Not one Russian stopped to check on the driver, in case he was still alive.

As the state Secretary of State, Brian Kemp supervised his own election as governor. And then had all the ballots destroyed in the middle of the lawsuit alleging irregularities. As well as the backups. There's no dirty pool trick he won't play.

"[Donald Trump] has done things far worse than what the House Judiciary Committee in 1974 approved in the articles of impeachment against Richard Nixon. Republican senators ended up going to the White House, saying, 'You don't have 33 votes in the Senate, you're done. So you need to resign.'"

France has joined Germany in cancelling their Palantir contracts, becoming the 2nd country in as many weeks to do so — the UK appears poised to follow suit AOC: “Immediately investigate Palantir — (Thiel’s) secretive data mining company that has weaponized information against immigrant communities”

As we head into final 140 days or so until the midterms, I wanted to re up this resource list of left leaning, progressive funding sources in case you or someone you know could benefit from funds to further your work. Let's work #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy bsky.app/profile/digi...

@captmarkkelly.bsky.social Donald is a draft dodging idiot.

Just to be clear, the Majority Leader of the Senate sets its agenda. If the president wants to withdraw a nomination, he's free to do so. The Senate can wait for a better candidate; that shouldn't take long.

The Times: Yesterday, Trump said he is disillusioned with Israel’s war with Hezbollah in Lebanon; floats idea of Israeli withdrawal and letting the Syrian army take over. The last time the Syrian Army took over Lebanon, they instituted a decades long reign of terror. An appalling idea, all agree.

The Broadview Six have asked the judge who threw out DOJ's bogus allegations against them to appoint a special counsel to investigate the gross misconduct of the prosecutors, including tampering with evidence and altering grand jury documents.

Morning.

This is great! The Broadview Six call for a judge to appoint a special counsel to investigate for criminal contempt. "misconduct before a grand jury by prosecutors from the office of U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros." #Pinks #ProudBlue www.alternet.org/broadview-six/

"The DOJ is nothing but a blunt, brutal weapon, deployed to destroy people’s lives with laughable investigations and ginned-up charges. The indictment of 15 Minnesotans is meant to terrorize, not to fully and fairly lay out support for the charges." — @snipy.bsky.social

He doesn't have to make them.

Protesters Calling Attn to ICE Vehicles on NYC Sts "People who came here for a better life..who've never gotten a parking ticket, are getting kidnapped and held in inhumane conditions. Children are being taken to concentration camps. It's not OK, and we're here saying it's not OK." archive.ph/9UroF

Since my discharge petition to extend Temporary Protected Status for Haitians successfully passed the House, we’ve been pressing hard to advance this fight. We're ready to double down in the Senate and defend the safety, dignity, & humanity of Haitian neighbors once & for all.

At least nine whales have been reported entangled in fishing gear off the U.S. West Coast so far this year. These entanglements can be prevented, and they should. That's why we are advocating for the widespread adoption of pop-up fishing gear to protect whales. Learn more: biodiv.us/4oAq5p9

The DOJ would like this scandal to go away. Let's see if the judge has other plans. www.notus.org/courts/broad...

It was easy to foresee BREXIT's failure, because the reasons for joining the EU hadn't changed. Economies of scale and process optimization yielded savings. Whatever immigration problems the UK had were caused by post-Empire obligations and Putin's wars. Blaming the EU was just scapegoating.

No, they didn't. They charged a Senate with convicting him when presented with evidence of these crimes. That strategy fails when the Senate is run by the president's co-conspirators in the #TrumpCrimeSyndicate.

@mark-carney.bsky.social “Israel poisoned the land in Lebanon, just as it did with the water wells in Palestine, violating the Chemical Weapons Convention. Israel sprayed toxic and carcinogenic chemicals all over Lebanese agricultural land. This is a war crime and an act of genocide.” M. Safa

Ossoff: The president has been humiliated on the world stage. Many Americans are increasingly concerned about his stability and his capacity for the office. It’s deeply distressing to Americans to see a president so incompetent attempting and failing to represent the nation.

The most glaring problem in the MOU to be signed by the US and Iran in Geneva on the 19th is that it declares that each side's allies "are signing this MOU". Israel has not even been invited, and will not attend, let alone sign. #Fail 1/

Trump's ceasefire deal ends the mutual blockade. Iran gets unfrozen financial assets, and doesn't concede either nukes or military assets. The US gets nothing. From the outside, it looks like Iran flipped Trump's war and successfully extorted the US into surrendering. Expect no further progress.

Check back in 2 years.

"The best weapon against tyrants is mockery." ─ Monty Boa

He denies the evidence placed in front of him. That's proof enough he's unfit for office.

You don't need individualized data on entire populations to accomplish any of the objectives that the State Department could possibly have. If they're concerned about plague vectors, require visitors to produce proof. To see health campaign performance, use statistics. Done.

Joe Rogan's appearance is proof enough that canceling my Paramount+ subscription was a good idea.

Did you install a new reflecting pool?

The US illegally misused its military. Which the generals warned Trump about, of course. New problems: - We owe Iran billions in reparations (because the war was a criminal act, packed with war crimes) - Billions in weapons wasted. - Massive inflation. - International scorn and anger.

1. This shouldn't be a surprise. A ceasefire agreement to halt hostilities isn't the final treaty, which is a negotiated settlement. 2. If he doesn't like the agreement, the right answer is not to sign it and drop bombs, but to keep negotiating and revising. 3. Why does he act like such a mobster?

Trump said Iranians promised to give up their nukey stuff. The Iranians have called him a liar. Iran demands Israel quit shooting (Bibi refuses) and some UN Resolutions get repealed (out of the US's control). Impossible atm. Because he's bored, sleepy and inept, Trump will cave on the nukes issue.

The real problem is that Everything Trump Touches, Dies. And now the appeal of the Reflecting Pool, and every instance of wildlife that visits it, have joined the long list of victims. He's like he's some sort of Sadim (meaning "Midas" reversed, where everything he touches turns to sh¡t).

Georgia deserves her. And so does Washington, DC. But in different ways.

They've got our number

The only person in this picture with an undergraduate degree is Michelle Obama. Melania lied about having one on her visa and citizenship applications, however. By law, that makes her citizenship revocable, and herself deportable.

Russian-occupied Crimea looks like it's turning into a humanitarian disaster zone. Gas is in extremely short supply. People are stealing it from each other's cars at night. Bridge outages are hampering deliveries of food. And the Russian military is becoming more desperate and oppressive.

Mamdani: "Solidarity with a government that is committing genocide is a very different thing than a question of solidarity with people of a specific faith. I'm proud to be a mayor of the city with the largest Jewish population in this country."

Shades of Vermeer

In this photo there is a Princeton University graduate and a Harvard Law School graduate. Michelle Obama is both.

If true, the antidote is to ... (say it with me) RELEASE THE UNWHITEWASHED EPSTEIN FILES.

FIFA doesn't even understand the purpose of international sports competition. (Which is to provide a venue for peaceful rivalry that supplants armed conflict. Look at the founding of the Olympics.) But if you suppress that, you're undermining it, which stokes the opposite.

What Canadian PM Carney is saying is that if the Iran-US deal eliminates Iran's nuclear weapons program, then the deal is worth it. But: 1. We had achieved that in 2015, before Trump screwed it up. 2. It's not $300B of his money. 3. There's no such assurance yet. www.ctvnews.ca/politics/art...

We often gauge intelligence in animals by whether they can use tools. Here, a heron uses bait to fish.

Jan 6th pardons. Drug kingpin pardons. Fraudster pardons. Special treatment of Maxwell. Hiding the Epstein files. No other President in history has been this soft on crime.

OMB nominee Hal Duncan: “This administration is committed to gold standard science and wants to advance the best cancer research that we possibly can.” Sen. Slotkin: “Slashing cancer research…is not a way to uphold a gold standard for cancer research.”

No wonder they never get any work done.

If the U.S. & Iran have arrived at a ceasefire, then why did Senate Rs block a bill that would require the President to secure congressional approval for further military action against Iran? This war has cost us enough already, & Congress must ensure it asserts its constitutional responsibility.

There's always a tweet. (His opinion of the JCPOA signed by 5 nations, including the US under President Obama, and which had provably and successfully ended Iran's uranium enrichment program, included ongoing monitoring, and cost the US nothing.)