- Richard Engel, chief foreign correspondent, NBC News
- Mark McKinnon, Republican strategist, former advisor to President George W. Bush and Senator John McCain, and he's now a contributor to "The Daily Beast."
- Caroline Moore, 14-year-old supernova discoverer
From the Web:
- John Hodgman: "AFTER SOME TIME OF suffering through the anxious nausea alone, I may now tell you: I WILL BE SPEAKING at the upcoming Radio and Television Correspondents’ Dinner. AS OF THIS WRITING, I am scheduled to speak after the President of the United States (Barack Obama) WHICH MAKES SENSE, as I am the most dynamic public speaker of our times."
- Richard Engel: Iran on a 'collision course'
- Mark McKinnon: Ensign, get your sorry ass out of the Senate
- Teenage girl discovers new type of supernova
- The story about SN2008ha
- Auto-Tune the News #5: lettuce regulation. American blessings.
- Reza Aslan, columnist, The Daily Beast, author, "How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror," and senior fellow, Orfalea Center on Global and International Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara
- Ana Marie Cox, national correspondent, Air America Radio and contributor, Playboy magazine
- Wayne Slater, senior political reporter, Dallas Morning News
- Derrick Pitts, the Chief Astronomer at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia
From the Web:
- Reza Aslan and Eli Lake on where-to from here for Iran
- Iran election turnouts exceeded 100% in 30 towns, website reports (Source is in Farsi)
- Ana Marie Cox: The Inside Story
- House GOP Solutions Group Outlines Health Care Plan to Increase Affordability, Accessibility, Availability
- Lunar Crater Observation adn Sensing Satellite (with countdown clocks!)
- Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter
- That Obama fly slap remix.
- Reza Aslan, senior fellow, Orfalea Center on Global and International Studies at the University of California Santa Barbara. Also author of "How to Win a Cosmic War: God, Globalization, and the End of the War on Terror"
- Joe Cirincione, president, The Ploughshares Fund. Also author of "Bomb Scare: The History and Future of Nuclear Weapons"
- Michael Isikoff, investigative journalist, Newsweek
- Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin, the first openly gay non-incumbent ever elected to Congress. Also co-founder of the Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus, and just last month re-introduced the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act.
From the Web:
- International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran
- Reza Aslan: Iran's military coup
- Joe Cirincione: Iran Uprising Changes Nuclear Calculus
- Financial regulation explainer: How Obama's regulation plan aims to fix what went wrong
- Michael Isikoff: Haunted by the Dean of Watergate
- White House Fact Sheet on federal benefits and non-discrimination
- The Domestic Partnership Benefits and Obligations Act (S. 1102, H.R. 2517)
- Roll Call: Congressional Baseball Game
- Trita Parsi, president, National Iranian American Council and author of "Treacherous Alliance"
- Ali Arouzi, NBC News Tehran Bureau Chief
- Nico Pitney, national editor, The Huffington Post
- Michael Lewis, financial writer and columnist, Bloomberg News
From the Web:
- National Iranian American Council's blog
- Ali Arouzi: Second day of Iran protests mostly peaceful
- Nico Pitney: Iran Updates (video): Live-blogging the uprising
- From NBC's Chuck Todd, Ken Strickland and Domenico Montanaro: Ensign admits affair, claims extortion
- Michael Lewis: Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood
- Michael Lewis: Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity
- Spinal Tap: Back from the dead
- Ben Wizner, lawyer at the ACLU's National Security Project
- Fawaz Gerges, Christian A. Johnson Chairholder in Middle Eastern Studies and International Affairs, Sarah Lawrence College
- Richard Engel, chief foreign correspondent, NBC News
- Dr. Howard Dean, former DNC chair, Vermont governor
From the Web:
- ACLU: Newly Released Detainee Statements Provide More Evidence Of CIA Torture Program (6/15/2009)
- ACLU: RELEASED: The Bush Administration's Secret Legal Memos
- ACLU Torture FOIA Search
- Fawaz Gerges: Commentary: Iran's nuclear work will go on
- Fawaz Gerges: Commentary: Ahmadinejad's problem with women
- In the Maddow Map Room:
- Richard Engel: Social media makes mark in Iran
- Obama defends DOMA in federal court. Says banning gay marriage is good for the federal budget. Invokes incest and marrying children. (Scroll for document)
- World Naked Bike Ride (NSFW, contains boobies)
