TODAY Business Keeps Hiring
YOU’RE HIRED: Employers added 172,000 jobs in May, indicating that business is healthy even while wages are not keeping up with the cost of living for people doing the work.
YESTERDAY $70 Billion to Fight Immigration
THE MONEY WALL: The Senate stayed up all night while Republicans rammed through a $70 billion immigration bill that pays for President Trump’s hard line through the end of his presidency.
Many of the added jobs are in restaurants, bars, and hotels.
But The Supreme Court killing President Trump’s tariffs and the end of layoffs in the federal government appear to have eased some fears in the general population. Even the high price of gasoline has not thwarted job creation.
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Republicans Defect on War Powers
Thursday, June 4, 2026
THE WAR ROOM: Four House Republicans joined the Democrats in a vote to direct President Trump to withdraw US forces from the Iran theater or win approval from Congress to continue the fighting. The Democrats broke into cheers. The undeclared war has entered …
Read moreThe Clock Stops at “60 Minutes”
Wednesday, June 3, 2026
TICK, TICK, BOOM: “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley was fired yesterday as the result of a contentious staff meeting with the show’s new executive producer in which Pelley told Nick Bilton that he was barely qualified for his job and news …
Read moreCrosstalk and Crossfire in Middle East
Tuesday, June 2, 2026
THE WAR ROOM: The US and Iran traded attacks in the past day shaking the ceasefire once again. The US hit radar and command sites in southern Iran and Iran struck an American military base in Kuwait. The US said it had …
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It's Been Said
"Christians, get out and vote, just this time. You won't have to do it anymore. Four more years, you know what, it will be fixed, it will be fine, you won't have to vote anymore, my beautiful Christians. I love you Christians. I'm a Christian. I love you, get out, you gotta get out and vote. In four years, you don't have to vote again, we'll have it fixed so good you're not going to have to vote."
- Donald Trump courting the vote of the Christian right
