Hey @masnick.com , I don't suppose...

Someone make it make sense. These stories were literally back-to-back.

#USDemocracy #MomSky Virginia redistricting election: 🔴 GOP wants you to vote no. 🔵 Dems want you to vote yes. Each party has a similarly-named website dedicated to the redistricting election... with only one difference: • Republicans' site ends in .org • Democrats' site ends in .com (see below)

Aid or encourage no vaccines?

VERMONT Peter Welch's phone numbers: DC: 202-224-4242 If you can't get through or leave a message on the DC number ⬇️ Burlington: 802-863-2525

Hate to break it to you guys, but Kristi Noem was not *fired.* Instead, they “transferred” her a “special new role” as “special envoy for The Shield of the Americas,” which is totally a “real position” with “important responsibilities.” It’s 100% not a made up nepo baby job 😉

BREAKING NYT: Lindsey Halligan, the ex-U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia who brought criminal cases against Trump's enemies over the objections of career prosecutors, is under investigation by Florida's bar association, according to a letter the organization sent last month.

Trump's DHS pick, y'all. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mul...

Yeah, this clip will certainly be shown as evidence at the trials.

James Talarico speaks for the first time since clinching the Democratic nomination for his Senate race in Texas. “One thing is clear today: we’re about to take back Texas,” says Talarico.

And he’s a serial killer.

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/b...

Trump demolished more than one wing of the WH. He added $12.5T to US debt in one term; this is large scale demolition of our entire economy with multi-pronged approach. Meanwhile, we're not being governed. We're being looted. Even an enemy could not have done it better. #TrumpsWarOnOurEconomy

Voltaire called it centuries ago — empty words fill the loudest mouths. #WordSalad In the meantime, Collins and company greenlight dragging the US into war with Iran with zero justification or plan. The pearls must be choking her. 🤯

We are entering a new planting and cropping season with far fewer farm workers. Farm jobs' minimum wage and working conditions are not palatable to Americans. Increasing gas prices from war and tariffs are going to make prices spike. Expect food prices to go even higher. #TrumpsWarOnOurEconomy

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Kelly: "You could pick a random group of people off the street tonight here in DC and they could probably do a better job than our government is doing right now. They don't have a goal, there's no strategic plan. And what this is likely to lead to is, again, a long war with a lot of dead Americans."

This certainly bring back memories. Many foreign embassies and companies moved to be near the US Embassy in Baghdad thinking that it would be safer there. BIG mistake. The US Embassy was the target of 500+ missiles a year while I served there. Many 'missed' and decimated the Embassy's neighbors.

jesse singal suggesting that someone else has a professional stake in this is wild since it's the only story he's written in a decade

The Republican’s farm bill ignores the Big Ugly Bill’s $187 billion cut to SNAP. In California alone, over half a million people could lose critical food assistance. That’s absolutely unacceptable.

I spoke with two ICE watchers who lost their Global Entry after brushes with federal agents. Now an internal memo shows Customs and Border Protection is evaluating cases where people's Global Entry could be revoked based on "encounters" with its officers. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-wa...

Behind Rakhi Israni's empty rhetoric is a record of cutting checks to far-right extremists. Israni claims she’s running as a Democrat when she’s really running as a fraud.

New from 404 Media: the FBI is using AI to hack targets. FBI official was talking about "remote access operations," FBI's term for hacking. FBI said it's a "game changer". The comments were unusually candid about FBI's very secretive hacking operations. www.404media.co/the-fbi-is-u...

So... A friend was supposed to give a PURELY SCIENTIFIC talk at NIH within the next couple of weeks and it was cancelled because of a "new process" where all speakers/talks have to be CLEARED BY A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.

Mississippi’s Black voters recently won a victory that puts them on the brink of having greater sway over who sits on the state’s Supreme Court. But that win may be short-lived due to a pending decision from the U.S. Supreme Court that may roll back the Voting Rights Act.

Men are too irrational to be commander in chief.

Gov Newsom (D-CA) has #TrumpsWarOnOurEconomy pegged, Trump is NOT a builder he’s a destroyer. He has wrecked our economy, made us not trust in our Democracy, trampled on our institutions, demolished the east wing of the White House, and broken up our alliances. Dude gotta go‼️

holy hell, what *could* possibly go wrong?

This is what happens when the Secretary of HHS is a guy who snorts cocaine off of a toilet seat

Supreme Court on substantive due process rights: Right to abortion: NO Right of conservative parents to object to school policies affecting transgender children: YES Right of liberal parents to object to state policies restricting gender-affirming care for trans kids: PASS

Many of the scientists Jeffrey Epstein courted were already well-established and well-funded. So why didn’t they all just say no? Science talked with three who did just that. Here’s how Epstein approached them, and why they refused to have anything to do with him. ⬇️ https://scim.ag/40qbXnv

'UNIMAGINABLE CRUELTY': Judge Gary Brown, a Trump appointeee from NY, thrashes DHS' treatment of a man who came to the US at 9 as an abuse/neglect victim, has no criminal record and became a college grad. "The laws of decency condemn such villainy." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Supreme Court's eagerness - and willingness - to just do what they want (especially on the shadow docket), notwithstanding normal legal processes & their own jurisdiction continues to be revealing. (As does Sam Alito's manipulation/misrepresentation of the facts.)

Warnings to citizens to evacuate 3 days into this war, when airspace is closed, is a clear sign of ZERO strategy and planning by the Trump admin. Now Americans have limited options to evacuate at an extremely dangerous moment with no government assistance. This admin is failing its citizens.

Yesterday, the state of Utah banned four more books, bringing the number of state-sanctioned book bans to 27. These have to be removed from every public library. bookriot.com/utah-bans-fo...

Internal documents reviewed by The Washington Post reveal the Trump administration's sweeping effort to scrub America's parks of inconvenient truths, from slavery to civil rights to climate science.

BREAKING: Trump has nominated Bradford P. Wilson, of the conservative, anti-LGBTQ+ and Opus Dei-tied Witherspoon Institute and the charter school organization Great Hearts Institute (and formerly Exec Director of Princeton's James Madison Program) to be Archivist of the United States. 🧵

North Carolinans you've got one job tomorrow!!!

Warning 🚨 Violence & brutality ⚠️ The violence we are seeing by LE is terrifying & a violation of our 1st Amendment rights! There's just no reason for this kind of savagery against these peaceful protesters. When you see this attack, ask yourself what if this were your loved one? 🧵

We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib

UPDATE: DOJ files its motion to dismiss the law firm EO case appeals. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

As I explain via the latest “One First,” the only theme that unites the Supreme Court’s (unrelated) grants of emergency relief Monday night in the California transgender student and New York redistricting cases is what might be called “selective judicial impatience.” And that’s *not* a good thing:

Patel "targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran" days before the US attacked Iran. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

4. Sotomayor says that by weighing in on a "nonfinal decision of a state trial court," the U.S. Supreme Court "thrusts itself into the middle of every election-law dispute around the country, even as many States redraw their congressional maps ahead of the 2026 election"

3. In a dissenting opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, who is joined by Justice Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, says that the Supreme Court's "101-word unexplained order can be summarized in just 7: 'Rules for thee, but not for me.' " www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

of course

This election is about more than a change of government, it’s about a change of system (rendszerváltás). The Hungarian term is exactly that used to describe the change of system that took place in 1989 when communism collapsed.

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

In a first for state supreme court elections, interest groups outspent candidates. Not coincidentally, 30% of TV ads mentioned abortion, up from 3% in 2020. More in our new report: bit.ly/4b7GIn7

Four Americans dead, and he's talking about his f$&%ing gilded ballroom.