June 7, 2026 at 1:19 PM EDT
There are other ways for Trump to sneak $1.8 billion to his criminal pals

President Donald Trump is reportedly considering a way to pay his supporters from a slush fund in a manner he and his backers hope will be secret. "The promised end of President Trump's 'anti-weaponization' fund won't necessarily stop the Department of Justice (DOJ) from making payouts to those who argue they've been wronged by the government and who are instead eyeing new pathways to access federal money," reported The Hill's Rebecca Beitsch. "After acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said the controversial fund would 'not be moving forward,' Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) noted that the aggrieved have always had a pathway for getting settlements from the government."

June 7, 2026 at 12:34 PM EDT
Inside Trump's secret motive for lying

President Donald Trump is constantly lying, but according to a prominent political philosopher, it is not because he intends to deceive. He is actually doing something far worse -- and it is starting to impact even his own supporters. "For much of his political career, dishonesty has been without cost for Donald Trump," wrote Vanderbilt University political philosopher Robert B. Talisse for the Emporia Gazette on Sunday. "He entered into national politics with the birther lie, claiming that Barack Obama was not born in the U.S., and that did not prevent Trump from winning the 2016 GOP nomination. His persistent false statements about crowd sizes, electoral outcomes and the birthplace of his father barely garner press coverage today."

June 7, 2026 at 11:40 AM EDT
Trump ignores an economic crisis -- the one conservatives built their brand attacking

President Donald Trump, as a Republican, should theoretically support fiscal conservatism. Yet according to a report by a financial journalist, under Trump America's national debt and deficit are ballooning to dangerous levels. "The price that the U.S. government has to pay to borrow money for 30 years has already punched through 5 percent a year, its highest level since the financial crisis of 2007," reported The Washington Post's Matthew Lynn on Sunday. "For 10-year money, the annual price is 4.6 percent and climbing. Amid all the noise about the rise of artificial intelligence and the booming space economy, something far more significant is happening in the financial markets. The cost of borrowing is being reset."

June 7, 2026 at 11:04 AM EDT
The sleep industrial complex is lying to you -- and it's making Americans sicker

Adults accept it as conventional health wisdom that we require eight hours of sleep each night in order to be healthy. Yet an expert on human evolutionary biology recently argued that this might actually be misleading. "Do you lose sleep over whether you sleep too little or too much?" Daniel E. Lieberman, a professor at Harvard University, wrote for The New York Times on Sunday. "You can now relax, because scientists have figured out precisely how much sleep you really need. In a recent study in Nature, an international team of experts reports that the 'sweet spot' for adults is between 6 hours 24 minutes and 7 hours 48 minutes. Less or more than this 'Goldilocks' zone is associated with faster rates of aging in the brain, heart, liver and other vital organs, plus higher rates of illnesses such as heart disease and depression, and ultimately shorter lifespans."

June 7, 2026 at 9:09 AM EDT
Conservative says Trump has destroyed an important pillar of American life

President Donald Trump has weaponized the Justice Department so egregiously, he has literally destroyed an important pillar of American life, at least according to one conservative commentator. "President Trump's $1.776 billion weaponization fund to compensate January 6th rioters for their troubles is now (probably""perhaps mostly) dead," The Bulwark's Elliot Williams wrote on Sunday. "But that doesn't mean that you should stop paying attention to it."

June 7, 2026 at 8:26 AM EDT
Georgia election worker sounds alarm on Trump's new intimidation scheme

President Donald Trump is attempting to compromise future elections by targeting election workers to gaslight America about his 2020 defeat, according to a Georgia election worker. "We are responding to 'Fulton seeks to block federal subpoena targeting 2020 election workers, May 5,'" wrote Election Protectors United of Georgia's Jon C. Greaves in an editorial for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution that was published on Sunday. "As registered voters from Fulton County and beyond, we deeply value the selfless staff and volunteers who facilitate free and fair elections here and across the state."

June 7, 2026 at 8:12 AM EDT
One defiant stand is sending shockwaves through Trump's media takeover

I started in radio news as a teenage reporter at WITL-AM/FM in Lansing, Michigan, then the number one station in the capital city. I began reporting from the Capitol and City Hall, and was writing and reading the morning newscasts within a year. The station owner was a hardcore Goldwater Republican, our news director was a liberal but Libertarian-curious Democrat, and I was a long-haired anti-war hippie member of MSU's Students for a Democratic Society.

June 7, 2026 at 5:35 AM EDT
Americans shouldn't feel guilty about rooting against the US in the World Cup

The 2026 World Cup promises to be the planet's most-watched sporting event. It's also poised to generate its fair share of controversy. Taking into account the history of corruption in FIFA, the sport's governing body, it would be hard to blame anyone who decided to ignore this year's competition.

June 7, 2026 at 5:24 AM EDT
Americans are on the brink of losing it all -- and good people know it

Let's start with some questions today, before we arrive at the answer. What if Kamala Harris had become president, promptly leveled the historic East Wing of our White House, and then spent each day like a petrified drama queen shrieking that taxpayers should purchase her a new ballroom?

June 7, 2026 at 5:20 AM EDT
Trump is the nightmare America needed to wake up

I detest him and everything he does or says. Ditto his despicable aides and Cabinet members, his unprincipled sycophants and suck-ups. But it's possible that someday we'll look back on this horrendous era and say we needed Trump. We needed to see how horrible it could get before America was able to revive its ideals.

June 6, 2026 at 2:10 PM EDT
'Appalling' video captures driver wrecking ancient National Park forest

San Francisco Gate reports employees are searching for someone who appears to have illegally driven a car through the delicate bristlecone pines ecosystem of the Inyo National Forest. "Adam Leidy, Inyo National Forest's off-highway vehicle and over-snow vehicle program manager, posted two videos to his Facebook account in late May -- one flagging tire marks on the wrong side of some 'no motor vehicles' signs and another one showing a Subaru on the move," reports SF Gate. "Leidy asked anyone with information about the driver to contact Inyo's dispatch at 760-873-2405."

June 6, 2026 at 12:43 PM EDT
Trump so 'detached from reality' he may not even know how wrecked he is: report

President Donald Trump genuinely appears in no hurry to end his self-created Iran war disaster, which is tearing down Republicans' chances in the November midterms. And Zeteo reporter Harrison Mann believes that might be because the president is truly clueless about the pain he's putting on grumbling voters. It's hard for many Americans not to feel the increased pain at the pump and the agony of steady inflation in grocery stores, but Mann said an isolated president surrounding himself with yes-men and good news artists might be totally unaware of just how wrong things have gone in Iran.