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The White House South Lawn has been the site of everything from tee-ball games to Easter egg hunts, and this June 14, the grassy expanse will host seven UFC matches, including two title fights. The White House and UFC are hosting the UFC Freedom 250 to kickoff celebrations for America’s 250th birthday. It’s also the same day as President Donald Trump’s 80th birthday.  UFC president and CEO Dana White is a longtime Trump friend and supporter, with their relationship tracing back to White running his very first fight at the Trump Taj Mahal in 2001. TIME magazine reported in May…

Some excerpts from Judge Lewis Liman (S.D.N.Y.) long opinion today in Wayfarer Studios LLC v. Lively: [Blake] Lively filed a complaint with the California Civil Rights Department (“CRD”) against [Justin] Baldoni and his co-defendants, the Wayfarer Parties, alleging, among other things, that Baldoni and others sexually harassed her on the set of the Film {It Ends With Us} and that the Wayfarer Parties retaliated against her for raising complaints about that harassment by launching a smear campaign to tarnish her reputation…. Lively then sued over that alleged behavior, and the Wayfarer Parties “counter-sued, asserting claims, including defamation, against Lively and…

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, extended his lead by becoming the first trillionaire in world history. Many progressives have bemoaned this result for years, but is there really anything to fear? The space exploration company SpaceX went public this week, announcing on Thursday an initial price of $135 per share. Musk, the founder, CEO, chief technology officer, and chairman of the board, “holds roughly half of the company’s stock, including shares that he might earn far in the future tied to accomplishments such as shooting computer data centers into space and creating a human settlement on Mars,” Shira Ovide…

Photograph Source: shopblocks – CC BY 2.0 The seven largest gig platforms in the United States — Amazon Flex, DoorDash, Favor, Instacart, Lyft, Shipt, and Uber — are using data that tracks how long its users stay on an app, what jobs they accept, and how urgently they need income. This algorithm calculates what the employers can pay to get the job done at the lowest rate individuals will accept. Not what their labor is worth. Not what is fair. Gig work was sold as a way to make extra money on a flexible schedule. But that’s not what it looks like…

The Supreme Court Justices (2023). (Pool/ABACA/Newscom)   In a recent Lawfare article I outlined the case against “packing” the Supreme Court, and explained why the Court’s recent decision in Louisiana v. Callais doesn’t justify such a measure. Court-packing is generally understood as an attempt to alter the Supreme Court’s ideological balance by increasing the number of justices. Thus, most current Democratic proposals would transform the current 6-3 conservative majority on the Court into a 7-6 progressive majority, by adding four justices. But there are various non-packing rationales for increasing the number of Supreme Court justices. I sometimes see them brought in…

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From 2015 to 2021, more than 28 billion pounds (about $37.5 billion) was given to terrorists and hostile states by the British government, according to The Telegraph. As the outlet reports, a secret government dossier shows more than 28 billion pounds of spending ended up in the hands of terrorist groups and other national security threats. Sources told The Telegraph that an organized crime network linked to Eastern Europe made a “concerted effort to obtain British public funds.” The document includes details of COVID loans being sent to Islamic State group terrorists, grants given to companies linked to the Russian…

Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair “I love the inflation.”[1]—Donald Trump (June 2026) America has become an occupied nation. Not by one invading army, but by many occupying powers: the police state, the surveillance state, the war state, the corporate state, the foreign influence machine, and a ruling class that treats the American people as little more than collateral damage in its pursuit of power, profit and control. We have been policed, surveilled, taxed, indebted, manipulated, censored, tracked, searched, silenced and sold out. Foreign powers are buying up our farmland,[2] buying favor with the Trump family,[3] weaseling their way into the White House,[4] dictating national policy,[5] and…

Grab your jersey and your pals: World Cup fever is here. Red cards may have taken a starring role at the 2026 tournament’s June 11 opener between Mexico and South Africa, but little could dampen soccer enthusiasts’ anticipation of watching the globe’s greatest male footballers take the field for their countries over the next five weeks. Even before Shakira shook her hips and beckoned fans and players to “Dai Dai” (“Come on, come on”), as the official World Cup song’s Italian lyric goes, President Donald Trump touted the event with his trademark superlatives. “Most successful World Cup they’ve ever had,”…

From the long (20K-word) decision of the Washington Supreme Court Thursday in In the Matter of Disciplinary Proceeding Against Feyissa, written by Justice Sheryl Gordon McCloud: After a 12-day disciplinary hearing, a hearing officer (HO) concluded that Shakespear N. Feyissa committed six counts of misconduct. The presumptive sanction for most of those counts was disbarment…. The Disciplinary Board (Board) of the Washington State Bar Association (Bar) unanimously adopted the HO’s disbarment recommendation. Feyissa appeals…. Attorney Shakespear N. Feyissa was born in Ethiopia. He immigrated to the United States at around age 17…. There’s a lot going on in the case,…