Look up the Merriam-Webster definition of a pathetic sycophant. Lindsey Graham is exactly that. Selfish, lying, denying ignoramus. I have no more breath to let these idiot men spew their garbage without censure

Trump gave comments ahead of Memorial Day weekend downplaying the U.S. casualties of his unauthorized war on Iran. “We lost 13 people. … In other wars, you lost hundreds of thousands of people,” Trump said, “I get a kick when I look at somebody on television, and they say, ‘he’s lost 13 people.'”

God, it rules so much that he skipped his son's wedding because he was so busy, only to sit around making posts about Hulk Hogan.

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A WHO expert warned Ebola would kill more women because they were expected to care for the sick at home. She was right — and the world still didn’t listen. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/she-predic...

A young person has died and a MAGA official hails the “protection” of students. This is the evil that is destroying America.

Panzi Hospital reporting that Ebola has reached South Kivu, DRC. This is very, very bad.

A WHO expert warned Ebola would kill more women because they were expected to care for the sick at home. She was right — and the world still didn’t listen. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/she-predic...

A new report documents an ICE deportation flight that lasted 51 hours across Poland, Moldova, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Georgia. The people onboard reportedly remained physically restrained the entire time. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/they-were-...

A new report documents an ICE deportation flight that lasted 51 hours across Poland, Moldova, Armenia, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and Georgia. The people onboard reportedly remained physically restrained the entire time. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/they-were-...

I'm poking my own eyes out www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/o...

They thought they were taking jobs in Russia. Weeks later, they were in trenches. A new investigation suggests some foreign recruits may not be mercenaries at all — but victims of human trafficking sent into “meat assaults” as disposable soldiers. On Chills: chills.substack.com/p/they-thoug...

I survived 9/11. Years later, I took a job reporting on the attacks for The New York Times — before I realized I was running back into my own trauma. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/i-ran-towa...

The FBI Director and his liquor problem, by @sfitz787.bsky.social. Robert Mueller once held this job. “When I reached a former longtime senior FBI official to ask whether he’d ever seen personally branded liquor bottles distributed by a previous FBI director, he burst out laughing.”

This is the insane, racist point we are at. “There is no such thing as ‘reverse discrimination’; all race or sex discrimination is equally unlawful, according to long-established civil rights principles.” www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

As someone who attended the Met gala in 1996, I find the pomp and circumstance now gross. Back then, we dressed up, had a good time and even smoked in the main lobby (bad, yes). The cheap star/hero worship these days is absurd. The Met, where I worked for five years, is better than this.

I asked AI for an exact, sourced quote from a rape survivor in Sudan. It gave me a devastating first-person testimony. Then I asked where it came from. Answer: nowhere. As a journalist, this was the moment I stopped trusting AI. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/i-asked-ai...

Deported from the U.S. to Congo, migrants describe what they say is human trafficking: no guidance, no support, and no safe path — only pressure to choose between risks. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/sent-to-co...

Three-quarters of the journalists at the White House correspondents dinner kept standing after the shot like the journalists they are. Batshit

US-Kuwaiti journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin acquitted of all charges cpj.org?p=583673

I wrote about this yesterday, but now Trump is in talks to send as many as 1,100 Afghans who aided U.S. forces to the Democratic Republic of Congo. A travesty. www.nytimes.com/.../afghan-r... chills.substack.com/p/america-is...

U.S. citizens have so far suffered from America’s war less than most other people around the world.

The U.S. is deporting migrants to countries they’ve never been to. Some were just sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo — thousands of miles from home, with no guarantee of safety. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/america-is...

The U.S. is deporting migrants to countries they’ve never been to. Some were just sent to the Democratic Republic of the Congo — thousands of miles from home, with no guarantee of safety. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/america-is...

This is INSANE It described the arrangement as a ‘temporary’ one that reflects Congo’s “commitment to human dignity and international solidarity.” apnews.com/article/cong...

Sign CPJ's petition to free @ahmedeldin.bsky.social: cpj.movements.mov/pet/kuwait-r...

They’re flying people like cargo. 1,794 ICE enforcement flights in March alone, moving people through detention centers and staging hubs. These are removals on a massive scale. New on Chills: chills.substack.com/p/theyre-fly...

I wanna point out something serious. The admin has been complaining about Iran winning the information war. This same administration shut down Voice of America, and other information operations the US govt does. It’s a self goal. Actions have consequences

America's oil execs have pocketed $1.4 billion selling stock during the Iran war, the WSJ reports This cash windfall won’t go primarily toward yachts and private jets, but toward political campaigns and lobbying orgs dedicated to blocking climate policy and fueling authoritarianism

In case it's not clear from the context (it's not), this was in response to a question about Iran's right to enrich nuclear material. It's one of the most confusing analogies ever that, at the same time, is really revealing as to how much of a controlling jerk Vance is

Every time Trump talks about "acing" a cognitive test he's revealing something important: Doctors don't just give these tests regularly. They're monitoring his decline.

Ghada Dayekh, a presenter and reporter at the privately owned Sawt Al-Farah radio station, was killed when an Israeli strike hit her apartment building, completely destroying it, cpj.org/2026/04/leba...

I... uh... wha... huh.

A Vietnamese immigrant, Tuan Van Bui, 55, is the 46th person to die in federal custody during the current Trump administration abcnews.com/US/death-vie...

Just a quick note to let you all know that Shelly is free. I’ll share anything else if and when I can — when/if I know it’s safe. Know that freedom is when a new struggle starts, the struggle of dealing with what captivity has done to you. chills.substack.com/p/shelly-kit...

Shelly Kittleson is officially out, according to multiple sources www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/w...

Kataib Hezbollah: "In appreciation of the national positions of the Prime Minister whose term has expired, we have decided to release the American suspect, ‘Shelly Kittleson,’ on the condition that she leave the country immediately.”

“Unfortunately”

He's confessing to planning war crimes on live television

Doctors warn that Israel is targeting Lebanon’s health care system, as it did Gaza’s

Trump is not worried about committing war crimes.

Trump says the Iranian people want to be bombed.

This is not ok. Invoke the 25th amendment. Impeach. Remove. This unhinged lunatic must be removed from office.

NYT: STOP THE SANEWASHING

Less than a year ago the nyt’s Joe Kahn was bragging about having earned Trump’s “emerging respect”

This is a very dangerous, demented man. The fact this question was asked by a British journalist demonstrates elite US media is failing

Three words could change everything for kidnapped journalist Shelly Kittleson: “designate as hostage.” It’s not symbolic — it’s a formal step that can escalate a case to the highest levels of the U.S. government. chills.substack.com/p/three-word...

Ah, if only Kim had said this

Where do people want to be if the craziest among us use nukes in the next few weeks?