used to justify the violence employed to spread fear and anxiety among the public at large. This single-minded determination to terrorize the citizenry and national political leadership played a key role in their ascendance to power.

Almost immediately upon assuming the reins of government, Hitler and the Nazis seized power by passing laws permanently embedding voting fraud and manipulation in all national elections and transformed the judicial system into a vehicle of oppression directed at their political foes and the Jews while their allies were not prosecuted for any criminal activity.

The Democrat party, using the façade of caring about the black population by combating fictitious “systemic racism” after the death of lifelong criminal George Floyd, followed in the footsteps of their ideological soulmates and promoted street riots, property damage, and gratuitous violence. They utilized their indoctrinated militant cadres, such as Antifa and Black Lives Matter, to project power through intimidation while blaming white supremacy, police brutality, Donald Trump, and Republicans for the violence.

Combined with massive voter fraud and manipulation, these tactics played a significant role in the election of a senescent and manipulable Joe Biden.

Almost immediately upon assuming the reins of government in 2021, the Democrat-controlled House passed a bill to permanently embed voter fraud and manipulation in all federal elections. The Democrats also transformed the Justice Department into a vehicle of oppression directed at their political foes while their allies were either not prosecuted, treated extraordinarily leniently, or pardoned.

Since the election of Donald Trump on November 5, 2024, a stunned Democrat party has been desperately searching for an issue or event its members could exploit in order to again foment street riots, looting, arson, and unconstrained violence. In their impatience, they stampeded themselves into defending the supposed civil rights of violent illegal aliens as part of their newfound love for all illegal immigrants.

The American people are supposed to believe that the Democrat party has unleashed their legions of mind-numbed foot soldiers into America’s cities in order to sow chaos and undermine the Trump Administration because of their hitherto unknown altruism and concern for the “rights” of criminal illegal immigrants

The Democrat party, mirroring its Nazi predecessors, does not care about the so-called plight of millions of illegal immigrants. These immigrants are simply the means to achieve political hegemony by transforming the electorate and a vehicle to justify the Democrats’ ongoing criminality and thuggery.

Promoting racial and ethnic animosity geared to fomenting cultural and societal upheaval was a principal component of Nazi political strategy and philosophy. The Nazi Party was the most racially obsessed political party in human history. Today’s Democrat Party is second only to the Nazi Party in its racial obsession. Every piece of legislation, every accusation against its opponents, every aspect of American society, even weather and climate, is framed in imaginary racism in order to fan the flames of racial and ethnic animosity.

The Nazi Party’s obsession focused on the Nazis perverted belief in the inferiority and superiority of the races or ethnicities. This opened the door to blaming a specific ethnic group (the Jews) for all the problems facing their country. The Democrat party has long claimed that the root cause of virtually all problems facing this nation is “systemic racism” as instigated by the apex oppressor—the so-called “white” race and in particular, the Jews.

Antisemitism is a foundational tenet of Nazism. Antisemitism, through the Democrats’ nine-decade (1870-1960) alliance with the Ku Klux Klan and the advancement of Fascist principles in the 1930s by an antisemitic Franklin Roosevelt, has long been foundational in the Democrat Party.

Today, many elected Democrats openly denigrate the state of Israel, glorify the Palestinian terrorists, and tacitly back those calling for the death of Jews throughout the world. By doing so, they have fueled an exponential increase in anti-Jewish attacks in America’s universities and major cities.

October 7, 2023, a date that will live in infamy in the annals of the state of Israel, has exposed the depth of the Democrat party’s antisemitism and de facto support for the underlying beliefs of Hamas, a terrorist organization that has, as its declared sole reason for existence, the elimination of Israel and the slaughter of all Jews.

Near Nazi-level racism and antisemitism have captured the Democrat party since the beginning of the Obama presidency, resulting in a continuous series of antisemitic or racially inspired riots, marches, and gratuitous violence, all endorsed by the party as a means of intimidation and societal upheaval.

While the current iteration of the Democrat party does not have a military uniform fetish or goose steps up Pennsylvania Avenue, its foot soldiers are little different than the Nazi Party of 1927-1934 in the tactics employed to achieve one-party political hegemony.

The actions and villainy of the Democrat party during the first ten-years of the Trump era have revealed that there are no tactics out-of-bounds, no limit to the lives to be sacrificed, no constraint on lawlessness, no acknowledgment of the rule of law, no deference to a written Constitution, and no respect for the dignity of mankind—just a raw unbridled determination to seize power in perpetuity as they follow in the footsteps of one of the most vile and destructive political movements in human history.

https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/06/immigration_riots_and_america_s_fascist_party.html