The Justice Department filed an extensive antitrust lawsuit against Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation Entertainment Thursday, alleging that the entertainment group is running an illegal monopoly on live events by squeezing out competition and driving up ticket prices. Live Nation denied that it is violating antitrust laws. “Live music should not be available only to those who can afford to pay the Ticketmaster tax,” Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Kanter said. That might be one thing that Swifties and the Bey Hive can finally agree on.

The Supreme Court gave South Carolina the go-ahead to use a controversial congressional map that a lower court said “exiled” thousands of Black voters in order to carve out a district in favor of a White Republican incumbent.Legal experts say the decision will make it more difficult to challenge maps going forward and raises the burden of proving racial gerrymandering as opposed to partisan preferences. Which, of course are both bad! Does that help?

Senate Democrats opened an investigation into Trump’s recent infamous meeting with oil execs, when he reportedly asked executives for $1 billion in campaign donations as a “deal” for rolling back Biden’s climate regulations. “Such an obvious policies-for-money transaction reeks of cronyism and corruption,” the senators wrote in letters to oil executives, according to Politico. Can’t believe they would make these accusations against the Trump campaign and the oil industry when neither group has ever done anything wrong.

That’s just the latest Big Oil probe launched this week by congressional Democrats. On Wednesday, Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ) demanded info from oil companies on whether they colluded with each other or the international OPEC cartel to inflate prices. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-NY) has formally asked the Department of Justice to review whether any laws were broken after decades of alleged climate deception. Go get ‘em, fellas.

The presidents of Northwestern and Rutgers Universities defended their decisions to negotiate with students to end pro-Palestinian encampments on their campuses in a House Committee hearing Thursday as House Republicans expanded their probe into universities’ handling of the protests to public universities. Both presidents said police action was not necessary and neither school agreed to sever business ties with Israel in their concessions with students. The chancellor of UCLA also testified, expressing remorse for the handling of an encampment that was attacked by counterprotesters in early May.

A political consultant who admitted to creating an AI robocall impersonating President Biden back in January was indicted in New Hampshire and fined $6 million by the FCC. The fake call told recipients not to vote in the state’s presidential primary and was the first known example of deepfakes being used in national American politics. And we are so sure it will not be the last.

Young voters say actress Zendaya has the most celebrity star power to influence their vote in the November election, according to a recent Blueprint poll, followed by Lebron James and Kevin Hart. This is the power of Luca Guadagnino’s Challengers!!!Surprisingly, Taylor Swift came in 21st place in terms of net impact on voters ages 18-30. Biden’s campaign reportedly has been actively vying for the pop star to endorse him a second time.