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Trump Family Made Billions On Crypto, Everyone Else Lost Billions

John Amato — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:00:01 +0000

Reuters (subscription required) did a deep dive into the Trump family's exploits in the crypto market and uncovered some fascinating data, some of which is not unexpected.

Reuters, set out to determine just how much money the Trumps have made from their four main crypto projects, how much of their own cash they staked on those projects, and how outside investors in those projects have fared.

The conclusion: the Trump family has made $2.3 billion from crypto with little-to-no downside risk, while other investors have lost $2.3 billion, including paper losses, as of the end of April.

All for me and none for you!

It's a great article.

Open thread.

Jessica Tarlov Leaves Fox Cohost Speechless On Trump Hypocrisy With Platner

Heather — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:00:01 +0000

Fox's Jessica Tarlov brought the receipts on this Wednesday's The Five when her lame cohosts went after Maine senate nominee Graham Platner.

Tarlov first shot down her cohort who continually pretends to be a comedian — Greg Gutfeld — and his accusations of hypocrisy, and pretending that Trump is not actually an existential threat who has continually been enabled by Platner's rival Susan Collins, before finally leaving her other cohost — Emily Campagno — speechless when she tried to pretend Trump has never insulted any military heroes.

Tarlov also did her best to try to combat snarky asshole Gutfeld for pretending that the Dobbs decision hasn't killed women in need of health care with problematic pregnancies due to onerous abortion laws across the country that the ghoul tried to laugh off.

TARLOV: I can't stop. I've been dying to ask you — why didn't Democrats use their machine? We have seen it at play, literally removing and disappearing people all over this United States. Why didn't they find someone more normal? Why didn't they find a candidate that maybe wouldn't even have the baggage? They had one. Why didn't they put the machine behind him?
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Tim Scott Calls Worst Inflation In 3 Years 'Good News' And Yes, He Said That Out Loud

Conover Kennard — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:20:59 +0000

South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott tried to spin the news about high inflation under the Trump administration on Maria Bartiromo's Fox Business show. Scott started so well, correctly noting that "the trend is not going in the right direction," then he bent down and licked Trump's cankle-filled boots with a positive take on inflation.

Inflation is at its worst level in three years, and the spin didn't just come from Scott, but from the top, too. When Trump was asked about the inflation number, he somehow said, "I love it!" Sigh.

"We saw this last report is that inflation ticked up to 4.2%, highest in three years," Scott said. "Last month it was 3.8, the month before that was 3.3. The trend is not going in the right direction."

And here it comes.

"But Maria, one of the things it signals is resiliency in our economy, which is in fact good news," he insisted. "Because of Donald Trump, we have more Americans with more money in their pockets because we returned to them or kept in place a $5 trillion tax cut, and your tax return is up 11%. So there's more money to be spent on household necessities."

"So we're going to have to figure out what the hedge against inflation looks like," he continued. "I believe that they will keep rates where they are next week and not increase them. At least that's my prayer."

Dems Meet To Game Out Responses To Trump Election Theft Attempts

Susie Madrak — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:20:51 +0000

A group of 10 Democratic senators and the party's top election lawyers quietly convened to game out responses to what they fear could be an unprecedented attempt to disrupt or overturn the results of this fall's midterm elections.

The closed-door session, first reported by Politico, brought together a roster of high-profile legal and political strategists, including former Attorney General Eric Holder and prominent Democratic election attorney Marc Elias, to walk senators through a series of extreme yet increasingly plausible scenarios. Among them: armed federal agents stationed at polling locations, the Justice Department seizing ballots in competitive races and a foreign-backed disinformation campaign powered by AI-generated deepfakes.

" Trump has talked about stealing the election, violating the election, perverting the election, over and over again," said Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, who convened last week's meeting. "We are going to be prepared for anything that he throws at us."

Trump's Complaint Line Backfires Spectacularly: 35,000 Gripes About Him Instead

Conover Kennard — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:01:29 +0000

The Trump administration, apparently deciding that truth is just a matter of branding, asked National Park visitors to mark any exhibits that made America look bad — all in service of transforming historic sites into feel-good monuments where nothing bad ever happened to anyone, ever, according to The Independent.

You know, like history, and important stuff like that, that the administration has repeatedly tried to whitewash.

A Sierra Club lawsuit pried loose 35,000 public comments, and spoiler: the public was not on board. The overwhelming response was one giant "are you serious right now," with a significant chunk of visitors calling the whole scheme "un-American," which, for a project literally about American monuments, is a pretty spectacular own goal.

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum issued an order targeting "inappropriate content." Of course, we’re all aware of what this administration deems as “Inappropriate.”

The results didn’t work out in his favor, though. The watchdog group, Save Our Signs, calculated at least 59 signs and exhibits that were pulled or sanitized, with the edits hitting hardest on anything regarding slavery, climate change, women's rights, or Native American history. Because if you can't erase the past, apparently, the next best thing is to unscrew it from the wall quietly.

Republican Led House Fails In Passing FISA

John Amato — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:02:12 +0000

Mike Johnson's last ditch attempt to pass a short-term extension of section 702 of the FISA Act failed with nineteen Republicans voting against it.

This Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act needed a two-thirds majority to pass in the House, but came in with a vote count of 198-218. Trump's hope of passing a bill were dashed when he named another unqualified sycophant, Bill Pulte, to be the acting Director of National Intelligence.

ABC News reports, "The House is expected to leave town after the vote series, as it grows increasingly likely that FISA's legal authorization will lapse for the first time in the program's history. The House does not return to Washington until June 23."

Jebus Johnson whined about the vote and blamed only Democrats for its failure. "Today, we just offered a simple, clean, three-week extension of the FISA national security law. The Democrats, 199 of them, voted against a clean, three-week extension for political purposes," he said with no mention of the 19 republicans that joined with the Democrats.

Fox News Urges Trump ‘To Go Back To Full-Scale War Against Iran’

NewsHound Ellen — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:21:41 +0000

Wednesday morning, “deal maker” Donald Trump announced he was going to resume attacking Iran “very hard.” It’s hard to know if it was his own idea or whether he was just listening to his favorite advisors, Fox News talking heads. As Media Matters has reported, Fox was pushing Trump to go to war against Iran before the conflict started and "selling Trump the fantasy that he could defeat Iran in 'two weeks.'"

Trump launched new bombings Tuesday and later on Wednesday. But that did not seem to be enough to satisfy Fox News’ blood lust, at least not enough for “straight news” host John Roberts. He got to work pushing Trump to further escalate the unnecessary and unpopular war.

First, Roberts mocked Trump for saying for weeks that Iran is on the ropes and that he was close to a deal. But instead of pushing for an actual deal, Roberts pushed the Fan-in-Chief to ditch the cease fire and bomb, bomb, bomb Iran even more.

Via Media Matters:

ROBERTS: A lot of military experts we've talked to think it's long past time for the United States to go back to full-scale war against Iran, saying nine weeks ago we had Iran on the ropes, and ever since then President Trump has been talking about this elusive deal.
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GOP Rep Does The Old Fake Phone Call Trick

Ed Scarce — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:56:31 +0000

You can understand a Republican congressman in a district that barely voted for Trump in 2024 being a bit antsy when asked about Mike Johnson's plan to cut Social Security, but pretending to talk on his phone while talking to no one was borderline bizarre, even for a Republican.

People keep voting for these clowns.

Source: The Daily Beast

A Republican congressman was caught faking a phone call in order to avoid answering questions about his party’s plan to cut Social Security and Medicare.

Approached by a reporter for MeidasTouch and asked about Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan to cut Social Security, Virginia Republican Rep. Rob Wittman pulled out his phone and began speaking into it.

“Hey, how you doing? I’m good. I’m good with that. I’ll be there in just a few minutes,” Wittman says into his phone while walking, as the reporter follows.

However, half of his screen is visible in the video posted by MeidasTouch, and it appears he was not on a call at all, as it does not show the typical phone call screen.
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HUD Secretary Lies, Claims Migrants Taking Affordable Housing Away From Citizens

John Amato — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:46:27 +0000

HUD Sec. Scott Turner told CNBC the reason there's a housing and labor shortage is that people not legally here are taking the homes away from US citizens, which is a cataclysmic lie.

Sec. Turner and many others in the Trump administration use this lie to attack migrants coming into the country and blame all their cock-ups and problems on them. Yet, they never give us any evidence, any actual data proving how these migrants have hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase these homes. If they have the down payment, how can they get a mortgage?

It's ridiculous.

Turner also claimed that regulations have impacted the construction of houses in America, but CNBC host Becky Quick pushed back against his lies with some truths. Namely, Trump's many incompetent actions.

QUICK: No question that regulatory overreach has impacted the cost of housing coming in, but it's also been impacted by fewer immigrants being allowed into the country to work in some of these trades. It's been impacted by the tariffs that have created higher prices for lumber and so forth.

How do you comment?

TURNER: Well, yeah, I'm gonna push back on that from the immigration standpoint. We have enough American people to take American jobs.

You know, when you look at...

QUICK: We're in a pretty good labor market right now. We're talking about a relatively low unemployment rate. We do, we have 4.3. The biggest complaint from small businesses is that they can't find the labor.
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GOP Rep. Cites Iraq And Afghanistan To Defend Trump's Attack On Iran

Heather — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:09:49 +0000

"We were in Iraq and Afghanistan for over 20 years" isn't the flex Rep. Claudia Tenney thinks it is. Here she is during an interview on Newsmax TV this Wednesday sounding just as dumb as Orange Julius.

RECHENBERG: What do you say to the Americans out there? They're sick and tired of this war. They voted for President Trump because he promised to end wars, not start wars. He called himself the president of peace. What is your message to those people experiencing this war fatigue?

TENNEY: Yeah, well, it's not been very long. We were in Iraq and Afghanistan for over 20 years under a couple of different presidents.

So this is a very short term conflict, and this is all about lasting peace. It's not a forever war. President Trump is trying to rid us of a terrorist regime that has been wreaking havoc on our own military, threatening to have a nuclear weapon, which they were just about close to having, a weapons-grade nuclear weapon.

This is a regime we've been fighting for 47 years. They have no problem killing their own people in the streets, gouging out the eyes of women or anyone who stands up to the regime. It's time for them to go, and it's time to have peace and prosperity.

We had a nuclear deal with Iran under the Obama administration which Trump tore up. According to the Center for International Policy:

Republican Senator Forced To Lie About Gas Prices Under Obama

John Amato — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:03:30 +0000

Sen. Tim Sheehy came on Fox News to gaslight the high costs of gas prices to serve Deal Leader and justify his war against Iran.

The warmonger told Laura Ingraham with a straight face and steely-eyed look that Trump's inflation and skyrocketed gas prices was normal under President Biden and Obama.

Gas prices under Obama averages around $2.95. Biden had a surge because Russia attacked Ukraine, but they fell and when Trump took office gas prices were around. $3.12.

SHEEHY: Of course they are, and that's why it's been incredibly frustrating to have, not just Democrats, but some Republicans in the media, from the day this started, take the side of a murderous terrorist regime, and they've undermined the president and what's good for this country from the very, very beginning, Laura, and it's been incredibly frustrating to watch.

We don't in any way dismiss the inflation numbers, but let's not forget, the gas prices we see today, the inflation we see today, those were the gas prices and inflation under Obama and Biden. That was the norm.

This is a temporary bump that is a result of us trying to solve a half-century threat that will continue to threaten Americans for generations to come if we don't solve it.

I commend the president for having the courage to try to attack this problem that six presidents have quite frankly kicked the can on, for all the reasons we're now seeing.

This is a tough problem to solve.
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Trump Shares His Bizarre Reason For Supporting Tom Tiffany

Chris capper Liebenthal — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 14:03:22 +0000

When Trump traveled to Wisconsin, he took a break from slapping himself on the back to give a backhanded endorsement to Tom Tiffany, who is running for governor. Trump said his support wasn't because Tiffany voted with Him 100%, including refusing to certify the 2020 election and voting against releasing the Trumpstein files.

In fact, it had nothing to do with Tiffany at all:

By the way, speaking of Tom Tiffany, he's one of the best congressmen in our country. And I was there, I don't know, seven, eight years ago, right at the beginning. I endorsed this guy. I didn't know. I had no idea, but I liked his last name. You know why? Because I bought the air rights many years ago off Tiffany, and I made a lot of money. So I saw Tom Tiffany, and I backed him, and he went like a rocket ship, and he won, and you've kept winning, and now he's running for a thing called governor.

Gosh, what a selling point. Sorry, but I like integrity, democracy, and freedom a lot more than your money, Don-old.

Trump: Tom Tiffany is one of the best congressman in our country. Seven or eight years ago, I endorsed this guy—I had no idea but I like his last name. You know why? I bought the rights from Tiffany and I made a lot of money. pic.twitter.com/JbwNbO0k95

— Acyn (@Acyn) June 5, 2026
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Mayor Mamdani One-Ups Knicks Owner After He Nixes Watch Party

Susie Madrak — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:51:00 +0000

You gotta love a mayor who fights the power!

In a statement released right before tip-off, Madison Square Garden said that it “declined to use” the permit granted by the city, saying it would be unfair to “tens of thousands of people” who could not be there.

Owner James Dolan has been known to employ intense security measures of his own at the Garden. According to reporting from multiple outlets, Madison Square Garden has famously employed facial-recognition technology to ban Dolan’s enemies. Nice guy!

Oh, and he smeared Mamdani as "not a Knicks fan."

They have reportedly cut back on Mamdani attacks on Fox News -- because their viewers gave him such high approval ratings.

Crime rates have reached all-time low under Mayor Mamdani in New York

www.nydailynews.com/2026/06/03/n...

— awkword (@awkword.bsky.social) 2026-06-10T20:45:50.958Z
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FBI Epstein Tip: Trump ‘Knew And Funded Underage Sex Parties’

NewsHound Ellen — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:00:35 +0000

The Miami New Times found one heck of an interesting document in the Epstein files. It’s a June 21, 2021 summary of a phone call from someone claiming to have been “’ triggered’ as a victim” and who previously had “recordings of Donald Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell discussing marketing strategies for high-profile sex parties at the Donald Trump Golf Course.”

However, the tipster also told the FBI the recordings had been mailed to "a lawyer in the Cayman Islands. [Redacted] was part of the Sinaloa Cartel and worked closely with Epstein and Maxwell; however, he was able to walk away from the cartel due to his status with Epstein and Maxwell,” the FBI form states.

The recordings supposedly reveal that Trump “was aware of the underage sex parties and charged the house money of the golf course to fund the sex parties.”

The FBI's summary also states the tipster said he had “witnessed Robin Leach strangle a young girl during a sex party. He claims she is buried behind the 19th hole at the Donald Trump Golf Course. [Redacted] is aware of three separate occasions in which girls were murdered and buried there. He also said he had been threatened with ending “up in the hole as well.”

Why Aren't We Seeing Daniel Dale's Fact Checks On CNN Lately?

Susie Madrak — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 10:00:00 +0000

Tommy Christopher of Mediaite started the viral story with a tweet.

He points out Dale is still posting his fact checks regularly on the CNN website --just not on air.

Shunting Dale off the air (and sometimes behind a paywall) may be some kind of just like natural coincidental development or a strategy borne out of some mysterious news or business judgment that eludes me and/or logic or something else that CNN doesn’t want to say but is completely fine.

But it’s a bad idea.

A CNN spokesperson provided the following statement to Mediaite (exactly the same statement as was provided to Natalie Korach, Status correspondent):

There is no truth to this. Daniel is a multiplatform reporter whose regular fact checks of the President are an important part of CNN's political coverage. Like all CNN reporters, his on-air appearances are determined by the news of the day — any suggestion otherwise is false.

Still, Korach wrote, there is "particular sensitivity" on this issue because of Trump's well-documented hostility towards being fact-checked, especially with the increased "extraordinary pressure his administration is putting on media companies" in his second term, including how he has "repeatedly punished news outlets through lawsuits, regulatory scrutiny, and public attacks, in an effort to intimidate journalists and chill speech."

Mike’s Blog Round-Up

Tengrain — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:59:54 +0000

Above, The Communards perform, Don't Leave Me This Way.

On this date in 1776, the Continental Congress appointed a committee to draft the Declaration of Independence, with Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert R. Livingston as members.

No More Mister Nice Blog reports that the media refs have been successfully worked.

Steady, Dan Rather's substack, opines on the media via Barry Weiss, the Ellisons, and CBS.

Good Politics Bad Politics has something to say about the He-Man Woman-Haters Club, er, Republican Party's obvious misogyny.

Queerty says that the LGBTQ community needs Pride more than ever this year.

Bonus Track: Comedian Walter Masterson goes to MAGA Pride. Hypocrisy ensues.

Full Frontal's Amy Hoggart On Surviving Trump's America

Cliff Schecter — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:59:33 +0000

We put a British comedian on the show to make us laugh. Yet somewhere between Trump the ding dong saying he loves 4.2% inflation and a Russian billionaire trying to start his own country in space, Amy Hoggart ended up explaining America better than most people who are actually paid to do it.

You’ll Amy her from time as a correspondent on Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. She was the one who walked on into many Trump rallies with a straight face and a British accent. And the outsider’s eye our lunacy desperately needs.

Amy gets into why she’s raising her kids in England (one word: healthcare) and why MAGA rallies are winning the one fight The Left forgot to show up for. And we watched an old sketch of hers calling out the billionaire space-king class. It was absolutely prescient in calling out the Musks of our world years before the rest of the press caught up.

Detention Prisons

Steve Greenberg — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:53:38 +0000

Open thread.

Jon Stewart: Trump’s Madison Square Garden Boos Were ‘Shocking’ In Person

RedStateRachel — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:54:49 +0000

Jon Stewart said the Madison Square Garden crowd booing Trump was even more "shocking" in person! Even though "Fox and Friends" pretended Trump's appearance at the NBA finals game went well, Stewart was at the game and said the crowd's reaction was clear.

Stewart Spilled the Tea on Trump Booing

The Daily Beast reported Stewart spilled the tea about the booing since he was at MSG for the NBA finals game. Asked about the "mixed" crowd reaction to Trump at the game, Stewart went off:

“Mixed?! I mean, mixed in the sense that it was 90 percent booing and 10 percent confusion. First of all, I mean, it wasn’t mixed in any...I’ve been in Madison Square Garden, it was no more mixed than what the Spurs received.”

"The Daily Show" host said that fans were yelling "F--- you!" at the president! Stewart offered his take on the MSG crowd booing trump on his podcast, The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart.

Stewart: New York Needed "Ghostbusters"

"The Daily Show" host didn't hold back about Trump's visit to the NBA finals game:

Kellyanne Conway Can't Understand Why Anyone Would Stand By A Misogynist

Heather — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:09:32 +0000

Here's Miss "alternative facts" and former Senior Counselor for Trump, Kellyanne Conway, being asked about Graham Platner's win as the Democratic nominee for the US Senate in Maine on Sean Hannity's show on Fox this Tuesday.

CONWAY: Any one of these would have been disqualifying for a United States senator, but all of them cumulatively tells you how screwed the Democratic Party is.

Win or lose, they stood by this misogynist. They stood by his boorish behavior. He has a troubling relationship with Nazis and porta-potties. But more than that, he has a troubling relationship with the truth. He can't tell the truth.

His entire persona is contrived. He's a fraud. His mother is his only customer at the oyster business. His father gave him money for the house. That would be fine, except he presents himself as just like you — and says you should like him for that.

The other thing is, he was here two weeks ago in Washington, D.C., Sean, for that famous meeting with Kirsten Gillibrand — female empowerment heroine, snark — and the rest of the Democrats. And they said, "Is there anything else?"
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Desi Lydic Destroys Trump And NBA Ref Mark Davis

John Amato — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:48:32 +0000

Game four of the NBA finals is tonight at Madison Square Garden, but game three left a bad taste in the mouths of many New Yorkers.

DESI: Last night was game three of the NBA Finals, and I know, I know the Knicks loss was hard on New Yorkers, but let's take the high road, okay, and acknowledge the MVP who won it for the Spurs.

Game three referee Mark Davis. Dude, what the hell was that?

I mean, don't get me wrong, I think it's great that the NBA let someone watch their first game ever right from the court, but you do realize the B in b-ball doesn't stand for blind ball bitch, right? -♪♪ No, no, no, no, no, no, we're gonna be nice, okay?

In fact, we all chipped in together to get you a gift card to LensCrafters, you blind ball bitch.

Lydic then focused on Vonshitzhispants, who ruined the experience and every watch party around MSG, and for those having to spend six hours in the Garden itself for security reason.

DESI: Also in attendance last night was the only New Yorker who spends more time in court than the Knicks, President Donald Jumpshot Trump.

Oh, you were there too? Okay.

The city gave him a very New York welcome.

Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Have some respect for the commander in chief.

That's President pussy to you.

Do you know what it means to have every single person in New York booing you?

You go, girl.

Trump Bizarrely Reacts To High Inflation: 'I Love It!'

John Amato — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:23:00 +0000

Today, the CPI reported the annual inflation rate at 4.2%, a three-year high, which is crippling most of America.

The BLS said inflation rose from 3.8% to 4.2 because -- you guessed it -- rising energy costs.

When asked today about the skyrocketing number, he was not only dismissive but also giddy.

On top of that, he proudly claimed he tanked the US economy on purpose.

Q: Mr. President, about the latest inflation number, which came out this morning. Could that be a good way to...

TRUMP: No, I love it.

The numbers were great.

You know what I really love?

I love the inflation.

This is fucking demented.

I made a much larger video clip to show how narcissistic and unresponsive his brain is. How disinterested and emotionless he is about the plight of the working class, and how they suffer under his whims.

Trump never said why he loves inflation; he just transitioned into bloviating and recapping the stock markets, attacking Venezuela, stealing their oil, attacking Iran, and claiming to steal oil.

He has these conversations within himself when he says everyone expected a barrel of oil to cost $250. Who were these people, Todd Blanche? Whiskey Pete?

Trump Called Gas Prices 'Peanuts' — Inflation Just Hit Its Worst Level In 3 Years

Conover Kennard — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:07:49 +0000

In comments to reporters outside the White House on May 19, Donald J. Trump said Americans' financial problems were “peanuts," and the president has repeatedly called the affordability crisis a "hoax." Well, as it happens, he's wrong again.

Surging gas prices sent inflation to a three-year high last month, complicating life for the Federal Reserve and handing Trump a political headache as midterm elections creep closer. The Labor Department reported Wednesday that consumer prices climbed 4.2% in May compared to a year ago — up from 3.8% in April and the third consecutive monthly increase.

Month-over-month, prices ticked up 0.5%, following substantial jumps of 0.6% in April and 0.9% in March, the Associated Press reports.

Many goods and services saw price increases last month. Clothing prices rose 0.3% in May and are now 4.8% higher than a year ago. Airline fares jumped 2.7% in a single month, due to higher jet fuel costs, and have surged nearly 27% over the past year. Electricity prices increased 0.6% in May and are up 5.9% compared to last year.

This is bad, and it's all on Trump.

Platner Wins Primary In Maine Everyone Knew He'd Win

Ed Scarce — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:57:07 +0000

Despite the New York Times, Platner received about the same level of support he had before the latest manufactured scandal.

Source: CNN

Graham Platner was all but certain to win Maine’s Democratic Senate primary on Tuesday.

But the swirl of controversies over Platner’s past personal behavior had raised a slew of questions about the outcome: Would there be a significant number of protest votes lodged for Gov. Janet Mills, whose name was still on the ballot even though she suspended her campaign in April? Would Democratic voters skip the race entirely?

None of that came to pass. With votes still being counted Tuesday night, the progressive populist Platner was on course to earn about three-fourths of primary voters’ support — effectively ending any question about whether Maine Democrats wanted him to be their standard-bearer against Republican Sen. Susan Collins in one of the nation’s marquee races in November.

His speech – and the reaction from both parties – set the fault lines for what will be a race Democrats consider critical for Senate control.

Susan Collins and the Republican machine know that to win in November, she'll have to get about 15% of Democrats to turn on Platner.

'I Don't Know What That Means': Watters Confused By Trump's Iran Deal Remarks

Heather — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:04:30 +0000

Fox's Jesse Watters knows Trump is full of crap when he keeps saying he's "very close" to a deal with Iran, but he pretends to be perplexed by it instead.

I keep wondering how long this can go on with these propagandists carrying water for Trump and his constant lies that we're just days away from some "deal" with Iran, only to have hostilities continue. The Strait of Hormuz continue to be closed, and the Iranians contradicting what Trump said, before we start to see some cracks in the armor.

This Wednesday we had some frustration from Fox's Laura Ingraham, who was pressing a former State Department official about a downed Apache helicopter which was hit by Iranian drones in the Strait of Hormuz this Tuesday, and how the Iranians still had the capability to do that if their military was supposedly "obliterated" as Trump keeps claiming.

On this Tuesday's The Five, while discussing the incident, Watters basically admitted Trump is lying to everyone, but used these weasel words to do it:

WATTERS: The president indicated he does not want to resume major combat operations. He said if we did do that, you’d have the strait closed for another two, three, four months. And he doesn’t want that.
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