As the U.S. continues to withdrawing science funding, Europe has become a lifeline for ocean research — but with a smaller cash pot. 🔗 www.politico.eu/article/euro...

Rubio notified as 'Sleepy Don' Trump mocked for appearing to sleep at NBA Finals www.rawstory.com/trump-asleep...

A federal judge on Monday struck down the Trump administration's $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas. The administration announced the fee as a way of preventing foreign workers from taking American jobs. n.pr/49QfK2t

AMAZING—a condor flew into Oregon for the first time in 120 years! The critical conservation efforts I’ve supported are working to protect these amazing, endangered birds. I can’t wait to see more condors soar.

The most expensive taxpayer funded nap #NBAFinals

There was a Fidesz ideologue who once said, "What you call corruption is the essence of the system." Seems he was right but we're just learning by how much. The Integrity Authority estimates Orban's rule cost Hungary €160B(!) in corruption. That equals ~2/3 of 🇭🇺 GDP. www.ft.com/content/0c44...

Lee spent the weekend posting 37 times. Then called Trump. Then the list was fixed. Then he thanked Hegseth. The mechanism didn’t make him a critic of the system. It made him more grateful for access to the person at the top. That’s not how purity tests work. That’s how loyalty locks work.

If you don’t have the right to your own thoughts and beliefs, you have nothing. Madison knew it, so he protected the right. Hegseth knows it too, so he’s trampling all over it.

Capitol agenda: Drama as House GOP eyes next big swing

On Jared Kushner's trillion dollar conflicts of interest, from Casey Michel: "His financial entanglements span the globe, touching on the diplomatic hotspots where he is supposed to be negotiating on America’s behalf" www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Option 1: you could believe compulsively optimistic claims about a renewable #EnergyTransition taking place. Option 2: you could look at reality: "World’s largest banks pledged $906bn to fossil fuel companies in ‘unfathomable’ increase in 2025".

Possibly the pettiest loser government in the world. The US has withdrawn Iran’s allocation of World Cup tickets for supporters days before the tournament starts, Iran’s football federation said.

FIFA the most morally repugnant and corrupt international sports organization - and competition is stiff

And anyone going to WHC dinner to sit and applaud the man who routinely attacks press and mainstream misogyny is shameful

Incredible quote

Where the fuck is WH press corps response to attacks on women reporters? Shameful bootlickers and enablers

Bottomless corruption.

The GOP is not a political party. It’s an organized crime syndicate.

What it's like having an alcoholic as SecDef: On April 1, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George requested an in-person meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth—an effort to calm months of tension between Hegseth and senior Army leaders, three officials said. The meeting never came. The next day,

Today’s excerpt from “Letters from an American” by @hcrichardson.bsky.social heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-8-2026 Full carousel on Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DZXWA7ZFhu... #lettersfromanamerican #HeatherCoxRichardson

Separation of church and state, due process, rule of law are levers that keep us safe—if you attack one group, it’s only a matter of time before yours is next. No kings, no dictator 👉🏼Vote on that 👉🏼subscribe Letters from an American 🇺🇸 by @hcrichardson.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

NEW: In February, I visited Raw Farm. You may have heard of it. RFK Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are customers. It supplies raw dairy products to 500 stores nationwide. And regulators have linked it to over a dozen recalls and outbreaks that have made hundreds sick. 🧵👇

In his first interview since being kicked out of the US, FIFA referee Omar Artan tells’s the NYT’s Matt Bigg that the biggest dream of his professional life has been shattered. The World Cup ref was questioned for 11 hours, held in a cell and then dumped on a plane. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...

NEW: Donald Trump Jr. invests in a co. trying to build an oil refinery in the U.S. Then the richest man in Asia invests... in the same company. Then... his co. gets policy concessions from the Trump Admin. @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @justinelliott.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Hey Maine Democrats, if you want to do the right thing and beat Susan Collins, vote for/rank Mills and Costello in the ranked choice primary today.👇

One of the most famous sentences in American history was inspired by a department store ad. Maybe. Or perhaps it was taken from a writer’s journal. No one knows for sure. And curiously enough, it did not get all that much attention at first. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Global conflicts surged to the highest number tallied by Sweden's Uppsala security research group. n.pr/4ezVOm7

Pulte as DNI is a 5-alarm fire. Not only does he lack intel experience while US is at war. He’s also shown willingness to use access to info to go after Trump’s rivals. DNI can access USG’s most sensitive information, making it essential that the person in this post be scrupulously non-partisan.

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There's a reason the first family's construction projects go more smoothly in Saudi Arabia than in Albania.

I talked with Scott MacFarlane about the corruption of the Trump Administration and how we, the people, can fix what’s wrong with our government. open.substack.com/pub/barbmcqu...

Author @quinnslobodian.com says Elon Musk's business empire and his work for the Trump administration are closely connected. DOGE was not about demolishing the government, but a way to "refashion and reformat" it so that Musk and his companies become "an indispensable part of the infrastructure."

Why Ro Khanna is standing by Graham Platner

The International Criminal Court has suspended its chief prosecutor, Karim Khan, following allegations of sexual misconduct.

Frankly an iconic on-site headline and a very good story www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

His handlers knew that keeping his mouth shut was by far the least-bad option🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

The UFC spectacle is more than a cage fight: it's a monument to corruption, self-enrichment, and the imperial Roman politics of bread and circus… hartmannreport.com/p/while-amer...

Award-winning Somali referee Omar Artan, set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup, was denied entry to the United States, a sports ministry official told AFP on Monday u.afp.com/SDH9

The FTX founder is betting on a Trump clemency spree that's already freed crypto's biggest names.

He made half the city shut down and every fan endure a 2 hour security line so he could go to the NBA finals and sleep through it.

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It’s telling that we live in a world where a musician is onstage saying that he thinks that governments murdering civilians is bad and is called heroic for doing so. Having said that and considering he’s one of the only artists who’s done so, Dave Matthews is a hero. Just a straight up decent human.

Senate Democrats called out the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Monday for reportedly taking a series of quiet steps to undermine federal voter protections this fall. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The lawyer who kept Ken Paxton out of jail during his corruption trial and defended him during his impeachment trial has now publicly endorsed Talarico for Senate, stating that Paxton has lost sight of the fact that he is supposed to represent the people of Texas. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/u...

The thing is not that US people voted in a psychotic idiot as President. It’s that they voted for him, knowing he was a psychotic idiot.

📌Not news: New Yorkers have hated Trump long before he became an America-attacking convicted felon, and was just a spoiled, pathetic liar begging newspapers for attention.

Coal. That’s the new, big energy plan? The Trump admin is spending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars trying to prop up an industry that's already been outcompeted. Americans deserve affordable, clean energy—not another costly bailout. www.sfgate.com/news/bayarea...

Byron Allen replaced Colbert and promptly shed 85% of the audience, cratering from 6.7M viewers to 628,000. Allen insists CBS "won big-time" on savings while spinning a $200M-to-zero production cost pivot. The numbers disagree with considerable force.

Absolutely 💯 “HE WON'T RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES FOR THE SAME REASON HE DIDN'T RELEASE HIS TAX RETURNS: HE'S GUILTY!”

Enough PROOF for me. Testimony under oath. From COURT.