Court expected to hand down decisions on several outstanding cases, wrapping up term that has focussed on Trump’s expansive claims of presidential powerTyler HicksFollowing a brutal Republican primary runoff in which Islamophobia took center stage, anti-Muslim hatred continues spilling into public life in Texas. Continue reading...
President Trump said talks with Iran would resume Tuesday in Qatar, despite the two sides trading attacks in the Gulf over the weekend. Iran did not confirm whether it will participate.
Republican leaders are facing an uncertain path forward for their legislative plans, according to The Hill, after a contingent of "conservative hard-liners" mounted a "rebellion" to try and push for President Donald Trump's doomed voting bill."Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has an ambitious legislative agenda this week, but it’s unclear whether he can move those priorities forward as a group of conservative hard-liners demand action on the Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE America) Act," the outlet reported on Monday morning."Trump has been pushing hard for the passage of the SAVE America Act, a bill that would implement sweeping voting law reforms if passed, notably requiring individuals to present proof of citizenship when registering to vote. His obsession with the bill stems from his long-debunked claims that widespread voter fraud is being committed by non-citizens in the U.S., with critics warning that the bill would potentially disenfranchise millions of lawful citizens who lack easy access to things like their passports or birth certificates.Despite GOP leaders in Congress stressing to Trump that the bill lacks the votes to overcome the filibuster in the Senate, he has remained adamant that it must be passed, recently refusing to sign a bipartisan housing affordability bill until it was done. As The Hill noted in its report, he has been joined in this crusade by some of his more hard-line GOP supporters."President Trump urged House Republicans last week to fall in line after conservative rebels brought most House floor activity to a standstill by threatening to oppose procedural rules unless the Senate passed the SAVE America Act," the report continued. "Because the House must adopt a rule before debating and voting on final passage of most legislation, the tactic effectively ground the chamber to a halt."The outlet added: "Whether Trump’s appeal will be enough to sway the holdouts remains an open question. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna(R-Fla.) wrote on social media last week that she had submitted an amendment to the House Rules Committee to attach the SAVE America Act to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), signaling she is unwilling to back down.""This amendment to attach the SAVE America Act to the NDAA was filed last week and is now sitting in the Rules Committee," Luna wrote. "This is how to get my vote on a rule. But I am one of MANY."GOP Rep. Chip Roy of Texas was also adamant about the bill, urging his colleagues to "immediately pass HR2 (promised) to codify border security, a congressional stock trading ban, get SAVE passed, & fully fund defense with real pay-fors."Given the razor-thin GOP majority in the House, Johnson cannot afford more than a few holdouts at any given time, putting the chances of his other priorities moving forward in jeopardy.
The Supreme Court is due to release orders and some of its final opinions on Monday morning, days after delivering wins for the Trump administration in major rulings on immigration. Follow along here for the latest rulings from the court, which should be released shortly after 10 a.m. President Trump said Monday on Truth Social…
President Donald Trump's nomination of an obscure Oklahoma state trooper to lead Immigration and Customs Enforcement has set off a revolt inside the agency and raised fresh questions about whether Stephen Miller's influence in the White House is fading.Sources told The Daily Beast's PunchUp that Richard "Lance" Schroyer, a former highway patrolman and ex-Marine, was the choice of Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin rather than border czar Tom Homan or Miller, the deputy chief of staff who has driven the administration's immigration agenda, and one source said the snub points to his diminishing sway over the president."He may be getting boxed out," the source said. The remark comes as Miller's signature self-deportation initiative, Project Homecoming, is increasingly viewed internally as a costly failure.A senior ICE figure said it "seems Homan is losing some power," citing his resistance to Trump's proposal to rename ICE as "NICE." Trump himself acknowledged the friction in a Truth Social post, noting Homan had told him agents weren't as enthusiastic about the idea as others.Inside ICE, reaction to Schroyer's nomination has been described as brutal, with senior leaders and rank-and-file agents reportedly furious over his lack of management experience. One insider noted he has never run a budget or led an organization, yet would now oversee a $78 billion agency with 32,000 employees. Multiple sources said agents are openly discussing retirement.Schroyer has reportedly been quietly advising Mullin for weeks, having previously worked on the senator's security detail in Oklahoma — a relationship close enough that Mullin would sometimes invite him to dinner.The pick marks a reversal of fortune for Mullin, who has clashed with Miller and Homan since becoming DHS secretary in March. He initially wanted a different ally for the ICE post but was overruled, and Miller and Homan later installed their own pick as acting director. Schroyer's emergence now suggests that balance may be shifting.One veteran agency official compared the dynamic to Trump's previous DHS leadership shake-up, warning that Schroyer could become a loyal but inexperienced "inside man," echoing comparisons to former DHS Secretary Kristi Noem’s often-ridiculed former ICE deputy director, Madison Sheahan.A White House official pushed back on the narrative of discord, saying Trump retains "full faith and confidence" in both Homan and Miller, and that Miller was aware of and supportive of the Schroyer decision.DHS and ICE did not respond to requests for comment.
A professor of political science weighed in Monday on the latest controversy surrounding President Donald Trump and his family, one that involves allegations of corruption so blatant, the professor said, that a graphic outlining the alleged corruption bore resemblance to “an inbred family tree.”According to an explosive report from The New York Times Sunday, the sons of both Trump and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick are expected to profit handsomely from a secretive deal signed off on by Trump last November. As revealed by the Times, the Trump administration approved “as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing” for a small American mining company in an arrangement to secure Kazakhstan’s tungsten reserves, a deal that both Trump and Lutnick’s sons are expected to financially benefit from.Adam Bonica, a professor of political science at Stanford, noted the unprecedented simplicity of the alleged corruption scandal, writing on social media that the graphic created by the Times to illustrate the key players in the arrangement was unlike any similar graphic he’d seen before.“Usually these political corruption maps have complicated plumbing,” he wrote in a social media post on Bluesky, a comment that was flagged by Zeteo on Monday. “You know it’s bad when it’s just a closed loop that looks like an inbred family tree.”Trump’s sons – Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump – took a 20% stake in an entity “related to the Kazakhstan project,” the Times reported, and Lutnick’s sons – Brandon and Kyle Lutnick – helped raise funds for the deal through their investment company Cantor Fitzgerald, something that “typically [nets] Cantor millions of dollars in fees.”Even Pini Althaus, the owner of the aforementioned mining company, Kaz Resources, admitted to the Times that the optics of the arrangement looked "disturbing."“I can see how the optics might be disturbing to some people,” Althaus told the Times.Usually these political corruption maps have complicated plumbing. You know it’s bad when it’s just a closed loop that looks like an inbred family tree.[image or embed]— Adam Bonica (@adambonica.bsky.social) June 28, 2026 at 11:54 AM
President Donald Trump has boasted about the crowds flocking to the Great American State Fair, but photos show the semiquincentennial celebration has been thinly attended.The 80-year-old president claimed last week that 45,000 people attended the fair's kickoff celebration, although independent reporting estimated a far smaller crowd, and MS NOW's Mika Brzezinski mocked the misleading coverage over the weekend on Fox News."President Trump is touting crowd size at the American State Fair, claiming at least 45,000 people attended his speech kicking off America's 250th anniversary festivities. In Washington, D.C.," Brzezinski said. "But reports from the ground tell a different story. NBC News puts the crowd closer to 1,000 people, writing, quote, 'based on,' there you go, 'estimates by our team on the ground, nowhere near. 45,000 people were present.' The Washington Post reports, quote, 'the crowd thinly covered an area about the length of the National Museum of American History, smaller than some summer outdoor movie screenings,' and the New Republic writes, quote, 'dozens of attendees Wednesday were seen flocking toward the exits in the middle of Trump's address,' which was meant to kick-start the two-week event.""Despite the paltry crowd size, one news station insisted that there were more people attending that event than met the eye," she added.Producers played a clip of Fox News hosts covering the event live insisting there were more attendees than what appeared to be dozens of people milling around behind them on the National Mall, with one broadcaster claiming "a wash of people" were present – presumably just out of frame."Oh my God," Brzezinski said, cringing. "Ouch." - YouTube youtu.be
US President Donald Trump said peace talks with Iran are set to resume Tuesday in Doha, after both sides agreed to halt a series of tit-for-tat attacks over the Strait of Hormuz.
Disgraced former President Joe Biden raged and mumbled his way through a ten-minute diatribe attacking his successor, at one point hypocritically accusing President Donald J. Trump of […]