Carlos Alcaraz celebrating his French Open win with the ball kids is everything. 🥰😊👇

White House struggles to find qualified people willing to work for Pete Hegseth nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

You don’t need qualified people You need fascists and brownshirts

In September 2020, Trump said he couldn't move the National Guard into Democratic-run cities without the governor's approval. He also said of invoking the Insurrection Act: "There's no reason to ever do that, even in a Portland case."

WASHINGTON (AP) - HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. removes every member of scientific committee that advises the CDC on how vaccines should be used.

An outspoken vaccine conspiracy theorist just fired every last member of CDC's vaccine advisory committee. RFK Jr. is paving the way to reshape vaccine policy based not on decades of science, but on his own unhinged fanaticism. This is unprecedented, and unthinkably dangerous.

Rep. Barragán: "This is not an effort to really get criminals. It's an effort to see 'let's see who we can sweep up along the way.' And why are they doing this? Because this president said he was going to deport millions of people and the numbers have not been adding up. You know

"This is a day I hoped I would never see in America," the California governor said on social media. huffpost.com/entry/gavin-ne…

Today’s action to remove the 17 sitting members of ACIP undermines trust and upends a transparent process that has saved countless lives. With an ongoing measles outbreak and routine child vaccination rates declining, this move will further fuel the spread of vaccine-preventable

Some morning color

SB 79 in California was a Dem-written bill passed overwhelmingly with Dem votes, but it did need a few Republicans to get over the top. In places like New York and Maryland where Republicans have uniformly opposed reform, nothing gets done. slowboring.com/p/blue-state-r…

New in PN: ABC is too cowed to state the obvious about Stephen Miller "Miller and Trump are hateful bigots. Independent journalists can still say it, but ones at ABC can’t b/c POTUS gets a veto over their coverage. That’s not a free press. It's fascism." publicnotice.co/p/abc-terry-mo…

In last night’s ruling, WDTexas Judge Briones struck down Trump’s Alien Enemies Act Proclamation on ~7 grounds, including several new ones. He would also require 30-days notice to an alien before any AEA removal—most to date. Thread. ... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco… 1/6

I'm can't quite remember the word for it... You know, when you eschew market forces for commands from the White House that control which plants are open and which are closed... nytimes.com/2025/06/06/cli…

I wrote about this new YouGov data on Trump and the protestors in LA. In short, while the public does not approve of the protests, especially the violent ones, people are even more opposed to sending in the military. There is a big risk to the administration in overreaching

I end the article with this observation about media biases toward simplicity in analyzing public opinion, and about a general impatience for data and inflexibility with updating priors. Seems like we're seeing this more and more these days, but especially on immigration

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Every paragraph of this WSJ story is more shocking than the last: "Agents didn’t need to develop target lists of immigrants suspected of being in the U.S. illegally, a longstanding practice, Miller said. Instead, he directed them to target Home Depot, where day laborers

Worth stressing that he's not threatening rioters or people who are violent or lawless but literally just "protestors" with "very big force."

Per his office, Governor Gavin Newsom will speak at 9:30 p.m. ET tonight "in response to President Trump’s assault on democracy and the President’s illegal militarization of Los Angeles." Mayor Karen Bass has just declared a curfew for downtown LA from 8 p.m. PT until 6 a.m. to