Monday morning, IAF jets sat on runways ready for a third wave against Iran. A White House call stopped it. "The operation was expected to be more significant, then White House called and strikes were halted." Diplomatic sources said.-Al-Monitor

"A match official who was set to be the first Somalian to referee at the World Cup finals has been dropped after he was denied entry to the US.." Why isn't FIFA demanding this decision be reversed? That's a rhetorical question. We all know why.

So… Iran, a country whose military we’ve “destroyed”, was able to shoot down one of our Apache helicopters, during a “ceasefire”, in the middle of a war that isn’t a war, which is “two days” away from ending?

I think y'all are wasting your time trying to explain the vote counting process to Spencer Pratt fanboys. They don't care how the votes are counted. They don't really think the election was stolen. They're whiny ass sore losers who didn't get their way. You should tell them that.

Iranian Speaker of Parliament:

Trump and his Republican enablers in Congress have made healthcare unaffordable AGAIN. Families are being forced to choose between medicine and rent, while billionaires get richer. This is their “agenda”? We’re all sick of it. #TrumpMakesUsSick

STOP ASKING IF IT IS LEGAL! The US President has no assigned authority to interfere with elections in the USA and never has had such authority! His attempts to interfere with elections is CRIMINAL! If SCOTUS was still loyal to the constitution, they would immediately say the same! #usdemocracy

Reports of an imminent peace deal appear to have been fake news.

Federal Judge Leo Sorokin just ruled that Trump has "no power" to invent arbitrary $100,000 taxes with the stroke of a pen. He completely voided the regime's illegal H-1B visa fee. Read the blockbuster decision: 👇 www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/a-federal-...

Possibly the pettiest loser government in the world. The US has withdrawn Iran’s allocation of World Cup tickets for supporters days before the tournament starts, Iran’s football federation said.

The role of the Attorney General of the United States isn't being a hatchet man for the president. anntelnaes.substack.com/p/trump-nomi...

Just a 2-cent wealth tax on the ultra-wealthy could: Lift millions of kids out of poverty Fund universal child care Make community college free And we would still have money left over.

"At one point, it was as if I could hear the booing all the way from over here in Ohio." This is more than just a good burn. Americans across the country will watch video of Trump getting booed and it will resonate as emblematic of a disastrously failed presidency.

Circling back to this. It’s why I don’t waste energy fussing about how fast California counts ballots. The line is basically “wizards use satan magic to steal elections.” You can’t outrun bad faith. If ballots were counted on election night, they’d make up a new lie and all pretend to believe it.

what this means is they are going to fully obliterate black representation in the state

Hoping that someone on HJC points out that one of the SD mosque killers were on the FBI radar, but Kash failed to stop it, and that ADL had warned about the Evergreen shooter, and FBI's response was to stop accepting tips from them. @raskin.house.gov

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California Dems can and probably should streamline their election process. But they can’t do it under a cloud of GOP election lies, as though they’ve been bullied into it. Here’s a way they can fix the problem while simultaneously putting GOP election liars in their place.

Hank Johnson says the SPLC hearing reminds him of HUAC, notes how mainstreamed white supremacy was in that period. He's now reminding MLK's niece of the period.

The problem with wanting "nuance" in abortion laws, is every dude who says it means "abortions when it's my girlfriend is pregnant, but forced childbirth when it's that annoying feminist I want to take down a peg." www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/o...

wonderful piece from @clintsmithiii.bsky.social that, among other things, makes abundantly clear that pete hegseth and the trump administration are engaged in a racist purge of black officers under the belief that being black and having "merit" are mutually exclusive.

One thing that hasn't gotten enough attention. 1) Todd Blanche excused Trump's tax crimes UP TO any filing submitted before the slush fund. 2) That would include the KNOWN $100M problem with his Chicago property. 3) But it would ALSO include any financial crimes committed in 2024 and 2025.

Nothing screams manly like a fat, pasty, patchy beard coward who let Trump call his wife an "ugly dog" without pushback

The rewilding of DC's flora and fauna continues Pair of Pileated Woodpeckers hanging around our DC back yard right now, 3 1/2 miles from White House. Today, per Merlin, have also had hawks, owls, and assorted swifts, wrens, sparrows, warblers, other woodpeckers, etc. Plus foxes, snakes, frogs etc

It's kind of funny that the ICE agents are parking illegally outside courthouses (often in resident-only spots) and putting generic self-made and self-printed "Police Business" signs on their dashes.

Trump's Team Is Not Qualified to Use FISA emptywheel.net/2026/06/09/t...

This is the effect of abortion bans on women & mothers. Post partem hemorrhage is a cause of death in women. D&C is needed to remove the remaining placenta after birth. This woman bled until she was unconscious because they didn’t perform a D&C on her. Why? B/c it is used in abortions. #pinks

What did Trump's "Meet the Press" interview reveal? Was he just stressed, or is he laying the groundwork for contesting the midterms, or is he showing increasing signs of dementia? Let's discuss. 👇 https://robertreich.substack.com/p/office-hours-what-does-trumps-meet

AI data centers are the ultimate thirst trap.

Republicans have been getting electorally hammered in primary turnout. It looks like Democrats have gotten the memo that they need to vote blue every election. Because we cannot afford to have a divided government that flip flops every four years and can't get anything important done anymore.

But Donald doesn’t care about the people who have to commute.

This scheme intersects with Trump's invasion of Venezuela.

Definitely Joe Biden’s fault that the Knicks lost.

Wait, does Ted Cruz continue to talk about the Maine senate race because he thinks there is a person in Maine who listens to Ted Cruz? I have yet to meet that person.

"In scale and audacity, what Kushner has attempted—and achieved—is on another level...He asked foreign regimes to trust him with billions...Trump placed Kushner—who had zero diplomatic/foreign affairs expertise until [Trump] rose to power—at the center of every international crisis..." Informative:

The real reason Trump stormed off NBC is that he's in a fury that MAGA can't magically make Spencer Pratt win with X and Tik Tok. "It turns out virality is not the same as votes," says @gilduran.com. On the pod, we dig into the bursting of MAGA's online bubble: newrepublic.com/article/2115...

Morning friends

That's a stretch. Im sure thats what he thinks happened, but like every fugazi thing he does, it's limited by his absolute aura of inevitable failure. The six bankruptcy wannabe dictator

JD Vance blames a UK killing on a “mass invasion of migrants.” Only one problem: the suspect, who is Sikh, was born and raised in the UK. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/08/w...

I’m shocked this is the end result of all the hype.

Trump knew he was going to be booed at the Knicks game. It's why he went! It's why he smirked as they booed. (And then slept through the game.) Here's my short analysis of why he wanted to be booed. You can also see my cat, Joey. youtube.com/shorts/8ZZK6...

Hey Oz, being a racist sucks no matter where you are.

Of course that's what it is. This is an administration that has spent the past 18 months regularly denigrating Somalis. These are the actions of petty, hateful, racists. It's absolutely ridiculous that the U.S. is even allowed to host a global event like this.

Now do staying up all night and posting on social media.

love that we’re back in a place where casual, insane racism is just normal politics

I’m not an expert on jinxes, hexes, curses, and voodoo. Not superstitious either. But if I was the Knicks, I probably wouldn’t let Trump near the arena for Game 4. Just to be on the safe side.

June 8, 2026