Top Stories
- Moderate Democrats in bipartisan gang lean towards IRS enforcement as a way to raise revenues for infrastructure: ‘That’s found money’ (businessinsider.com)
- Judge narrows lawsuits over clearing of protesters before a Trump photo op
- ‘Pivotal’ new video evidence released in Capitol riot investigation (alternet.org)
- A federal appeals court blocked a judge’s ruling that would throw out California’s assault weapon ban (businessinsider.com)
- Trump-loving authoritarians around the world under siege — because most of their own people hate them (rawstory.com)
- A ‘federal crime of terrorism’: How judges are using a little-known statute to keep the worst MAGA rioters locked up (rawstory.com)
- Manhattan prosecutors are investigating whether Trump’s former bodyguard got tax-free perks as part of a Trump Org. plan to avoid paying taxes, report says (businessinsider.com)
- Kim Jong-un’s sister dismisses hopes of US-North Korea nuclear talks (theguardian.com)
- Democrats Unite Behind Voting Rights Bill as It Faces a Senate Roadblock (nytimes.com)Democratic Group Will Pour $20 Million Into Voting Rights Efforts (nytimes.com)
- Macron, Le Pen parties falter as conservatives surge in French regional polls (france24.com)
- Four NYPD officers say in new affidavits that arrest quota system targeted Black and Latino New Yorkers
- The extent to which the Trump DoJ trashed legal and political norms is just beginning to emerge (theguardian.com)
- V.A. Plans to Offer Gender-Affirming Surgeries for Transgender Veterans (nytimes.com)
- U.S. Preparing More Sanctions Against Russia, Sullivan Says (nytimes.com)
More News
- Spain pardons Catalan leaders over independence bid (bbc.com)
- Smallville Actress Allison Mack Gave Government Key Tape That Brought Down NXIVM Sex Cult Leader: Prosecutors (lawandcrime.com)
- Trump wanted DOJ to stop ‘Saturday Night Live’ from mocking him: report (alternet.org)
- Secret Trump-affiliated ‘dark money’ groups are the funding force behind the ‘grotesque’ election audit in Arizona (rawstory.com)
- Murder accused ‘thought family was hoarding Nazi gold’ (theguardian.com)
- One hedge fund that bet against GameStop is closing its doors after taking double-digit percent losses from the meme stock’s rally (businessinsider.com)
- New York Times defends Maggie Haberman from Fox News attack (theguardian.com)
- Man with Alzheimer’s proposes to his wife after forgetting they were married. She said yes (theguardian.com)
- When It Comes to Big City Elections, Republicans Are in the Wilderness (nytimes.com)
- American Airlines canceling hundreds of flights in coming weeks due to labor shortages, ‘unprecedented weather’ (nydailynews.com)
- Dick Cheney warned his daughter Rep. Liz Cheney on January 6 that she might not be safe after seeing Trump attack her before the Capitol riot, report says (businessinsider.com)
- Sen. Chuck Grassley’s Support Collapses In Iowa As 64% Of Voters Want Him Gone (politicususa.com)
- Political donations lead Stonewall Inn to ban some beers (nydailynews.com)
- The field of Wyoming Republicans looking to unseat Liz Cheney has become a Trumpian circus: report (alternet.org)
- Former Rep. Katie Hill blamed sexism for having to resign after her sex scandal while Matt Gaetz and Andrew Cuomo have kept their jobs (businessinsider.com)
COVID Watch
- Quack ‘archbishop’ claims Trump drank bleach to cure coronavirus (rawstory.com)
- Anti-vax group mounts legal blitz to sow disinformation against vaccinations (theguardian.com)
- County in Florida closes government buildings after multiple people test positive for COVID-19, 2 die (nydailynews.com)
- How Mike Lindell’s botched COVID mask operation was his ultimate failure (alternet.org)
- With Vaccination Goal in Doubt, Biden Warns of Variant’s Threat (nytimes.com)
- Previous Covid infection may not offer long-term protection, study finds (theguardian.com)
- US tops 600,000 COVID deaths, New York and California drop curbs (rawstory.com)
- As Pandemic Recedes in U.S., Calls Are Growing for an Investigative Commission (nytimes.com)
- Pfizer and AstraZeneca COVID vaccines highly effective against Delta variant: study (nydailynews.com)
- Novavax Covid vaccine has efficacy of 90%, say manufacturers (theguardian.com)
- ‘People are so burned out’: US essential workers struggle as COVID restrictions are lifted (theguardian.com)
- SEE IT: Ohio nurse hilariously fails to prove COVID vaccine makes people magnetic, key falls from her neck (nydailynews.com)
Wow. An anti-vaccine nurse in Ohio tried to prove the Vaccines Cause Magnetism theory in an state legislative committee. The demonstration did not go to plan pic.twitter.com/0ubELst4E8
— Tyler Buchanan (@Tylerjoelb) June 9, 2021 - Biden to Send 500 Million Doses of Pfizer Vaccine to 100 Countries Over a Year (nytimes.com)
- Leading biologist throws a wet blanket over his ‘smoking gun’ Covid lab leak theory (theguardian.com)
