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'Reflective of the experiences of all individuals': Jan. 6 rioter who bragged he 'beat the s—' out of police wants Capitol memorial to acknowledge him too lawandcrime.com/high-profile...

The Trump administration has terminated millions worth of funding for Springer Nature, a German-owned scientific publishing giant that has long received payments for subscriptions from National Institutes of Health and other agencies, Axios has learned. www.axios.com/2025/06/25/t...

"The Federal Bureau of Investigation has started a probe into how a preliminary intelligence assessment about U.S. military strikes in Iran became public, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Wednesday morning."

Scoop: Trump denies 9 former Biden aides executive privilege The White House's move means the former Biden aides will have to answer questions about their private conversations with Biden, unless they or Biden try to challenge the decision in court. www.axios.com/2025/06/25/b...

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

Laziness is using a fork for eating yogurt because you only grabbed one utensil and didn't want to go get a spoon.

Breaking news: Former New York state governor Andrew Cuomo has conceded to progressive rival Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary for New York City’s next mayor www.ft.com/content/e4b8...

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 Donald Trump waged his latest courtroom bid Tuesday to avoid paying the $83.3 million judgment he owes the writer E. Jean Carroll for defamatory remarks he made about her after she accused him of rape. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

🚨🚨🚨 Edward “Big Balls” Coristine, one of the first technologists hired as part of Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), is no longer working for the federal government. “Edward Coristine resigned yesterday,” a White House official tells WIRED.

Mike Johnson: "Many respected constitutional experts argue that the War Powers Act is itself unconstitutional. I'm persuaded by that argument. They think it's a violation of the Article 2 powers of the commander in chief. I think that's right."

This is why we learn the rules…

RFK JR: We have not cut any clinical trials on Alzheimer's BARRAGAN: There was 35 and you guys have already cut 13 of them because of the funding. This was congressionally approved dollars on a bipartisan basis.

VEASEY: You've credited the 12 steps in your recovery. What's step 4? RFK JR: Making a fearless inventory VEASEY: Of ourselves. Do you remember step 12? RFK JR: We try to help other addicts VEASEY: Does cutting off treatment from people still suffering align with step 4 or step 12?

CARTER: The Adolescent Trial Network for HIV intervention received a stop work order that shut down research at 14 sites where 7 studies were being conducted. Were you aware of that? RFK JR: As far as I know, we haven't cut any clinica-- CARTER: I'm telling you by your own records you are

🚨 LA: “Fake ICE agents targeting the schools” It was only a matter of time. How is anyone supposed to tell the difference? And now @MarshaBlackburn Jack Johnson & Speaker Sexton are codifying masked Secret Police vigilantes into law?

We’ve lost Big Balls. 🇺🇸 @wired.com #DOGE @makenakelly.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/big-ba...

💰 WATCH: “How is that happening?” 🤷🏼‍♂️ @aoc.bsky.social informs a confused RFK Jr. that his own HHS is stuffing the pockets of insurance companies by doubling the rates taxpayers pay them even as they defraud us. 🤔

A Norwegian tourist claims he was harassed and refused entry to the US after immigration officers found a meme of JD Vance on his phone. www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

BREAKING 🚨 🚨 🚨 The US military strikes on three of Iran’s nuclear facilities last weekend did not destroy the core components of the country’s nuclear program and likely only set it back by months, according to an early US intelligence assessment. www.cnn.com/2025/06/24/p...

MTG suggests a link between JFK’s assassination and his opposition to Israel’s ‘nuclear program’ In a social media post on Tuesday, the Georgia representative said a ‘great’ president who opposed Israel’s nuclear program was assassinated. www.politico.com/live-updates...

Israel’s leadership was “stunned” and “embarrassed” by the American president’s harsh rebuke of both Iran and Israel this morning, said a person familiar with the discussions, after Israel continued attacking Iran. www.nbcnews.com/world/middle... via @nbcnews

SCHRIER: Have you ever treated measles? RFK JR: No SCHRIER: Well I have. Let me tell you how miserable these kids is. The great thing is there's a vaccine to prevent it ... they only work if you actually give them

Schrier to RFK Jr: You gave Cassidy the answer he needed to hear in order to get his confirmation vote, then as soon as you were secretary you turned around & fired all 17 members. You lied. I also want to be clear that I will lay all responsibility for every vaccine-preventable death at your feet.

RFK Jr: "My vision that is every American is wearing a wearable within four years."

PALLONE: With regard to vaccines, are you just afraid to receive public comments on proposals? There's been no public process RFK JR: We have a public process for regulating vaccines. It's called the ACIP committee. PALLONE: You fired the committee!

The Bove allegations should be treated as something akin to Watergate, or Iran Contra. The administration was attempting to do something they *knew* was illegal (anticipating the courts saying as much), and then trying to COVER IT UP. Only here instead of it being run out of the WH or NSC, it’s DOJ

BREAKING: Emil Bove - whose judicial confirmation hearing is tomorrow - told lawyers to tell the courts to “fuck off” if they ordered the planes to El Salvador to turn around - per whistleblower Erez Reuveni. Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/24/u...

I thought I saw an Iranian sleeper cell in masks, camo and assault rifles kidnap people from a job site and thrown them into a van, then I realized it was ICE.

This is good and important www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

“We have two countries that have been fighting so long and so hard that they don’t know what the fuck they’re doing,” Trump told reporters on the White House lawn before departing to meet with NATO allies in the Netherlands. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., on Monday criticized HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s picks for a key federal vaccine advisory committee and called for the group’s next meeting to be delayed until more members with relevant expertise can be appointed. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Trump on women's rights: "Saudi Arabia's done a really good job."

Emil Bove III, a senior Justice Department official and Trump judicial nominee, told subordinates he was willing to ignore court orders in order to fulfill the president's aggressive deportation campaign, according to a whistle-blower complaint.