It's going to take more than a vision of the things we want the future to look like if we're going to rebuild S&T policy in the rubble of today. We're going to need architecture to do it. Huge thanks to @techpolicypress.bsky.social and @justinhendrix.bsky.social for running the piece.

Great to see former FBI employees band together for support and reform. “Law enforcement and national security work should be resolutely apolitical.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

Congressional stock trading is one of many reasons why Americans are losing faith in Congress. As @pocan.house.gov and @tiffanymuller.bsky.social explain, banning it is not only popular, it's commonsense.

The father of the world’s richest man is heading to Russia’s regions in pursuit of a futuristic institute, a potential Tesla factory and the resettlement of white South African families.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review. This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer. www.propublica.org/article/dona...

This is public money. Your money. Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for. And there is more coming.

Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion. A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

The order came down to move fast. One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done. Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed,

Here is the part the administration tried to bury. Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr.

Follow the money on this one. It’s rotten to the core. The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is 2 years old. It had fewer than 50 employees. And 3 months before the deal was announced, Trump Jr.’s venture firm took a stake in it.

A year ago, the Trump administration withdrew from a global effort to curb offshore tax-dodging by multinational companies. That decision has been a huge gift to corporate America, enabling companies to avoid at least $40 billion in income taxes since the beginning of 2025.

NEW: We filed a complaint over Stephen Miller's violation of the Hatch Act when he attacked a Senate candidate in his official capacity. Miller's disturbing comments are emblematic of the Trump administration’s core vices: corruption, bigotry and election interference.

The three biggest problems with the results of Trump’s latest medical exam (released Friday night, as part of an apparent attempt to bury the news): - what was in the report released by the White House - what *wasn’t* in the report - the decade-long pattern of obfuscation www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

RFK Jr. said “the only people who lost coverage were people who were never entitled to coverage.” But higher costs were the #1 reason people in Massachusetts chose to drop their ACA coverage last year. They did everything right, and Trump still ripped away their health care.

Links: www.cnn.com/2026/05/25/t... www.inquirer.com/news/nation-... www.congress.gov/crs-product/...

The Trump administration keeps pushing a “you’re not welcome here” message. It’s not surprising Trump is ruining the tourism industry he ran multiple casinos into bankruptcy because he’s such a “good businessman.”

The airports on the list include JFK, LAX, O’Hare, SFO, and Seattle. These aren’t small regional hubs. They handle the overwhelming majority of international travel into this country. Whether it happens or not, the message it sends to the world is the same one that’s already cost us billions.

Now Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin wants to pull customs officers from airports in cities that don’t cooperate with immigration enforcement. No customs officers means no international flights.

of international visitors, cut their trips by 20%. The administration added a fingerprint registration requirement for anyone staying more than 30 days. Visa wait times have ballooned. Nearly half of international travelers surveyed said Trump’s policies made them less likely to visit.

This didn’t happen by accident. Travel bans now cover nationals from nearly 40 countries. Germany issued a formal warning to its citizens that a U.S. visa doesn’t guarantee they’ll actually be allowed in after several Germans were detained at the border. Canadians, our single largest source

Four million fewer tourists came here and eight billion dollars gone. We were the only major destination in the world moving in the wrong direction.

The U.S. just had its worst year for international tourism since the pandemic and it wasn’t even close. While the rest of the world broke records in 2025, America was the only country out of 184 to see a drop in foreign visitor spending.

The pace of total computer & data center investment is something close to $450B/yr now

US data center construction rose to a new record high in official data released today, hitting a pace of nearly $51B/yr (and this only includes data center facilities, not the expensive computers within) Spending is up 28% over the last year and 268% since the launch of ChatGPT

"With this man in power, July 4, 2026 will be a perverse day...I would suggest celebrating America’s 250th anniversary on Nov. 3, as we join a large majority of our fellow citizens in ending the chokehold of Trump and his Republican enablers in Congress." www.americaamerica.news/p/the-humili...

Harry Enten: Just 9% of Americans say naming government buildings after Trump is acceptable right now. To put that into some perspective, 10% of Americans believe that the earth is flat, and 12% of Americans think that the moon landing was faked.

* TASNIM: THE RESISTANCE FRONT AND IRAN HAVE SET THEIR AGENDA TO COMPLETELY BLOCK THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ AND ACTIVATE OTHER FRONTS, INCLUDING THE BAB EL-MANDEB STRAIT @reuters.com

This is your daily reminder that Trump and Republicans are spending billions of your tax dollars on an unauthorized war in Iran and Stephen Miller’s ICE agenda while gutting Medicaid, slashing SNAP, and driving up your health care costs.

These are trying times for Democrats in the South—success is measured not by progress made but by harm mitigated. In South Carolina, somewhat unexpectedly, is a little bit. The latest edition of The Opposition from @lauren-egan.bsky.social: lnk.thebulwark.com/4ue68Wx

Democrats, Republicans, and Independents are crying out for the President to focus on the economy and lowering their costs. My colleagues should join us on this bill to prevent even more corruption, and re-assert themselves as a co-equal branch of government. www.cbsnews.com/news/anti-we...

From his ballroom to his son's cryptocurrency, to insider trading and selling pardons to the highest bidder -- Trump has used the govt as a piggybank. This so-called $1.7 billion anti-weaponization fund is an unprecedented misuse of taxpayer money, and it must be stopped. Our bill does just that.

Adjust for inflation, and US office construction is holding at worst-of-the-great-recession levels, falling nearly 60% since the onset of the pandemic in 2020 and down 9% over the last year in data released today

According to my termination letter from @washingtonpost.com a, the company cited these two Bluesky posts, and claimed that I disparaged white men, accused me of ‘gross misconduct’, and that my Bluesky posts “potentially endanger[ed] the physical safety of our staff”.

FLASHBACK: Barbara Walters called out Trump for being $3 BILLION in debt, infidelity, not talking to his son, reading the works of Hitler, etc Real Journalism used to be a thing! (Now ask yourself what long-term promises you might make to people if you were billions in debt…)

Former Fed chair Jay Powell received the Profile in Courage Award at JFK Library yesterday. He defended the Fed's independence and urged respect for rule of law. Should not require courage to say such things. But these days it does www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

⚡️ BREAKING: Israel has successfully disrupted peace talks with Iran by dropping bombs (we give them) on Lebanon — ensuring more will die and Americans/the world will continue to pay higher prices for gas, food, everything. abcnews.com/Internationa...

FLASHBACK: Trump compliments Pelosi, defends Bill Clinton, says Bush should’ve been impeached for lying us into a war Imagine that!

"I didn’t assault anybody," says Bajun Mavalwalla, a veteran who was recently convicted of "conspiracy to impede or injure" federal agents after attending an anti-ICE protest in Spokane, Washington. The unprecedented conviction could lead to six years of prison time.

Here is Trump's Energy Secretary in March saying there's a "very good chance" gas would be $3/gal by the summer (It is now June, and gas is currently $4.32/gal)

Since March 30: US tech sector $XLK +52% Emerging Markets $EEM +27% Average US stock $EQAL +9% (flat since April 17) Average ex-US stock $VSS +13% (flat since April 20)

New Fed guidelines "deemphasize the role of peer review in determining what work to fund, limit the ability of scientists to use federal funds to publish their research or travel to conferences, & offer political appointees more latitude to terminate grants at will" www.statnews.com/2026/05/29/n...

A large explosion has torn through a fireworks factory in northern Malta, damaging buildings several kilometres away. No workers were inside at the time, but authorities reported two men in nearby fields were injured.

Health Professional Shortage Areas are disproportionately Trump-voting areas (with important exceptions, like Texas border towns). Same old boring, depressing story about choosing the guy who makes your life materially so much worse

NEW: Iran says no more peace talks with the US until Israel stops its operations in Lebanon and Gaza

Our Democracy requires us to defend the individual rights of all citizens against overreach and bigotry. ​Happy Pride. 🏳️‍🌈⚖️

As we celebrate Pride Month, we honor the courage of those who fought, and continue to fight, to ensure that the Constitution’s guarantees of liberty and dignity apply to every American, regardless of who they are or who they love. ​

The rule of law isn't just about statutes and courts—it’s about the fundamental promise of equal protection under the law. ​

Financial pressure is mounting quickly, particularly on mid and low-income households. With the saving rate about as low as it ever goes, unless the war ends soon and energy prices come down, they will have little choice but to rein in their spending, weighing further on the already sagging economy.