Happy Friday, America! 🇺🇸

Rest peacefully Gene Shakira. Thanks for all the laughs! 💗💗💗 (What a day of Hollywood loss.)

It’s like poetic justice how there’s a double rainbow outside the John Kennedy Center as Trump’s name is being removed.

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Construction workers are setting up right now scaffolding to REMOVE TRUMP'S NAME from the Kennedy Center. A federal judge rejected Trump’s last-minute attempt to stop the removal today. The deadline remains; Trump's name must come off tonight at midnight. Judge Christopher Cooper denied DOJ’s emergency request to keep Trump’s name on the facade pending an appeal filed by Trump’s handpicked Kennedy Center yesterday at the 11th hour. Cooper ruled: “Congress gave the Kennedy Center its name, and only Congress can change it."

Robert Altman’s Nashville premiered on June 11, 1975.

DAVID HOCKNEY (1937-2026) He was 88.

Robert Altman’s brilliant musical satire opened 51yrs ago today. NASHVILLE (1975)

Buttigieg: Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that there have to be nine Supreme Court justices. That one doesn't even take a constitutional amendment. It just takes a readiness to set up a court that fits this country.  We could have 13 seats matching the district structure of the federal judiciary, but also a process that makes it less partisan. We cannot have partisan warfare every time there's an opening on the court

Robert Altman explains the reason why 'Nashville' (1975) wasn't a big commercial success: "Interviewer: 'Nashville' never became the commercial blockbuster that you and many pro-Altman critics anticipated. Why? Altman: I can only think it's because we didn't have King Kong or a shark. I don't mean to take anything away from 'Jaws' (1975), but Nashville was not a one-focus thing like that. Also, maybe there was too much critical response; the word masterpiece frightens people away. It's still been more profitable for me personally than any film I've ever made; it's grossed about $8,000,000 and may go to $10,000,000. I think Buffalo Bill is going to be easier for audiences than Nashville, because it doesn't pose a threat: The indictment is in history, so we can always put that blame somewhere else. Nashville's indictment made too many people nervous. The whole community of 'Nashville' disowned it; the country music people said it was no good, it was a lie; and that kept a lot of those fans away. Interviewer: Wasn't the specific charge they leveled against you that the music was phony, wouldn't pass muster at the Grand Ole Opry? Altman: This crap about a Nashville sound is mainly a matter of opinion. I wasn't making records, goddamn it, I was making a movie. Take any song in there, I can point out a current hit or failure that's better and worse-musically, lyrically and every other way. The main reason for that criticism was that they saw the names of actors, not professional songwriters, on the songs; and Richard Baskin, who did all the arrangements, was not a country-and-western guy. It's my contention that anybody can write a song. The Nashville people have to claim they're more professional; otherwise, how are they going to justify the $1,000,000 a year they make?" (Robert Altman's interview to Playboy, 1976) P.S: On this day, 51 years ago, "Nashville" premiered in New York City, USA.

Trump Tower rises from the center of downtown Chicago on a major north/south street called Wabash Avenue. A petition is circulating to have the city formally rename a four-block strip of Wabash after a certain famous Chicago resident. If enacted, it would make Trump Tower’s official address 401 N. Barack Hussein Obama Avenue. I’d love that for him.🖕😁🖕

Gordon S. Wood, RIP I mourn the death of an extraordinary historian who taught us all so much about our country, its origins, its contradictions — and about the writing of history. nytimes.com/2026/06/08/books… via @NYTimes

The Hamilton School mourns the passing of Gordon S. Wood (1933–2026), one of the foremost historians of the American founding. A Pulitzer Prize-winning scholar whose work shaped generations of students and historians, his legacy will endure through his scholarship, teaching, and example.

If Donald Jessica gets a sequel, so do I. Happy 250th, America. 🇺🇸🙄🧠 #VeryStableGenius #PartTwo #parody

"I'm only doing this for one term. I am not a politician. I did not ever want to be a politician. I'm doing this because we need to do something now. We can't survive 32 more months of what we've seen for the past 16, full stop."

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, the lawyer who defended Ken Paxton during his impeachment trials just announced he is endorsing James Talarico. This is huge.

Ken Paxton's impeachment defense lawyer just endorsed James Talarico. Dan Cogdell says his former client "has lost sight of his core mission, which is to represent the people of Texas." "And unlike Ken, I believe to my core that James Talarico believes in unity over division and that he knows how to assemble not only Democrats, but Independents and Republicans, and we need that right now." notus.org/2026-election/ken-…

We are devastated by the sudden loss of Gordon Wood. Known to many as one of the foremost scholars on the American Revolution, Gordon was also a teacher of generations of students and other historians who, like him, help us better understand who we are as a country and a people. He will be greatly missed. Our thoughts are with his family, his many friends and all who he touched throughout his remarkable life.

For damn sure....

Jodie Foster, Robert De Niro, and Martin Scorsese reunited in New York for the 5️⃣0️⃣th anniversary of the release of Taxi Driver. ❤️

Hunter Biden is viewed far more favorably by Americans than Stephen Miller. Let that sink in.