The public comment period for the power source for Project Jupiter, a controversial Doña Ana County data center, opened this week. The state Environment Department expects to make a decision on the permit application by Aug. 25. sfnm.co/3RTLjlK

BIG NEWS: The MeidasTouch Network has officially surpassed 10 BILLION views on YouTube alone. And that's not all: the MeidasTouch Podcast is once again the #1 podcast on the YouTube Podcast Charts. People-powered media is winning. Thank you to everyone who made this happen!

NEW: The Trump administration said it had moved so far, so fast on the White House ballroom that it was to late for the courts to intervene. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

“.. Every internal email, text message or Slack exchange discussing political strategy, government contracts, DEI policies, tariffs, antitrust, AI moderation, donor relationships or regulatory negotiations could someday appear on a hearing-room screen.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/ceos...

#OtD 5 Jun 1878 Mexican revolutionary military leader Pancho Villa was born. Allied with the revolutionary army of Emiliano Zapata, Villa played an important role in many key military victories which led to the overthrow of Victoriano Huerta's regime stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1053...

Game 3. (via @espn.com)

They never have money for anything that helps people, but always find it for Trump’s vanity projects. The latest? Renaming the Department of Defense to the Department of War, a change that accomplishes absolutely nothing while costing taxpayers $125 million. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...,

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NEW: Meet ELLY — the new controversial tool a right-wing activist pitched to Georgia's election board this week. The program can be used by citizens to look up someone's voter registration status and can flag voters for removal. But most concerningly: It uses unreliable public data to do so.

On Jun. 5, 1944, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower wrote this message to be publicly released if the D-Day landings the next day failed. In it, he took full responsibility for the decision to attack & the mission's ultimate failure. More to come on this later today. Image: Eisenhower Presidential Library.

This week was not the first time Duke City residents saw the Rio Grande run dry. But after a particularly disappointing winter and warm spring, the parched river in Albuquerque is a harbinger of challenges to come. sfnm.co/49KvdAZ

Roxana Robinson is an award-winning novelist, biographer, scholar, and the great-great-great niece of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Robinson recounts how Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” changed how millions of Americans thought about human enslavement. #WeAreAmerica250

NYT headline when the economy added 266,000 jobs under Biden vs. NYT headline when BLS says the economy added 172,000 jobs under Trump.

Harry Enten: There seems to be a rural revolt going on in this country against Donald Trump. He's now 14 points underwater. That's an over 30-point switcheroo. He is 19 points underwater with rural voters on inflation. That is an over 50-point switch.

Congrats. You’re About to Unwittingly Make Elon Musk a Trillionaire. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

ROSENBERG on #NFP: "I am not going to quibble," but "what stood out was this ongoing retrenchment in full-time jobs .. ".. the rebound was all in part-time employment and then some — full-time positions were cut -79k after a -424k slump in April and have been down in four of the past five months."

The Trump administration will auction off 689,000 acres of Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge for oil and gas drilling today.

Macron: Russian special military operation did not unfold as we were told. More than 4 years later, Russia no longer gaining territory, even losing. Russia has hundreds of thousands of soldiers injured and dead, allowed NATO to expand, showed limits of its defense capabilities.

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OVERNIGHT: Senate passes $70 billion ICE and Border Patrol funding bill—with no limits on Trump’s weaponization fund. Some Rs voted to restrict or ban it but those amdts failed. Every Republican except Murkowski voted YES on the final bill. 52-47, all Dems voted NO. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Blanche: "They're not peaceful protesters. When I hear the mainstream media refer to these men and women as 'protesters,' they are lying to the American people. They are lying. They are not protesters. They are rioters injecting violence. They don't even know what they're fighting."

175 years ago today-6/5/1851-Harriet Beecher Stowe's "Uncle Tom's Cabin" began a ten-month serialized run in the abolitionist newspaper "The National Era." It was then published in full book form in Mar. 1852, becoming the bestselling American novel of the nineteenth century. Image: Public domain.

Elon Musk’s DOGE “planned to mark 2.7 million living people as dead” in a Social Security database as part of a scheme to force immigrants to leave the U.S. As Musk is on the verge of becoming a trillionaire (thanks in part to gov’t contracts), his men plotted against immigrants with gov’t data.

A father receives a NICU denial from UnitedHealthcare for his newborn twins, addressed not to the parents but to "Dear Baby Girl Twin A." A days-old infant now owns her own insurance dispute. When corporations automate compliance, they don't just eliminate error, they eliminate accountability.

Humans are now in the minority. Website traffic from AI agents and bots has eclipsed its human-generated counterpart for the first time, according to Cloudflare, an earlier-than-expected milestone that speaks to AI’s rapid advance and impact. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

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/4a7l1TR

Way to go, Albania! 🇦🇱

Friday. Saturday-Sunday, nothing

🚨BREAKING: The Senate blocked another Republican attempt Thursday to attach the anti-voting SAVE America Act to an immigration funding package, marking the second failed GOP effort to move the sweeping voting restrictions bill through the chamber. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This has gone more viral than anything I have ever written or recorded, the "AI has no ROI" story has fully caught on and there's an anxiety in the AI industry that nobody can seem to calm down. Things are going to get interesting in the next few weeks!

In case you missed it on Wednesday, there was an encore presentation on Thursday. @calltoactivism.bsky.social

Tonight at 6pm on 9NEWS and streaming on 9NEWS+: The Colorado Democratic Gubernatorial Debate Signs point to this being an increasingly tight race with Attorney General Phil Weiser closing on the presumed frontrunner, US Senator Michael Bennet

This is fantastic news.

(NOTUS) - Senior U.S. officials have held preliminary discussions with major artificial intelligence companies about the potential for the federal government to acquire some shares in their firms, according to three people familiar with the matter. @notus.com www.notus.org/technology/t...

Evening relax. Enjoy

Three investor-protection rules, quietly waived so Elon Musk's SpaceX could fast-track into the indexes anchoring your 401(k). He holds 85% of the voting power. Public shareholders have almost none. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/spacex-ipo...

“.. which means that SpaceX and other big IPOs won’t be fast-tracked into the index.” @barrons.com #$SPCX www.barrons.com/articles/spa...

🚨 BREAKING: Republicans have introduced a new REAL ID bill that could help them revive parts of the anti-voting SAVE America Act and bypass the Senate. The SAVE America Act may be stalled, but the GOP’s push to make voting harder isn’t.

Exclusive video obtained by CNN shows extensive damage on the USS Gerald Ford, after the ship's fire control system failed, sources say. One sailor told CNN that it was "either fight or die" during the battle to stop the fire. www.cnn.com/2026/06/04/p...

We're celebrating Prince all week long. Ten years after his passing and ahead of what would have been his 68th birthday, there's no better place to celebrate the artist who put Minneapolis on the map and changed music forever.

#OtD 4 Jun 2020 75-year-old Martin Gugino was attacked by police in Buffalo, NY, during a Black Lives Matter protest. His skull was fractured, he had a brain haemorrhage suffered long-term memory, mobility impairments and hearing loss. More info: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1045...

Gregory Bovino, Trump’s little munchkin Nazi, has launched a website announcing that he’s running for president in 2028. www.bovino2028.com

Elon about to run off with everyone's 401k in the most obvious pump and dump of all time like a heel cashing in his Money in the Bank briefcase.

But seriously he is going to wipe out so many retirement accounts and the banks are helping him do it. He's doing a DOGEcoin rugpull with the entire U.S. economy. Buckle up!

Share this three minute video of @hollybfletcher.bsky.social before the National Capital Planning Commission hearing today on the Trumpal Arch if it speaks for you too. youtu.be/TP4v40ax_uw?...

But what about [state where Democrats are faring better than any of the ones mentioned above]? www.270towin.com/2026-senate-...

Colorado Governor Jared Polis has vetoed the state’s groundbreaking law banning surveillance pricing. That’s a big win for shady corporations — and a major loss for your privacy and wallet. Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains.