Every accusation is an admission.

Yeah. I can see how having the FIFA Peace Prize winner simultaneously bombing your country — while also hosting the tournament — might make participation a little awkward.

18 Senate Democrats confirmed a nominee with no cyber or signals intelligence experience to run the NSA and Cyber Command — the same agencies Trump already purged of their leadership at the behest of Laura Loomer.

S&P Global’s Daniel Yergin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power,” told me the Iran war “points to the possibility of the nightmare scenario” for markets and the economy:

And of course, the traditional solemn trip to the waffle station at the presidential country club, as is customary for a United States Commander in Chief at war – remembering the sacrifices of those he sent to fight.

Trump must really be torn up over those dead service members. He was still wearing his official mourning hat today, as he played the traditional round of grieving golf. As one does.

Conservatives are currently pursuing a national strategy to ban grace periods for ballots sent through the mail. The U.S. Supreme Court will issue a ruling that could eliminate grace periods across the country.

The new CBS News.

Could local officials block ICE from building more detention facilities? How could one find out if one’s local police department is cooperating with ICE? You asked, we answered nine questions on how localities are responding to ICE.

🧵 Fox got caught doing something genuinely stomach-turning this morning. 1/8

This is an incredible thread. The U.S. apparently targeted an Iranian desalination plant. So much talk of and focus on oil. But water is the truly critical commodity in the Gulf region.

The whole “Mar-a-Lago look” thing is really getting out of hand.

By the looks of it, something must have changed starting in 2025. I’m going to do some Googling, to see if I can figure out what might have happened.

Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say. Gift link:

I hear it’s because of Hunter Biden’s laptop. Many people are saying that.

Admittedly, I am not a medical professional, so I hesitate to second guess trained doctors. But, you know, I’m starting to think that maybe the White House physicians who say Trump is the healthiest person to have ever held the office, may not be telling us the truth. Just a hunch.

Tomorrow, voters will decide the first state supreme court election of 2026; pivotal primaries for Congress; DA races defined by criminal justice reform; and a lot more—our guide walks you through the key races to watch.

Yet Congress doesn’t care. Including Dems like Mark Kelly, who today said he was unlikely to support a war powers act. He, the rest of the Vichy Democrats, and the entire GOP have abdicated perhaps the most solemn and important responsibility they have in our Constitutional system. It’s obscene.

Good that @gallego.senate.gov is speaking out against Trump’s war on Iran. But it was only 7 weeks ago that he voted to confirm Trump’s pick, Keith Bass, to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense. He has also voted to confirm nearly half of Trump’s cabinet. What will he do vs say if there is a vote?

A curtained-off corner of Mar-a-Lago’s dining room: the obvious choice for directing military war operations. “Oops. Sorry for interrupting. I thought the waffle station was in here.”

Cornyn: "I don't know what the, what's, uh, I'm learning like you are as the news unfolds exactly what's happening" A GOP senator, who has been in office nearly a quarter of a century, and who who sits on the Select Committee on Intelligence and on the Committee on Foreign Relations.

Remind me again, why do we have a Congress?

It’s beyond insane.

I’m starting to think we might be safer with the AI robot weapons than we are with the addle-brained, lawless jugheads that currently run the U.S. military.

As a friend observed, Dr. Frankenstein looking at the monster he created.

Polls close at 8pm tonight in both Maine and Pennsylvania.

This is obscene on many levels. The taxpayer subsidized trip for Patel. Players celebrating with him in the room. To borrow from what I believe is an old German saying: "If there’s a Nazi at the table and 10 other people sitting there partying with him, you’ve got yourself a table with 11 Nazis."

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated) My new piece is up with lots of info about the SAVE America Act - the version of the SAVE Act that passed the House and is before the Senate this week. This is a MUST READ and then ACT. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

The County Council of Baltimore adopted a bill this past week that prohibits the construction of any new ICE detention centers inside the county. Here is the emergency zoning act, should anyone want to use the language for your own jurisdiction. countycouncilweb.s3.amazonaws.com/Bills%202026...

WSJ: “It isn’t clear why the people of Greenland need the hospital ship. Greenland’s government provides free healthcare to the population. The White House didn’t respond to a request for more information.”

Very important reporting.

Federal power depends on local cooperation. ICE's 287(g) program turned 130 local agencies into immigration enforcers. Now it's 1,300. Local officials chose that. They can choose differently. So can voters. h/t to @boltsmag.org for the essential local reporting behind this call to action.

When a leader puts his face on government buildings, history tells us exactly where it leads. New Resistance Manual post on Trump's DOJ banner, how it is a page from the authoritarian playbook, and some things you can do about it.

The portrait is the warning. It always has been. We just keep needing to be reminded.

State supreme courts are a battlefield for pressing issues, from abortion rights to ballot access. But do you know how your court works? Our guide breaks down the structure and procedures of every single state’s highest court.

Sitting GOP representative in Florida. Donald Trump: "Randy Fine has my Complete and Total Endorsement. This is the Republican Party. If you have an R after your name, this is what you stand for.

Said with all the fire and ferocity of Susan Collins. The fact that he occasionally pops out of Martha’s Vineyard to do these podcasts and paid appearances at closed door events isn’t leadership. He has platform and voice that could be meaningful. Lead, or just go away, man. FFS.

This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

Read this. Every word. Trump, his people and his supporters are sadistic monsters. They are putting children in concentration camps, and gleeful about the pain and suffering they are inflicting. They find joy in hurting kids. It’s obscene. This has to end. Speak up. Keep protesting. Don’t relent.

“we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting” This should send a chill down the spine of every person who believes in democracy.

We once believed the US military would refuse unlawful orders and stay outside partisan politics. That certainty is fading. Extrajudicial killings, threats to allies, talk of using troops in U.S. cities, suing ex-military who urge current members to follow the law – makes the unthinkable thinkable.

This is why local elections matter more than ever. It’s really the last bulwark protecting us from a corrupt federal government. Get involved in your community. Support local news organizations. Follow @taniel.bsky.social and @boltsmag.org and other outlets that are focusing on local news.

Sadists. The entire Trump administration.

🧵 I appreciate much in the quoted thread, and I think @chrislhayes.bsky.social and @bencollins.bsky.social have some good discussion and make good points. I'll also note that @masnick.com is someone I think routinely does good, thoughtful writing on the subject of AI. A few thoughts...

The NFL has plenty of problems, but staging a Spanish-language halftime show with Latin superstars proves they get one thing the MAGA crowd doesn’t: demographics don’t lie. They’re reading the room on where America, and their audience, is headed.

@aselrod.bsky.social Alan Elrod is a very good writer, and this essay makes an important point about art, empathy, and the authoritarian impulse to diminish both. Worth your time. Follow him and subscribe to Liberal Currents.

A responsible White House press corps might follow-up on this incredulous claim, and demand to know how an unnamed staffer could impersonate the President and post content to his official, personal social media account – without any apparent checks in place. And ask the name of the alleged staffer.

What is happening at the local and state levels is more important now than ever. Local governments will be the bulwark that protects democracy. @taniel.bsky.social and the team at @boltsmag.org are doing super important reporting. You should follow both.

It doesn’t have to be like this. We all need to keep working to stop this insanity.

Refugees International has a devastating report on what Trump's gutting of USAID has done. www.refugeesinternational.org/reports-brie...