⚡️Zelensky warns of 'critical' situation at Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant after weeklong outage. "And this is a threat to absolutely everyone. No terrorist in the world has ever dared to do to a nuclear plant what Russia is doing right now,” Volodymyr Zelensky said.

Congrats to Moldova!!! Russia threw everything to destabilize the election and failed spectacularly. Democracy won 🙌🏼

This deserves *way* more attention than it’s getting Reform’s former Wales leader admits he received corrupt payments in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament to promote Russia’s interests in #Ukraine.

Once again, stay away from the USA. It's not safe. And to think govenors are begging for us to return.

Medals for soldiers who shot unarmed women and children on their own land? No wonder you like Russia so much

Justice Sotomayor is crystal clear in dissent as to what's happening: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

Heads up, Washington folks. Print the order out and bring it with you in case the pharmacist needs convincing. I just made my booster appointment for Saturday at a Safeway pharmacy (RIP, Bartell) - lots of slots still available.

Breaking News: Saying the CDC has become “a political tool,” California, Oregon and Washington announced plans to form an alliance that would coordinate vaccine recommendations for the three states.

A plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the EU's executive arm, suffered from jamming of GPS navigation while flying over Bulgaria. The authorities believe that Russia was behind the operation, European officials said on Monday.

Paul Rothrock

Makes sense #SoundersFC

WE'VE DONE IT, SEATTLE! 🤩

I’m reading Chernov’s book - The Dreamtime. Excellent book.

🎥 Behind Zelensky, you can see Mstyslav Chernov, the director of Oscar-winning documentary "20 Days in Mariupol". 🇺🇦 He is currently working on a new documentary project about the peaceful way to end the war. Chernov also received permission to film in the Oval Office.

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump announces he will issue an unconstitutional and illegal executive order purporting to ban mail-in voting and certain voting equipment for the 2026 midterm election. Such an effort would violate the Constitution and is a major step to prevent free and fair elections.

Do nap in advance

someone wrote a book just for me

Whatever Trump tries to tell you, Pu saying that he agrees not to conquer places he has failed to conquer in exchange for receiving without fighting other places he cannot conquer is NOT a concession or compromise, it's a con. Use the right words.

I will share a more detailed response to AG Bondi on Tuesday. Washington state has no intention of changing our values in the face of threats from the Trump administration. The federal government’s relentless targeting of law-abiding immigrants is wrong.

Trump has no cards www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is a real AP photo

US army rolling the red carpet to murderer’s plane. I will never forget this image.

A U.S president warmly holding and patting the hand of a fascist dictator and war criminal. Grotesque.

It is reprehensible that Trump is bringing a war criminal terrorist to a U.S. military base. This is a slap in the face to our military and everything this country used to stand for.

The only way for Russia’s genocidal war to end is for Russia to get the fuck out of Ukraine—a sovereign country under an unprovoked invasion. Why is media not making that clear? Why is everyone legitimizing these talks, ceasefires, etc?

These murderers killed so many, bombed my family home, school I went to, even bombed my grandparents graveyard. And today they’ll be treated like royalty in a country I thought was the land of the free..and my safe place.

As Putin heads to Alaska with his maps and narratives, here's an essay I wrote last year about one of his spurious justifications for Russia's illegal war of aggression—his ideological story that Russia is an ancient state, and Ukraine is historically Russian land snyder.substack.com/p/putins-leg...

Grotesque

Authoritarian regimes are notorious for making people think what they perceive to be reality is not actually real. Sometimes this is called creating "unreality" sometimes "gas-lighting." It doesn't matter which label is used, the goal is the same: make people doubt what they see with their own eyes.

In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. (Published April)

at least tulips were real and colorful

Yay I found Americans that still give a fuck

This whole thread is worth looking through to get a better understanding of the fallout around the Polari Prize situation as authors continue to back out of the contest.

Really frustrating seeing journalists continue using “peace deal.” This is such an insult to Ukrainians. What “peace deal” implies is rewarding a terrorist state committing genocide and an illegal invasion by an aggressor.

Most people won’t notice as innovation stagnates. Movies, books, and songs will no longer feel electric and new. Cynicism and ridicule will slowly become the norm. Then one day people will notice that all new, exciting, sought-after (and of course black market) works of art are coming from abroad.

Every reputable expert I know considers mRNA vaccine technology to be one of the most revolutionary advances in medicine in our lifetimes. Its inventors won the Nobel Prize in 2023. Shutting it down now is pointless self-harm to humanity.

What the…Did I just see the most amazing goal ever? DE LA VEGA 😲 #CAZvSEA

Russian soldiers tortured a 3-year-old boy and forced him to watch them sexually assault and kill his mother during the occupation of Kherson.

Vlada Kharkova won gold in Tbilisi, becoming Ukraine’s new world fencing champion, the first in women’s epee since 2003.

Exclusive: The Justice Department told President Trump in May that his name is among many in the Epstein files.

If the (wildly popular) governor of Kentucky can say this with his whole chest then what excuse does the (wildly unpopular) governor of California have?

Remember the family from TX that moved to Russia for “traditional values”?

UPDATED: The woman at the center of my reporting speaks out. For the first time, she shares what it felt like to be denied prenatal care simply for being unmarried. wellsrachelm.substack.com/p/pregnant-w... #reprorights #reproductivehealth #tnleg

“I imagined, in my least cynical moments, that Russia would become more like America over the years, or at the least more habituated to pluralism and the rule of law. Of course, the very opposite happened. America is becoming Russia with every day.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

What an absolute dumbass