curated news excerpts & citations
… trying to ‘unbury the lede’
Fred Wellman: D-Day and another failure by Hegseth
On the 82nd Anniversary of that fateful day the SecDef forgot the why of it all
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A day that should talk about the sacrifice of the brave veterans and the civilians caught in the crossfire was instead turned into a pathetic anti-immigrant political hit job against our allies by the man who likes to pretend he is a warrior while acting like a petulant child.
“Sadly, today, different European beaches are stormed by different dangerous ideologies. Beaches in Spain and Italy and Greece and Bulgaria. Boats and men arrive. When will European capitals do something about that invasion? Or is it too late? I pray not, and I believe not.”
He said this in front of twenty-nine of the last remaining veterans of that day including 107-year old Navy veteran Art Rose. Rose read a letter he had written to his parents on June 11, 1944.
“Rose expressed his fear of the unknown before the invasion, the letter ended with a positive message. Reading from the letter, Rose said: “What a country we are. I will always be grateful to my commander for taking me along [to battle]. Don’t worry about me. I am well, whole and happy. Love, Art.”
Mary Geddry: The Old Poison in New Bottles
D-Day was a rebuke to fascism, not an invitation for Pete Hegseth, JD Vance, and Donald Trump to recycle the politics of fear, grievance, and exclusion.
Olivia Ralph @ DailyBeast: Trump, 79, Honors D-Day Heroes by Praising Himself
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Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – June 7, 2026
Meet the Press today aired an interview host Kristen Welker taped Friday with President Donald J. Trump. It showed Trump losing control and walking out of the interview when Welker challenged his insistence that the 2020 presidential election and the recent California election were rigged.
Weirdly, he kept referring to the U.S. as “your” country when he was speaking to Welker, and to “your” elections. It was almost as if he was a foreign observer offering criticism of the U.S.
…Scott Pelley, who was fired last week from 60 Minutes after thirty-seven years as a CBS correspondent, spoke with Lulu Garcia-Navarro of the New York Times in an interview that appeared today. Pelley explained that CBS News director Bari Weiss, appointed after Trump loyalist David Ellison took over the network, asked for changes to a story about the anti-ICE and Border Patrol protests in Minneapolis over the winter.
Hours before airing, he explained, after the story had been approved, Weiss sent an email to Pelley’s boss asking them to make the protesters look more violent and to say that before an officer shot her, Renee Good was driving toward him.
But she wasn’t. Pelley continued: “On the video, you see the officer standing slightly off the front of the car. And you clearly see Ms. Good’s wheels turned completely as far as they will go, away from the officer. But he shoots her in the head, kills her, and says something about her that I can’t repeat in polite company.
“We have gone out of our way in our plan from the very beginning to show the protesters for the responsibility that they had. We had already scrubbed the video archives, looking for those scenes. Somehow that wasn’t enough for Ms. Weiss. The video showed that the officer wasn’t standing in front of the car and she wasn’t driving toward him, but that’s what the president said about that, and that’s the way she wanted it described.”
(Heather Cox Richardson more…)John Bowden @ Independent: Trump storms out of NBC interview after being fact-checked about his $1.8B ‘slush fund’ and election fraud
Dean Blundell: Scott Pelley Just Told The New York Times What Bari Weiss Put In Writing — “Can We Make The (Anti- Trump) Protesters Look More Violent?”
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Prem Thakker @ zeteo: 100 Days and Still No Answers for Over 100 Kids Killed at an Iranian School
Prem pressed lawmakers on what they’re doing about what may be one of the worst U.S. war crimes in modern history. Some didn’t even know what he was talking about.
(Prem Thakker @ zeteo more…)
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Hans Christensen: Negotiating the Defeat of Putin
Saint Petersburg economic forum sees firsthand the vulnerability of Russia and the precarious situation of Putin’s regime. Still hesitating, Europe knows time has come to apply pressure on Russia.
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Shane O’Neill @ SlashGear: US Solar Farms Are Doing A Lot More Than Just Generating Energy
(Shane O’Neill @ SlashGear more…)
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Ruth Ann Crystal MD: Dr. Ruth Report, 6/7/26
Before you scroll past, please check out the Government News and Other News sections at the end of this issue of the newsletter. There is a Friday night executive order you may have missed, diabetes researchers removed by police at the ADA medical conference, a personalized melanoma vaccine with striking five-year results, and an Alzheimer’s case report that is surprising.
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Thom Hartmann: Prologue: A Crime in Plain Sight
Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: “Who Killed the American Dream: The Greatest Political Crime Ever Told”
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Brockovich AI Data Center Reporting
resources tracking the “Andes” hantavirus outbreak
Apocalypse Early Warning System
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker
ICE Accountability Project
Sergio Martínez-Beltrán, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump
- April 16: Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt
- March 25: Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano
- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam
April 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide - January 24: Alex Pretti
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz
- January 9: Parady La
- January 7: Renée Good
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter
Suffering Under President Obama
NACDL Criminal Case Tracker
Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks’ journey to Washington
Walk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas
Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive
Accountability Initiative ICE List
GriftMatrix
Trump Action Tracker
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department’s Anti-Voting Shift
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump’s Agenda
Trump Pardons Database
Project 2025 Tracker
DOGE Tracker
ProPublica: Elon Musk’s Demolition Crew
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration’s Attacks on Civil Liberties
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