Headlines for June 29, 2026
The Daily Beans podcast headlines sourced and cited
Monday, June 29, 2026
Today, Trump launches fresh attacks against Iran but doesn’t announce them until 30 minutes after the markets closed Friday, the Justice Department is now zero for ten in voter roll lawsuits as a federal court rejects Trump’s attempt to get Pennsylvania data, the Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to greenlight its unprecedented immigration detention policy, the Buttigieg family was the subject of a vile home invasion, bible stories are installed in Texas public school curriculum, a federal judge says a man with the same name as Alaska senator Dan Sullivan is eligible to be on the primary ballot, tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride parade since Orban’s ouster, the reflecting pool algae was caused by the administration removing nanobubblers for vanity reasons ahead of the Lincoln Memorial UFC weigh in, Mamdani’s rent freeze has been approved by the New York City Board, the FEMA guy who claims he teleported to a Waffle House has been sacked, and naming your kid “Donald” has never been more unpopular.
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Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/25/nyregion/nyc-rent-freeze-vote-mamdani.html
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/06/26/trump-ice-detention-supreme-court-00978482
Bible stories are approved as required reading in Texas public schools | AP News
Pete Buttigieg Target of Vile Attack on His Young Family | The New Republic
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-launches-strikes-iran-attack-ship-strait-hormuz-rcna351992
Naming Your Kid ‘Donald’ Has Never Been So Unpopular - NOTUS — News of the United States
Tens of thousands march in the first Budapest Pride since Viktor Orbán was voted out | PBS News
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/26/us/politics/reflecting-pool-trump-algae.html
Why was having "nano bubblers" a vanity thing? If the base of the pool was so delicate why did they let him drive a motorcade weighing hundreds of thousands of pounds over it? Enquiring minds wanna know!
Thanks Allison, this is exactly what we expected