DC attorney discipline board recommends Rudy Giuliani be disbarred for bogus 2020 election fraud claim (www.cnn.com)
Netanyahu and Putin are both waiting for Trump (www.washingtonpost.com)
Netanyahu reportedly met this month with three foreign policy envoys working with former president and current presidential candidate Donald Trump — who could yet win the election despite being convicted Thursday on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records in his New York state hush money case....
Vermont becomes 1st state to enact law requiring oil companies pay for damage from climate change [Lisa Rathke | May 31, 2024 | Associated Press] (apnews.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16031233...
Live updates: Biden Endorses Israeli Proposal for a Cease-Fire in Gaza (www.nytimes.com)
Washington Post coverage
How the GOP learned to hate divorce, again (www.motherjones.com)
Live Updates: Trump Lashes Out After Conviction in Misleading Speech (www.nytimes.com)
Washington Post Coverage as well
What Trump Requires (talkingpointsmemo.com)
Analysis by Josh Marshall, Talking Points Memo....
With Trump’s Conviction, the 2024 Presidential Election Is Finally Launched (www.thenation.com)
DeSantis moving toward vetoing bill that would regulate sale of cannabis products in Florida (www.cbsnews.com)
Donald Trump Should Drop Out (washingtonmonthly.com)
The Targeting of Infrastructure by America’s Violent Far-Right (ctc.westpoint.edu)
The U.S. government has taken notice of far-right extremists’ renewed interest in targeting critical infrastructure, releasing numerous bulletins and warnings to educate the public and communicate transparently about the nature of the threat. According to CNN reporting, in late April 2023, a Department of Homeland Security...
Sen. Joe Manchin leaves the Democratic Party and registers as independent (www.nbcnews.com)
Manchin leaves Democratic Party, files as independent (thehill.com)
Joe Manchin leaves the Democratic Party, files as independent (www.axios.com)
Trump campaign raises record $34.8 million in donations after guilty verdict (www.cnbc.com)
Why Megadonors Are Unfazed by Donald Trump’s Guilty Verdict | Money flowed into the former president’s re-election campaign from Wall Street and Silicon Valley following Thursday’s historic conviction (www.nytimes.com)
With the billionaires backing him, it’s going to be on us as individual Americans to make sure Trump doesn’t end up in the White House again. That means not just voting but talking with people around you, volunteering and donating
Trump’s ‘Team of Felons’ adds the most important member of all (www.msnbc.com)
Trump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict (www.reuters.com)
Meltdown
A Manhattan Jury Has Placed another Question Mark on the Trump Presidency (www.justsecurity.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/web/…/trump-verdict/
Debunking the Myth of the ‘Migrant Crime Wave’ (www.brennancenter.org)
Archived at web.archive.org/…/debunking-myth-migrant-crime-wa…
Is Trump going to prison? What to know about the possible sentence after his conviction (www.cbsnews.com)
Mary Trump says her uncle "absolutely" should go to jail (www.newsweek.com)
After Donald Trump was convicted of 34 felonies in Manhattan on Thursday, his estranged niece has said he should “absolutely” go to jail....
Texas education leaders unveil Bible-infused elementary school curriculum (www.texastribune.org)
The proposed curriculum overhaul was released a week after the Texas GOP proposed requiring the Bible to be taught in public schools. School districts that opt to use them will get more funding....
Trump is now trying to downplay Project 2025 (www.salon.com)
Project 2025 (and its auxiliary Trump’s “Agenda 47”) are a plan by right-wing extremists and other authoritarians to end America’s multiracial democracy and to replace it with a White Christian nationalist plutocracy....
Lauren Boebert 14 points behind Democrat opponent in Colorado poll (www.newsweek.com)
House Republican Lauren Boebert is polling 14 points behind potential Democratic rival Ike McCorkle in a hypothetic matchup for Colorado’s 4th Congressional District according to a survey conducted on behalf of his campaign....
