The President ruining others’ fun and generally making life harder for everyone else so he can feel important and take something for himself feels like a microcosm of his entire presidency. And the crowd response feels like it presages the midterms ahead. time.com/article/2026...

In case you forgot what it looks like when a real president gets the love at a game. You know, when the crowd actually wants the president there.

U.S. District Judge Leo Sorokin in Boston issued the ruling in a lawsuit filed by 20 Democratic state attorneys general challenging the steeply increased fee.

We live in the stupidest timeline.

Trump to Earth: Drop Dead

“The dispute centered on whether an April 14 letter by the Congolese Interior Ministry had reached top U.S. immigration officials before Ms. Zapata was flown to Congo 2 days later….the letter said that Congo would not accept her because it would not be able to adequately provide her medical care.”

Verily, he is One Special Boy, & enabling the imperial presidency like this was a grave constitutional mistake.

This is an unacceptable attempt by the Trump administration to dodge accountability for the inhumane conditions that they subject detained people to while in ICE custody.

Donald Trump is not himself the disease of our politics. He's just the worst symptom. The disease is the system that allows corporations, special interests, and billionaires to buy and sell politicians to rig the system against us.

Absolutely crucial piece of research on misinformation in local news on Facebook, X and Nextdoor by @smfthinktank.bsky.social Full report is here (www.smf.co.uk/publications...) but these are some key findings:

ALERT: 11th-hour legal challenge asks court to HALT the UFC fight at White House, arguing event is "deeply corrupt" Page 15 of the suit includes language I've never seen in a lawsuit open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...

This is an outrageous story. A farmer donated 87 acres to a small Texas city on the condition it be used as a public park. Years later, the farmer has passed away, the city sold the land to a developer, and now it will be the site of a 135,000 square foot data center www.404media.co/a-farmer-don...

Got another one of these. Kind of a flag when they misspell the publisher's name TWICE in the email and praise a book written by someone with a name similar to yours -- but not you. Authors, watch out for them.

It is 170 days past the congressional deadline for the DOJ to release the complete Epstein files. Millions remain withheld from the public and survivors.

A UFC cage. A Tesla showroom. A gold-encrusted ballroom. Trump has been busy turning the White House front lawn into his billionaire playground. What has he done for American families?

Last night they tested the UFC stage lighting at the White House. Check it out. The People’s House is looking more like a Six Flags amusement park after dark. It’s embarrassing.

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...

Trump is building a 250-foot Triumphal Arch between Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial, modeled on Napoleon's conquest monument. Congress never approved the money. A lawsuit has already been filed. The public comment period closes June 15. The link is below. USE it and SHARE

African penguin waddling down to the water at Boulders Beach, Cape Town: 🔊 #AGoodPlace Source: www.reddit.com/r/NatureIsFu...

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

Cubans are just like us: “trying to make sense of it all.” What is the point besides the cruelty? www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Trump can't come up with the name of the Washington monument: "Washington DC between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington -- just think about this -- you know that beautiful spire?"

"The Trump Administration will begin sending ships to begin pulling up the instruments later this month... The ocean observation system was designed to operate for at least 25 years, meaning the decision would result in the loss of more than a decade of data..." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/c...

Historically, traditional Medicare has used prior authorization very sparingly. Oz is working to change that. But as I wrote for @msnowreports.bsky.social, it’s a recipe for disaster because it newly imposes red tape for a low health insurance literacy population. www.ms.now/opinion/msnb...

“The lawsuit argues that the transformation of the grounds was never authorized by Congress, and that the event will serve as an extraordinary use of government space to benefit both the chief executive of U.F.C., Dana White, and Mr. Trump, who is an investor in U.F.C.’s parent company.”

“While federal judges have stymied Vought’s attempts to starve the CFPB of funding and fire nearly all of its staff, his ability to cancel settlements and overrule the bureau’s enforcement arm has gone largely unchecked because the agency’s director has wide latitude over that domain.”

Clean energy projects in Scotland are set to pay £1 billion to use the UK’s electricity network while projects south of the border will be paid to connect, it has been revealed

“If the C.E.O. lacked deep expertise in the company’s business and the leaders of its most important divisions were missing, investors would revolt,” Dr. Osterholm said. “Here, the stakes are much higher. The mission is protecting the health and safety of the American people”

Dude…

Now it’s time to do the same explanation for any/all GS-15 seasoned intel officers in our #intelligence agencies that have been fired — as well as diplomats with Russian & Middle East expertise in the #StateDepartment by Vought, the shadow President. Today’s flashback: blog.ucs.org/rachel-cleet...

It takes a particular type of MAGA hubris and/or MAGA lack of self-awareness for a neo-Nazi like Hegseth to show up in Normandy on the 82nd anniversary of D-day. Oh, and that bit about bringing his kids "at his own expense" is a lie. He pays coach for them while they fly in a private jet.

More than half of the publicly identified donors to Trump’s golden ballroom have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion. Corruption at its finest.

"Is there a way to make Utah go blue? How do we find out?"

“Mr. Parnell’s statement included a link to a video posted to social media by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on March 24, in which Mr. Hegseth said that the military’s chaplain corps had been ‘infected by political correctness and secular humanism’ under previous administrations.”

CEO of Trump's Freedom 250, who was appointed by Trump, touts UFC fight night at the White House. Freedom 250 is Trump's hijack of America's birthday. Watchdog group @peer.org has sued Trump's Interior Dept. for failure to provide documentation around $100M in taxpayer money and a pay-to-play scheme

It's true, he really said this...at a celebration of a critical battle leading to two of the most diverse countries in the world, the USSR and USA - the latter of which is a country of immigrants - defeated a racially exclusionary regime that was committed to the cause Hegseth just promoted.

The President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump…

Bye science investment Hello ideology investment

STAT+: Trump administration to strip job protections of top NIH officials, grants staff www.statnews.com/2026/06/03/t...

BREAKING: in May 2026, *every single one* of the 599 refugees admitted in the U.S. were white South Africans. In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 6,665 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November 2025), and nobody else. For reference, the U.S. admitted 100,060 refugees in 2024.

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

With its recent rulings, the Roberts Court has now entirely perverted the purpose of the 15th Amendment, turning an outright ban on racial discrimination in voting into a right to discriminate against black voters. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Things your legal department has to do when you are a propaganda outlet peddling lies for a corrupt regime nonstop… Fox is poison…

Q: The NBA Finals game you're going to, the cheapest ticket price is $8,000. Everyday Americans can't afford these sporting events. TRUMP: You can watch it on TV. It's sort of semi-free to watch it on TV. That's the way life goes.

“If the government decides, very quickly, to bulldoze the Statue of Liberty... nothing can be done?” asked Judge Patricia Millett. “I think that’s right, yes,” responded DOJ attorney Yaakov Roth www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

A new solar farm, if approved, would generate approximately 3,000 megawatt hours of energy annually, effectively covering all of the airport's electrical needs.

If you thought Pam Bondi and Tulsi Gabbard were bad, wait till you hear about the people Trump picked to replace them. He’s rewarding their fealty with positions of power, but the quid pro quo is a danger to us all. My write-up in the link in comments.

LET’S KEEP IT REAL According to Trump, Black jobs are in factories. And we already know if a Black person is a doctor, lawyer, engineer, executive, professor, pilot, or CEO, he calls it DEI.

Just thinking how Bill Clinton's meeting with Loretta Lynch on a tarmac was a tsunami-level political scandal in 2016, and now we have the president literally nominating his personal lawyer to be the nation's attorney general -- and it's greeted with a shrug. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...