I’ll be debating Michael Knowles of the Daily Wire at Dartmouth College tonight, live at 7pm ET, on whether Trump is upholding constitutional norms. You can watch the livestream here in less than two hours - NEW LINK: youtube.com/live/a9upes9RlQ8?feature=share

“We should be working to abolish ICE.” California gubernatorial candidate @tomsteyerhq.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social his plan to hold ICE agents accountable for breaking the law in his state. Watch the full interview — zeteo.com/p/tom-steyer...

Palestinian photographer Saher Alghorra was awarded the 2026 Pulitzer Prize in breaking news photography for documenting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. His photos are worth seeing, so here’s a gift link:

"Trump Is Only Pretending to ‘Fight’ Antisemitism" This administration will happily lie about how its ‘combating antisemitism,’ even as it shuts down programs that fight antisemitism. Meanwhile, the president’s poll numbers sink even lower. Today's 'First Draft' morning newsletter from Zeteo:

“Trump is lying. The Iran war is not over by any legal or physical standard.” Former defense intel analyst @harrisonmann.bsky.social writes about the War Powers Resolution and why Trump is declaring an end to a war which is far from over. zeteo.com/p/iran-war-w...

"Don’t Listen to Trump: His Iran War Still Isn’t Over and Still Isn’t Legal" The president is claiming the war is ‘terminated’ to avoid violating a bad-faith interpretation of a law he says he doesn’t need to follow, ex-defense intel analyst Harrison Mann writes for Zeteo:

Israel must release Zeteo contributor Alex Colston and the rest of the flotilla activists and crew. This is piracy:

"Why did you give Netanyahu a pass on what pretty much every expert now says is a genocide in Gaza?" From my exclusive interview with ICC chief prosecutor Karim Khan, who asked for arrest warrants for Netanyahu for war crimes & crime against humanity. zeteo.com/p/karim-khan...

Source: zeteo.com/p/trump-want...

REPORT: “Since last year…President Trump has repeatedly told multiple senior administration officials that the American intelligence community should spy more on our allies, including on governments that are part of NATO and Western Europe.” America will soon be friendless.

So Sen. Lindsey Graham did tell Karim Khan that the ICC is "is for Africa and thugs like Putin, it is not for democracies like Israel and the United States." Watch the ICC chief prosecutor's full and exclusive interview with me: zeteo.com/p/karim-khan...

From @justinbaragona.bsky.social's fascinating and in-depth profile of CBS anchor and Bari Weiss favorite Tony Dokoupil: zeteo.com/p/how-tony-d...

"I cooperated with the process and the process exonerated me." In a world exclusive, ICC chief prosecutor gives me and Zeteo his first interview on the sexual misconduct allegations against him and the ICC arrest warrants he requested against Netanyahu. Full interview: zeteo.com/p/karim-khan...

If the Democrats don't make rebalancing and expanding the Supreme Court a top priority for whenever (if?) they next get into power, then I don't know what to say anymore. The GOP-packed court is the biggest block on progress in this country and has been for a while.

"Ruling that renders Section 2 of the VRA essentially dead but still requires it to be dismantled piecemeal across multiple protracted legislative/judicial maneuvers instead of just one sweeping overturn" was unfortunately probably the best case scenario for a 6-3 Alito opinion.

It's been pointed out before, but worth repeating - USAid cuts were about the same figure.

First Draft: In the Court of Kim Jong Trump Not content with renaming landmarks and airports and signing money, the president wants to put his face in your passport. Read today's 'First Draft' by @andrewperez.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/in-the-cou...

“It is understandable that some progressives, who are rightly eager to end America’s support for Israel’s human rights abuses, might be tempted to see figures like Mr. Carlson as allies. But the struggle for Palestinian freedom should not indulge bigotry of any kind.” - Peter Beinart

We live in a world where Trump can post this, but James Comey apparently gets indicted for laying out some seashells saying 8647 and then apologizing and deleting the image.

“If someone tells you it’s raining outside and someone else tells you it’s not… the job of a journalist is to look outside the f***ing window and check if it's raining.” My speech at Zeteo’s two-year anniversary party about the the failure of corporate media and the need to speak truth to power:

"How Tony Dokoupil Became the Face of ‘Zionist Fanatic’ Bari Weiss’s CBS" Based on interviews with nearly a dozen sources, Justin Baragona dives deep into the controversial and high-profile anchor’s approach to journalism, Trump, Israel, and the fallout in the CBS newsroom.

First Draft: Fascists Want Comedian Fired Donald and Melania are trying to get Jimmy Kimmel fired, again, for mocking Trump's age and health. Read today's 'First Draft' by @andrewperez.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/fascists-w...

“If someone tells you it’s raining outside & someone else tells you it’s not… the job of a journalist is to look outside the f***ing window.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social gives a speech at Zeteo’s two-year anniversary party on the the importance of speaking truth to power. Watch: youtu.be/Msrpf4TpiN0

"AIPAC is notorious for... hiding the fact they're spending the money. Guess what other industry also does that." From the new 'We're Not Kidding', @benmckenzie.bsky.social explains to @mehdirhasan.bsky.social why he's supporting Brad Lander for Congress. Watch here: zeteo.com/p/ben-mckenz...

Cesar Sayoc, a Trump super fan & obsessive Fox viewer, sent pipe bombs in 2018 to Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, & many other top Dems. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In the wake of the attacks, Trump said about his rhetoric: "Tone down, no. Could tone up."

"Enemy from within." "Communists, Marxists, fascists, radical left thugs, vermin." "Garbage" Somalis, "low IQ people." "She's an evil, sick, crazy, b..." Republicans want the left to tone down the rhetoric. Erm, have they listened to Donald Trump?? Zeteo put together this Trump montage:

Trump says ‘I’m not a rapist, I didn’t rape anybody’ and Norah O’Donnell doesn’t mention the E Jean Carroll case or the jury finding him liable for sexual abuse or the judge saying it could be said Trump did ‘rape’ her in the ‘commonly’ understood sense: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

The media lives for opportunities to say “Democrats should be nicer to Trump.” They want to exist in the permanent state of “both sides” and are uncomfortable with straight reporting on Trump being a dementia-addled, incoherent, narcissistic fascist.

“First of all, I have a bad back. I couldn’t get on the floor, and if I did get on the floor, they’d have to bring in people to get me off the floor. And No. 2, I’m a hygiene freak. There was no freaking way I was getting in my new tux on the dirty Hilton floor.” www.nytimes.com/2026/04/26/u...

“There is no reason to don a tuxedo and celebrate this racist wannabe tyrant. There is nothing to be gained by showing up to the dinner with the hopes of offering any small act of protest. Members of the industry should skip the event instead” - from Zeteo

Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.

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“You care about Gaza, but you don't care about anything else.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @naomiaklein.bsky.social discuss people who are progressive only when it comes to Palestine, but support mass deportations at home. Watch: zeteo.com/p/naomi-klei...

“Do a lot of my colleagues have affairs? Yes. Is that an open secret? Yes. That is different than... alleged assault.”   @sarajacobs.house.gov tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that Capitol Hill has a culture of mistreating young women. Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/sudan-war-...

Why Zeteo Won’t Be at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner With Trump As the rest of the media parties with Donald Trump, you can support our work and help us keep standing up to the president. Read more: zeteo.com/p/trump-whit...

"Find yourself someone who looks at you the way Donald Trump looks at Zohran Mamdani." It was both a privilege and lots of fun to introduce Mayor Zohran Mamdani at Zeteo's 2nd birthday party in New York on Wednesday night. Watch his brief and inspiring remarks to us below:

🔗: zeteo.com/p/tomorrow-c...

“Thank you [Zeteo] for all the work that you do.” It’s not every day the mayor of New York shows up to your birthday party — but @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social joined us this week as we marked two years of Zeteo. Here's his reminder of why independent journalism matters. Subscribe at zeteo.com.

"The Truth Behind That Tucker Carlson Apology Video" Zeteo's @justinbaragona.bsky.social watched the entire two-hour Tucker Carlson interview with his brother – and it wasn't pretty. You do not, under any circumstances, got to hand it to Tucker Carlson, he writes.

BREAKING: Kuwait Acquits Prominent Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin. The Kuwaiti-American journalist, who has spent 52 days in a Kuwait prison, is expected to be released imminently.

"So that’s what I’m trying to achieve, to let 1,000 Zohrans bloom.” Hasan Piker to Prem Thakker for Prem's big Zeteo profile of Piker. zeteo.com/p/hasan-pike...

"A Palestinian School Day Ended With Israeli Settlers’ Gunfire. A Boy Was Killed, Just as His Father Was 7 Years Ago" Zeteo speaks to witnesses after Israeli settlers kill a 14-year-old Palestinian boy and a 32-year-old man in an attack on a boys school in the occupied West Bank.

“Inside the Heart and Mind of Hasan Piker” Prem Thakker traveled to LA to go beyond the media outrage and talk directly with the Twitch streamer and prominent leftist about religion, politics, war… and whether he’d go on Tucker Carlson’s show. #mustread

🥳⭐️ WE JUST WON A WEBBY AWARD! Our podcast ‘We’re Not Kidding’ with @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @markruffalo.bsky.social just won the ‘People’s Voice Award.’ Thank you to everyone who voted for us and for supporting unfiltered journalism. Watch the award-winning episode: zeteo.com/p/exclusive-...

"Trump Is Making Republicans Wet Their Beds" The president's war in Iran & mass deportation campaign are having major - & negative - political consequences. Plus, his outgoing labor secretary discovers you can in fact have too many scandals. Today's First Draft morning newsletter:

From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways. Read my latest piece in Zeteo about how big tech is powering Israel’s AI war machine 👇

"9 People Trump Once LOVED But Now Pretends He Always Hated" Zeteo has compiled a list of the president’s most dramatic fallings-out and the praise he'd probably like everyone to forget. But we kept receipts.

“[Hind Rajab] was pleading, and her family, and they just got machine gunned to death. I mean, this is horrifying.” @mehdirhasan.bsky.social and @senpeterwelch.govpeeps.us discuss the murder of Hind Rajab, a 5-year-old in Gaza, by the Israeli military. Watch here: zeteo.com/p/aipac-is-t...

“The ‘Peace President’ Threatens an Apocalypse on Iran. AGAIN” Another day, another set of gleeful promises of war crimes from the White House. Plus, Donald Trump's approval rating hits a new low. @swin24.bsky.social with ‘First Draft’ from Zeteo:

EXCLUSIVE: "UK surveillance flights over Gaza were conducted with more US involvement than previously known, Federal Aviation Administration documents obtained by Zeteo reveal... [and] put the countries at risk of aiding and abetting war crimes, international legal experts told Zeteo."