And lots of time for cable news to make it clear to everyone Trump's deal is less than the JCPOA that Trump destroyed.

Cornyn is going to lose tonight and give us another pi$$ed off Republican with nothing to lose.

It's June.  Those SC decisions Trump is going to hate are coming.

Writing for the 5-4 majority, Kavanaugh found this wasn't allowed because the judge skipped over the third step of Batson and denied Pitchford a chance to challenge the prosecutors' race-neutral rationales as pretextual. This, Millhiser pointed out, is exactly the process Kavanaugh highlighted the importance of in a note he wrote in law school, titled "Defense Presence and Participation: A Procedural Minimum for Batson v. Kentucky Hearings."

 Springsteen Announces a Protest Festival
May 28, 2026 at 5:17 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 12 Comments

"Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Brittany Howard and Joan Baez will headline a star-studded protest festival set for the Washington, D.C., area a month before the midterm elections," the Associated Press reports.

"A judge on Friday ​ordered the removal of President Donald ‌Trump's name from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, ruling that the ​iconic Washington venue cannot be ​renamed without an act of Congress," Reuters reports.

"The judge also temporarily blocked the Washington, D.C., cultural landmark from being closed for two years for renovations."

 Rollins was the last survivor of the 57 jazz musicians depicted in the 1958 photograph A Great Day in Harlem.

It did t work.  It was sold out. It was a huge success. Everyone had a great time and Hardy may never be the same.

link to a photo gallery

President Donald Trump in a social media post on Tuesday disputed that Iran has cut off communication with mediators, calling Iranian reports of a cessation in talks "false and erroneous," the AP reports.

Said Trump: "The conversations between us have been going on continuously, including four days ago, three days ago, two days ago, one day ago, and today. Where they lead, one never knows, but as I told Iran, `It's time, one way or another, for you to make a Deal. You've been doing this for 47 years, and it cannot be allowed to go on any longer!'"

"She's murdering '60 Minutes.' She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it - and she's doing exactly that."
- Correspondent Scott Pelley, confronting new executive producer Nick Bilton about CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss

... was fired last night by CBS News following his rather explosive confrontation that show's new executive producer Nick Billton on Monday morning - which was recorded on audio - during his introductory meeting with what was left of the show's staff after CBS News dilettante-in-chief Bari Weiss's vindictive purge of key personnel last week.

No doubt, Pelley - who had also served as a former anchor for the CBS Evening News - likely expected that this would be the outcome when he stood up for his just-axed colleagues and said out loud what everyone was thinking about the incompetent and thin-skinned Ms. Weiss.

So, rather than watch 60 Minutes die a quiet death by a thousand cuts, Pelley bluntly called the question and compelled Weiss to do publicly what she had been hoping to do quietly. He fell on his sword in the most public and messy way possible. He got a standing ovation by his colleagues after Billton left the room, and he received an unceremonious letter of termination the following evening.

While 60 Minutes will probably continue to air next season, at least for the time being, this is for all practical purposes the end of that Sunday on-air newsmagazine as we've come to know it over the last 50-plus years.

For over 80 years, CBS News set the institutional benchmark for excellence in broadcast journalism. By running that venerable news division like she's a 5-year-old playing with her Barbie's Dreamhouse, the MAGA-friendly Ms. Weiss has needed only eight months to not only completely trash its once-stellar reputation, but to also abuse the trust of its long-loyal audience, many of whom have noticed the changes and have started reaching for the remote.

Audience numbers for the CBS Evening News have already declined by nearly 30% since Bari Weiss's arrival. I now expect the same to happen with 60 Minutes. At that point, Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison may well decide that Weiss has served her useful purpose in doing Donald Trump's bidding for him, and he'll toss her aside with a lucrative golden parachute.

But the destructive damage inflicted upon the heretofore well-respected CBS News is going to be longstanding if not altogether permanent, and that bloodstained kneecapping will forever be Ms. Weiss's legacy in the annals of American journalism.

Trump Storms Out of Meet the Press Interview in Wild Fashion

"A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the Trump administration to restore all signs that were changed or removed at national parks across the country as part of President Donald Trump's controversial directive last year," CNN reports.

In a scathing 63-page ruling, Judge Angel Kelley wrote: "Under the guise of promoting American dignity, this Administration seeks to share a limited history by ordering the removal of all signs, displays, and interpretive exhibits at National Parks that do not align with its preferred narrative, thereby telling half-truths

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CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin Warns `Crash Is Coming' -- But CEOs Too `Scared' to Stand Up to Trump

Iran's new supreme leader has declared "Israel will not live to see another 15 years" in a chilling affirmation of the Islamic Republic's enmity towards the Jewish state.

"Death to Israel" and "Death to America" remain the regime's slogans, according to the statement from Mojtaba Khamenei aired on Tuesday morning by Iran's state broadcaster.

One of President Donald Trump's biographers shared a sobering prediction about how the second Trump administration will end during a new podcast interview on Tuesday.

"I think that there's a very good chance that it just ends all of a sudden," Wolff said. "No warning, no preparation. He falls."

Wolff added that if the second Trump administration were to end abruptly, that may be all Trump needs to be remembered by the history books.

"I think he has enough of a sense of the dramatic that he knows that he has to go out like this," Wolff said. "This is it. This would give him his place in history."

New York Times: "A federal trade court has ordered Rodney S. Scott, the head of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, to appear at a hearing next month on the Trump administration's handling of roughly $166 billion in tariff refunds."

"The Justice Department has launched a criminal investigation into E. Jean Carroll, the former magazine columnist who accused President Donald Trump of sexual assault," CNN reports.

The Kalshi American Power Index (KPOW) measures the balance of political power between the Democratic and Republican parties. Blending together non-market data reflecting the present-day distribution of seats with market projections of future electoral outcomes and the risk of government dysfunction related to a shutdown, the KPOW offers a real-time signal capturing the shifts of each party's grip on power.

Another Bonus Quote of the Day
May 29, 2026 at 11:10 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 56 Comments

"That was Platner's decision to serve. He was not drafted."

-- Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), talking to reporters, in response to rival Graham Platner (D) saying, Collins "voted to send me to Iraq.

"As the head of a large department with broad responsibilities, I did not lead every aspect of this effort or conduct that document review myself," she continued, before adding she "delegated oversight over this process to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche".

Judge Reopens Trump's Suit Against IRS
May 29, 2026 at 6:09 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 9 Comments

A federal judge in Miami made a striking turnabout on Friday, reopening President Trump's $10 billion case against the I.R.S and saying that she wanted to investigate "grievous allegations" that the hasty deal to resolve it was "premised on deception," the New York Times reports.

The ruling by the judge, Kathleen Williams, was a significant blow both to Mr. Trump, who had voluntarily dismissed the suit last week, and to the Justice Department.

"The move came after blowback from Republicans and Democrats, who derided it as a slush fund for President Donald Trump's political allies. It's the latest setback for the president, who recently suffered a court defeat over his plans to overhaul the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and has struggled to end the war in Iran."

Trump again today basically said he will find a way.

Asked about the high prices by a reporter on Friday, Trump suggested folks who cannot afford to attend should watch at home.

The White House dismissed a report published Friday night in which two U.S. officials claimed that the Pentagon had raised its counterintelligence threat level from a top U.S. ally to "critical," the "highest level," according to NBC News.

Two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official, speaking with NBC News under the condition of anonymity, claimed that the Pentagon had grown "increasingly concerned about Israel ramping up its spying on the U.S.," the outlet reported, and that in "recent weeks," the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) had increased Israel's threat level to the highest level.

This week, the Department of Defense announced that it had significantly reduced the number of recognized religions within the agency.  Hegseth's office had declared the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - commonly referred to as the Mormon Church - to not be a Christian religion.

I don't think it's impossible he will at least try to put boots on the ground.  It's either boots or cash.  Karma is a b!tch

The U.S. and Iran have spent weeks struggling to forge a preliminary deal to end the war. One major reason why they are stuck: Tehran wants early access to cold, hard cash, and it is politically hazardous for President Trump to agree," the Wall Street Journal reports.

"For Trump, a decision to free Iran's assets upfront would inevitably generate comparisons to his own attacks on the Obama administration for flying cash into Tehran in the hours after the nuclear accord was implemented in January 2016. Trump vowed this spring to negotiate a `FAR BETTER' deal than that one, which he spent years lambasting and later pulled out of, partly because it provided cash to Tehran."

Rana Foroohar: "Lately, I've begun clipping pieces about violence against the rich. I vowed that when I got to the point where there were more than three good high-profile examples, I'd write about the topic. That time is now. There were secret hearings last Wednesday about Luigi Mangione's alleged murder of United Healthcare executive Brian Thompson. In early April, someone threw a Molotov cocktail into the home of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman."

Thune's comments come after Trump's decision to name Bill Pulte acting director of national intelligence all but quashed the chances of passing a long-term reauthorization of a key surveillance power ahead of a Friday deadline.

Washington Post: "For George H.W. Bush's first medical checkup as president in 1989, he was seen by five specialists, the White House said at the time. His son George W. Bush was seen by 12 in his first presidential checkup, White House officials said a dozen years later."

"President Donald Trump appears to have set a new bar: 22 medical specialists assessed him as part of his latest checkup."

White House's Situation Room Meltdown Over Epstein Exposed
DAMAGE CONTROL
Donald Trump's top advisers needed to convince the president's supporters he cared--even though he clearly didn't.