That time Trump bragged about "saving" $205 billion in Social Security in the pandemic because your grandmas and grandpas died.

Trump takes a long blink during the NBA Finals

Tommy Robinson and Errol Musk together in Moscow in 2026. Fascists and sex offenders almost always betray their country to side with Moscow, making them traitors too

Nobody can boo like New Yorkers.

NYC …

Trump has weaponized the Justice Department to do one thing: go after his enemies. His latest target is E. Jean Carroll, the woman a jury found him liable for sexually abusing, and whom a second jury ordered him to pay $83 million for spending years publicly defaming

ProPublica analyzed the genetic code of America’s measles outbreaks and here’s what we found: The measles virus still spreading in Utah as of this May is very closely related to the one that sickened Texans over a year ago. @natlash.bsky.social @sheinvestigates.bsky.social

Sheriff Freeman makes our 11th sheriff to be arrested this year. fox59.com/indiana-news...

“As I watched a millionaire Twitch revolutionary nervously discussing federal subpoenas on stream, I found myself wondering whether Hasan has considered that perhaps there actually was a meaningful difference between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump after all.”

The US is hosting the World Cup and just turned away Africa’s top referee at the airport 3 days before kickoff because of where he was born. Omar Artan had a valid visa. He had a historic assignment. They didn’t care. Disgraceful. #USDemocracy #Pinks newrepublic.com/post/211508/...

Do not let Trump get his tiny little hands on our voter rolls. I’m calling it: all his voter fraud bullshit is really about gaining access to California’s voter data.

"What the Wounds Tell" just won this year’s European Press Prize. "Doctors in Gaza observed a disturbing pattern: children with a single gunshot wound to the head or chest, a sign that they had been deliberately targeted." www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v...

A married Ken Paxton having multiple affairs that led his wife to file for divorce on "biblical grounds"? Not a problem. A single James Talarico dating one woman and then, my God, later dating another? SCANDAL. (And as always: Paxton Pardoned a Pedophile)

Byron Allen replaced Colbert and promptly shed 85% of the audience, cratering from 6.7M viewers to 628,000. Allen insists CBS "won big-time" on savings while spinning a $200M-to-zero production cost pivot. The numbers disagree with considerable force.

Huh. I wonder why the “users give scans of their eyeballs to Sam Altman for no discernible benefit” startup is failing

Spike Lee showing handing out merchandise to Knicks fans. 💙 🧡

What, for the American Nazi Party?

Blake's piece in full. I knew the general outlines, but Blake's piece has a meticulousness, thoroughness, and vividness that exceeds all previous reports. It includesinterviews with victims/survivors and made the UK reopen their investigations.

We live in the stupidest timeline.

Prefatory to this harrowing litany by @cjcmichel.bsky.social: "Despite Kushner’s insistence during the 2024 campaign that he would have little involvement in a second Trump term, he is once more at the center of almost every major geopolitical event."

Today marks 100 days since the start of Trump’s war in Iran, and U.S. households have now paid over $100 billion. That’s $750 per household across the country.

Look I know it’s impossible to prove because it’s so diabolical and upstream but every time Mike Johnson walks past a Build-A-Bear Workshop his son’s phone buzzes

NEW: Senate Democrats blasted the DOJ for quietly taking steps to undermine federal voter protections this fall. The moves include removing a key election manual from the department’s website, canceling election training and eliminating a “command center” to address voting emergencies.

This war has been humiliating for Trump and American power generally. And when Trump announces he is going to call Netanyahu and tell him not to retaliate, and within hours Netanyahu retaliates, the humiliation just compounds.

The biggest story in America is a president who has completely lost touch with reality. Who thinks the FBI let all the January 6 rioters into the Capitol, that he really won the 2020 election, that the Iran War is going well. Who, when occasionally confronted w reality, panics.

Martin Sellner used this year’s Remigration Summit to launch new transnational organizing efforts aimed at turning “remigration” from extremist rhetoric into coordinated policy across Europe, with Trump’s deportation agenda framed as political proof of concept. Read more:

❗️Russia’s 337th Regiment is reportedly leaving positions on the Kinburn Spit after ammunition, fuel and food deliveries stopped, according to partisan group ATESH. The group says remaining units are critically undermanned and unable to maintain defense lines. #Ukraine

I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time. influence.citationneeded.news

I thought people were kidding, turns out Elon really did axe the screwworm containment program back in March 25. fucking imbecile www.agri-pulse.com/articles/226...

apparently the Mexican government has backed a new super cheap EV van, 100 percent made in Mexico, that looks sick as hell www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

"The British Justice Minister said he was 'horrified' by Hegseth's comments, which were 'totally inappropriate and wrong' for the occasion, adding 'I hope he regrets it'..." www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

What inspired this was reading David Frum's piece on the Democrats and Platner and comparing it to Roy Moore. His thoughts are about the "strategy" of sacrificing Platner for future political success, but it reveals the sociopathic underpinnings of how these people interpret politics.

An update on where things stand on FISA: Early Friday morning, we successfully defeated a bill in the Senate to rubber-stamp the Trump administration's authority to spy on Americans without a warrant. This is a big win on privacy.

If you were an IRS collections officer assigned to anti-Vietnam war tax protester cases I'd like to talk to you for my next book. Statute of limitations ran a long time ago, so you can be fearless. My email is at www.rit.edu/directory/dc...

Cult members retain cultish faith in cult leader. Film at 11.

The American people now hate data centers, and the Establishment that sees riches and campaign $$$ from AI is not taking it well Their cops are spying on activists, whom they also claim are dupes of Chinese dark money. Inside the elite's moral panic My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/data...

Ken Paxton’s impeachment defense lawyer endorses James Talarico in the Texas Senate race. Says Paxton “has lost sight of his core mission, which is to represent the people of Texas.” www.notus.org/2026-electio...

A brief history of Jared Kushner profiting from his proximity to power

Via the AP: apnews.com/article/ap-p...

Think about this research nearly every day now reading the news.

New from me: Bari Weiss' repeated attempts to put a pro-Trump spin on news stories at 60 Minutes is outrageous. She should be fired. Today. open.substack.com/pub/jennifer...

Over the weekend, NBC’s Kristen Welker aggressively confronted Trump’s lies about election fraud. Good. But a more impactful step would be for the network to declare that it wants no further interviews with Trump because he lies so much.

Journalist @heidiblake.bsky.social spent nine months investigating Andrew Tate’s empire of sexual exploitation for @newyorker.com. Bucharest resident Tate is a former professional kickboxer, self-described misogynist, and defining figure of the manosphere.

Even Though He Lost, Neo-Nazi Stefan Hartung Could Teach Democrats a Few Things About Expanding a Party's Base By Ezra Klein www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/w...

Amen

“Women are too emotional for politics”

From Kenya's Tree of Life to a Svalbard glacier, these stunning photos are taken from a new book by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, whose The Earth From Above was a smash hit 25 years ago

Here’s the breakdown of the new lawsuit filed to stop Trump from continuing to build “the claw“ on the south lawn of the White House and hold the UFC cage fights planned for his birthday. The details in the lawsuit are astonishing. We work through them: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

In the United States, even our prisoners on death row are allowed to have family visit them… These are not ‘facilities.’ These are not ‘centers’…These are concentration camps! TRUMP’s AMERICA www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...