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On the very first day of Pride, a federal appeals court halted Trump's trans military ban — ruling it unconstitutional and driven by "the bare desire to harm a politically unpopular group."

The court preserved protections for transgender troops currently serving, meaning they cannot be fired while the case moves forward. And the judge didn't mince words: he called the policy — which he named the "Hegseth Policy" after the Defense Secretary — both "arbitrary" and rooted in animus toward trans people.

The judge slamming administration memos that dismissed trans service members as lacking "honesty, integrity, and humility" because of their gender identity.

The kicker? The transgender plaintiffs currently serving had collectively earned more than 80 military commendations. The government couldn't produce a single piece of evidence that they undermined readiness. Not one.

This is the third legal gut-punch Trump has taken in just the last few days.

Separately, a court froze Trump's $1.8 billion "anti-weaponization fund" — the scheme designed to funnel federal money to January 6th insurrectionists, MAGA loyalists, and political allies — and the White House announced it was dropping the whole plan. Senate Democrats had already introduced legislation to kill the fund; now they're taking a victory lap they (kind of) earned. This all comes after he was also forced to remove his name from the Kennedy Center, although, not surprisingly, it is still there after the court order.

The story Trump told about Iran — precision strikes, strength, deal incoming — is collapsing. Satellite images show the actual scope of Iran's retaliatory attacks on U.S. military sites are far more extensive than the administration admitted. Iran has now suspended peace talks entirely, Kuwait is reporting active drone and missile fire, and Trump reportedly screamed an F-bomb at Benjamin Netanyahu during a phone call as his diplomacy dissolved (The Daily Beast).

“You’re fucking crazy,” Trump reportedly told Netanyahu.

“You’d be in prison if it weren’t for me,” he told Netanyahu. “I’m saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this.”

He’s… not wrong.

A second source who had been briefed on the contents of the extreme call also claimed Trump was “pisseded,” and yelled at Netanyahu, “What the fuck are you doing?”

The "dealmaker" has no deal, a growing conflict, and a laundry list of unhinged posts to show for it. MAGA!

Pete Hegseth didn't just preside over a suspiciously pale, exclusively male promotion list — a new report confirms he personally nixed it. Of the 22 nominees up for promotion, two non-white officers made the cut. Zero women. This wasn't bureaucratic drift — it was a decision, made by a named person, with a pen. The same secretary who lost his security clearance fight, who's been caught drunk-texting in Signal chats, who turned the Pentagon press office into a classified space to keep journalists out, is now personally reshaping who leads the U.S. military by race and gender. The paper trail exists. The question is whether anyone in Congress will treat it like the scandal it is.

Today is California's primary, and it is the biggest electoral event of the cycle so far. A field of 61 governor candidates will be winnowed to two. Separately, tech billionaires — Google's Sergey Brin ($66 million), Meta, and others — are spending at unprecedented levels to protect their political power in the state. In the congressional races, Robert Garcia has emerged as the lead contender in a Huntington Beach district that could flip blue — a district that was, until very recently, considered safely conservative.

The results tonight will set the table for November. Watch this closely.

The Minnesota GOP state convention held a moment of silence for Derek Chauvin — the police officer convicted of murdering George Floyd — and the state party chair's response to the backlash was, essentially, a shrug. Attorney General Keith Ellison called it "an act of profound cruelty" to Floyd's family.

The party that turned "Back the Blue" into a bumper sticker has now clarified what that means: not police accountability, not community safety, but specifically this cop, this murder, this message. In the state where George Floyd was killed.