CURE News Digest: Thursday, June 4, 2026
CURE News
CORRUPTION
“The family who grifts together…hopefully is convicted together”.
6-4-26 Open Windows - Ann Telnaes
“The family who grifts together…” by Ann Telnaes (editorial cartoonist & visual storyteller)
https://anntelnaes.substack.com/p/the-family-who-grifts-together
Trump is physically & mentally weak, but still trying to exert control. Some Republicans are pushing back.
6-4-26 Letters from an American
“June 3, 2026” by Heather Cox Richardson
https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/june-3-2026
Trump & Blanche are telling “porkies” about the “slush fund” in order to get the reconciliation bill passed.
6-4-2 Popular Information
“No, Trump’s $1.776 billion slush fund isn’t ‘dead’” by Crosby & Sims
https://popular.info/p/no-trumps-1776-billion-slush-fundTrump’s power grab is intensifying, plus no one really believes the “slush fund” is dead.
6-4-26 The Bulwark | Morning Shots
“Trump’s Permanency Project” by Kristol, Egger & Swift
This post contains separate articles. The following quotation is from the first article by Bill Kristol who talks about the midterm elections: “Many of the authoritarian efforts of Trump and his apparatchiks remain in the shadows, to be sure. But he wants to accustom his supporters to the idea that the opposition is thwarting him and that he may therefore need to take extraordinary measures.” The second article by Andrew Egger reveals that no one really believes the slush fund is dead. Egger states “But nobody involved—not the president, not the rioters, not the senators who oppose the fund—seems convinced that the idea of cash transfers to insurrectionists is really dead.” Both articles are worth reading for their insights into what is happening!
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-permanency-project-2028-election-2029-president-for-life-pulte-blanche-hegseth-patel-mullin-slush-fund-january-6thRESISTANCE & DEFIANCE
DEI as the foundation of democracy.
6-2-26 The New Republic
25-minute video featuring Perry Bacon & Stacey Abrams
“Stacey Abrams on Winning the South and the Fight Over DEI”
substack&utm_content=watch_now_button&r=4379b&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=emailhttps://newrepublic.substack.com/p/stacey-abrams-on-winning-the-south?utm_source=podcast-email&publication_id=1520659&post_id=199996055&utm_campaign=email-play-on-
Trump is trying to sabotage the 2026 midterms, but here are tips to fight back!
6-4-26 Robert Reich substack
“He Won’t Get Away With It” by Robert Reich
NOTE: This post contains a 4 ½ -minute YouTube video. Please watch & share with others!
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/he-wont-get-away-with-itQuote for the Day:
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
~Isaac Asimov (1920-1992), prolific American science fiction writer