🚨BREAKING: DONALD TRUMP HAS FALLEN ASLEEP AT HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY UFC FREEDOM 250 EVENT.

Barack and I were so honored to have @AkunyiliCrosby create our portrait for the Obama Presidential Center. Her artistic brilliance shines through — and the way she infused such life and joy into the piece is truly extraordinary. We love it, and we think everyone who visits the Center will too!

‘‘ strong men - men who are truly role models - don't need to put down women to make themselves feel powerful.’’ - Michelle Obama

Zelenskyy has shown the aftermath of the enemy attack on the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra. According to the President, it has been confirmed that two russian drones deliberately targeted the part of Kyiv where the Lavra and the Mystetskyi Arsenal are located. Across Ukraine, 11 people are confirmed dead and 53 injured as a result of the overnight massive russian strike. "I have instructed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine and our entire diplomatic team to maximize all contacts with partners today so that the international events of this week and next week yield real results for strengthening our defense and increasing global pressure on russia for this war. A just response to this russian strike is necessary," Zelenskyy concluded.

When Notre-Dame burned in 2019, the world stopped. Today, Russia damages Kyiv Pechersk Lavra, a monastery nearly 1,000 years old and older than Notre-Dame itself. A thousand years of history deserves the same attention, the same sympathy, and the same protection.

Greetings from the East Coast! Thunderstorm last night; picture-perfect weather today. Today I'm in Lewes, DE. On Friday, I'll be in Doylestown. Lots of stops in between. To find out about any of these events, please visit: bit.ly/4attFvo

The Skimm's Summer Book Lineup includes Daughters of the Sun and Moon by Lisa See! bit.ly/4uvvjnC

Bob Dylan in the NYT today, in a piece where artists in their 80s were asked to describe the best and worst parts of being that age, and whether they had advice for the president on his reaching the milestone. (Dylan apparently passed on the final question, not surprisingly.)

MAJOR BREAKING: In a now deleted post by former MMA fighter Daniel Cormier, he posted screenshots of Eric Trump trying to get an insider scoop on whether any of the MMA fights at the White House are rigged so that he could try and illegally make money off of them.. Below is the Direct Messages that Trump allegedly sent Cormier. There is no reason to doubt the legitimacy of these messages.

Russians have struck the Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and are burning down one of Ukraine's oldest Orthodox churches‼️ The roof of the Dormition Cathedral is ablaze. The cathedral itself is a significant part of our history, it is older than Moscow. It was already there when russian neanderthals were building shacks made of sticks and shit. Fucking barbarians!

Yoshinobu Yamamoto of the @Dodgers is the only pitcher in MLB history to retire the last 22 batters of one outing and then the first 22 of his next outing.

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There has never been a more perfect metaphor. He didn’t drain the swamp, he literally installed one.

BREAKING: Judicial Watch forced the release of 48 heavily redacted pages from the FBI through a lawsuit that indicate that a Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) officer at the July 2024 presidential rally for Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, recovered a “gray remote device” with an antenna from would-be assassin Thomas Crooks’ pocket after he was killed (1/3). jwatch.us/uUCBUJ

Wow! Can you mail that to me? What newspaper is that?

Everything Trump touches turns to shit: Because conman Trump awarded a $14.2 million taxpayer-funded no bid contract to an incompetent friend to makeover the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, the water is now a putrid smelly swamp of stinking algae.

I live now. It’s always now.. #DavidHockney #RIP #heartbroken 💔

In Kyiv, a new opera is tackling one of the most traumatising aspects of Russia’s invasion: the abduction of Ukrainian children. In the new work called “Mothers of Kherson”, music tries to give voice to that unspeakable pain, here’s my report:

Wait, is this for real? Trump spent $60 million of our taxpayer funds to host a UFC fight and then is selling UFC coin to line his family’s pockets. The Trump corruption swamp is a mile deep. cnn.com/2026/06/09/politics/…

David Hockney