The House gives final approval to a bipartisan housing affordability package 358-32. All 32 'No' votes were from Republicans.

Senate rebukes Trump over Iran war, voting 50-48 to approve a House-passed resolution directing the President to remove U.S. military forces from hostilities against Iran. The resolution does not need the signature of President Trump.

The impeachment of this Supreme Court is pretty damn important.

NEW from MSNOW: Pulte has begun purging the ODNI Warner & Himes: “Making significant structural changes to ODNI..is not an appropriate course of action for anyone in an acting capacity, let alone without consultation with Congress, and you should refrain from doing so,” www.ms.now/news/directo...

Remember the Iran war powers res that passed the House just before their recent recess? Schumer's going to force a vote on it in the Senate today forcing GOP on the record This was a mostly symbolic vote in the House Passed as a "concurrent resolution" But .. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

House is back today First votes expected at around 6:30pm Including on the '21st Century ROAD to Housing Act' affordability bill This passed Senate 85-5 Monday With GOP Senators Rick Scott, Ron Johnson, Tommy Tuberville, Rand Paul & Mike Lee voting 'no' www.politico.com/live-updates...

🇺🇸 #VoteDem 🗳️

NBC News: "The number of people enrolled in Medicaid and Affordable Care Act plans fell by more than 5 million in the last 12 months, according to a new report from the advocacy group Protect Our Care." www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Thune on GOP Senators & Trump tomorrow: “I hope that people, [against the SAVE Act], speak up. Because I’m not saying anything that isn’t a view that wouldn’t be shared or articulated by a lot of my colleagues… It’s always helpful if others would speak up, and it’s not just me.”

AM today on Trump's lunch with GOP Senators tomorrow: "[Rick] Scott didn’t even tell Thune in advance that he was inviting the president to the Capitol. .. They expect [Trump] will berate them for not bending to his will on Iran, the filibuster, the SAVE Act and more." punchbowl.news/newsletter/

Hey NY-17 Did you know that your House GOP Rep Mike Lawler has been meddling in the Dem primary? He's been trying to "tear down Army vet Cait Conley via a covert text blast, among other tactics, seeming to prefer that he get to run against her opponent Beth Davidson" www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

On today's NY primary And how voter anger is changing things all over the country: “If you’re perceived as being part of the status quo, then you’ve got a problem..if you’re perceived as bringing about change you’ll win. If you’re inside the beltway you’re not talking to normal people.”

Today is primary day in: New York Maryland Utah And runoff day in South Carolina If you live in one of these states and haven't voted yet show up and #Vote Help others get to the polls Don't sit this out Get out there and raise your beautiful voice!! www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...

Semafor on Senate HSGA Cmte's subpoena of Anthony Fauci: Rand Paul: “[Fauci has] been slow-walking info to us for 6 mos or more. We’ve been negotiating over the date for several months. He agreed, then he said he wouldn’t. So, I think it’s time that we bring him in" www.semafor.com/article/06/2...

TNR today: "In the latest assault on America’s anti-corruption edifice-perhaps the most destructive effort yet-the WH is taking a back seat, & looking to Republican allies in Congress to undo the single most important anti-corruption step the US has taken in years." newrepublic.com/article/2118...

Semafor today: Interview with "unleashed" John Cornyn Says Trump "seems to revel in chaos": Conversations with Trump aren’t “particularly useful because he can and will change his mind depending on the next person he talks to on the phone This is packed with hits: www.semafor.com/article/06/2...

Or as @therickwilson.bsky.social said back in 2017, #ETTD: #EverythingTrumpTouchesDies Except, apparently, algae.

NOTUS: The Trump admin is holding up billions in grant funding because of a new political review process that goes through RFK Jr. and the WH Including: $211M for 988 suicide hotlines $75M for global disease outbreak response $3M opioid addiction centers And .. more: www.notus.org/health-scien...

New filings submitted to the FEC late Saturday night confirm GOP backed Super PACs are meddling in open Dem primaries And in some places it's working This is an important piece filled with information we should all be paying attention to: www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

The Atlantic (gift link) “Ever since the hostage crisis ruined Carter’s reelection campaign, Tehran has prided itself on sabotaging American chief executives. This time it may get a two-for-one: the presidency of Trump, and the presidential ambitions of Vance” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Vance is like if the JEB Bush please clap meme became sentient and ran for office

This is just embarrassing

House GOP Rep on Recon 3.0: “fake pay-fors for defense spending no one has fully agreed to & no meaningful reforms,” Mike Lee: "assuming there will be a 3rd reconciliation bill..the SAVE Act will not be part of it-because [it]is a policy measure & can’t be deemed “budgetary” [in] reconciliation"

House is back tomorrow In session for exactly 8 leg days before July 4th recess And pushing hard for a 3rd reconciliation bill with: $350B for DOD Ballroom $ More immigration $ More cuts to social programs (& Medicare & Medicaid) under 'fraud crackdowns' SAVE Act & more Senate isn't that into it 👇

“Just as has happened with measles and other vaccines, vitamin K shots have become the target of a deluge of false information online. That has caused some parents to view it as an unnecessary pharmaceutical intervention amid a lingering mistrust of the medical system.”

NEW: After ProPublica contacted leading vaccine skeptic Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote.

Sen. Bill Cassidy is considering holding a vote on the HELP committee to block RFK Jr. from being put in charge of the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services. www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...

"Trump posted a decades-old Camp David photo of donor Margo Catsimatidis to Truth Social captioned "Great daughter," triggering widespread alarm. Commentators noted that confusing strangers for family is a recognized clinical sign of dementia" www.rawstory.com/trump-dement...

CNN's Patrick Svitek: "As expected, the super PACs that recently meddled in House Dem primaries — Real Change PAC & Lead Left PAC — are tied to GOP donors.👇

The U.S. has absolutely no right to impose tolls for transiting the Strait of Hormuz. It’s actually an act of war and/or piracy against the entire world.

This is the person the Park Police 'arrested' at the Reflecting Pool (NYT):

Thoughts on Capitulation Day. This level of defeat in Iran is only possible at the hands of a super loser like Trump. To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States. Read more: snyder.substack.com/p/capitulati...

Timothy Snyder: "Trump is ludicrously weak, and everything he touches turns to loss. He went to Madison Square Garden and the Knicks lost. I mean, more seriously, he tries to help Russia win a war, and even there he fails. Like, he has sort of incredible power to turn people into losers."

Rupert Murdoch's NY Post last week: “This comes on the heel of Trump needlessly insulting Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth looking for ways to weaken Europe. What’s the plan here? Make sure we have no friends left?” nypost.com/2026/06/19/o...

Trump will always look for a scapegoat & direct blame towards someone else, regardless of how ridiculous & senseless the accusation might be. He is always the cause of the problem.

[email protected] on Twitter: "I simply don't understand how the US does not have any mechanisms to stop Trump's physical destruction of Washington, DC. This country appears completely lawless." [Trump is humiliating us, everywhere ..]

NB: The only thing I can find anywhere on any Reflecting Pool "vandalism" arrests is a video of a person receiving a citation by the Park Police The person cited stated that the citation was for putting his hand in the water Trump is lying .. again

Zelensky will be remembered for his heroism in the face of terrible odds. Bessent will be remembered as a cowardly sycophant who was party to the economic destruction of the United States of America.

Happy Fathers Day to every single person raising a child in these ridiculously difficult times You're doing the most important work that can be done I wish you peace today And lots of laughter theconversation.com/why-fatherho...

FT's Gideon Rachman: "[Bessent] Never forgave Zelensky for standing up to him in Kyiv and refusing to sign away Ukraine’s mineral rights. According to our correspondent who saw Bessent, immediately afterwards, he was trembling after meeting Zelensky"

More from Regime Change: "Scott Bessent, the US treasury secretary, advised Donald Trump not to host Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office, having called the Ukrainian president a 'little fucker', a 'special-needs child” and “Mr Bean on crack'" www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Tim Walz on the Reflecting Pool debacle: "Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn’t listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went. The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell."

NEW The Atlantic (gift link) "Ukraine’s resistance is alive & more lethal than ever. But it has changed dramatically since its early days...The kind of resistance once waged by the public has now given way to intelligence work, carried out by serious operatives." www.theatlantic.com/internationa...

"Trump did not get into specifics in his post about the alleged vandalism that prompted the arrests. .. he made unsubstantiated accusations overnight that the painted surface of the Reflecting Pool had been sabotaged with chemicals" No comment from the Park Police So ..

"Trump said Saturday that Park Police had arrested multiple people he alleged were vandalizing the Reflecting Pool, which has been plagued with algae and peeling paint since the administration completed a costly renovation" No specifics And his claims are unsubstantiated abcnews.com/Politics/tru...

Joanne Carducci: "This is the highest military honor in the United States, and Donald Trump somehow turned it into something a vampire countess would wear while fainting dramatically onto a chaise lounge and composing furious letters to her opium dealer." jojofromjerz.substack.com/p/colonel-de...

Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz again after Israel killed more than a dozen people in Lebanon last night So .. I'm not sure this flex is exactly right

NEW: Strait of Hormuz is now closed again NBC News: “Iran said Saturday that the Strait of Hormuz is closed, according to Iranian state media, citing violations of the ceasefire after continued Israeli strikes in southern Lebanon overnight killed over a dozen people.” www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/i...

There is indeed a vandal destroying famous sites in Washington. Unfortunately, the 80 year old suspect will likely get off due to a defense of mental defect.

NEW NYT (gift link) ‘A Literal Coverup’: What Is the Kennedy Center Hiding Behind Those Tarps?' "[A] week later the tarps are still there, prompting some to wonder whether at least some of the letters are, too." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/19/u...