Top story: Our correspondent @stevanzetti.bsky.social took a deep dive into Brandon Herrera, a gunfluencer and now GOP congressional nominee who has spread memes associated with the extremist Boogaloo movement and rationalized lethal political violence.
Earlier today rapid responders reported federal agents detaining someone on Grace & Olcott in Chicago.
A nearby resident got video of an unmarked SUV striking a red car at high speed in the residential area around 10:24 am.
He then described seeing men in tactical vests on scene, one marked "ICE."
Polymarket offered me enough money to pay my rent for ten months for one post in my newsletter and I turned it down because I enjoy being able to sleep at night.
There really is a tweet for everything
NEW: I went inside one Texas county's data center boomâand backlashâto report on how the state GOP's data center divide will shape the next legislative session.
Bonus scooplet: I got into a local meeting with a state senator working to draft a data center bill.
www.texasobserver.org/data-center-...
For reference:
Andrews County is in West Texas, pop. 20,000 (see red rectangle in map of Texas, below left).
Gillespie County is in Central Texas, pop. 29,000 (see red rectangle in map of Texas, below middle).
LaSalle County is in South Texas (red rectangle in map, below right).
it's extremely funny to me that matthew heimbach went to the trouble of sealing his name change but simultaneously filed a change of caption in his lawsuit against a tree trimmer he alleges negligently dropped a piece of wood on his head. sorry, we should use his chosen name, matthew reinhard volk.
ICYMI, a trans woman in a stand-your-ground state is facing felony charges for defending herself against 3 transphobic assaulters.
One of those was PF neo-Nazi Scott Durham (Patryck Durham), who has openly spewed violent rhetoric like glorifying the OKC bombing.
www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/06/3-me...
There are currently more bills attacking trans youthâs right to play sports across the U.S. than there are trans youth in school sports.
Speaking of Bari Weiss, she put a target on the back of the poet and professor Refaat Alareer in Gaza and he was assassinated by the IDF less than two months later.
He, his brother, his sister, and four of his nephews were killed in a surgical strike.