Tax breaks for billionaires. A ballroom for Trump. Taking food from families to pay for them.

Popok: I am troubled by how many people are willing to endanger their law licenses in the service of Tump. Is it the proximity to power? Luttig: It’s proximity to Trump. If the president is calling the judges corrupt and you represent the president, then that’s your mindset

The immigrant-detention facility Alligator Alcatraz, which may soon be shut down, has been a cruel and costly publicity stunt, Eric Schlosser argues.

Good!

The story of GLP-1 drugs keeps getting bigger. First they transformed the treatment of diabetes. They upended the science — and culture — of weight loss. Now, studies are fueling optimism about their potential role in preventing and treating cancers.

Chris Wright has a master's in electrical engineering from MIT and absolutely understands "batteries" as well as any five-year-old child, but you see, he took a job in the Trump administration so he has to pretend he's just as stupid as the boss.

AOC: This is what I want people to understand: this is our money. When you pay your taxes, that money is being stolen to pay for a vanity project like a ballroom or whatever it is that this guy wants to do, instead of what it should be used for…

BREAKING: The House Oversight Committee has released the transcript of its interview with Pam Bondi. Bondi said Todd Blanche "oversaw the entire" Epstein investigation. oversight.house.gov/wp-content/u...

"Call me old fashioned, but a real man takes responsibility"

$41 trillion. @politico.com www.politico.com/live-updates...

Starmer calls for Elon Musk to stop interfering in UK politics reut.rs/3Q3bu8T

There it is. Plain as day

Today’s Litigation Tracker updates: -DOD sued for threatening military newspaper’s independence -Federal employees with disabilities sue, say new policy limiting telework is unlawful -Visa holder challenges DHS rule ending automatic work-permit extensions

Heyyyyy! But we need someone to leak the date and time the crew will come do it so we can all come watch and cheer!!

Helicopters, dildos, and beyond

FLAG: Trump says that his new acting DNI Bill Pulte is going to "find out some things about the rigged elections." There are no rigged elections.

@robertgarcia.bsky.social: "We've said we don't really care who is called out here. We don't care who has to face justice, whether they're a Republican or Democrat. We just want justice for the survivors, and for the truth to come out about why there was a cover-up and who abused women & girls."

@robertgarcia.bsky.social: "Comer’s “reasoning was because she's no longer the attorney general — and that's BS. Hillary Clinton was no longer the secretary of state when she was deposed. This broader Republican Party continues to play cover-up for the president and for the White House.”

But seriously he is going to wipe out so many retirement accounts and the banks are helping him do it. He's doing a DOGEcoin rugpull with the entire U.S. economy. Buckle up!

A reason not to nominate someone with a Nazi tattoo is that THEIR PROBLEMS TEND NOT TO BE LIMITED TO NAZI TATTOOS

We are openly on Russias side now www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Ding ding ding

Sounds like Susan Collins is likely to win in November. 😑

Former DNI Tulsi Gabbard was in Atlanta when the FBI siezed Fulton County ballots. Perhaps she didn't produce like Trump wanted her to, so he's hiring corrupt yes-man Pulte to take over.

the Broadview Six sinkhole expands to swallow yet another victim

A extremely dangerous maggot that eats human flesh called Screwworm has just been found for the first time since it was eradicated in 1966. This comes after Trump cut funding for Screwworm monitoring programs. apnews.com/article/scre...

Saying the quite part out loud

The other day, Dr. Oz was gushing over how much energy Trump has, claiming it was on historic levels.

You’ve got to pay to play: Ballroom donors won $50B in contracts after giving to Trump’s project: wapo.st/3QmJjSz

An under-examined theme of the last few years is how much genuine hatred the punditocracy has for anyone they interact with who has a real job.

Here's Rep Jamie Raskin's bill nixing Trump's corrupt protection against IRS audits. Chef's kiss: It's called the "Block Lawless Agreements and Nullify Corrupt Handouts and Emoluments Act” or the “BLANCHE Act." Backstory below.

selling your soul pays well

Third-order side-effect of Trump's immigration bullshit.

Whether it's Donald Trump having the DOJ shake down the Treasury for a $1.8 billion slush fund for traitors or Bill Clinton talking to Loretta Lynch on the tarmac for five minutes, both men had inappropriate interactions with the Department of Justice.

Nothing says "intellectual freedom" like forcing students to take mandatory conservative indoctrination classes. Shout-out to all the embarrassing academics who believe any of this was in good faith.

Just thinking how Bill Clinton's meeting with Loretta Lynch on a tarmac was a tsunami-level political scandal in 2016, and now we have the president literally nominating his personal lawyer to be the nation's attorney general -- and it's greeted with a shrug. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfaremedia.org's @katherinepomps.bsky.social finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.

welp I’m a lawyer and I’d hazard a guess that some people who do like it are antisemitic too

Trump continues his hard work today to bring down rising prices and solve the affordability crisis.

"Nobody involved—not the president, not the rioters, not the senators who oppose the fund—seems convinced that the idea of cash transfers to insurrectionists is *really* dead." Schrödinger’s slush fund from hell?

It's amazing that Trump could've just done nothing and would've benefited (again) from an improving economy, but he made a big show of Shaking Things Up and here we are.

BREAKING: Lawyers for the Kennedy Center have ordered staff to remove all references to Trump from the institution’s signs, documents, and more, according to a memo obtained by @janaykingsberry.bsky.social. theatln.tc/AcKxTgnN 📸: Jason Andrew / The Washington Post / Getty

Rewrite great speeches for Trump: "Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what your country can do for me."

So gay. 🏳️‍🌈

NEW: I found that at least 97 of the more than 1,500 individuals granted clemency by President Trump for their roles in the January 6 Capitol attack have been arrested for, or convicted of crimes separate from Jan. 6 since their participation in the riot. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

‘The SpaceX IPO is so big that its fast-track inclusion into the Nasdaq 100 has some worried that it will siphon capital from a host of stocks—and may already be doing so. The Mag7 gained just 2% over the past month, less than half the advance of the S&P 500.‘ www.barrons.com/articles/spa...

Rubio has been wrong about the Iran war from the jump. And that’s why Trump has begun elevating him above JD Vance in the Favorite Adopted Son sweepstakes. All about that in today's Triad from @jvl.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4e4yv3p

Senate Republicans indicate they support giving taxpayer money to cop beater insurrectionists.