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A real photo of Kid Rock addressing service members at the Pentagon today. Nice summation of where things stand in the United States.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said that he and Kid Rock went "for a ride" Monday with US Army Apache helicopter pilots — less than a month after the military sparked criticism when Army pilots flew Apaches over the entertainer's Nashville-area home. https://cnn.it/4txG8G5

A federal appeals court ruled the Pentagon can require escorts for journalists inside the building while litigation over the Defense Department's restrictive press policy continues. https://cnn.it/48MpxGn

Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?

The Israeli government, like the Trump admin, is determined to turn every long-time ally into an adversary - something that will haunt both counties for decades.

Here’s Trump threatening violence, calling for his political enemies’ executions, celebrating the deaths of people he didn’t like, and otherwise casually promoting political violence. There was also the small matter of Jan. 6 and subsequent pardons for violent felons.

OVERNIGHT: Trump Admin files latest court motion in support of White House ballroom It reads like a Trump Truth Social post, with random capitalization, accusations the plaintiffs are "very bad for our country", suffer "Trump Derangement Syndrome", etc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Five wounded in two shootings in Athens, 89-year-old gunman at large reut.rs/48XrTC6

Some pretty crazy stuff that somehow didn’t make it on the air.

🇮🇱 Ex Mossad Chief Tamir Pardo on West Bank Settler Violence: "My mother is a Holocaust survivor, and what I saw here reminded me of the events of the previous century against the Jews. I feel ashamed.”

NEW: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.

the anti-trans to anti-neurodiversity pipeline continues to flow. it is obviously absurd anywhere, but it's so detached from reality in Ireland, where we have a massive backlog of children seeking autism diagnoses and no public provision of adult diagnosis at all

Just putting these out for no particular reason:

[Great work by by Queen's Park colleagues Colin and Isaac] Doug Ford regularly worked from home after ordering civil servants back to office globalnews.ca/news/1181649... #Onpoli

“People react to those kind of things.” Except, of course, for calling for the execution of political enemies, or calling them traitors, or saying they hate America, or that they eat dog and cats, or that they are destroying America. Nobody reacts to that.”

Morning. ☕ ICYMI: Every single one of Trump's nominees to lifetime federal judgeships has refused to say he lost in 2020 when asked directly by senators, using nearly identical + strangely worded characterizations of the election to avoid stating the facts. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

🤔“Push to extend 🇺🇸 benefits to IDF soldiers… introduced by Representatives Guy reschenthaler (R-PA) and Max Miller (R-OH), noted over 20,000 American citizens are currently defending Israel...” www.military.com/feature/2026...

It's been clear for a hot minute an anti-autism diagnosis campaign is in the works but I am truly stunned they are literally just going for the Detransitioner playbook

"Some donations to 2024 Tory leadership campaign allegedly originated from US businessman in breach of electoral rules"

1. A member of the U.S. Special Forces was just arrested for using classified info to turn a 400K profit on Polymarket. The company is CELEBRATING this scandal as evidence that "the system works." But Polymarket's story doesn't add up. Let's dig in. 🧵

Thinking right now about the guy who submitted my tweets about my rapist (a different guy!!!!!) to an organization and said that I was defaming him because the tweets were about him And apparently no one at the organization was like "now why does this guy think tweets about rape are about him"

Lol

To figure out why Cole Allen did what he did, I obtained a copy of his resume and talked to his former friends. The portrait that emerges is unlike what the White House is saying: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/assassin-w...

🚨BREAKING: A Virginia circuit court has refused to block the implementation of Democrats’ new congressional map, which voters approved in a statewide special election last week. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Age verification laws are based in magical thinking. Full stop. All legal considerations, privacy, and human rights concerns aside, there is simply no safe, reliable or practical way for social media companies to verify the age of every single user. Full stop. www.politico.eu/article/age-...

this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds

Do I hate this person, or am I just hungry?

Last night’s gunfire at the White House Correspondents Dinner is a scathing indictment of those who disagree with any number of my political opinions.

Trump: I'm going to destroy an entire civilization. We're going to keep killing people in boats. Senator Kelly should be executed. ICE protesters are domestic terrorists. Immigrants are vermin. Raskin: Donald Trump is bad for this country. Bash: Do you regret your heated rhetoric, Rep. Raskin?

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

MAGA accounts tweet in unison about the need for a White House ballroom following WHCD incident

I yearned to be a mother. Why did I feel nothing when my daughter was finally born?

In a huge moment in sports history, Sabastian Sawe smashed the men's world record by 65 seconds in winning the London Marathon in 1 hour, 59 minutes and 30 seconds on Sunday. n.pr/4vQBtk3

Fox's Aishah Hasnie’s call oddly gets cut right as she says Karoline Leavitt's husband leaned over right as the dinner was starting and told her: "You need to be very safe…”

Chillingly explicit blood and soil nationalism here

I found this really enlightening as to how Magyar was able to unseat Orban

City of Mississauga warns of fake parking QR codes

UK schoolboys’ fatal hike remembered in Black Forest 90 years on

Ontario hospitals announce job cuts, nearly three-quarters of hospitals in deficit

"In a bizarre proposal near the end of the report, the Justice Department suggested legislation that would allow prosecutors to “seek to impanel a new jury for a second penalty phase” if the first jury doesn’t reach a unanimous recommendation of a death sentence."

The first photo here is fake. A still from the same moment shows that Trump's head wasn't drooping like that. Also, he'd just adjusted his tie, which is why the guy two to the left of RFK is looking at him. Actual still at right. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ctx...

“You’re getting dressed up so you can attend a fancy party and take a selfie with Mike Johnson? But with your platform as a journalist, you could skip this event in the name of the First Amendment!” “But I don’t want to skip this event. I want to get dressed up and take a selfie with Mike Johnson.”

WASHINGTON (AP) - Appeals court says Trump's asylum ban at the border is illegal, agreeing with lower court.

In recent weeks, various alleged firefighters and home inspectors have been running fearmongering Facebook ads for carbon monoxide detectors sold by dubious websites. There are, however, multiple problems; for example, many of the pages running the ads are renamed accounts with AI-generated avatars.

Lawmakers who have taken 9.5 million in donations from Big Oil now have a bill to shield the industry from climate laws & lawsuits nationwide. Here's what the bill could do, including preventing states from regulating emissions at all. with @levernews.com www.exxonknews.org/p/this-new-b...

“There will now be 35,000 vouchers available — funded through taxpayer dollars.” AGAIN: Almost entirely to kids already in private schools. They won’t track that, because they know it. @GovBillLee’s legacy will be coupons for the wealthy that take hundreds of millions from public schools.

A man who says he was born in Colorado was deported recently after being pulled over in Texas, after which immigration officers denied his offers to show them proof of citizenship he says he had at home.

"He wrongly believed she was Muslim and verbally abused her during the prolonged sexual assault, also strangling and beating her." Unsurprisingly, "The Guardian has learned Ashby had watched anti-women material on social media, some from the influencer Andrew Tate, before the attack."

Can a solar farm make you sick? A medical director in Michigan claims they pose a health risk, but scientific evidence says otherwise. @annaleighclark.bsky.social reports for @propublica.org