They closed the vote WHILE CONGRESS REPS WERE PRESENT WAITING TO VOTE

BREAKING on MS NOW: Jack Smith, in his opening statement to House Judiciary, says: "Our investigation developed proof beyond a reasonable doubt that President Trump engaged in a criminal scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and to prevent the lawful transfer of power."

He made it! Happy 100th birthday to Dick Van Dyke!!

So I don't think this is actually the dynamic. I think the dynamic is "I'm afraid that the actions of the two Muslim shooters will be used to tar all Muslims, so I'm prophylactically mentioning the 'good Muslim' in this story to avoid that" Which is its own kind of problem but not one about Jews

“We are here, we’re working around the clock to support our communities. This is a very challenging time, but we will get through it,” Zahilay said. www.kiro7.com/news/local/w...

The little orange bars on the right are what Trump is calling “the greatest economy in history.”

New travel bans imposed by the U.S. government on Tuesday threaten to exclude fans of African nations Senegal and Ivory Coast from attending the FIFA World Cup in 2026. Full story from @adamcrafton.bsky.social ⬇️ 🔗 www.nytimes.com/athletic/689...

This is what the elites who installed Trump did it for. Not the only reason, but the main one. This is the explicit outcome they were trying to engineer.

Please read every word of this article, and please pass it on. We need to understand the day to day reality of what’s happening, and know how to help. It is no exaggeration to say that the United States is under occupation, and we are in the beginning stages of another Underground Railroad.

The two students killed by a gunman at Brown University in Rhode Island on Saturday were identified as MukhammadAziz Umurzokov and Ella Cook. Umurzokov was interested in becoming a neurosurgeon to help children and Cook was an accomplished piano player. nyti.ms/48XQtls

I'm going to do my best to alt text this because holy crap, everyone should know.

"in the media, in education, in the professions, there is, as in the US, a strong liberal bias across the board. So it’s very easy to mobilize a populist anti PMC, anti professional managerial class kind of coalition." Tooze hängt an diesem Narrativ, das mit der Realität nichts zu tun hat. Ignore.

You do great work, likely at great personal risk. You deserve credit. Well done!

Cc: @cnn.com @maddow.bsky.social @maddowblog.bsky.social

So if you are going to share, I'd appreciate it if you would share the original report. 4/4 www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Ford: I’ve talked to so many people, and I tell them: don’t let this guy, Trump, ruin your life. Maybe some families have gone to Florida their whole lives—go to Florida, that’s great. But I encourage people to stay here and support local tourism. You can’t let one tyrant change your life.

Congratulations. I hope other judges do this.

Fighting back matters. Defeatists are pathetic.

If you showed this report to the average American ten years ago, with the time and location changed to match any one of a number of atrocities, many of us would have been tempted to tell ourselves we would have done everything we could to stop it had we been alive. Yet here we are, alive.

As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing

CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

Does anybody even *aim* for the ‘perfect’ Christmas dinner? I look at Christmas Day the way some people – including me, to an extent - look at political theory – it’s about about avoiding great harms or catastrophes, not attaining perfection or bliss

Just one of the people training law enforcement in this country. Nothing to worry about, I am sure.

This afternoon I held a press conference on a serious and fast moving situation in South King County. Around 11:30 am, the Desimone Levee on the Green River was breached, causing flooding near Olympic Ave South in Tukwila behind Rainier Industries.

there's just something so bleak about the fact that the seemingly apolitical murder of two elderly people by their profoundly ill son becomes a political football before the bodies are even cold

My office and a bipartisan coalition are suing Uber for misleading customers and making it difficult to cancel Uber One subscriptions. Unwanted subscriptions are driving up costs for New Yorkers. We're suing to stop Uber’s misleading tactics and get people their money back.

NEW JERSEY — bonkers… the husband of an ICE agent uses her marked car to pretend to be Homeland Security and respond to a call HE MADE HIMSELF… with a gun and sirens and everything.

NEW: The Trump administration's new National Security Strategy is worse than you may have heard. It turns Trump's racism, corruption, and appeasement into official US policy. For my OUR LAND newsletter, I gave it a read so you don't have to. link.motherjones.com/public/43021...

Thank you to the 18,000 people who make up our King County workforce, especially those who have dedicated decades of their lives to public service. Yesterday I had the privilege of recognizing our long serving employees with service awards.

I’m running for Congress because we need leaders who will fight, not fold. I recognize this moment, and I’m ready to meet it. #FightDontFold #LanderForNYC #LanderForCongress

PIIE: “.. If tariffs stay at current levels, they will impose an annual tax increase of $1,700 for an average household .. the largest tax increase on US households since 1982 as a share of GDP ..” www.piie.com/commentary/t...

youtu.be/mQwRnGRoMgA?... this particular Tennessee news station is more consistent about monitoring hate groups than most of the US government.

More than that, his crew threatened to open fire on the murderers. He rescued civilians, returned to base to refuel, flew back, and rescued more civilians. Then he denounced the crimes to his HQ. For all this he received death-threats throughout his life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....

People shy away from these comparisons to Nazi Germany because it feels uncomfortable, and because we were taught (rightfully) that such comparisons are *usually* bad and hyperbolic. This time they are not. Ignoring the OBVIOUS parallels is plain stupidity at this point.

Six Justices are now engaged in a clearly anti intellectual, anti logical exercise, all in the service of a wannabe authoritarian. This is what German courts did in the 1930s. What happened there is well documented, and this is what is happening here...

There is no such thing as a “reasonable Republican” and I will instinctively recoil against any person or organization that suggests otherwise.

Inspired by an exchange here yesterday, I wrote up a short piece at CAMPAIGN TRAILS about an infamous Lee Atwater quotation that just about everyone gets wrong.

There are a lot of obscene things about this story, but the fact that there is a GoFundMe for this baby rather than millions of dollars dedicated to his lifelong care by the state of Georgia is right up there at the top. The state forced this child to be born into a life of pain and procedures.

He was brilliant. What a loss.

Impeach. Now.

GEORGE WILL: “.. The killing of the survivors by this moral slum of an administration should nauseate Americans. A nation incapable of shame is dangerous, not least to itself.” @postopinions.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

This story sums up Trump: No need for evidence. No need for laws or treaties. No need for discussions. If Trump decides (based upon whatever random information or maybe just heartburn) that someone is in the wrong, he believes he has the right to kill them. The US is now a rogue nation.

WAPO EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. This suit confirms that American businesses pay American tariffs. .. And Costco’s suit is one of many that will be filed as the .. businesses robbed by the president seek their just recompense.” @postopinions.bsky.social $COST www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

From Gavin Newsom's press office: “We’ll simply note that Governor Newsom completes full workdays without falling asleep in meetings, does not require ‘executive time’ to lie down and watch TV during work hours, and is able to stand upright without looking like the Leaning Tower of Pisa.”

Riding on a smile and a shoeshine. 💕 www.broadway.com/buzz/197672/...

"Make America Great Again", AKA Destroy America For Tyrants (DAFT) as it turns out, they're not even american at all !!!

Big congratulations to our new King County Executive, @girmayzahilay.bsky.social! I’m so looking forward to your leadership and our work together to tackle the affordability crisis and deliver results for the people of our region. An exciting day. #thisisyourcity

People should keep this in mind—not that bots are some kind of instigator of hate (people do that all on their own—we are a cruel species) but that the right wing is so intellectually inept it can be recreated by bots. As long as we don’t know how many bots there are, you should not argue