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Apparently one can’t depend on Google Maps to accurately identify a lake.

Trump’s out-of-touch billionaire oligarch Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent blames Americans for struggling: “There are some malcontents who do not want to work, they want to pull everyone down with them, they are under-earning…” 🤔 (As he leaves “Democratic” out of the DSA)

"CBS is tying them together, and then they're letting the racism fill in the rest, and it is atrocious." @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social tears into CBS for manufacturing a 9/11 controversy around Abdul El-Sayed out of "literally nothing."

And he lost. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Here's an excerpt -- read the whole thing and tell me what you think!

Tuesday's biggest political shockwave wasn't Michigan South Dakota is the latest state where populist independents have a real shot at ousting a GOP incumbent, joining NE, ID, and possibly MT. With their brand in the toilet, some Dems are dropping out My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/inde...

“He's a good person.” Few things are more worthless than a character reference for an abuser from another abuser.

I remember when Bill Clinton met with the Attorney General for three minutes when Hillary was being investigated for mishandling classified information, and the republicans cried bloody murder. Now, the AG nominee is covering for pedophiles and that seems okay. WHAT THE FUCK?

2015: “[Donald Trump] is a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn’t represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for.”

This is a great piece, Anne. Thanks for re-upping. The powerful become complicit with the tyrant because they want to stay powerful. The hacks who could never gain prominence in any other situation become complicit to achieve glory.

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MS NOW EXCLUSIVE ON DEADLINE WHITE HOUSE: Former special counsel Jack Smith joins @nicollewallace.bsky.social for his FIRST EVER INTERVIEW with a message to Donald Trump as the president seeks his indictment: he will NOT be intimidated. WATCH NOW:

The roadtrip bankrolled by the corporations he's supposed to be regulating wasn't enough?

CARTOON OF THE DAY (From @andertoon.bsky.social)

🚨BREAKING: Russian authorities temporarily suspended arrivals and departures at all four major Moscow airports after a large overnight Ukrainian drone assault. Dozens of flights were canceled and many others delayed, with some passengers temporarily evacuated from terminals.

Anybody have any clue who this is? I’m baffled

You gotta love it!

He should know the score by now. He's a native New Yorker

A federal judge just set an emergency briefing schedule in the lawsuit over UFC fights on the White House lawn. Opposition due Tuesday at 9pm. Reply Wednesday. Ruling could come any time after that. All the details here: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

No surprise Trump got blasted with boos at MSG during NBA Finals Game 3. But I’m at a huge watch party in Huntington — the heart of the Long Island suburbs. Every time his face popped up on the Jumbotron, the entire crowd erupted in boos. Even the burbs are over this clown. 😂

People just want to watch a basketball game without everything turning into his circus. He finds a way to ruin anything good.

A late night preparing for Supreme Court opinions tomorrow morning. Here are the two that I am personally involved in: -Watson (GOP challenge to mail-in voting) -NRSC (GOP challenge to campaign finance) Whatever comes, Democracy Docket will have you covered. Subscribe now. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

"'If this really has the possibility of either totally suppressing or—you know, God willing—even curing this, that would be a huge, huge breakthrough,' Ezekiel Emanuel told me in an interview." Watch that here:

Ossoff: "If we want to stop these spectacularly incompetent, loyalist nominees from getting confirmed in the Senate, we're going to have to stop relying on a few Republican senators to suddenly discover their courage and integrity. We're going to have to win the majority."

Ken Paxton was indicted for scamming his own friends. He convinced them to invest hundreds of thousands in a company while secretly pocketing a commission. Paxton sold out his own friends for a quick buck. What makes you think he won't sell you out in the Senate?

I stand with Cecilia Vega, Sharyn Alfonsi, and Scott Pelley. Bari Weiss is the Mr. Burns of news organizations.

NEWS: Zach Lahn has defeated Trump-endorsed Randy Feenstra in Iowa’s Republican primary for governor, Decision Desk HQ projects, delivering a major upset in the race to succeed outgoing Gov. Kim Reynolds. Lahn will now face Democratic nominee Rob Sand in November.

Fighting for Democracy everyday!

Scott Pelley on being fired: “I have been in combat in Afghanistan. I have been in combat in Iraq. I have been in the war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broadcast.” {gift link} www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

The Bari Weiss butchering of CBS News(max) continues. So dark. www.mediaite.com/media/tv/sco...

HOLY SH*T, this parting statement by Scott Pelley is WILD: "New management has instructed me to INJECT FALSEHOODS AND BIAS into a politically sensitive story. I've been told to include assertions that are unverified." I bet he knows a LOT more, too. 🔥

No experience, but loyal. Not exactly the qualities the country needs right now in the Director of National Intelligence. Here’s the scoop: open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

This Administration is deliberating destroying our scientific and public health infrastructure to serve Trump’s rightwing agenda.

Donald Trump would have us believe that he “needs” a billion dollar ballroom to be safe. And yet the next big event he’ll attend will be outdoors on the White House lawn. Maybe he’s lying about “needing” a ballroom . . .

Judge Cannon has done everything possible to keep Volume II of the Jack Smith report buried. The 11th Circuit just stepped in. I've been tracking this one for months — here's where things stand. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

The outcome of the Ukraine-Russia war might now rest on the race for which side can develop an army of ground robots to dominate the human battlefield. Currently, Ukraine is in the lead, using unmanned ground vehicles and aerial drones to help it take back 230 square miles of territory this year.

Every single one of them pushed for the release of the Epstein files

Working class Americans are done with the gaslighting from electeds in DC and they’re are stepping up to do something about it. Pennsylvania Congressional candidate, Bob Brooks, is a retired firefighter who says DC is a “dumpster fire” and he’s ready to put it out. youtu.be/RH7Ys28iETQ?...

ICYMI — Justice Alito’s son has been working in the Trump administration 🤔🤷🏼 So much corruption

"America was the first military to widely integrate drones and we did it thirty years ago with the Predator and then the Reaper." At some point - well, you know which point - we started falling behind:

ANOTHER ONE: Bret Michaels has joined the growing list of artists backing out of Trump’s Freedom 250 concert, saying the event he was told would be a non-political celebration honoring veterans and first responders had become “much more divisive” than what he agreed to support

Trump seems to be having an amazing run of luck in the stock market over the past several months.

-$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.

Odd to think that the current white supremacist Supreme Court was once ahead of its when it came to equality for Black people in the early 1950s.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon: "The Education Department will have to be voted on by Congress to close, but we are on the right path to do that"

For Republicans, Jesus was an exercise in reverse psychology.

“Trump’s claim that he would “drain the swamp” is a cosmic joke. His administration is an ongoing shakedown of the American people.” www.thebulwark.com/p/how-corrup...