While you were sleeping, Senate Republicans jammed through a $70 BILLION blank check for ICE.

At 4am, Senate Republicans gave the greenlight for the IRS to drop ALL investigations into Trump and his family. That means if Trump is evading taxes, we’ll never know. I have a bill to make this illegal. And I won’t stop fighting to get it done.

November is coming.

Once again, the Trump Administration is too weak to handle the truth of American history, so they're turning to illegal censorship. But true American patriotism is resilient—and Massachusetts will not be bullied.

Glyphosate is turning up in more and more places, including our forests and food supply. That should concern everyone. After a troubling story on Forest Service spraying, @rephuffman.bsky.social and I are demanding answers. I pressed Sec. Rollins directly: Are we looking at the whole picture here?

OPINION by legal analyst Barbara McQuade: "With a loyalist like Pulte leading the president’s daily intelligence brief, the engineered incompetence itself poses a grave risk to our national security." READ MORE: www.ms.now/opinion/bill...

gift link - www.nytimes.com/2026/06/05/o...

Trump's brilliant strategy - © Chappatte in The @bostonglobe.com via @globeopinion.bsky.social 👉 www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/04/o...

A reminder that the Attorney General is supposed up be working for the People, not the President

“Apparently, Republicans think we cannot afford a single penny to help Americans cover the skyrocketing costs of gasoline, of healthcare, of housing, of food, of energy. But somehow we can afford to give another $70 billion to Trump’s rogue agencies.”

Russia is hoping to fix its worsening labor shortage by putting children to work years earlier than current law allows.

Andrew Boutros has turned an office that should be dedicated to justice into a political circus. From reckless, targeted prosecutions to allegations of misconduct and dysfunction, his tenure has been defined by controversy, chaos, and a steady erosion of public confidence. He should resign.

In bizarre attack on solar, lawmakers spread myths about spud farms

U.S. forces have intercepted multiple commercial and oil tankers in the Indian Ocean in recent months.

EXCLUSIVE: A top Polymarket executive sent hundreds of thousands of dollars — and likely more — to social media influencers from left to right. One influencer says Polymarket wrote posts for them to share on X and asked them to promote specific bets.

The Hannity post-show disclaimer: Everything we just told you is essentially a lie.

When a leader insists, again and again, that what you can see with your own eyes is wrong and only his version counts, he’s testing how much of your reality he can overwrite. #holdfast

But there’s a ballroom and an arch!

I wrote a few words about what it's like to work for "an inexperienced, overconfident boss" whose M.O. is "to intimidate top performers and encourage sycophants." www.barrons.com/articles/cbs...

“It is unconscionable for Congress to allow this conflict to go on. Thousands killed. 1 million+ displaced.” 117 Dems just joined Republicans to BLOCK a push to limit Trump’s ability to help 🇮🇱 bomb Lebanon — including Tennessee’s only Democratic congressman @repcohen.bsky.social (Memphis)

Wind from Milky Way's supermassive black hole is finally discovered reut.rs/4xc1JpO

Coming up at 930AM ET: Appeals court weighs legality of Trump's ballroom construction. Livestream: www.youtube.com/live/V2U1Uxo...

Trump refuses to comply with discovery requirements for his suit against the BBC. This usually leads to dismissal of the complaint, which his lawyers fully understand. www.ft.com/content/d2a0...

Hassett: "Even if the strait stays closed, what will happen is they will start building pipelines to get into the Red Sea and so on, so markets adjust to these things"

🦒 🦓 UPDATE: The Nashville Zoo petition to block an DC BLOX data center next door has crossed 113,000 signatures. DC BLOX: 877.590.1684 CEO: Jeff Uphues cc: @MetroNashville www.change.org/p/nashville-...

EU: In a joint letter, Estonia, Czechia, Denmark, Iceland, Finland, Sweden, Latvia, Lithuania and the Netherlands have proposed new measures to limit the issuance of EU tourist visas to Russian citizens.

Sounds like VERY major changes are coming to @bsky.app. www.cnbc.com/2026/06/04/b...

The unanswered questions surrounding Jeffrey Epstein’s death just got murkier.

When Trump picked a partisan hatchet man to serve as the acting DNI, many said Bill Pulte would turn the office into a partisan tool. It was surprisingly helpful to see Trump say the quiet part loud and prove his critics right. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Law enforcement officials in Texas and New York arrested Josh Cohen of Vision Oil & Gas on Friday, charging the Texas oilfield executive with theft and engaging in organized crime, Reeves County District Attorney Sarah Stogner said. bit.ly/4epums3

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...

Quotes about slavery, immigrants, and war will be taken down from the monument following one woman's complaints of "woke" ideology.

On Platner, from Zeteo’s First draft morning newsletter: zeteo.com/p/did-the-ne...

"The outbreak is moving fast and we are still playing catch-up", says @drtedros.who.int at presser on Bundibugyo in DRC and Uganda. There are now 397 confirmed cases including 63 deaths plus 116 suspect cases. (This is after a huge backlog of suspect cases has been tested and many ruled out.)

President Trump does not think he needs Congress as much as the lawmakers think he does, an adviser said. And with House and Senate Republicans expected to suffer significant losses in November, the president feels no need to accommodate them.

"Game changer." "Historic." "Monumental." Doctors, scientists and patients have showered breathless accolades upon a new pancreatic cancer treatment – even hailing it as "revolutionary."

The court’s conservatives ripped the mask off the institution in a brief, unsigned decision allowing Alabama to use a racially discriminatory congressional map.

Ohio lawmakers have obstructed 5+ GW of solar and wind projects in recent years, despite Ohio being home to First Solar, one of the largest solar panel manufacturing companies in the U.S., which STAYED in the U.S. when most of the industry moved to China... www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle...

The population of Chicago is, of course, 2.7 million people

The ACLU shares a note from a client detained by ICE and imprisoned at Camp East Montana: “The conditions here are inhumane and cruel. No human being should have to go through this… severely violent treatment by guards…”

Trump dodged the Vietnam War draft five times—and now he’s deporting refugees from that conflict at five times the pace of Biden.

"Because he loves War." The House Armed Services Committee voted overnight to permanently adopt Trump's 'Department of War' renaming. Every Republican supported the amendment to the House's $1.15 trillion defense bill from Ronny Jackson, which cleared in a party-line vote.

My cartoon in the Friday Hamilton Spectator: www.thespec.com/opinion/edit...

National Donut Day seemed like the perfect time to check on the state of the American economy. #NationalDonutDay #EditorialCartoon #PoliticalCartoon #EconomicInequality #MiddleClass #WealthGap #Satire #DrawnAndQuartered