JUST IN: Trump administration argues courts lack grounds to halt White House ballroom project even if it was clearly illegal. DOJ attorney also contends no lawsuit could stop Trump from tearing down Statue of Liberty if he wanted to. w/ @kyledcheney.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

Ben Meiselas on Jared and Ivanka's attempt to take over an uninhabited island in Albania: It used to be a closed off military area under the old communist government. It has kind of a very creepy underground tunnel system... No wonder the Epstein class wants to build out on this island.

June 4, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Trump has no ceasefire in Lebanon despite his claims, no deal with Iran, no plan for the oil crisis, and his ballroom guy is in Russia showing Putin White House renovations. Your midday recap is here:

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...

Who killed Democracy? Citizens United. substack.com/@rodolfohues...

He's a master of distracting us from crimes he's already committed by continuously committing new crimes. 5 months until the Midterms. #AccountabilityIsComing

June 3, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

This is an important read. Billionaires want to keep this quiet by attacking the 1st Amendment; see CBS Weise and Elison takeover of a media. Then they will attack the 14th Amendment. We need to dismantle the Billionaires and their hold on elections. open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s lawyers informed a judge that DHS Secretary Mullin may have undermined the government’s attempt to send him to Liberia, by testifying he’d be “happy” to send him to Costa Rica.

Alex Pretti & Renee Good

It is my opinion that states need to hold back federal funds until all this concentration camps are closed. No taxpayer money should be used to support cruelty.

And together we can have the courage to keep speaking out! #WeAreAmerica

June 2, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Once a con man, always a con man. www.npr.org/2026/06/02/n...

Trump during the campaign on Feb 2, 2023 to Fox: “I will end that war in 24 hours. It won’t even be hard. You have to get them both in a room. And there are things you can say to them, which I won’t reveal now, which will guarantee that this war will end immediately.”

Trump maintains he's winning, but the courts disagree. His name has to come off of the Kennedy Center, the Pentagon's anti-trans policy is out & an Alabama judge lectured prosecutors about serving justice, not a president. The breakdown is in today's Civil Discourse open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

"𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐬 𝐬𝐞𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐢𝐦𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟." That's it entirely. He's in La-la-land now.

If negotiations are boring maybe Trump should resign and let someone else do the job of being president as it was designed to be done. A short attention span is not a characteristic of a strong leader. Do your job congress take back you power

June 1, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

NEW: Judge Randy Moss (Obama/DC) rules that National Park Service can't pull permit from group flying "86 47" flag near National Mall. w/@kyledcheney www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

NEW: lots of you have sent me this article asking for my thoughts. I’ve been able to confirm it. Just as she says, Trump’s administration is staging vote.gov on a non-government cloudflare account under the EOP where there’s no oversight or accounting. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...

Maybe if he hadn’t been telling us for 3 months that a surrender deal with Iran was imminent he wouldn’t have to post at 1:02 AM that he has no idea how to get out of this war while accomplishing anything meaningful.

May 31, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

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It's still a thing and it isn't going away #EpsteinFiles

I don’t think it’s especially difficult to get propaganda spin from unnamed Trump admin officials with a vested interest in pumping out manipulating bs to the public and put it in articles day after day. But after it proves to be untrue nonsense 75 times do you stop at any point?

Wait I thought this was pretty much a done deal last week. And the week before. And the week before. And the week before …

Judge Cannon has done everything possible to keep Volume II of the Jack Smith report buried. The 11th Circuit just stepped in. I've been tracking this one for months — here's where things stand. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

May 30, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

Reminder: The Epstein files are 162 days past the congressional deadline for full release. The DOJ is withholding more than 3m files.

Important.

The enemy is us. This is what being asleep at the wheel has cost our Democracy. Our single one person, one vote is getting whitewashed by Corporations being allowed to vote. SCOTUS Reform needs to happen and happen yesterday. substack.com/@rodolfohues...

If the USPS will send mail-in ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government, should we be concerned about the registration of a second “vote.gov” domain (if 👇 this turns out to be true? 🤷)???

A reminder that my team is trying to bring some joy and reaffirmation of human agency to this anniversary with the 250 to 250 videos. Here's Pete Buttigieg talking about the Erie Canal, for example:

May 29, 2026 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

A federal judge just ordered Trump's name removed from the Kennedy Center and blocked his planned two-year shutdown of the institution. The bigger question: Is this a one-off defeat, or the beginning of a contagion marking a broader judicial pushback against Trump's reshaping of DC in his image?

Today: 1. A judge temporarily blocked the $1.8B slush fund 2. A judge ordered Trump’s name off the Kennedy Center 3. A judge asked the govt to answer charges of a fraud on the court in Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS 4. A judge asked DoJ to explain why he should dismiss the Oath Keepers’ charges

i’ll admit i did not think the retired judges’ motion to re-open the Trump v. IRS case would succeed. but now that is has…lfg? at a minimum, DOJ will be forced to justify its conduct in writing

Judge Mehta doesn’t want to quietly dismiss the seditious conspiracy conviction of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes. He’s asking the Trump administration to justify its decision to try to erase the case.

The “rookie federal prosecutor” handling the Comey seashells prosecution “has stepped off the case.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

"Courts weren't meant to stop this. ... It was intended that a corrupt criminal president like this one has to be removed by Congress. And it is not a question of politics, or polls, or talking points. It's a question of simple justice, and simply upholding our country as a nation of laws."

MacFarlane: $250 — who’d be carrying around that kind of bill in their wallet to begin with? It seems ornate. It seems like something royalty would carry, but at the same time, it’d be barely enough to cover the grocery bill for a family of four or five each week because prices are so high.

JUST IN: A judge has ordered the release from ICE detention of a man who became the caretaker of his 1-year-old granddaughter (S.Z.H.) last year after the girl's father shot and killed her mother and himself — and shot, but didn't kill, his daughter too. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

But don’t you dare compare them to Nazis

Dear media, You don't have to say "E Jean Carroll accused Trump of defamation and rape." You can say "Trump defamed and raped E Jean Carroll." It's been adjudicated. Thank you

Trump has defamed E. Jean Carroll far more than he has been "defamed". In fact, if there is any one person defaming Trump now or at any time during his life, it is Trump himself.

Former federal judge John Jones on Slush fund: This lawsuit essentially—there was no report of a settlement. It was just a discontinuance of the suit, and then comes the settlement thereafter. In my experience—you don’t do that unless you’re trying to keep something from the presiding judge.