Among the first agencies President Donald Trump gutted after taking office for his second term was a Department of Homeland Security team that had repeatedly disproved his stolen election claims.
this fucking guy, man
Turns out you can just do things. www.ms.now/news/onion-s...
“We are allowed, and even more, these families are entitled to this stuff,” @bencollins.bsky.social said. “Somebody’s got to do this, or else he’ll get away with it.”
Jared Kushner, Trump's pick to lead the US and Iran negotiations, was denied top-secret clearance until the president overruled intelligence officials.
“There was a risk the Saudis were playing him,” said a former White House official.
“Freedom 250 is a privately managed slush fund designed to operate with no transparency," said executive director of @peer.org. The watchdog group has sued the Trump admin, asking for details about diverting $100M in taxpayer dollars and selling access to Trump.
www.thequeenzone.com/trump-hijack...
www.huffpost.com/entry/suprem...
Translation.
🔴Reform Council Bans Green Councillor From Calling Out ‘Neo Nazi’ Photograph – @josiahmortimer.bsky.social
Farage's party was accused of curbing free speech after silencing a Green councillor who raised Reform councillors’ appearance with neo-Nazi figure.
bylinetimes.com/2026/06/18/r...
NEW: Senate Democrats launch probe into Trump Admin's contracts to the business that helped stage his Jan 6, 2021 rally
Inquiry said the company is now getting "favorable, low-competition contracts related to the celebrations associated with the country’s 250th anniversary"
From dismantling guardrails that upheld the integrity of past elections to gutting federal agencies and installing allies who supported Trump’s claim that the 2020 vote was stolen, here are the key ta...
how loudly can the subaltern speak? tone policing, violence, and the (un)knowing of working class lifeways - JD Vance, Gender Studies Quarterly, 2026
Scott MacFarlane
“Trump has told his advisers that no one can handle Netanyahu, and that he wants to ‘bomb everyone,’ according to a person who heard his comments.”
(If anyone has a gift link to this WSJ piece, please post it in the replies—thank you!)
Leah McElrath
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
DOUTHAT: Let's be honest -- the tone of the administration is not consistently a Christian tone. There is a tone of aggressive uncharity
JD VANCE: Tonal arguments are ways of, frankly, policing working class ways of communication, and covering them in elite preferences
