June 8, 2025 Journalism, Trump Administration
“The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism. Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy. But that’s not what’s interesting about Miller. It’s not brains. It’s bile. Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He’s …
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June 8, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
USA Today reports: The stage is being set – literally – for the military parade June 14 to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army that coincides with Trump’s birthday. Construction workers are erecting a stage along Constitution Avenue near the White House. Steel plates have been embedded in the asphalt to protect roads from 140,000-pound tanks. And the …
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June 8, 2025 Christianists, Marriage Equality
The New York Times reports: Southern Baptists plan to vote this week on acting to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges, the Supreme Court ruling that legalized gay marriage 10 years ago this month. The step is part of a growing effort by evangelicals nationwide to reverse Obergefell, and coincides with a renewed campaign in state legislatures to challenge the widely accepted …
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June 8, 2025 European Union, LGBT News
Reuters reports: Tens of thousands of Romanians joined an LGBTQ Pride march in Bucharest on Saturday, demanding civil union partnership legislation and equal rights after a highly-contested presidential election last month buoyed the far right. The European Union state has so far ignored a 2023 ruling by the European Court of Human Rights, which found Romania had failed to enforce …
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June 8, 2025 Elon Musk, Politics
Politico reports: Andrew Yang has reached out to Elon Musk with a sales pitch: Let’s build a third party together. The former 2020 Democratic presidential candidate has been pushing his independent Forward Party for several years — and he sprang into action after Musk’s feud with President Donald Trump erupted and Musk polled X users on whether they wanted a …
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June 8, 2025 Crime, Politics
NPR reports: Colombian senator and presidential hopeful Miguel Uribe Turbay, 39, was shot in the head at a Bogotá campaign event Saturday, in an attack that sent shockwaves through the country. The politician’s condition remains unclear after being shot by a 15-year-old sicario, or paid hitman, while delivering a speech to a small group of supporters in a park in …
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June 8, 2025 The Arts, Trump Administration
The Wall Street Journal reports: When the curtain rises in the John F. Kennedy Center Opera House for a performance of “Les Misérables” this week, President Trump is scheduled to be surrounded by supporters who have paid up to $2 million to watch the musical with him. A coup de théâtre earlier this year put the president and his deputies …
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June 8, 2025 Trump Corruption, Trump Lies
Axios reports: President Trump reportedly picks up when his cell rings even if he doesn’t know who’s calling. Senior members of his team also love chatting on their personal devices. That makes the administration uniquely vulnerable to basic scams like spoofed calls and impersonation attempts. If Trump is willing to answer unknown numbers, as The Atlantic reported this week, there’s …
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June 8, 2025 Immigration, Trump Administration
The New York Times reports: A third day of protests against immigration raids was expected to take place in the Los Angeles area on Sunday, hours after President Trump took the extraordinary action of ordering at least 2,000 National Guard members to assist immigration agents clashing with demonstrators. The announcement by Mr. Trump — who said that any protest or …
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June 7, 2025 JMG Community, Open Thread
Variety reports: A federal appeals court ruled that the White House has the latitude to exclude any journalists it chooses from the Oval Office and other “restricted areas” — including on the basis of a news outlet’s “viewpoint.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, in a 2-1 decision Friday, ruled against the AP, which had sued three …
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