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Dave Zweifel: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Chopra dodges Trump’s ax — for now
Even the controversial Trump advisor Peter Navarro, who has returned as a senior advisor after Trump pardoned him, is enamored with Chopra’s ability to get things done.

Richard Moore: Trump moves to squash the real deep state: Meet the SES
President Trump has initiated massive changes to the federal bureaucracy, focusing on reducing its size and scope, particularly targeting the Senior Executive Service, the real seat of power in the federal deep state.

Kristen Brey: We’d have to care about sexual assault for rape kits to move court race
Call me a cynic, but in this political environment, I’m far from convinced a backlog of rape kits will be the defining campaign issue in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race — because voters would actually have to take accusations of sexual assault and violence against women seriously.

Bruce Murphy: Schimel haunted by rape kit issue
Candidates for Wisconsin Supreme Court at odds over issue.

Maggie Kerr: Proposed earlier school start times are harmful
Research shows starting as early as 7:15 a.m. will be harmful to students, reduce learning.

Joan Schiller: Clean energy is key to reducing lung cancer deaths
We must reduce air pollution and address climate change by decreasing fossil fuels. We can’t let Wisconsin get left behind. We need to ensure that new gas plants, such as the Oak Creek Gas Plant and Paris Plant, are not built in Wisconsin.

Dave Cieslewicz: University of Wisconsin stumbles toward player equity
It’s a new, more honest era.

Dorothea Macon: Trump needs to serve all of America
In the execution of 46 executive orders, you have singlehandedly managed to change the trajectory of a nation. You have oppressed half of a nation, attempting to limit their inalienable rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Luke Nelessen: Trump should target the real villains behind our immigration chaos: drug cartels
Immigrants are not America’s enemies. The drug cartels are.

Jim Rafter: Lawmakers must close unsafe Green Bay prison. There is no excuse for conditions.
It has been operating for more than 125 years and its age and disrepair are evident. As such an old facility, it is extremely inefficient to run. Additionally, the institution has become unsafe in a host of ways, not only for the inmates, but their visitors, guards and facility workers.

Emily Mills: Turn off the spigot
It’s high time to shut down Enbridge’s oil pipelines in Wisconsin.

Bill Barth: Have a real talk on school violence
Evers proposals deserve discussion and compromise.

Tania Ibarra: DEI is under assault. And I refuse to be silent.
We can’t forget what we’ve given up to get here, and we must find the wisdom and strength to ensure that our children, and the generations to come, can live with dignity.

John Nichols: Joe Elder: Madison’s global peacemaker
When he passed away this week at age 94, Elder left a legacy of citizen diplomacy and peacemaking that was nothing short of epic.

Dave Zweifel: Biden warned us, and history is likely to prove him right
Biden warned of an oligarchy of the ultrawealthy that is beginning to grip America, a warning reminiscent of the one two-term president Dwight D. Eisenhower issued in 1961 as he was leaving office to make way for John F. Kennedy in 1960.

Mark Belling: Another leftist lie exposed
Fauci’s lie about COVID and the Wuhan lab is the new liberal normal.

Michelle Bryant: It always comes back to slavery
In a controversial move, Trump issued an executive order aimed at eliminating birthright citizenship. Enshrined in the 14th Amendment, the measure aimed to protect the rights of formerly enslaved individuals and their descendants.

John Torinus: The Joker is loose in the White House
My guess is that The Joker will run out of gags in 2026 when Republican congressmen have to defend the not-so-funny-consequences of a president who has no guardrails on his comic routines.

Neil Kraus: Cuts to Wisconsin’s campuses, checks for consultants
The UW System’s corporate plan is clear: pay consulting firms millions while laying off educators, and closing programs and campuses.

John Nichols: Wisconsin’s Legislature has a growing Socialist Caucus
Four Wisconsin legislators — Ryan Clancy and Darrin Madison from Milwaukee, Francesca Hong from Madison and Christian Phelps from Eau Claire — make up the Socialist Caucus in the new Assembly.

WisOpinion: The Insiders discuss convincing independents to support partisan candidates in presidential election
WisOpinion Insiders, Chvala and Jensen, discuss finding and convincing Wisconsin independent voters to vote for a partisan candidate in the presidential election. Sponsored by the Wisconsin Counties Association and The Tommy G. Thompson Center on Public Leadership.

Rewind: Your Week in Review for June 7
On this week’s episode of WisconsinEye’s “Rewind,” WisPolitics’s JR Ross and CBS 58’s Emilee Fannon discuss felony charges against the warden and eight others in Waupun prison deaths, calls to reform Milwaukee Public Schools, UW Regent Bob Atwell’s resignation, campaign registration papers filed in legislative races, this weekend’s Dem state convention and more.