Saikat Chakrabarti will endorse Supervisor Connie Chan for Congress, he exclusively told The Standard — but he’s not stopping there. 📝: @FitzTheReporter sfstandard.com/2026/06/13/ch…

Just indescribably stupid, racist, and destructive. Our military will survive Pete Hegseth, but it will be badly damaged.

JD Vance: If you go back to WW2 or every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation.

NEW from me: Darializa Avila Chevalier co-created a taxpayer-funded college course that promoted the abolition of schools as engines of “genocide” and “white supremacy”, and assigned materials in a separate course around “penis panic,” anonymous gay sex in bathrooms, and a podcast unpacking “problematic childhood songs.” freebeacon.com/democrats/the…

Hegseth removed Chappie James's portrait from the Air Force Art Gallery and left the wall empty. James flew 179 combat missions across two wars. First Black four-star general in US military history. Curry passed that portrait every day for a decade. When it came down, he retired. The wall is still empty.

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Yeah. Gotta make sure those minorities aren’t recognized for their contributions to the country.

Sen. Elissa Slotkin has been a tireless champion for working families in the Midwest. I'm grateful for her support of our campaign to bring responsible leadership back to west central Wisconsin. @ElissaSlotkin

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#MEPol: "Powerful Democrats and Republicans in the country were on Epstein Island. It seems the only thing the party establishments can agree on is a love of Jeffrey Epstein and a hatred of me." Graham Platner is up with his first #MESen general election TV ad.

TRUMP on inflation numbers: "I love it ... The numbers are great."

The DSA Left is a machine built to fight moderate Democrats in factional warfare. The DSA Left is not built to fight Republicans. It has no idea of its own points of vulnerability because moderate Ds never fight back very hard.

JUST IN: US inflation jumped to 4.2% (y/y) in May —>the highest in 3 years and up from 2.4% in February before the war in Iran. Higher gas and energy prices drove 60% of the gain. Shelter and food (especially restaurants) also contributed. The monthly increase was 0.5%. Core inflation (excluding food and energy) was 2.9% —>highest since September

World Cup referee - Africa's best - is denied entry to United States and sent back after landing at Miami Airport, despite having a diplomatic passport trib.al/NScoXem

I never met Gordon Wood, but I have a story about him. In one of my grad school seminars, we read Wood’s Creation of the American Republic. The sheer erudition and evidentiary depth of the book bowled me over. Back then, before kids and before life accelerated to warp speed, I used to call my mother every Sunday to catch up. Lots of times, we ended up talking about what I was reading that week in my grad seminars or for leisure. Mom had an omnivorous mind, and she was always looking for something else to read. She was a true intellectual—curious about almost everything, always eager to integrate new arguments or ideas into her existing schemas of how the world worked or to have those schemas challenged and changed. When we talked that particular Sunday, I think I tried to describe to her part of Wood’s argument about the relationship between the state constitutions during the Articles of Confederation era and the federal Constitution. Maybe I was tired, maybe I didn’t completely understand her questions, but the end result of the conversation was that Mom had questions about Wood’s argument that I didn’t answer satisfactorily. I told her that she should probably just read the book, and we said goodbye. She did eventually read the book, but the next Sunday, Mom started our conversation by saying, “Well, I had a lovely conversation with Gordon Wood this week.” For a split second, I thought she was joking, but then I remembered who I was dealing with. I started to sweat. “How?” I asked. A whole variety of unlikely scenarios in which the foremost historian of the American Revolution and my mother, who lived in Wichita, Kansas, might have met ran through my mind. “Oh, I just looked up his office phone number on Brown’s website and called, and he picked up!” Mom said. I decided I would have to find another profession. As it ended up, Gordon Wood spent about an hour on the phone with my mother answering her questions about the Constitution. Ever since, I’ve had a soft spot for the man when I imagine him picking up the phone in Providence and finding Becky Elder from Wichita on the other end of the line. His generosity in that moment spoke very well of him. Rest in peace, professor.

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