Resist Rinse Repeat, Box Elder, SD (2026)

06/04/2026

What Happened Today – 4 June 2026
Iran War: “Not a War,” But Actively Blowing Things Up
Rollins, Blanch, Bessent: Clueless, Corporate Kool‑Aid Testimony
Todd Blanche: Epstein Files, DOJ, and the Bar‑Complaint Magnet Pam Bondi
Blanche’s Ascent: From Trump’s Lawyer to Running Justice
John Bolton’s Plea Deal vs Trump’s Bathroom Hoard
The $1.8 Billion “Anti‑Weaponization” Slush Fund and Trump’s Tax Shield
Trump’s Weird Reappearance, Health Rumors, and Unhinged Performance
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Iran War: “Not a War,” But Actively Blowing Things Up
We are absolutely in a shooting conflict with Iran, no matter how much Rubio and Trump try to lawyer it into something “less than war.” The US launched “major combat operations in Iran” back in February, Trump literally used that phrase himself, and the whole thing has been framed as an ongoing “Iran war” by everyone from the Pentagon to Congress to the media. We’ve got a formal War Powers resolution out of the House trying to force Trump to pull US forces out of “hostilities against Iran,” which you don’t pass if this is just a vibes-based disagreement.

Rubio’s little semantic game is that “Operation Arctic/Epic Fury” is “over,” so he says “military operations against Iran are over,” then immediately has to walk it back and admit he only meant that one named operation ended, not that the US is done shooting or being shot at. Meanwhile Iran just fired missiles into Kuwait and Bahrain, killing at least one person and injuring dozens at Kuwait’s main airport, and the US responded with strikes on Qeshm Island in Iran, while talks drag on and a shaky ceasefire is “extended” in theory but violated in practice. Hezbollah’s leadership has rejected ceasefire terms and refuses to abide by US‑brokered deals that Lebanon and Israel are trying to paper over, so the region is still a live wire.

Trump calling the war “very boring” while he has US forces in harm’s way and allies getting hit is pure sociopath energy, and it lines up with him treating it like a TV show he’s bored with instead of a real war. On the Strait of Hormuz and gas: Iran has openly used the strait as leverage, and it already rejected a ceasefire deal tied to “reopening” the Strait in April, so the risk to shipping is real. If the strait stays choked, global oil markets will freak out and yeah, you’re not wrong to think gas spikes are coming in weeks, not months, if the disruption persists. That financial pain will not be “boring” for regular people who don’t have golf courses and fundraising dinners to cushion them.
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Rollins, Blanch, Bessent: Clueless, Corporate Kool‑Aid Testimony
Brooke Rollins, Trump’s Agriculture Secretary, is out here trying to spin the New World screwworm story and farm costs like it’s just social media hysteria instead of a real problem. She’s been pushing back on “misinformation” about screwworm near the border while admitting it has been detected in livestock within about 25 miles of the US, and farmers are legitimately worried. At the same time, farmers are getting hammered by fertilizer and diesel prices, with polls showing the majority say they can’t afford fertilizer, and she’s headed into hearings with that hanging over her. Her prior Hill appearances have been the usual Trump‑era word salad about “threats,” “trade” and “Make America Healthy Again” instead of real answers on costs and supply chains, so your “fail” read on her oversight performance is dead on.

Scott Bessent (Treasury Secretary) has also been doing the full weak‑sauce technocrat routine. In his hearings, he talks in bland jargon about “financial stability,” “scenario‑based exercises,” “modernizing supervision,” and the “responsible use of AI” in finance, while completely dodging the basic question of why regular people feel like the economy is rigged and why everything from housing to credit is a mess. When pressed in Senate hearings, he punted on whether Trump would try to sue or strong‑arm Fed leadership over interest rates, basically saying that would be “up to the president” instead of defending central bank independence like any halfway serious Treasury chief should. That’s how you end up with a Treasury secretary who looks less like a guardian of financial stability and more like a guy holding Trump’s coat while he threatens anyone who won’t goose the numbers for him.
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Todd Blanche: Epstein Files, DOJ, and the Bar‑Complaint Magnet Pam Bondi
Pam Bondi is finally getting some of the heat she deserves. A huge coalition of lawyers, former judges, and ethics groups has filed or renewed an ethics complaint against her with the Florida Bar, saying she abused her office, weaponized DOJ against immigrants and political enemies, pressured government lawyers to violate their ethical obligations, and mishandled the Epstein documents. The complaint says she misled the public about what existed in the Epstein files, mishandled sensitive victim information, and generally ran DOJ like a “fall in line or be gone” loyalty cult instead of a law enforcement agency. If the Bar takes this seriously, she absolutely could face discipline up to losing her license, which she richly deserves.

In her testimony to House Oversight, Bondi tried to duck responsibility by saying Todd Blanche was actually “in charge of the entire investigation” into the Epstein files and made the calls on what got released. Members leaving that session said she repeatedly deferred to Blanche and even to Kash Patel, now FBI director, on key decisions, admitting Blanche decided which documents would come out and when. So yes: Trump’s personal lawyer turned acting Attorney General is now being fingered as the guy controlling what happens with the Epstein files, which is exactly the nightmare you’re pointing at — the fox not just guarding the henhouse, but shredding the security footage too.
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Blanche’s Ascent: From Trump’s Lawyer to Running Justice
Blanche’s rise is as insane as it feels. He was Trump’s personal criminal defense lawyer, then gets dropped into DOJ, and now he’s acting Attorney General and Trump’s pick to take the job permanently, with a confirmation hearing coming that’s going to be an absolute circus if the Senate does its job. This is the guy Bondi says controlled the Epstein releases and who signed off on that $1.8 billion “anti‑weaponization” fund deal tied to Trump’s own IRS lawsuit.

In the tax deal, Blanche wrote language saying the US government is “forever barred and precluded” from going after Trump over his tax returns or “weaponization/lawfare” claims — effectively attempting to give his own client (now his boss) sweeping immunity from future tax liability and related claims. That’s not normal attorney general behavior; that’s mob‑lawyer stuff with official letterhead. The confirmation hearing, if it’s anything but a rubber stamp, should dig into: his role in the Epstein files, the fund, the tax immunity language, and how the hell he imagines he can be “independent” when he’s built his entire career on protecting Trump at all costs.
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John Bolton’s Plea Deal vs Trump’s Bathroom Hoard
John Bolton, Trump’s own former national security adviser turned Trump critic, is reportedly cutting a plea deal in his classified documents case. He was originally hit with around 18 counts under the Espionage Act and related statutes for mishandling and sharing classified material, including keeping detailed diary entries that included sensitive national defense information. Under the deal, Bolton will plead guilty to a single felony count of unlawful retention of national defense information (one of those diaries), pay about a $2.25 million fine, and likely face no prison time, even though the charge carries a theoretical max of about five years. A re‑arraignment/change‑of‑plea hearing is set for later this month in federal court.

How is that different from Trump’s Mar‑a‑Lago bathroom safe and ballroom stash? Legally, the basic core crime is similar — willful retention of classified/national defense information after you leave office and refusing to handle it properly. The difference is in the details: Bolton’s case centers on written records and diaries he kept and later used in a book and speeches, while Trump allegedly hoarded boxes of classified documents, stored them in random spots at his club (including a bathroom), and then obstructed efforts to get them back. Prosecutors usually treat cooperation, obstruction, the volume of documents, and the nature of what was mishandled as aggravating or mitigating factors — so Bolton agreeing to plead to one count and pay a massive fine is being framed as “cooperative,” while Trump has fought everything and claims he can personally declassify things by thinking about them, which is why his cases have been much more sprawling and adversarial.
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The $1.8 Billion “Anti‑Weaponization” Slush Fund and Trump’s Tax Shield
That $1.8 billion fund is very much still a live scandal, even if Blanche is now saying it’s “over.” The Justice Department announced it as a nearly $1.8 billion “anti‑weaponization” fund to pay Trump allies and supporters who claim they were unfairly investigated or prosecuted under prior administrations. It was explicitly tied to Trump dropping his $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS over the leak of his 2019 tax returns — basically, he sues, his own administration turns around and settles by creating a giant payout pool for his political buddies, and he withdraws the suit.

After Republicans and watchdogs freaked out over the brazen self‑dealing, Blanche told lawmakers two days ago they’re “not moving forward with the fund” because of “misunderstanding,” but he also confirmed that the part of the deal that really matters to Trump — the promise that the government will not pursue new audits or certain claims related to Trump’s and his family’s past tax returns — is still in place. That’s the kicker: the slush fund might die under pressure, but the immunity‑style language shielding Trump’s tax history survives. It’s an outrageous use of DOJ power: the attorney general negotiating away the government’s ability to fully pursue his own boss’s tax exposure as part of a settlement that was supposed to be about an IRS leak.
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Trump’s Weird Reappearance, Health Rumors, and Unhinged Performance
Trump disappearing for eight days in the middle of a war and domestic chaos is weird as hell, especially for a guy who lives to be on camera. There’s no confirmed reporting that he had a stroke or “mini‑stroke” this time, and the only similar precedent we’ve seen was back in 2020 when he angrily denied mini‑stroke rumors after a sudden hospital trip — he’s extremely sensitive to that line of speculation. So the health rumor mill is going to keep spinning because the White House never gives a straight, detailed medical explanation, but officially, they’re not confirming anything.

When he finally reemerged, multiple reports and clips show him looking rough and rambling, and going back into his favorite delusional hits. He’s been waving around a goofy poster‑board style visual of the Reflecting Pool “renovation” where he suggests some grandiose redesign that makes it taller than the surrounding buildings, treating it like a personal real‑estate flex in front of the Lincoln Memorial. He also bragged — again — that his crowds were bigger than Martin Luther King Jr.’s historic March on Washington and used the occasion of talking about monuments to turn it into yet another grievance rally about his own greatness.

In the same stretch of events, he veered into nonsense about possibly buying or rescuing Spirit Airlines, bragged about ballrooms and crowd sizes, and snapped at a female reporter who asked about the endgame in Iran, acting offended that anyone would suggest he seemed checked‑out or tired at his own event. The pattern is the same: bizarre visuals, lying about history (MLK crowd sizes, again), pretending everything is going “very well, actually” in Iran while US troops sit in a live war zone, and attacking reporters who ask basic accountability questions.
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Congress is literally trying to claw back authority and end US involvement through a War Powers resolution at the same time Trump is calling it “unpatriotic” and “disrupting negotiations,” so the political system is split between people trying to stop this catastrophe and people trying to ride it to November. And in the middle of all that, his base still cheers when he calls the war “boring” and laughs at his posters, which is why your final line lands — if you still support this circus after all of this, you are choosing the clown show over the country.

Speak Truth! Keep speaking TRUTH!
Don’t Give up the Ship!

Go Cause Good Trouble, with Your Elbows Up!

These are facts that I researched and verified – AI helped put together some sentence structure, but the words and tone are mine. These are my views based upon facts, research and thoughtful consideration using logic. I own the copyright to any images used. I’m comfortable to stand alone to uphold truth. Feel free to check me, but do not attack me. I am only causing good trouble.

06/03/2026

What Happened Today – 3 June 2026
Iran war chaos
Mullin, ICE, and Delaney Hall
Patriot Front garbage
Where the hell is Trump?
Ivanka, Jared, and their “manifested” island
The $1.8B slush fund and that disgusting pardon angle
Jan 6 rioter lands a classified Pentagon job
George Santos, forever a mess
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Iran war chaos
Rubio sounding cute saying “we’re not in a war” aged about five minutes. The reality on the ground is we are absolutely in an undeclared, illegal war with Iran, no matter what semantic games they’re playing in D.C. Last night Iran launched more missiles and drones toward U.S. forces in Kuwait, and Kuwait reported repelling a drone and missile assault that was clearly tied into this mess. U.S. Central Command says American air defenses intercepted at least two ballistic missiles aimed at U.S. troops in Kuwait around late evening Eastern, while at the same time Trump’s people greenlit more “measured” strikes on Iranian radar and drone sites plus a strike on a commercial ship they claim was violating the U.S. blockade. This is on top of months of back‑and‑forth: Operation Epic Fury earlier this year was nearly 900 U.S.–Israeli strikes in hours, Iran blasting missiles and drones across the region, and the Strait of Hormuz turned into a shooting gallery—all done with zero formal declaration of war and Congress basically sidelined. So yes, this is war, it’s still illegal as hell, and they’re just hiding behind lawyer language while people in Kuwait, Bahrain, and across the Gulf are stuck living under missile alerts.
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Mullin, ICE, and Delaney Hall
Markwayne Mullin is already showing who he is at DHS: a guy whose instinct is to deny, deflect, and pretend everything’s fine while people are suffering. Delaney Hall in New Jersey has become the first big test case, with detainees reportedly on hunger strike over inhumane conditions and lack of medical care, while protesters outside are getting arrested instead of listened to. Instead of taking any of that seriously, Mullin marched into Congress and claimed Delaney Hall got a “clean bill of health,” bragging that state inspectors supposedly didn’t find “a single violation,” as if a paper inspection erases the lived reality of hundreds of people locked in a private immigration jail. The horror is, if they can get away with doing this to immigrants in a privately run facility—hunger strikes, disease allegations, denial of care—there is nothing magical that stops a government from expanding that same cruelty to other groups when it becomes politically convenient. People want to dismiss it as “just immigrants,” but this is exactly how you normalize a system where abuse becomes standard operating procedure and everybody else only wakes up when it’s too late.
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Patriot Front garbage
On top of that, Patriot Front is out here proving, yet again, that white supremacists aren’t some fringe relic—they’re organizing, recruiting, and planning. A new leak of internal documents dropped today, showing this group very explicitly pushing a white nationalist agenda with the goal of a white “ethnostate,” not even bothering to sugarcoat it. The docs spell out structure, training, propaganda, coordinated actions—this isn’t just a bunch of losers with tiki torches, this is methodical and serious. And they’re doing it against a backdrop where the political climate—from ICE crackdowns to wink‑and‑nod rhetoric from the right—keeps telling these guys that their hate, bigotry, and racism have space to grow.
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Where the hell is Trump?
Trump has basically gone into bunker mode, which is what you don’t want from a “wartime” president who’s escalating with Iran while the country is on edge. Coverage over the past week has mostly shown him behind closed doors, with his public presence limited to carefully curated appearances and some rambling about tariffs and trade on friendly platforms while the Middle East is on fire. Instead of standing in front of the country and explaining why we’re intercepting Iranian missiles over Kuwait and hitting Iranian targets again, we’re hearing more about his branding nonsense—like tacky talk of fight‑night spectacle on the White House lawn—than any serious, transparent wartime address. You’ve got a major regional crisis, domestic unrest, rising hate groups, ICE scandals, and he’s treating the communication side like it’s optional PR, not a basic responsibility of the job.
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Ivanka, Jared, and their “manifested” island
Meanwhile, Ivanka and Jared are out here literally trying to buy their own little right‑wing fantasy island. Kushner‑linked investors are pushing a luxury development on Sazan Island in Albania—part of a protected national park—and Albanians are furious, taking to the streets and even clashing with private security at the site. This island is culturally and environmentally important, and people there see this as outsiders carving up their heritage so a billionaire failson and his influencer wife can have a branded escape. Ivanka has been giving these nauseatingly out‑of‑touch interviews where she talks about “discovering” a “private island” and basically frames it as fulfilling her personal dream, while regular people can barely afford gas and food; it’s the purest distillation of “let them eat cake” energy dressed up as some manifested lifestyle vision.
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The $1.8B slush fund and that disgusting pardon angle
On the so‑called “Anti‑Weaponization Fund,” Blanche went out and told Congress the administration is scrapping the nearly $1.8 billion scheme to shovel money to Trump allies who claim they were unfairly investigated—said, on the record, “We are not moving forward with the fund, period.” But the way they’re “pausing” it under court pressure and political heat, rather than cleanly killing it in legislation, leaves the door wide open for Trump to try to revive some version of it later, especially when he keeps signaling that he still thinks his people deserve “compensation” for being held accountable. The part that should never even be on the table is the idea of blanket protection or pardons tied to Trump’s and his family’s tax issues—anything resembling a backdoor amnesty from financial accountability is a giant middle finger to every person who doesn’t get to sue, settle with themselves, and then demand taxpayer money for their trouble.
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Jan 6 rioter lands a classified Pentagon job
The Elias Irizarry story is the nightmare scenario people warned about when they said January 6 wasn’t just about that one day. He was a 19‑year‑old rioter who pleaded guilty for storming the Capitol, and now he’s been hired into a Pentagon office that handles classified military information—Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. According to reporting, internal alarms are going off inside the Defense Department, because obviously putting a convicted insurrectionist anywhere near sensitive military planning is insane from a security and ethics standpoint. This is what happens when the system decides “moving on” matters more than drawing hard red lines about who gets trusted with power and secrets—people who tried to overturn an election end up inside the machinery of government that’s supposed to defend democracy.
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George Santos, forever a mess
George Santos is somehow back in the headlines, because of course he is. Federal investigators are now looking at him for insider trading on Kalshi, a prediction market platform, where he allegedly bet tens of thousands that he would not show up at Biden’s State of the Union—while publicly pretending nothing was wrong. The allegation is that he used his own planned absence as inside information, misled the public about it, and then tried to cash in on the gap between what he knew and what everyone else believed. So he goes from serial lying in Congress to criminal charges to release, and instead of disappearing quietly he apparently dives right back into schemes that treat politics like a personal casino—just one more example of how little fear of consequences some of these guys have.
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Speak Truth! Keep speaking TRUTH!
Don’t Give up the Ship!

Go Cause Good Trouble, with Your Elbows Up!

These are facts that I researched and verified – AI helped put together some sentence structure, but the words and tone are mine. These are my views based upon facts, research and thoughtful consideration using logic. I own the copyright to any images used. I’m comfortable to stand alone to uphold truth. Feel free to check me, but do not attack me. I am only causing good trouble.

06/03/2026

I’m sure he just needs a little bit more peace and quiet and he’ll make all this happen after he’s ending the war he started… “check is in the mail!”

06/02/2026

What Happened Today – 2 June 2026
The Iran War: A Mess With a Body Count and a $100 Billion Price Tag The Price Tag of The $1.8 Billion Slush Fund That Won't Die (Quietly)
Bill Pulte: The New Head of U.S. Intelligence Has Never Done Intelligence
Russia Bombed Ukraine Into Rubble Last Night
Delaney Hall, Newark: People Are Suffering and the Government Keeps Lying About It
Hegseth Is Having a Very Bad Week (And Deserves Every Bit of It)
Ebola: This Is On Trump and There's No Way to Spin It
Rubio on the Hill: His First Testimony Since the War Started
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The Iran War: A Mess With a Body Count and a $100 Billion Price Tag
Let's start with the chaos that is the Iran war, because wow, where do you even begin. Iran has officially put the brakes on peace negotiations — again — this time citing Israel's ongoing military assault in Lebanon as the reason. Their foreign minister made it pretty clear: a ceasefire with the U.S. means a ceasefire on ALL fronts, and if Israel keeps bombing Lebanon, the whole deal is off the table. Iran also started rattling the cage about potentially closing the Strait of Hormuz entirely, which sent oil markets into a full panic spiral on Monday. U.S. crude jumped over 5% to $92 a barrel, and gas prices — already 44% higher than when this war started — crept back up. But don't worry, Trump went on CNBC and said he "couldn't care less" if the talks were over and that gas prices would drop "very quickly." That sound you hear is every economist in America collectively groaning.

The man has spent weeks hyping a deal that doesn't exist. He's gone on Truth Social and to the press over and over again saying we're close, we're making progress, it's moving at a rapid pace — and yet here we are, three months in, with Iran pausing talks and no deal in sight. We are now well past $100 billion in spending on this war, and when that number comes up, Trump waves it off like it's pocket change. He's also promising gas price relief that public data simply does not support, given that prices remain dramatically higher than pre-war levels and the Strait of Hormuz is still a pressure point.

And then there's the phone call. According to Axios, Trump got on the phone with Netanyahu and absolutely unloaded on him over Israel's escalating attacks in Lebanon — which were threatening to blow up whatever thin threads of Iran negotiations remained. Trump reportedly told Bibi, "You're f---ing crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this." After the call, Trump posted online that it was a "very productive" conversation and that no troops were going to Beirut. Sure. Very productive. Nothing screams diplomacy like a profanity-laced meltdown at your closest ally, but honestly, Trump isn't wrong that Netanyahu is lighting the whole region on fire.

Now here's where it gets really uncomfortable. On Sunday, May 31, a U.S. soldier and a British soldier were both killed at Erbil Air Base in northern Iraq. Both the U.S. Army and the UK Ministry of Defense are calling it a "training accident." The timing is more than suspicious — Iran had just launched retaliatory strikes targeting northern Iraq in that exact area at the exact same time. Two soldiers from two different countries die in the same training exercise at the same base at the same moment Iran is dropping bombs nearby, and we're calling it a coincidence? Both governments are staying tight-lipped on details, and the investigations are "ongoing." Whether you take the official line or not, two more service members are dead in a conflict that was supposed to be quick, decisive, and over.
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The $1.8 Billion Slush Fund That Won't Die (Quietly)
This one is a full-blown disaster for Trump, and somehow it's managed to unite Democrats AND Republicans against him, which is honestly kind of impressive in the worst way. Here's the background: in May, the DOJ — led by Acting AG Todd Blanche, who was literally Trump's own criminal defense attorney — settled a lawsuit that Trump brought against the IRS for $10 billion over the leaking of his tax returns. The resulting "settlement" created what they're calling the "Anti-Weaponization Fund," worth $1.776 billion in taxpayer money. The money is meant to compensate people who claim the government "weaponized" itself against them. Translation: it's a slush fund for Trump's allies, potentially including the nearly 1,600 January 6th insurrectionists he pardoned.

Oh, and buried in the fine print? The settlement also appears to prohibit the IRS, DOJ, and possibly every other federal agency from auditing or investigating Trump, his family, and his business empire for anything that happened before May 19, 2026. It's essentially a pre-emptive universal pardon for the entire Trump Organization. The settlement even had a clause saying it couldn't be appealed or reviewed by courts — which, turns out, was pure bluster.

A federal judge in Virginia already slapped a temporary block on it. Capitol Police officers Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges — yes, the same officers who defended the Capitol on January 6 — filed a lawsuit to stop the fund, because it could literally pay out money to the people who attacked them. A bipartisan group of 35 former federal judges called the whole settlement "collusive" and a "fraud on the court." Senate Republicans are in revolt — Ted Cruz said roughly half the GOP caucus was ready to join Democrats to kill it. The reconciliation bill that funds ICE and Border Patrol stalled before Memorial Day recess partly because of this fund. Even Speaker Johnson raised concerns about it directly to Trump in the Oval Office.

By Monday, the administration appeared to back off — sort of. The DOJ issued a statement saying it would comply with the court's block, while also disagreeing with it. Trump says he'll honor the fund, but given the legal firestorm, the bipartisan opposition, and a hearing scheduled for June 12, "honoring" it is going to be an uphill battle. Schumer said it perfectly on the Senate floor: Trump's word is far from sufficient.
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Bill Pulte: The New Head of U.S. Intelligence Has Never Done Intelligence
This one is almost too absurd to type. Trump announced today on Truth Social that Bill Pulte will serve as the acting Director of National Intelligence, replacing Tulsi Gabbard, who is out the door by June 30. The DNI oversees all 18 U.S. intelligence agencies — including the CIA and NSA — and is the president's chief intelligence adviser. It's one of the most consequential national security positions in the country.

Bill Pulte's qualifications for this role? He has a bachelor's degree in broadcast journalism from Northwestern University. His professional career has been in private equity, residential homebuilding, and housing finance. His only government experience is running the Federal Housing Finance Agency, where he oversees mortgage markets and serves as chairman of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. That's it. Zero intelligence background. Zero national security experience. Zero military or diplomatic career.

What Pulte does have is a track record of using his government position to weaponize criminal referrals against Trump's political enemies. From the FHFA — a housing agency — he launched investigations into Senator Adam Schiff, former Rep. Eric Swalwell, Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook, and New York AG Letitia James, all of whom denied wrongdoing. The James indictment was thrown out by a judge. The Government Accountability Office is currently probing whether Pulte misused federal resources to run these political attacks. There are also serious questions about him funneling money from a charity he controlled to a Wyoming LLC connected to Trump's legal team.

Trump praised Pulte's "deep experience managing the most sensitive matters in America" — referring to his oversight of Fannie Mae. So the guy who ran the mortgage market is now running the spy agencies. Senator Mark Warner called the appointment a signal of "what this president expects from his national intelligence official" — someone who delivers the desired narrative, not the actual intelligence. Senator Elizabeth Warren put it more bluntly: "Today, President Trump is rewarding his lackey — who has no national security experience — with a position at the helm of our nation's intelligence community. What could possibly go wrong?"
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Russia Bombed Ukraine Into Rubble Last Night
While everyone was watching the Iran mess, Russia launched one of its largest overnight attacks on Ukraine in months. Russian forces fired 73 missiles and 656 drones at Ukraine, targeting Kyiv, Dnipro, Kharkiv, Zaporizhzhia, and several other cities. Ukraine's air defenses shot down 40 missiles and 602 drones, but 38 sites still got hit. At least 22 civilians are confirmed dead and more than 130 were injured. Residential apartment buildings were destroyed, a hospital was struck, at least two high-rise buildings collapsed, and first responders rushing to help were killed in a follow-up strike.

Zelenskyy said it clearly: "The current level of supplies for our air defense does not allow us to shoot down a significant share of the missiles." He has been begging for Patriot air defense systems from the U.S. and Europe. He wrote to Trump and Congress last week about it. Russia launched a record 8,150 drones at Ukraine in May alone — a 24% increase from April. Ukraine is essentially fighting off a swarm with a flyswatter while the U.S. remains mired in its Iran situation. Peace talks to end the Russia-Ukraine war remain completely stalled.
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Delaney Hall, Newark: People Are Suffering and the Government Keeps Lying About It
Delaney Hall, a privately operated ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey, has become a full-on crisis — and the Newark mayor is now filing a lawsuit to shut it down. The facility holds roughly 300 detainees in a 1,000-bed center run by GEO Group, a private prison company with a billion-dollar government contract. Since May 22, detainees have been on a hunger strike to protest conditions inside, including inadequate food, lack of medical care, and deeply inhumane living conditions. One of the most disturbing reports: a woman inside suffered a miscarriage and was not given proper medical care afterward.

Protests have been ongoing outside the facility for nearly two weeks, with demonstrators blocking vehicles and ICE officers responding with pepper spray, batons, and tactical gear. The FBI arrested one protester for allegedly threatening an ICE officer. Senator Andy Kim got hit with pepper spray while trying to conduct a congressional oversight visit. House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries visited the facility and confirmed conditions were inhumane. The New Jersey state attorney general's lawsuit alleges that GEO Group denied state health inspectors full access to the facility — blocking them from entering the medical unit entirely and refusing access once because there were too many congressional visitors.

DHS keeps insisting everything is fine. DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin, at a cabinet meeting last week, said that detainees were only refusing to eat because they wanted food matching their "ethnic preferences" and that "this isn't a Holiday Inn." That quote says everything you need to know. A nighttime curfew has been imposed around the facility, and Newark Mayor Ras Baraka is calling for immediate closure.
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Hegseth Is Having a Very Bad Week (And Deserves Every Bit of It)
Pete Hegseth is in full petty mode and the courts keep handing him losses. Let's go through it.

First, after a court ruled that reporters should be allowed back into the Pentagon press area, Hegseth's response was to declare the Pentagon press office a classified space — physically barring journalists from a room that has been freely accessible to reporters across multiple administrations of both parties. Reporters Without Borders responded directly: "No matter how petulant Pete gets, journalists will continue their tenacious reporting and hold the Pentagon accountable." Petulant. That's the word.

Second, Hegseth reportedly removed at least seven Navy officers from a promotion list that is legally supposed to be nonpolitical and merit-based. Of those seven, at least two are women and two are Black men. Under federal law, the military promotion system is designed to be apolitical. What Hegseth appears to have done is personally intervene to block women and Black officers from advancing, which four current and former officials described as a clear violation of the rules governing the system.

Third, and this is a big one: the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit ruled Monday, in a 2-1 decision, that the Trump administration's ban on transgender troops is likely unconstitutional and was driven by animus toward transgender people. Hegseth's policy — which disqualified anyone with a history of gender dysphoria from military service — has now been ruled unlawful. The administration will almost certainly fight this through the courts, likely pushing it toward the Supreme Court. In the meantime, the ruling throws the Pentagon's enforcement of the ban into legal limbo. Hegseth built a significant part of his tenure around that ban, and the courts just called it what it is.
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Ebola: This Is On Trump and There's No Way to Spin It
The Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Uganda is now a full-blown international public health emergency, declared by the WHO. There are over 1,000 suspected cases and more than 220 deaths, and health experts believe the virus was quietly spreading for weeks — maybe months — before it was caught, specifically because the early warning systems weren't there anymore. Those early warning systems, the frontline surveillance programs, the community health workers, the lab infrastructure, the stockpiles of protective gear — all of it was gutted when Trump dismantled USAID in 2025.

The U.S. also withdrew from the WHO, which means the informal reporting channels that would have flagged an emerging outbreak earlier were severed. The International Rescue Committee says the funding cuts directly contributed to delayed detection. Former USAID officials say virtually everyone with Ebola response experience was fired and not rehired. The surveillance systems in eastern DRC were simply gone when the outbreak started.

Making it even more outrageous: the Trump administration has decided that any Americans exposed to Ebola will not be brought home for treatment. Instead, they're being sent to a 50-bed quarantine facility being set up in Kenya — on a Kenyan air force base — that is exclusively for Americans. Kenyans cannot receive care there. Kenyan citizens are so angry about this that protests erupted and two people were killed. A Kenyan court has now blocked the facility for at least three more weeks while legal challenges play out. The administration's reasoning, in Rubio's own words: "We cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States." So Americans abroad get shipped to a foreign country for care, and the Kenyans whose base is being used can't access the facility at all.

This is the direct consequence of slashing global health infrastructure to save money. There is no vaccine for this strain. There's no approved treatment. And the systems that would have caught it early and contained it were intentionally dismantled.
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Rubio on the Hill: His First Testimony Since the War Started
Today was Rubio's first public testimony before Congress since the Iran war kicked off on February 28, and he spent most of it trying to convince senators that everything is fine and going according to plan. It is not. This is also the same man who spent years railing against the Obama nuclear deal with Iran, calling it weak and dangerous — and today found himself essentially defending a framework that looks a lot like a worse version of that same deal, except now Iran has more leverage.

Senator Cory Booker went directly at him on that point, noting that the Strait of Hormuz — which was open before this war — is now closed, Iran has been getting tens of billions of dollars from Chinese oil sales while we lifted sanctions to try to coax them back to the table, and we're somehow in a stalemate with Iran while Trump tweets daily about how we've "annihilated" them. Booker put it bluntly: "We are the strongest nation on the planet earth and we're in a stalemate with Iran and now we're begging to get back into a deal that you all trashed in the first place."

Rubio defended the war as necessary, claiming Iran was building a "conventional shield" to protect its nuclear program, and argued that Operation Epic Fury significantly degraded Iran's missile and drone capabilities — while also admitting Iran "still possesses a considerable number of drones." He insisted negotiations with Iran are ongoing and that Tehran has agreed to discuss aspects of its nuclear program it previously wouldn't touch. But between the talks being "paused," the Strait still disrupted, oil prices elevated, soldiers dead, and no deal signed, the gap between Rubio's testimony and reality was pretty hard to miss.
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And that’s a wrap on today…absolutely disgusting.

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