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A father in Idaho, speaking to police after his child died by suicide: “There is a huge amount of animosity, every single day, thrown at trans kids. The whole fucking country. The whole fucking administration, every single fucking day.” Please read this important story by @joyurcaba.bsky.social

Idaho pushed anti-trans laws for years. Then a teen died.The life and death of May Pollard, 16, provides a window into the tragic effect that legislation and political rhetoric have had on trans people in America.www.nbcnews.com

Please read this story by @joyurcaba.bsky.social.

"The criminal case against Campbell began after an investigation by NBC News. ... The state began pursuing criminal charges following a May 2025 article and documentary that chronicled years of alleged sexual abuse by Campbell and repeated failures by church leaders to stop him."

They say their pastor abused them as children. This week, they confronted him in court.Following an NBC News investigation, nearly a dozen witnesses testified that Joe Campbell, a Pentecostal preacher, groomed and sexually abused them in the 1970s and ’80s.www.nbcnews.com

Happy pub day, @pamelacolloff.bsky.social! Trust me, you’ll want to order a copy of this one: bookshop.org/p/books/catc...

Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf CoastA True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coastbookshop.org

Have you noticed it can cost hundreds of dollars for a family bowling outing? Thank private equity. @spettypi.bsky.social reports. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Wall Street goes bowling for profits, driving up the price of a middle-class pastimeFueled by private equity investments, Lucky Strike Entertainment went on a buying spree and now owns more than 1 in 10 American bowling alleys.www.nbcnews.com

“There was … a violent effort to rip up the sealant.”

One year after Trump signed his “big, beautiful bill,” it has begun reshaping the country. At least 4 million people have lost food stamps. Millions more will lose healthcare. Refugees and other legal immigrants are getting kicked off the safety net. And the wealthiest Americans have gotten richer.

How Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ changed AmericaPresident Donald Trump signed his “big, beautiful bill” a year ago. It unleashed the biggest ever rollback of federal programs serving the poor, while extending trillions of dollars in tax breaks disp...www.nbcnews.com

For a half-century, U.S. policy has pushed to keep disabled Americans out of institutions. Now Rebecca Anger and many others fear that era could be coming to an end. Here's my latest on the Trump administration's growing attacks on Medicaid-funded home-care programs.

Paralyzed at 7, she fought for the life she wanted. Medicaid cuts threaten to take it away.For a half-century, U.S. policy has pushed to keep disabled Americans out of institutions. Now Rebecca Anger and others fear that era could end.www.nbcnews.com

A 57-year-old North Carolina mother is in knots over student loan repayment changes adopted in Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” and going into effect this week. She estimates her monthly student loan payments could jump from $150 to $713. www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...

Trump’s ‘big, beautiful bill’ is bringing a big set of student loan changesStarting Wednesday, many student borrowers may tackle higher repayment requirements, fewer program options and greater loan limits.www.nbcnews.com

I just noticed that HHS Civil Rights office has deleted its webpage about the Supreme Court's 1999 landmark Olmstead decision, which guaranteed the rights of disabled people to live in their homes rather than being institutionalized. It was live on May 25. Now it's "PAGE NOT FOUND"

“For ICE to come to me over a social media post just feels very 1984 to me,” she said. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Federal agents track down Syracuse woman, demand she remove Instagram post about ICEShe believes the warning was related to a post about the ICE agent who shot Renee Good in Minneapolis.www.syracuse.com

Trump, per a GOP source, wanted to talk at a recent meeting about his own D.C. building projects rather than legislation to bring down home prices nationwide. “I don’t care about housing,” he said. Now he’s refusing to sign the bipartisan bill.

Trump cancels plan to sign major housing bill as he fights with Congress over the SAVE ActJust hours before heading to Capitol Hill, Trump called the big, bipartisan housing bill Republicans hope to run on in the fall “of minor importance.”www.nbcnews.com

After days and days of news coverage and footage showing workers pouring harsh and highly corrosive chemicals into the algae-filled Reflecting Pool, the president would like you to believe that vandals were the ones who did it.

America 250: Former Olympian David Hearn Arrested for Touching the Reflecting Pool

Former Olympian David Hearn Arrested for Touching the Reflecting Pool amid Trump’s Claims of VandalismDavid Hearn was arrested for destruction of government property at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on June 19, but claims he only touched a piece of pool liner that was already detached. Presiden...people.com

“I’m his fan. I believe Trump is a good president,” said the woman, whose asylum seeker husband was arrested by ICE during their honeymoon visit to a Trump hotel property and held for three months in an immigration detention center. However, she said, “What happened to my family wasn’t fair.”

He took his wife, a Trump fan, to the president’s hotel in Doral. Instead he was detained by ICE.A honeymoon plan ended in an arrest, months of detention and over $80,000 in debt for Venezuelan immigrant Bryan Rojas, who’s married to a U.S. citizen.www.nbcnews.com

After @deldeib.bsky.social documented devastating stories of babies who died as a result of parents’ misplaced skepticism of newborn vitamin K shots, one of the doctors who helped stoke those fears now says he was wrong.

A Popular Doctor Had Long Warned That Vitamin K Shots Are Risky for Newborns. Now He’s Changed His Tune.After ProPublica contacted Dr. Joseph Mercola for an article on babies dying after parents turned down vitamin K shots, he publicly reversed his long-held stance that the shots weren't needed. “The da...www.propublica.org

Meanwhile, in Cleveland

Basketball

My god. Feeling a lot better about that 22-point collapse by the Cavs.

For the 2026 time capsule: Amid an emerging national home care crisis, researchers in Hew Hampshire have developed a robot — it looks like iPad attached to a Roomba — to provide companion care for people with intellectual and physical disabilities.

A robot is helping an ailing couple stay in their home. Are more to come for an aging population?The decades-long quest to build home robots that are both helpful and lifelike — spurred on by fictional machines like The Jetsons’ humanoid maid Rosie —- is still mostly a pipe dream, but some develo...apnews.com