"Mr Hegseth’s hysteria is hard to square with his rapture for the proficiency of the fighting forces. If dei de-lethalised the troops, where is the evidence? If the battle against dei is won, as he says, why is he still fighting the last war?” @economist.com

Rather than rubberneck at the inevitable implosion of the Platner campaign in Maine, I'd urge everyone to focus on another swing-state or even red-state Senate race that we might actually win. Ohio and Michigan are toss-ups and we have a fighting chance in Iowa, Texas and Alaska too.

Last call for NFL Mailbag Questions for this week!! 📪

NEWS: A @lawfaremedia.org report finds that *97* Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the attack were arrested, charged, or convicted of subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported. Incredible work by @katherinepomps.bsky.social www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

In its first semester, the University of Iowa’s civics center had less than 20 students taking their courses. By 2028, every student at the university will be required to take two courses there. https://chroni.cl/4vs80Me

These efforts to build alternatives to the Straits of Hormuz are why controlling it is a wasting asset for Iran, but also they have profound limitations and introduce new risks, hitting some harder than others. If they were better options they would already be in use. www.wsj.com/world/middle...

Thing that is unfortunate to me, being old enough to remember 200th anniversary celebration when I was a kid, is that there is a lot to be proud of in terms of what the US has accomplished (stuff to be embarrassed about too) But this year, not really possible to reflect on that. It all about Trump

Every accusation is a confession.

The Nuclear Information Project at @scientistsorg.bsky.social is hiring a Research and Program Associate fas.org/career/resea...

The last time a President selected his personal attorney to be Attorney General was ... wait for it... John G. Mitchell. For President Nixon.

As someone who regularly criticizes crime reporting, I want to highlight the good stuff when it happens. Like this. No equivocating in the post. Headline is clear. First paragraph blunt. Doesn’t quote the admin until paras 12-13, and explicitly notes that it’s evidence-free blather.

Trump strips job protections from 8,000 federal workers as Schedule F (now Schedule Policy/Career) begins. What I told @npr.org - this is the first step of a much broader assault on the civil service system. www.npr.org/2026/06/03/n...

TX Ag Commissioner Sid Miller (R), lashed out at the USDA screwworm response after today’s suspected case, calling it a “slow, bureaucratic, and incomplete response that allowed the pest to advance unchecked through Mexico and reach American soil”. I don’t know, do y’all think he voted for Trump?

How much is corporate pressure ruining legacy media??? New ===> youtu.be/7penga-uwRM?...

Factual thoughts: Scott Pelley and Henry Schuster were embedded with my Marine infantry unit in 2009—it was incredibly violent in Helmand. They told our story well. Years later, my unit suffered multiple suicides, they came back to cover that too.

Because of recent events - especially his choices of blind loyalists to head DHS, DNI - Trump's possible attempt to muck around w/elections should not be underestimated. He and his enablers have repeatedly lied about fraud in NV and elsewhere. Reupping: thenevadaindependent.com/article/opin...

BREAKING: In a stunning rebuke, the House voted 215–208 to block Trump from ordering more strikes on Iran. Rep. Gregory Meeks: “We are trapped in a war that won’t end because an incompetent president launched it thinking of only his own ego while failing to prepare

Rep. McBride: “I assume you’re aware that Greenland is indeed part of Denmark.” Rubio: “For now.”

The NFC West is a post apocalyptic hellscape

“.. they made the decision official by releasing the updated text from the Senate Judiciary Committee.” @thehill.com thehill.com/homenews/sen...

🚨 The FBI says Kash Patel was in Milan during the Winter Olympics for work. I filed a FOIA for @publiccitizen.bsky.social asking for proof. The FBI said that’ll take 2,000 days. Today PC sued the FBI to speed it up.

A company that makes a no-tech, repairable tractor is having trouble keeping up with demand from farmers sick of John Deere's repair monopoly and simply want a tractor that turns on and works: www.404media.co/demand-is-bo...

Republican Sen. Thom Tillis to CNBC on Bill Pulte: "I don't think he has a prayer" of being confirmed by the Senate.

He should write an op-ed about how he’s being censored. Run it in The Free Press. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

In last night's ruling SCOTUS again admonishes a lower court for changing rules before an election while excusing its own actions that led to it. This language from the opinion does seem to fully encapsulate the "Purcell for thee but not for me"principle (without ever mentioning Purcell).

BREAKING: Supreme Court allows Alabama to use congressional map that will eliminate a majority-Black district a lower court said intentionally discriminated against Black voters. www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

"I'm the one that started it." Needless to say, that is not exactly the administration's legal narrative.

The Supreme Court's Republicans let Alabama's GOP cancel an imminent primary to implement a House gerrymander that a lower court had blocked in 2023 over intentional racism. But now SCOTUS rules it's too close to the next elections for a lower court to again block the map for harming Black voters

#BREAKING: Over public dissents from the three Democratic appointees, #SCOTUS grants stay of district court injunction in Alabama redistricting cases, clearing the way for Alabama to use its 2023 map.

Check out here @carmenwunderlich.bsky.social and my latest analysis on the current state of the global nuclear order in light of the most recent NPT Review Conference. 👇

After Tuesday’s primary, Iowa joins the list of red states with competitive U.S. Senate races.

I see @pkrugman.bsky.social chose a similar topic today. paulkrugman.substack.com/p/trump-has-...

Trump's pick of Bill Pulte as DNI is worse than you think. It hands the "vast powers" of our "national security apparatus" to the guy who's working to jail Trump's enemies, says @leahlitman.bsky.social, and that's "terrifying." On the pod, Litman pulls no punches: newrepublic.com/article/2112...

The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

"I'm just one of the 535 duly elected members of Congress whose job it is to check and balance executive excesses and decide when the US should declare war on other nation-states, far be it from me to weigh in on whether Trump needs congressional authorization for his war in Iran." 🤦

Really fantastic @jamellebouie.net column today. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

PELLEY: “For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I've been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.“

The Biden Admin prosecuted the leaker

this is the most pathetic-ass letter i have ever seen

JUST IN: DOJ's No. 3 official @ASGWoodward signals dept will take up an option we raised here and pay off many J6ers using ordinary DOJ procedures www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

I wrote on Bill Pulte, Trump’s appointment as director of national intelligence, despite having no relevant national-security experience & with vanishingly low odds of being confirmed by the Senate. Another indignity for the US intelligence community. www.economist.com/united-state...

Democrats are banking on a rare chance to regain ground in Iowa, a rural state that has repeatedly eluded them in recent years. Republicans, meanwhile, are grappling with a New Jersey congressman whose unexplained absence could put their already slim majority at risk. https://to.pbs.org/4vtuMUc

They don't follow laws or court orders, so the solution can't be more laws or court orders, or hearings like this where Senators ask for non-credible pledges. Dems are in opposition, so they can't do more, but we should be clear-eyed about the fact that impeachment/removal is the only real solution.

"I woke up this morning thinking.. I didn't think Donald Trump could still surprise me. Today.. I'm surprised and shocked!" @markwarner.bsky.social on Trump's choice of MAGA-loyalist Bill Pulte to be Director of National Intelligence.... and the fear of Pulte "having access to everything"

"Between Trump tariffs, rising gas prices and labor supply shocks, Main Street businesses are seeing declining profits and slower hiring." www.forbes.com/sites/johnsc...

Are you f**king kidding me. www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

This is really well done by @vanhollen.senate.gov. A litany of Trump’s foreign policy disasters and documentation of Rubio’s hypocrisy. You all ought to take a few minutes and have a listen.👇

The J6ers had already filed hundreds of administrative claims for payouts. (The settlement explicitly said such claims could be transferred to the weaponization fund.)

the supposedly "originalist" unitary executive theory has led us to a point where the president is claiming the sovereign authority to force all institutions, public or private, to bend to his will or suffer the consequences www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/u...

A home-building heir best known as one of "the most aggressive advocates for prosecuting Democrats and others perceived by Mr. Trump as having crossed him"