The White House must continue to abide by statutory requirements to preserve presidential records, despite a recent Justice Department opinion holding that the law is unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled.

Federal employees would sign nondisclosure agreements to discourage them from leaking government information to the press and the public, under a proposal from the Office of Personnel Management.

Donald Trump handed himself a $1.8 billion slush fund for people who attacked the Capitol on January 6, 2021. His key ally for this slush fund? Frank Bisignano, the billionaire that Trump appointed as Commissioner of Social Security, and then made up a job for at the IRS.

The State of GLP-1 Patient Experience: Cost, Access, and Satisfaction @goodrx.bsky.social www.goodrx.com/healthcare-a...

Trump and Hegseth are asking for a record $1.5 trillion defense budget. Roughly half of defense spending goes to private contractors that routinely price-gouge the government. Meanwhile, the Pentagon has failed EIGHT straight audits. The military industrial complex is cheering right now.

These studies are at www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... and also at www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

Scientists track cellular disruptions that lead to type 1 diabetes. Biosensors and genetics help identify what goes wrong in insulin-producing pancreatic cells. www.statnews.com/2026/05/20/t...

This will make some folks mad :). The best way for these grocery stores to work is if they use AI to get an edge over private grocery stores. AI is the one way for the state government to out perform private enterprises.

Artificial-intelligence agents scraped a bakery’s spreadsheets to help manage its growth. on.wsj.com/3RsQWHy

National pride in America has plummeted in the Trump era. Is it worth trying to salvage? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

CBS and Paramount backed away from copyright challenges to limit distribution of Stephen Colbert's appearance on a Michigan cable access show. He ended his run as host of "The Late Show" on Friday. n.pr/3PAa9q5

On the other hand, there have been many deaths associated with refusing  vaccines.

The midterms will serve as an unprecedented stress test of the integrity of American elections “with more election deniers having access to federal power than ever before,” some experts and Democrats warn.

Dignity Not Detention Coalition Statement On New York State Budget Immigration Package Which Prohibits Contracts With Local Jails for ICE Detention in New York State ccrjustice.org/home/press-c...

Small Towns Are Vanishing From AI’s Imagination Ask an AI image generator to picture Washington D.C. and it will probably give you the Mall, the monuments, the Potomac glinting in afternoon light. Ask it to picture Blacksburg, Virginia, a college town of roughly 45,000 people tucked into the…

Trump self-deals, lies and seems to fall asleep in meetings. The media treats it all as ‘priced in’ | Margaret Sullivan

U.S. researchers who coauthor research papers with scientists affiliated with foreign institutions are drawing fresh scrutiny from NIH, NASA. #scientificpublishing @science.org www.science.org/content/arti...

Vladimir Putin’s narrative that the war in Ukraine need not trouble Russia’s elites or middle class is “now unraveling completely,” Phillips Payson O’Brien argues. “Any pretense that Moscow itself can stay out of the war has vanished.”

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.

"United States of the Middle East?" an image posted by President Donald Trump said.

Tulsi Gabbard resigned from her position as President Donald Trump's director of national intelligence to focus on her husband, who is battling bone cancer. However, her utter incompetence at the job was a national embarrassment.

Dexcom stock dips after hours despite Q1 beats, 15% sales growth via Drug Delivery Business News www.drugdeliverybusiness.com/dexcom-q1-20...

The president's approval among some Republican voters dived from 75% in January to 57% in May.

Republicans failed to rush their spending bill through Congress this week, but we know the GOP isn’t done trying to shovel over $70 billion more of our tax dollars to ICE and Border Patrol. We need to keep building pressure and create even more cracks in the fragile MAGA coalition.

RFK Jr fires leaders of group that sets guidelines for preventive healthcare @us.theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Chris Hayes also chronicled increasing frustration from Senate Republicans with President Donald Trump over his slush fund.

"Unfortunately, I must submit my resignation, effective June 30, 2026," Gabbard told the president.

You can't afford groceries? Too bad! Have you heard about the ballroom?

The GOP senator said he's concerned about the impact of Trump's advisers, like Pete Hegseth, who Tillis said is "incompetent and doing a horrible job."

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) called the fund "the definition of tyranny."

Leave town and avoid voting on these is how they are dealing with the matter

The "Daily Show" host revealed what's "most stunning" to him about the administration creating the $1.8 billion fund.

Reminder… Romney warned McConnell, McConnell ignored him… and he worried Trump would intentionally not send help…

Tulsi Gabbard has resigned as President Donald Trump’s director of national intelligence, saying she needed to step away as her husband battles cancer.

President Trump’s Cuba strategy echoes his Venezuela playbook: An oil blockade, a growing U.S. military presence, federal charges and repeated threats of intervention. But similar pressure campaigns do not equal similar results, experts say, even if Trump warns that “Cuba is next.”

BBC News - Tulsi Gabbard to resign as US national intelligence director www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tulsi #Gabbard - Hardly an individual of integrity . . .

Trump touts a major TrumpRx expansion, adding more than 600 generic drugs @apnews.com apnews.com/article/trum...

Lower cost Novo, Lilly weight-loss pills draw patients from compounded drugs, doctors say @reuters.com www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

"Helping students swim through the sea of information is critical to building fully informed citizens capable of making up their own minds because they are equipped with the skills to identify misinformation. Let's equip students to be savvy consumers of information..." #NewsLiteracy #EduSky

He needled the network that canceled "Late Night" with one of the music choices he made for his final show.

“Almost 50 years of practice confirm that Congress has the enumerated power to regulate presidential records. @newrepublic.com trib.al/RcwG9xj

While most Americans can’t decide to skip out & start their vacations early because they have tough decisions at work, Republicans in the Senate are going home earlier than scheduled. Aka abandoning a key budget vote so they wouldn’t also have to vote on the slush fund. trib.al/TZB6RIr

Prepare for “Seven Days in June” — a campaign led by unions & healthcare groups calling for sustained public health investment. Read more & join the June 5, 2026 vigil at www.sevendaysinjune.org Also sign the “Stop Taking Our Health Care” petition from Social Security Works.

BREAKING: Republican progress on immigration bill stalls out over President Trump’s ballroom and $1.8 billion DOJ settlement.

"He’s determined to take down the GOP establishment he resents, even if it will cost Republicans in November." www.signorile.com/p/with-paxto...

FLASH: GOP SENATORS LEAVING FOR RECESS WITHOUT VOTE ON BUDGET BILL AMID FUROR OVER $1776 MILLION DOJ FUND, BALLROOM

Wow. The Senate is recessing. Vote-a-rama is officially postponed. No votes until June. Republicans in disarray.

Trump's revenge tour against the GOP is the best thing to happen to the Democrats

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