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.

June 6, 2026 at 11:57 AM EDT
Feeble GOP rebellion won't save them in November: analysis

Guardian writer Chris Stein says do not expect the lock-step Republican Party to find it's spine and wholly disown it's MAGA king in time for the November midterms -- but you can expect a smattering of GOP adherents to break away as a matter of political survival. "The wrath of Donald Trump has kept congressional Republicans in line for much of his second term thus far," said Stein. "But as the November midterm elections draw closer, the president's allies in the Senate and House of Representatives appear increasingly willing to defy a president who appears to have asked lawmakers for too much in some areas and too little in others, all while the public sours on his administration."

June 6, 2026 at 10:12 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 6, 2026 at 10:07 AM EDT
'Exhausted' Trump now too sleepy to hammer 'sleepy Joe': report

For years President Donald Trump has joyfully plundered former president Joe Biden's perceived lack of energy and measured, sluggish delivery for insults. But during one of his Oval Office afternoon televised announcements the Trump showed some semblance of mercy. Irish Times correspondent Keith Duggan says it's almost like the famously snoozy Trump was feeling a rare bout of empathy.

June 6, 2026 at 8:37 AM EDT
'He lied': Trump voters are revolting at the scope of White House betrayal

Bulwark founder Sarah Longwell hosts frequent surveys with Trump supporters. And her latest foray reveals Trump's fans have had it with the president's failure to deliver on promises, however, and they may sit home in a huff as Republicans tumble in November. "My brain is literally spinning with so much," reports one Trump voting woman. "I think that he sold us a bag of -- I'm not going to curse, but I do not like the way things are going, even with ICE. And border control for me was a very big thing. That was one of my biggest concerns with this election was cleaning up the country and getting these dangerous illegals out. But I don't like how innocent people, professionals have been incarcerated or taken."

June 6, 2026 at 8:18 AM EDT
Republicans are weaponizing a backlash against marriage equality

This year at least five red states are trying to erase Pride month, renaming June to celebrate the heterosexual family""as if it's not celebrated every day in American life. The homophobic MAGA GOP Congressman Andy Ogles of Tennessee""one of the aforementioned red states""this week posted on X that "homosexuality has no place in America," wishing his followers a "Happy Nuclear Family Month." After much outrage he deleted it, blaming it on a "staffer," though we've heard no news of the staffer facing dismissal or any punishment. Ogles, let's not forget, is a hardcore bigot, who also posted earlier this year that "Muslims have no place in American society."

June 5, 2026 at 10:24 PM EDT
DC insider stunned 'broken down' Trump is seen as a 'symbol of virility'

Former GOP strategist and Lincoln Project co-founder Steve Schmidt and podcaster Jim Acosta are no fans of President Donald Trump""but rarely are they surprised. Nevertheless, both expressed astonishment at the MAGA cult's ability to delude itself and drag members of the Republican Party along with it on Schimdt's "the Warning" podcast.

June 5, 2026 at 8:47 PM EDT
Trump's henchmen are struggling to disguise his 'daily decline'

Left Hook host Wajahat Ali and podcaster Danielle Moodie say President Donald Trump's people -- and the media -- is struggling to hide the president's obvious decline before cameras as a startled nation looks on. "We recently witnessed a public official, Marco Rubio, testify before Congress that a prominent political figure 'never sleeps' and is a dynamo of nocturnal productivity," said Ali. "Minutes later, he was confronted with video evidence from a cabinet meeting showing that very same figure slumped over, eyes tightly shut, completely asleep while Rubio himself was speaking."