Pay attention to who is willing to break the law for Donald Trump as we head into the midterm elections—because his end goal is to create a system where others will break the law for him. It's about building up a custom where it's normal to break the law for a person. The big case is the military.

Well I guess we know where Trump stands on insider trading!

Reality check - Trump has the worst job creation record of any President since Hoover. New, from me👇 www.hopiumchronicles.com/publish/post...

Why Is Measles Surging in Virginia? Because too many kids are not fully vaccinated and protected. Another anti-vaccine win measured in sick kids. open.substack.com/pub/stopanti... via @aboutpediatrics.bsky.social

"The on-camera dozing sessions are just one sign of Trump’s growing ailments, which are certainly not helped by staying up all night binging on a Truth Social algo feeding him a unhealthy buffet of Trump-worshipping AI slop, conspiracies, and Boomer meme garbage." — @justinglawe.bsky.social

Repurposing the memory of perhaps the greatest and most daring battle to fight the scourge of fascism in Europe into an explicit argument for ethnonationalist exclusion is an especially fascist rhetorical strategy.

NBC: “Pentagon increasingly concerned Israel is ramping up its spying on the United States… effort to surveil top officials to get info on the Trump administration’s internal deliberations and decision-making on the conflicts in the Middle East…” www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

A conservative candidate in Indiana whose race is presently in a recount is combing voters’ social media to try to challenge voters, a practice that state observers say is new & unusual: www.indystar.com/story/news/p...

And the average school will lose how much funding?

Trump’s election was, in effect, the passage of the Crimes Are Legal If You’re a Republican Act.

the thing that’s been painfully obvious for years is that unchecked capital accumulation paired with gutting the social safety net and public goods was going to lead to commerce without customers. an economy built on consumption when no one has money to consume.

Photojournalists covering the protests at Delaney Hall say they have been deliberately targeted for assault by ICE agents and police — with at least 42 assaults and five instances of officers damaging journalists’ equipment.

One Million out of the total *17* million they spread across *7* waterway & infrastructure projects? These are rounding errors for Google. No, seriously, at a market cap of 4.45 TRILLION dollars, that's 4.450000000000 Vs 0.000001000000/ 0.000017000000 So it is LITERALLY a rounding error for them.

Basically nobody is taking Trump up on new chances to drill for oil in environmentally sensitive Alaskan lands. Via Bloomberg

Goddamn it I just put on mascara

I think this is a tough situation. News orgs have absolutely been terrible about archiving and keeping web content online and usable. But there's no denying that AI scraping is a threat to keeping the doors open, look at the latest Google search page. The current state of everything is not good.

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

Pinched from the other App 😆😆

"By nationality, I'm Venezuelan," Andry Hernandez Romero told me. "But in my heart, I'm American." He is the gay makeup artist Trump sent to the CECOT torture prison in El Salvador. Andry is in Spain now, rebuilding his life and haunted by his experience. www.advocate.com/news/andry-h...

But that's not all. It's corruption of epic proportions.

A professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago has been suspended because she designed an art therapy assignment included a mention a hypothetical woman who is "deeply affected by the violence against Palestinian civilians." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Who knew Trump would do so much for the renewable energy transition and women's economic empowerment?

Just a constant horror show as the privacy of trans patients is constantly eroded. As a former patient of Mount Sinai, this is a massive betrayal to their patients. Your medical records are not safe with them. gothamist.com/news/nyc-par...

Really awful. Write to American Diabetes Association CEO Charles "Chuck" Henderson at [email protected] and Chief Scientific and Medical Officer Rita Rastogi Kalyani at [email protected]. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/w...

Besides jackhammering the landmarked façade of the Bonwit Teller bldg to put up Trump Tower, Trump’s edifice complex has also resulted in his digging up a church graveyard to build his illegally tall Trump SoHo. NYC’s first integrated cemetery, at that. Two died freakish deaths in the process.

15th Amendment: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude,” unless you discriminate on the basis of race and pretend you’re doing it for a different reason.”

Important thoughts from NYT publisher Sulzberger on the catastrophic impact on journalism -- and ultimately on society -- of current tech company approaches, stealing copyrighted content and then no longer sending the audience to the source. Revenue that funds the reporting falling...

BREAKING via Reuters A group of U.S. states including California and New York are preparing a lawsuit to block Paramount Skydance’s $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Full Story: reut.rs/4dU1VTa

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Ended the week in the dark place. Happy Friday! www.offmessage.net/p/john-rober...

A future prosecutor might even call them “obstructions”

“We’ve been internally deeply distressed by the interference, and that’s why it was not an easy decision for us,” Stahl said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. Stahl also said she has heard Weiss “complaining about us, and that’s been harmful.”

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."

Read this all the way through. It's a cheat code to understanding our current media ecosystem. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

BREAKING: Following DOJ's defense earlier this week of its attorneys' actions in the Rhode Island Hospital subpoena case — www.justice.gov/opa/pr/state... — Judge Mary McElroy has referred the DOJ lawyers involved for disciplinary proceedings. Background: www.lawdork.com/i/198583977/...

In the Judiciary Act of 1802, Congress canceled an entire Supreme Court term. www.fjc.gov/history/legi...

Easy for them to propose because unworkable in the real world. But hey, they tried.

Trump trying to steal another election. Dry run for the Midterms?

"Even among the nation’s best-paid corporate chiefs, Elon Musk stands alone. His compensation last year was a mind-boggling $132.3 billion."

Trump made his personal lawyer acting AG who then wrote a directive to stop all IRS audits of Trump, even though he owes $100+ million in unpaid taxes, thus effectively giving himself a free $100+ million. This morning, complicit GOP senators passed on their single best opportunity to stop it.

I wrote about shutting down Delaney Hall (with reference to the forthcoming book HOW TO CLOSE A CAMP)

Ryan: "This amendment is straightforward. It would prohibit the president from using my constituents' tax dollars to continue waging his ill-conceived & unconstitutional war in Iran... 97 days in, our best case -- our best case, which we're still not able to achieve -- is a return to the status quo"

Art Institute has moved to censor free speech of its tenured faculty.

No special treatment for Space X in the S&P 500! Just announced. Wow. That profitability requirement means it might never get in.

Susan Collins is largely responsible for Brett Kavanaugh—a man credibly accused of rape—being confirmed as a justice on the Supreme Court. As a result, Roe v Wade was overturned, and we now have “Kavanaugh stops” and a dismantled Voting Rights Act. She deserves to be unseated, NOT applauded.

George Santos, to NPR’s Bobby Allyn: “This story is going to get you a gun in your face.”

5th Circuit: A cop did not violate the Constitution when he shot (and nearly killed) an innocent man who had just disarmed the actual shooter whom police were there to stop www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...

You do, in fact, love to see it. Background: www.lawdork.com/p/federal-ju... Today: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Jesus fucking Christ