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Monday, June 01, 2026

"Camp East Montana is nothing short of a civil rights catastrophe," Kyle Virgien, senior staff attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union's National Prison Project, said in a statement. "We're suing to ensure that no other human being has to endure the inhumane treatment that the Trump administration has inflicted on our clients." read more


Heather Digby Parton, Salon: In January 2025, the president was set up for success. Instead, he blew it read more


Iranian negotiators will stop exchanging messages with the U.S. through intermediaries, and Tehran will move to fully close the Strait of Hormuz, in retaliation for ongoing ceasefire violations, Iran's state-affiliated news outlet Tasnim said Monday. read more


There's reportedly a new way for websites to spy on visitors: by monitoring how their computers' SSDs behave. The technique is called FROST, short for "fingerprinting remotely using OPFSbased SSD timing," and it runs through JavaScript on a web page. So far, this looks more practical in lab conditions than in the real world. read more


National Economic Council Director Kevin Hassett painted a rosy picture of the economy Sunday, downplaying Americans' growing pessimism about the economy amid high gas prices and rising inflation as the Iran war goes on. read more


American cities are also misspelled in the database, which pulls directly from ICE arrest reports. read more


Comedian Bill Maher ribbed President Trump on Friday over his dismal poll numbers and the blowback to a massive upcoming bash on the National Mall celebrating America's 250th birthday. read more


What it means to be a man is a theme in Texas Senate race as Paxton attacks Talarico read more


Multiple performers booked for a festival celebrating America's 250th birthday have dropped out, many saying they were misled about the political affiliation of the event. read more


Historian Heather Cox Richardson writes about the Republican Senator in 1950 who took a stand against Republican Senator Joe McCarthy. "I do not want to see the Republican party ride to political victory on the Four Horsemen of Calumny--Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear," Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith of Maine said while McCarthy sat two rows behind her. "While it might be a fleeting victory for the Republican party, it would be a more lasting defeat for the American people. Surely it would ultimately be suicide for the Republican party and the two-party system that has protected our American liberties from the dictatorship of a one-party system." read more


President Donald Trump's $4.7 billion war on cocaine smugglers has claimed the lives of nearly 200 people yet hasn't made the drug meaningfully harder to buy in the United States, according to experts. read more


A federal appeals court on Friday cleared the way for Texas authorities to enforce key parts of a law that would allow state officials to arrest and deport people suspected of having illegally crossed the U.S.-Mexico border. read more


A research project examining AI-driven recruitment hires across the US has revealed a systemic racial bias. read more


Belarus' president has been accused of flagrant human rights violations and enabling Russia's war in Ukraine. That hasn't been a barrier to his friendship with Donald Trump. read more


Sunday, May 31, 2026

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday called President Donald Trump's "Anti-Weaponization Fund a "bad idea" and urged the president to "drop it." "Let's get rid of this fund," Pence said in an interview with NBC's Meet the Press. "I mean, it's deeply offensive to me that you could have a fund that could even possibly compensate people who assaulted police officers or vandalized the Capitol on January 6th. And I think that's broadly held by most Republicans and most Americans."


Guidance memo on who can get free tickets to White House UFC Fight: "Ticket recipients are required to meet the DOW waist-to-height ratio standard of less than 0.55, as well as all service specific physical fitness test requirements," one of the memos sent to service members says, using the Pentagon's preferred acronym for the agency. read more


 

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