"Trump doesn’t care about election interference. So why would he invoke Iran meddling in our election as he bombs the country? Put simply, he is trying to validate the claim that our elections are not secure as a pretext to usurp control of our elections in the name of national security.”

📽️NEW: Marc Elias breaks down the Washington Post report detailing how Trump is crafting a justification based on the debunked lie of "Chinese interference" in 2020. This isn't just rhetoric — it's a roadmap to federalize elections and rewrite voting rules unilaterally👇 https://bit.ly/4cCmX8D

WIRED has reviewed hundreds of posts on X that promote misleading claims about the locations and scale of the attack. www.wired.com/story/x-is-d...

In a scathing review, the top US medical journal's editorial board warned that the "destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 in office might take generations to repair." n.pr/3N9Foa8

Beyond high-profile races like the Texas Senate primaries, there are all sorts of intriguing contests this Tuesday. Don't sleep on races for the Rio Rancho mayor, the San Antonio DA, the Arkansas secretary of state, and dozens of others in our guide:

DoD’s demands to use Claude AI for purposes its creator deems unsafe is a chance for tech companies to stand together against government extortion. www.justsecurity.org/132536/big-t...

We are at war with Iran. Operation Epic Fury. Trump said it was because of an “imminent” missile threat to America. Intelligence assessments do not support that claim. If the evidence exists, release it. If it doesn’t, this is war built on a lie. The Constitution still matters.🇺🇸

Things feels calmer now in Minneapolis but the ICE siege is far from over. Many families are traumatized and remain in hiding, we still have over 900 ICE agents in Minnesota, and the economic impacts on our city—and especially on our targeted neighbors—are staggering.

🚨BREAKING: Democracy Docket has obtained a draft of the executive order being circulated with the White House that would allow Trump to take unprecedented control over voting. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: Trump-Noem DHS admits to wrongfully arresting 261 DACA recipients, 86 of whom were deported, since Trump’s second term started, per disclosure to Congress.

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

AAP is calling on HHS Secretary RFK Jr. to promote measles vaccines and deploy more support to outbreak areas as cases surge. Dr. Racine called for the CDC to provide more personnel, resources & technical assistance to areas experiencing outbreaks. Read more: publications.aap.org/aapnews/news...

Most of the people arrested had limited or no criminal history, several were “of an advanced age,” and all of the protesters were non-violent, Chittenden County State’s Attorney Sarah George wrote.

Expect something similar before the next election here.

This is clearly blatantly intentional voter suppression and any claim otherwise is completely unserious

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

I'm writing about the rapid spread of Epstein-related misinformation. If you are in social media groups where people are making unsubstantiated claims and/or confusing documented communications with uncorroborated FBI tips, please DM me or reach out on email or Signal. Contact info in my bio. TY!

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

NEW: Guards have taken away crayons, colored pencils & paper during recent room searches at Dilley, according to detainees and others. After one inspection, the children just “cried and cried and cried,” a mother said. The facility denies the claims. By @mckenziefunk.com @micarosenberg.bsky.social

Citing my reporting for @propublica.org, 4 House Dems have formally asked the head of the federal prison system to explain how the agency will fix severe staffing shortages affecting safety and operations. My latest: www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Appalling: ICE and CBP contracted for $144 million in weaponry and accessories in Trump's first year, per data obtained by Sen Adam Schiff. For ICE it's a fourfold increase, much of it for military-style weapons. A heavily armed secret police force. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2069...

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

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The Trump administration has scrapped plans to convert a warehouse in Merrimack, N.H., into an immigration detention facility, according to Governor Kelly Ayotte.

Inside ICE’s tool to monitor phones in entire neighborhoods 404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. Webloc can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.

I am disgusted by what DHS has become under Kristi Noem. Here’s the reporting:

What's more shocking than ICE's plan to cram as many 8,500 humans into massive, soul-crushing warehouses? Seeing the actual DHS floor plan that echoes slavery ships and history's worst gulags with no rec space but a gun range for guards My new column on the camps www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

"You now live in a country where volunteers deliver babies at home, in secret, off the books, because mothers fear that if they go to the hospital, they will be abducted by masked, armed agents of the state while giving birth. This is not a hypothetical."

Casually tearing down a thing you don't understand, with no consideration that you might be missing something, is the antithesis of any kind of conservatism, of course.

Assault training, blast-resistant window film, sniper programs, Iris scanners. With tens of billions in new funding, ICE can’t seem to spend money fast enough, & first-time contractors are getting in on the cash bonanza, offering ICE everything from weapons instruction to office furniture.

The feds do not share how many agents are still in Minnesota or how many arrests are taking place, but anecdotal accounts show their activities moving from the Twin Cities (where they encountered strong opposition) to suburbs, exurbs & small towns. (3) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

You are almost certainly not aware of the full extent of what the government is doing in Minneapolis, and what it portends for all of us if they succeed. lnk.thebulwark.com/46kVMuT

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

ICE is overpaying massively for its detention centers. Who is pocketing those profits? Something stinks here, and it’s our tax dollars paying for it. Tell a friend.

The period between the end of the civil war and the beginning of WW I is often skipped over in high school, in part because that period saw a massive and successful rolling back of civil rights. It's one of the most disgraceful periods in a pretty disgraceful history. 1