The decision to ban Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur from the UK marks further escalation in the clampdown on critics of Israel.

NJ Gov Mikie Sherrill gets fact checked in real time, and gets caught lying. See her two posts claiming: 1) Protestors knocked down the barrier at Delaney Hall, & 2) Police were not in riot gear Then see the video of full riot gear police knocking down the barrier in the next post. 1/2

The same Trump-appointee who fucked with the Broadview 6 grand jury is the one going after E. Jean Carroll.

1/4🧵 The terrorist state #Russia escalates: Russia is occupying the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Station in #Ukraine, and is now dramatically increasing the risk of nuclear disaster. They have long claimed not to use it for military purposes. This is a lie, exposed by @caolanrob.bsky.social 👇

via @hissgoescobra.bsky.social Listen to the judge at Tina Peters's trial give a searing condemnation of her crimes and behavior in Court. Compare this to what Polis is trying to spin today, in order to justify the bended knee to Trump and his shortcutting of the judicial process:

Zbigniew Ziobro was one of the authors of the attempt to transform Poland into an authoritarian regime. Ziobro is a wanted man with no passport. The Trump White House just went to a good deal of trouble to bring him to the US. snyder.substack.com/p/copycat-ty...

Oh I saw this clip about it and the smile of the attorney after they say they don’t condone violence :D old.reddit.com/r/interestin...

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

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

Weep not for the oil execs! Chevron’s profits are expected to more than triple this quarter, and ExxonMobil’s will double. 10-12% of the oil is stuck in the Strait of Hormuz but oil prices have doubled, QED. More from @whitneycwimbish.bsky.social & @ryanlcooper.com here: prospect.org/2026/05/04/a...

Reporters Without Borders release the 2026 World Press Freedom Index The U.S. didn’t make the top 50 & dropped under +ru^^p 1. Norway 2. Netherlands 3. Estonia 4. Denmark 5. Sweden 6. Finland 7. Ireland 8. Switzerland 9. Luxembourg 10. Portugal 14. Germany 18. UK & 20. Canada rsf.org/en/index

No point in peace talks with Krasnov when you can go right to his supervisor

Ukraine has secured their €90 billion loan from the European Union! That is going to pay for a lot of drones!

Toldya the attacks would backfire. Whoopsie! www.semafor.com/article/04/2...

The Washington Post Editorial Board was fine with Republicans gerrymandering in Texas. But when Democrats responded in Virginia, it’s a “power grab” that “plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss.”

INBOX: Amid rising tendons between Trump and Pope Leo, the administration has abruptly canceled an $11 million contract with Catholic Charities to shelter and care for migrant children who enter the U.S. alone, ending a relationship dating back to the first arrivals of Cuban exiles in South Florida.

When supporting vaccines disqualifies someone from a top health position we're in the upside down world.

🐈😂❤️ A combat cat giving a relaxing massage to our defender.

BREAKING CBS: Survivors of the deadliest Iranian attack on U.S. forces have disputed the Pentagon's description of events and said their unit in Kuwait was left dangerously exposed when six service members were killed and over 20 wounded. The members disputed the description from Pete Hegseth.

"This Trump is totally different than the one we made up in our heads!"

Lesson #8,010 on why in @jbpritzker.bsky.social office we do not try and appease the Trump administration

1/ A shortage of drones reportedly means that Russian drone pilots often don't attack Ukrainian vehicles again after disabling them. This, says a serving Russian soldier, means that the Ukrainians are frequently able to retrieve disabled vehicles. ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/chal...

As thousands more American troops are launched into the war zone—in a region divided by religious differences for generations—-he is focused on…RELIGION. And more of it. Because of course he is. Because he is the Acting Secretary of Culture War. Always. Even during real war.

An unaccounted for part of the economy is how much young people virulently hate AI, despite how aggressively it's being forced on them. They realize it's making their friends dumber and ruining the world and they want nothing to do with it. From the Penn student paper: www.thedp.com/article/2026...

USA can manufacture ALL the batteries it deploys, thanks to the IRA passed by Biden and Democrats in 2022! US manufacturing capacity 70 GWh in 2025 & 145 GWh in 2026! US deploys 60 GWh in 2026! www.canarymedia.com/articles/cle... #energysky

The League of Extraordinary Authoritarians

Absurd framing on a night when crypto PACs lost the majority their races, AIPAC PACs lost half of their races, the biggest of the big-money centrists got only 32% of the vote, and multiple progressive candidates won. www.axios.com/2026/03/18/t...

Oh, oh, oh, I know, I know, I know! undark.org/2026/03/17/i...

Everyone else in the room when a former DOGE employee was deposed.

A major housing bill passed the Senate yesterday with 89 votes, and we actually have two stories about it. First, here's Bob Kuttner on Elizabeth Warren's talent to find areas to partner with Republicans on bills that do deliver some degree of economic populism: prospect.org/2026/03/13/e...

Henry Burke of @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social just got back from the centrist rally. "Though the affirmative vision for the world may have been lacking, confidence in their diagnosis of the problem was not" prospect.org/2026/03/10/c...

I saw someone here warn against anthropomorphizing Trump, and it's the best description I've seen of the way the media covers him.

We need your drone interceptors for our war, but we won’t thank you and our propaganda will claim that we made them.

NEW from me: Ketamine, Prostitution and Money: Here Are The Details of a Secret DEA Probe of Jeffrey Epstein 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Yes. And we have to talk about this now, because talking about it is the first step to making it seem like a callous crime rather than a surprising emergency.

So let me get this straight ... 1. US bombs Iran 2. Oil price goes up a bit, benefitting Russia's petrostate 3. Russia gives Iran targeting info 4. Oil price shoots WAY up 5. US unsanctions Russian oil

Quick note: I'm traveling through Saturday, but I've read the FBI interviews with the woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a child. Significant redactions (and redacted dates for some reason?) and these aren't original FBI case files. We don't know what else is in her file

This is the point. If your vaunted trillion-dollar military can't get through a few days of airstrikes because you've consolidated the industrial base so badly, then you don't have a trillion-dollar military, you just have contractors in No. Virginia getting rich

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

The DOJ ‘Forgot’ To Mention The Law Restricting Searches Of Journalists. The Judge Is Not Happy We wrote recently about the FBI's pre-dawn raid on Washington Post reporter Hannah Natanson's home, in which agents seized two laptops, a phone, a portable hard drive, a recording device, and even a…

“Leadership rarely comes out and says they oppose these votes outright, because they know the underlying issue is popular with the base... Instead, you see process concerns, timing objections, and caucus-unity arguments used to slow things down or keep members off the record.”

✨ It’s a yes or no question ✨

Happy Presidents' Day. No, not him.

Great investigative reporting by the oldest newspaper west of the Mississippi. They linked other related articles at the end. www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_n...

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

Full video of Zelenskyy awarding him, with English subtitles

#Ukraine President Volodymyr #Zelenskyy awarded Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych the country's medal of freedom after he was disqualified from the #Olympic skeleton competition over his "helmet of remembrance," which depicted athletes killed since russia's invasion reuters / Instagram