SCOTUS deals blow to Trump's plans to suppress the vote in midterms ... www.nytimes.com/2026/06/29/u...

As Trump retreats to protect U.S. economy in runup to mid-terms, Iran gets major economic lifeline for minimal concessions in cease-fire deal nyti.ms/4oBOTNv

My half-baked attempt to cook through the World Cup - One family’s three-month feast, from Group A through chipa guazu. bit.ly/4uFmNm0

Much like Mexico never paid for the wall, taxpayers are now on-the-hook for $300 Million and counting to fund Trump's ballroom ... wapo.st/4vOuwPD

After Republicans let expanded subsidies for Affordable Care Act plans expire at the end of last year as part of Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill", some families have decided the cost of coverage is too far out of reach and canceled their coverage. t.co/CU36umMvuL

The Trump regime is doing the same thing with the “Iran deal” that it did with the Mueller Report – describing it to us instead of showing it to us.

Trump is backing away from getting Iran's enriched material: "You could make the case, why even bother? It's not very valuable stuff."

President Donald Trump, who once declared he had “saved” flavored vapes, grew his stock holdings this year to as much as $1.64 million in tobacco giant Philip Morris. kffhealthnews.org/courts/fda-t...

Hercules and Nessus, by Giambologna, 1599

Trump, Blanche refuse to back down on order shielding Trump family from I.R.S. audits www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

"Mr. Pulte has no known background in intelligence, military or national security, but he is a Trump loyalist who has been among the most aggressive advocates for prosecuting Democrats and others perceived by Mr. Trump as having crossed him." www.nytimes.com/live/2026/06...

Trump’s boat strike campaign that has now killed over 200 people www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...

Bipartisan group of 35 former federal judges on Wednesday asked the judge who oversaw President Trump’s remarkable lawsuit against IRS to reopen the case and conduct an inquiry into whether the hasty deal to resolve it could be challenged as an act of fraud. nyti.ms/4dDabXt

Supreme Court Leaves Mifepristone Access Unchanged – For Now www.kff.org/quick-insigh...

Much like the border wall that Trump once promised that "Mexico would pay for" Republicans now propose $1 billion in taxpayer funding for his ballroom project. nyti.ms/4tYazFC

Two months after starting his war with Iran, just 38% in U.S. express confidence in Trump to use military force wisely, down from 46% last summer. www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

10, 9, 8, 76ers …

Republicans break with Trump over his efforts to pressure DOJ to bring charges against Fed Chair Powell bit.ly/4u2BmQy

So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

Los Angeles County’s new Micro Enterprise Home Kitchen Operations (MEHKO) licenses are helping L.A. home cooks redefine food culture - afrolanews.org/2026/04/l-a-...

As Trump’s war in Iran drags on, GOP senators look for an exit www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Hegseth doubles-down on threats to attack Iran’s civilian infrastructure nyti.ms/4toFeMc

44 days into his war with Iran, Trump admits gas prices might not drop by midterms nyti.ms/4dDA8qd

"Thirty-two other countries around the world, most of them in the Western Hemisphere, have birthright citizenship laws that are substantially similar to the U.S." www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Obviously, we haven't yet heard from Cecilia Wang on behalf of the plaintiffs. But the #SCOTUS birthright citizenship argument is shaping up as a blowout against President Trump. I count at least seven votes against the executive order just in the questions to Solicitor General Sauer. Maybe more.

Brick by brick, Jeff Bezos is dismantling the Washpost. With no stated game plan for how to turn it around.

Just back from awarding Trump a trophy, Mike Johnson describes bipartisan senate bill to pay TSA workers "a joke" www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...

Joe Biden won the election in 2020. If a future judge can’t admit that, what’s left?

How ‘Handala’ – the Iranian hacktivists taking credit for the breach of Kash Patel's Gmail account – became the face of Iran’s hacker counterattacks bit.ly/4s2vGoq

this still slaps youtu.be/ZQ_MEFVx5jM?...

This as a great example of a clear, SIMPLE data visualization. No need for gratuitous animation or other distractions – just clear data presentation that leverages the natural state of the user scrolling within the browser. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

New deep-dive poll from @kff.org finds that about as many adults are turning to AI for health information as social media, with health care costs and access driving many users, particularly younger users. bit.ly/3NLIMIG

Welcome to Trump’s quagmire: “Saudi Prince Is Said to Push Trump to Continue Iran War in Recent Calls” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Democrats have offered to pay the salaries — fully fund, no conditions — for TSA. It’s Republicans who keep blocking that.

The Truth about Trump's "SAVE America Act" • Citizenship already a requirement to vote • Instances of noncitizen voting are rare • 9% of all eligible voters do not have, or do not have easy access to, documentary proof of citizenship • 52% of registered voters do not have an unexpired passport

Trump's FCC chief threatens to censor broadcasters as Trump criticizes coverage of Iran war wapo.st/4bqFi6b

Nobody told LAX

Had to doublecheck the date on this

Trump’s war agenda outflanks his affordability and peace agendas www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/b...

When Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week in retaliation for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran bit.ly/4r2EFp5

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

Remember how Trump's SOTU included a line about how he'd stopped eight wars, including Israel v. Iran?

War with Iran is just a distraction from war with Anthropic.

Quiz – How Well Do You Understand Your Health Insurance? Take this 10-question quiz to test your knowledge of common health insurance terminology, concepts and jargon www.kff.org/private-insu...

Catch & Kill: Judge Cannon bars release of Jack Smith's Volume II report about the classified docs case. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Only the Lord Saves more than Connor Hellebyuck - congrats USA Hockey

Interesting findings from @pewresearch.org – even in a post Substack universe, just 3% of Americans name newsletters as the platform they prefer for getting news, far behind TV (34%), news websites/apps (21%) and other pathways. And many don’t read most of the newsletters they get buff.ly/ie65cEC

As he rolls back clean-energy initiatives, Trump is getting another trophy today www.nj.com/politics/202...