Buckle up. Chicago faced the prospect of two more rounds of storms today …
■ … including tornadoes, “torrential” rain and big hail …
■ … with renewed risk of flooding.
■ The deal leaves unresolved one of the Trump administration’s professed major concerns: The fate of Iran’s nuclear program. (Cartoon: Jack Ohman.)
‘An absolute joke.’ Wonkette’s Evan Hurst doesn’t think much of the “memorandum of understanding” to end the war in Iran: “Basically we’re paying Iran billions of dollars to reopen a strait that was open before Donald Trump touched it … and Iran is stronger than ever.”
■ Tom Nichols at The Atlantic (gift link): “Trump does not understand the war he lost.”
■ Jimmy Kimmel: “He promised he would drain the swamp. Instead, he spent 14 million of our dollars building a new one.” (Cartoon: Jack Ohman, on fire.)
Trump’s primary misfire. In a departure from this year’s norm, the president’s endorsement wasn’t enough to save his favored gubernatorial candidate in Georgia’s Republican primary runoff.
■ The AP rounds up other highlights from across the country.
■ If you got a bunch of Politico email alerts from the 2024 presidential election last night, you weren’t alone.
■ One email communications veteran on Bluesky: “HOW DARE YOU MAKE ME RELIVE MY TRAUMA.”
‘A Handmaid’s Tale quality.’ Law professor Joyce Vance flags the whackjob rhetoric shoveled out at the Turning Point USA Women’s Leadership Summit—like one right-wing influencer’s assertion that she’d “gladly give up my right to vote to have a more conservative country.”
■ American Freakshow columnists Nina Burleigh and Katie Chenoweth ask, “Is having an education advisor married to a registered sex offender really a good look for TPUSA?”
■ The Sun-Times and Uncloseted Media: The Trump administration’s investigations of Illinois school district protections for trans students have cost schools hundreds of thousands of dollars.
What’s it all about? Algae. Days after a $14 million renovation, Trump’s remodeled Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool has developed an algal bloom.
■ LateNighter: Bipartisan Senate support’s growing for what’s known unofficially as “The Jimmy Kimmel Act,” which would give U.S. citizens a new way to sue government officials who pressure private companies—like, say ABC—to suppress lawful free speech.
■ Y’know FBI Director Kash Patel’s boast of the arrest of people who planned to attack Trump’s UFC birthday bash? Not so fast.
■ Former Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler: “Why do Americans keep falling for this scam? Trump’s promises about the border wall, tariffs and now the White House ballroom all follow the same three-stage script.”
■ Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility is suing the administration “for hiding how it decides what American history to rewrite.”
‘The less our young people had heard about this misguided young man from Naperville, the better.’ A Tribune editorial mourns all the attention politicians showered on the case of a burning cross in Grant Park.
■ Oak Park police were scouring security camera footage to learn who deployed antisemitic words and images on property being redeveloped.
Company’s coming. Tomorrow’s dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center will feature performances by—among others—Stevie Wonder, Bruce Springsteen and Eddie Vedder …
■ … to be streamed live at 11 a.m. here.
■ Veteran Chicago journalist Andy Shaw, who covered Obama’s early political career, reflects on the new center and the old pol.
■ Politico: That building’s catching plenty of flak across social media.
Pope Leo Island? A Chicago City Council member’s proposing to rename Northerly Island in honor of the Chicago-born pontiff.
■ The petition to rename the street on which Trump Tower’s located “Obama Avenue” has more than 23,000 signatures.
‘No one can credibly investigate themselves.’ Lawyers for the Broadview Six defendants are asking a federal judge to appoint a special counsel to figure out how the U.S. Attorney’s office fouled up the dismissed charges against them.
■ The top Democrat on the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, Jamie Raskin, wants an immediate investigation into U.S Attorney Andrew Boutros for “incalculable damage to public confidence in his office.” (Read Raskin’s letter here.)
■ Historian Heather Cox Richardson: The case exemplifies a Justice Department “crisis of confidence in its work.”
■ The Justice Department’s seemingly running from the same playbook in new charges against 15 Minnesotans who protested ICE’s assault on the Twin Cities …
■ … which reminds us that Chicago Public Square’s co-presenting this: