Trump's lawyers asked for E. Jean Carroll's consent to delay the $5 million awarded to her. Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, informed Trump's team that "Carroll does not consent." Kaplan says Carroll wants the immediate disbursement of the funds she has waited years to receive.

People connected to the Trump White House are using their connections to advocate for pardons — in exchange for a fee: "It is general knowledge in our practice that for $2 million, you can have a pardon," one prominent white-collar defense attorney said.

BREAKING NYT: John Brennan's lawyers are asking a judge to force Trump and top DOJ officials to preserve records and comms related to the inquiries into Brennan — saying that, if prosecutors bring charges, they intend to fight them by claiming vindictive retribution.

‘Kids are participants in the work of justice’: how US children are being folded into activism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Thomas, Alito, and Gorsuch just essentially said there can be an executive order that changes the Constitution. — Catherine Christian on MS NOW

BREAKING: NPR RETRACTS STORY ON ALITO RETIRING.

Trump White House officials secretly awarded a no-bid contract worth up to $500 million for the construction of Trump's ballroom in an unusual arrangement that sidestepped typical contracting procedures designed to control costs, according to a copy of the agreement obtained by WaPo.

"I don't know if they were guilty or not"?!? Are we really doing this?!?

Moving Justice Jackson concurrence invoking Frederick Douglass on memory. "The distortion of historical facts—retellings that reimagine and repurpose past events to lend credence to misbegotten aims—may be an even greater threat."

This country was one person's vote away this morning from putting any birthright citizen in danger of being deported tomorrow. We are so much closer to the abyss than we think. Man oh man.

All of the national court coverage has it as a 6-3 decision, but it is indeed 5-4 unless I’m reading the consenting/dissenting opinions wrong. But 5 joined to keep, while four filed dissenting opinions. Which is … wow. 5-4 on a basic constitutional question that has stood for more than a century.

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BREAKING: MIAMI (AP) — More than 100 Venezuelans deported from the US hours before earthquakes are missing after their hotel collapses.

BREAKING: A federal judge just ordered the Trump admin to permanently abandon its efforts to suspend funding for a $16 billion rail tunnel under the Hudson River — describing those attempts as "flagrantly" illegal.

The BBC has requested that Donald Trump hand over his phone records from Jan. 6 as part of his defamation lawsuit against the broadcaster.

Man from Texas moves to Russia on Shared Values visa: sign an anti-woke statement and Russia gives you a visa. He immediately gets his family's savings stolen, and now sees he was a propagandist for Russia, realizing human rights don't exist there, misses freedoms of US www.bbc.com/news/article...

A letter from conservatives to the Trump Justice Department prompted the investigation into the Southern Poverty Law Center. Several right-wing extremist groups — including Moms for Liberty and Turning Point USA — sent a letter to Stephen Miller urging greater scrutiny of the civil rights org.

White House enhancements that Trump said he would pay for, like replacing a walkway and repairing masonry, have in fact cost taxpayers $689,232. The admin has slashed spending on many national parks and redirected money instead to D.C.-area improvements — "a quiet crisis unfolding."

Russia continues to lure men from countries like Peru using lucrative "security guard" contracts, only to feed them to its meat grinder in Ukraine. It's human trafficking. “I’m completely abandoned. I have no food, no medicine, and my kneecap is broken.” www.cnn.com/2026/06/28/a...

Bill Pulte, Trump's unqualified acting DNI, has chosen as his chief of staff a GOP election lawyer who oversaw a poll watching program that included Jack Posobiec and other conservative conspiracy theorists. The lawyer appears to have no experience in the intel community.

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT BACKS TRUMP'S FIRING OF FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION MEMBER

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO LET TRUMP REMOVE FEDERAL RESERVE GOVERNOR LISA COOK

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO HEAR TRUMP'S APPEAL OF $5 MILLION JURY VERDICT WON BY E. JEAN CARROLL IN 2023 FOR SEXUAL ABUSE AND DEFAMATION

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT DECLINES TO HEAR BID BY PROMINENT LAWYER ALAN DERSHOWITZ TO REVIVE DEFAMATION LAWSUIT AGAINST CNN

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES AGAINST REPUBLICAN CHALLENGE TO FIVE-DAY GRACE PERIOD FOR MAIL-IN BALLOTS IN MISSISSIPPI

This means the Supreme Court just UPHELD grave periods for mail-in ballots:

The Supreme Court just overturned 90 years of precedent to transfer unprecedented new powers to the executive:

First on MS NOW: House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia is demanding answers about the failed reflecting pool renovations — including why the Trump admin pursued the project amid rising costs at home and the war in Iran and the decision-making process behind Trump's use of no-bid contracts.

BREAKING: BOSTON (AP) - Federal judge bars Trump from implementing proof of citizenship requirement to vote.

A Gaslit Nation guest heads to Congress!

Back in November, Don Jr. took a confidential meeting with Indian billionaire Gautam Adani who was being investigated by the DOJ for bribery and fraud. Just last month, the DOJ moved to drop the charges. That raises ethics questions.

Trump's hand is again caked in makeup today. REUTERS/Evelyn Hockstein

Please read and call. Flood the zone.

Surrender vs. honor and hope. His country occupied by the Nazis, in the hands of traitors who want him dead, de Gaulle delivers a speech from London calling on the free French to rise up. It hardly got noticed at the time. It's celebrated in France every June 18 www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBXa...

Me too!! 😍

Barbed wire stars www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/06/anna...

Why the US economy defies the odds: "Americans are very solutions-oriented and much more comfortable with taking a short-term risk in service of a long-term advantage. Europe as a culture is risk-averse." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Hungary is still a problem. Orbanism normalized corruption, including moral corruption. As one EU diplomat told me after Orban's defeat: Orban is still here. His party re-elected him leader and his political opponent carries out his work stalling Ukraine's EU membership. www.cnn.com/2026/06/13/e...

A major flu outbreak has sickened nearly 160 troops at Lackland Air Force Base in Texas less than two months after Pete Hegseth announced that U.S. troops would no longer be required to be vaccinated for the flu.

Leader Schumer: "This is a Republican president, a Republican Senate, a Republican House screwing up."

Another one of Trump's personal lawyers was just confirmed as a federal appeals court judge. Justin Smith was Trump's lead attorney at the Supreme Court in the effort to upend the millions of dollars in damages that E. Jean Carroll won against Trump for sexual abuse and defamation.

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT BACKS CHALLENGE TO FEDERAL LAW BARRING DRUG USERS FROM OWNING GUNS

The Supreme Court sided with a marijuana user over the Trump admin — Gorsuch writing for the court that the prosecution of Ali Danial Hemani ran afoul of the Second Amendment.

Ted Cruz on Trump's Iran agreement: "Giving billions of dollars to theocratic lunatics who want to murder us is not a good idea."

Senate Republicans quietly killed an effort to bar the Pentagon from investing in companies tied to Trump, his Cabinet or their families — rejecting a Democratic amendment targeting conflict-of-interest concerns.

Just in case you were wondering whether the feigned outrage over personal freedom during Covid was real or theater… it turns out the right does really like the exercise of state control.

Yep

It has the highest levels of toxic Pfas in drinking water in Scotland. But how did this remote island become awash with forever chemicals?

New in PN: Trump's losing fight against the green energy revolution "He can’t bring back coal, which will wind up as a niche energy source. He can’t make EVs illegal or stop people from buying them as the cars get more appealing, & pretending batteries don't exist won't stop the explosion of solar"

A man who set fire to homes linked to Starmer is in jail. His Russian-speaking handler slipped away. #hybridwar apnews.com/article/russ...