From @harrylitman.bsky.social: "Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote a lone dissent, and she took the extraordinary step of reading her dissent from the bench, a gesture reserved for rare, vehement disagreement with the majority." trib.al/x9pKcVu

The subpoena motion that was read on the Committee floor was addressed to "Pam Bondi." Period. It doesn't matter if she's the AG or not. She must come testify before our Committee, or she will face contempt charges.

Republicans have NEVER had the backs of our Soldiers. Republicans always cut anything that helps our soldiers and their families. Including cuts to the VA.

Hackers if you're listening please RELEASE THE TRUMP- EPSTEIN FILES.

@zackpolanski.bsky.social calls for closer UK-Europe defence ties 🚨 "Brexit was one of the most catastrophic decisions this country has ever made. "We're also seeing that in terms of our security, we know that we've made ourselves increasingly isolated."

Has anyone ever wanted to be cool this badly and missed the mark so far

Wrote about how Hegseth’s effort to resegregate the upper ranks of the US military ties into the larger MAGA project to restore hierarchies of race and gender: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I like this because it articulates the conservative concept of freedom in a nutshell. You have the freedom to do x, except you don't, because I don't want you to. bsky.app/profile/atru...

Karma

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Zack Polanski, "We won't get the change we need from Labour councillors or a Labour government" "I talked about rot in housing, let's look at the very top" "Steve Reed, the Housing Secretary, he just charged £2,000 a pop to property developers to have a curry with him"

I like the library

The Epstein Files scandal is expanding and growing after the announcement that Pam Bondi won’t be attending her scheduled deposition next week on Capitol Hill. What can Democrats can do to hold her accountable? A typically brilliant take from Scott MacFarlane. youtu.be/un1rza-xL-M?...

Trump administration is starving Americans

if Donald Trump dies before end of term we're going to get the worlds first excommunicated US president

BBC News - www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cg... Defence secretary reveals month-long Russian submarine operation over cables and pipelines north of UK - live updates - BBC News

“Look, the Epstein files comes out — we go to war with Iran. It’s a good way to get people to stop talking about certain things,” Rogan said. Joe Rogan claims Trump started the war in Iran to distract Americans from the Epstein files www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

A war criminal and his accomplice are getting away with murder. I'll let you figure out which one is which ...

Not only were Hegseth and Trump widely condemned for threatening Iran with genocide, this tactic-if that’s what it was-didn’t work There’s been no regime change, they still have enriched uranium and they now fully control the Strait of Hormuz-requiring ships to pay a toll before they pass through

There's a lot being shared right now about China's incredible shift towards renewable energy - and rightly so. But this, from the UK, is equally astonishing & encouraging. It's not just that change can happen. It's that it *is* happening. (Via climateactapp.substack.com/p/your-daily...)

In case you missed it, signing up for the military is now maditory and automatic for all males between the ages of 18 and 25. I'm guessing that Barron is exempt.

US soldiers who survived Iran's deadliest attack on American troops during the five-week war dispute the Pentagon's account of the incident. The truth, they say, is that they were left unprotected on a base that was a known target. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

imagine being so unlikable you bring down a dictatorship in another country

NEW: Trump accepted $37m worth of donated steel for his WH ballroom project from the Luxembourg-based company ArcelorMittal. Days later, the WH made adjustments to Trump's tariffs that could benefit ArcelorMittal.

This is terrifying and heartbreaking‼️

Israel just SECRETLY established 34 new illegal settlements in the West Bank More details on the case to follow, stay tuned.

Spanish PM Pedro calls for the IMMEDIATE ARREST of Netanyahu He said: "Netanyahu launched the worst possible unjustified attack against Lebanon. His contempt for life and international law is intolerable. He is a criminal that must be arrested immediately.”

I think this is even more unhinged that what we've seen up to now.

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

The Trump administration has announced it plans to dismantle the US Forest Service. All 10 regional offices are set to close in addition to over 50 research labs.

* GERMANY'S MERZ SAYS WE ARE TAKING UP DIRECT TALKS AGAIN WITH IRANIAN LEADERSHIP IN TEHRAN @reuters.com

In deep-red Waukesha (Trump +6 in 2024), voters just elected a Democrat as mayor — winning by 2.5 points. Plus all three Moms for Liberty school board candidates lost. November is coming early. Full wins:

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

CBS: American soldiers who survived the attacked that killed 6 say Hegseth is lying. They were left “unprepared” and exposed. www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-wa...

vance is so personally off putting that even foreign electorates want nothing to do with him

It’s hard to overstate how much of this moment is driven by people who got a taste of accountability and were very, very mad about it.

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On 9 April 1989, Soviet forces murdered Georgian independence protesters in Tbilisi. Two years later, the USSR collapsed. Today, as for the last 18 months, protesters in Tbilisi are again standing up against authoritarian repression and against domination by Moscow.

Release the unredacted Epstein Files. Congress needs to do their job! The Haque is calling!

RFK jr is now saying that HIV doesn’t cause AIDS. The damage he has done and is doing to the health of America is insurmountable. A man without a medical license or training of any kind!

As an American, I'm 100% on Team 🇪🇺 here. Monster trucks don't fit on US streets, let alone European ones.

Sinead O’Connor ripped up a picture of the Pope on tv and the world went insane. Hegseth says this and crickets.

Whoa - Hegseth is going to get a lot of soldiers killed. Why are the Top Military Officials who got fired not talking about the mess that is happening? What/who are they protecting?