SCOOP: PA prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parent's address in Pennsylvania for years. Me with @marisakabas.bsky.social slate.com/news-and-pol...

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Oh, if you thought I was mad before … (Bloomberg) -- The White House is halting $18 billion in New York infrastructure funding due to concerns over “unconstitutional” diversity and inclusion practices … “Specifically, the Hudson Tunnel Project and the Second Ave Subway,” he said in a post on X.

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this: “These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...

“Steve Held, the journalist arrested tonight and taken to a so far undisclosed location, was part of the reporting team that exposed the falsity of ICE’s official narrative on the fatal shooting of Silverio Villegas González. His work speaks for itself.”

It’s hard to say this was on Franklin. I’m not a big defender, but the play calling was solid tonight … but Allar wasn’t on it

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Trump sued me for $5 billion and lost. This is what I think he’s really after in the $15 billion defamation suit he just filed against the NYT, four reporters and Penguin Random House: www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

Clicking on the link really did not help matters

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

The ICE raid on the Hyundai plant in Georgia is bewildering. Clive Crook explains how the White House is putting one of the US’ greatest strengths at risk 🎥

What the actual fuck. US Tennis Association: “We ask all broadcasters to refrain from showcasing any disruptions or reactions in response to the President’s attendance in any capacity, including ENG [Electronic News Gathering] coverage.”

Happy #Caturday from Jeffrey.

Just, what via WSJ: RFK Jr. plans to announce that pregnant women's use of an over-the-counter pain medication is potentially linked to autism in a report that will also suggest a medicine derived from folate can be used to treat symptoms of the developmental disorder in some people

I just want to say for the record that when the history books are written centuries from now, I believe the election of Donald Trump in a free and fair election in 2024 will go down as one of the most senseless and self-destructive own goals in human history

NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. kindergarten vaccination rates inched down again last year and the share of children with exemptions rose to an all-time high, according to federal data posted Thursday.

Nopity nope nope NOPE

yikes -- Powell shakes his head as Trump rips into him for the cost of Fed building renovations. Powell denies some of the claims Trump is making.

'Vacations.' The word is 'vacations.'

House passes this utterly disastrous budget bill and now it’s on its way to Trump’s desk for a 7/4 signing: www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I’ll add to the cat pile.

House Republicans vote to claw back $9.4 billion in funding for foreign aid, NPR and PBS www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

ESPN: The Ocho is a REAL THING?!?!?

"Witnessing large-scale systems slowly unravel in real time can be profoundly surreal and frightening. The hypernormalization framework offers a way to understand what we’re feeling and why."

DURBIN: How can we give hope to people across the country who are suffering from so many diseases when our government is cutting back on that research? RFK Jr: I do not know about any cuts to ALS research D: I just read them to you! R: I didn't know about them until you told me about them

A car bomb exploded today outside an IVF clinic in Palm Springs. This will likely be a test of whether Trump’s FBI and DOJ have any interest in prosecuting right wing terrorism. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/17/u...

Covid-esque: parking lots at Metuchen and Woodbridge NJ Transit stations as rail workers strike

It’s rare that my team makes news worthy of an AP alert, but when it does, you can be sure it hasn’t been for winning. AP NewsAlert: Last-place Pittsburgh Pirates fire manager Derek Shelton, promote bench coach Don Kelly

Ovechkin is RUSSIAN. Yeah, I know the rest of it is more important.

Pope Francis knew the enemies within: “In every religion there is always a fundamentalist group that does not want to go ahead and lives on bitter memories, on the struggles of the past, looking for more war and also sowing fear." www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Agreeing with Joe Rogan is kind of messing me up (and I'm sure the feeling is brief), but when you're right, you're right

Was just about to post the story of his detention when this blessedly arrived in my feed. It only means we must keep shouting

Community college professors have been left to play detective has their online courses fill up with fake students as part of a financial aid scheme. voiceofsandiego.org/2025/04/14/a...

Don’t lose focus

“On Monday morning, Mr. Mahdawi turned up for an interview he had been told was related to his naturalization. Instead, immigration officers, some with their faces covered, placed Mr. Mahdawi in handcuffs and arrested him.” www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/n...

Lori Beth Denberg reprised her All That librarian character to do a pro-library, anti-book banning reel and I love it so much??? www.instagram.com/reel/DIK0_bD...

!! CALL TO ACTION !! #Booksky please join me in the fight to save our libraries. EveryLibrary is working hard to save the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), which is the federal agency charged with distributing Congressionally approved funds to state libraries and grant recipients.

Keep paying attention www.freep.com/story/news/l...

So good. 🤡 @brendanvduke.bsky.social

*S&P 500 FUTURES SINK 1.9%, NASDAQ 100 FUTURES SLIDE 2.7%

Could Trump’s tariffs raise $700 billion a year? We did the math 🧵

It only took Trump 52 days to destroy years of climate action, says @markgongloff.bsky.social. Just take a look at the full timeline: bloom.bg/43njfLn

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Holy shit. Republican Harriet Hagemen got torn apart at a town hall in Wyoming last night. In a state that voted for Trump by 46 points. She tried defending DOGE and it went as well as you’d imagine. “Deport Elon, Deport Elon!” Watch to the end…

Freedom of the Press Foundation: “[Wired] is going to stop paywalling articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act.” [freedom.press]

Pay attention www.nytimes.com/2025/03/16/u...

NEW: Mahmoud Khalil's wife, Noor, files an upsetting but powerful statement with the court: "The past week has been the worst of my life, and I find myself without my single greatest source of support, in my time of greatest need." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...