Kaine to Rubio: "By not sharing the [Iran] legal opinion with the Article 1 oversight branch, you give us the opinion there's something you don't want us to see. Could you use your influence as the president's chief national security adviser & secretary of state to share the opinion with Congress?"

RUBIO: "I also want to remind everybody that the United States government is not a charity. We are not here to play social worker, we are here to win." Win by turning allies into forced-to-buyers-or-else while closing strategic trade passages and increasing gas prices? Winning, indeed.

the only depths to which they will not sink are the ones that would give us useful data www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Ohioans deserve a transparent government and accountability on how their tax dollars are spent. This is common sense.

After Milli Vanilli dropped out of the Trump America 250 Fyre Festival, he wants people fired. thedailybeast.com/trumps-fury-...

‘Naive or dumb’: Markwayne Mullin slammed over plan to pull customs agents from airports in sanctuary cities

Tennessee Republicans eliminated the state’s one Democratic, Black-majority congressional district after the supreme court gutted part of the Voting Rights Act

This is unacceptable. Once again, the Trump administration is working overtime to limit the freedom of the press to dodge accountability.

Let’s get this out of the way: Graham Platner isn’t a Nazi. He had a Nazi tattoo, sure, but he doesn’t anymore. Published February 13, 2026: trib.al/fe15mTv

Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., pressed Secretary of State Marco Rubio over the targeting of alleged drug-carrying boats in the Caribbean, asking if he was involved in the targeting criteria. buff.ly/ehdZlJL

As someone who visits NYC a couple times a year to see friends and family, I cannot pretend to be a disinterested observer here. Hotels in the city have gotten stupid expensive over the past few years and it’s nuts that more of them aren’t coming online.

There are certain problems facing the country, such as systemic corruption, that require a coordinated response — and that response could be organized by political parties. bit.ly/4v9p9Kt

Van Hollen to Rubio: "Let's face it, Mr Secretary, the Trump foreign policy has become a dumpster fire"

A woman was killed while trying to save her children during a russian attack on Kyiv. During the strike near a residential complex in the UNIT.City area, a woman was running to a shelter with her two children. She died from her injuries. The children were hospitalized.

It's Election Day, California! We can build a better country if we make our voices heard. Visit www.sos.ca.gov/elections/po... to find your nearest polling location, and get out and vote! 🗳️

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...

COONS: Is it not true that some of the challenges in our NATO relations have only come after President Trump threatened to seize territory from a trusted and reliable partner? RUBIO: I don't think that's fair COONS: He said he would use tariffs to coerce Denmark into giving up Greenland

Multiple Amazon employees told us they suspect the company shut down the leaderboard because it was easily cheated and because it encouraged wasteful and expensive use of AI tools. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Read @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social story now: www.404media.co/amazon-shuts...

We strongly condemn the Governor of Alabama's plans to void the results from the state's recent primary. The state legislative map that Alabama plans to use for this so-called special primary was previously struck down for discriminating against Black voters.

I was told that Bari Weiss was not at this morning's editorial meeting. Additionally, there was no mention at all of the 60 Minutes confrontation with Scott Pelley, even though both Nick Bilton and Charles Forelle were on the call.

Coons's line of questioning highlights that Rubio was a staunch supporter of Taiwan -- right up until he started working for Trump, and now he's making excuses for the White House's refusal to approve weapons sales to Taiwan

Gonna be a generational burden to recreate the norm that scamming other people is bad when our positions of leadership are being filled by proud scammers and people who previously only succeeded in the field of social media engagement bait

New York should join other states in protecting consumers from chemicals linked to cancer and other serious health harms. #NYLeg

Friends — We need to talk about what's currently going on at CBS News. “60 Minutes” — the most successful television news broadcast in U.S. history — is being dismantled before our very eyes. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-murder-of-60-minutes

The Trump administration has no loyalty to democracy. If anything, like other authoritarian nations, it’s in the way…

Shaheen to Rubio: "Mr Secretary, you would not have stood for this kind of stonewalling by the administration when you were a senator, and you certainly shouldn't stand for it as secretary of state and national security adviser."

Those pushing back at CBS News, or suppporting the staff, need to begin with, "it was a political hire," and then GO ON FROM THERE to describe it: Trump to Ellison to Weiss to Dokoupil. www.status.news/p/bill-owens... Read what one anonymous executive said to @status.news That is fairy land.

BOOKER: With the ebola crisis, we're clearing see that what goes on in Africa directly affects our public health RUBIO: I don't agree with that assessment. The ebola outbreak was in a war-torn, isolated, rural area in the DRC

The Trump administration's relentless assault on immigrant communities throughout the country is not an isolated event. These attacks are part of a broader pattern of governing that treats legality as optional and judicial oversight as illegitimate. https://ampr.gs/4u1qC4B

Former '60 Minutes' Executive Producer Bill Owens just derided Bari Weiss as "an opinion writer best known for being an ideologue" and ripped her over the recent firings. "They were fired by people who don't even know what we do and don't actually care."

Commentary: “My parents understood something that Ohio’s voucher advocates seem to have forgotten: a commitment to your own children’s education doesn’t require defunding someone else’s,” writes The Rev. Ben Huelskamp. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/06/02/i...

Bill Pulte is Trump’s Hatchet Man Placing him as the Director of National Intelligence gives him immense power to harass, intimidate and threaten the countless Americans that Trump considers his enemies. This is a deeply dangerous nomination that must be stopped!

"Talarico could reclaim manhood from his dirtbag opposition [Ken Paxton] in many ways, including by noting that real men don’t lie to win, they don’t steal, and they don’t punch down." Agree with @brianbeutler.bsky.social that core aim is not to cave to bullying: www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

At that point did Bilton, who imagines himself a transformational wunderkind, get the sense that his bagels and rah-rah introduction to his new colleagues was a raging clusterfuck? open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

President Trump is getting increasingly manic with his middle-of-the-night posts. trib.al/cyd8oN3

Donald Trump reportedly called Benjamin Netanyahu "f***ing crazy" during an angry phone call with the Israeli leader. A source said the US president told Netanyahu: "You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me. I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.”

On May 30, Ukraine struck the Russian fuel depot in Feodosia, next to the Kerch bridge in eastern-most occupied Crimea. This may be why hundreds of fuel tankers are still on the other side waiting to board the ferry across the Kerch strait.

And, as he basked in the contempt of his new team, did it begin to dawn on Bilton that he’s about to take his place beside CNN’s fail-boss Chris Licht in the pantheon of arrogant media putzes? open.substack.com/pub/charlies...

Congress cannot stand by as the Supreme Court dismantles the crowning achievement of the civil rights movement. It can — and must — codify an enforceable right to vote and set baseline national standards for voting access. bit.ly/4u6nYuJ

30 gallons of fuel spilled onto the National Mall from generators at recent Trump-backed America 250 event: report

FFS If only he was in a position to do something about it.

Duckworth to Rubio: "That's an astonishing figure. In just 14 weeks, President Trump will have blown through as much if not more money in Iran than he thinks Congress should spend on US diplomacy for the entirety of the next fiscal year."

great bit about billionaires from @hankgreen.bsky.social at about 8:37 youtu.be/pXVmkurTOgM...

Martin Scorsese is advising an AI company that wants to replace human storyboarding. Which is an interesting choice because if he did literally nothing for the rest of his life I’d still consider him an all-time great filmmaker, but now I also think he’s a traitor to his industry

“Religious freedom” should not mean “I get to discriminate and call it constitutional.” LGBTQ+ people belong everywhere. Full stop.

This is yet another example of President Trump rewarding loyalists with high-profile roles, raising serious corruption concerns. We flagged these risks in our pay-to-play corruption tracker when Bill Pulte was picked to lead a housing agency: campaignlegal.org/exposing-pre...

The real harm isn't from peaceful protests — but the brutality of the Trump administration's ICE raids and inhumane immigration detention centers. New Jersey’s response to protestors at Delaney Hall must prioritize the safety and well-being of everyone.

ROSEN: Can the money in the Board of Peace account be used to compensate the president or his family? RUBIO: No one is talking about doing that (Not a no!)

“What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” The federal court proceedings could carefully pull apart the tangled web of deceit emanating from the highest levels of the Trump administration. Watergate was just a break-in.