PELLEY: “.. And about four hours after our deadline, Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon. Two of the things in the email include, can we make the protesters look more violent?” @nytimes.com #$PSKY www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

Warner: Pulte a ‘national security risk’

Experts say it’s highly unusual for the White House to tell agents to give up custody of potential evidence in an investigation, as it did with the Tates. “I’ve never heard of anything like that in my 30 years working,” an ex-DHS official said. (Published Nov. 2025)

Forced to arrive two hours early for game 3 of NBA finals should give spectators plenty of time to hydrate and warm up their vocal chords. Perhaps even coordinate a few chants against our disgusting president*.

What post operation surgery looks like under RFK Jr's newest HHS guidelines.

Even Fox News Admits It: Trump’s Presidency Is in Free Fall A threshold has definitely been crossed in these last couple weeks as Trump shrinks his MAGA base down to its molten core. | TNR newrepublic.com/article/2108...

Can confirm. Actually met some of them.

And the grift continues….

Trump’s endgame in Iran has become clear—as has his desire to slip away without Americans noticing the magnitude of this defeat, Robert Kagan argued earlier this week.

“.. potential beneficiaries .. preparing to get in early, before the money runs out or Congress or the courts intervene.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump absolutely cratering in new Fox poll: 29-71 on economy 24-76 on inflation He's underwater among whites *and* rural voters (!) Among independents he's at 24 percent (!!) On the pod, @jamescdownie.bsky.social is good on the collapse of the Trump coalition: newrepublic.com/article/2108...

> @reuters.com www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Excellent discussion with @amandamarcotte.bsky.social & @gregsargent.bsky.social on president’s slush fund & how he’s stealing money from taxpayers. He would be immediately removed from office in a sane country governed by the rule of law. Dems need to zero in on Trump’s corruption in campaign msgs.

🔥 SPRINGSTEEN: "I’m here to support Stephen Colbert, the first guy who lost his show because a president can't take a joke - and the Ellisons feel they need to kiss his ass… small-minded people with no idea what freedoms of this beautiful country are supposed to be about." 🇺🇸

Mike Lindell said he is going to file a claim for compensation from Trump’s $1.8 billion theft of taxpayer money, and said he and his company lost $400 million from persecution.

This 👇🧵 All of it, and the substack.

Ghislaine Maxwell is eligible to file a claim with Trump’s $1.8 billion theft of taxpayer dollars. 5 appointees of Trump’s former criminal defense attorney Todd Blanche would then decide if she should get some of your money. This is the Republican Party.

LOL, this stands about as much of a chance of surviving the next Administration as a dust bunny in a house fire. The ONLY way Trump and his family will avoid prosecution is via Trumps preemptive pardons which will 100% happen. Then it's up to the states to burn their asses down!

This thing is just going to stink worse and worse every day. Put ‘em on record.

Trump’s plan to gift himself, his family, and his friends $1.8 billion is the single most corrupt act in our nation’s history—regardless of whether it is blocked by Congress or the courts. The attempt is a high crime and misdemeanor for which impeachment was created open.substack.com/pub/roberthu...

DJT’s $1.7+ billion slush fund to pay January 6 insurrectionists & others whose unlawful (or potentially unlawful) activities on his behalf drew attention from law enforcement might be the most corrupt act U.S. government history. It is also one of the most dangerous for the rule of law. (1/4)

Blah, blah, blah. This is the 586th time Republicans on the Armed Services Committees have been concerned / bothered / not happy about the latest thing Trump/Hegseth did. They won’t take a stand or do a damn thing because they are all terrified of Trump.

The settlement, @donmoyn.bsky.social told me, provides “financial reward for those who attacked American democracy. The consequence of not punishing Trump for January 6th is that now he rewards his supporters.”

-$70 billion for ICE and Border Patrol. -$1 billion for a ballroom. -$1.8 billion to cut checks to convicted January 6 insurrectionists. -Billions more for an illegal war. These are Trump’s demands as the American people struggle to afford groceries and rent.

Trump just put him in charge of the FDA. He has no medical background at all. But he does turkey hunt with Don Junior so ok. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

With Trump advertising his willingness to make “deals” with China that pose the gravest of risks to the United States, the question once again arises...whether he is a fool, traitor, or some combination thereof....[e]ither way, Trump is a menace to the country he was elected to lead.

The felon's plan to pay off J6 thugs is not just corruption, it is buying their action to go to the mat for him during & after the Nov election. If Dems win, thugs lose their payday. This isn't to reward them for the past, it's to pay them in advance for future violence.

Any President that sues his own government, while in office, should immediately be impeached.

In 2009, Obama urged the Chinese in China to respect human rights and promoted democracy. For Trump’s visit, those were part of the four red lines he was warned not to cross. And he didn’t. We used to sell democracy and planes Now we just try and sell planes.

AOC on Trump’s reported plan to use $1.7 billion in IRS funds to compensate January 6 insurrectionists and pardoned fraudsters: “He’s using the entire government as a slush fund… one of the most unpatriotic and un-American acts I’ve seen in my entire life.”

1) This may be long, but it is necessary. I was an Air Traffic Controller for 29 years. After retiring, I spent the next 5 years teaching newly hired Controllers at the Air Traffic Control Academy in Oklahoma City.

Trump's DOJ is now suing the DC Bar for disciplining top lawyers who tried to help Trump overturn the 2020 election. Anyone else remember when the DOJ and Attorney General were supposed to serve the American people, not serve as the president's personal attorney?

Everyone said Trump was manipulating the stock market for personal gain. Turns out you were right. New financial disclosure forms released today by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics show Trump made at least $220 million (and potentially up to $750 million)

Republicans make us pay more for gas, groceries, and a multitude of other things, make us pay for their wars and bombing campaigns, want us to pay for Trump’s ballroom, and now want us to pay $1.7 billion to “compensate” convicted J6 criminals he pardoned. Vote them all out.

An FCC commissioner is sounding the alarm from inside her own agency. In a public letter posted on X, FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez is calling out what she describes as a coordinated government campaign against Disney and ABC not a series of regulatory coincidences, but a

deliberate effort to use federal licensing power to pressure a free press into compliance. Gomez writes that the FCC ordered Disney’s eight ABC-owned stations to seek early license renewal (a mechanism that hasn’t been used in more than 50 years) and frames it as censorship dressed up as regulation.

Out like a light

The biggest lesson from the Covid pandemic was don't let anti-science liars run the country. But a plurality of American voters didn't learn it, or didn't want to.

Trumps Cabinet receiving their Sunday morning talkshow talking points...

A reminder whenever Trump posts these cartoons pretending to be on the front lines of any conflict: He sought and received five deferments and didn’t serve in the Vietnam War. He’s happy to wage wars, but happier still to have other people fight them.

John Roberts will retire someday as one of the worst, most destructive Chief Justices in the nation’s history

Trump has run through the authoritarian checklist at breakneck speed, with one exception: controlling elections. His efforts to tilt the midterms was not going well until the Supreme Court weighed in to help him.

Meanwhile, Tennessee just passed a new congressional map this week specifically designed to eliminate its only Democratic House seat, and other red states across the South are openly eyeing similar moves ahead of the midterms.

Over a year ago Trump told Zelensky he didn’t have any cards & couldn’t last much longer against Putin. This year Trump told us he has all the cards against Iran so they were going to unconditionally surrender in 4-6 weeks. But Zelensky is still fighting. And Trump is folding.

seems like something people would be upset about

SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...

It looks like we are at this point. What a disaster this guy is with his arrogant incompetence. Cost the American people a fortune, bombed civilians, got US soldiers killed, and accomplished absolutely nothing while making things objectively worse long term.

Welcome to the Clicktatorship, where Cabinet officials use online conspiracy theories to make policy