“.. For the first time since late 2022, more than 50% of the coins trading are doing so below their purchase price ..” @bloomberg.com #Bitcoin www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

We can't look away from the images of families fleeing burning houses without calling this out as a pogrom, whipped up by influential actors who care nothing for the people of Belfast: www.irishnews.com/news/norther...

Belfast Live have images of a family being evacuated in a landrover as houses go up in flames. I won't be linking to it because Belfast Live allow their comments sections on social media to be an open unmoderated platform for inciting hate and racist violence.

THERE IS AN ACTIVE POGROM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. FASCISTS IN SKULL MASKS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR PULLING MIGRANTS OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.

The sheriff of San Diego County says she is simply following the law by transferring detained immigrants to ICE custody. But local advocates say California’s sanctuary law is discretionary; it doesn’t force sheriffs to transfer inmates.

In stunning vote, California's reddest county chooses Bay Area Democrat www.sfgate.com/travel/artic...

Sidelined US research on alcohol's health effects published in independent journal. www.reuters.com/business/hea...

US ATTORNEY ESSAYLI: Is there enough fraud to sway an election? We don't know CUOMO: No ESSAYLI: You can't say 'no.' You haven't done an investigation CUOMO: I've covered elections for 30 years. You know how many cases of widespread fraud I covered? One! And it was the Trump administration

NEW Economist/YouGov % saying the U.S. is in an economic recession, according to polls conducted [Feb 9-11, 2025 | Jun 5-8, 2026] U.S. adult citizens 30% | 38% Democrats 30% | 56% Republicans 31% | 18% d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec... d3nkl3psvxxpe9.cloudfront.net/documents/ec...

NEW Economist/YouGov Jun 5-8: The economy Only 29% of Americans strongly or somewhat approve of how Donald Trump is handling the economy, while a record-high 63% disapprove That's a net approval of -34 for Trump on the economy, his lowest in either term yougov.com/en-us/articl...

NEW: Earlier this year, an obscure startup in Texas announced that it had received at least $100 mil from one of the richest men in Asia. We dug into the backstory. We discovered a saga involving Donald Trump Jr., Russian oil, and an Indian billionaire family’s private zoo.

NEW: In February, I visited Raw Farm. You may have heard of it. RFK Jr. and Gwyneth Paltrow are customers. It supplies raw dairy products to 500 stores nationwide. And regulators have linked it to over a dozen recalls and outbreaks that have made hundreds sick. 🧵👇

BREAKING: WASHINGTON (AP) - Nithya Raman advances to November runoff in Los Angeles mayor's race.

MASSIVE booing for Donald Trump at the Knicks game during the National Anthem:

Live look at the Bryant Park watch party for #Knicks. www.youtube.com/live/_NmK1u6...

DC Arch public comments are now open. As much as many of us would like to simply submit “FDT,” comments are far more likely to be considered if they raise specific concerns about the project. Federal agencies are only required to consider substantive comments,

Mike Johnson says Republicans have a plan to cut Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid—after already passing the largest healthcare cut in history. Higher costs, less healthcare. That’s what Republicans are running on this November.

Do not let Trump get his tiny little hands on our voter rolls. I’m calling it: all his voter fraud bullshit is really about gaining access to California’s voter data.

Ken Paxton’s own lawyer just endorsed our campaign for the US Senate. We’re building a big tent to take on this corrupt system that Ken Paxton embodies.

Chatbots on five different websites claimed to be licensed to practice medicine in Pennsylvania when prompted by Spotlight PA — the same kind of output that led the Shapiro administration to file a lawsuit last month.

Mike Johnson says Republicans want to cut Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, calling them “entitlements” that need to be fixed. Of course, they plan to do it after next year’s midterm elections.

Kim Yo-jong has dampened American expectations of denuclearisation in a statement released before President Xi’s visit to Pyongyang. Looking at the Iran War, Pyongyang is convinced they made the right call pushing ahead to own the bomb and delivery systems. www.thetimes.com/world/asia/a...

Here we go

Spencer Pratt said if he loses this election, he will leave Los Angeles. This threat appears to have stimulated a strong vote against Pratt. And now the question is: will LA really be rid of this pest with a two-page rap sheet? www.latimes.com/california/l...

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"He sent text messages to a friend about joining the Russian military if he could not eventually join the U.S. military..." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

LOS ANGELES: Karen Bass and Nithya Raman are now in first & second position in the mayoral race in Los Angeles, with 34.7% and 27.1%. Spencer Pratt is now in third position, with 26.7%. That's based on roughly 50K ballots being counted today in the city of LA. There are about 130K left.

Stop texting my wife!

this is so weird!

Scott Pelley: “Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon: can we make the protesters look more violent? I’m paraphrasing Also: Renee Good’s car. You need to describe her as driving toward the officer. That’s not what the video shows. The officer is standing off the front of the car”

⚡️High turnout marks pivotal Armenian vote as polls close on Election Day. Armenians on June 7 cast their ballots to determine the makeup of the National Assembly — and decide whether Yerevan will pursue a European alliance or deepen ties with Russia.

BREAKING: In an interview with NYT, fired '60 Minutes' correspondent Scott Pelley says, "right now, CBS News, in my view, is on fire." "There's a subtle political bias that I've never seen at '60 Minutes' before or at CBS News before. We can save this. It's possible to land this plane."

With Trump's pardon of ex-Rep. Steve Buyer R-IN, who was convicted of insider trading, here is the updated Trump pardon list involving Congress: 11R, 2D

LOS ANGELES UPDATE: With today's update, Nithya Raman pulls within 7,500 votes of Spencer Pratt. (She netted roughly 13K votes in today's batch of 59K ballots.) This cuts Pratt's lead over Raman (for second spot) from 3.4% to 1.1%. (Note: The city of LA has roughly 175K ballots left.)

Today, June 6, is the birthday of Daniel Lee “Dan” Marburger. He died at 56 in 2024 while on duty as principal of Perry High School in Des Moines, Iowa. Dan lived by a code adopted in his youth embodying the values of a gentleman, a scholar, and an athlete.

San Diego sheriff’s deputies have accompanied ICE agents during raids, angering locals, including a member of the board of supervisors. “Why on God’s green earth, when we are in a budget situation the way that we’re in, are we helping and participating?"

Los Angeles City 6/6 Drop 🔵 Nithya Raman – 23,514 (40.2%) 🔵 Karen Bass – 19,312 (33.0%) 🔴 Spencer Pratt – 10,336 (17.7%) Raman’s rough benchmark against Pratt was 8.7%, so this is a 14-point overperformance.

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It's been a terrible two days to be a woman on the internet. It's been an even worse two days to be a woman on the internet who generally aligns with progressive values and politics. /

Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates. “I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said. (Published Nov. 2025)

Coming up on #KTLA: Facebook parent Meta reveals in a regulatory filing that dozens of workers at its Playa Vista office are losing their jobs

Coming up on #KTLA: California's economy is outperforming the national economy in some ways, but AI-related layoffs in Silicon Valley are pushing the state's unemployment rate higher

It pisses me off that California is a blue state, yet we have 2 Republican Presidential Libraries but 0 democratic ones.

NYT political reporting, especially when it concerns Democrats, is farcically bad, rarely rising to the level of serious journalism. As a German editor told, "how can a publication with such talent and so much money produce such a stream of putrid pablum and sell it to us as political reporting?"

nytimes trying to be relevant

I wish you could understand how horrific it is in Kherson. How Russian forces burn people alive in their homes. How Russian drones and artillery bombard apartment buildings for hours on end. The entire city has become a hunting ground.

The confirmed case was found in a one-month-old calf in Zavala County, Texas, approximately 5.6 miles away from the first confirmed detection. APHIS and our Texas partners continue to collect and test other samples from the surrounding area which have come back negative.

This week, VA Senator Tim Kaine appeared to fall for Chloe Cole's anti-trans propaganda, calling her case a "tragic example of malpractice." He also validated the strategy of suing gender affirming care providers. He did pull back, but S. Baum argues that he never should have fallen for it.

Once again, to everyone constantly griping about the flood of fundraising texts/emails: If you’re gonna demand that Dems not take money from corporations, crypto, AI, AIPAC etc, that means they have to get their funding from SOMEONE, and that someone is YOU. Blue26.org