Maine’s US Senate Race - Thank you Walt and Eevie for an interesting, issue focused discussion regarding one of the most closely watched and high-stakes midterms in the country. walterrhein.substack.com/p/meet-maine... #MEpolitics

I guess they got the non-woke president they were looking for.

Trump, pictured here with future wife whatshername - New York Knicks Game at Market Square in Indianapolis June 1999 (just days after his divorce from Marla Maples was final) - will be in New York for Game 3 of the Finals on Monday, at the invitation of Knicks owner James Dolan. #BigSmileEveryone

open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug... (Do you know how often during 48 months Joe Biden presided over job reports as good as yesterday’s in terms of job creation? 37 times) Inflation that started with tariffs is climbing with prices of oil, fertilizer, helium, aluminum, naphtha, goods stuck in Hormuz.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... Round-Up kills deciduous trees, native shrubs and plants that compete for water, nutrients, sunlight. The rationale for spraying a chemical banned in other nations boils down to Trump friendly CEOs and regulators treating our national forests as tree farms.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... In 2026 IRS audits of filers over $10M+ dropped by 2/3 to 2,264. Trump shut down DOJ Foreign Corrupt Practices prosecutions. Gutted the 2021 Corporate Transparency Act that exposed money laundering cartels, oligarchs, tax evaders, criminals with offshore LLCs.

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cato.org/commentary/immigrants-reduce-americas-deficit-congress-should-take-notice A Cato Institute analysis of 3 decades of fiscal policy finds foreigners create wealth and redistribute it to Americans. Immigrants reduced U.S. debt by 1/3 ($14.5 trillion) from 1994 to 2023. Immigrants pay tax.

newrepublic.com/post/211414/donald-trump-social-security-immigrants-declaring-dead Schofield sampled the 2.7M names and found all the people Trump wanted marked dead were alive. Agency lawyers warned that falsely marking someone dead violated federal law. Trump's purpose was to terrorize immigrants.

wapo.st/3QmJjSz Fourteen of the 27 known corporate donors to the $400 million Ballroom Project, which would replace the East Wing that Trump demolished in October, have seen their government business grow by $50 billion in new or expanded contracts in since then.

Jan. 6 Rioter Hired to Work in Sensitive Pentagon Office www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u... He sent text messages to his friend about joining the Russian military if he could not eventually join the U.S. military. In a “Civil War” chat he discussed “using small planes to cross borders undetected.”

www.haaretz.com/opinion/2016... Harsh criticism of Rabin prevailed before his murder. Rabin was called a traitor - “Death to Rabin” - posters of him wearing a kaffiyeh or Nazi uniform. Netanyahu's infamous rallies - “In blood and fire we will expel Rabin” - another featured a coffin and noose.

www.thenation.com/article/worl... Netanyahu’s policy of bolstering Hamas rule in Gaza included encouraging Israel’s de facto ally Qatar to finance the terrorists. While the much-respected Israeli newspaper Haaretz has covered this issue, it has been largely ignored by the international press.

www.timesofisrael.com/for-years-ne... Benjamin Netanyahu took an approach that divided power between the Gaza Strip and the West Bank — bringing Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas to his knees while making moves that propped up the Hamas terror group to prevent Palestinian statehood.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... Acting director of CFPB, Trump appointeee Russell Vought (WH budget director aka Mr. Project 2025) has deleted at least 2,200 webpages from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau website. Deletions are content, testimony, data prior to Trump's 2nd term.

www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ca... Soon after Israel occupied the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, in June 1967, the Israeli military authorities consolidated complete power over all water resources and water-related infrastructure in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT)

youtu.be/hHlkfHklEXA?... A beautiful protected island, home to flamingos and old military debris off the coast of Albania is auctioned off. Will oligarchs, organized criminals, Jared's equity partners be the winners? Angry Albanians see Ivanka's fairytale of a magical discovery as a sham.

Ivanka Island Dream Sees Blowback newrepublic.com/post/211331/... via @newrepublic.com. Say a Saudi Prince, grateful for avoiding a murder charge, gives you $2B to invest. A Qatari royal backs your father-in-law and eats your $1.2B debt. You'd put their $ to work where dirty $ goes to be laundered.

substack.com/@deanbaker2/... More than 90% of the increase in job openings was attributable to an enormous rise in professional and business services openings - high-paying and low-paying jobs in legal and computer services, temp work and waste management. The rise in April was up 60%+ from March.

substack.com/@deanbaker2/... More than 90% of the increase in job openings was attributable to an enormous rise in professional and business services openings - high-paying and low-paying jobs in legal and computer services, temp work and waste management. The rise in April was up 60%+ from March.

www.hiringlab.org/2026/03/26/h... US added 1.2M jobs between February 2024 and February 2026, an average of 51,200 jobs a month and 2/3 of this growth, 814,000 jobs, was in jobs held by female workers - health and social assistance. By 2026 jobs held by men are driving monthly employment declines.

www.doctorswithoutborders.org/latest/they-... Between October 7, 2023, and March 7, 2026, 1,071 Palestinians, including 233 children, have been killed in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, according to OCHA. Eleven have been killed by Israeli settlers this year alone.

newrepublic.com/post/211218/... via @newrepublic.com Trump’s convicted and pardoned national security adviser, Mike Flynn, is now paid $100,000 a month by the Republic of Srpska, a confederated entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina run by Milorad Dodik, a key ally of Vladimir Putin.

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c... Trump and NSF dismantle system that measures how the ocean absorbs atmospheric greenhouse gases, how changes in ocean temperature like marine heat waves might affect fisheries or signal bigger shifts in the climate, and coastal flooding along the East Coast.

www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/w... Early this year, Lebanon’s leaders seemed to be edging toward an elusive goals: disarming Hezbollah, the powerful Iran-backed militia operating as a state within a state. With Israel's intense bombardment in Lebanon, that effort has stalled. Hezbollah has re-emerged.

www.dawn.com/news/2004071 #ClimateChange

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... AAFS Infrastructure and Energy is close to securing a $1 Billion contract to build and operate a pipeline across the Balkans to ship fossil gas from the U.S.A. to replace Russian supplies. AAFS DC address is listed between a Lebanese restaurant and an Irish pub.

www.meetboston.com/sail-boston-... July 11-16, 2026 The Tall Ships Return to Boston.

youtu.be/ysoJ-UVrWHs?... Maura Healey is the 73rd Governor of Massachusetts, the state’s first woman and first openly LGBTQ person elected to the position. Governor Healy recounts the Battles of Lexington and Concord, the opening salvos of the Revolutionary War.

youtu.be/wVHgL4Y9a4Y?... Senator Chris Murphy, who grew up in Connecticut and now represents the state in the Senate, tells the story of Connecticut’s Charter Oak, a lasting symbol of independence and American ingenuity at keeping it.

youtu.be/cAN9Uqt9kbw?... Cleve Jones is a human rights advocate, author, and lecturer who joined the gay liberation movement in 1972, co-founded the San Francisco AIDS Foundation in 1983, and founded the AIDS Memorial Quilt—one of the world’s largest community arts projects—in 1987.

John F. Kennedy launched a $30M campaign that included “An American Pageant of the Arts” in November 1962. He spoke of the importance of the arts to 5,000 attendees, Robert Frost and a young Yo Yo Ma. Jacqueline Kennedy and Mamie Eisenhower were co-chairs of the campaign.

timesofsandiego.com/business/2023/04/18/angry-investors-and-a-big-hole-are-all-that-remain-from-donald-trumps-baja-condo-project/ timesofsandiego.com/business/2023/ Condo buyers sued Trump over a failed project in Baja California & got just $7M from his partner. No condos were built. Their $ gone.

jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/jfk-in-history/john-f-kennedy-and-pt-109 On August 2, 1943, PT 109 was struck by the destroyer Amagiri. After 15 hours at sea, 11 survivors made it to a nearby island... When asked how he had come to be a hero, Kennedy replied, "It was involuntary. They sank my boat."

How Donald Avoided Paying Taxes nyti.ms/3OK7LwB Trump borrowed, lost, and spent other people's money. He claimed their losses to avoid paying tax on money he'd extracted from his multiple businesses to pay his bills and fund his lifestyle using #OtherPeoplesCash. The magic of LLCs.

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/a... “Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it.” The judge temporarily blocked KC from closing, finding the board “derelict” for failing to consider programming or the legal responsibility to maintain the memorial to the slain president.

www.theguardian.com/world/2024/d... Under right-wing president Javier Milei, public spending has been slashed, wages depressed, tens of thousands of government employees laid off, subsidies for energy and transport ended. Milei rose from obscurity in 2023 promising to take a chainsaw to the state.

earth.org/how-are-the-... Researchers found a 246% increase in residential structure loss due to wildfires when they looked at data from 1999 through 2020. Instead of financial instability displacing people, they lose their homes to more frequent and powerful wildfires that leave them with nothing.

PNAS 2025, 7,624 people tested: the single most effective way to motivate climate action is future thinking, specifically imagining what the future looks like for you and people you love. Not polar bears. Your people. 1/4

Less affordable houses and fees associated with rebuilding after weather damage make people turn to rental units. The higher demand incentivizes landlords to increase their rental prices. It is partly why 23% of renters paid 50% or more of their income on housing costs in 2020.

earth.org/how-are-the-... People might shrug off warmer summers, but that is not the only way climate change affects our lives. It is also destroying homes, which makes the housing crisis a widespread problem. Here are 7 ways in which climate change and the housing crisis are related.

www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/b... Trump withdrew the U.S. from a global effort to curb offshore tax-dodging by multinational companies. He has enabled corporations to avoid at least $40B in U.S. income tax since the beginning of 2025. American Express, PayPal, Stanley Black and Decker, Phillip Morris

www.theguardian.com/environment/... Major AI companies, like Amazon, Alphabet and Meta, saved $51B in Trump's "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" massive tax deductions for AI data center infrastructure and R&D. Trump gutted Biden's $7B for solar projects that Farmers tap into for low cost energy.

Kushner, Witkoff and Trump Offer $300 Billion to Iran newrepublic.com/post/211107/... via @newrepublic.com It appears to be a thinly veiled strategy for them to make money from the destruction Trump leaves in his wake. Kushner is under investigation for cashing in on foreign investment funds.

www.the-independent.com/news/world/a... 2019 Trump Org. did not build, own, or finance Punta del Este resort. Instead, it licensed the “Trump” name for a cut of sales. Nicolás Dujovne, a key figure brokering sales in Punta del Este, became Argentina’s economic minister, brokering an IMF bailout.

www.pbs.org/newshour/sho... In 2025, sympathetic to an economy on the ropes in a place where the wealthiest hide their loot from tax collectors, Trump had America extend a $20B lifeline to Argentina. It helped his right wing pal Javier Milei stay in power. Peter Thiel would move there in 2026.

reuters.com/article/business/as-ivanka-trump-visits-us-oks-400-million-argentina-highway-investment-idUSKCN1VQ2PP/ 2019 Trump issued a $400M highway investment in Argentina as eldest daughter Ivanka visited the South American nation on a regional tour. Tax evaders stick together. Peter Thiel soon?