NEW: Bluesky rolled out age verification to comply with Texas' new app store age verification law, which was allowed to go into effect last month by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. I wrote about it here: www.chron.com/culture/arti...

The good news is …🔻

The real headline from the birthright‑citizenship case isn’t the outcome. It’s that four Supreme Court justices signaled they believe a president can effectively rewrite the Constitution through executive order.

Forget Congress. Forget the courts. The real power struggle in Washington today is a giant inflatable duck vs inflatable Trump outside the Reflecting Pool. And somehow — the duck has more credibility.

This is the list of Democrats who are signatories on this "Promise" BS. Adam gray Tom Suozzi Laura Gillen Don Davis Jessica Killin Kirstin McDonald Rivet John Gottheimer Jamie Ager Bobby Alido Marlene Galan Woods Paul Barringer Maggie Goodlander Janelle Bynum Vicente Gonzalez Susie Lee

Target practice: Netanyahu appears to favor Turkey over Syria and Egypt as his next target for military invasion. This lays the foundation. www.newarab.com/news/israel-...

Erick Erickson is right that Peter Thiel and so also JD Vance subscribe to a tripartite worldview. Most Beltway analysts don't understand this. But he should have noted the author of this vision: its Aleksandr Dugin, Putin's brain, who was questing for some formula to justify Russian empire.

In other news: If you are russian and living in Crimea, you should get the fuck out NOW! While you still can. Russia has LOST Crimea and is blaming Putin. Zelenskyy has approved a 40-day SBU operation to increase pressure on Russia and push it toward ending the war using drones. The end is near.

www.mediaite.com/politics/elo... #USD #PB. Elon Musk vows to sue Ro Khanna. I hope he does. The discovery will tell the truth about just how deadly DOGE was. The effects of DOGE are still being felt each day as more and more children die just so people like Musk can pay less income tax.

Dolezal said he and “a number of friends” deliberately submitted mail-in ballot applications with altered signatures — including forms signed by children — and then used the fact that they received ballots to argue that Georgia’s system facilitates fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

🚨BREAKING: Maryland Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to gain access to state voter data. A big victory for our clients Maryland/DC Alliance for Retired Americans and democracy. DOJ is now 0-9 in these cases. We are undefeated.🗳️💪⚖️ www.democracydocket.com/cases/maryla...

🧵 Body language Exhibit One Qatari FM/PM enters the room

NEW: This week, the legal battle over Trump’s crackdown on mail voting is heating up, as DHS confirmed the 1st phase of its national mail voter list will be complete by the end of the month. Meanwhile, the GOP is pushing states to purge during the 90-day "quiet period," which should be unlawful.

Trump is trying to shift the decision about who gets to vote from the states to his administration, using benign sounding rules changes. There’s nothing more important to be aware of right now than this. Details here: substack.com/@joycevance/...

Russian-occupied Crimea completely suspends gas sales to civilians as Ukrainian drone strikes squeeze peninsula "Fuel will only be dispensed to state services that ensure the vital activities and security of the Republic of Crimea," Sergey Aksyonov, the Russian-appointed gover...

Italian newspaper headlines ~ “Trump is an Asshole.” Absolutely correct but he’s also a convicted felon, a rapist, a pedophile, a malignant narcissist, a traitor, a pathological liar, morally bankrupt, insurrectionist, a grifting conman… the list is endless.

🔥 Bird mimicking violin tunes

His toughest opponent yet turned out to be photosynthesis. #AlgaeGate

Former Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma has renounced his 1997 award in protest of Warsaw’s recent decision to strip Zelenskyy of the same honor.

California transparency faces new threats as AB 1821 advances in state senate. Bill would let local agencies charge hourly fees for data access and sue residents for malicious requests, effectively creating barriers that curb public’s ability to track government spending and decisions.

Day 19 of the Albanian Flamingo Revolution in Tirana. The protesters will not stop until Edi Rama, the Prime Minister, resigns.

Social Security isn’t a hand out from the Federal Government ! We paid into it our entire working life !!

Mike Johnson caught on a hot mic confirmed that Republicans have a plan to gut Social Security next year, after the midterms so you can’t vote against it. Tell them No! #HandsOffSocialSecurity

If you watch the Obama Library, the World Cup, and the Knicks parade this afternoon -- and nothing else -- you can actually see the America we're supposed to be at age 250

Folks, in case any of you have forgotten, this is what normal looks like.

🚨BREAKING: The first phase of President Donald Trump’s executive order to build a national voter list is expected to be implemented by June 30, according to a recent Department of Homeland Security (DHS) memo. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

A Ukrainian drone strike on a Moscow oil refinery sparked a flood of memes. Here are some of the best. Share your favorites! 🧵 1/16 ⬇️

Trump just endorsed comparisons to history's worst dictators On TS, he reshared a post crowning him more powerful than Hitler, Stalin, and Genghis Khan "Sounds good to me!" The debate over presidential rhetoric just hit a whole new level Unprecedented rhetoric from a sitting president #SheShed

ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @lepapillonblue.bsky.social 😱 "There are huge chunks of blue paint coming off the reflecting pool already… It seems the peroxide loosened things up, yikes!! The Trump administration is a complete and total failure!"

Here's a fun fact about Elon Musk: in 2020, his (nominal) net worth was $20b, and today it's $1t (nominally). But *that's* not the fun fact; *this* is: everything he's done since 2020 was a flop. 1/

Flock was sold to track cars. Now they're tracking people, w/ SignalTrace. A new system links phones, smartwatches, and other devices to license plates, giving law enforcement a searchable digital fingerprint. Mass surveillance just got an upgrade. #ProudBlue www.404media.co/this-company...

#SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

1/ ICE built a biometric ID system for immigrants. Now it is scanning protesters and regular Americans. Palantir built the brain. Iris scanners capture the eyes. Smart glasses do it covertly in public. Five contracts. One dragnet. Big Brother is watching #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

If you follow me and the dogs all year id love if you could watch this. It’s a once a year thing I do. The only time I ever ask. You can support here happydoggo.com/donate?utm_s...

for those curious about this organization, here is a snippet about it from a 2014 invitation to one of their conferences found in jeffery epstein’s emails

CBS Propaganda was forced to pay a fine after Stephen Colbert played an unlicensed song from Peanuts during his final show. The owner of Peanuts donated that fine to hero Chef Jose Andres’ amazing World Central Kitchen. A beautiful final fuck you from Mr. Colbert. Love it. 💙👊

RIP Mark Rothko. You would have loved how the hydrogen peroxide bleach is only turning the Reflecting Pool blue around the perimeter

I HAV VERY SERIOUS QUESTIONS ABOUT WHAT CORY BOOKER, JIM HIMES, PREET BHARARA, JULIAN CASTRO AND ATUL GAWANDE ARE DOING ON PETER THIEL’S SECRET SOCIETY LIST (et tu, Joseph Gordon Leavitt and Gretchen Rubin WHAT THE FUCK).

This is bombshell stuff.

NEW: A trove of internal records from Dialog, the secret society cofounded by Peter Thiel, was left exposed online. WIRED obtained a second cache of records that reveal who's really attending, how they're screened, and what personal details they were promised would stay private.

After charging 15 people with "Antifa" crimes for participating in rapid response networks, federal agents are pepper-spraying people outside the Federal Courthouse in the Twin Cities right now. They want to establish an autocracy. Everyone's freedom is at stake.

Alright this definitely gets added to the scary file

Alberta has cut back disability supports and adopted a model similar to what the US is doing with Medicaid. They want to force disabled people to participate in work programs. They’re slashing benefits. They’re clawing back the $200 from the federal disability support. These policies kill.

💥 Israel is dropping toxic chemicals on farmland in South Lebanon. Catastrophic levels of glyphosate, a chemical linked to cancer. 11,000 times above safe levels. Deliberate war crime aimed at making life impossible and forcing people out of their land (1/2) @sarahabdallah.bsky.social

If anyone sees UFC’s Dana White around DC, can you ask him why he chose these paintings to be displayed on national television?

Russian diplomat Evgeny Lyukshin was reportedly the handler of the arson attacks on London properties of the UK PM Starmer and also appears to be one of the RIS handlers for Stephen Yaxley-Lennon aka Tommy Robinson. www.kyivpost.com/post/78237