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https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-reports-more-than-14-billion-income-crypto-ventures-2026-06-30/

June 30 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump reported more than $1.4 billion in income from his family’s crypto ventures last year, showing how Trump now derives most of his income from digital assets that have benefited from his policies, according to a review of his latest financial disclosures on Tuesday.

The filings, his annual disclosure for 2025 with the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, disclosed that his companies received almost $800 million from World Liberty Financial, a crypto venture he and his sons co-founded. That income, which the president splits with family members, included more than $520 million from sales of crypto tokens and more than $250 million from the sale of interests in the World Liberty business.

Trump reported another $635 million from the sale of his Trump meme coins.

The news underlines how crypto has transformed the president's fortunes. In his disclosure a year ago, opens new tab, for example, the president reported $57.35 million from token sales at World Liberty, which then leaped nine-fold in this year’s filing.

Reuters recently estimated the Trump family has made at least $2.3 billion from crypto-related projects since Trump returned to the White House in 2025.

On taking office, Trump began to put in place policies and initiatives that the industry saw as beneficial, from implementing federal rules for stablecoins to dialing back policing of the industry by the U.S. Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission.

For 2025, the president also reported over $80 million in income from settlements with various media companies and $52 million in income from his company licensing his name to overseas property developers, driven principally by deals with Middle Eastern partners.

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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2026/06/30/supreme-court-transgender-female-athlete-bans-teams/88629310007/

WASHINGTON – States can ban transgender women and girls from competing on female sports teams, the Supreme Court ruled June 30 in addressing a major cultural and political flashpoint before adjourning for the summer.

The decision is another setback in a series of recent rulings affecting transgender Americans that the high court has handed to the LGBTQ+ community.

The court said bans on female transgender athletes in West Virginia and Idaho do not violate the Constitution or a federal law barring sex discrimination in education.

Writing for the majority, Justice Brett Kavanaugh said schools "may determine eligibility for women's and girls' sports based on biological sex."

"Separate sports teams for biological males and biological females are reasonable," he wrote.

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Trump administration faces an escalating controversy over handling of ‘Jane Doe 4’ documents in Epstein files.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/30/alleged-epstein-victim-trump-accuser


A woman known as Jane Doe 4 in the Jeffrey Epstein files is “staying off the grid” and lives in fear of retaliation from the Trump administration amid an escalating controversy over its handling of her case, according to a family member.

“Trauma is brutal. Chronic trauma destroys,” said the relative, who described the woman’s life as layers of abuse dating back to early childhood. “She’s coping as best she can.”

The woman had four interviews with FBI agents in 2019 that keep resurfacing in the Epstein sex-trafficking scandal. She made unproven allegations she was abused by the New York financier in the 1980s, then sexually assaulted by Donald Trump, when she was between 13 and 15 years old. The White House has called her allegations “completely baseless” and “backed by zero credible evidence”, a claim it said was supported by the fact that the Biden administration’s justice department knew about the allegations but “did nothing with them”.

She is one of the only alleged Epstein victims to have directly accused Trump, and irregularities in the justice department’s handling of her case files have now become a rallying point for critics of the acting attorney general, Todd Blanche, who is the US president’s nominee for permanent appointment.

A federal judge in Washington last week gave Blanche until 2 July to produce unredacted versions of files the justice department has already released, or provide an explanation for why it cannot produce the unredacted records. The Department of Justice was also ordered to release interview notes related to Jane Doe 4’s allegations. The decision was part of a civil case against Blanche brought by journalist Katie Phang.

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What’s your opinion on this?

https://www.instagram.com/p/DaTQhyfj5er/?igsh=dDAzZzlrcGwyY25q

An angry disabled man is harassing and beating people in Poznan

> Melat Kiros was born in 1997, the year her representative in the U.S. House, Democrat Diana DeGette, took office. On Tuesday, Kiros hopes to unseat her.

> The next frontier of the fight for the Democratic Party is in Denver, where DeGette, a 15-term incumbent and longtime progressive, is facing her most serious primary challenge yet from Kiros, a 29-year-old democratic socialist and first-time candidate.

> Democrats’ widespread dissatisfaction and anger with their party leadership and a push for generational change in the wake of the party’s loss to President Donald Trump in 2024 have made incumbents in safe blue seats, like DeGette, unexpectedly vulnerable, with both Kiros and University of Colorado Regent Wanda James challenging her.

https://19thnews.org/2026/06/melat-kiros-degette-colorado-democratic-primary/

Three losses in one week for Trump. He only has two friends on the court now ... Thomas and Alito.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-rules-on-birthright-citizenship_n_6a0f2eade4b0f1ba1f62e05b

The Supreme Court upheld the Constitution’s guarantee that those born in the United States are automatically U.S. citizens, rejecting President Donald Trump’s attempt to rewrite one of the most sacred laws in the U.S.

“Children born in the United States to parents unlawfully or temporarily present are ‘subject to the jurisdiction’ of the United States and are citizens at birth under the Fourteenth Amendment’s Citizenship Clause,” Chief Justice John Roberts wrote in the 6-3 ruling released Tuesday. Justice Brett Kavanaugh concurred in part. Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented.

Citizenship, according to the chief justice, has been defined as having rights to “freely participate in our political community.”

“The Framers of the Fourteenth Amendment extended that promise to ‘every free-born person in this land.’ We keep that promise today,” he wrote.

The 14th Amendment states that “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the States wherein they reside.”

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Ohio Republican Vivek Ramaswamy’s campaign for governor has racked up more than half a million dollars in credit card bills without disclosing what it’s purchasing.

The campaign’s credit card spending has jumped dramatically in recent months. Just since April, Ramasawamy’s campaign has put $280,892 on an American Express card.

Ohio campaign finance reports require campaigns to disclose each individual transaction — not just how much they spent but who they paid and what they purchased with the money. Ramaswamy’s campaign is only reporting its monthly credit card bill.

State law requires verification like a receipt or cancelled check for any expenditure of $25 or more. Ohio’s campaign finance handbook directs treasurers to attach a credit card statement or some other documentation to verify an expense’s legitimacy. It’s not clear that Ramaswamy’s campaign has provided that documentation.

To some observers, like the former leader of the Ohio Elections Commission Phil Richter, Ramaswamy’s reporting isn’t that big of a deal so long as the campaign eventually provides information to back up its spending.

“If it’s provided in a timely manner, there’s a little bit of a delay, but it’s not that out of the ordinary,” he said.

Others, though, see a troubling lack of transparency.

“How you spent the campaign cash should not be an obstacle to reporting what you spent it on,” Catherine Turcer from Common Cause Ohio said.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/henrico-county-37-data-centers-182949513.html

Somewhere in Henrico County, Virginia, a teacher is being asked to shut down a computer at night so the county can shave a few bucks off its electric bill. Meanwhile, 37 data centers hum along across roughly 2,700 acres of county land, each one drinking power at a scale that makes your home energy use look like a nightlight — a demand surge accelerated by projects like the Stargate Project. On June 26, County Manager John Vithoulkas emailed thousands of employees — including school staff — with the news: electricity rates jump 25% on July 1, adding about $5 million in annual costs. His fix? "Collectively make slight adjustments."

The Math Nobody Did Out Loud

Data centers now drive the majority of wholesale electricity price increases in the region — and your bill reflects it.

A single hyperscale data center can consume over 100 megawatts — comparable to the usage of tens of thousands of homes. Virginia hosts the world's largest concentration of these facilities, and PJM's independent market monitor found data centers drove 63% of last year's capacity price increases across the regional grid. That cost doesn't stay abstract. It lands on every ratepayer in the territory — a pattern familiar to those who've followed tech scandals where costs are quietly shifted onto ordinary people.

Vithoulkas's conservation email reads like a personal-finance app notification applied to a municipal budget crisis. Employees are advised to:

Turn off lights

Adjust blinds

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https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-rejects-trump-effort-overturn-e-jean-carroll-sexual-assa-rcna256546

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday handed a loss to President Donald Trump by refusing to hear his attempt to overturn a jury's finding that he sexually abused and later defamed writer E. Jean Carroll.

The justices turned away Trump's appeal in the case, meaning that the 2023 jury verdict and a $5 million civil judgment remain in place.

The case arose from a federal lawsuit filed by Carroll in Manhattan alleging that Trump assaulted her in the dressing room of a department store in 1996. The defamation claims relate to statements he made about her after his first term in office, in which he described her claims as a "con job" and "hoax."

Trump blasted the high court’s ruling in a post on social media and vowed to keep fighting the case “with all of my power and strength,” despite the judges seeming to shut the door on the verdict.

The president referred to Carroll as a “woman I never met (Decades old celebrity photo line, standing with her husband, does not count!),” he wrote Monday, referring to a picture that emerged of him and Carroll after he first said he’d never met her. Trump’s insistence he’d never met her was a part of her defamation case, and a jury sided with Carroll.

“This Case is really against the United States of America, and all it stands for, and should never be allowed to happen to another President, or Candidate to be!,” he said. He added, “this Injustice cannot be allowed to stand!”

Cannot make this shit up

https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-commission-heatwave-hq-forced-shut-down-air-conditioning-europe/

The European Commission’s headquarters was forced to shut down its air-conditioning system on Friday due to the heat wave.

Staff working at the Berlaymont building received a text at midday, reading: “BERL — URGENT — Due to extreme weather conditions, forced shut down of air cooling system from floor 1 to 7 for the rest of the day.”

The 13-story building is home to Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, her 26 commissioners and about 3,000 staff. Von der Leyen works on the 13th floor, and most of her commissioners’ offices are housed on floors eight or above.

Belgium and much of Europe have been sweltering for the past week, with record-breaking temperatures.

The Commission issued guidance for its staff earlier this week, which included avoiding going outside at the hottest times of day, drinking water regularly and starting work earlier.

But the advice angered some Commission staff who work in buildings without air-conditioning, including DG AGRI, according to internal communications seen by POLITICO’s Brussels Playbook.

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Remember every single time we would have a thread about nuclear energy and some plebbitor would argue for hours about how superior wind farms are - especially in Europe?

Take a look! This is the hell they want you to burn to death in. The same one they made.

https://www.newsweek.com/europe-heat-wave-deaths-record-breaking-temperatures-american-gun-deaths-12110514

A heat wave sweeping across Europe is turning temperatures lethal, with more than 40 deaths reported since June 18 in a region where extreme heat kills an estimated 175,000 people each year—roughly four times the toll of gun deaths in the United States.

Europe is baking under one of the most intense early-season heat waves on record, with temperatures surging past 40 degrees Celsius, or 104 degrees Fahrenheit, across multiple countries and shattering long-standing June benchmarks, as forecasters warn some regions could approach 45 degrees Celsius, or 113 degrees Fahrenheit, in the days ahead.

The extreme heat—fueled by a stubborn high-pressure “heat dome”—has triggered top-level alerts from France to the United Kingdom. The escalating heat is not just unusual—it is increasingly dangerous in a region where air conditioning remains far less common than in countries like the United States.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/supreme-court-mail-in-ballots-election-ruling

US supreme court upholds law to count mail-in ballots arriving after election day

Court sides against Republicans after deciding earlier this term to let Louisiana effectively dismantle Voting Rights Act

The US supreme court sided against national Republicans and Donald Trump’s administration to allow mail-in ballots that arrive after election day to be counted, upholding the law in more than a dozen states.

The Republican National Committee (RNC) had challenged a Mississippi state law allowing mailed ballots to be counted if they arrive within five business days of election day, so long as they were postmarked by election day.

“Nothing in the federal election-day statutes requires ballots to be received by election day,” the conservative justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote in the 5-4 opinion.

Barrett joined Chief Justice John Roberts and the three liberal justices – Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson – in delivering the majority opinion. Justices Samuel Alito wrote a dissenting opinion, which Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch joined and Brett Kavanaugh joined in part.

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>The spectacle on The National Mall is a bust. And even the people who went said “boring!”

This is Donald Trump’s “Great American State Fair” pictured in all its crowd-free glory.

The spectacle on the National Mall in Washington D.C. is ready to receive thousands of visitors. Instead, it is virtually deserted.

Not that there is much to see. Amid the sprawling stretches of open space, there is a 110-foot Freedom 250 ferris wheel and a tacky plywood “Triumph Arch” dominating the center of the grounds, a replica of the monument Trump wants to build near D.C.’s sacred Arlington Cemetery.

There are no corn dogs or funnel cakes. No roller coasters or merry go rounds. And by Friday morning, Pennsylvania became the latest of several Democratic states to declare it was not taking part.

The plan was to have representation from all 50 states. But some had opted out due to the high cost to taxpayers or not being able to secure any businesses to sponsor a booth. Others had chosen not to attend after the supposedly nonpartisan event suddenly seemed political, with Trump himself kicking off the fair with a MAGA rally earlier this week.

The most noticeable thing: the lack of crowds.

The Daily Beast was at the fair in the late afternoon and early evening, hoping to see a flood of people arrive after school and work.

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https://www.theguardian.com/law/2026/jun/27/board-of-peace-legal-immunity-un

The UN-sanctioned Board of Peace announced by Donald Trump earlier this year to rule Gaza is planning a sweeping grant of legal immunity for itself, according to a draft of the resolution obtained by the Guardian. The draft language would also let the organization obtain public property in Gaza “free of charge”.

The four-page resolution, labeled “sensitive but unclassified”, extends broad protections to every member of the Board of Peace and its administrative affiliate, the office of the high representative (OHR), as well as to the Palestinian technocrats, international military forces and nonresident contractors lined up to perform work in Gaza. It defines legal processes from which they would have immunity as “any arrest, detention or legal proceedings in the courts or other entities in Gaza”.

It is unclear if the document is attempting to relieve the Board of Peace and its affiliates from prosecution in international courts, in addition to potential claims in Gaza.

The Board of Peace’s chair, Donald Trump, would have the right to waive someone’s legal immunity, pending majority support from his peace board, the June 2026 draft resolution states.

The seven-member “executive board” that leads the Board of Peace includes Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner; special envoy Steve Witkoff; the president’s chief of staff, Susie Wiles; and his national security adviser, Marco Rubio. Though countries have pledged billions, most have not yet transferred funds to support its work in Gaza and no major contracts have been issued.

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https://www.khq.com/politics/cantwell-blumenthal-raise-concerns-over-house-kosa-bill-ahead-of-potential-action/article_32dbe60f-f402-4433-a4f5-86cd970cea6b.html
>Cantwell, Blumenthal raise concerns over House KOSA bill ahead of potential action
>WASHINGTON DC - Democratic senate lawmakers in Washington are sounding the alarm over house legislation, that they say isn't harsh enough against big tech corporations.

>U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) the ranking Member of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee and Senator Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), author of the Senate Kids Online Safety Act were joined today by families who have lost their their children’s use of social media.

>House lawmakers have reached a bipartisan deal on a legislative package intended to strengthen online safety and privacy protections for children and teenagers—a key sign of progress on a major policy priority.

>Energy and Commerce Chair Brett Guthrie (R-Ky.) and ranking member Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) on Monday announced an agreement on a new version of the KIDS Act (H.R. 7757), a package of more than a dozen bills that includes the high-profile Kids Online Safety Act, or KOSA.

>Securing Democratic support for the initially Republican-only package marks a significant step toward advancing the package through the chamber. House lawmakers have long sought to respond to growing concerns that social media companies, such as TikTok Inc., Snap Inc., and Meta Platforms Inc.‘s Instagram, pose risks to children and their mental health, but have yet to reach enough accord to successfully pass legislation.

tl;dr it's your job to raise my kids you fucking shitlord, take pictures of your face and let the government log your keystrokes and upload them to public databases.
can't wait for every person here to show us their greasy unwashed face. At least we'll get to find out who the Russians are