President Donald Trump said early Tuesday morning that he wants “a real end” to the conflict between Israel and Iran, adding that a mere ceasefire isn’t enough. Trump was asked about the ongoing fight in the Middle East on Air Force One as he returned to Washington, D.C., from the G7 Conference in Canada. Trump left the conference early on Monday over developments in the conflict as Israel continued to defend its citizens from Iranian missile barrages. “What specifically is better than a ceasefire? What are you looking for here?” a reporter asked Trump. “A real end, not a ceasefire,” the president replied. “An end.” “So something that will be permanent?” “Yeah, or giving up entirely. That’s okay too,” Trump added. “A complete give-up. That’s possible.” REPORTER: "What are you looking for here?"@POTUS: "An end. A real end. Not a ceasefire — an end." pic.twitter.com/EESQ7zzhw1 — Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) June 17, 2025 The president continued to urge Iran to seek out a deal on Monday and told people to “immediately evacuate Tehran!” “Iran should have signed the ‘deal’ I told them to sign,” said Trump on Truth Social. “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!” Trump suggested earlier on Monday that Iran had reached out to negotiate an end to the conflict. Trump had imposed a 60-day deadline for Iran to negotiate a nuclear agreement with the United States that had elapsed before Israel launched its attack last week. “They’d like to talk, but they should have done that before,” the president told reporters at the G7 summit. “I had 60 days, and they had 60 days. On the 61st day, I said, ‘We don’t have a deal.’ They have to make a deal, and it’s painful for both parties. But I’d say Iran is not winning this war, and they should talk, and they should talk immediately, before it’s too late.” Israel continues to exert air dominance over Iran, targeting nuclear facilities, military leaders, and Iranian state media. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that the conflict would end if Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei were killed. “We’ve had half a century of conflict spread by this regime that terrorizes everyone in the Middle East; has bombed the Aramco oil fields in Saudi Arabia; is spreading terrorism and subversion and sabotage everywhere,” Netanyahu said in an interview with ABC News. “The ‘forever war’ is what Iran wants, and they’re bringing us to the brink of nuclear war. In fact, what Israel is doing is preventing this, bringing an end to this aggression, and we can only do so by standing up to the forces of evil.”

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Books Backlist Bonanza Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Books About Escaping Earth From space horror to cozy mysteries, these five books will take you far away from our messy home planet… By Alex Brown | Published on June 17, 2025 Comment 0 Share New Share There are simply too many terrible things happening all at once. Every day some new horror dawns. AI is draining our water supply, insects are dying en masse, the worst guys in the world are battling each other over who gets to destroy a thing you love, The Acolyte is still canceled, Hollywood still hasn’t greenlit a new romcom starring John Cho and/or Dev Patel. Sometimes the horrors make me want to fight, sometimes they make me want to cry, and sometimes I gaze off into the distance and think “I don’t want to live on this planet anymore.” An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon (Akashic Books, 2017) For generations, the spaceship HSS Matilda has sailed toward the Promised Land carrying the last vestiges of human society. And for just as long, the people on the ship have replicated antebellum South hierarchies. The Sovereignty uses white supremacy to dominate over everything, and enslaved Black and brown folks like Aster are locked into a battle their ancestors broke free from centuries before. Aster’s othering is furthered by her being neurodivergent and a having gender identity and expression that exist outside the rigidly enforced binary. When opportunities for change present themselves, Aster must figure out how to navigate what she wants, what she can achieve, and what she must risk. Much like another book on this list, An Unkindness of Ghosts isn’t an easy read but it is a necessary one. It’s harrowing and lyrical, a scream in the void and a punch in the face. Sometimes escape is not enough. If you’re not diligent, the past can follow you into the future. Pitch Dark by Courtney Alameda (Feiwel & Friends, 2018) Young adult space horror! YA science fiction is rare enough as it is, space-set YA sci-fi even rarer, and YA space horror we maybe get one book a year out of the Big Five publishers. It’s 2435 and the USS John Muir has been lost for centuries. Its crew, including a teen called Tuck, is stuck in stasis and the last hope to save humanity is locked in its hold. When the ship is finally found by Laura and her crew of marauders, she’s eager to put her background in both heists and archaeology to good work. Unfortunately, she has competition for the John Muir. The ship is attacked by monsters that kill with sound, but they aren’t the only horrors lurking in the future. The future is dark and full of terrors. Goddess in the Machine by Lora Beth Johnson (Goddess in the Machine #1 — Razorbill, 2020) A thousand years ago, Andra and her people slipped into a cryogenic sleep. They left Earth in search of a new planet, and planned to hibernate for a century while the ship traveled across the galaxy. Now, everyone Andra knew and loved is dead and gone, and their descendants are teetering on the edge of chaos. On the planet Holymyth, the Eerensed people have deemed Andra the Third Goddess, making her a powerful ally to whoever can gain control of her. All she wants is to get a spaceship that can take her back to Earth, and the exiled prince Zhade might be the key to her plans. I love a good young adult space opera. This one is action-packed, unique, and clever with its worldbuilding.  Goliath by Tochi Onyebuchi (Tor Books, 2022) Set just a scant couple of decades from now, the Earth is rapidly being depopulated. The wealthy enact a new kind of white flight by fleeing to a space colony while everyone else is left to rot on a dying planet. Decades after that, some of those descendants return to Earth to gentrify and exploit the planet they abandoned. The survivors must watch what’s left of their homes be demolished, the bricks shipped up to space for the privileged to recreate the old world without all the strife or accountability. I’m totally not doing this book justice, but it’s also extremely difficult to summarize briefly. The cast is huge and the plots varied. Goliath is a fractured story told through a variety of characters and in a nonlinear fashion. It’s heady and heavy, a powerhouse of literary prowess and intricate craftwork.  The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older (The Investigations of Mossa and Pleiti #1 — Tordotcom, 2023) Let’s end on a cozy note. This series is like a hug from an old friend or a mug of tea on a rainy day. Centuries ago, humans fled a dying Earth and settled on platforms around the gas giant Jupiter. Pleiti is a Classics scholar at the university on the Valdegeld platform who studies literature from Earth to better understand life pre-collapse (there is also a Modern track that does STEM and Humanities during the platform era). Mossa is an Investigator who looks into potential crimes and solves them in the least copaganda way possible. Mossa and Pleiti dated for a time but are reunited after time apart when Mossa returns to Valdegeld on the trail of a missing person. The story evolves into bigger commentary on activism, environmentalism, traditionalism, and mythologizing the past, but throughout it all Malka Older centers kindness and understanding. [end-mark] The post Backlist Bonanza: 5 Underrated Books About Escaping Earth appeared first on Reactor.

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Thursday marked the end of an era, albeit a brief one. CBS’s After Midnight hosted by Taylor Tomlinson, and executive produced by fellow CBS comedian Stephen Colbert, aired its last episode early Friday morning.  After Midnight was originally advertised as a different kind of light night show. There would be no monologues, just a game show where a trio of comedians would improv answers to the host’s questions, usually based off of some viral social media post. However, starting on May 20, 2024, Tomlinson began most shows with a monologue. It quickly became clear that there was a startling slant: A NewsBusters study finds 87 percent of the political jokes were about conservatives or Republicans. Throughout the 13 months and 141 episodes since she began doing a monologue, Tomlinson told 187 jokes mocking conservatives or the GOP. That left 27 jokes, or 13 percent, about liberals or Democrats and one joke, or less than half a percent, about nonpartisan groups. Her top ten targets included only two liberal individuals or groups. Donald Trump drew by far the most jokes (82), followed by Elon Musk (21), JD Vance (10), Edward “Big Balls” Coristine of the DOGE team, Kash Patel, and Pete Hegseth (6 each). Then came Democrats, Mark Zuckerberg, MAGA/Trump supporters, Eric Trump, and Joe Biden (5 each). Tomlinson’s average number of jokes per episode was significantly less than her contemporaries, but simply counting jokes does not by itself convey After Midnight’s eventual descent in becoming just another liberal late night comedy show. If Tomlinson will have any legacy as a short-tenured late night host, it will be in her fangirling over alleged health insurance CEO Brian Thompson assassin and terrorist Luigi Mangione. Here is a video montage put together by NewsBusters’s Bill D'Agostino documenting that fandom:     It wasn’t just alleged terrorists that Tomlinson swooned over. When CBS colleague Margaret Brennan broke the rules of the 2024 VP debate between JD Vance and Tim Walz by interrupting and eventually cutting the former’s microphone, Tomlinson shared, “before anyone asks, yes, I masturbated to this. A woman, silencing men? Yeah, that's going in the spank bank.” After Trump was re-elected, Tomlinson mourned, “It was a huge night for Republicans, they also took the Senate, and a lot of the news media is asking whether or not a Republican Senate will 'keep Trump in check.' Which feels like asking the getaway driver of a bank robbery, 'So, you're gonna make sure they spend the money wisely, right? You're going to save half for taxes and donate to sustainable charities? Right?'" Claiming that Trump’s win was the death of democracy, she added, “If your friend dies, you go to the funeral and say, 'I really miss my friend.' You don't go to the funeral and immediately scream, 'Volunteer at the library!' Like yes, okay, I'll volunteer at the library, but let me bury democracy first.” Her small number of jokes about Democrats were more like demands the party “man up” and fight with “bigger balls” or lamentations about the party’s inability to stop Trump’s “fascism.” Outside of her monologue, the games were mostly meant to be fun and, ironically, almost a form of escapism. Occasionally, politics would creep in, but the worst part of them was when Tomlinson made it seem like she needed to prove that she has moved past her religious and conservative upbringing. In one episode, she invited a trio of drag queens on to mock Pope Francis’s claim that “excessive scrolling causes ‘brain rot.’” BenDeLaCreme claimed Francis has “So much that he has brain rot, or, sorry, Catholicism. I always get these two confused,” while Peaches Christ claimed Francis “is online so much that he calls shirtless pictures of Jesus thirst traps.” In another episode, Jay Jurden claimed that God “hates gay people” and Bassem Youssef went the other way and claimed “Jesus was gay.” As After Midnight goes off the air, it is also facing a hostile workplace lawsuit from one of its former script supervisors. CBS will be replacing After Midnight with old episodes of Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen for the 2025-26 season. The network previously used the show to fill the gap after Tomlinson’s predecessor, James Corden, departed The Late Late Show not long before the 2023 Writers’ Strike.