Russia’s war propaganda uses foreign reporters to “launder” its narratives, presenting them as “neutral witnesses.” Journalists like Pearson Sharp cover the war from the Russian side, echoing Moscow’s claims, which bolsters Russian credibility while undermining Western narratives.

The Trump administration is accelerating efforts to disappear critical climate data - leaving the public totally unprepared to fight the threats of climate change. Read more from @rsanta.bsky.social:

The DOJ sued six mostly Democratic states for refusing to provide sensitive voter registration data, such as social security numbers and addresses. The lawsuits allege the states are violating federal law by refusing to provide the DOJ with unredacted data.

"The babies who were conceived during the famine and whose mothers were undernourished while their brains were being built—those brains were smaller." How famine and starvation could affect Gazans for generations to come.

Tech workers in the most corporate, nerdy, non-union, Northface-wearing-ass environment you can imagine have been putting their jobs, safety, and even immigration status on the line to try to stop a genocide, writes @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Mike Johnson makes dire prediction amid government shutdown about what Democrats will do to Trump if they retake House

A Memo To Corporate America: How To Stop Being Cartoon Villains I’ve spent considerable time lately documenting how America’s corporate elite have transformed themselves into the exact cartoon villains that Marxists always claimed they were—groveling before authoritarian power, paying tribute to…

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez gives students from the Bronx and New York City a tour of the Capitol amid the government shutdown.

As the federal government enters a shutdown, Democratic Rep. Glenn Ivey defended his party's decision not to support the GOP stopgap funding bill, saying looming health care cuts will impact millions.

Republican Rep. Byron Donalds’ campaign for Florida governor says it has raised $31.5 million since launching in February.

Earlier this week the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago wanted to honor pro-abortion-rights Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin (D) for his immigration work. The praise sparked backlash from conservatives. Now, the Pope has stepped in and Durbin is "overwhelmed" by his support.

Over the weekend, Trump posted an AI-generated video on TruthSocial that touted purported “medbeds,” a non-existent healing technology that people falsely believe will miraculously cure all maladies. This is just one of the bogus claims fooling elderly Trump supporters on the platform.

The internet is back on in Afghanistan after the latest Taliban shutdown. These shutdowns threaten severe harm to the rights and livelihoods of the population, and they can further silence and isolate women and girls.

New bodycam footage shows the scuffle between Dem Rep. LaMonica McIver and ICE agents outside a federal immigration facility on May 9. Our @ryrivard.bsky.social has reported on the scene, but now, for the first time, the bodycam footage has been released. More details: ow.ly/j0kj50X5f8l

JD Vance on brushed off Trump’s posts of vulgar AI-generated videos of top Democratic leaders as "funny." Jeffries slammed the videos as “racist” and “bigoted” and said the president needs to be “focused on doing his job.”

Why can’t we have nice things, too, instead of more spread of preventable diseases?

He speaks incoherently, if you have any education you can't listen to that idiot

JUST IN from @ashleymurray.bsky.social: The U.S. Supreme Court will take up in January the question of President Donald Trump’s firing of Federal Reserve Board governor Lisa Cook, according to an order filed by the court Wednesday. www.newsfromthestates.com/article/fed-...

Activists on board a flotilla of vessels sailing toward Gaza said they were prepared for the Israeli navy to intervene as they approached the besieged Palestinian territory on Wednesday, after a tense night in the Mediterranean Sea. https://to.pbs.org/4gSmMG3

Kimmel and Colbert, in rare late-night crossover, blast shared nemesis Trump with new five-word insult title

Yaryna Chornohuz is a combat medic in the 140th Separate Reconnaissance Battalion of the Ukrainian Marine Corps. Beyond the battlefield, Chornohuz is a celebrated author. With her words, she gives voice to the pain and hopes for her country’s future.

The government shut down at 12:01 a.m. this morning. Among the many consequences could be a slowdown in EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin's deregulatory efforts, reports @alexckaufman.bsky.social in this morning's Heatmap AM: More on the shutdown, plus lithium and Pope news in the link below ⤵️:

Write a letter to your lawmakers using our action center tool urging them to vocally oppose journalist Mario Guevara's deportation. Guevara could be kicked out of the country as early as this week. He is legally authorized to work here and is not charged with any crime.

Any writer worth a damn will tell you that writing short is often a lot harder than writing long. Capturing something essential about the modern world in 80,000 words is an accomplishment. The Riyadh Comedy Festival manages to do it in four.

Military officials showed up for Pete Hegseth’s mandatory gathering in Quantico, but, writes @joanwalsh.bsky.social, they didn’t seem to appreciate it. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

White supremacist Nick Fuentes pleads with Tucker Carlson to tone down his antisemitism

Federal financial aid will continue to flow, and student loan payments will still be due. But investigations into civil rights complaints will stop, and the department will not issue new federal grants. https://to.pbs.org/4863b2X

"ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence. To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history, we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police."

The Crypto industry is beginning to fret over the Winklevoss twins’ embrace of MAGA.

The state has agreed to pay Ashley Miller $9 million for the physical, mental, and sexual abuse she suffered in foster care that started when she was only 5 years old.

"Churchill provides center-right liberals with a usable role model who championed freedom, democratic governance, and rule of law over authoritarianism. And in an environment where the right is tempted by a darker vision, that model is important." www.liberalcurrents.com/a-popular-fr...

“It’s not possible to pinkwash a genocide. The rainbow flag had morphed into a tool of colonial conquest.” Israel claims to be an LGBTQIA+ haven. Some advocates see this simply as propaganda, but Palestinians say it leads to real harm against queer people in Palestine, Simi Kadirgamar reports.

Reagan-Appointed Judge Torches Trump Admin’s Bullshit Chilling Effects Campaign Against Pro-Palestinian Speech We’ve spent plenty of time talking about various people who are failing to meet this moment, but I will say that a number of district court judges have really been stepping up. The latest…

The White House will open 13.1 million acres of public land to coal mining while providing $625 million for coal-fired power plants, the Trump administration has announced. The latest from our friends at @theguardian.com:

New York AG Letitia James and the top prosecutors from 19 other states announce that they are suing the Trump administration to block new restrictions on federal funding to help some victims of sexual assault and domestic violence.

Clean energy jobs continued to grow in Kentucky last year, though at a slower pace, according to an annual report focusing on the economic impact of such jobs. via @kentuckylantern.com

While federal employees are no longer getting paid with the government shutting down, some Florida Republicans said Wednesday that they’ll have their pay withheld or, in some cases, donate it to worthy organizations. via @floridaphoenix.com www.newsfromthestates.com/article/some...

"If there's been a constant for the decades since I started working in the US government, it's been: At the end of the day, on this issue, the US is not prepared to put its foot down." In a new book, a veteran peace negotiator writes about the lies the US has told itself about Israel and Palestine.

Gaza flotilla – live: Greta Thunberg’s aid vessel declares emergency as it expects Israeli interception imminently

BREAKING: Federal firings are coming in 'one to two' days if the shutdown drags on, Trump budget chief Russell Vought says.

“This was the year, I think, that the AI got smarter than us.” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman gets candid about the promises and perils of AI in the premiere episode of MD Meets — a new podcast from POLITICO's parent company Axel Springer. 🎧 Listen and subscribe: mdmeets.com

Between June 2022 and June 2024, at least 412 people across the country have been charged for crimes related to their pregnancies. These arrests show that, amid the conservative movement to enshrine rights to fetuses, being pregnant is not just a health status. Sometimes, it’s a criminal liability.

⚡️Russia may be using around 20,000 North Korean workers in military production, Ukrainian general says. Russia is using North Korean labor to produce Geran drones, which are manufactured in Russia's Republic of Tatarstan, General Staff Chief Andrii Hnatov said.

Who stands to benefit from the gutting of Canada Post? The billionaire class. If Mark Carney were really serious about nation-building, Dru OJa Jay writes how the post office could become an engine for green energy, public banking, and better services. breachmedia.ca/canada-post-...

Trump blocks $18B in NYC funding after blaming Schumer for shutdown

During a press briefing at the White House, Vice President JD Vance says “we are going to have to lay some people off if the shutdown continues” in an effort to prolong essential government services.

"Tell us where we’re wrong": The outgoing head of a U.N. commission is challenging Israel and said the U.S. and other countries have a responsibility to stop the war in Gaza.

Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi is a writer and poet living in Gaza. Words are everything to her. But the relentless trauma of the genocide is robbing her of her ability to say those words out loud—and she's not alone. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

It’s fitting that Rep. Joe Wilson's 2009 lie about the ACA, which is now old enough to have a learner’s permit, is the Trumpified GOP’s only threadbare rationale for allowing a shutdown to proceed, writes @chrislehmann.bsky.social. https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/government-shutdown-aca/