I called her Ellison’s executioner this morning — in a dress. Rick Wilson just explained why. The bust-out. She’s not the boss — she’s the matches. open.substack.com/pub/therickw...

To This Person,Governor Pritzker Is A Winner 🏆! Don't know if he made,or inherited billions,don't know Of Scandals,But He Seems A Decent Person, And Good Leader...

Chief Justice Roberts Legacy To take out every law written, that they fought and died for He is the biggest pos SCOTUS in our history, along with the biggest pos POTUS They both wish to hurt people of color with our laws, and to keep it that way. Somehow it pleasures them both.

No Experience Necessary — A cartoon by RJ Matson

Ukrainian missile threat for the first time since the start of the war — in Yamal. That's nearly 3,000 km from the Ukrainian border!!

🚨BREAKING: Newark police punch ICE protesters outside Delaney Hall ICE prison as chaos ensues on Day 13 of prisoner strike. WE'RE LIVE ⬇️

Bless his heart www.al.com/news/2026/06...

Not gonna lie, this is a badass museum donation. 🇺🇸 Shonda Rhimes donated the Oval Office set from Scandal, the same one fictional President Fitzgerald Grant called home for seven seasons. Now it’s part of the Obama Presidential Center Museum

A late night preparing for Supreme Court opinions tomorrow morning. Here are the two that I am personally involved in: -Watson (GOP challenge to mail-in voting) -NRSC (GOP challenge to campaign finance) Whatever comes, Democracy Docket will have you covered. Subscribe now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Donald Trump has money, fame, power and he never smiles. He’s a miserable, whiny, cruel, piece of shit.

While Russia bombs apartment buildings and murders civilians daily, the US will play a hockey game in Russia to “melt the ice between us.”

John Thune said “we don’t need a weaponized DNI.” Then did absolutely nothing to stop one. Meet the Senate Majority Leader who talks like a grownup and votes like a lapdog. 🧵

Trump just handed the keys to all 18 U.S. intelligence agencies to a 36-year-old mortgage banker. No intelligence experience. No national security background. No Senate confirmation required. Meet your new Acting Director of National Intelligence. 🧵

CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil pays tribute to fired ‘60 Minutes’ host Scott Pelley: ‘Among the best in the world’ 🧾 www.aol.com/news/cbs-new... Given See-BS News has abandoned journalistic integrity under David Ellison & Bari Weiss, it's surprising anchor Dokoupil was even allowed to say this...

While you were watching Elon Musk break things, Russell Vought was building them. He’s the most dangerous man in Washington that most Americans can’t name. That ends today. 🧵

WOW. Notice how he DIDN'T DENY the corruption accusation!

Marc Elias is warning us. June is when Roberts drops the hammer. Still pending: campaign finance limits. Mail-in voting. Birthright citizenship. Alabama was the opening act. “I am prepared for democracy to leave this month weaker than it entered.”

Another really long day. I am doing everything I can to spread the word about the threats to democracy and how to fight back. You can help me by subscribing to Democracy Docket for free and sharing its content. Thanks. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

Masnick names what happened to the internet in one word: despotification. Centralized platforms create chokepoints — single points of control over what billions see and hear. Chokepoints attract power. Power corrupts. Zuckerberg at the inauguration. Bluesky exists because someone saw this coming.

Greg Abbott thinks Texans will keep footing the bill for his grift. We disagree. Tonight, during the Spurs-Knicks game, we’re launching our first general election ad—taking aim at the Greg Abbott Corruption Tax. Watch:

Coverage from Delaney Hall in New Jersey

SCOTUS will allow Alabama to use a congressional map that a lower court found intentionally discriminated against Black voters. A Court so fundamentally hostile to the rights of minority voters places it at odds with democracy itself. This is Chief Justice John Roberts’ legacy.

Albania’s anti-corruption prosecutors just froze the assets of a company tied to Jared Kushner’s controversial $4 billion resort project as part of a property fraud investigation Over the weekend, thousands of demonstrators marched through the capital under the banner “Albania Is Not for Sale”

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24 school systems. 24 exceptional educators. 1 shared mission: Championing Maryland's students. Thank you for everything you do before the bell rings and long after the last bus leaves. Congrats to Maryland’s Teachers of the Year ♥️ https://bit.ly/3RJXul7

Scott Pelley gave an impassioned speech a year ago that’s worth watching today. Kudos to him and other 60 Minutes correspondents and staff for defending the media and our democracy.

Class, this is a required read. There will be a quiz.

LET’S MAKE HISTORY, NEW MEXICO

BREAKING: In a stunning rebuke, the House voted 215–208 to block Trump from ordering more strikes on Iran. Rep. Gregory Meeks: “We are trapped in a war that won’t end because an incompetent president launched it thinking of only his own ego while failing to prepare

Blanche was Trump’s personal defense attorney until March 2025. Now as acting AG he’s signing off on a settlement that immunizes Trump from IRS audits. That’s not a conflict of interest — that’s a personal attorney still doing his client’s bidding from a government office. And the vote is today.

Sen. Warren: "Secretary Bessent, you said last year if any private citizen traded the way members of Congress do, 'the SEC would be knocking on their door.' ... should the SEC be knocking on President Trump's door?" Bessent: "I would support you getting your house in order."

Every day another brick. Georgia installs an election denier to investigate elections. Alabama gets its racist map. Pulte gets the intelligence community. Trump gets immunity from audits. They are not governing. They are stripping the house before they leave.

Bari Weiss’s wife Nellie Bowles is in the Epstein files. Weiss’s flagship CBS hire is in the files — she refused to fire him. Larry Ellison, who owns CBS, is in Epstein’s address book. Weiss was hired to remake CBS News. Was that the point?

Georgia just hired Jason Frazier — blocked twice from Fulton County’s election board for extremism — to investigate elections statewide. He challenged 25,000 voter registrations. Has ties to Cleta Mitchell. This is not an accident. This is the architecture.

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Rubio told Congress under oath he has never seen Trump fall asleep. Ted Lieu played three videos. One showed Trump asleep while Rubio was literally talking. Lieu: “You just lied to Congress.” Rubio: “Oh, okay.” Lying to Congress is a federal crime. Blanche won’t touch it. Yet.

At least his head is tilted towards Rubio. He’s trying.

Bari Weiss Exits CBS to Run North Korean State Media

Treasury Secretary Bessent told the Senate Finance Committee the IRS will not audit Trump, his family, or his businesses. Period. Senators objected. He smiled and moved on. A hedge fund manager who traded his integrity for a Barbie Dream House office. Impunity in a suit.

Maine has re-elected Susan Collins continually since 1996. It took Mainers 30 years to figure out that she’s a lying, hypocritical wench— and now they’re ‘pisssd off?’ They’re as dumb as Texans.

The U.S. Supreme Court erased all doubts about the sweeping nature of its recent voting rights jurisprudence Tuesday night with a shadow docket ruling that effectively reverses the Court’s own decision in the same matter just three years ago. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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Trump on Iran walking away from peace talks: “I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less.” Hours later Iranian missiles hit Kuwait’s airport. One civilian dead. 63 injured. Amputations. Blast trauma. 4 American servicemembers killed. 77 wounded. The man who started this war is bored with it.

WARREN: Trump purchased up to $1m of Nvidia stock. A week later, he changed US policy and loosened the rules on export controls so Nvidia could sell its chips to China. Now the stock is through the roof. Should SEC be knocking on his door? BESSENT: Get your house in order, senator. Lead by example

RUBIO: “I’ve never seen Trump fall asleep.” @reptedlieu.bsky.social: “You just lied to Congress. Here’s a video of him sleeping while you were talking.”

The One Big Beautiful Bill passed 215-214. 11.8 million will lose health coverage by 2034. $3.4 trillion added to the deficit. Want to know if your rep voted yes? clerk.house.gov/Votes/2025145 Every yes vote is on the record. Remember in November.

Krugman: Trump has given up governing. Pulte isn’t a DNI. He’s a hatchet man for a president whose only remaining interest is revenge. “Trump himself is, at this point, little more than a festering ball of anger and hate.” That’s a Nobel economist. Not a partisan. Read this.