Today's Headlines: Mitch McConnell's office released a photo with his wife and a doctor's note confirming he's still in a rehab facility and won't make it to the Fancy Farm Kentucky annual picnic, because THAT’S what everyone was concerned about. To add to the depraved and morally corrupt Republicans news, Ohio congressman Max Miller, whose ex-wife filed roughly 2,000 pages of court documents alleging he threw boiling water at her, pointed a gun at her head, and broke their two-year-old daughter's collarbone, is being defended by House Speaker Mike Johnson who said "the key word is allegation" — while Pete Buttigieg was separated from his four-year-old twins for 24 hours over a completely fabricated CPS tip from someone police later called "possibly mentally unstable," which Michigan police waited six days to even begin investigating, so the system is working great. The DNC is also in crisis, with chair Ken Martin reportedly throwing his phone at a staffer, the party so deep in debt it's asking vendors to invoice them after November, and paying $75,000 a month in loan interest. On the immigration beat, ICE built a surveillance database monitoring protesters using facial recognition, license plate scanning, and DNA collection, which was documented in a police report obtained by Mother Jones — the same outlet that found at least 59 ICE and CBP agents have been accused of sexual and violent crimes in the past two decades, 50 of them sex crimes many involving children, while a top DHS statistics official resigned citing the administration's "war on immigrants." In other news, Trump asked the Supreme Court to reinstate his mail-in voting executive order that a federal appeals court already blocked for threatening to disenfranchise eligible voters. Trump says Iran came back to the table seeking peace talks, Iran says that's not true, and a Ukrainian drone hit an Iranian supply line running to Russia — meaning the Iran and Ukraine wars have officially converged. And finally, France recorded its first ever pyrocumulonimbus cloud — a fire-generated storm system that French firefighters called "an operational impossibility, a natural force beyond our control."
Resources/Articles mentioned:
Rolling Stone: MAGA Rep. Allegedly Assaulted Wife, Put Gun to Her Head. Republicans Don't Care
WaPo: Police vetted dubious allegation only after Buttigieg was separated from children
NYT: Inside the Phone-Throwing Drama at the Troubled, Broke Democratic Party
NBC News: Mitch McConnell releases health update, saying he’s not ready to return to work yet
WaPo: Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow new limits on mail ballots
Mother Jones: Records Reveal How Homeland Security Agents Surveilled ICE Protesters
Mother Jones: Report: Dozens of ICE and CBP Agents Have Abused Women and Children
Wired: DHS Official Resigns, Citing ‘War on Immigrants’
CNN: Live updates: Trump says US halted strikes on Iran at Tehran’s request
WSJ: Two Wars Converge in the Caspian Sea as Ukraine Hits Iranian Supply Line to Russia
WIRED: France Records Its First-Ever Pyrocumulonimbus Cloud Amid Record-Smashing Fires
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