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“States’ rights” apparently don’t apply when Trump wants control.

For our LA friends - please show up if you can. We stand in solidarity with SEIU and David. He's showing us immense courage. Let's show him it's contagious.

The current federal tax system disproportionately favors billionaires and burdens the working class, while enabling the ultra-wealthy to exploit loopholes, exacerbating income inequality and undermining the principle that no one should be taxed into poverty… In other words, we are footing the bill.

Wanda Sykes delivered a 26-minute acceptance speech at the Critics Choice Association‘s Celebration of LGBTQ+ Cinema & Television, mentioning every other winner at the event and speaking up for trans people: "You gotta be proud, you gotta be loud, we have to protect our trans brothers and sisters"

Federal immigration agents in riot gear squared off with hundreds of protesters for a second consecutive day on Saturday in Los Angeles County, filling streets with tear gas and smoke. nyti.ms/4kUON0y

Here. We. Go

In Washington, D.C., thousands of LGBTQ+ people and their allies gathered to celebrate WorldPride and protest the Trump administration's actions targeting their rights and protections. Saturday, the emphasis was on celebrating with a joyful WorldPride parade through the city. John Yang reports.

NEW VIDEO: Alabama is again appealing its long-running redistricting battle to the U.S. Supreme Court, two years after the high court already affirmed a district court decision that struck down the state’s original congressional map. Paige and I explain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXCt...

North Carolina’s Supreme Court allowed a GOP-backed law to take effect after a lower court said it’s “unconstitutional beyond a reasonable doubt.” The law strips the Democratic governor of power over elections and hands it over to a Republican. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Coco Gauff ‘proud to represent Americans that look like me’ in French Open final triumph

NY Post: "You want to see how Jeff Bezos delivers his furniture? Let me show you,” said Arslanian, whose office is a block away. nypost.com/2025/06/07/u...

President Donald Trump said Elon Musk will pay “very serious consequences” if the billionaire tech mogul funds Democratic candidates that challenge lawmakers who backed Republicans’ tax-and-spending bill.

These two orders combine to provide DOGE with both access to extremely sensitive information and protections against accountability. 1. Access: bsky.app/profile/chri...

BREAKING: Trump says Elon Musk will face 'very serious consequences' if he funds Democratic candidates

‘Liberation Day’: Trump Set to Unveil Largest Tax Increase in World History
 In this video, we examine how President Trump is set to unveil the largest tax hike in global history— a tax hike not passed by Congress, but imposed unilaterally by Trump.

youtu.be/kvdfynNtXEQ

Coco Gauff becomes the first American to win Roland Garros since 2015. The last to do it? Serena Williams. What. A. Moment. 🇺🇸❤️

Coco Gauff’s reaction after beating Aryna Sabalenka to win her 1st Roland Garros title She collapses on the clay overcome with emotion. She looks at her loved ones and puts a 🫶🏾 up. First American to win it since Serena. Beautiful scenes. 🇺🇸🥹

Coco's mom, Candi, with the prayer on match point IT WORKED 😭🙏🏾

The money being spent on Trump’s ego parade could feed every single homeless veteran in America for more than four months.

Over and over again Trump tells us that he thinks the Nazis were the good guys in the story.

Oh no! A bad day. 😥 A divided appeals court panel lifted portions of a lower-court judge's ruling that blocked Trump’s ban on AP in the White House. Plus court ok’s DOGE access to your Social Security data and Abrego Garcia returned to US but only to be arrested on trafficking charges.

Before anyone gets too excited about this, see below. Elon is not on our side. He’s on Elon’s side. Which means they’re going to get back together. & what important developments will we have missed in the meantime? Ukraine? ICE detaining kids? The budget passing?

So let's get this straight: The Trump admin says agencies that ensure food and drugs are safe and financial scammers are held accountable are government waste. But a military parade that could cost up to $45 million isn't...

Today in D.C., thousands of veterans are rallying against President Trump’s cuts to the Department of Veterans Affairs and his slashing of staff throughout the government. “I didn’t think I’d be doing this at my age, but I can’t stand by,” said Reed Radcliffe, 68, who spent two decades in the Navy.

Michael Wolff weighed in after the feud between two of the world’s most powerful men “escalated into nuclear territory.”

President Donald Trump said Thursday that it might be better to let Ukraine and Russia “fight for a while” before pulling them apart and pursuing peace, even as Germany’s new chancellor appealed to him as the “key person in the world” who could halt the bloodshed by pressuring Vladimir Putin.

BREAKING: Harvard files legal challenge to Trump's effort to block visas for international students

The spectacular flameout Thursday peaked as President Donald Trump threatened to cut Elon Musk’s government contracts and Musk claimed that Trump’s administration hasn’t released all the records related to sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein because Trump is mentioned in them. buff.ly/YXNaWti

In his latest slam, Elon Musk says Donald Trump is “in the Epstein files,” which is why they haven’t been made public. Musk said it was “time to drop the really big bomb” as the feud between the billionaire and Trump reached new heights.

President Trump, the poster-in-chief, may have finally been outmatched — by the owner of the social media platform he used to love. | Analysis

Elon Musk called for Donald Trump to be impeached after mocking his connections to the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, as the president threatened to cancel federal contracts and tax subsidies for Musk’s companies in an extraordinary social media feud on Thursday.

Trump threatens Musk's government deals as feud explodes over tax-cut bill reut.rs/3HvUvYh

Sen. Kennedy on Lutnick: "It's clear that President Trump listens to Secretary Lutnick, so I spent the time I had trying to figure out where he's coming from. And I don't understand ... why are we having these trade talks?"

The senator exposes what Trump's program will do to "working stiffs" across the country.

This from a top official in the United States Justice Department:

Goldman: "The idea of focusing on President Biden is a way of distracting from Donald Trump's efforts to completely undermine our democracy, to grift and engage in corruption, and to help out his billionaire buddies by cutting their taxes while taking Medicaid away from the American people."

Home builders, car manufacturers and can makers are among those that will see higher prices for materials after President Trump raised tariffs on steel and aluminum imports to 50%. Here's what to know. https://trib.al/4jgjjvd

The Russia's Future channel, launched by Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya and Reporters Without Borders, began broadcasting Wednesday, on what would have been the late Russian activist's 49th birthday.

OPINION: ‘This is just wrong’: Fmr. Chief of Staff for the Department of Homeland Security during Donald Trump’s first term, Miles Taylor joins @nicollewallace.bsky.social to discuss how Trump targeted him with an executive order

"Waste and fraud were just a cover story. Too many in the news media have enabled this con and even promoted it." Read @davidcorn.bsky.social on the media's role in helping Elon Musk's big con.

Lower courts have stood strong in curbing abuses of executive power. It remains to be seen whether the Supreme Court continues the judicial display of constitutional fortitude.

US Congress budget office sees economic output falling from Trump tariffs reut.rs/3T9UUlG

Musk commented that "this immense level of overspending will drive America into debt slavery!"

"It’s wishful to expect a kind of overall reversion to normalcy. We’re more likely than not still to be moving—perhaps at a slower rate, perhaps haltingly, perhaps not—in the authoritarian direction we’re going." Fight as if you believe we'll win.