So, kudos to NYT for trying to reveal the enormous costs Trump is foisting on the taxpayer for all his atrocious decorating efforts at the WH and in DC. But they've just scratched the surface. Dig deeper please.

A federal judge wants answers on the purpose for and status of the tarp and scaffolding still up at the Kennedy Center. Trump and his co-defendants are accused of "still hanging a tarp over the Kennedy Center's restored façade in petulant defiance."

NEW: Rep. Jamie Raskin says he'll file a discharge petition in an effort to force a House vote on his legislation to permanently block Trump's slush fund and the related Trump DOJ deal to bar investigation of his and his family's past tax activities.

Steve Rattner: The Trump admin has already authorized almost $20 billion for Iran—before a final deal is signed. If a deal is reached, Iran could receive nearly $500 billion. All to end the war Trump started.

Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy is using his official social media account to promote his wife's book, in clear violation of the law.

A remarkable set of decisions. The Supreme Court has become the most potent political institution in support of Trump's extremist agenda. The six conservative Justices are far more efficacious than the GOP Congress in making Trump's political wishes a reality.

Maybe the Federalist Society darlings never really held to a textualist nor originalist theory. They're just frauds.

For years, the anti-immigrant go-to line was that they were anti *illegal* immigration, because they believed in rule of law and had compassion for immigrants who "did it the right way." Now, from the White House and Supreme Court on down, it's openly anti-rule-of-law and anti-nonwhite-immigration.

Harry Enten: President Trump got elected to bring down inflation and fix the economy. Do voters think he's keeping his campaign promises? No, no, no, no. Oh, God, no. The clear majority, 55% say that Trump is not keeping his campaign promises.

As Cathy Young notes, the purpose that led Elon Musk to acquire Twitter is ever more apparent: he uses it for the crudest sort of political manipulations, usually involving incitement to mayhem, riot and violence against specific groups. It's criminal conduct to be sure, but Elon is above the law,

I am not a lawyer but I know the Supreme Court’s rulings today violate international agreements on refugees & migrations that the US is party to. Because international law matters when states enforce it, this is a political window for democrats to insist the treatment of refugees & migrants matters

Judge Talwani in Boston has just entered an order, telling the administration it can’t use Trump‘s executive order to suppress the vote in the midterm election. I wrote about the EO & the legal challenges to it here: joycevance.substack.com/p/the-execut...

More evidence for the thesis that one of Donald Trump's most pernicious effects on American life is enabling others' cruelty. In this case, enabling six people with real power to inflict untold cruelty.

A federal judge on Thursday halted President Donald Trump's executive order that sought to create a federal voter list and limit who can receive a mail ballot. https://to.pbs.org/4g0yGzn

We are already in the post-Constitutional world

I'm not a law toucher, but the Supreme Court's recent spate of rulings seem so facially absurd, logically flawed, and counter to the intent and even the text of the Constitution, I feel like they have to be built on sand. What then is the point?

101 former federal and state judges just filed a devastating 73-page complaint against acting AG Todd Blanche. The charges involve a $1.776B IRS shield and hidden Epstein files. Read the explosive legal text here: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-brutal-w...

The Supreme Court is utterly diseased. We must flip the senate, block all Trump nominees, kill the filibuster, elect a Dem POTUS, and pass a law adding four seats to remediate the racist cancer on the bench.

So a SC Justice, Alito, now sane-washes the racism of Trump. This must be a new low even for this radical right wing SC.

i wonder what race neutral policy stance trump was expressing when he accused haitian immigrants of eating the pets of their neighbors

One of the most insane things the Roberts Court has done—not most damaging on its own, but among the craziest—is that the president's* public words and actions cannot possibly be evidence of his intent, you must assume something better. *well, one president the majority wants to put above the law

Two separate AI explanations of the bruising on both Trump's left and right hands: "Infusion therapies for a variety of illnesses." The most likely treatment that explains Trump going missing every 3-4 weeks is... Chemotherapy Immunotherapy Monoclonal antibody treatments Draw your own conclusion

Four-byline alert: 🚨 “.. The Islamic Republic estimates that charging for security, safety and environmental services in the strait would bring in $40 billion a year ..” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/world/middle...

KAGAN: "The majority briefly replies that those remarks are not 'overtly racial,' but it is hard to know what that means. Haitians are Black. (Norwegians and Swedes not so much.) The references—of filth, disease, and primitiveness—are shot through with racial stereotypes and tropes."

The Supreme Court's decision to strip TPS from Haitian and Syrian communities is a betrayal of our values and of the promise our country made to protect people from displacement and harm. I'll never stop fighting for our immigrant neighbors and loved ones.

NEW: Trump Admin seems to have frustrated DC federal judge Emmet Sullivan Judge orders Justice Dept to file latest response to @KatiePhang lawsuit which seeks to force release of Epstein Files Judge orders the response by 1pm! "Without repeating arguments previously made"

This is an incredibly narrow and strikingly *non-originalist* reading of the meaning of "commerce" but then Justice Thomas isn't an originalist as much as he is an antisocial crank in robes.

So we again see a radical Supreme Court rule against Constitutional protections for individuals and in favor of unlimited state power. They are out of control.

Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT SIDES WITH TRUMP ADMINISTRATION'S DEFENSE OF GOVERNMENT AUTHORITY TO CURB ASYLUM CLAIM PROCESSING AT U.S.-MEXICO BORDER PORTS OF ENTRY

NEW: A federal judge in Boston has declared key sections of Trump's executive order on mail voting unlawful and specifically blocked the administration from enforcing them as to the Democratic-led states + DC that sued www.bloomberg.com/news/article... Opinion: assets.bwbx.io/documents/us...

ALERT: Democrats seek to force vote in U.S. House to halt Trump’s slush fund ====> open.substack.com/pub/macfarla...

BREAKING: In a huge win, a federal court blocked parts of Trump's executive order targeting mail voting. The judge halted: ✔️A mandate to create lists of verified U.S. citizens eligible to vote in each state. ✔️ USPS' decision to only mail absentee ballots from certain individuals.

Steven Gambrel

George Washington by Gilbert Stuart, 1795, now on view, The Frick Collection NYC

The ruling from US District Judge Polk Failla is a significant blow to the admin’s ongoing nationwide criminal investigation into the provision of gender identity care, which numerous courts around the country have described as an improper fishing expedition... www.cnn.com/2026/06/24/p...

According to a new report, the White House Office of Management and Budget quietly moved $352 million that had been earmarked for Secret Service resources into an account labeled “White House Security Measures.” #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #Trump #EpsteinFiles #POTUS

The White House and its contractors must explain their Reflecting Pool actions, Democrats say. “I’m launching an investigation because taxpayers deserve swift answers — and a refund,” @merkley.senate.gov told The Post.

Iran’s Parliament Speaker and key negotiator MB Ghalibaf hits back at Trump for misrepresenting the deal:

It's an overplayed comparison at this point, but hey, who remembers when Bill Clinton spent a few minutes saying hi to Loretta Lynch.

The Speaker of Iran's Parliament calls Trump a blatant liar. Welp, we all knew that already.

The corrupt president’s corrupt son-in-law corruptly involved in US foreign policy, especially in the Middle East. That now requires a follow up: Which corrupt son-in-law corruptly using America’s Middle East policy to get money into his own pocket?

Nobody believed Trump and Vance that Iran was going to spend this money on US farm products. That was a line to assuage the cultists who were told by their hero for a decade that providing billions to Iran was weak and evil.

"Democrats are very likely to do well in free and fair elections this fall. But Trump knows that. And he knows how damaging a loss in November would be. Yesterday we had reminders of the lengths to which the administration may go to try to prevent such a defeat." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

So, throw a temper tantrum and duly elected GOP Senators cringe and cave and grovel. Vote them all OUT of office.

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

“These acts of destruction and incompetence, failure and humiliation should not be ignored as too minor or glossed over with a toxic combination of silence and lies.” open.substack.com/pub/america/...

In this era of unprecedented corruption, it is essential that we keep our terminology precise.

Trump moved faster than the system could respond: USAID dismantled, habeas effectively suspended for thousands in detention. However, there is hope. Federal judges have pushed back in 150+ cases, and the administration is now losing far more often than it's winning. zurl.co/CKC2A

Went looking for the 300 foot “slit” or “slits” in the reflecting pool Trump keeps lying about. Didn’t find any of that. But did find plenty of signs the paint on the bottom of the pool has simply disintegrated. My latest pool report.

Scott MacFarlane: Hours after heated exchange with Trump, Sen Bill Cassidy (R-LA) joins Sen Cory Booker (D-NJ) in memo to Todd Blanche seeking answers about Trump’s sweetheart immunity deal with IRS