Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer Has Resigned  —  A Labor Department spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.  — Copy  —  Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer resigned on Monday, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

Distrust, dishonesty and Trump's elusive Iran deal  —  President Trump declared Monday morning that a peace deal with Iran would be signed “today” in Islamabad, and that Vice President Vance was on his way.  — But Vance was actually still in Washington, waiting for a signal from Tehran …

Apple isn't losing its Trump whisperer  — Apple CEO Tim Cook is stepping down as CEO in September.  — He won't be going far.  He'll remain as executive chairman of the Apple board of directors.  — Cook has put on a masterclass in managing Apple's relationship with President Donald Trump.

Cory Mills Is Weighing an Expulsion Resolution Against Nancy Mace  —  The House is facing a deluge of tit-for-tat expulsion resolutions.  — Copy  —  Tag.  You're it.  —  Embattled Republican Rep. Cory Mills is weighing an expulsion resolution against Rep. Nancy Mace, and he has already drafted the text, NOTUS has learned.

Kash Patel files defamation lawsuit against The Atlantic … “We stand by our reporting on Kash Patel, and we will vigorously defend The Atlantic and our journalists against this meritless lawsuit,” The Atlantic said.  —  The article, citing about two dozen anonymous sources, details Patel's alleged …

The Onion Has a New Plan to Take Over Infowars … When Infowars, the website founded by the right-wing conspiracist Alex Jones, came up for sale two years ago, an unlikely suitor stepped up.  The Onion, a satirical news outlet, planned to convert the site into a parody of itself.

U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs: The Arguments That Shaped America, Now Freely Available  —  Thanks to a generous gift of materials from the Wolf Law Library at the William & Mary Law School, and the Internet Archive's mission to digitize and provide universal access to knowledge …

Five Trump Scandals You've Probably Missed  —  Swirling scandals—from the Pentagon to DHS to the IRS to the Labor Department—that represent basic betrayals of public office, trust, and confidence-in-leadership that should be the table stakes of good government.

Trump invokes Cold War law in move to boost energy supply  —  President Trump said Monday he'll use a Cold War-era national security law to try and bolster domestic production of motor fuels and electricity. … - The series of presidential memos Trump signed are needed for the Energy Department …

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency  —  Throughout US President Donald Trump's second term in office, traders have been betting millions of dollars just before he makes major announcements.  —  The BBC has examined trade volume data on several financial markets …

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Concerns  —  Fed up with the state's censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.  —  Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson …

The Person Playacting as President May Be Getting Addicted to Snuff Films  —  Even before WSJ posted this story about the guy legally occupying the position of President, I had gotten worried that Donald Trump is growing addicted to snuff films.  —  I had been planning on a post describing …

Trump Library Saga Takes Dark Turn: Where Did Millions in Funding Go?  —  Last year, four huge companies pledged tens of millions of dollars to help fund the creation of Donald Trump's presidential library, a planned monstrosity in Miami that—in a perfect Trumpian twist—may also double as a hotel.

It's not media cluelessness - it's cowardice and complicity  —  For more than a decade, I've struggled with the question of why major media have underreacted to Donald Trump's fascist movement, normalizing its corruption and cruelty.  —  Eventually, I came up with the “Three C's” - cluelessness, cowardice, and complicity.

Influencers Are Spinning Nicotine as a ‘Natural’ Health Hack  —  The influencers, many of them aligned with the Make America Healthy Again Movement, say the medical establishment has unfairly demonized the compound.  —  There's a compound that can reverse Alzheimer's, increase cognitive function …

What I Learned About Billionaires at Jeff Bezos's Private Retreat  —  For the richest men on Earth, everything is free and nothing matters.  —  at the end of Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 movie, There Will Be Blood, Daniel Day-Lewis's oil-baron character, old now and richer than Croesus …

Trump Stockpiles $550 Million in Campaign Cash Ahead of Midterms  —  President Donald Trump's super political action committee raised $35.6 million in March, bolstering his war chest to $550 million as he tries to defy history by hanging onto congressional Republican majorities in an increasingly difficult midterm election environment.

3 warning signs for Republicans in our new poll: From the Politics Desk  —  Plus, Republicans weigh how big to go on their next party-line funding bill. … 3 warning signs for Republicans in our new poll … Here are three takeaways. … Those numbers have gotten steadily worse for him ever since.

Nick Fuentes Is Physically Disgusted by His Own Groyper Fanboys  —  A devoted Fuentes supporter went on CNN to talk about his hero and then found himself in his crosshairs.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Groypers Ground Up by Their Hero  —  John Lawrence, a “groyper” devotee of white nationalist …

The Harm from Hormuz  —  Why we should still fear a global slump from Trump's Iran debacle  —  Another week, another false all-clear.  —  The Strait of Hormuz remains closed.  It appears increasingly obvious that the 20 percent of world oil supply that normally flows through it to world markets …

Power without accountability: The Palantir manifesto  —  It is not enough for the broligarchy to have untold wealth.  They also wanted political power.  Now they have that.  And they want to be esteemed as philosopher kings, while simultaneously shielded from criticism.  Well, that's a taller order.

Some Republicans Fear They're Making a Big Mistake on Reconciliation  —  “We better do something to bring costs down, because it's tough sledding right now,” Sen. Josh Hawley said.  — Copy  —  Senate Republicans are taking their first steps this week to pass a narrow reconciliation bill …

Toddler Sent To Room While Grownups Talk  —  You know how when you're throwing a dinner party, and while you're preparing baked salmon and roasted asparagus for your guests, you are also making mac and cheese for the kids and sending them off to eat it in front of the TV in the den …

Mejia sworn in to the House  —  Democrat Analilia Mejia is the newest member of the House, sworn in Monday evening by Speaker Mike Johnson after winning a special election in New Jersey last week.  The move narrows Johnson's majority to 217-214-1, meaning the GOP can afford no more than one defection on a party-line vote.