The Trump administration is executing a controversial plan to allow dirt bikes, ATVs, trucks, snowmobiles and other off-road vehicles
to drive through tens of millions of acres of public lands and national parks,
which environmental groups warn threatens endangered species and the environment.

The plan’s opponents say the impacts will be wide-ranging
and that the vehicles will likely destroy sensitive habitats, harm waterways, drive large predators like grizzly bears into contact with humans, and otherwise damage pristine public lands and parks.

The Nixon administration more than 50 years ago issued an executive order that limited off-road vehicles’ access with the aim of protecting wildlife and preventing disputes on federal land.
The Carter administration issued a second order providing similar environmental protections.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/15/trump-public-lands-wildlife-off-roading?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Lindsey Graham is getting chauffeured around in cars that cost more than most families make in a year.
-- I drive around town in a SUV that needs to be vacuumed and is full of kids’ sports equipment.

Lindsey Graham is eating fancy dinners with lobbyists and selling out our Democracy to the highest bidder.
-- I cook dinner for my three kids every night.

Lindsey Graham is a career politician and corporate sell out.
-- I’m a pediatrician who got mad enough to run because someone had to step up and fight for a better South Carolina and a better America.

It’s Dr. Annie Andrews, mom, pediatrician, and official Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in South Carolina.

The difference couldn’t be more clear.
That's exactly why I’m running.

We have our first fundraising goal since winning our primary election,
and how much we raise will determine how loud our voice can be in the fight ahead.

So I’m asking:
Will you chip in whatever you can today to help us meet this moment
and prove that a grassroots campaign can take on one of the most powerful Republicans in the country?

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/loc_annie_fr_txt_q22026

Thanks for being a part of our team.

hen news came that the US defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, would be travelling to Normandy to mark D-day, some in the seaside village of Langrune-sur-Mer – where the afternoon ceremony was slated to be held – felt they had to speak up.

“We found it unbelievable that they could send someone who held views and values contrary to democracy, human rights, peace and Europe,” said resident Chantal Richard. To her, the incongruence felt deeply personal. “We grew up going to D-day ceremonies, some of us had grandparents or parents whose lives were affected by this war.”

The view led Richard and the 40 or so other members of Langrune en Commun, a residents’ association, to sign a 179-word statement. Published days before the 82nd anniversary of the D-day landings, it called for Hegseth’s visit to be cancelled.

“The honour of Langrune, that of France and the memory of the young allied soldiers – American, British and Canadian – who died on our beaches in the name of democracy demand that this individual’s visit be cancelled,” it said.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jun/14/normandy-village-legrune-sur-mer-protest-d-day-pete-hegseth?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

A 4 ton African elephant

that was brought to the Texas Republican party’s annual convention to excite attenders

pissed on the convention floor
and became the focus of animal welfare concerns.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/13/texas-elephant-republican-convention?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

10. Every organization cutting engineering headcount on the basis of AI output gains should read this report.

AI crossed a threshold. It is now the primary author of code.

This did not happen as a deliberate decision by most organizations. It happened as AI tool adoption scaled, acceptance rates climbed, and agent-mode tools began applying changes directly rather than waiting for a developer to approve each suggestion.

In the organizations we studied, 80% of teams now exceed the 50% weekly active user threshold for AI tools. The acceptance rate of AI-generated code has risen from 20% to 60%. AI is not assisting developers. In most organizations, it is leading them.

2. The business value is real. Roadmaps are finally moving.

3. But the throughput numbers have an asterisk.

4. For every code change merged, the probability of a production incident has more than tripled.

5. Bugs are accelerating, not stabilizing.

6. AI made it easy to start work. It did not make it easy to finish it.

7. The most experienced people in your organization are being buried. We call it the senior engineer tax.

8. More code is entering production with no review at all.

9. Strong engineering foundations do not protect you. Two years of telemetry says so.
https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways

Eight activists are facing federal charges for their Palestine solidarity activism in Michigan.
On Wednesday morning, the FBI raided the homes of seven of the activists, and prosecutors unsealed an indictment against them and another activist following their arrest.
The federal government is charging the activists – most of whom attended the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor – with carrying out a “criminal intimidation campaign” against university administrators in an attempt to push the university to divest from Israel.
The charges mark an escalation in the Trump administration’s attacks on Palestine solidarity activism, and civil rights groups warn that they veer into attacks on free speech.
https://truthout.org/articles/doj-targets-michigan-palestine-solidarity-activists-with-federal-charges/

University of Maryland entomologist Michael Raupp told Axios Friday that the odds of a winged invasion during Sunday’s festivities was 100 percent.
“This event is going to draw a big crowd,” Raupp said. “But guess what? There are going to be even more bugs joining.”
The swarm will include midges, mayflies, stoneflies, caddisflies, winged beetles, “a whole cadre of night-flying moths,” mosquitos, and possibly biting black flies.
The buzz will also serve as a banquet for bats that feed on small, flying insects.
The unfortunate reality of the grounds has not been lost on UFC President Dana White, who told Boardroom that he had encountered a “holy shit” level of gnats during a visit last month to the White House’s recently renovated Rose Garden (an artifact of Jackie Onassis’s gentle touch that Trump has since paved with concrete.)

https://newrepublic.com/post/211809/donald-trump-ufc-birthday-mosquitos-thunderstorms

Surveillance pricing is bad for privacy, equity, and price transparency.

So EFF supports a California bill,
S.B. 2564,
which would ban this creepy practice.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/californias-bill-ban-surveillance-pricing

The Trump administration has emphasized in recent days that the
💥New World screwworm infection found in a calf in Texas 
did not pose a threat to the United States’ larger cattle herd,
which is at its lowest point in 75 years due largely to drought conditions
—but the US Department of Agriculture is now acknowledging that cases of the parasite have been found outside the Texas containment zone
and as far away as in New Mexico,
as Republican officials attempt to
⛔️blame the Biden administration for the outbreak.

While Democratic lawmakers are among those connecting the arrival of screwworm
—a flesh-eating bug that feeds off the living tissue of warm-blooded animals
and had been eradicated in the US in 1966
—to cuts by Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)
that specifically targeted screwworm monitoring programs,
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins doubled down on claims that an
“open border policy” under the Biden administration was to blame.
https://therealnews.com/screwworm-parasite-in-texas-as-trump-usda-doubles-down-on-efforts-to-blame-biden

In the U.S. military, commanders do not typically speak publicly about future operations
to avoid tipping off an adversary or jeopardizing the mission’s success and, possibly, American lives.

But that has not dissuaded America’s commander in chief from proclaiming when and how the United States will next attack Iran.

For the second day in a row,
Trump on Thursday threatened in a social media post that the United States would hit Iran
“VERY HARD TONIGHT,”
and may soon take Kharg Island,
the heart of Iran’s oil economy.

Trump said the same thing on Wednesday,

and hours later American warplanes and Tomahawk missiles struck dozens of Iranian radars, air defenses and other military targets in the Strait of Hormuz and elsewhere around the country.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/us/politics/trump-hegseth-military-operations.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

The Houston Chronicle was just accidentally sent a government contract that was never meant to be publicly released.

It revealed what taxpayers are really paying to run America's only family detention center in Dilley, Texas
— and the number is staggering. 

$15.6 million taxpayer dollars every month,
paid in full whether the facility is packed or not.

A for-profit prison company collecting guaranteed revenue while the people inside
— parents, children, babies
— endure medical harm, food shortages, and months without school.

Many people held at Dilley have active asylum claims or legal status.

RAICES has documented over 1,500 medical complaints inside the facility in a single year,
including negligence that put infants' and children's lives at risk

“That is what happens when private prison companies are awarded multibillion-dollar detention contracts funded by taxpayer dollars with minimal and impeded oversight,”
says Faisal Al-Juburi, co-CEO of RAICES, a nonprofit that provides legal and social care to immigrants and refugees. 

RAICES is inside Dilley week in and week out,
advocating for those suffering and providing a legal lifeline.

Because when families have legal representation, they are up to 10x more likely to succeed in their fight for due process and pursuit of safety. 

This life-changing work is entirely funded by generous people like you.

Support RAICES as we defend families, halt deportations,
and document abuses.

𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗮𝘁 https://raices4tx.org

Two weeks after Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Florida) announced she will be seeking reelection in Florida’s new 20th Congressional District,

four Black Democratic candidates competing in the race are hoping to stop her from winning the nomination in a district that has historically been represented by a Black lawmaker.

Democrats were surprised by the senior Democrat’s move,
which followed Gov. Ron DeSantis signing legislation that redrew the state’s congressional maps in an effort to bolster Republicans’ chances to pick up seats in the 2026 midterms.

Wasserman Schultz’s current district was effectively eliminated.

In a four-hour meeting on Monday in Pompano Beach, the four candidates
— former Broward County Mayor Dale Holness, rapper Luther “Uncle Luke” Campbell, former Rep. Sheila Cherfilus McCormick and activist Elijah Manley
— voted 3-1 to consolidate behind one candidate to defeat Wasserman Schultz.

“It was a long conversation,” Manley
— who declined to say who voted against consolidating
— told NOTUS. “We had to get real, egos had to be put aside.”

“We had to be honest with ourselves, you know, maybe the math is not mathing with all of us in the race,” Manley added.

He told NOTUS that the candidates cross-examined each other during the meeting, with each having to explain what their strengths and weaknesses were.

The candidates did not decide who they would back in the Aug. 18 primary,
but Holness said he expects candidates to make a decision by “no later than Wednesday morning”
because some candidates are considering filing for different congressional races
or potentially for statewide offices,
and they might need a few days “to get our paperwork to Tallahassee to finalize what we’re doing.”

He did not name which candidates are considering those options

https://www.notus.org/congress/black-democrats-florida-redistricting-debbie-wasserman-schultz-black-caucus-jeffries