Hennepin County has cancelled the monthly outdoor warning siren test today due to the potential for severe weather. If you hear sirens today, assume it is a real alert and seek shelter immediately.

New in PN: A vote away from undoing the civil war "The only role for a functional SCOTUS would have been to deny a cert request by saying, 'Did the lower court stutter?' Instead, we came within one vote of letting the worst people in the country run roughshod over one of America's sacred compacts."

To be crystal clear here -- the nun was **wearing her habit** and walking to Sunday mass when ICE arrested her and hauled her off: apnews.com/article/nun-...

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@dennycarter.bsky.social I’m requesting a reprise of your weekend post in the “Dad voice” saying “we needed the rain”, to the next most popular saying “it’s not the heat, but the humidity”. lol

Trump claimed a saboteur armed with a box cutter caused a 350-foot gash in the newly renovated Reflecting Pool. But the manufacturer behind the project says the issue was simply "finish coat separation" and makes no mention of vandalism, sabotage, or criminal activity.

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious. Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal.

A remarkable set of decisions. The Supreme Court has become the most potent political institution in support of Trump's extremist agenda. The six conservative Justices are far more efficacious than the GOP Congress in making Trump's political wishes a reality.

Two ICE agents tracked down a woman *inside a polling place* yesterday. Why? They demanded that she take down an Instagram post in which she named Jonathan Ross as the man who shot & killed Renee Good (after the Star Tribune identified Ross). www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Q: Why did you give a plea deal to a child sex predator? Do you have anything to say about that? Paxton: (No response.) Q: Should he be registered as a sex offender in Texas? Paxton: (No response.) Q: What do you have to say to the victim of Adam Hoffman? Paxton: (No response.)

Here's the list of things Trump wants taxpayers to pay for because he started an illegal war and lost badly. punchbowl.news/2026-06-24-l...

Postmaster General David Steiner's admission conflicted with a rule the USPS adopted under his watch last year. The rule said the agency “does not administer elections, establish the rules or deadlines that govern elections, or determine whether or how election jurisdictions utilize the mail.”

PETERS: If a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list to the federal govt, will Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposed rule? STEINER: No PETERS: So it basically coerces states to hand over their absentee voter rolls or face consequences of not being able to vote by mail

The reason Obama used water from the river for the reflecting pool and not city water is because city water is treated with orthophosphates, which is food for algae, causing massive blooms that produce cyanotoxins that kill wildlife.

THIS 👇 HERE IS TRUE......👍🏼

🚨BREAKING: Postmaster General David Steiner told senators that, under a new proposed rule, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will not deliver mail ballots unless states hand over their voter lists to the Trump administration www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Sen. Peters: "Yes or no, if a state refuses to turn their absentee voter list over to the federal government, will the Postal Service still mail their ballots under this proposed rule?" Postmaster General David Steiner: "Under our proposed regulation, no."

As a result, a law that guarantees voters can receive assistance because of a disability or inability to read/write — will remain unenforceable by voters and private groups in 7 states.

Trump and Rubio announce they will entirely cut HIV/AIDS assistance to the country with the highest number of people living with HIV in the world: www.politico.com/news/2026/06...

NEW: 132 election deniers across 35 states are on the ballot this year. Many are running for pivotal roles that wield enormous power to disenfranchise voters. Matt Cohen identified 19 who could play a major role in how elections are run and how Trump's power is checked 👇 https://bit.ly/4ekxK7Q

Thanks in no small part to the Trump 2025 tax cut for our richest, U.S. billionaire wealth up 32% over last year. Our richest 16 saw their fortunes rise 59% and now hold 43% of all U.S. billionaire wealth. @4taxfairness.bsky.social americansfortaxfairness.org/billionaire-...

Meta is trying to get Congress to get it out of its minor harm lawsuit problem. www.reuters.com/world/meta-l...

RFK Jr. says that HPV vaccine is “dangerous and defective”. A new study from England shows that HPV vaccines have reduced deaths from cervical cancer to ZERO for women aged 20-24. Significant reductions in older age groups were observed as well, though the latter have lower vaccination coverage.

Ken Paxton let a pedophile back on our streets. Adam Hoffman—an admitted child molester—should have gotten life in prison, but Paxton gave him an Epstein-style sweetheart deal. Today I’m calling on Paxton to release the Hoffman Files. The Epstein Class has no place in Texas.

Thousands of children in Maine no longer receiving food assistance benefits

The Department of Justice has intervened in a legal case involving the world’s first trillionaire, Elon Musk, asking a Mississippi federal court to toss a lawsuit from the NAACP against Musk’s company xAI.

A USDA spokesperson did not address ProPublica’s questions about the number of children who have lost access to SNAP. “There is no shortage of resources for the most vulnerable among us, including children,” the spokesperson said. 👀 @nicolesantacruz.bsky.social

This seems like it should be a much bigger story.

Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, is dead after a Mississippi police officer shot into a car and killed him. Family members say his mother was holding him in the passenger seat. The officers were responding to a shoplifting call over a box of diapers at the Senatobia Walmart.

the feds are coming in hard in Minneapolis today it looks like, targeting legal observers. I heard this from a friend there: "An alert was just posted to lock your doors and don’t open them for ICE/officials without a signed warrant. Twin Cities Legal observers’ homes are being raided... [cont'd]

electronics confiscated, and they are getting arrested. 15 people arrested this morning, many in South Minneapolis. 612-644-2654 (legal observers guild, arrest hotline) 612-200-0844 (first defense hotline, if arrested in Hennepin County, for a volunteer lawyer visit)."

Quintessential Trump: In 2025, Trump axed the program to combat New World Screwworm, stating that they had "saved" $1.5 million a year. In 2026, the Trump announces a $1 billion emergency program to combat the Screwworm outbreak. $1 billion would have funded the old program for 667 years.

MS NOW EXCLUSIVE: Kash Patel may have a 'personal slush fund' of taxpayer dollars to pay loyalist agents, according to Rep. Jamie Raskin. Raskin is demanding documents from Patel — citing claims that $8,000 payments are made to agents who carry out "unlawful partisan and personal orders."

From the @texastribune.org: “I would strongly advise you to leave our caucus,” [former state GOP chair Abraham] George said. “There is a Democrat convention happening in a couple weeks. Join them.”

NYT (gift link) More from 'Regime Change' today: Stephen Miller: "'What if Trump simply claimed the power to suspend habeas corpus?' .. Mr. Vance got to the point. They needed to invoke the Insurrection Act, swiftly, to crush the unrest in Minnesota” READ. THIS. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...

“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment

1. Progressive Champions PAC, a super PAC created last month, says on its website that its mission is to “elect bold, progressive candidates up and down the ballot.” A Popular Information investigaiton reveals that it's a GOP front group. Following along for receipts. 🧵

Trump’s top aides are attracted to lies the way pandas are attracted to bamboo. Gift link, to a piece you really should read wapo.st/4e5DMJh

The DOJ is asking a federal court to let it defend an Ohio law that voting rights advocates say will disenfranchise thousands of eligible citizens from voting. When Kansas passed a similar law, 12% of voters in the state were blocked from registering for the first time. https://bit.ly/3S5WEzg

Elon Musk spent $290 million getting Trump elected. During this midterm cycle, he's spent $85 million. In total, that’s 0.0375% of his $1 trillion net worth. Oligarchs can rig the system at the expense of everyone else, and only spend pennies doing so. We must get Big Money out of politics.

The nation’s largest for-profit Medicare Advantage insurers denied pre-approval requests for post-hospital care 51% to 80% of the time, the study says. The industry says the findings paint a flawed picture.

NEW EPISODE: Donald Trump is waging a three front war on voting: restricting voter registration through proof-of-citizenship laws, controlling who gets to use mail-in voting via the U.S. Postal Service and laying the groundwork for another "stop the count" campaign. youtu.be/b28A7nduT8c?...

NEW: After ProPublica contacted leading vaccine skeptic Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The data is clear: vitamin K saves lives,” he wrote.

The Trump administration wants USPS to reject mail ballots from states that don't hand over voter data to the federal government: https://bit.ly/434bg4w Want to speak out? Public comments are open now. Email [email protected], subject "Ballot Mail," by July 2.

NEW: My latest analysis of Jay Clayton's nomination was originally published for Democracy Docket members only. DD decided to share it more widely because it felt it was too important and timely to keep behind the paywall. I hope you read and share. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/how-...

NEW STORY: Trump’s ‘Anti-Weaponization’ Payouts May Not Be Dead After All www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

BREAKING: Rep. Garcia has formally requested the Oversight Cmte. call in the following Trump officials in the wake of that new NYT report on Epstein: J.D. Vance Susie Wiles Tyler Budowich James Blair Karoline Leavitt Steven Cheung Kash Patel Dan Bongino Stanley Woodward, Jr.

for a hot minute, trump's iran war was supposedly about his concern for the safety of the iranian people, and particularly iran's dissidents and activists. now he's deporting (to central african republic, for some reason??) iranian women who fled here: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...