Reagan appointed judge: "If nobody’s going to enforce the Constitution, it becomes like the Constitution of Russia." Genuine conservatives within the judiciary stand as one of the final bulwarks against authoritarian rule in America.

Oil prices leaped Monday on worries that war with Iran could clog the global flow of crude and make inflation even worse. U.S. stocks, meanwhile, swung from sharp losses to a tiny gain. https://to.pbs.org/3N1yV0R

At a Medal of Honor ceremony on Monday, Donald Trump spent more time talking about his new ballroom than the recent deaths of at least six US service members amid his attack on Iran.

Breaking News: The Supreme Court announced that it would keep in place a New York congressional map, overruling a judge who had found that the map violated the Constitution by diluting the power of Black and Latino voters.

At issue is the mid-term redrawing of New York's 11th congressional district, including Staten Island and a small part of Brooklyn. n.pr/4rIhjWX

ah, Rubio with literally the German rational for started WW1 - we must attack first because they will attack us if we attack them.

👋 Former State Department War Powers lawyer here. This statement by Rubio is false. As @tessbridgeman.bsky.social and I wrote in January: www.justsecurity.org/128517/war-p...

Minneapolis-area prosecutors are investigating disgraced Border Patrol official Gregory Bovino, Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty announced today.

Montana Republican Ryan Zinke announces retirement

The president of Iran's soccer federation says he does not know if the national team can play World Cup matches in the United States following the surprise U.S. and Israeli bombardment of his country. https://to.pbs.org/4rHysA1

Are you a current or former Education Dept. employee? Have information about civil rights investigations or discrimination in schools? Reach out to @jsmithrichards.bsky.social on Signal at jsmithrichards.93 or @jodiscohen.bsky.social at jodireporter.88 👇

President Donald Trump recognized three U.S. Army soldiers with the Medal of Honor at the White House on Monday, with two of the commendations being awarded posthumously. https://to.pbs.org/4l9UrgQ

Many of the most ardent supporters of Trump’s decision to bomb Iran identify as Christian Zionists, a group that believes that Israel and the Jewish people will play a key role in bringing about the second coming of the Messiah.

Donald Trump used a Medal of Honor ceremony on Monday, meant to honor three Army soldiers, to gush about the drapes he will add to his new ballroom in the White House’s East Wing.

Majority of Americans oppose Trump’s Iran strikes, per new polling

Limited flights out of the Middle East resumed on Monday. But hundreds of thousands of travelers are still stranded in the region after attacks on Iran by the U.S. and Israel. n.pr/3MEJ97v

‘Twas a nice hike early in AM. 39- floors of climbing. 👣💪🏽👣💪🏽

A MAGA media feud is erupting over Trump’s war against Iran: “We're not supposed to be running around doing this anymore.” Read more: www.mediamatters.org/us-iran-rela...

President Donald Trump has said he intends to continue the U.S. military strikes on Iran for another “four or five weeks,” as the conflict continued to expand.

NEW: ProPublica has sued the Department of Education in federal court, accusing it of withholding public records about how it’s enforcing civil rights protections for millions of U.S. students.

"These attacks by the U.S. and Israel are a clear violation of the foundational principle of the post-war legal order," says war crimes prosecutor Reed Brody about unprovoked U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran. "It's obvious there was no such imminent attack."

Farm-country data center foes fuel GOP insurgent challengers

Israeli analyst Ori Goldberg's says Netanyahu's decision to attack Iran is the result of an "exceedingly greedy" Israel that wants free rein to launch attacks throughout the Middle East.

"I can't find any reason to celebrate the assassination of the Iranian supreme leader because I think it's part of a package ... It's also part of the killing of Iranian innocent people," says Behrooz Ghamari-Tabrizi, a longtime critic of the Iranian government.

Pedophile Trump said "hold my beer." 😅 #EpsteinWar #Resist

FUCK ICE chant after the moment of silence for Renee Good and Alex Perretti. #mnufc

100 MONEY IS THEIR ONLY GOD BEZOS IS A TRUMP DRONE BOYCOTT AMAZON AND THE WASHINGTON POST AND THE LA TIMES BEZOS IS ERASING HUMAN EMPLOYEES STOP TRANSHUMANISM STOP VAMPIRE CAPITALISM AND DESIGNER SERFDOM STOP NAZI VANILLA ISIS

Paramount elbowed out Netflix to buy WB Discovery after a months-long bidding war. When (not if) the deal closes, Paramount will control 25% of the entire media market, and half of the cable TV market, putting CBS and CNN under one roof— which sits atop a house owned by the pro-Trump Ellison family.

@marcelias.bsky.social: "Iran, Venezuela, China, Italy, Cuba and Germany are not the reason Trump lost in 2020 — he is. These countries do not justify an authoritarian takeover in 2026. No foreign threat or domestic circumstance grants him that power."

Zero Republicans call for Benghazi-style hearings. No rightwing media outrage. Republicans dined off of 4 dead Americans in Benghazi for a decade, and yet 3 dead Americans at the hands of a GOP president who promised no new wars gets no pushback. Fuck these fake outrage ghouls.

“If we’re not careful, we’re going to get a judge killed. It’s just that stark,” says retired federal Judge John Jones, a George W. Bush appointee. A 60 Minutes investigation found that judges who ruled against the Trump administration have received threats. cbsn.ws/3OEfxrr

“I think that the attacks against the judiciary are only getting worse. What I am seeing now is far different than what I have seen in the past,” says Judge Esther Salas, a federal district court judge in New Jersey. cbsn.ws/4sjeqfc

“For the last 250 years in this country, it’s been the judges that say this is either constitutional or it isn’t…. [If] nobody’s going to enforce the Constitution, it becomes like the Constitution of Russia,” says Judge John Coughenour, a Ronald Reagan appointee. cbsn.ws/4bgCE3T

Threats against federal judges come from across the political spectrum. But retired Judge John Jones, a Republican appointee, tells 60 Minutes the violent language on the right has no match. cbsn.ws/3MFNreN

"When I think about what it means to be an American, I truly believe it's more than a pride we inherit. It's the past we step into and how we repair it,” says American poet Amanda Gorman.

President Trump said on Sunday the U.S. intends to sustain its assault on Iran for weeks, and his administration expected more U.S. casualties. “Three is three too many as far as I’m concerned," he said. “If you look at projections, they do projections, it, you know, it could be quite a bit higher."

🇺🇦President Zelenskyy: Ukrainians live under thousands of Russian strikes with various types of weapons. In the last week of winter alone, Russia used more than 1,720 attack drones, nearly 1,300 guided aerial bombs, and over 100 missiles of various types against Ukraine.

“Marked Safe”, from being listed in the Epstein-+Rump Files!

A new form of intimidation targets federal judges: hundreds of unsolicited pizzas sent to judges and their children across the country. It’s an innocuous delivery with an ominous message: “We know where you live.” cbsn.ws/4l4PoOC

Primary voters in a small number of districts play an outsized role in deciding who wins Congress. The Trump-initiated mid-decade redistricting is driving that number of competitive seats even lower.

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Federal judges are facing a barrage of violent threats that have tripled in the past decade. 60 Minutes spoke with federal judges who believe their safety and the rule of law are at stake. Bill Whitaker reports, Sunday. 60Minutes.com

The nearly $111 billion marriage would unite Paramount and Warner film studios, streamers and television properties — including CNN — under the control of the wealthy Ellison family.

Trump campaigned for president on deporting violent wrong-doers. But as both of these new detention programs demonstrate, the administration’s ambition to fill warehouses with millions of humans can only be achieved by locking up people without criminal records.

President Donald Trump said during the State of the Union that he “will always allow people to come in legally.” His policies stripping people’s legal status and limiting legal immigration contradict that. (via @politifact.bsky.social) https://to.pbs.org/3N8LbwI

This you, Donald? "Our president will start a war w/Iran because he has absolutely no ability to negotiate. He’s weak and he’s ineffective. So the only way he figures that he’s going to get re-elected, and as sure as you're sitting there, is to start a war w/Iran." — DJT, Nov. 2011 🧾📺 is.gd/6uPyDz