Internal DOJ emails suggest that officials planned to share sensitive voter data with DHS much earlier than previously known. The revelation sheds new light on the tangle of conflicting statements from the department in its unprecedented campaign for state voter rolls.

“Do you love that, Katie Miller? Was it hilarious when the girls school blew up? — Katie Miller and Lara Trump just laughing away about bombing videos from the war.” @jenpsaki.bsky.social rips the ghoulishness of katie miller & Lara Trump yucking it up over Trump’s obscene texts

ICYMI, people and organizations tied to Hungarian president Viktor Orban’s former regime have been deeply involved with NatCon, the Thiel-backed conference that elevated both JD Vance and Christian Nationalism in the US. I’ve been collecting receipts. 1/

The "death" of English departments and other liberal arts fields is not about their obsolescence but about the fact that they're being actively *killed* by institutions that don't value them on principle, not because of any evidence. Glad ppl are catching up. www.nybooks.com/online/2023/...

250th anniversary of Sluss Family Massacre remembered by descendants share.google/zJhVj7RRji85... #genealogy #Sluss #SlussFamily

Gills represents Texas' 26th Congressional District which is 45% non-white and he is up for reelection in November. Racists should have no place in our democracy. Support the Democrat Steven Shook #DemVoice1 #ProudBlue #Pinks

This piece begins with Amity Shlaes' most common and most deceitful trick -- citing the unemployment numbers in 1938, when the country fell into a recession because FDR had been persuaded to *ease off* the New Deal, as proof that the New Deal didn't work. Pure hackery.

A brutal reading that must be circulated once and again.

I first saw this story a few days ago and was horrified a frail, elderly woman was stuck in ICE detention. But that was only half the story. Probate judge: "[Ross's son] a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse...used his position...to have Ms. Ross-Mahé arrested"

Yep, bonuses within the healthcare system rely on death to reduce costs. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Pete Hegseth quoted a fake Bible verse from the Tarantino movie Pulp Fiction yesterday during a Pentagon prayer service

Federal judge blocks Indiana's ban on use of student IDs for voting • Indiana Capital Chronicle share.google/s0u8XcRAoyQn...

Italy has summoned ‌the Israeli ambassador in Rome to demand an explanation after shots were fired at an Italian convoy of UN peacekeepers in southern Lebanon on Wednesday.

‼️⚡️175 Ukrainian Defenders and 7 civilians return from Russian captivity! Our people are returning home. Among them are wounded. Most of them had been in Russian captivity since 2022. Finally, they are home.

Today marks six months since Gaza’s cease-fire deal took effect, a milestone largely lost in the confusion over the new and even more fragile cease-fire in the Iran war.

J. D. Vance accused the European Union of meddling in a sovereign nation's election—as he stumped for Viktor Orbán. @isaacstanleybecker.bsky.social reports on the vice president's Hungarian campaign swing.

"Sometimes good-willed direct blackmailing is the best option," Lavrov taught Szijjártó, as new evidence of calls emerges. This is sickening.

passage cannot be arbitrarily prevented or made selective. If Iran succeeds, it will open a Pandora's box: other states will also decide they can act the same way. Let's look at other straits that are critically important for the global economy:

Iran is demanding sovereign control over the Strait of Hormuz.If it succeeds in imposing this logic,it will undermine the very foundation of international maritime law.The Strait of Hormuz is an international strait governed by the regime of transit passage:

@greenhousemd.bsky.social #medsky

"From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, 'Look at that, you son of a bitch.'" ~ Edgar Mitchell: Apollo 14 astronaut

When an insurance company is deciding whether to pay for your medical treatment, it generates a file, which should contain all records associated with your case, including documents explaining why the claim was denied. You have a right to see this file. (Published May 2023)

Frost: What Blanche said, I think he was fed that by the administration. He's been told to say, hey, listen, we're moving on beyond this…. but we're not going to move on because the law has been broken. The law that was voted on by damn near every member of congress to release the files

UNREAL: A drone maker backed by Trump’s two oldest sons is trying to sell to Gulf countries while they are under attack by Iran and dependent on the U.S. military led by their father. In other words Trump to profit from the war. apnews.com/article/trum...

"President Trump is preparing to release a fiscal year 2027 budget plan on Friday that will frame his party’s midterm election message around a massive defense buildup, partially paid for by cuts to domestic agencies." (gift link)

Another step in Trump & Hegseth’s relentless effort to politicize the military. By the time this stuff gets the attention it deserves it will be too late. But I will keep talking and writing about it.

NEW: In 2021, Kristen Clarke became the first Black woman to serve as the Department of Justice’s civil rights chief. Five years later, she says the department has “fully retreated from the mission.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Trump was never truly interested in the presidency as a responsibility. He was interested in it as another construction project in tribute to himself. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

Correction/update: I looked further into this after posting and found that the official Russian-language DOS account appears to have been activated in 2019, during Trump’s first term, and remained in use during the Biden admin. Very first posts (#1 & 2) on the account ⬇️

In wartime. “Hegseth asked Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George to step down & take immediate retirement…One of the sources said Hegseth wants someone in the role who will implement President Trump and Hegseth's vision for the Army.” www.cbsnews.com/news/hegseth...

"@lisa-pubcitizen.bsky.social co-president of government watchdog group @publiccitizen.bsky.social, said the president’s 'Trump 250' products are 'a particularly blatant, easy-to-understand example' of 'corruption at its finest.'" @davelevinthal.com for @notus.com

Reuters: Hegseth fires two more generals, David Hodne and William Green Jr., alongside Army Chief Of Staff Randy George

#HoosierSky #Indiana

This was a terrific interview with a brilliant man who knows a thing or two about cults.

Video 1: The Ukrainian Harpoon unit downs a Russian drone using a drone equipped with a makeshift shotgun. Video 2: An Iranian drone evades an interceptor aircraft over Erbil⤵️

Vasyl Molchan lived in Bucha in March 2022, when Russias occupied the city. He managed to document atrocities committed by Russian troops. Vasyl’s photos and videos helped investigate Russian war crimes. 📹: DW

“In order for us..to commit ourselves personally to the inhumanity of war, we find it necessary first to dehumanize our opponents, which is..a violation of the beliefs of all religions. Once we characterize our adversaries as beyond the scope of God's mercy..their lives lose all value” Jimmy Carter

POWERFUL: José Andrés: “There is no America without immigrants. No food at our table, no farms, no kitchens without them.” A truth more people need to hear. Share widely! substack.com/@reallyameri...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio: we're going to have to re-examine our relationship with Europe. When we need them to allow us to use their military bases, their answer is no, then why are we in NATO?

Man. Bruce Springsteen is on an absolute mission with this tour. Called this a Treasonous and corrupt regime, and welcoming in fans to the Land of Hope and Dreams your, asking to choose peace over WAR, and launching into a blistering version of “war”. Here. For. It. ✊🏼 🎸 🔥 👊🏼

Today, Trump signed an executive order that would let the federal government determine who is allowed to vote by mail, block ballots from reaching voters not on a Washington-approved list, and punish any state that pushes back. 🧵

A crazily unconstitutional effort to seize control of elections from states by seeking to have the USPS put in place rules to ban the transmission of mail-in ballots that don't form to standards the Trump admin puts into place and for people the Trump admin hasn't verified as a citizen.

So are we going old school matrilineal? 2 grandparents? 1? 3? What if only 1 grandparent but had a bar mitzvah? What if all four grandparents but super secular? Very excited to see where our esteemed federal courts go next

"Much to my regret, I don't think we'll be able to turn the tide in the coming months. We're facing a very formidable adversary." "Z-blogger" Yury Podolyaka says that the Ukrainians have a technical superiority over the Russian army.

youtube.com/watch?v=o7pX... Iran bullying the American Bully. Great stuff, but WTF? I think both countries have forgotten that war is REAL, not a reality show, and not an AI special. #NoKings #Voices4Victory #DemVoice1 #Pinks #SheShed

Please watch this idiot who’s a Republican… running as a democrat.