Coffee Talk With Tiff

June 29, 2026 1:08 pm EDT Tiff Coffee Talk with Tiff 0
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It’s Monday…

Shitshow’s public schedule for…

Every Monday’s Dilemma

Every weekend Puddle treats “executive time” like it’s a combination therapy session, campaign rally, and stock ticker.

Therapy Session…

Campaign rally…

Stock shenanigans…

Most of the weekend posts are just harmless narcissism.

Every now and then, though, one has real-world consequences.

The U.S. and Iran agreed to stop attacking each other, according to a senior U.S. official, as the two sides plan to meet Tuesday in Qatar’s capital to work out their dispute over the Strait of Hormuz.

Why it matters: The ceasefire is barely 11 days old and already on shaky ground with renewed strikes by both sides and President Trump’s threat to restart the war and “complete the job.”

Axios. 06/28/2026.
  • The renewed fighting was sparked by competing interpretations of the memorandum of understanding (MOU) to end the war — especially its terms on the Strait of Hormuz.

The latest: “We decided to stop all the kinetic activity,” a senior U.S. official tells Axios, using the military’s term for strikes and other attacks.

Axios. 06/28/2026.
  • A second U.S. official tells Axios both sides will stand down “for now” and that “vessels can move freely” as technical talks are set to continue.
  • Both U.S. officials and a third source with knowledge confirmed Tuesday’s planned meeting.

Puddle usually confirms Axios’ reporting on Monday mornings before the stock market opens. This Monday he decided to wait until an hour after it opened.

Authors note: The embeds are easier to post; problem is they are also shitty, not showing the full text, and now I discover they don’t even include the timestamps. That means it’s back to screen grabs we go for the rest of forever.

That’s the problem with Mondays.

While Puddle spends the weekend flooding Lies Social with executive-time nonsense, the rest of the government keeps governing.

Today the Supreme Court released a stack of orders, questions remain about what’s actually happening with Iran, and Puddle has already taken a victory lap over several of those developments.

Let’s dig in.

Supreme’s Orders:

We’re in the final days of the Supreme Court’s term, which means the Court is releasing its biggest decisions and orders.

Voters won the RNC lost.

Puddle’s takeaway:

There is no excuse for a politician, or otherwise, to be against the above three requirements.

Let’s unpack that.

1. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW PHOTO I.D. (IDENTIFICATION!).

All states require the voter to have an ID to register to vote. Not all states require you to show ID when you vote in-person.

If the federal government or a state requires a second form of ID to vote that is a poll tax and is unconstitutional.

2. ALL VOTERS MUST SHOW PROOF OF CITIZENSHIP.

All voters are verified to be US citizens in order to vote. It’s already illegal for non-citizens to vote in our elections. There a few cities that all citizens and non-citizens to vote in certain elections such as city councils.

3. NO MAIL-IN BALLOTS (EXCEPT FOR ILLNESS, DISABILITY, MILITARY DEPLOYMENT, OR TRAVEL!).

NCSL.org:

Ballots are mailed out well ahead of Election Day, so voters have an “election period,” not just a single day, to vote. Mostly mail elections can be thought of as absentee voting for everyone. This system is also referred to as “vote by mail.”

NCSL.org.
  • Eight states and Washington, D.C., allow all elections to be conducted entirely by mail: California, Colorado, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Vermont and Washington state.
  • Two states permit counties to opt into conducting elections by mail: Nebraska and North Dakota.
  • Nine states allow specific small elections to be conducted by mail: Alaska, Arizona, Florida, Kansas, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico and Wyoming.
  • Four states permit mostly mail elections for certain small jurisdictions: Idaho, Minnesota, New Jersey and New Mexico.

So yeah, there are plenty of reasons to oppose the Save America Act. The biggest one?

It attempts to federalize elections. That’s why opponents argue it’s unconstitutional.

Puddle split the scoreboard.

One divided decision went his way.

A less divided Court stopped him in another.

Puddle’s takeaways:

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that President Donald Trump could fire the heads of independent agencies without cause, handing the president a major victory in his push to exert greater control over the federal bureaucracy and concentrate power in the White House.

The justices struck down a nearly century-old precedent that has allowed Congress to insulate the leaders of roughly two-dozen agencies from political influence by requiring the president have good reason to dismiss them.

The 6-3 ideologically divided ruling will usher in one of the largest changes to the operationof the federal government in decades and fulfills a major goal of the Trump administration and many conservatives, who have long argued the president should exercise unfettered authority over the executive branch.

[snip]

In a separate ruling, the justices blocked Trump from removing a governor of the Federal Reserve, which would have given the president greater control over the powerful central bank.

[snip]

Legal experts had long expected the Supreme Court to rule against the precedent protecting independent agency heads, known as Humphrey’s Executor, because the justices had been chipping away at it for years. Roberts called it a “dried husk” during arguments in December.

Washington Post. 06/29/2026.

One decision didn’t get nearly as much attention.

The court has indicated that tomorrow will be the last day of term.

Reading the tea leaves, my guess is the birthright citizenship case either opens or closes tomorrow’s final opinion day.

I forgot one….

Pay up bitch.

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