Out now on all podcast apps: We sat down with @letsgomathias.bsky.social to talk about Greg Bovino, the former face of the Trump Administration’s violent immigration raids. Since retiring, Bovino has run full speed into the arms of white nationalist movement. www.patreon.com/PostingThrou...

An American Thinker blogger at that -- definitionally a crackpot.

Exclusive: DOJ Taps Gang, Terrorism Prosecutors to Crack Down on Political Groups

Wow, big one — SCOTUS lets states continue to count ballots mailed by Election Day but received afterwards. Barrett writes for majority with Roberts and the libs, rules against the RNC. Avoids chaos and certain disenfranchisement for the midterms

Trump's latest pressure campaign around the SAVE Act seems to be backfiring, at least for now.

Trump tells an evangelical conference the recent Democratic primary winners in New York will attack Christians. “These ruthless communists will attack all religions, but in particular Christianity."

The government seems to be walking back a plan to collect better race and ethnicity stats that has been targeted by Russ Vought's conservative think tank as "woke... neo-Marxist ideologies.” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/census-...

The lawyer for Dominic Pezzola, the man who did this to the Capitol on Jan. 6, while senators were evacuating, compares the widely documented attack to a 1960s sit-in at Woolworth's. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/28...

Please give this one a listen.

Important new story by @laylaayanna.bsky.social that shows yet another way right-wing conspiracy theories may be making their way into government, impacting regular people's lives.

Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

Politics in our current moment is so easily understood by this line from The Big Short: "They're not confessing. They're bragging."

JD Vance: "I think Nixon's historical legacy is enjoying a bit of a renaissance, and deservedly so. I joked that if Watergate happened tomorrow, it would be like a 12 hours news story. The idea that it took down a presidency is crazy."

Stephen Miller's nonprofit tends to turn up whenever legal shenanigans are afoot.

Alito is snide, per usual.

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Criminal prosecutions are not about what you do; they are about who the people in power think you are. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

Dominion Voting Systems drops $1.3 billion defamation suit against Mike Lindell after being sold, rebranding as ‘Liberty Vote’

with Trump actually thinking he's going to have his arch for next week I'm wondering if it's going to end up being like a Spinal Tap stonehenge thing with Stephen Miller saying two dashes mean inches not feet

Today's Morning Memo at @talkingpointsmemo.com: At SCOTUS, Once Again, Religious Rights Are Only for Conservative Christians talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

BREAKING: Frank Carone, top aide to Mayor Eric Adams, has been arrested.

Judge Reed O’Connor said he hoped the sentences would send a message to “anyone who shares a similar ideology” talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prairie...

Reclaiming the Majority Is One Way to End Warrantless Surveillance prospect.org/2026/06/24/r...

You hate to see it. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/n...

The DOJ is attempting to strip a Somalia-born Minneapolis man of his citizenship, citing actions he took after he became a citizen. To do so, it’s relying solely on a McCarthy-era law. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/denatur...

For the first time, the DOJ is seeking to strip someone of their citizenship based solely on a McCarthy-era law. There's no claim that the person did anything wrong before he became a citizen. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/denatur...

I get the impulse to "Leopards, faces, etc" these stories. But doing so misses a much bigger and more important point: The nation's largest, most powerful GOP state organization has gone all-in on unfiltered hatred - to the point that it stunned those who've spent their life confronting such hate.

Ossoff gets the opponent that (I assume) he wanted: Not the relatively moderate NFL coach. The shitposter in Congress who jokes about tossing immigrants from helicopters. Just like Pinochet! Ha ha.

Guy behind campaign to draft Bovino for presidential run claims the 'commander' knows he was arrested for meth but believes it to be 'bad ass' www.ms.now/news/greg-bo...

Here is a public service announcement filmed by the Dallas Cowboys in the 1980s, and I promise that you would not correctly guess who pops up at the end if I gave you 10,000 tries

Finally! talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trumps-...

I recalled many of these controversies, but hadn't realized until I read @laylaayanna.bsky.social's piece that they were all the same guy. Now he'll likely be running against Ossoff in Georgia.

"By the time the last punch landed and the blood was wiped away, the night included suspicious stiff armed salutes, transphobic insults, and fresh allegations of sexual assault as well as pitches for Silicon Valley AI, crypto, prediction markets, and the Saudi regime."

An Army Whistleblower Believed in Pete Hegseth — Until the Military Covered Up Her Child’s Abuse theintercept.com/2026/06/15/c...

I went into detail about the controversy over Sean O'Malley's UFC White House "salute" in this piece, which also includes this Getty photo. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-m...

Didn't see this reported anywhere but it feels like it's worth noting that Chaya Raichik (Libs of TikTok) said she met with Department of Education Secretary Linda McMahon on June 4 and they aired out their grievances over "gender ideology" in schools. Not ideal.

After a decade of covering some of the most odious people in our politics, this dude is among the most odious I’ve ever had the displeasure of researching - and ICE is giving him a front row seat for its immigration sweeps. My piece on Ben Bergquam for @ms.now www.ms.now/news/ice-mag...

60 Years Ago, a Civil Rights Icon Was Shot. A Flood of Now-Familiar Conspiracy Theories Followed. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/james-m...

Jalen Brunson: “You’re allowed to think about the worst possible scenario. But you gotta go out there and do something about it.” A good mantra for fighting fascism too.

MarkWayne said that Donald Trump doesn't let him wear his hat at the White House.

So now, of course, the president and his friends are in the position of having to claim there was fraud in the LA mayor’s race but not in the California governor’s one just yet. Let’s see how that goes! www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Two loose canons in Congress — Ralph Norman, Nancy Mace — face unpredictable futures after losing tonight's South Carolina governor primary.

INVESTIGATION: 🚨 A Polymarket exec used a personal PayPal account to pay major political influencers like Riley Gaines and Brian Krassenstein, who then hyped how "accurate" Polymarket is at predicting outcomes. We uncovered $350,000+ flowing to influencers this way www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

One thing thats striking about this version of the election theft conspiracy theory, which virtually all top Republicans are now boosting, is how simple it is, how transparent it is. They know how California's vote count works. All these guys have been watching California do this for decades.

The NBA games are clearly rigged. The Knicks were leading at halftime last night but then as the evening went on there were wide changes in the results. This is undermining fan integrity and confidence in the result.

I'm honestly kind of surprised it took this long, but I'm calling the California primary the beginning of the Trump administration's effort to flood the midterms with bullshit about specific elections (as opposed to the generalized election conspiracy theorizing they are constantly unloading).

One thing I learned from this that I didn't know was the extent to which Paul Weyrich's drive to remake right-wing activism in America was motived by frustrations about Vatican II.

Joe hosts a good party (even if it's just a two-person party). Enjoyed this.

"State law sets an extremely early deadline for candidates to withdraw, a deadline that is little more than a month away, at 5:00 PM on Monday, July 13."

Will be talking to Chris about this @ 1:30 ET if you want to join us! open.substack.com/live-stream/...