Russian forces pummeled Ukraine with dozens of missiles and more than 1,000 drones, as a 3-day ceasefire collapsed in a relentless 24-hour bombardment. “These are definitely not the actions of those who believe the war is coming to an end,” Zelenskyy said. www.ft.com/content/813e...

⚡️Explosions rock Kyiv as Russia's mass daytime drone strike becomes large-scale missile attack. Missiles and drones rocked Kyiv overnight on May 14 as Russia launched a large-scale missile attack across Ukraine, extending a mass daytime assault into the late evening and early morning hours.

Tiffany McElroy says inmates assisted in delivering her baby in May 2024 after jail staff left her to fend for herself

Israel has killed nearly 600 people in Lebanon since a supposed ceasefire took effect on April 17. And more than 1 million Lebanese are still displaced.

china doesn't talk much about its missile production. so we combed through more than 10 years' worth of company records to put together this report, which shows 2025 was china's biggest missile production year in a long time--maybe ever (free link) www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

this is very clearly and directly genocidal: "Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group" is explicitly listed as a genocidal act in the 1948 convention, and Russia's intent to destroy Ukrainians as a people has been made clear over and over again

The ideological cousin of “the media isn’t telling us about this” which may actually drive me mad one day, bc it’s usually said about something reported on by multiple huge media outlets and means “no one delivered this to my social media feeds in way that captured my severely diminished attention.”

A simple plea from me to you. Read and share and knock this shit off. www.esquire.com/news-politic...

The FBI is investigating a reporter The FBI is investigating a reporter who reported critically about the FBI Director. The FBI is investigating a reporter who reported critically about the FBI Director, while she is being sued by the FBI Director in his personal capacity bsky.app/profile/kyle...

More premeditated killing outside of armed conflict. There's a word for that. 2nd boat bombing in two days. The Trump administration is keen to share the snuff films from these strikes, but is strangely unwilling to identify these "Designated Terrorist Organizations" or release the OLC opinion.

The Trump administration is closing the office responsible for investigating misconduct and abuse in the immigration detention system, per an email obtained by HuffPost

A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

NASA just dropped 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. Too many to add to ArtemisTimeline.com, so I just put up a tool at ArtemisTimeline.com/vote so that people can vote on small batches allowing for all of the images to be sorted! (yes, I posted this before, but I had to fix something!)

‘I’m fighting two wars. One against the Russians. And one inside myself.’ Ukraine is reshaping warfare through its use of drones. Yet human operators remain at the controls. For @ftweekend.com, I profiled one Ukrainian FPV drone pilot to examine the personal costs. www.ft.com/content/95f5...

In Dec 2021, Nicole Saphier — a Fox contributor now tapped as Trump's surgeon general nominee — argued that "it is time to move forward and allow this mild infection to circulate so we can continue to build that hybrid immunity." 250,000 Americans died of covid in 2022.

A document obtained by MPR News shows that dozens of Minneapolis police officers have worked with a previously undisclosed Homeland Security Task Force, which city leaders say is investigating criminal, and not immigration, violations. (1) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

From the AP to CNN and The New York Times, top editors of over 30 organizations are calling on Israel's government to lift a ban on foreign journalists from independently entering and reporting from Gaza. The barrier has been in place since the war's start in 2023.

hey, did you know the u.s. only has a handful of gucci hypersonic long-range strike weapons? did you also know that centcom wants to use them against iran? WELL NOW YOU DO (free link) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

It's been pointed out before, but worth repeating - USAid cuts were about the same figure.

The U.S. Has Killed Almost 190 People in Boat Strikes. Five more people have been murdered since Friday. We’re tracking them all, @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

yeah, so this is the thing about the iran war. regardless of whether there is shooting or not, the strait is closed, and that is the central problem for the global economy. iran realizes this and no amount of bluster will change it www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Russia unleashes a massive overnight assault on Ukraine — firing 666 aerial weapons, including ballistic missiles and over 600 drones. At least 22 people were injured and residential buildings were damaged, as Ukrainian air defences intercepted 610 targets. www.kyivpost.com/post/74718

“Lethal kinetic strike” being the administration’s preferred euphemism for murder.

518,428 children have died preventable deaths in the year since Musk dismantled USAID, saying, “Time for it to die.”

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

I genuinely think some people do not want to look this in the eye/think about it because it is so awful. We wrote what I thought was a pretty eye-opening story about all this and I was surprised by the lack of engagement tbh

“We are relieved that Ahmed Shihab-Eldin has been found innocent after 52 days in detention,” said CPJ CEO Jodie Ginsberg. “Ahmed’s freedom and safety remain our topmost priority and we will continue to closely monitor his case.” zeteo.com/p/breaking-k...

Media rights groups condemn killing of Amal Khalil, who said in 2024 she had been threatened by ‘an Israeli enemy’

“The North Carolina man arrested late Wednesday for allegedly threatening a mass shooting at a New Orleans festival is a former law enforcement officer whose family reported he was seeking to harm ‘Black people.’”

NEW: Palantir employees are now questioning the ethics of working for a company that has become increasingly intertwined with the machinations of the second Trump administration. @makenakelly.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/palant...

"This ongoing, un-American harassment of journalists eerily echoes the Bureau’s darkest days," North America director for Reporters Without Borders Clayton Weimers said about the FBI's probe of a NY Times reporter. "It's time for Patel to cash out and resign." www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

The interesting thing about the way some Democratic states are going about the redistricting fight is that they're relying on referenda. Which means the "they" that Donalds refers to here aren't lawmakers, but the majority of Virginia voters in this election.

Even as a critic who has tried to write about MJ’s legacy with nuance and grace, I appreciate the clarity the director of Leaving Neverland brings to the table

And just to be abundantly clear: NASA AND SCIENCE IN GENERAL HAVE MASSIVE RETURN ON INVESTMENT. Cutting this budget is a net financial LOSS in the medium- to long-term. It undermines our future -- intellectually, technologically, and economically.

This is insane, tinpot authoritarian shit. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

“Zarbiv’s latest videos are now from southern Lebanon, where Israel is conducting demolitions across a swath of Lebanese territory that it now occupies. Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, has vowed to raze towns there as Israel did in Gaza.”

Zarbiv describing taking blindfolded Gazan prisoners back to their neighborhoods for release after they’d been leveled by IDF earthmovers: “When we took the cloth off their eyes, they were completely disoriented, they did not understand where they were.”

The is Zarbiv’s full quote about Gaza demolitions: Gazans “will be returning to nowhere. Tens of thousands of families are left without papers, without childhood photos, without ID cards, they remain with nothing. If they return, they will not know where their home is. All they will find is sand.”

Tomorrow, I'll have breaking news on confirmed FBI #surveillance and investigative targeting of a prominent domestic civil society organization that is not SPLC. Stay tuned.

NEW: Flight data reveals that the LAPD's "Drone as First Responder" program—sold to the public as a public safety measure—is in fact being used to spy on anti-ICE/anti-Trump protests in Los Angeles. theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...

Breaking News: President Trump is said to be in talks to send Afghans who helped the U.S. war effort to the Democratic Republic of Congo.

This is from just last month.

BREAKING: The Southern Poverty Law Center says it faces investigation by Justice Department over past use of paid informants to infiltrate extremist groups.

so it is a little crazy-making to me how election denying--it is not controversial or debatable who won--is now a litmus test and it's all just happening in plain sight like a normal thing

detention in Xinjiang was determined in large part by algorithmic analysis of so-called 'terrorist' networks that could result in you going to a camp because you went to the same mosque as a guy who took lectures from a folklorist.

ah yeah, China, famously not using AI or facial recognition for any kind of surveillance

The U.S. Has Killed More Than 180 People in Boat Strikes. We’re Tracking Them All, @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/11/17/t...

Ukrainian hackers disrupted a closed-door meeting at Russia’s Ministry of Industry and Trade and made a recording. www.kyivpost.com/post/74379

Israel carried out its heaviest strikes on Lebanon since the conflict with Hezbollah broke out last month, killing more than 250 people, as the Iran-aligned group resumed rocket attacks on northern Israel after a brief pause under the two-week US-Iran ceasefire reut.rs/4tbDnda