From Tonight’s Column: I have never forgotten Roberts’ comments...I remembered his comments when Renee Good and Alex Pretti were shot execution style on the streets of Minneapolis, because comments like that aren’t something you just move on from. joycevance.substack.com/p/autocracy-...

BREAKING: NYT Confirms Trump Is Supervising Kennedy Center Tarp Removal As His Agents Appear to Be Indicating It May Stay Up Indefinitely—Effectively Taking *Kennedy's* Name Off the Center As Well As Trump's in One of the Most Petty and Vindictive Acts Ever Taken By Any President

The Ohio GOP state legislature is poised to pass a bill to allow tech companies to seize family farms without consent for data centers using Eminent Domain. This is what voting for trump, Husted GOP gets you. cc @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social @lawrenceodonnell.bsky.social @theweekendmsnow.bsky.social

Protesters tried to block a car coming out of the Delaney Hall ICE detention center. The driver did not stop.

Just as the engineers said it would.

A song. A monthly cheque. A musician who had treated the dead — and the dead men's children and grandchildren — like they mattered. A man from Orillia, Ontario. A song the whole world sang.

Ebola is only the tip of the iceberg. The sputtering American response to the Ebola outbreak is just the most visible symptom of the far broader impacts of the Trump administration’s reckless dismantling of USAID. Unfortunately, the worst is yet to come. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/06/12/o...

New data reveals that New World Screwworm, a severely dangerous flesh-eating maggot, is spreading throughout Texas. This comes months after Ken Paxton supported cutting Screwworm monitoring programs.

Folks even Joyce Carol Oates is writing about the Knicks

I literally have a T-shirt that reads: "Canada: Living the American Dream without the gun violence since 1867."

Now we know Vice-President Vance has been helping lead the Epstein cover-up from the Situation Room. The VP owes the survivors and the American people answers.

22 specialists? Trump is rotting from the inside out.

For government officials to conspire to cover up and withhold evidence of crimes is certainly a crime in itself, and a betrayal of their oaths of office. Note that the president’s crimes, if publicized and prosecuted, would cause him to be removed and imprisoned. Conspiracy, not political strategy.

BREAKING: Rep. Garcia has formally requested the Oversight Cmte. call in the following Trump officials in the wake of that new NYT report on Epstein: J.D. Vance Susie Wiles Tyler Budowich James Blair Karoline Leavitt Steven Cheung Kash Patel Dan Bongino Stanley Woodward, Jr.

youtu.be/_vI3YYSddoM #hayes #musk #screwworm Trump and Musk took a chainsaw to government programs that kept flesh-eating screwworms away from American farms. And now that failure could hit farmers, ranchers, and your grocery bill. (Elon Musk is the one wearing the hat.) Chris Hayes | MS NOW

Iran state media.

A huge WIN for the PA House, now ontovthe PA Senate! Call your senators NOW!! Kepp foreign influencers out of PA politics! freespeechforpeople.org/pennsylvania... 5calls.org #Pinks

The Hawaii thing is a big deal so of course the Koch’s want to kill it

Hawaii just passed the first state law in the country banning corporations from making political donations in state elections. Now a Koch-backed legal group is suing to overturn it. Big Money won't get out of our politics without a fight — one that we the people must win. (via @levernews.com)

Trump mocked E. Jean Carroll's rape allegation, saying she "loved it" and that rape was "very sexy." A jury later found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation. In 2024, 77 million Americans still chose him. - History will judge that decision.

The Chicks were on Kimmel on Monday, performing Not Ready to Make Nice. Still a great song.... and even more relevant now. Insane to think it is 20 years old. Right-wing loons have been trying to silence people, especially women, for a long, long time. And the current guy makes Bush look better. 📺

The reaction to this on my Facebook account has been truly demoralizing. Thousands of reactions/comments - perhaps bots? - cheering the violent attacks on immigrants in a community in retaliation for one (probably) mentally ill man’s act of violence. 😞

youtu.be/aChAxu3MXjE #lawrenceodonnell Lawrence O'Donnell explains how we are watching the Iranian dictatorship “take advantage of Donald Trump's desperation to make a deal with them every day” as Trump again uses “Vietnam war dead and lying about that number in order to justify the Trump war dead.”

what a wonderful interview segment on tonight's The Daily Show www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sn8e...

If the leopards would eat MY face, it belatedly occurs to me that they would eat ANYBODY’S face.

President Trump was assessed by 22 medical specialists in his latest checkup, the most for any president, according to a White House report. The scrutiny reflects broader concerns about presidential fitness, with Trump being one of the oldest to serve. https://wapo.st/43rxXzK

Landlord targeted by Mamdani agrees to forgive back rent in 5,100 apartments gothamist.com/news/landlor...

As The Wall Street Journal prepared a damaging article about his relationship with Epstein, the president tried to kill it. He called News Corp.’s owner, Rupert Murdoch; and the editor in chief, Emma Tucker. The president, practically shouting as he threatened to sue www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/m...

Mark this moment. This is where the endgame begins—though it might take two years to play out. A President of the United States is openly linking the *Pentagon* and rigging elections for his party. He is framing an authoritarian takeover as something the *U.S. military* wants.

Yiiiiiikes

NBC using a contractor for Israel who ALSO WORKS FYOR SUSAN COLLINS YUP totally legit…

“For the past year, FIFA, has leased an office on the 17th floor of New York’s Trump Tower that has sat all but empty. The rent goes to President Trump’s family business, but the space sits largely idle. Paying rent to the Trumps was the choice of Gianni Infantino.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/w...

In January, Zohran Mamdani took action against bankrupt landlord Pinnacle, which was responsible for over 5,000 housing violations. Thanks to his intervention, Pinnacle's new owners have forgiven millions in tenants' back rent. This is what governing for the people looks like.

so launching an audio podcast dedicated to Rebus puzzles was a bad idea.

Ooohh boy. Kennedy threw a long Twitter tantrum about this. He just ranted and raved.

CNN's resident fact-checker Daniel Dale hasn't conducted an on-air fact check of Trump in more than three months, a stretch that coincidentally began around the same time Paramount announced its merger with WBD www.status.news/p/daniel-dal...

For first time, Americans are getting more of their electricity from solar than coal #Climate

This was the moment I knew for certain that 2026 was going to be a very bad foreign policy year for the United States.

4th: finally, the tribute song "what I did for love" made me remember the great experience I had working with the original stage manager of A Chorus Line. (I did not work on A Chorus Line)

3rd: I noted that there were 4 current nominees I have worked with. and 1 person who won a Tony. However, I worked with that winner 34 years ago, 1992. (Joe Mantello)

2nd, the "In Memorium" segment. I note that there were only 3 people mentioned whom I had worked with. (the last few years have been higher). Part of me says that is positive, in a way. But part of me asks "so am I now on the other side of the bell curve?"

so after the Tony awards I have some observations/comments I will enter one at a time for clarity. 1st: massive shout out to Cassie Levy (Best Actress in Musical) for thanking her babysitter (without whom Cassie said she could not have worked). This has to be a first.

and so it goes.... www.smbc-comics.com/comic/consci...