As Congress flails -- and fails -- to halt Trump's slush fund... a big court hearing looms Friday Judge Leonie Brinkema, who ordered the slush fund paused, will hearing arguments on the matter at 10am @normeisen.bsky.social explains why the lawsuits have outsized importance =====>

At 4am, Senate Republicans gave the greenlight for the IRS to drop ALL investigations into Trump and his family. That means if Trump is evading taxes, we’ll never know. I have a bill to make this illegal. And I won’t stop fighting to get it done.

Cartoon by @pxmolina.bsky.social

Joe Biden is DEFINITELY the BETTER PRESIDENT !!!

There is indeed something wrong, but it is not press reports of the attendance at his first inauguration.

DonOld J. Trump does NOT care about farmers !!! He only cares about himself !!!

We have to tell Trump—always— #LeaveHerAlone! #StatueofLiberty #NationalTreasure #Freedom #Inspiration #Hope #Liberty #Democracy #SheShed

This is 🔥 More words of incredible insight by @timothysnyder.bsky.social. Authoritarian leaders appeal to people by creating a false sense of how the world was better before (Golden Age). They sell a fake narrative of an atavistic future based on half-truths. Erasing history is their agenda.

Extraordinary Letter to Senate Intel. Points to Bill Pulte appointment as national security danger. "The undersigned include twenty-eight former service secretaries and retired general and flag officers who collectively served under every president from John F. Kennedy to Joseph R. Biden, Jr."

FLAG: Trump-appointed U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli says he's pursuing several election fraud investigations with the FBI over California's vote count. There is zero evidence of fraud. This comes after Trump claimed fraud was taking place — despite providing zero evidence to support that claim.

This is what @emptywheel.bsky.social was advocating for: blocking the extension of 702 over the nomination of Bill Pulte as acting DNI. www.pbs.org/newshour/pol...

Trump is suffering new GOP defections on the War in Iran It’s a big problem headed toward November youtu.be/hvDusDubjAg?...

MORE KENNEDY CENTER DRAMA: Plaintiffs challenging Trump closure of Kennedy Center argue Team Trump is potentially violating court order They notify judge: "Defendants may intend to proceed—full steam ahead—w/ the shutdown, or simply to effectuate a shutdown by inertia"

ALERT: Big hearing at 9:30am on the Trump ballroom And despite talking tough... the Senate GOP allows the slush fund to survive the night Lots of new reporting in my daily editorial note open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...

Because Jeffrey Epstein is still ALIVE and hiding somewhere !!!

Trump just all but admitted he wants his DNI (who wields the enormous powers of the national security state) to help him steal the midterms. Seems like that should be a big deal.

Among all the noise a few people like @thedecoderring.bsky.social are discovering the corruption under the glaring corruption Did you know that Freedom250 is nothing but a fundraising money making pay-to-play scheme? It’s the real reason artists are pulling the plug on performances Investigations?

youtube.com/watch?v=61vB... * Scott MacFarlane: Hakeem Jeffries on how Democrats plan to takedown Trump's settlement scheme with his own IRS. Plus, the president continues to berate reporters and defend rioters who ransacked the Capitol in the name of his election lies. *

WASHINGTON (AP) - House passes bill to aid Ukraine and sanction Russia in a sign of impatience with Trump's approach to the war.

It's time to put "Daytime-Sleeping Grandpa" into a nursing home !!!

NEW: George Santos threatened an NPR reporter and then lied about it. This story is wild, even for George Santos. www.npr.org/2026/06/04/n...

I like Hunter Biden. 😎👍

🚨BREAKING: The Senate blocked another Republican attempt Thursday to attach the anti-voting SAVE America Act to an immigration funding package, marking the second failed GOP effort to move the sweeping voting restrictions bill through the chamber. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Several more U.S. House members have signed-on as co-sponsors of bipartisan bill to HALT Trump's $1.7 billion slush fund The latest: Rep. Sharice Davids (D-KS) It's clear that Members of Congress don't buy Trump Admin's claim that it isn't moving forward with the slush fund

ALERT: Democrats Mount Plan to Block Trump’s Sweetheart Immunity Deal with I.R.S. open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...

MacFarlane: We're seeing this unhinged unspooled name calling, often misogynistic, often racist stuff emanating from Washington. 60 minutes would not platform it without the proper scrutiny. You lose that and you lose one of the few things that exist that don't sane wash

Even if the Trump slush fund survives the week (a big “if”)…. Looks like Democrats will force “clawbacks” of any payouts to the convicted crooks Lots of new reporting here ====> youtu.be/61vBEt8zl7w?...

BREAKING: John Bolton plea deal! Bolton will plead guilty to one felony count of illegal retention of national security documents and pay a $2M fine. Donald was indicted on over 40 counts of the same crime. www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/p...

🧵🧊 SAN DIEGO: A source tells me that after a court ordered an ICE prison to allow local health officials access, many of the migrants there were transferred north to facilities near Bakersfield... (continued)

did not have a cory booker and bill cassidy joint amicus brief on my bingo card but the anti-weaponization fund really brings people together storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Apparently, Pulte and Blanche are so bad that even Fetterman won’t vote to confirm them.

If my math is right, the crime rate for pardoned insurrectionists is roughly three times higher than that of immigrants.

Watch til the end when he's asked directly how he feels about homosexuality.

Breaking Politico: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes plans to seek a *new* indictment against Trump allies who aided his quest to overturn the 2020 election, her office said after the state's high court shot down an effort to revive her sprawling first indictment against them.

TODAY: CBS fires Scott Pelley, SCOTUS revives Alabama's racist congressional map, and Mullin refuses to commit to following court orders. Free to listen! the-daily-beans.simplecast.com

Schumer's first pass at forcing republicans to go on record over the $1.8B slush fund, and republicans refuse to kill it. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

NO MORE $ FOR ICE !!!

Republican nominee for US Senate in NC Michael Whatley really loves the Carolina Hurricanes hockey team but when asked to name a single player on their roster twice he can’t do it.

🚨 BREAKING: The Kennedy Center has ordered staff to begin removing Trump's name from official materials and signage by June 12 after a federal judge ruled the board lacked authority to rename the institution the "Trump Kennedy Center."

The DOJ's explanation for why the charges against the Oath Keepers should be dropped is due tomorrow.

NEW: Ballroom donors have won more than $50B in government contracts according to watchdog group @publiccitizen.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Ding ding ding

Who besides Platner has a shot at beating Collins in Maine right now? This is a sincere question, and ideally, I hope Mainers respond. Because if he sinks, and he might, then it seems like Maine will stick with Collins, and there goes the Senate. But let me know.

Hunter Biden spending his whole day every day on Twitter being like "I'm not a pedophile, I was smoking crack with ADULT hookers at the Super 8 outside of Newark, you guys have pictures of all of it INCLUDING my hog from My Leaked Stolen Laptop™" is a masterstroke. Should've done this years ago.

JUST FILED: More emerging signs of "Trump exhaustion" among voters, policies and here on Capitol Hill open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...

ANOTHER lawsuit seeks public records of Kash Patel's beer-guzzling, taxpayer-funded trip to the Winter Olympics Suit by @democracydefendersfund.org seeks the records below, noting... "Prices to attend Olympic events varied, but tickets to the men’s hockey final ranged between $500 and $1,600"

The outbursts and the shouting here on Capitol Hill over the past 24 hours reveal …. Democrats sense Trump’s support is cratering youtu.be/HT0ThA5Sd2g?...

And this is why Trump wants more ICE .. because he knows that he's going to LOSE in the midterms along with his fellow Republicans ...

Watch all the Republican senators fall in line to confirm Blanche because he “canceled” the slush fund (though he won’t put that in writing) but allowed the Trump tax immunity to remain.