And a day of bombshell after bombshell testimony, the Ds cautious approach to Roe, appropriating social justice to push a radical agenda, Maxwell sentenced, and the ‘ocean emergency’ comes to a close:
“It was a planned assassination attempt on members of Congress and the Vice President. Trump wanted them killed.” -- The Rude Pundit
“So if you’re somebody who enjoys having sex to not make a baby, I think you should probably be worried about this.” — Grace Howard
Deaths
US: 1,041,354 (+327)
World: 6,353,680 (+1655)
Cases
US: 89,030,727 (+120,587)
World: 550,643,002 (+975,719)
1/6 Takeaways: Angry Trump, dire legal warnings and ketchup. With calm, detailed recollections, Hutchinson testified that a defiant Trump was told there were guns and other weapons in the rally crowd at the White House, but sent his supporters to the Capitol anyway and even sought to physically pry the steering wheel from his presidential motorcade driver so he could join them...Told that guns, knives, brass knuckles and other weapons were being confiscated from the security screenings, Trump didn’t care. “They’re not here to hurt me,” the president said. He wanted to take away the magnetometer stations to allow more people inside the grounds, regardless of their weaponry. “Take the effing mags away,” an agitated Trump barked at security moments before taking the stage, Hutchinson recalled...The morning of Jan. 6, Cipollone restated his concerns that if Trump did go to the Capitol to intervene in the certification of the election, “We’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable.”...“You heard it,” Meadows told Cipollone, she recalled. “He thinks Mike deserves it. He doesn’t think they’re doing anything wrong.”...The committee produced evidence that Cabinet secretaries were considering invoking the Constitution’s 25th amendment, which has never been used, to remove the president from office...“If you heard this testimony today and suddenly remember things you couldn’t previously recall or there are some details you would like to clarify ... Our doors remain open,” he said. -- It was bombshell testimony. If you still continue to support Trump and his ilk, then you are not a patriotic American. You’re a fascist.
'They're not here to hurt me': Former aide says Trump knew Jan. 6 crowd was armed. On Jan. 6, Trump planned to go to the Capitol with the mob, Hutchinson testified, citing conversations with Meadows and Trump confidant Rudy Giuliani...The explosive testimony from Hutchinson, the official in closest proximity to Trump to appear at a public hearing, amounted to a stunning and strikingly detail-rich condemnation of a former president who demands absolute loyalty — and has mostly gotten it — from a close circle of aides and advisers. “As an American, I was disgusted,” Hutchinson said Tuesday of Trump tweeting that Pence lacked courage as insurrectionists broke into the Capitol. “It was unpatriotic. It was un-American. We were watching the Capitol building get defaced over a lie.” -- Meadows sought a pardon. Guiliani sought a pardon. They all knew. They wanted 1/6 to happen. They wanted worse things to happen on 1/6. Lock them up.
Trump painted in testimony as volatile, angry president. Trump’s volcanic temper has been the stuff of lore throughout his career in business, but during his presidency it has rarely been described with such evocative detail as in the testimony Tuesday of Cassidy Hutchinson, a junior White House staffer whose proximity to the-then president and top aides that day gave her a remarkably close view. Hutchinson offered previously unknown details about the extent of Trump’s rage in his final weeks of office, his awareness that some supporters had brought weapons with them and his ambivalence as rioters later laid siege to the Capitol.
Colorado GOP picks abortion rights backer for Senate race. Colorado Republicans on Tuesday nominated a businessman and supporter of most abortion rights for U.S. Senate while rejecting an attempt by one of the nation’s most prominent election deniers to become their candidate for the state’s top voting post.
Democrats wrestle with how aggressively to respond to the end of Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court’s elimination of Roe v. Wade has sparked tension inside the Democratic Party about how to channel the backlash in response to the unpopular ruling, with some liberals frustrated by what they perceive to be an overly cautious approach by President Joe Biden. The division also points to a larger political disagreement among Democrats about how to mobilize voters in the 2022 midterm elections. While Biden and some party leaders prefer to tread carefully to avoid overreaching, other Democrats and advocates want the party to be more aggressive and test the boundaries of executive action to demonstrate to voters that they're fighting.
Amazon puts purchase limits on Plan B pills as demand surges. The company has placed a temporary quantity limit of three units per week on emergency contraceptive pills, Amazon confirmed to CNBC.
Thomas and Alito Are Appropriating Racial Justice to Push a Radical Agenda. Cynical whataboutism is the conservative legal movement’s new ploy. The right’s embrace of racial justice may seem curious—particularly given the conservative assault on identity politics, anti-discrimination laws, and voting rights protections. But in some respects, this pivot is entirely predictable. It’s not the first time the conservative movement has repackaged some of its core agenda items in the wrappings of racial equity…Abortion and gun rights are the twin pillars of the modern conservative legal movement. And while this Court, with its 6-3 conservative super-majority, has just overruled Roe and expanded gun rights, they surely recognize that broad swaths of the country object to their vision of the Constitution. Which is why this pivot to race is so attractive…The appeal to race also usefully complicates the traditional ideological alignments, fracturing the coalition of social justice groups, while uniting the conservative legal movement and some unexpected allies under the banner of racial uplift. And perhaps most importantly, pivoting to race provides the Court with the veneer of racial justice that helps to insulate their most egregious decisions from the inevitable public blowback…The right’s recent embrace of race—even as it decries identity politics and critical race theory—would be amusing if it weren’t so obviously cynical. The Court has cloaked its radically conservative legal agenda in a mantle of wokeness that conservatives would be quick to denounce—if it weren’t so useful for achieving their most deeply cherished goals.
Turkey lifts its objections to Sweden, Finland joining NATO. Turkey agreed Tuesday to lift its opposition to Sweden and Finland joining NATO, ending an impasse that had clouded a leaders’ summit opening in Madrid amid Europe’s worst security crisis in decades, triggered by the war in Ukraine. After urgent top-level talks with leaders of the three countries, alliance Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that “we now have an agreement that paves the way for Finland and Sweden to join NATO.” He called it “a historic decision.”
Sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell sentenced to 20 years in prison. Maxwell, 60, was convicted in December of five federal charges for recruiting and grooming teenage girls to be sexually abused by Jeffrey Epstein.
FDA advisers recommend updating COVID booster shots for fall. At least some U.S. adults may get updated COVID-19 shots this fall, as government advisers voted Tuesday that it’s time to tweak booster doses to better match the most recent virus variants.
51 migrants die after trailer abandoned in San Antonio heat. Desperate families of migrants from Mexico and Central America frantically sought word of their loved ones as authorities began the grim task Tuesday of identifying 51 people who died after being abandoned in a tractor-trailer without air conditioning in the sweltering Texas heat. It was the deadliest tragedy to claim the lives of migrants smuggled across the border from Mexico.
It's only June, but heat records around the world are falling. Every continent in the Northern Hemisphere saw heat records in the last 30 days — a worrying trend given that the typical hottest months of the summer are still to come for North America, Europe and Asia. The punishing heat is also yet another indication of the intensifying consequences of climate change that are already playing out across the globe.
World faces ‘ocean emergency’, UN warns, as activists urge action. Oceans are home to an estimated 700,000 to one million species and produce more than half of the world’s oxygen. However, they have been facing the impact of climate change, including global warming, pollution, and acidification.
Court kills Flint water charges against ex-governor, others. The Michigan Supreme Court on Tuesday threw out charges against former Gov. Rick Snyder and others in the Flint water scandal, saying a judge sitting as a one-person grand jury had no power to issue indictments under rarely used state laws. It’s an astonishing defeat for Attorney General Dana Nessel, who took office in 2019, got rid of a special prosecutor and put together a new team to investigate whether crimes were committed when lead contaminated Flint’s water system in 2014-15.
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