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California intends to sue Trump administration over deal to end offshore wind project
California intends to sue the Trump administration over its deal to end an offshore wind project proposed off the state’s central coast.
https://apnews.com/article/california-trump-offshore-wind-project-lawsuit-billions-5bc963e77806cf760a377652eb793616?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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Patrols and nanobubbles on display at the Reflecting Pool as Trump looks for a renovation do-over
National Guard members and U.S. Park Police are patrolling the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. The Trump administration faces a self-imposed July 4 deadline to fix problems from a renovation before ...
https://apnews.com/article/reflecting-pool-trump-algae-coating-a41bbf59575f221d28e70452d0757f78?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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8 convicted of terrorism charges in Texas immigration center shooting sentenced to decades in prison
One demonstrator who shot and wounded a police officer during a protest outside a Texas immigration center July 4 has been sentenced to 100 years in federal prison.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/8-convicted-of-terrorism-charges-in-texas-immigration-center-shooting-sentenced-to-decades-in-prison
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40 mayors worldwide endorse a pact to shape data center development
Forty mayors from around the world have signed onto a new pact to try to shape how urban data centers are built and operated.
https://apnews.com/article/ai-data-centers-mayors-london-climate-week-37df5184ad4f28ea084082563182e1ea?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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Federal judge halts Trump administration effort to subpoena Walz in immigration enforcement probe
A federal judge has blocked an attempt by the Trump administration to subpoena Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other state officials, calling it an effort to “harass and retaliate against them.”
https://apnews.com/article/immigration-enforcement-minnesota-subpoenas-e5047e842da6181cbd5f071ab4bb1d7b?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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UPDATE: The money behind a network of sham “progressive” super PACs
A network of purportedly progressive super PACs, spending millions in Democratic primaries across the country, is funded by a Republican dark money group, the American Prosperity Alliance (APA).
https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/update-the-money-behind-a-network?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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June 22, 2026
It appears to be more and more clear that the Trump administration is mired in its own mistakes.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/june-22-2026?r=6iph1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Judge blocks use of federal database to check citizenship, saying it could wrongly purge voters
A federal judge has ruled that a revamped federal tool that state election officials have used in their efforts to identify illegally registered noncitizen voters is unlawful and cannot be used.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-elections-noncitizens-voting-save-lawsuit-a9612cfffa40c938e67b99f265c9e817?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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Senate passes a bipartisan housing bill aimed at increasing supply and lowering prices
The Senate has passed a bipartisan housing bill that aims to bring down home prices and increase supply.
https://apnews.com/article/congress-road-to-housing-act-senate-21209cb780b76fe9a22881833c2dd535?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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strike on an alleged drug boat kills 2, leaves 6 survivors, in the eastern Pacific Ocean 🤮
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US strike on an alleged drug boat kills 2, leaves 6 survivors, in the eastern Pacific Ocean
The U.S. military has conduced another strike against a boat accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, immediately killing two people and leaving six survivors amid an ongoing campaign ...
https://apnews.com/article/boat-strikes-cartels-us-military-trump-narcotics-d97e406d3cb2b0246a5d055a58a338b6?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=share <br>US
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China hits back at US sanctions on tech giants, restricting its exports to American defense firms
China has announced sanctions on 10 American defense companies. The move comes in response to a recent U.S. decision that bars some Chinese tech companies from defense contracts.
https://apnews.com/article/china-us-sanctions-military-defense-tech-dualuse-1aebe98718e127365859b0fb0b63d07b?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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Keir Starmer's resignation speech in full
LONDON (AP) — Here is what British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said as he announced Monday he is stepping down as leader of the governing Labour Party, just two years after being elected in a landslid...
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WORLD PREMIERE: A Song for Heather Cox Richardson
I have adapted "Letters from a Democracy Defender" from poetry to music
https://open.substack.com/pub/democracydefender2025/p/heather-cox-richardson-song-letters?r=6iph1&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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WORLD PREMIERE: A Song for Heather Cox Richardson
I have adapted "Letters from a Democracy Defender" from poetry to music
https://open.substack.com/pub/democracydefender2025/p/heather-cox-richardson-song-letters?r=6iph1&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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June 21, 2026
I spent so much time in my friend Mike’s house growing up that I knew his parents as Mama and Papa.
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Extreme heat expected again at the Grand Canyon after 3 hikers die in heat-related incidents
Visitors to Grand Canyon National Park are being warned about extreme temperatures early next week. The National Weather Service has issued an extreme heat watch for midday Monday through Tuesday.
https://apnews.com/article/extreme-heat-grand-canyon-8ab303cc459a96503c46708bfc12d262?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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Pope Leo XIV exalts first American saint Cabrini as a model for Christians for her care of migrants
Pope Leo XIV holding up America's first saint, Mother Frances Cabrini, as a model for Christians today because of her care for migrants in need.
https://apnews.com/article/pope-italy-augustine-cabrini-migration-trump-d83c27b901a95a13a34fe0f019c974a3?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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As Vance meets top Iranian officials in Switzerland, Trump threatens Tehran from afar to get in line
Vice President JD Vance said as U.S.-Iran talks took place in Switzerland that there's a chance to improve relations with Iran after the interim deal to end the war.
https://apnews.com/article/iran-vance-trump-nuclear-negotiations-2edf9268aae550883252080014013963?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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Michael Corthell on Letters from an American
The Green New Deal, Trump Edition At last, Donald Trump has done what no president before him could do: turn the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool into a live-action fact check. He found an imaginary...
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/june-20-2026?r=6iph1&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=280103620
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June 20, 2026
The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has become a metaphor for the Trump presidency.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/june-20-2026?r=6iph1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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🌈 Rights Do Not Protect Themselves: Pass the Equality Act
Pass the Equality Act to protect LGBTQIA+ rights, stop discrimination, and help guarantee equality, equity, and freedom for all.
https://open.substack.com/pub/peoplepowerunited/p/rights-do-not-protect-themselves-pass-the-equality-act-pride-month?r=6iph1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Senators seek to block Hegseth travel funds until Pentagon releases report on Iran school strike
Senators are seeking to block Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s travel funds until the Pentagon submits its investigation into a strike on an elementary school in Iran that killed more than 165 people.
https://apnews.com/article/iran-school-attack-hegseth-travel-funds-blocked-ac31caa7154699a7fd918dec7b38568a?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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Trump tries to blame Reflecting Pool woes on vandalism, without offering substantiation
President Donald Trump claims the problems with the Reflecting Pool in Washington are due to vandalism.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-reflecting-pool-paint-algae-6b7b499ada2701a34bc6bc380013ad04?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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US and Iran to talk Sunday in Switzerland as Tehran says it closed Strait of Hormuz again
U.S. and Iranian negotiators are on their way to a venue in Switzerland to discuss details of their interim agreement to halt the war.
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-lebanon-hezbollah-june-20-2026-6e23fb5f37e23427dbfc2bc80c59bda8?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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Keep Public Funds in Public Schools
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Keep Public Funds in Public Schools | NEA
Tell Congress to repeal the national tax-credit voucher program set to launch on January 1, 2027.
https://www.nea.org/advocating-for-change/action-center/take-action/keep-public-funds-public-schools
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Press corps still gets Trump’s motivation all wrong
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Press corps still gets Trump’s motivation all wrong
The only thing Trump cares about is Trump
https://open.substack.com/pub/criticalread/p/press-corps-still-gets-trumps-motivation?r=6iph1&utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web
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How KKK leader's unlikely friendship with family he harassed led him to Judaism
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How KKK leader's unlikely friendship with family he harassed led him to Judaism
Larry Trapp, who was the grand dragon of the Nebraska KKK, died months after his conversion in 1992.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/kkk-leader-convert-judaism/
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Claims Obama hasn't paid Black contractors who worked on library are missing key context
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Claims Obama hasn't paid Black contractors who worked on library are missing key context
The Obama Presidential Center opened in June 2026 amid online rumors that the former president "stiffed" subcontractors who worked on the project.
https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/06/19/obama-library-contractors-not-paid/
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Trump administration's reframing of Jan. 6 reignites accountability debate
New concerns are emerging about President Trump’s sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 defendants after a recent report found that nearly 100 of them have been arrested, charged or convicted of additional crimes...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/trump-administrations-reframing-of-jan-6-reignites-accountability-debate
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Cuba passes sweeping free-market reforms in biggest economic shift since revolution
Observers on Friday called Cuba’s new free-market reforms the most sweeping economic overhaul of the island’s communist economy since the Cuban revolution, as the grandson of former President Raúl Cas...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/cuba-passes-sweeping-free-market-reforms-in-biggest-economic-shift-since-revolution
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Brooks and Capehart on Trump’s record-low economic approval rating
David Brooks of The Atlantic and Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW join Amna Nawaz to discuss the week in politics, including the preliminary deal with Iran, President Trump’s record-low approval rating on ...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/brooks-and-capehart-on-trumps-record-low-economic-approval-rating
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June 19, 2026
Today is the federal holiday honoring Juneteenth, the celebration of the announcement in Texas on June 19th, 1865, that enslaved Americans were free.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/june-19-2026?r=6iph1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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The Juneteenth Truth About Trump
We need to hold him accountable for this, too
https://open.substack.com/pub/robertreich/p/a-reality-that-must-be-acknowledged?r=6iph1&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
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Nancy Mace posted she wanted Ilhan Omar deported for America's 250th birthday
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Nancy Mace posted she wanted Ilhan Omar deported for America's 250th birthday
The Somali American representative became a naturalized citizen in 2000.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/nancy-mace-ilhan-omar-deported/
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USPS proposed rule requiring states to give voter lists to federal government for mail ballots to be delivered
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USPS proposed rule requiring states to give voter lists to federal government for mail ballots to be delivered
The rule has not been finalized as of this writing and the executive order it's following is facing a legal challenge from two dozen states.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/usps-mail-ballot-proposal/
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Israel and Hezbollah agree to halt fighting as talks between the US and Iran hang in the balance
Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah militant group agreed to halt the heavy fighting in southern Lebanon that had threatened to unravel an interim peace agreement between the United States and Iran.
https://apnews.com/article/iran-us-israel-lebanon-oil-june-19-2026-635ad6f41610df8355d24cc301a75fc4?utm_source=copy&utm_medium=share
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Flooding, tornadoes pound SE Louisiana from fizzled Tropical Storm Arthur • Louisiana Illuminator
Local officials in Southeast Louisiana were assessing damages Thursday from the outer storm bands of what was Tropical Storm Arthur.
https://lailluminator.com/2026/06/18/louisiana-arthur/
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Missouri judge strikes down nearly all state abortion regulations • Missouri Independent
Many of Missouri’s abortion regulations, including laws that Planned Parenthood said made it impossible for providers to prescribe medication abortion, were struck down in a ruling Thursday by a Jacks...
https://missouriindependent.com/2026/06/18/missouri-judge-strikes-down-nearly-all-state-abortion-regulations/
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Several Republican-led states rebrand Pride Month • Louisiana Illuminator
Without explicitly tying their efforts to a replacement of Pride Month, some GOP governors have labeled June with conservative-friendly monikers that celebrate one type of family unit: a man and woman...
https://lailluminator.com/2026/06/18/repub/pride-month/
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Juneteenth reminds us of Black Americans’ long struggle for education following end of slavery • Louisiana Illuminator
Juneteenth made clear that freedom was not just confined to someone’s physical enslavement, but mental enslavement as well, bound in the laws that barred enslaved people from receiving an education in...
https://lailluminator.com/2026/06/19/juneteenth-education/
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Politics Chat, June 18, 2026
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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Mamdani Remembers Some Knicks Guys during phenomenal parade speech
YouTube video by Aaron Rupar
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June 18, 2026
Overnight, Ukraine launched its biggest attack on Moscow, the capital of Russia, since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
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Tell the Senate: REJECT the anti-voter SAVE Act
The House of Representatives has passed the SAVE Act – a cruel, calculated attack on every American’s right to vote. It’s designed to effectively block millions of eligible Americans from casting a b...
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