The oligarchy attends a cage fight motherjones.com/politics/202…

NEW: The number of people who received pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) medication to prevent those at risk from contracting HIV fell by 38 % betw 2024 and 2025, per initial data from 62 countries. That’s > 1 million fewer people who took the drug. washingtonpost.com/world/202…

The $TRUMP meme coin generated about $616 million for the Trump family, while buyers lost more than $700 million, according to Reuters' estimates. The coin has tumbled 97% from its January 2025 peak reut.rs/4oisC7e @specialreports

The Senate missed a deadline to change the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument management plan, and Senator Mike Lee was unsuccessful bringing a resolution to the table. Read more: tinyurl.com/yjbxs3fb

President Trump's cage match on the White House lawn faces a formidable opponent: the D.C. swamp—buggy, muggy and potentially stormy, with Mother Nature emerging as the night's biggest wild card. More details on Sunday’s forecast, and the wild audience 🦇 axios.com/local/washington-d…

This isn’t making enough news. Cities and states are suing oil companies, alleging they knew about climate dangers and hid them. Those cases go before federal judges. Meanwhile, a center at George Mason University’s Scalia School of Law has been hosting expense-paid seminars for those same federal judges. Who funds the center? ExxonMobil, the Charles Koch Foundation, and others connected to the very companies being sued. The center even told a funder its goal was giving judges “skepticism” about the science behind the lawsuits they hear. Who spoke at these closed-door seminars? Chris Wright, then a fracking CEO, now Trump’s Energy Secretary, sharing his skepticism about climate change. His own company was suing the government over climate rules at the time. So, imagine you’re a referee in a championship game. Before the game, one of the teams pays for you to attend a fancy retreat where their coach explains why the other team’s strategy is illegitimate. Would anyone trust your calls? That’s essentially what’s happening here. theguardian.com/us-news/2026…

Just stopped by the 4Eye Film Center happy hour. Very excited about the future of film in DC. DC native is going to open up a nonprofit movie theater right at Waterfront metro in October, in the model of Film Forum, Metrograph, AFI Silver, etc. So excited for this!

The Utah County clerk is facing backlash for filling the role of chief deputy clerk with a 23-year-old conservative influencer who describes himself as "anti-universal suffrage" and has no elections experience. ow.ly/J7E450ZaJaC

When the $14 million renovations of the Reflecting Pool were completed last week, President Trump praised its “beautiful, clean water.” Now, days after the pool was refilled, clumps of green algae have has been spotted throughout the water. wapo.st/49PJEE4

The mere possibility of Utah voters sending a single Democrat to Congress has sparked a fierce and desperately devious backlash from state Republicans hell-bent on making sure such an outcome never happens again. motherjones.com/politics/202…

The GOP has a veto-proof supermajority, even though the state’s demographics have changed dramatically. motherjones.com/politics/202…

1/ What if you put all the ways that Jared Kushner is selling out America while lining his pockets into one place? In our new cover story, @cjcmichel does just that: motherjones.com/politics/202…

"For the past year, FIFA has leased an office on the 17th floor of New York’s Trump Tower that has sat all but empty. The rent goes to President Trump’s family business, but soccer officials say the space sits largely idle." nytimes.com/2026/06/09/world…

BREAKING: DHS just waived all environmental laws to blast border barriers and roads through Big Bend National Park. This marks the first time in American history the feds have gutted dozens of laws to push industrial-level construction through a national park.

New reporting reveals Republican nominee for Iowa Governor Zach Lahn lives full time in Kansas. Lahn says he plans to move to Iowa only if he is elected.

He had road rage issues before he was confirmed! wsj.com/articles/rush-to-jud…

Nobody is coming to save your aging parent. Not Medicare. Not the hospital. Not their primary care doctor. When your mom gets discharged on 14 medications and three specialist referrals… The person coordinating all of it is usually an exhausted daughter with a full-time job. We need to talk about that.

DOGE didn't make a dent in the deficit, but it did bring back screwworm and enable a historically large new Ebola outbreak, so it's not like they didn't achieve *anything*