Pleasing Trump at CBS: Pelley on Bari Weiss
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
John Sipher
Can't recall a recent video that better captures Trump's essence. Misogynist goon sweatily belches out egregious lies to a woman reporter, insults and berates her when she asks for evidence, then storms off in anger, all while his spray-tan slowly slides down his face.
Mark Jacob
www.nytimes.com
Autocrats do not follow the "rule of law." Autocrats "rule by law." They use the law capriciously to reward their friends and punish their enemies. The do not allow the law to bind them and their cronies, they use the law as a cudgel to punish others. Authoritarian law doesn't protect, it punishes.
If insider trading were a crime, the White House would be empty.
www.nytimes.com/2026/06/06/u...
WOW - Trump crashes out & cuts his interview w/ Welker short as she presses him on his lack of evidence for claiming elections are rigged
"You're either crooked or you're stupid. I've had enough. Thank you darling," he tells her"
"I traveled all the way to Wisconsin for this interview," she pleads
Police Remove Diabetes Experts From Conference for Distributing Critique of Trump Administration.
The defenders of free speech in action, obviously.
🧪 #academicsky
#psychscisky
California'a slow pace of vote counting is a byproduct of verifications and opportunities for voters to fix errors.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The idea that this just happened to the Broadview 6 — forcing grand juries to indict by cajoling them in an elevator, vouching to the grand jury, and telling "no" votes to leave if they don't want to indict — is nuts.
It's probably happening everywhere. And it means the law as we know it is dead.
The role of misogyny in right-wing ideology. Gift link .
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...
