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[FactPost @factpostnews]

Mayor Zohran Mamdani has announced a free Knicks watch party at Bryant Park.

This comes after watch parties outside of Madison Square Garden were canceled due to Trump's attendance.

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

🚨BREAKING: Some in Congress, even Republicans, are noting Trump feels safe enough to attend an NBA Finals game at MSG, in an arena full of people who hate him.

They are questioning why $1 billion of constituents’ tax money needs to go to a ballroom safe space vanity project.

[Ben Inskeep @Ben_Inskeep]

Indiana's $8 billion in known subsidies to Amazon--which actually significantly understates the full value of the hand outs--is 8x larger than the next-largest set of subsidies given to a US data center, according to @GoodJobsFirst Subsidy Tracker.

Hoosiers are getting bilked!!

[ProPublica @propublica]

A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.
https://t.co/B5oi96rNqb

[anyone_want_chips @anyonewantchips]

With the shooting in Toledo, Ohio - it might be a good time to point out that since Trump’s 2nd term: Republicans introduced zero gun reform bills, despite almost 600 mass shootings - while introducing over 800 restrictive voting bills, despite only 40 cases of voter fraud.

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein reading room has arrived in Washington, D.C. for Donald Trump’s birthday.

I just did a walkthrough—I encourage you to do the same.

It will be open to the public starting June 9th.

[Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff]

i’m not crying, you’re crying. 😭 thank you again to the greatest, @AliVelshi.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Senate Republicans vote to stop all investigations into ICE civil rights abuses.

[Suppressed News. @SuppressedNws1]

Trump today claimed he “didn’t promise anything” about NO NEW WARS.

So here’s a second compilation showing FIFTY times during his campaign where he PROMISED exactly that.

[Jacob Soboroff @jacobsoboroff]

Trump should show up here at the L.A. County ballot processing center because he’d learn within five minutes this is democracy in action, not some conspiracy.

[Ms. M @msmalarkey24.bsky @MsMalarkey24]

My god. Sickeningly unethical.

Email directive from Bari Weiss to 60 Minutes executive producer Tanya Simon:

“Can we make the protesters look more violent? […]

The other thing was, Renee Good’s car. You need to describe her as driving toward the officer.”

[Elizabeth @alluringmedia]

JAKE TAPPER WILL NEVER BE HUGGED BY ELTON JOHN OR RESPECTED

ELTON JOHN HUGS JOE BIDEN AS BIDEN RECEIVES A STONEWALL AWARD IN PHILADELPHIA TODAY FOR ALL OF HIS LGBTQ+ ACTION & LEGISLATION
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[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

This is a devastating interview.

Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good.

Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

NEW: Virginia political organizer and a military vet file federal suit, seeking court order to HALT the UFC fight at White House:

"This plan is deeply corrupt.. President is giving (Dana) White & his company what none have enjoyed before: unfettered access to the White House.. to stage a private, for-profit sports event"

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[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump has a meltdown and ends the interview

Welker: Just to be very clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying.

Trump: There’s a lot of evidence. There’s tremendous evidence. There’s nothing but evidence. The election was rigged. And it’s happening again in California. They’re cheating.

Welker: Do you have evidence?

Trump: All I have to do is look.

Welker: That’s not evidence. The local officials acknowledge they are slow

Trump: They’re crooked. Just like you’re crooked. You’re either crooked or stupid.

[The Debt Collective 🟥 @StrikeDebt]

New: As Trump transfers federal student loans from the Department of Education to Treasury, defaulted borrowers will be routed through private companies that were previously sued or fined by federal watchdogs for "abusive" practices.
https://t.co/6HnAssbg3o

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Under Trump, the Forest Service is gutting labs that cost ONE DOLLAR in rent so they can cram scientists into a Fort Collins office that costs taxpayers a million a year.

As reported by NPR, Trump's 2027 budget zeroes out Forest Service research entirely. Three hundred and nine million dollars, gone. Fifty-seven of the agency's seventy-seven research stations are on the chopping block.

These are the forests generations of Americans have hiked, hunted, camped, and prayed in. Sacred ground for almost anyone who's ever stepped outside in this country.

And the "efficiency" pitch? A scam.

The research station in Hilo, Hawaii sits on 30,000 acres the federal government rents for a one-time fee of ONE DOLLAR, locked in until 2067. The Michigan Tech lease? One dollar paid in 1963, free ever since. Another site costs the agency $600 a month for two rooms.

The destination they want everyone shipped to in Fort Collins runs taxpayers a million a year.

Read that again. They're closing dollar leases to expand a million-dollar lease.
Scientists in Baltimore have spent years planting white oak saplings that need three decades to mature. You can't FedEx a forest to Colorado. You can't manage a Hawaiian ecosystem from a cubicle in Utah.

Researchers told NPR they'll quit before they relocate. Which is the point.

Meanwhile, Trump has openly pledged to ramp up logging on federal land. Gut the scientists who document the damage, and there's nobody left to sound the alarm when ancient forests get clear-cut for profit.

These are the people who tell us when wildfire season turns deadly. Who track invasive beetles eating through pine. Who teach cities how to recycle dead trees instead of dumping them in landfills.

You don't dismantle the world's largest forestry research network because you're worried about a maintenance bill. You dismantle it because somebody plans to take a chainsaw to what the public owns and doesn't want a paper trail.

The forests don't belong to Tom Schultz. They don't belong to Trump. They belong to every American who has ever stood quiet under a hundred-year-old tree and understood, for one second, that some things are not for sale.

Defend them now, or explain it to your grandkids later.

[Shane Cashman @ShaneCashman]

There’s literally nothing weird about Thomas Matthew Crooks emailing a deputy from Butler, PA before the assassination attempt. It’s not weird that he practiced shooting at the same range Homeland Security used. It’s not weird that the local police and Secret Service spotted Crooks with a rangefinder, photographed him, and texted about him for over an hour and still let him climb the roof with a rifle. It’s not weird that the Secret Service wasn’t flying drones that day, but Crooks was. It’s not weird that Butler was the first Trump rally of the year with Secret Service anti-sniper agents on the roofs. It’s not weird that Crooks’ house looked like a sterile lab with no trash or silverware. And it’s not weird that his body was cremated ten days later before Congress could see it. This is like when people say the CIA was shadowing Oswald before he, and he alone, shot JFK.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Florida paid a portable toilet company called Doodie Calls more than $92 million over six months to haul wastewater out of the Everglades. The state projected it would pay Doodie Calls $480 million over two years. For comparison, building a sewage treatment plant for a city of 10,000 people costs about $5 million.

That is one vendor. At one facility. Built in eight days on an Everglades airstrip using hurricane disaster funds because Ron DeSantis declared immigration a state of emergency in 2023 to access a $5 billion fund set aside for floods and hurricanes.

The facility costs between $1.2 million and $3 million per day to operate. A conservative estimate puts the annual per-capita cost at $500,000 per detainee. Florida spends $30,000 a year to house a convicted criminal in a state prison. The math on Alligator Alcatraz is not tougher than a prison. It is more than sixteen times more expensive.

Three quarters of the men held there have never been convicted of a crime. They are awaiting civil immigration proceedings. They are being held in kennels - cages with steel mesh sides, 16 bunks, three toilets, brightly lit 24 hours a day. Amnesty International documented what it called deliberate neglect designed to dehumanize, including credible allegations of men held in stress positions in direct sunlight without food or water for hours at a time.

Governor Braun opened the Speedway Slammer at an Indiana prison. The Cornhusker Clink in Nebraska. The Louisiana Lockup at Angola. The naming contest is ongoing. The cruelty is the point. The cost is someone else's problem. Florida's emergency fund has dwindled to $200 million. The facility cannot run to the end of the year.

The men in the cages are still there.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) says it is “deeply alarmed” about the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) new rule created to carry out President Donald Trump’s plans for restricting mail-in voting. https://t.co/ZHYGFbkSCC