it's notable to me that the administration tried to frame tonight's UFC event as a "gift to Americans" but you can't watch it unless you have a paid subscription to Paramount+

President Trump is trying to downsize the U.S Forest Service and eliminate wildfire and smoke research as the American West is facing a potentially epic summer fire season. n.pr/4us6kSh

One year ago.

Amazing: KPMG wrote a report describing the successful use of AI by businesses. But the case studies turned out to be AI hallucinations. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Inflation has surged to its highest level in more than three years since the U.S. and Israel launched their war on Iran, triggering a surge in gasoline prices. n.pr/4oiHyCt

Yesterday, House Republicans voted for tens of billions of dollars in unaccountable taxpayer funding for ICE and CBP to carry out the Trump administration’s unpopular mass deportation agenda. https://ampr.gs/445mLJb

Americans are working more hours per week than they were this time a year ago -- and yet still taking home less money each week in real terms, thanks to inflation www.bls.gov/news.release...

Striking graphic in this latest Reuters piece, which finds that while President Trump and his family have profited by at least $2.3 billion since he retook the presidency, their more than a million investors have suffered $2.3 billion in net losses. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Saying that Ukraine is winning is no longer tinged with wishful thinking; it is simply acknowledging the facts on the ground. lnk.thebulwark.com/4fotHbw

Who, specifically, ordered the Ocean Observatory Initiative destroyed? Someone made this decision. Reporters, get on this. www.livescience.com/planet-earth...

Trump called Kristen Welker "crooked and stupid," ripped off his mic, and ran off the set of Meet the Press. Meanwhile Israel just struck Beirut and Iran is threatening full-scale war. It's Sunday. Here's your midday update.

NEW: Tim Robinson, the former CEO of Addiction Recovery Care, which once operated more than 40 drug treatment facilities statewide, was charged with attempting to resell millions of dollars worth of tax credits. w/ @kentucky.com

“Trump bumbled through a handful of executive orders, marveling at his own signature — “Oh, that’s a good one” — and asking aides to explain to him what the orders being placed in front of him actually did… “And the reason for this was, what? Whose idea was that?” he said.”

The Albanian people have been massively protesting for several consecutive days against slumlord crook Jared Kushner and Crimestress Ivanka seizing land in their country to the sum of billions of dollars to build a trashy resort. I hope they don’t stop until their evil corrupt deal is reversed.

Trump personal attorney, Blanche was paid more than $9M from pro-Trump PAC. He extended immunity to Trump’s family, “trusts, parent, sister, related companies, affiliates, and subsidiaries.” Covering “any matters that were or could have been raised” in Trump family’s legal battles with the IRS.”

With rising inflation and interest rates, more Americans are defaulting on their mortgages. For the poorest communities, the rate has increased nearly sixfold. My @morningjoe-msnow.bsky.social Chart.

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

“When government experts can be fired without cause, it's not just federal workers who are harmed — it's the people across the country who rely on these essential services every day."

David Venturella's appointment as acting ICE director is the latest in a pattern: Many former employees of the private prison company GEO Group end up working at the federal agency, and vice versa. n.pr/4uR2P8Y

"There are approximately 80,000 fewer manufacturing jobs today than there were when Trump took office last year."

Trump’s increasingly obvious unfiltered mental instability is the true original sin that should headline EVERY news article until he’s finally out of office. The absolute truth from @playtyperguy.com in @atrupar.com's latest PN. open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

Bless his heart www.al.com/news/2026/06...

“Trump wants these public fights. Authoritarianism needs to come into the daylight in order to socialize the acceptance not just of particular measures, but of the overall project, and to justify what might need to be done to seize power or stay in power.”

A new study has found that the National Guard's presence in Washington, D.C. had no effect on violent crime in the city. The Guard has been deployed since last August as part of a federal task force to fight crime, and their numbers are set to double in the coming weeks. n.pr/3PWDxqK

Trump has signed an executive order reclassifying nearly 8,000 federal employees in policy-related positions, stripping away long-standing civil service protections that previously shielded them from political dismissal.

SCOTUS will allow Alabama to use a congressional map that a lower court found intentionally discriminated against Black voters. A Court so fundamentally hostile to the rights of minority voters places it at odds with democracy itself. This is Chief Justice John Roberts’ legacy.

Rep. Lieu: “The Supreme Court is out of control, out of touch with the American people…This is the most corrupt Supreme Court we’ve seen in our history, and reform is going to come next year."

NEW: A group of lawmakers demanded answers from the White House this week following a ProPublica investigation revealing that a top aide to the president initiated a $620 million loan from the Pentagon to a startup linked to Donald Trump Jr. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social

“ALBANIA FOR ALBANIANS!” Massive protests against Ivanka Trump & Kushner’s luxury private island project in the Mediterranean and the corruption that is enabling it, as the Trumps continue to personally profit while in office.

Oof. “Independent researchers have found little evidence it’s expanded the overall housing supply beyond what the market would have produced without it.” A Low-Income Housing Program Is Pouring Billions Into Housing Many People Can’t Afford @opb.org

“.. In total, the federal staffers held SpaceX or xAI stock worth at least $9.9 million and as much as $43.8 million, according to the disclosures ..” @bloomberg.com #$SPCX www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The White House Office of Management and Budget is moving to take more control of billions of dollars in federal grants. Critics say the proposed change would jeopardize the integrity of U.S. science. n.pr/4uNA78T

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He’s not just trying to pay his insurrectionists, he’s also hiring them. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

NEW: Why a cancer breakthrough has excited so many scientists—and why Donald Trump’s attack on federal research funding has so many of them in despair. www.thebulwark.com/p/cancer-res...

The Trump Admin is once again selling out safety and common sense to cater to fossil fuel industry demands. This formula is familiar: putting big business’s profits ahead of science—and even their own investors’ best interests—by burying the facts. 🧵⬇️

If you are wondering what it looks like when a Court majority goes full YOLO. .. Any Roberts’ claims of restraint and judicial minimalism have been reversed in these last few terms, with more to come.

Let’s find an unqualified nepo-baby with zero experience in military, intelligence or government service who repeatedly says dumb things and has spent his time as housing finance director trying to prosecute Dems & make him DNI. What a joke this admin is.

Who wrote and crafted this in the House? House version of the proposed 2027 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) includes sweeping provisions that would integrate the U.S. and Israeli militaries and defense sectors. responsiblestatecraft.org/israel-us-mi...

“Some companies using tax havens to avoid U.S. income tax rely on federal funding for their profits… Thermo Fisher Scientific - cut its taxes by $3.5B. Honeywell, which received over $30B in DoD contracts cut its tax rate by more than a quarter.” Gift article

"One thing that actually propelled actual US greatness after World War II was tying large scientific investments to a non-partisan, merit-based process. But that is not the way of Trump, who wants to extend tools of control and retribution over science." Trump is wrecking everything. Illuminating:

Trump purchased ~ $50,000 worth of stock in TKO Group Holdings, UFC parent company, months before hosting a major UFC event on the White House South Lawn scheduled for his birthday.

NIH and NSF research are under new attack from Russell Vought's Project 2025 crew. NSF: withholding grants from major universities. NIH: a proposed OMB rule that stops using merit to award grants - and allow arbitrary termination. Congress has to stop this. secure.actblue.com/donate/sam4n...

The thing about a spoils system, & one of the reasons it lasted for most of C19, in order to revoke it, the majority party has to be willing to diminish its own power in anticipation of future as the minority. I don’t expect to live long enough to see spoils system Trump has erected get dismantled.

I’ve got to think Hegseth will be the first male Cabinet secretary fired. www.thedailybeast.com/trump-tore-i...

“Dell and his wife pledged $6.25 billion to help kick off the so-called Trump special investment savings accounts... Trump celebrated the donation and went on to endorse their computer products.” Gift article

1/ This is awful for so, so many reasons. Just to pick one: even if you thought it was lawful and appropriate to vet funded research for consistency with the government's priorities, *the president is not the government*.