You shouldn't be able to lead an IPO and a pogrom in the same week.

So an elephant pissed all over the floor at a Republican convention & a rainbow appeared over The Kennedy Center as they were removing Trump’s name & as a writer I have some thoughts.

Nathan J Robinson: Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries www.currentaffairs.org/news/how-elo...

Disciplinary officials in Washington said that a former federal prosecutor should be suspended from practicing law for six months, finding she used deceptively ​edited videos as evidence in criminal cases against protesters during Republican President Trump's first inauguration reut.rs/4eEXeN5

Watergate was a cover-up of a break-in. This is a coverup of the role Trump and some GOP megadonors may have played in Epstein’s crimes against young girls. And it is why we’ve not seen a single prosecution.

If you live in South Minneapolis, and you're into supporting immigrant businesses and entrepeneurs, local farmers/ bakers/ craftspeople, and the idea of a walkable city, plus building community... Then surely I'll see you at the Midtown Farmers Market tomorrow, right?

If you guessed the predictions look like more surveillance, you are correct.

The Ohio Organizing Collaborative is, for lack of a better phrase, a completely normal NGO. For the FBI to raid them - and people who are just associated with them - is a serious attack on ordinary civil society and almost certainly an effort to influence Ohio’s midterm elections.

Just saw two facts back-to-back that blew my mind in a bad way: 1. The Ukraine war has now lasted longer than WWI. 2. You are now closer in wealth to Jeff Bezos than Jeff Bezos is to Elon Musk.

Washington Nat'l Opera sues the Kennedy Center alleging that the Center STOLE the opera's endowment. WNO had a longterm agreement where KC ran the opera's development back office, and in 2025 KC just ... stopped doing it and seized the funds. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Quite a week. Trump declared a peace deal with Iran, then raged when Iran publicly contradicted his account of the terms. Inflation hit 4.2% and Trump loves it. And Johnson quietly announced on a radio show that Republicans plan to cut Medicare and Medicaid next year. Not as slick as he thought.

! A transfer bus has been seen parked inside the facility at Delaney Hall in what activists anticipate is a mass transfer out of the facility. Reminder: 90%+ detained at DH have no criminal record, were picked up solely to incarcerate amid asylum hearings. Geo/DHS are transferring as retaliation.

The Ellisons now own TikTok, Paramount, Warner Bros, CBS News, HBO, Comedy Central, and CNN, among other major channels. They are also the largest private donor to "Friends of the IDF." They also paid $7 billion for streaming rights to UFC, which is hosting an event at the White House.

EPA and Justice Department officials were looking into potential criminal violations by the vast coal empire owned by Sen. Jim Justice. Then the Office of the Deputy Attorney General told them “pencils down.”

The reason I've followed every thread I have for as long as I have is specifically to falsify the idea that 'no one could have seen it coming' This amount of brazen corruption for the last 5 years is on record in so many ways it's disgusting That should be what we wield politically moving forward

Everything is one story now. We're watching the vivisection of the United States Economy by the Oligarchs before they properly discard the 'husk' of the working class. The next part is the attempt to create a digital ghetto of an Economy as a company store for the rest of us. This was the plan.

“Iran is the winner," Iran's foreign minister said on state TV, according to Reuters.

EXCLUSIVE A lot of attention was (rightly) paid to the role Elon Musk and Tommy Robinson played in inciting the #Belfast riots. But few noticed the critical role play by a small Ulster youth club linked to the fast-growing US white supremacist Active Club network www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to reinstall exhibits and signs relating to slavery ​and climate change that it ⁠had removed from ​parks and monuments nationwide

one of the secrets of Clown Law, which Donald Trump is the grand master of, is that in Clown Law you recognize that you can file any old bullshit and they'll have to pretend it's serious and it'll eat up weeks of time

Serial misconduct by AUSA Sheri Mecklenburg. Fire and disbar. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/06/12/f...

The corrupt MAGA DoJ approves a deal delivering control of WB to the Ellisons. It’s bad for 99.99% of Americans, democracy, competition, creatives… It is a DoJ equivalent to the RFK Jr FDA approving eating roadkill. It’s NOT a done deal, help #StopTheCorruptMerger www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

"We’re publishing this blog post to explain our decision to refer to Delaney Hall as a “concentration camp” and clarify the term’s meaning." This is incredibly important. jerseybee.org/2026/06/11/w...

and the backdrop of all these attacks on the civil service: "The stability, advancement opportunities, benefits and union representation that federal jobs offer “have long provided a path to the middle class” for Black workers, women and others, said Sarah Javaid..." pshra.org/report-feder...

"position does not confer appeal rights to the MSPB... prohibited personnel practices will [not be enforced by] OSC" We're seeing them go straight for the Civil Service Reform Act and CSRA appeals. And the Roberts Court has been signaling they're good. Cool times! (sarcastic)

New Pressing Issues on a win against warrantless spying in Congress this week -- and why Democrats shouldn't waver no matter whom Trump tries to make the Director of National Intelligence. @juliorvarela.com interviews Kia Hamadanchy @aclu.org pressingissues.org/three-words-...

“Demanding and accusing people of voter fraud as if it was a witch hunt and, and scaring them with the children, following them in their cars to school and to work. I mean this was a full-out assault. I mean, we haven't seen anything like this since Selma."

This is textbook violation of fiduciary duty on behalf of the Board — it's deliberately sabotaging your own institution to make a political point. Every Board member who voted for this is breaking their oath.

There's no better distillation of Project 2025 than this: an illegal action, taken without any public oversight, for inherently corrupt purposes, now held to be irreversible for no other reason than because they added poison pills to make it unacceptably damaging.

this is bullshit. when people are angry at the economy, everyone is angry. they vote for the out party. if the out party is fascist, the fascists can benefit. everyone swung towards trump. not just Black men. blaming Black people for fascism is (you guessed it) fascist framing.

The people who put their names on this.

Some of the efforts being made in Belfast right now to protect people, because the government can't or won't, will be familiar to Minnesotans.

The Kennedy Center board has filed an emergency motion to stay at the DC Circuit and it is bonkity-bonkers. For the first time, they say they amended the bylaws to strip all funding from the center if it removes Trump's name. No Trump KC, no money. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Jay Clayton is manifestly not a good selection for director of national intelligence, even if he appears to be better than Bill Pulte. He's a partisan Wall Street lawyer who has intermingled financial and national security interests repeatedly, a bad combo going back to the Dulles brothers.

The Information reports that Meta is planning to curb its employees' AI spending mere weeks after encouraging them to token-maxx. Meta is on track to spend billions on internal use alone. Anthropic and OpenAI cannot afford for their customers to slow down. www.theinformation.com/articles/tok...

Elon Musk spent $290 million getting Trump elected. During this midterm cycle, he's spent $85 million. In total, that’s 0.0375% of his $1 trillion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

While his mountain of horrible personal conduct could fill multiple books, one fact in particular stands out: A year ago, Musk’s actions directly led to the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people. He did it knowingly. And, worse — gleefully. Read more: www.theverge.com/tech/949259/...

“.. even after workers were seen cleaning out algae from the bottom of the pool Wednesday.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.

In case you really feel like vomiting: "At the start of 2020, Musk had a net worth of $27 billion. By the end of the year his net worth had increased by $150 billion..." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wealth_...

Silicon Valley: Everyone must use AI for everything all the time! It's a miracle! Also Silicon Valley: Please do not use AI, it is too expensive (and we are watching you)

In 1999, Playboy spoke with Maya Angelou. The Playboy Interview never ran. The copy was misfiled and forgotten for 20 years. Now, as we bring this remarkable piece of history online, it serves as a bridge to a voice that remains as vital and urgent as ever.

Remember like two days ago when 60 Minutes staffers said they believed the Ellisons would allow them to be independent? Yeah. newrepublic.com/post/211692/...

At the American Medical Association’s annual meeting, members of the group’s House of Delegates sent a clear message to their leaders: Call out RFK Jr. — even if it costs us in the pocketbook.

Damn this entirely predictable thing has inevitably happened

Subterranean Press announced that they'll be winding down their operations in the coming years. I'm sorry to see the news, and I spoke with a handful of authors who published through them, who pointed not only about the quality of the company's books, but of Bill Schafer's character as well.

💥Additional scoop: Péter Magyar's new democratic government has fired the directors-general of three Hungarian civilian intelligence agencies (Information Office, Constitution Protection Office, Special Service of National Security). All of them had served Viktor Orbán's regime for years.

And lest we forget how the US Govt overthrew the democratically elected government of Iran in 1952, and how Reagan and the CIA funded the Mujahideen in Afghanistan, and how Bush funded Saddam Hussein…and the list goes on and on….