Peace envoy by day & Billionaire fundraiser by night Kushner is doing both — Seeking $5B for his private fund while negotiating on behalf of the US govt w/ the same Gulf countries We @democracydefendersfund.org filed a legal complaint sounding the alarm @briefingwithpsaki.bsky.social👇 -TN

Hard to win a war when your business model is selling your own war plans. www.offmessage.net/p/expose-all...

i said last year that these people were segregationists and that “merit” just meant “white and male” to these people

Trump has spent the last 3 days talking about negotiations with Iran that Iran says is not happening. We know Iran rejected a ceasefire proposal out of hand We have not seen 8 oil tankers coming through the Strait, even though he claimed they did. It’s nuts

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

1/ It's not just that unilaterally paying TSA agents is illegal. It's that Trump has now repeatedly undermined the core of the congressional power of the purse. He's not spending money that has been appropriated by law (impoundments) and he's spending money that has not been appropriated.

A chilling story leading the Minneapolis Star Tribune this morning this morning. ICE agents followed, Minnesota democratic lawmakers who had been critical of ICE in the state, stopping multiple times to take pictures of their houses. This is what a police state does.

This is what happens when a president relies on his inexperienced, ethically compromised son‑in‑law, a real‑estate investor with reported back‑channel ties to Israeli intel, and a vocal Putin sympathizer to handle extremely sensitive peace negotiations instead of using professional career diplomats.

Jaw-dropping admission by DOJ to court. DOJ admits to having repeatedly made "material mistaken" representations to judge - ICE never had authority (under 2025 Guidance) to conduct arrests at immigration courthouses! DOJ admits court "relied on...prior misrepresentations." DOJ blames ICE (page 2)

The decision to not proceed with such attacks must be based on the USA’s obligations under international humanitarian law to avoid civilian harm - not the outcome of political negotiations ⬇️

7 years ago, we learned about Bob Mueller’s conclusions. Today, there are a lot of posts on social media claiming it was a farce, or worse, a fraud. But those posts are disinformation. Here is the actual information, with links for those who want to do a deep dive. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Trump heralds a breakthrough in talks with Iran. Iran says there have been no talks. The Iranians appear to be correct. So what explains Trump's drama queen behavior? Market manipulations. Someone with White House connections is playing the markets and making a mint. www.ft.com/content/06db...

A lot of people in Trump’s circle getting very, very rich folks.

NEW: Trump Has Detained the Parents of More Than 11,000 U.S. Citizen Kids A ProPublica analysis of new ICE data shows that Trump has detained parents of U.S. citizen children at about twice the rate that Biden did, and moms have been deported four times as often.

Americans opposing concentration camps. We are deciding now whether we want to be a country with concentration camps and ethnic cleansing.

The US President casually announcing his intention to commit war crimes on social media. That's where you're at, America.

These fucking idiots.

NEW: “This will be so, so, so, so, so bad,” says one analyst, who compares the situation to "if gravity just stopped working." @mollytaft.com has more!

Off the record at the UN, a pattern keeps emerging: • concern over what the US is saying and doing • surprise at how many are eager to align with anti–women’s rights positions • confusion over the lack of visible domestic pushback There’s more beneath the surface.

No more excuses for funding social programs.

An immigration judge has ended asylum claims for Liam Conejo Ramos and his family and ordered their removal. Their lawyer says an appeal is underway.

NEW: ICE detained DACA recipient Juan Chavez Velasco 12 days after his youngest child was born prematurely. The father of 3 U.S. citizen kids was driving to deliver milk to her in NICU "I never got to hold her" Juan told me, sharing his story for first time w/ @ms.now www.ms.now/news/ice-det...

1/2. He took the greatest military force in history, lost a war to a middle power in a week, begged the world to save him, & demanded the media lie about this & everything else. I try, but at a simple human level I do not see how anyone mistakes this man’s almost supernatural weakness for strength.

I like leaders who are not authoritarian thugs. I believe in FREE and FAIR elections. Pass it on.

Making the USA more like Russia everyday. Trump, Moscow's mule.

The White House & the Capitol were designed in a deliberately straightforward & non-ornate style—in sync w/the rejection of the pomp of monarchies. People sometimes specified “plain style.” It was supposed to be a tribute to NOT being a monarchy. A vital political statement. And now…here we are.

To be clear: the SAVE Act does not simply require the identification voting ALREADY requires. It demands proof of CITIZENSHIP— a birth certificate with a name that matches yours now (bye, bye, married women), or a passport— both of which are expensive and take a long time to obtain.

"if we don't rig the vote, we will lose the vote"

If you're still using TikTok, you're supporting and funding this...

Experts in international and U.S. domestic law told an inter-American human rights organization on Friday that the Pentagon’s campaign of blowing up boats it suspected of smuggling drugs in the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean was illegal.

Bank of America’s Harnett has said markets are looking like 2008.

1/2 This is crucially important point. 1) "No quarter" is indeed specifically war-crime term 2) Under Geneva Conventions, after sinking an enemy ship, the attackers must "take all positive measures" to find and rescue any survivors. Text in next post No evidence US sub did so after attack, AFAIK

It’s not just the death of expertise, as Tom Nichols wrote, it’s the rise of utter, destructive morons

No notes.

Two oil tankers have been hit by Iran in the strait of Hormuz.

More and more, Trump is making US institutions behave like Putin’s Russian versions. This was an immediate military coverup of something that should have been admitted: More and more rot.

NEW: Arizona's attorney general confirmed ICE is looking into the state’s 2020 election results “based on nothing but conspiracy theories.” The investigation comes as the FBI also probes Maricopa County’s election results, which Trump falsely claims he lost in 2020 due to “rampant voter fraud.”

If you are watching Trump's presser right now, you are seeing beyond reasonable doubt a person not mentally suited for any position of responsibility. Even running a small store. GOP members of the House and Senate: You are seeing this too.

Some judicial opinions have to be read in full, like the one I parse for you to night, from Judge Tunheim in Minneapolis. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

This seems less than ideal.

Oil up by $12 a barrel in less than 12 hours. Gas prices skyrocketing. Almost 100,000 jobs lost last month. Another war in the Middle East. Are we great again yet?

I wonder when MAGA world is going to wake up to the fact that not only did Trump never care about them and betray them at every turn but that as the malignant narcissist approaches death his incoherence and greed are only surpassed by the degree to which he now gives even less of a fuck about anyone

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Human Rights belong to all people. They are not handed out on the whims of Stephen Miller or anyone else. www.un.org/en/about-us/...

If human rights are limited to certain groups, they are not really human rights, are they?