Most terrifying post of the day.

Trump is dismantling a $368 million ocean monitoring system that took a decade to build and was designed to run for 25 years. When we need answers about our oceans and our climate, this network is where we get them.

Do it!😆

We haven't forgotten that the DOJ is withholding 50 percent of the Epstein files. Not only do we want Blanche, Patel, and others to appear before our Committee, but we also need the remaining 3 MILLION documents to conduct a thorough investigation and get justice for survivors.

PARIS (AP) — The Rule of St. Augustine, an ancient guide for religious life, highlights the value of good habits.

The Missouri AFL-CIO has endorsed my campaign for Congress in MO-2. Workers across this state know what's at stake in this election and need leaders who will fight for good-paying jobs, stronger unions, and an economy that works for working people — not just the elite few. Join us! Wellmanformo.com

Nearly every House Republican voted to kill a Democratic bill aimed at stopping Trump’s war in Iran. It passed anyway. Vote them out. Flip the House. Hold Trump accountable.

Local Man Sued (Again).

ANGIE CRAIG: I don't think you understand the difference between error rates and fraud rates. I honestly don't. SNAP has one of the lowest fraud rates of any program BROOKE ROLLINS: You can't be serious when you say that CRAIG: Your own data says that

McGOVERN: Do you believe pesticide companies deserve liability protection? BROOKE ROLLINS: We cannot destroy our framers' ability to plant McGOVERN: So even though you say glyphosate is safe, you believe they should have some sort of liability protection?

The usual bullshit: starting with the assumption that fraud rates are high, then working backwards to find someone to blame for the data not backing that up. In this case, the states must be giving the feds bad data, it couldn't simply be that Rollins' assumptions are wrong.

My favorite part is when Brooke Rollins says, "Don't be rude" as she's trying to defend cutting food benefits for children. Truly MAGA in a nutshell: They get to be horrible people and then act offended when someone criticizes them.

SANCHEZ: I think it's safe to say this is probably the most corrupt Treasury Department in our nation's history BESSENT: I AM GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE EXCEPTION WITH THAT! THAT IS SLANDEROUS

Rep. Brown to Brooke Rollins: "So this is what a golden age of agriculture looks like? Because if rising bankruptcies, falling farm income, and worsening financial conditions are a sign of a golden age, I'd hate to see what a downturn looks like."

Bessent tells Rep. Sanchez he can't comment on Trump's tax audit immunity deal because of ongoing litigation -- but he can't name the ongoing litigation 🙃

John Bolton pleading to the same crime Trump committed 30-some times over. edition.cnn.com/2026/06/04/p...

Video shows Pentagon counterterrorism hire clambering into Capitol on Jan. 6 www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

President Trump this morning lashed out at the 4 House Republicans who voted for an Iran war powers resolution. Later today, even more GOP lawmakers may desert Trump on a Ukraine aid / Russian sanctions package.

This is a remarkable. You OFTEN get administration insiders leaking to the press, "we warned Trump XYZ," as when someone in Dan Caine's vicinity leaked that Caine warned Trump that Iran could go badly b4 he started war. Here, oil execs are doing that. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

United States Representative Joe Morelle of New York explores the impact of the Pujo Committee’s 1910s examination of consolidation in American banking. #WeAreAmerica250

“Authoritarianism needs to come into the daylight in order to socialize the acceptance of the overall project, and to justify what might need to be done to seize power or stay in power in order to defeat the “Communists” who have seduced the people.” www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-per...

Jesus Christ, have some self-respect.

5. Meanwhile, people on Obamacare contribute. Paying is the point. *Otherwise we would be on Medicaid*. During open enrollment, we estimate how much we are going to earn over the year. Subsidies are based on that. If we earn less, we might get a refund at tax time. If we earn more, we might owe.

2. Mehmet Oz is a moron or a liar. It's unclear which. In any case, he's wrong. You cannot – literally cannot – commit Obamacare fraud. Anyone saying otherwise is scamming you. Tuesday, Oz said:

Magyar tells @spiegel.de: “We were able to show that Orbán’s claims had no basis in reality. The end of a regime comes when people are no longer afraid of it – when they even laugh at it. That is exactly what happened here.” derspiegel.substack.com/p/hungarian-...

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conservatives are just morons that are in completely over their heads and i dont know how you could come to any other conclusion at this point

Idiots. Seriously. I grew up on a dairy farm, and we did not drink our own raw milk because we didn't want to get sick and we understood science. These people are a bunch of backward, weird, freaks looking to cull members of their own families.

U.S. JOB CUTS TOTAL 97,006 IN MAY, HIGHEST FOR MONTH OF MAY SINCE 2020

“.. We have shared those concerns at the highest levels of government about what’s coming in mid-to-late June. … I hope they are paying attention to inventories right now. You’re hitting tank bottom.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

“.. Iranian officials — perhaps calculating that the Republican president is reluctant to restart the bombardment after burning through key weapons systems — are showing no signs they’ll give in to new demands.” @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...

“.. a huge issue.”

These are the kinds of changes that will be harder to reverse

Politics can be a team sport on behalf of the city we love. (I’ll leave the no-look passes to the Knicks for the rest of the series).

Meanwhile in Russia: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov and his weatherman Evgeny Tishkovets complained about Ukrainian drones striking St. Petersburg. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DM2...

June 3, 2026 Last night, in an unsigned opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court expanded its finding in the recent Louisiana v. Callais decision. That decision overturned decades of law to declare…. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-3-2026

NEW: This church teaches that once an abuser is forgiven, anyone who speaks about the wrongdoing can be accused of having an unforgiving heart. The burden of sin would shift from the person who committed the act to the person who won’t let the matter rest. W/ @startribune.com

As for the sexitng scandal itself, it’s one thing to say “well, he shouldn’t have done that, but ultimately I think people should support him.” It’s quite another to go “see how cool this guy is? Suck it, pansy libs!”

Platner’s sexting scandal has been a bat-signal for misogyny among certain “progressive” men. Ken Kippenstein called his critics and other mainstream Democrats “smoothgroins.” Kyle Kulinski said Platner could sext his mother. I wrote about it all here: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-men-defe...

Anyway, here is a good rundown on how we eradicated the new world screwworm from much of Central America for decades, only for the Trump people to (of course) fuck it up

You think it's just gonna be lightly increased terrorizing of your vulnerable off-the-books workers and opening up more public land to cattle grazing, and then suddenly your cattle are getting eaten alive from the inside by maggots. Weird!

There is a certain irony in cattle people throwing all of their weight behind an administration that promised to be friendly to rancher politics, only for that administration to allow a hideous cattle parasite to make it into Texas because cooperating with Mexico is woke and gay

AI trade down hard today... so are yields... unusual

Iran war powers rebuke shows how Trump is increasingly boxed in | CNN Politics www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/p...

While Russia bombs apartment buildings and murders civilians daily, the US will play a hockey game in Russia to “melt the ice between us.”

The Trump administration is deploying aggressive legal tactics to prevent its top customs official from appearing in court under oath to explain why $166 billion in illegally collected tariffs remain undispersed to businesses owed refunds.

Senate Republicans voted this afternoon to begin debate on the ICE funding bill, which means a final vote could happen as soon as tomorrow. If you’ve got a GOP senator, they need to hear from you — send an email and demand Republicans vote NO on shoveling $70 billion more to Trump’s secret police.

here's the thing about the courts: we actually need more judges! everyone is overworked and cases often linger for ages because there's just not enough capacity in the system to get to them what I'm saying here is the supreme court isn't the only part of the courts we can pack