How Trump Turned America’s Refugee Program Into a Pathway for White People www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...

The Deadly Rise of Giant Trucks and S.U.V.s www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

“‘There shouldn’t be some sort of untouchables list of people who are immune from enforcement’… The move is part of a pattern of behavior at the top echelons of the DOJ to push cases against Trump’s political adversaries and ease up on allies.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

The Trump administration plans to transfer several core Education Department responsibilities, including its civil rights and special education programs, to other federal agencies as part of its efforts to dismantle the department.

Frustrated by Courts, Trump Weighed Suspending a Constitutional Right www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...

NEW: The Trump administration put the Ambani family’s Reliance Industries at the center of an escalating tariff fight with India. Then Reliance invested millions in America First Refining, in which Donald Trump Jr. secretly held a stake.

“The Trump Admin cut funding for screwworm detection and fired 25% of staff responsible for tracking the disease…I’m embarrassed for the Secretary that her only answer is to blame the administration that left office a year and a half ago.” newrepublic.com/post/211495/...

Long Covid is not "baffling" at all. There are thousands of publications which show multi-system pathology across all body systems, including extensive evidence of organ damage. The scientific and clinical evidence is undeniable and should be reported about accurately

A truly sick political party is one that protects itself over everything else… Trump Keeps Immunity from I.R.S., a Victory in a Long-Running Feud www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/u...

Despite GOP senators claiming they wouldn’t support the bill unless it stopped Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund for insurrectionists, Senate Republicans have passed the MAGA spending bill that would shovel $70 billion more to ICE and Border Patrol — without doing anything about Trump’s slush fund.

"Something Weiss apparently doesn’t understand is that a newsroom...is a living organism with a culture all its own. That culture doesn’t function based only on commands from above," writes @sulliview.bsky.social.

Of course he did.

Individual donations continue to add up! Those of you who have continued to donate over the past few weeks-- we're so grateful! An especial thanks to the donor who gave $500+ last week <3 We completed a seed grant app today, too, for submission next week 💪

Rep. Lieu: “The Supreme Court is out of control, out of touch with the American people…This is the most corrupt Supreme Court we’ve seen in our history, and reform is going to come next year."

“American humanitarian aid not only saved one life every 10 seconds but was also safeguarding the world from epidemics.” This Is Why You Don’t Slash Humanitarian Aid www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

The world must prepare for a surge in weather extremes and heat waves as a potentially exceptional El Niño emerges, the United Nations’ World Meteorological Organization has warned.

“By dismantling such a system, we push the United States back yet again into a rear seat in global scientific leadership.” Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Trump Administration Live Updates: Court Orders Trump’s Name Stripped From Kennedy Center www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...

US draws up plans to halt immigration, customs processing at 'sanctuary city' airports - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

The measure needed two-thirds support to advance but fell short after at least six GOP senators crossed the aisle to vote with Democrats against it. The outcome signals that resistance to the redistricting push remains alive.

Amazing work SC! South Carolina’s Republican-dominated Senate blocked a procedural move that would have fast-tracked a vote on a new congressional map stripping the state of its only majority-Black district.

“The move to wipe hundreds of press releases from the official government site is the latest attempt by the Trump administration to reframe the Jan. 6 siege and to paint the rioters who participated in it as victims.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

WTAF Green Card Seekers Must Leave U.S. to Apply, Trump Administration Says www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/u...

Can't thank Stephen Colbert enough for the decades of laughs he's given us. He's been positively therapeutic in these troubled times & I can't wait to see what he does next! 👀 (plus, he let me sit behind his desk) 🙏

HOLY SHIT prosecutors kicked off grand jurors and then re-presented the case against the Broadview 6, then altered the grand jury transcripts to hide it from the judge. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

“Republicans were so livid that party leaders scrapped planned votes on the party’s top priority — a $72 billion immigration crackdown measure it had planned to muscle through before Memorial Day — punting action for fear of having to cast votes on the fund.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/u...

Police officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6 sue to block Trump’s $1.8 billion fund. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/u...

“the fund would represent not only a highly unorthodox resolution but also a further demonstration of the administration’s eagerness to reward allies who before Trump came to power were investigated and in some cases charged and convicted.” apnews.com/article/trum...

Some counterterrorism objectives conflict with Trump’s own actions, analysts say. How can federal agencies step up efforts to thwart terror plots after Trump slashed the national security workforce and diverted resources to his deportation campaign?

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

We’re deeply grateful to all of the Tennessee Indivisibles and everyone else across the state who showed up in defense of democracy. We the People — especially Black and Brown Americans — have opposed tyranny in the past. The road may be longer than we hoped, but we will win. Again.

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

I tried to warn everyone what the Roberts Court was about almost ten years ago www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

The No-Bid Contract That Is Turning Washington’s Reflecting Pool Blue www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...

⚡️ HAPPENING NOW — “THE DISTRICTS MAY NOT BE CHANGED BETWEEN APPORTIONMENTS….” Tennesseans are reading the law Republicans are breaking to steal representation from Memphis out loud before rules committee

Amazon union leader Chris Smalls reportedly arrested after Met Gala protest www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/new...

uhhhhhhh wtf

Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry canceled congressional primaries that were already in progress. Over 100,000 absentee ballots had already gone out. Early in-person voting had just started. And Landry signed an executive order saying none of those votes will count.

Supreme Court restores access to abortion pill mifepristone through telehealth, mail and pharmacies apnews.com/article/abor...

“This is an outright power grab. It's about silencing Black voices, dismantling majority Black districts and rigging the maps so that politicians can choose their voters instead of the other way around." Black representation in Congress at risk after court ruling www.npr.org/2026/04/30/n...

“So far in 2026, there have been 128 mass shootings and over 4,000 gun-violence deaths. Donald Trump is not the only American to be threatened by gun violence… Tell the President: don’t build a ballroom. Pass real, meaningful gun reform so that ALL of us can rest safely…” cause.link/ttdbbpgr428?...

AI strikes again… apple.news/AwOtgO-LsTWW...

Trump administration to pay 2 more companies to walk away from US offshore wind leases apnews.com/article/trum...

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

Ana Navarro on the WHCD: “It’s crazy to me that one of the first things Trump did after this was go push for a ballroom and use this instead of calling to our better angels, calling for unity. School children have as much a right to have safe schools as politicians do to have a secure ballroom”

AIDS Creeps Back in Parts of Zambia, a Year After U.S. Cuts to H.I.V. Assistance www.nytimes.com/2026/04/25/h...

She published a column anyway. “Apparently the Pentagon also doesn’t want you to hear from me anymore,” she wrote. The paper receives partial Defense Department funding. Now its last line of internal accountability is gone.

The Justice Department just identified 384 naturalized Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke and they won’t say why they picked those 384 people specifically.