The Supreme Court Just Shielded Monsanto From Cancer Lawsuits. The Supreme Court ruled 7-2 that Monsanto can’t be sued by the people its weedkiller gave cancer, because Monsanto used the Roundup label the EPA approved and the EPA never required a cancer warning. John Durnell sprayed Roundup for about 20 years, developed non-Hodgkin lymphoma, and won $1.25 million from a Missouri jury. The Court erased it. The world’s leading cancer agency calls glyphosate a probable human carcinogen, the EPA says it isn’t likely to cause cancer, and the Court sided with the EPA.

The fix runs deeper than the bench. The Justice Department urged the Court to back Bayer, helped along by lawyers who came from Bayer’s own law firms. Months earlier, Trump declared glyphosate critical to national defense, and Bayer is the only company in America that makes it. Bayer’s stock jumped about 16% the same day the cancer claims got harder to file.

Sources:

https://www.npr.org/2026/06/25/g-s1-120233/supreme-court-monsanto-roundup-decision

https://usrtk.org/pesticides/trump-administration-asks-supreme-court-to-back-bayer-again-aided-by-officials-who-came-from-bayers-law-firms/

https://prospect.org/2026/04/27/bayer-turns-over-every-stone-to-stiff-roundup-cancer-victims/

Trump Cancels Signing of the Biggest Housing Bill in Decades to Force Through a Voter Suppression Law

Donald Trump canceled the signing of the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act an hour before the ceremony, refusing to sign the most significant housing affordability bill in a generation until Congress passes the SAVE Act, his voter bill.

The housing bill passed the House 358 to 32 and the Senate 85 to 5. It builds homes and caps the Wall Street firms buying up single-family houses. It landed as inflation hit 4.2 percent, gas sat up around 50 percent since the Iran war, and beef ran nearly 19 percent higher.

Trump called the bill “of minor importance” and reportedly told his own Republicans “I don’t care about housing.” Congressman French Hill was caught praising the bill on live TV as staffers unscrewed the presidential seal behind him.

The SAVE Act can’t pass. Thune won’t kill the filibuster, the Senate parliamentarian already ruled it can’t go through reconciliation, and Republican Anna Paulina Luna called that plan Kool-Aid. Trump has ten days to sign the housing bill or let it die in a pocket veto.

Sources:

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5938384-save-america-act-reconciliation-johnson/

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/24/trump-cancels-housing-bill-signing-save-america-act.html

https://newrepublic.com/post/212282/republicans-scramble-trump-refuses-sign-housing-bill

https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administrations-tariffs-and-iran-war-will-cause-americans-to-face-higher-prices-this-summer/

The New Republic

Book banning didn’t stop. It went stealth. Across the country, libraries are quietly moving kids’ and teen books to the adult section, where a minor can’t check them out without a parent. No ban on the record, nothing to sue over, nothing on the banned-books lists everyone’s watching.

404 Media’s Claire Woodcock pulled the records from dozens of library systems and found a coordinated, nationwide reshelving, and the books making the trip are almost always the ones with Black, gay, or trans kids in them. Here’s who’s doing it, how they’re hiding it, and why it should scare you even if you’ve never set foot in a library.

Reporting by Claire Woodcock for 404 Media.

https://www.404media.co/are-public-libraries-becoming-childrens-libraries/

This Week in Tyranny, while the President melted down online, his administration kept steamrolling.

Cops got caught using Flock, the nationwide license-plate camera network, to stalk their ex-girlfriends, the same system cities were supposed to dump after it was used to track women driving to clinics.

Trump’s Justice Department went to federal court to defend Elon Musk’s right to run 57 unpermitted gas turbines pumping formaldehyde over a Black Memphis neighborhood, arguing his Grok chatbot is too vital to national security to shut off.

The January 6 rioters who assaulted police are now demanding millions through a quiet Federal Tort Claims Act back door, with Trump’s own former defense lawyers deciding who gets paid.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth scrapped the military’s flu shot mandate in April; two months later 160 troops are sick at a Texas base and a recruit is dead.

Asked at the G7 whether anyone would be held accountable for a U.S. strike that killed more than 170 people, most of them little girls, at an Iranian elementary school, Trump called it “a strange question.”

The Forest Service is preparing to spray cancer-linked glyphosate across 75,000 acres near Lake Tahoe, leaning on a safety study Monsanto secretly ghostwrote.

Plus Trump’s algae-choked Reflecting Pool, his feud with Giorgia Meloni, and Jeff Bezos trashing his own newspaper.

Sources:

https://www.404media.co/cops-keep-getting-arrested-for-using-flock-to-stalk-people/

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/16/elon-musk-xai-datacenters-trump-administration

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/17/january-6-defendants-compensation-process

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/5932135-flu-outbreak-lackland-air-force/

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-school-bombing-iran-accountable_n_6a32da0fe4b04f5fa0bdeafb

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/18/lake-tahoe-glyphosate

https://www.newsweek.com/cyclist-arrested-handcuffed-reflecting-pool-national-guard-12098916

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/italys-meloni-pushes-back-on-trumps-fabricated-claim-as-top-diplomat-cancels-u-s-trip

https://www.status.news/p/jeff-bezos-washington-post-donald-trump-dinner

This week on the Gilead Gazette: while the country watched Trump’s war with Iran, the war on women had one of its busiest weeks yet.

The administration quietly rewrote a federal grant program, the Embryo Adoption Awareness program at Health and Human Services, to describe frozen embryos as “children who already exist.” It looks like paperwork. It’s fetal personhood, the legal groundwork to ban IVF and ab@rt!on nationwide without a single vote. We already saw it in Alabama, where calling embryos “children” shut IVF clinics down overnight.

A new report from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research finds ab@rt!on bans are draining roughly $140 billion a year from the economy, pushing women out of jobs and whole states out of the running for the workers who’d power them.

In San Antonio, artist Ana Hernandez unveiled a mural honoring four women killed by Texas’s ban: Josseli Barnica, Nevaeh Crain, Porsha Ngumezi, and Tierra Walker. Meanwhile Arkansas approved a monument to the unborn at its Capitol, built from a design taken from a local artist who was never paid. In Wyoming, after a judge struck down three anti-ab@rt!on laws, Republicans moved to dismantle their own supreme court. And in the lightning round: Kentucky activists campaigning to end IVF, Ohio trying to put the ab@rt!on pill on an opioid-style watch list, and a fake clinic opening across the street from a real one in Danville, Illinois.

This Tuesday marks four years since Dobbs. Stay angry. Stay loud. Under Her Eye.

Sources:

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-admin-embryo-child-grant-program_n_6a32dd6ae4b0dfdabce9ca40

https://iwpr.org/articles/more-than-140-billion-in-lost-earnings-abortion-restrictions-continue-to-harm-women-and-are-a-persistent-drag-on-the-economy/

https://www.sacurrent.com/news/texas-news/new-mural-in-southtown-remembers-women-who-died-due-to-texas-abortion-ban/

https://www.propublica.org/article/porsha-ngumezi-miscarriage-death-texas-abortion-ban

https://reproductiverights.org/news/u-s-repro-watch-6-16-26/

Abortion, Every Day

On Friday, the San Francisco Giants held their annual Pride Night at Oracle Park. The rainbow caps the team handed out were optional. One Giants player simply chose not to wear his, which broke no rule at all. Three pitchers, including starter Landen Roupp, did something different: they wore theirs and wrote Bible verses on them in protest. Defacing the uniform, not declining to wear it, is what actually violates Major League Baseball’s rules.

MLB warned the three players that writing on the uniform is against the rules and that further violations could bring discipline, the same policy that keeps any player from scrawling a personal message across his jersey. The verse Roupp chose, Genesis 9:12-16, happens to be the passage where God sets a rainbow in the sky as the sign of his covenant, which means a protest against a rainbow celebration was staged using the one piece of scripture about the origin of the rainbow.

What should have ended in the clubhouse became a federal matter instead. Vice President JD Vance posted that Trump won and “we don’t have to do this anymore.” California State Senator Scott Wiener replied, “Yes, we do.” Then Harmeet Dhillon, the Assistant Attorney General who leads the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, sent Commissioner Rob Manfred a letter referring the league to federal investigators over whether warning the players amounts to religious discrimination. The San Francisco Archdiocese has since joined the administration in defending the players.

The inversion is hard to miss. The players had a rule-free way to opt out and didn’t take it. They wore the hat, defaced it, and were warned for breaking a rule every player follows. And the federal government’s response is to target the league for enforcing its own rulebook, not the players who broke it. A Civil Rights Division that has spent the year stepping back from cases involving voting, housing, and discrimination is now treating a baseball uniform policy as a civil rights emergency.

Sources

https://www.sacbee.com/news/california/article316193934.html

https://abc7news.com/post/vice-president-jd-vance-criticizes-giants-pride-night-controversy-trump-won-california-state-sen-scott-wiener-responds/19317184/

On Monday, Immigration and Customs Enforcement quietly released a new set of National Detention Standards, the rules that govern how people are treated inside ICE jails. ICE says the standards “streamline” its regulations and “reduce the burden” on detention operators. In practice, they strip away some of the last protections detained immigrants had, and they were shaped, in part, by the for-profit prison company that profits most from them.

The first change eliminates the requirement that facilities pay detained people for their labor, a wage that usually amounted to a dollar a day. The new rules go further, barring facilities from paying more than a dollar a day and reclassifying the people doing the work as “not employees.” That reclassification arrives at a convenient moment. GEO Group, one of the country’s two largest private prison companies, is currently facing class-action lawsuits from detainees demanding to be paid an actual wage for the work they’re forced to do. The new language reads almost exactly like it was written to defeat those suits.

The second change scraps the requirement to provide in-person and telephone interpreters. In their place, ICE says artificial intelligence can handle what it calls “non-critical communication.” Advocates who reviewed the standards point out that “non-critical communication” includes detainee grievances, which are frequently complaints about being denied lifesaving medical care. So a person who doesn’t speak English, trying to report that they’re seriously ill, may now have that message routed through a machine that translates by guessing.

The third change is the quietest and the most dangerous. Facilities are now required to accept anyone ICE sends them, even people too sick or disabled for that facility to care for. Before, a jail that couldn’t meet someone’s medical needs had to transfer them to a hospital. Now it simply has to hold them. According to the Associated Press, this also reduces the facility’s liability when a detainee dies. At least 50 people have died in ICE custody since the start of the second Trump administration.

According to the Washington Post, GEO Group privately asked ICE for several of these changes, including the removal of language requiring contractors to follow state and local laws. CoreCivic, the other major private prison company, was also consulted. Both donated $500,000 each to Trump’s inaugural fund. And both border czar Tom Homan and acting ICE director David Venturella worked for GEO Group before taking the government jobs that now regulate it.

Public Citizen called the new standards a gift to the for-profit contractors. The people paying for that gift are the ones with no way out.

Credit to Shireen Akram-Boshar at Truthout, whose ongoing reporting on Delaney Hall and GEO Group surfaced this story.

: https://truthout.org/articles/ice-releases-new-detention-regulations-benefiting-for-profit-prison-companies/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/06/16/ice-removed-detainee-protections-after-private-outreach-top-contractor/

https://apnews.com/article/ice-detention-standards-conditions-immigration-detainees-5f87c9e1099cc70718a2a7f39fb7f9ff

https://www.ice.gov/doclib/detention-standards/2026/nds2026.pdf

https://www.citizen.org/news/new-ice-detention-standards-fail-to-address-detainee-exploitation/

Congressional Republicans have introduced the Take Care of America’s Veterans Act, a 554-page package that bundles more than 60 veterans’ bills, including the widely supported Major Richard Star Act. But to satisfy budget rules, the package offsets its cost by cutting future VA disability compensation for two of the most common service-connected conditions: tinnitus and sleep apnea. The VA projects the change would reduce disability payments by up to $57 billion over ten years, affecting as many as 1.5 million veterans.

The bill effectively eliminates the standalone disability rating for tinnitus, the single most common service-connected disability, treating it as a symptom that only counts if paired with separately documented hearing loss. For sleep apnea, it ties the rating to treatment: veterans whose CPAP machines successfully manage the condition could see their rating cut toward zero.

As a combat veteran, I have tinnitus, and like roughly a quarter million other service members, I was part of the litigation against 3M over the defective Combat Arms earplugs issued during the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, a case that ended in a $6 billion settlement for causing the exact hearing injuries the earplugs were meant to prevent.

Every major veterans service organization, including the VFW, DAV, IAVA, and Paralyzed Veterans of America, opposes the funding mechanism. The Major Richard Star Act can be passed as standalone legislation without cutting other veterans’ benefits.

Sources:

https://www.govexec.com/management/2026/06/gops-va-overhaul-bill-narrows-some-employees-rights-spurs-privatization-union-says/414230/

https://www.unite4veterans.org/press/vets-tcava-va-disability-rating

https://www.stripes.com/veterans/2026-06-11/major-veterans-legislation-60-bills-21939097.html

https://www.dav.org/learn-more/news/2026/dav-condemns-congressional-proposal-to-cut-disability-benefits-for-1-5-million-veterans/

https://taskandpurpose.com/news/veterans-bill-tinnitus-sleep-apnea/

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2024/03/27/250000-veterans-agree-6-billion-settlement-3m-over-earplugs-alleged-cause-hearing-loss.html

United States is detaining babies and toddlers in immigration custody at roughly ten times the rate it did under the Biden administration. According to an investigation by The Marshall Project and MS NOW, based on ICE’s own detention records, an average of 25 children age three and under are held on any given day, and at least 500 babies and toddlers have been detained since the start of President Trump’s second term. More than 175 were held longer than the 20-day limit a federal judge set for detaining children; under Biden’s final year, that number was zero. Across all ages, ICE has detained more than 6,200 children this term.

The report documents the conditions through specific cases: a 2-year-old, separated from his detained father, who stopped eating for 12 days; a 1-year-old who began hitting himself and stopped speaking; and a 1-year-old girl given only Tylenol before being hospitalized for a week with COVID, pneumonia, bronchitis, and RSV. Pediatric experts note that infancy and toddlerhood are when detention causes the most lasting developmental harm.

In response, the Department of Homeland Security said ICE “is not targeting children” and questioned the media’s coverage of immigration under the prior administration, rather than addressing the documented conditions.

Border crossings have fallen sharply, undercutting the security rationale for the policy.

Reporting by The Marshall Project and MS NOW.

Source:

https://www.ms.now/news/trump-ice-detention-dilley-kids-immigration

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2026/06/09/babies-and-toddlers-in-ice-detention

This week in tyranny: while President Trump marked his 80th birthday with a UFC cage match on the South Lawn of the White House, his administration spent the week documenting, in its own reports, the human cost of its detention machine.

The UFC event, billed as part of the country’s 250th-anniversary celebration, drew more than 4,000 guests. The UFC said it covered the cost, but the National Park Service stated in a court filing that taxpayers are out more than $60 million, with seven federal agencies involved. A Trump-family crypto company added a $250,000 bonus pool, and a commercial pilot landing at Reagan National filed a federal safety report over the event’s lighting. The same week, a court ordered the President’s name removed from the Kennedy Center.

A Government Accountability Office report on Camp East Montana, the largest immigration detention facility in the country, found that a detainee, Geraldo Lunas Campos, died in a guard restraint ruled a homicide, and that the contractor never provided required use-of-force and death reports, with evidence “missing or destroyed.” The report also documented a lost loaded firearm, a detainee escape, tuberculosis screening by questionnaire, and detainees with diabetes and HIV left without treatment plans. DHS described the facility as “upgrading.”

In Pittsburgh, a medical examiner ruled the death of Daphy Michel, a Haitian asylum seeker released by ICE into freezing weather, a homicide, the kind of post-release death ICE recently stopped reporting. And an investigation by The City found that more than 93% of people arrested in ICE street operations across New York and New Jersey were Latino, with agents detaining people they admitted were not their intended targets.

Plus: the administration waived the Endangered Species Act and other laws to build a border wall through Big Bend National Park; a judge ordered the restoration of censored Park Service exhibits on slavery and climate; and Trump asked Congress to expunge his two impeachments.

Sources:

https://apnews.com/article/trump-80th-birthday-ufc-biden-e14d1bbccc1cbaaad42fd541b1fe833d

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/-ice-camp-east-montana-gao-report-tuberculosis-guard-lost-gun-rcna349213

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/womans-hypothermia-death-pittsburgh-after-her-release-ice-custody-ruled-homicide_n_6a2db098e4b08741f51b1b65

https://projects.thecity.nyc/ice-street-arrests-investigation-racial-profiling/

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/13/texas-border-wall-big-bend-national-park

https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-parks-lawsuit-c39eee6f77c2e782fc494e2167bf5a39