Plus: a DOJ federal probe into Washington's prison policy, Xi hosts Putin days after Trump, China detains executives to kill a $2 billion Meta deal, and Trump backs Paxton in the Texas Senate runoff — all in today's episode.

The Freedom Foundation just opened the books on America's most powerful teachers union, and the numbers are devastating. A report first obtained by the New York Post alleges $1.4 million in AFT resources spent on a single anti-Trump book by union president Randi Weingarten. A lawyer billed at $977,000 for work the union called pro bono. A ghostwriter paid $400,000. Fact-checkers compensated at $11,000 each. The book's publisher pitched it as a manifesto for our time. Teachers wrote the checks. The question now is what the rank-and-file will do about it.

It connects to a bigger picture. While union members were fun ...