TN’s 9th district was cracked into 3 pieces, each with 1/3 of the city’s Black voters. Under the new maps, all 9 districts lean Republican. “There’s nothing we can do. They’re taking rights away. That’s what it feels like. That’s what it looks like. What’s the word for that? It’s criminal, really.”

The DoD, (Trump's war department) began rolling out new restrictions to press access in Sept., when the military demanded journalists pledge not to gather any information – including unclassified documents – that had not been authorized for release or risk revocation of their press passes.

Town Halls & Labor Unions, such as the United Auto Workers, are addressing the damage of long-term trade policies that catalyzed offshoring in the US Midwest – a trend that was key to Trump’s election wins in 2016 and 2024 in these historical swing states. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The result, however, is a celebration that, instead of being a unifying event, has become yet another partisan battleground, as Trump presides over a nation as sharply divided as ever. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The “great replacement theory” is the xenophobic conspiracy theory asserting that shadowy elites are embracing permissive immigration policies to replace native-born white Americans with immigrants of color. Trump & Speaker Mike Johnson echo these ideas & Fox News spreads them.

The cases brought so far illustrate how difficult it could be for the administration to pursue mass denaturalization. Unlike the administration's broader deportation agenda, which involves swift & aggressive detentions and deportations, naturalized US citizens have much stronger legal protections.

A Pentagon policy illegally banned transgender troops from military service, a divided panel of federal appeals court judges ruled on Monday in another legal setback for President Donald Trump's sweeping agenda. www.npr.org/2026/06/02/g...

In March, federal officials announced they would pay nearly $1B in taxpayer dollars to French energy firm TotalEnergies in exchange for the company killing plans to erect two offshore windfarms off NY & NC. The deal was unlawful, says the lawsuit, led by Letitia James, NY’s attorney general.

Plans for Americans exposed to Ebola to be quarantined abroad faced mounting backlash after violent protests. US health experts & former officials said in an open letter to Congress that the plan to treat exposed Americans abroad raised “profound clinical, ethical, operational, and legal concerns.”

Trump is building a new federal system to monitor voter eligibility while using lies about noncitizen voting to justify it. Inaccurate databases will disenfranchise eligible voters and create a massive federal voter surveillance apparatus. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/24/u...

Billions in taxpayer money are being steered to politically connected contractors with no oversight or transparency. The border wall has become another vehicle for cronyism, favoritism, and government contracts benefiting Trump-aligned networks. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Industry insiders are being allowed to dismantle the regulations they once lobbied against. The rollbacks put corporate profits ahead of public safety and increase the risk of toxic accidents, pollution, and danger to communities. www.citizensforethics.org/reports-inve...

The videos are eerily similar. There’s a small boat on a sun-dappled sea. Then a soundless explosion of light. When it fades: Boat's in splinters, burning, about to sink, gone. 60 boats. They’ve killed at least 200 people. Trump says, without providing evidence, that the boats were smuggling drugs.

American Flag Collection Center at Solid Waste Facilities The headline says it all. www.pwcva.gov/news/america...

Iran on Monday suspended high-stakes negotiations with the United States to protest Israel’s expanding military offensive in Lebanon, according to government-aligned media, complicating efforts to end the three-month war. www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/i...

The United States said Monday that it bombed radar and drone sites in Iran after Tehran shot down an American drone over the weekend. Iran then said it targeted American soldiers in Kuwait with missiles, which the U.S. says it shot down. apnews.com/article/iran...

8 Dem wins in 7 days: 1-Senate kills Trump’s #$B ballroom heist 2-1/6 officers sue Trump’s $1.8B slush fund 3-Trump’s secret tax shield collapses 4-MN ICE agent charged 5. DAs form FAFO coalition 6. NAACP & CBC hit the South 7. MS 1000s march for voting rights 8. Keisha Lance Bottoms wins in GA

The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) said in a yet-to-be-published proposed rule Friday that it’s drawing up plans to radically crack down on mail voting by sending ballots only to voters who are registered with the federal government. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Detained people are regularly subjected to severe beatings sexual harassment by guards squalid living conditions spoiled/inadequate food no programming or recreation inadequate access to basic hygiene products (soap, razors, or nail clippers) outbreaks of disease limited or no access to sunlight

This is NOT LEGAL. But then again, when does this #CriminalRegime do anything legal? www.bbc.com/news/article...

New Medicaid rules are costing already-strapped states millions to implement. They have to determine which low-income residents are working, volunteering, caregiving, or studying enough to keep their Medicaid. They're also building systems to determine who is sick enough to qualify for an exemption.

Trump ignored the WHO’s advice, and its criticism of travel restrictions, when he closed the US border to foreigners who’d been in China during COVID. He’s ignoring the UN again now, at the outset of one of the worst Ebola outbreaks ever, by barring most travelers from the affected countries.

A handful of African nations are rejecting American health aid, outraged by the Trump administration’s demands for access to private health records and even minerals in exchange for lifesaving medicine. www.wsj.com/world/africa...

TIT FOR TAT foreign relations diplomacy. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/u...

The Human Library offers 30-minute conversations with living books – volunteers who share their knowledge & experience in a wealth of subjects – in free 30-minute sessions. Begun in Denmark, the library is now available in 80 countries, including the US, and is also available virtually.

US military illegal murders are up over 200. The strikes have been shrouded in secrecy. Few bodies of those killed have been recovered, and scant physical evidence exists of debris or the drugs the Trump administration claims the boats were transporting. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

$800M was cut from the DoJ office. Programs aimed at preventing & responding to gun violence. The DoJ justified the cuts by stating that it was instead focusing on “prosecuting criminals”, experts argue that intervention programs are more effective at reducing violence than simply making arrests.

Businesses, big and small, have started receiving tariff refunds. The process could grind to a halt, however, after the Trump administration said it intends to appeal a fed judge's order to allow all companies that paid the invalidated duties to seek refunds, not just the ones that filed lawsuits.

These countries included war zones (Ukraine), nations with unstable gov'ts in disarray (Haiti), & brutal dictatorships (Myanmar). Places where travelers face terrorism, wrongful detention, & kidnapping. The overwhelming majority of those deported had no criminal convictions. 600 were children.

TRUMP: “Great nations do not fight endless wars.” Since Trump’s return to office, the US has been involved in nearly a dozen military operations around the world, including the conflict against Iran & a raid that resulted in the arrest of Venezuela’s president. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/u...

A meteor hurtling toward Earth's atmosphere exploded over the northeastern US, causing a loud double boom that shook buildings in MA and RI, according to reports on Saturday. The phenomenon released energy equivalent to about 300 tons of TNT, accounting for the loud noise. —NASA

Trump whining about the Kennedy Center: <What a punk-ass little bitch: if I can’t have my name on it, I don’t want anything to do with it. How presidential! Meanwhile, who the actual f*ck is he "transferring" it to?? The Democrats? The courts? As usual, nothing makes sense.>

Vineyard Wind was supposed to be the first of many. Instead, it may be the only offshore wind project ever built in New Bedford. TRUMP: “I’m proudly telling you that we’re going to try and have no windmills built in the US." New Bedford is at the center of it all. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Seems like an appropriate response to what we're living through as a nation. Norovirus is often called the “winter vomiting disease,” but it’s not unusual for outbreaks to continue through late spring. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Wow! I'm actually getting encouraged by all these STOPS to our #FantaFührer's madness. A Kenyan court temporarily blocked the Trump administration’s plan to open a quarantine facility there to treat Americans exposed to or infected with the virus. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Thank you, Judge! More of this, please. A US judge has ordered the removal of Trump's name from the Kennedy Center. It cannot be renamed without Congress approval & can't be closed for renovations. www.bbc.com/news/article...

GO SPAIN (welcoming immigrants)! GO MEXICO (universal health care)! GO HUNGARY (ousting their tyrant)! The US needs some of that good mojo. www.nbcnews.com/world/spain/...

America250 is a nonprofit supporting the US Semiquincentennial Commission, established 10 years ago through Congress, & is led by a bipartisan group. Freedom 250 is established by Trump as a public-private partnership by which to fund & plan events celebrating this summer’s historic anniversary.

So, we're the blockade? Doesn't it feel like we're having our proverbial chain yanked? Again and again and again? I grow weary of it all. The US military stopped another merchant vessel (with a Gambia flag) trying to break through the American blockade of Iranian ports. apnews.com/article/iran...

If the Fed begins to take rate increases more seriously, it would make all types of borrowing more expensive. Traders in federal funds futures markets expect the central bank to eventually raise rates early next year. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/b...

“Now, you can’t boo me. I’m the vice president of the United States,” Vance said. A commenter responded, “Oh honey, you’ll always be booed… for the rest of your life, wherever you go.” Another: “Yes, JD, they can boo you. It’s called the First Amendment.” www.yahoo.com/news/politic...

A nefarious billionaire tech bro escapes to Argentina. I think we've seen this movie before. The man can recognize a sinking ship when he sees it. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/w...

All hail Hawaii for ruling that corporations are not human. They booted Citizens United off the islands. Hauʻoli hoʻolauleʻa! news.bloomberglaw.com/legal-exchan...

The real question is, what does this #CriminalRegime do that IS constitutional? apnews.com/article/fcc-...

Securities filings from 500 companies avoided taxes by attributing hundreds of billions of dollars in earnings to low- or no-tax foreign locales like Cyprus, Bermuda, Switzerland, & the Cayman Islands. Corps funneled the profits through places where they had no employees, offices, or customers.

A US judge on Friday temporarily blocked Trump from setting up a nearly $1.8B fund to compensate victims of what Trump has called government “weaponization.” The Judge blocks them from “taking any further action” to set up or operate the fund while the judge hears additional legal arguments.

Cue up a DoJ investigation into Bolton, now. www.newsnationnow.com/vargasreport...

Well, then, comp up the $250 bill with his ugly mug on it, tell him it's a done deal, so he can die already. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

At least 7 of. 9 featured musical acts set to play in a concert series organized by the Trump administration to mark the US 250th anniversary have dropped out, within 48 hours of the lineup being announced. The artists were never told about any political involvement with the event.