Trump abruptly cancels signing of bipartisan bill on affordable housing, saying he won't sign until his voter suppression bill passes. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Trump abruptly canceled the signing of a housing affordability bill, insisting that Congress first pass an elections bill that mandates voter ID

🚨 President Trump has cancelled the signing of the largest housing affordability bill in decades unless Congress passes his voter-suppressing SAVE Act.

a cool moment -- Kaitlin Collins tells Brad Lander that he won his primary live on air during an interview with him. Lander responds by saying, "I'm thrilled. I did not expect to be on air when the race was called."

A report from STAT News said Eli Lilly and the FDA gave a 79-year-old man exclusive access to the drug after a request for it was made in April.

I think the difference w/ the reflecting pool, with his hand, with his ankles, is that it clearly bothers him. These stories endure and get ink because they are the rare topics that visibly rankle him. The pool especially because he can’t stop talking about it. In a regime otherwise absent of shame.

Trump officials knew the $16.4 million Reflecting Pool renovation was peeling and turning green earlier than they acknowledged. Rather than acknowledge the problem and its origins, they settled on a wild concocted story about Antifa terrorists.

Just when you think it can’t get more weird….. Fencing going up around Reflecting Pool

Yeah his doctors think his heart's going to give out if he doesn't rapidly lose that weight. Retatrutide activates GLP-1, GIP, and glucagon all at once. Some research suggests it induces "systemic hemodynamic unloading."

The number of specialists doesn't surprise me but CT angiography, D-dimer, and proBNP together suggests his medical team believes he's at a high risk for heart failure.

Oh hey, Fox News. What’s that like?

'Raise Doubts'??? C'mon, @nytimes.com How about: - 'Show Otherwise' - 'Counter His Claim' - 'Tell Different Story' - 'Prove Claim False' - 'Don't Match Claims' - 'Show Another Lie' [ok, too far.] Etc. Headline gives him 100% underserved benefit of the doubt.

A Republican state senator in South Dakota was just charged with election fraud. (Note that the senator, Pishke, has supported various pieces of legislation that make it harder to vote or register to vote in the name of fighting fraud.) www.sdpb.org/politics/202...

I swear to god I thought this was fake www.snopes.com/fact-check/t...

Good to see this reversal of Secretary Hegseth's ill-fated policy: "The Army, Navy and Air Force are once again requiring flu shots for basic trainees." abcnews.com/Health/milit...

bourtros coverup continues

Amphifa won

This summer’s hottest color! PANTONE 8647 Radical Left Pond Scum

Someone just told him that the murder of a duckling just took this feckless, incompetent disaster to another level.

The Kennedy Center says it pulled President Trump’s name from the building front earlier this month after a judge’s order. But the result remains hidden by tarps, prompting questions and speculation. nyti.ms/4vZ0qsG

Breaking news: U.S. Park Police officers arrested former Olympian David Hearn on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property. Hearn said he touched the Reflecting Pool’s detached liner but “didn’t destroy or break or peel anything.”

Yes, idiotic and laughable. Still, deploying the military in service of the Leader’s pet projects is also a marker of authoritarianism.

Plaintiffs in the Kennedy Center renaming case ask judge to order Trump to explain what the tarp/scaffolding is about. "Willfully sabotaging the KC's iconic facade to assauge Defs' vanity or massage broken egos is a clear breach of fiduciary duty." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: 35 retired fed judges escalate challenge against Trump $1.7 billion slush fund & IRS deal They say Trump Admin's latest filing "underscores the need to investigate whether the parties have perpetrated a fraud on this Court & corrupted the integrity of the judicial process"

Qatari Force One is ready

Couple things. (1) Another filing signed only by political appointees. No line attorneys from DOJ. (2) The administration does not want to put in writing that the slush fund is dead, and no wonder. (3) All of this adds to the impression that the "settlement" was collusive, not adversarial.

Note (as is stated in the first paragraph of DOJ’s filing): This is *not* defiance of a court order. The court gave DOJ two options. Brinkema only said that submitting the declarations was how to end the case. DOJ chose not to take that path, so the second it is: The case will continue.

BREAKING: DOJ refuses to submit the declarations that were requested on June 12 and due by today to end the anti-weaponization slush fund litigation, citing “serious separation of powers concerns.” Further, DOJ says that what has already been provided should be enough (relitigating a lost argument).

Future historians and readers of history will surely wonder what the ever-living fuck we were all thinking when Donald Trump both started and then lost his immoral and pointless war with Iran.

Trump: I am the all-powerful president leading us to the golden age on Day 1. Also Trump: I can't control everything – It's Obama and Biden's fault.

The stable genius is up.

IGC Navy has closed the Strait of Hormuz, warning all vessels to not attempt to cross, following Israel’s refusal to withdraw from and strikes this morning on Southern Lebanon. IRGC ⬇️

Sam Stein points out to Rep. Mike Turner that his line on Iran has completely shifted from 2021 (when he was saying Biden negotiating with Iran was bad) and now (when he's saying Trump negotiating with Iran is good), but instead of acknowledging his hypocrisy, Turner has a performative crash out

Al-Gaeda has proven a tough adversary.

NEW — I wanted to know if ICE’s newly uncovered plan to offload seven of the 11 concentration camp warehouses was actually a big deal, so I went straight to the expert: Michael Wriston of @projectsaltbox.com, which has been tracking these warehouses every step of the way. Our full convo here:

This is BIG. After spending over $1 BILLION on the purchase of multiple commercial warehouses that ICE planned to convert into the largest jails/prisons in the nation, ICE is now largely abandoning the idea and will aim to sell off multiple warehouses at a loss.

"Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Zohran Mamdani aren't cold war socialists committed to central planning, vanguardism and foreign dictatorships. They are democratic pragmatists who support civil and political liberties, good governance and expanded public services." www.economist.com/letters/2026...

The honorable gentlemen giving their word of honor on handshake deals are Trump, Vance and the Iranian regime. Seems like a bunch of honest and trustworthy folks who can be counted on to keep their word.

Trump blew up his own nomination for Director of National Intelligence overnight—and his disinterest in intelligence should be a bigger story than it is—but the real problem is how he's trying to abuse one of the key positions created to prevent the next 9/11: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/the-oxymor...

The chunks of blue paint peeling off the bottom of the pool is too much. I can’t. How is this real?

Even something this minuscule would have earned a top spot on the Fox News ticker during prime time.

Trump struggles to clasp the Medal of Honor to Major Nicholas Dockery -- and then ties it?

FIFA takes away Iranian flags at the US stadiums

COLLINS: In 2021, you said relieving sanctions on Iran 'would only contribute to more terror attacks against America and its allies.' This deal includes lifting sanctions on Iran. Will America be safer? SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: It's a completely different day. You can't have everything you want.

This is beautiful

BREAKING: The Trump administration is moving Education Department oversight of special education and civil rights to other agencies.

KAITLAN COLLINS: Are you okay with Iran having missiles? SEN. ROGER MARSHALL: I prefer that they not, but they have to defend themselves COLLINS: You think Iran needs to be able to defend itself? MARSHALL: I do, otherwise we turn this into a forever war