SHERO on Sunday
A lightning-fast recap of the week's most significant political and legal events for June 8th - 14th, 2026, before we are on to the next!
Welcome to the Sunday Recap, where you can quickly check in to review the week with minimal time commitment and ensure you don’t miss a thing. Each snippet includes several links to credible and free sources, providing more details for those who want to delve deeper into any issue.
Here in Washington, DC, we are intently watching the weather and have been praying to God that she would bless us all with the most massive thunder and lightning storms, the likes of which have never been seen around these parts, just in time for Donald Trump’s Birthday Party. It would be the perfect ending to a terrible week for Donald Trump, both in the courts and in the reflecting pools.
I woke up this morning to an alert from the city that there would be a massive fireworks display at 11:30 pm tonight on the mall and that we should all expect it to be very loud. If that whole debacle got scrapped due to a natural deluge, I wouldn’t be mad about it. Please add that one to your prayers, too.
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Gun Violence This Week
At SHERO, we document all mass shooting incidents for the week every Sunday, so please take a moment to review them and remember to keep up the fight for sensible gun reform. There were seven separate mass shooting events in the United States this past week, where 14 people were killed, and 50 were injured.
Sunday, June 7, 2026: Cleveland, Ohio
Monday, June 8, 2026: Chicago, Illinois
Monday, June 8, 2026: Denmark, South Carolina
Tuesday, June 9, 2026: Trenton, New Jersey
Tuesday, June 9, 2026: Livonia, Michigan
Thursday, June 11: 2026: Cleveland, Ohio
Friday, June 12, 2026: Midland, Texas
The Washington Monument Reflecting Pool was re-filled this week, after substantial repairs that ultimately cost taxpayers $14.2 million, but clumps of green algae continue to float throughout the water, coating several areas of the bottom of the pool, including the east and west ends, near the World War II Memorial and the Lincoln Memorial.
According to National Park Service documents posted earlier this month, the Trump administration is quickly moving forward on the 250-foot-tall triumphal arch meant to fete a king, as officials lay more groundwork to begin actual construction on the grotesque plan, sharing additional documents that reveal an aggressive schedule meant to finish work before Trump’s term ends. The public comment section of the proposal online is officially open until June 15, 2026, so you can voice your opinion and be on the right side of history. For instructions on how to do this, click the link embedded in the post below:
According to a new Economist/YouGov poll this week, a record 63% of Americans disapprove of how Donald Trump is handling the economy, and a majority of Americans see the US economy headed in the wrong direction.
Days after musical acts canceled, officials from Connecticut, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina, and Oregon confirmed they won’t officially send a delegation to Trump's 250th birthday celebration this summer, and Pennsylvania and Washington remain uncommitted.
