• Religious charity tax exemptions expanded: Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled in its third unanimous decision of the day in favor of Catholic Charities Bureau Inc., supporting its claim of religious discrimination. The issue at hand was Wisconsin’s unemployment compensation tax exemptions. The Catholic charity argued that it should be exempt under the carveout for religious groups. The Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled against it because the charity work was not explicitly religious. Justice Sonia Sotomayor, writing the unanimous opinion, explained that the courts and the law must treat religions on a neutral footing, as not exempting religions that perform their charity on a religiously blind basis or without proselytizing would be discrimination. Critics say this case opens the door for many other organizations to seek tax exemptions, potentially leading to a “snowballing loss of revenue” for states and local jurisdictions.

• Jobs report: In May, 139,000 jobs were added to the U.S. economy, a slight drop from the prior month’s revised total of 147,000 jobs, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. This exceeds the Dow Jones’s anticipated total of 125,000. The headline unemployment rate of 4.2% remained steady, while workers’ hourly average pay grew more than expected, increasing by 0.4% and up 3.9% over last year at this time. Most of May’s job growth came from the healthcare sector, which added 62,000 jobs. The leisure and hospitality industry added 48,000. Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s downsizing of the government workforce has continued with 22,000 jobs lost this past month.

• DHS details shocking abuse of migrant children thanks to Biden’s border malfeasance: Some 5,000 unaccompanied minors were being released to “sponsors” every month under the Biden border invasion, but just who were these sponsors? To qualify as a sponsor, they identified themselves with a texted image of their driver’s license or, in at least one case, someone else’s. Some children were impregnated by their sponsors; in other cases, children were sent to live with sponsors with serious criminal records or with child pornography. Homeland Security Investigations, a division of ICE, has been trying to perform welfare checks to determine if these children are in dangerous homes. Democrats, including Sen. Adam Schiff, have pulled out the stops to resist these checks. The blame for the crimes these children have suffered falls squarely on Joe Biden and the Democrat Party.

• DHS shuts down TSA’s Quiet Skies program: The controversial TSA watchlist program known as Quiet Skies has been shut down. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem noted that the $200 million-a-year program had failed to produce any security benefits, saying, “It is clear that the Quiet Skies program was used as a political rolodex of the Biden administration.” Infamously, last year the Biden administration placed Tulsi Gabbard, Donald Trump’s current director of national intelligence, on the Quiet Skies list after she made statements that were critical of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Gabbard wasn’t the only political figure placed on the list — a list that, ironically, never included a single terrorist.

• Covenant School attacker’s writings released: The FBI finally released over 100 pages of writings that had been collected from the Nashville, Tennessee, Covenant School attacker. Over two years have passed since the atrocity in which three children and three adult staff at the school were murdered by a mentally deranged and gender-confused young woman who had attended the school as a child. Controversy has surrounded the mainstream media’s reporting on the crime, due in large part to the fact that the perpetrator was gender-confused. Further disputes followed when law enforcement withheld much of the attacker’s writings, which presumably offered insight into her motives, from the public. Lengthy court battles ensued, spearheaded by a local news media outlet, The Tennessee Star, which sought to get these writings released. Now, in compliance with the Freedom of Information Act, the FBI has made these documents public.

• Greta Thunberg’s self-absorption: With her ecofascism stunts failing to garner the attention they used to, the world’s most annoying wokescold has embraced Hamas in the most self-promoting and ridiculous fashion. She and a small band of fellow activists are leading a small flotilla of sailboats toward Gaza to break the “blockade” and deliver aid to the Palestinians who are facing “genocide” at the hands of Israel. Of course, Thunberg is documenting this “harrowing” journey on social media. To add to this self-aggrandizing silliness, Thunberg paused her efforts to get to Gaza to ferry a few illegal migrants from Libya to someplace in Europe. Never mind the fact that the U.S. and Israel are currently involved in providing aid to Gaza’s population on a much greater scale than Thunberg’s little sailboat could ever manage, even in a million trips.

• The privatized race to the moon is underway: Mankind has turned its eyes back to Luna 50 years after ending manned landings. Ispace, a Japanese company, was the latest private company to attempt a robotic moon landing with its Resilience lander. For the second time, an Ispace lander made a “hard landing.” Or, in plain English, it crashed. Two other companies have attempted robotic landings this year, with Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost registering the first successful private landing. Intuitive Machine’s lander arrived a few days after Blue Ghost but was declared dead within hours. Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Astrobotic Technology are the other two companies attempting robotic landings later this year. NASA has a manned moon orbit scheduled for 2026, with a planned manned landing the following year. China has a manned landing scheduled for 2030.

• $80 billion paid to fake Social Security Numbers: The fiscally irresponsible bureaucrats running the COVID bailout failed to take even simple precautions against fraud. Most of the fraudulent payments involved Social Security Numbers that did not match the name on file. The report by the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) involved taking a representative sample of 662,000 applications, out of a total of 67.5 million, and comparing the names, Social Security Numbers, and a few birthdates collected against the records. Roughly 24,000 of those showed inconsistencies. Since very few birthdates were collected, PRAC expects its extrapolated fraud number of $79 billion to be an undercount. Some 12,000 of the 662,000 examined applications used numbers belonging to dead people; those numbers are not included in the fraud calculus.

Headlines

• World War II veterans travel to Normandy for emotional D-Day commemoration (Fox News)

• Congress hits Biden’s doc with subpoena as part of cover-up probe (Daily Wire)

• Judge blocks Trump proclamation banning international students from entering U.S. on Harvard visas (Harvard Crimson)

• Judge blocks Labor Department’s suspension of Job Corps centers (Just the News)

• Guatemalan deportee flown back to U.S. after judge orders Trump admin to facilitate return (NY Post)

• Trump, Xi hold “very good” phone call “focused almost entirely on trade” (NY Post)

• U.S. trade deficit cut in half as tariffs cause import plunge (MarketWatch)

• DOJ sues Texas to enforce law prohibiting states from offering illegal aliens in-state tuition — and wins (Daily Signal)

• Russia launches massive retaliatory strikes on Kyiv (RedState)

• Humor: Eight hacks girls can use to win track meets in California (Babylon Bee)

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