At 33 points, Trump’s approval rating is official lower than his felony count.

Reporter: What do you make of Republicans saying that Virginia—

AOC: Wah wah wah.

We have asked Republicans for 10 years to ban partisan gerrymandering. And for 10 years, Republicans have said no.

What they’re just mad at is that they have been accustomed to a Democratic Party that rolls over.

Trump’s “border czar,” Tom Homan refused to come before the Homeland Security Committee today.

He talks tough but is too weak & too afraid to answer for his failures. I would have asked him about reports that he took a paper bag filled with $50,000 cash in exchange for help with future contracts.

Ominous.

The indictment is arguing that by paying the informants, the SPLC was helping further extremist activity. But as Ryan notes below, the SPLC was sharing its intelligence with law enforcement. Is the Justice Dept suggesting that the FBI was using that intelligence to help these groups? Makes no sense

The prediction market Kalshi suspended three political candidates from its platform on Wednesday for “political insider trading” after an internal probe found that they bet on their own campaigns. https://cnn.it/4to9jLB

I was trained as a political scientist specializing in institutions. But the abuse of history in what passes as originalism is pissing me off. And now I'm armed w/ 16 years of research in the very relevant topics of migration and citizenship. I'm joining other historians in calling out the BS.

Kind of sloppy by the SPLC, not doing the legwork to make solid shell companies to obscure the transfers. Even though it doesn't seem like true wire fraud to me, I'm sure those technicalities might burn them. I wonder if these were registered with FinCen for beneficial ownership reporting?

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

This is important and shocking news from NYT.

And it doesn’t mention the DRC third-country deportation program has already begun. ICE sent 15 immigrants from Latin American countries there five days ago.

gillianbrockell.com/breaking-ice...

Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.

Federal Judge Vacates Kennedy Declaration, Permanently Blocks Trump's Trans Youth Care Hospital Threats • The judgment overturns the Kennedy Declaration which has been used to force 40 hospitals to drop trans youth care.

Trump just issued a last-minute warning to Virginians that if they vote YES on the redistricting referendum tomorrow, he will lose power:

“If the Democrats get additional seats, they’re going to be making changes at the federal level.”

Seems to me like Trump is desperately begging Iran to sign a replica of the Obama JCPOA he tore up. All for the low low price of thousands dead, global instability, high energy prices, and a toll on ships through the once-free strait of Hormuz.

NEW: Rep.-elect Analilia Mejia (D-NJ) will be sworn in as U.S. House member within the hour.

Further narrowing GOP majority

The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.

1. As Jared Kushner heads to Pakistan to represent the United States in critical talks with Iran, the media is ignoring a historic corruption scandal.

Kushner is serving in this role while on the payroll of the Saudi government.

Let's look at the data.

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“The Woman Who Knows Too Much”

Amanda Ungaro says Paolo Zampolli abused her, seduced her underage, recruited girls for Epstein, had a hold on Melania (who worked undocumented for years)

He had her deported as they battle for custody. He still works for Trump.

She is willing to testify.

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go? Four huge media conglomerates forked over $63 million in “settlements” earmarked for Trump’s presidential library. Democrats are trying to track that money—and the latest developments don’t inspire co...

SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.

Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...

WATCH: Researchers at Stanford University modeled how many people could die or be disabled in 25 years if vaccines for polio, measles, rubella or diphtheria were no longer available.

Child: I know your name. Mamdani.

Obama: What’s his first name?

Child: Mayor.

Former President Barack Obama met with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani for the first time Saturday, joining preschoolers at a child care center for a book reading and singalong.

Source: Emma G. Fitzsimmons / NYT

A photo of Bill Nye speaking outside of the Capitol

Bill Nye and hundreds of Planetary Society members are heading to DC on Monday to protest the White House's proposal to slash NASA's science budget in half.

These cuts were announced as the Artemis astronauts were on their way to the Moon:

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room.

The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction.

The Health guy collects raccoon dicks.

It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

On California farms, workers say threats to deport them are on the rise Farmworkers described instances in which bosses threatened to call ICE on them, sometimes because they complained about workplace violations.

On California farms, workers say threats to deport them are on the rise.

They described instances in which bosses threatened to call ICE on them, sometimes because they complained about workplace violations.

@melissagomez.bsky.social

www.latimes.com/california/s...

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

PETA wishes Obama hadn’t swatted that fly WASHINGTON —  The group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals wants the flyswatter in chief to try taking a more humane attitude the next time he’s bedeviled by a fly in the White House. PETA is...

PETA got pissed at Obama when he swatted a fly meanwhile RFK Jr has dropped a bear carcass in Central Park, decapitated a whale, cut the penis off a dead raccoon, and eaten a dog - all stuff we only know cause he told us - have they commented on that?

www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2009/06/18/p...

DOJ demanded voter files from all 50 states.

DOJ sued 31 states for refusing their demand.

My law firm intervened to protect voters in those cases.

DOJ is now 0-5.

My firm is 5-0.

Lesson: When we fight we win.

"I ended up writing an article in 2019 in @theatlantic.com explaining that Donald Trump is mentally disordered. He's a narcissistic psychopath and a malignant narcissist, that is inconsistent with the duties of, and the obligations of, and the ability to conduct the presidency of the United States"

Maybe the next president names it after Obama.