Pritzker: "It breaks my heart to report that we have been told ICE will try to disrupt community picnics and peaceful parades. Let's be clear -- the terror and cruelty is the point, not the safety of anybody living here."

Play this and just listen whenever life is overwhelming you... youtu.be/CzDubFgQQ9Y?...

OTD in 1939 Adolf Hitler began his special military operation to protect ethnic Germans from persecution by Poland. Imagine such a bullshit excuse today

"Trump is pushing us over the cliff so we can land in Thiel's uncanny valley." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...

Meloni’s Italy wants nuclear energy. Critics say it goes against the will of the nation https://www.europesays.com/2370932/ Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni with the chief of the International Atomic Energy Agency Rafael Grossi. Photo. @rafaelmgrossi/X.com…

Excellent question.

We can't even play basketball 🏀 🤬

I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.

Turkey detains defence firm Assan Group executives in military espionage probe https://www.europesays.com/2365156/ ANKARA (Reuters) -Turkish authorities have detained the owner and general manager of Assan Group, a defence and construction…

This is very bad news. Louisiana won't even defend its own map in SCOTUS. It abandoned its own Black voters. Those of us committed to defending the VRA are now entirely on our own. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Starbucks’ CEO made 6,666x more than the company's median employee in 2024. This was the widest CEO-to-Worker pay gap in the entire S&P 500. Remember this before you order your next pumpkin spice latte.

CHAOS ERUPTS AT CDC CDC Director Susan Monarez has been ousted after RFK Jr. demanded she change her policy on the COVID vaccine. Top officials from the Vaccine Unit, Zoonotic Division, and the Chief Medical Officer are resigning, per reports. Horrifying news for public health.

President Trump said Monday in a letter posted to Truth Social that he has fired Lisa Cook from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors.

About an hour ago in the White Mts, AZ. Please bear with me while I get the window down! 57 degrees and rain!

My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

The Colorado House of Representatives on Sunday passed a bill that would use state money to fund Medicaid reimbursements for reproductive health care providers, namely Planned Parenthood, that have recently faced federal funding cuts.

My law firm is currently litigating 52 voting and election cases in 23 states. This includes the Ohio case we filed on Friday night and the redistricting case challenging Texas' new congressional map. I am thankful for our clients willing to wage these fights. They, not the lawyers, are the heroes.

"I'm pulling for you. Keep going. I'm always here if you need me" –– Kobe Bryant's last words to Jordan Clarkson youtube.com/shorts/RSIsf...

Arrested for filming it. And look how excited they all are to get some *action*. 🇺🇸 Watch fascism work.

The U.S. didn’t pay cash upfront, but: - It spent $2.2B in grants. - It assumes market risk on the $11B equity. - The “free $11B” is just paper value, not guaranteed profit.

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵

ICE agents in Lynwood, CA tried to break into a barbershop without a warrant. When the owner refused to open the door, they threatened him: “I’m going to go get your dad and I’m going to get your mom!” Is this the America we want to live in?

Judge Frank Caprio, who enjoyed a wide following on social media due to his kind approach in his Rhode Island courtroom, has died. His approach earned him Emmy nominations and a nickname as the "Nicest Judge in the World." Caprio was 88 years old.

White House official Lindsey Halligan: "While slavery is obviously a horrible aspect of our nation's history, you can't really talk about slavery honestly unless you also talk about hope and progress ... we need to stop focusing so much on the lack of progress."

BREAKING: Villanova University reports an active shooter on campus and tells students to lock and barricade doors.

BREAKING: A federal court ruled that Mississippi’s Supreme Court district lines must be redrawn to ensure Black people in the state don't have their voting power diluted.

In case anyone's confused, yes, slavery was bad.

Rep. Jeff Van Drew claims he’s spoken to “large numbers” of dead people who had mail ballots sent to them

Red deer stag after the apples but bribed for a photo with a carrot.

Jim Crow 2025

Exclusive: An internal planning road map obtained by The Post shows the strategy behind ICE’s breakneck expansion, a chaotic effort that has already triggered lawsuits and accusations of cruelty. wapo.st/41FWkck

Life comes at you fast

‘Incredibly isolated’: New Zealand mom and son freed after weeks in US immigration detention – who is she? https://www.europesays.com/2335952/ A US mother and her 6-year-old son were released this week after spending more than three weeks in…

USAID funded roughly half the world’s supply of ready-to-use therapeutic food. The dismantling of the agency has disrupted the global supply chain that provides the packets, leaving thousands of malnourished children at risk of dying.

Consequences…

For decades, the biomedical industry has relied on a compound in horseshoe crab blood to protect medical equipment from contamination, saving untold human lives. But conservationists say modern medicine’s dependence on this bloodletting is upending a globe-spanning ecosystem.

NEW: Wearing masks, no ID, unmarked & blacked out cars, refusing to say what agency they’re from and using profanity with any press & public nearby. This was at 14th & R in Washington DC, this morning (Sunday). What the hell is happening to the US? (🎥 Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff, Washington Post)

In other words: They lied.

How about that? A victory for people who actually read.