Happy Fourth of July, my darling friends. 🩷

Happy Fourth of July, darlings.

“I’ll have you know, I was making charcuterie boards when I was in third grade, I’m just saying…” -my best friend just now in my kitchen after his second glass of wine. Happy Fourth of July, everyone! 😂

Trump pulled in at least $2.2 billion in 2025, that includes other parts of his vast holdings, such as his real estate assets, as compared to the $622 million his enterprises pulled in for all of 2024, before he returned to the presidency. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...

At this point, there would be more people on the National Mall if Trump wasn’t having his stupid fair thing.

John Ossoff is the energy we need to channel from now until November. .

More than 100 people just deported from the US were being held in a hotel when earthquakes struck Venezuela, setting off a scramble to find survivors and bodies buried in the rubble, according to survivors. Just when I think Trump can’t be lower… apnews.com/article/eart...

I'm taking the holiday week off, but I made you a playlist and it may be the best one yet. shero.substack.com/p/a-bad-bitc...

We cannot get a woman elected in this country because of women.

I’m sure you’ve noticed, but the cat’s gotten terribly bougie.

I document all of the most important legal and political issues of the week in a Sunday recap and it includes stats on all of the mass shootings this week. You should check it out: shero.substack.com/p/shero-on-s...

I’d love to say my bestie is coming to DC to celebrate America’ 250th, but we felt like we needed something more to believe in this year, so it’s honestly more about Taylor Swift’s wedding at this point.

I’m so tired of these crazy old men making all of these life and death decisions for all of us. apnews.com/article/iran...

HANG ON, let me get just the right pen...ehchem: "While 'separation of church and state' is not directly written in the US Constitution, it is derived from the First Amendment and it secures our religious freedom by preventing the government from favoring any specific faith..."

The ceasefire in Iran is going SUPER great. www.military.com/us-strikes-i...

The Texas education board on Friday approved a required reading list for more than 5 million public school students that includes Bible passages. apnews.com/article/texa...

NEW: John Bolton has pleaded guilty on Friday to mishandling classified information in a case that could send him to prison for up to five years and he must pay a fine of $2.25 million and forfeit his federal pension. He will likely get the maximum, which is five years.

Donald Trump may have found his patsy at the Parks Service who is willing to help sell his ridiculous version of how the reflecting pool at the Washington Monument was damaged, but the reflecting pool has an alibi. shero.substack.com/p/the-reflec...

While we are all focused on Trump's bullshit in Iran, the war in Ukraine wages on. www.npr.org/2026/06/26/n...

It's Wimbledon time! Anyone care to discuss who takes it all this year for the women?

Search and rescue crews are still pulling survivors from the rubble after two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela, the largest in over a century. Officials say at least 164 people are dead as rescue crews continue searching through collapsed buildings. www.npr.org/sections/the...

Senator Maggie Hassan (D-NH), pressed HHS Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for answers following reports that the Trump Administration bent the rules of a federal program to provide a highly sought-after weight-loss drug, to a single VIP, who is Trump's age. More: substack.com/profile/2357...

Per a memo to ICE chief David Venturella posted on the OGI's website, the DHS inspector general is looking at whether “systemic factors, policies, or processes contributed to detainee deaths that occurred in ICE,” from October of 2021 through March 2026. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

A federal judge on Thursday said a lawsuit challenging the Justice Department’s creation of a $1.8 billion slush fund will proceed, citing the DOJ’s refusal to confirm in writing to her that the fund is dead. More: substack.com/@shero/note/...

US District Judge Indira Talwani has barred the Trump administration from enforcing key parts of an executive order aiming to create a citizenship list of eligible voters and restricting mail-in voting. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Supreme Court on Thursday sided with the manufacturer of the weedkiller Roundup, overturning a jury award for a Missouri man who claimed the widely used herbicide caused cancer in a decision that could have sweeping impacts on thousands of other sick Americans. More: substack.com/@shero/note/...

The Supreme Court on Thursday (6-3) struck down a Hawaii law that required gun owners to get permission before carrying a firearm onto private property like grocery stores, coffee shops and gas stations that are otherwise open to the public. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Supreme Court on Thursday said the Trump administration can turn away migrants seeking asylum along the US-Mexico border by physically preventing them from crossing into the United States as they seek protection from persecution. More: substack.com/profile/2357...

Despite their countries remaining unsafe for return, the Supreme Court on Thursday denied legal protections for migrants fleeing violence and natural disaster in Haiti and Syria, exposing hundreds of thousands more people to potential deportation. More: substack.com/profile/2357...

NEW: US District Judge Christopher Cooper on Wednesday ordered the Kennedy Center’s board of trustees to file updates about the tarp-covered scaffolding and the center’s plans for maintaining operations and arts programming while it closes for renovations.

If Donald Trump is willing to go to this level to publicly cover-up all of his mistakes with the reflecting pool, imagine what he will do behind closed doors. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/23/u...

It figures. They have come after marginalized people based on race and gender identity, after women’s health , and now after those LIVING with disabilities. As the mum of a 49 year old man living w disabilities, I will resist with the disability community.

There are so many things wrong with this. It's hard not to think about what happened in Nazi Germany. Trump or Kennedy might not round people up, but they are trying to make life more difficult, so folks have no choice.

The Justice Department released an opinion this week that reflects the Trump administration’s intention to strip back more civil rights protections for Americans with disabilities, creating mass involuntary institutionalization. shero.substack.com/p/involuntar...

Guys, please send this article out to EVERYONE YOU KNOW so that they understand if we don't win a majority in November, this is what's coming. 👇🏻

Thanks to the absence of two Republicans - McConnell and McCormick - the Senate was finally able to pass a war powers resolution Tuesday seeking to block US military action against Iran. apnews.com/article/sena...

The Justice Department released an opinion this week that reflects the Trump administration’s intention to strip back more civil rights protections for Americans with disabilities, creating mass involuntary institutionalization. shero.substack.com/p/involuntar...

Does anyone wonder why Trump wanted to pull Jay Clayton’s name? Workforce cuts at the began Monday, after acting Director Bill Pulte was directed to “execute the immediate and needed downsizing of the office” and return some personnel to their home agencies. More: substack.com/@shero/note/...

Trump's Justice Department took the extraordinary step of seeking to force reporters to testify before a federal grand jury — but withdrew the subpoenas earlier this month after they were challenged by the news organizations. wapo.st/4vlY9Ig

Iran said on Tuesday that there’s been no visit scheduled for inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to see nuclear sites earlier bombed by the United States, which completely goes against what JD Vance has said. Who do you believe? www.ms.now/news/irans-f...

Guys, we already caught the person who vandalized the reflecting pool, but he claims to have immunity...again.

Two more dead ducks were found near the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, after a separate bird carcass was found floating in the recently renovated site. Cover your ears, cause you should be able to hear me screaming all the way from Capitol Hill.

"The 80-year-old president discussed with aides whether it would be feasible to add a giant fist atop the proposed 250-foot 'Arc de Trump' monument in Washington, DC..." Trump legit wanted a huge white man's fist put atop his French ripoff arch. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-insan...

A federal appeals court on Tuesday cleared the way for Trump’s administration to expand a fast-track deportation process that would allow for the expedited removal of migrants who are living far away from the border. More: substack.com/profile/2357...

The Pentagon needs $80 billion to cover costs from the Iran War, Deputy Defense Secretary Stephen Feinberg told lawmakers in phone calls this week and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has been making the rounds on Capitol Hill. More: substack.com/profile/2357...

In another major legal setback for Trump, a federal judge on Monday ruled that a recently revamped version of a federal tool central to the Trump administration’s election integrity strategy is unlawful and can no longer be used. More (with full ruling): substack.com/@shero/note/...

Anyone in the UK care to weigh in on this one?

HEADS UP: Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain announced his resignation on Monday, bowing to a mutiny inside his Labour Party and paving the way for Andy Burnham. This means that Britain will have its seventh prime minister in a decade, since it voted to leave the EU in 2016.

NEW: The Trump administration is threatening to withhold tens of millions of dollars in federal homeland security funds from states unless they adopt a sweeping set of election changes, meant to go into effect just before the Midterm Elections. More: substack.com/profile/2357...

In a ruling that was unsealed on Monday, a judge blocked the subpoena issued to Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and other state officials, accusing the Justice Department of using its investigatory powers to retaliate against state officials. More: substack.com/profile/2357...