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MAGA's kayfabe meltdown over California primary
Spencer Pratt on Fox & Friends late last month. (Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty)This edition of PN is made possible by paid subscribers. Become one ⬇️🤯 Subscribe to PN 🤯Reality show influencer Spencer Pratt won’t be getting clobbered in November by Karen Bass, and MAGA is psyched. It’s a golden opportunity to scream about fraud in race Republicans were always going to lose,…Read More
You Need To See This!
Much laughter has ensued, and you will be sharing the hilarity shortly. This person has submitted paperwork for something and must think they have a chance of winning. Oh, lawdy, please no. Just … no. Thank you, Raw Story: The man California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) called “Gestapo Greg” is now gunning for the White House — and he’s ready to […] The post You Need…Read More
What You Need to Know About How Tear Gas Harms Kids
In city after city, the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has been met by protests and rallies from members of the local community opposed to the White House’s deportation policies. Federal agents from the Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have repeatedly attempted to break up and drive back these crowds through the use of airborne irritants like…Read More
Belfast Braces for Unrest After Horrific Knife Attack
A horrific knife attack in Belfast threatens to trigger unrest in the city. Plus: The latest on the upcoming Makerfield byelection, a top referee has been denied entry to the US ahead of the World Cup, and a viral Jennifer Lopez clip sparks debate on who gets to be a New Yorker. With Aaron Bastani & Paul Holden. Source link…Read More
Donald Trump Is Accidentally Speeding the Green Transition
One of President Donald Trump’s top-tier fixations is to heap ridicule on both climate science and all projects committed to combating the global climate crisis. In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly last September, Trump declared that climate change is “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” For good measure, Trump regularly invokes “The Green New Scam” as…Read More
Michigan nurses push back on Henry Ford Health union-busting tactics
DETROIT—On West Grand Boulevard, two hospitals sit side by side, both owned by the Henry Ford Health system. The newly constructed facility, nearing a price tag of $3 billion, towers over the old. It’s a picture Henry Ford Health would like to use as a symbol of progress and a future of high-tech, high-profit medicine. But the informational pickets held…Read More
Higher education must not become a research arm of militarized power
This article was originally published by Truthout on June 08, 2026. It is shared here under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) license. What happens to higher education when institutions dedicated to critical thought increasingly align themselves with the logics of war, surveillance, and national security? Unless we mount an organized resistance, we may viscerally experience the answer to this…Read More
Republicans Go Off The Rails And Say They Don't Need Proof To Claim Elections Are Rigged
Congressional Republicans returned to the Capitol on Monday, and CNN’s Manu Raju has been tracking them down to ask if they have any proof to support Trump’s claim that the primary election in California was rigged.When Raju asked the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson said:I, look, I don’t… Some of these efforts are so diabolical and so far upstream,…Read More
Many States Are Moving to Regulate Data Centers. North Carolina Just Took a Step Sideways.
Across the country, legislators are figuring out how to regulate the worst harms from data centers. In North Carolina, the latest bill to do so is Senate Bill 730. Unfortunately, SB 730 is not a step forward in protecting North Carolinians from the harms of data centers. Rather, it is a step sideways, evading needed regulations. The post Many States…Read More
ON THE CALIFORNIA VOTE COUNT, DEMOCRATS SHOULD GO ON OFFENSE
California is counting ballots slowly, as it always does. Mail-in ballots are largely from Democrats, as is the case in most states, because more Democrats than Republicans prefer to vote by mail. In California a ballot counts if it arrives up to a week after Election Day as long as it was postmarked by Election Day. This is similar to…Read More