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 …

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.

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.

Carr's Drive-Thru Dinner  —  Donald Trump's FCC chair Brendan Carr is set to attend the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Status has learned, where he will mingle with journalists and news executives at an event ostensibly about celebrating the First Amendment.

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 …

What We Learned From a Secret Deposition of Ken Paxton  —  Previously hidden document sheds new light on ethical questions surrounding the GOP Senate candidate and Texas attorney general  —  In 2019, hostile attorneys questioned Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton about his conduct as a lawyer …

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.

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 …

The lucky few who can apply for tariff refunds  —  The Trump administration launched its tariff refund portal.  Will the refunds really happen? … Because the Supreme Court struck down many of Trump's tariffs back in February, the administration is legally obligated to give …

Mexico's Sheinbaum demands explanation after U.S. officials die assisting in operation in Chihuahua  —  Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Monday she would demand explanations after four U.S. and Mexican officials died in an accident over the weekend, adding she was unaware …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

LAPD Deployed Drones to Spy on No Kings Protest  —  Flight records show that Los Angeles police dispatched drones 32 times over last month's No Kings rally.  —  THE LOS ANGELES Police Department deployed drones intended for public safety uses to surveil a No Kings rally and a protest …

From Res Publica to the United States of Trump  —  This president's vulgar self-glorification is revolting to a self-governing people and must not stand  —  The cult of personality has always been central to Trumpism.  Now it is the official policy of the United States government.

California Dems want to quickly fill Swalwell's seat.  They're hitting a snag. … Five Democratic candidates running in the regularly-scheduled primary to succeed Swalwell for a full term have pledged they would not also run in the June 16 special election.

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.

Four Cabinet and other senior officials have now stepped down from Trump's Cabinet.  —  What We're Covering Today  — Labor Department: Lori Chavez-DeRemer, President Trump's embattled labor secretary, stepped down on Monday as multiple scandals and investigations closed in on her.

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 …

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.

Exclusive: ICE Glasses  —  Homeland Security is making “smart glasses” to collect intelligence on Americans  —  The Department of Homeland Security is developing specialized smart glasses that will allow federal agents on American streets to automatically identify “illegal aliens” from a distance, budget documents reveal.