HODGES: There are reports that Russia closed border crossings with Baltics, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan. That's speculation on my part, but why would they do that unless it was to make sure people did not leave, as would be the case if they were to announce big mobilization?

Epic fire in oil depot in Mikhaylovsk, near Stavropol 🔥

Corporate spending on elections has already topped $500 million this year. That's one third of the $1.58 billion in total that corporations have spent since Citizens United in 2010. Hawaii and Montana both have plans to neutralize this disastrous SCOTUS ruling. Watch.

This is Ulyana, she was only 13. Russia killed her On July 11, during aerial bombs attack on Sumy. 💔🕯 ​Ulyana practiced track and field at the Volodymyr Golubnychy Specialized Children and Youth Sports School. She was at a bus stop when her city was hit.

For those who have forgotten the past 40 years: Tax cuts for the rich ...don’t trickle down Boosting military spending ...doesn’t bring peace Slashing regulations ...doesn’t create jobs Folks, we’ve seen this all before.

HODGES: It's in our strategic interest that Ukraine is successful. If Russia is not defeated, and allowed to retain control of part of Ukraine, that means UN Charter is worth nothing. Means it's okay for nations to use force to change sovereign borders of another nation, to invade another nation.

Rep. McCaul: Last night, I was at Ukraine’s central special forces command, where they conduct major drone operations. This was fascinating. They take $25,000 drone and take out $100 million infrastructure facility in Russia. This is how they win, because Russia can’t afford it.

Lindsey Graham on Gaza: "Just flatten it, like we flattened Tokyo and Berlin." Lindsey Graham on the Iran War: "We are going to make tons of money." Lindsey Graham on Renée Nicole Good: "She deserved what happened. She provoked ICE." As grandma used to say: GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH.

NEVER FORGET, AND NEVER FORGIVE WHAT REPUBLICANS ALLOWED TRUMP TO DO TO AMERICA… NEVER. 😎✨

BREAKING: Sen. Lindsey Graham has died, his office announced in a statement early Sunday. According to reports, emergency responders were dispatched to Graham’s Washington, D.C., home Saturday night following a reported cardiac arrest.

Over the past week, Ukraine has struck 76 russian ships in the Sea of Azov, mostly oil tankers trying to deliver fuel to Crimea. ​Unmanned Systems Forces complete the logistics lockdown of Crimea, cutting not only land roads but sea too. ​Only the bridge is left. For now.

I’m old enough to remember when this kind of thing would end a presidency.

Syzran oil refinery in russia right now 🔥👀

"The comfort of the rich depends upon an abundant supply of the poor." ~ Voltaire

ZELENSKYY: Today, Ukraine and Poland face one common threat, a deadly threat to our independence, to both our states and to every city and every village. That threat is Russia. As we speak about the past, we must not cast doubt on the future of Ukraine, Poland and all of Europe.

Baby otters are Too adorable 🥰 🥰

ICE’s deadly rampage. The Maine senate race. The Iran ceasefire. There’s much to discuss. Join us for a new Coffee Klatch to make sense of it all.

APPLEBAUM: We don't know how widely those spectacular pictures of burning oil really circulate inside Russia, but even to extent that they do they're pretty clear proof that Russians aren't safe, haven't defeated Ukraine, war is still going and Russians paying high price for it.

Explosion in Kharkiv ‼️ our city is under russian drone attack right now ‼️

HODGES: The good news is that Europe, the rest of Europe, is waking up to realization that they need Ukraine even more than Ukraine needs them, exactly as President Stubb said, and that the best way to prevent Russia from invading rest of Europe is to help Ukraine defeat Russia.

Vice President Vance may not be able to take a joke, but that doesn’t mean our client @catsonacouch.bsky.social can’t make one. We’re suing to protect the First Amendment, and the freedom to make a joke online.

In the future, I hope that everyone that had a hand in Project 2025 is tried and convicted for treason. Donors, authors, publishers, everyone.

Richard Gere: To have any kind of legitimacy, you have to rewrite history. Putin clearly is doing that, saying "There never was a Ukraine, there never was a Ukrainian language, there never was a Ukrainian culture. It's completely made up." Well, it's false. Exactly what Chinese have done with Tibet

What happens if it's impossible to carry out 2,000 arrests every single day while complying with the law? Which comes first? The quota? Or the law? www.cascadia-journal.com/ice-ramps-up...

Russia strikes Kharkiv every single day. ​I rarely write about it anymore. Not many people seem to care, and the news outlets never mention it. Posting about it feels like screaming into a void. If Russia can kill 30 people in a capital city full of journalists without any global outrage, ​

The Trump regime is gutting protections for workers' 401(k) plans and opening them up to risky investments like crypto and private equity. The crony leading this charge even ran a company that defended employers from worker lawsuits. Utterly shameless greed.

Shocking moment of today's Russian strike on Sumy, which killed 5 people‼️ Please do not look away! No mother should be forced to cover her children's bodies with her own like this. No child should have to live through such horrors!

ICE lied about how Renee Good was shot. They lied about how Alex Pretti was shot. And now they’re lying about how Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot. Don’t believe their story for a second.

VOLKER: As long as Trump is President, Ukraine's NATO membership is off the table. He views that as unnecessary, as provoking Russia. But when you look beyond Trump's presidency, I believe it's only solution that makes sense. Ukraine will have largest, most battle-hardened military in Europe.

STUBB: We Finns are cool, calm and collected. In a short term, there will be hybrid tests. In a long term, we need to prepare for Russian threat. Finnish message is, "Prepare for the worst in order to avoid it." If that fails, take sauna and an ice bath, and you’ll be just fine.

"In effect, for every $1 cut from programs for low-income Americans, the wealthiest 1% will get about $1 back in tax breaks." Reverse Robin Hood. https://www.nbcnews.com/specials/trump-big-beautiful-bill-act-tax-medicaid-snap-one-year/

As Americans struggle with the cost of rent or mortgage payments, the president has a message for you: buzz off. He’s not interested. He made two billion off the presidency last year, and he couldn't care less about the hardships of ordinary people.

APPLEBAUM: Putin's war finally reached Moscow. Muscovites having trouble functioning normally in capital and been subjected, for the first time, to real drone campaigns. They finally see the war and beginning to understand that they're not winning, and that war is coming closer.

BREAKING: We're suing Arizona over a law that would make it a state crime for some immigrants to enter or remain in the state. Courts across the country have repeatedly reaffirmed that immigration enforcement is a power that belongs exclusively to the federal government — not the states.

ICE agents weren't wearing body cameras when they killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo. The three men who were with him are reportedly being detained separately and getting pressured to self-deport — while refuting ICE’s story. What is ICE trying to cover up?

A growing outbreak of the Cyclospora parasite, which causes severe diarrhea, has sickened more than 1,200 people across the U.S. Experts say the true number is much higher. In March 2025, RFK Jr. dissolved the CDC’s Division of Parasitic Diseases and Malaria, which monitored parasitic diseases

"I have a very glad feeling about this... " #DitchMcConnell

Your retirement could be at risk. Why? Donald Trump and his Administration are granting private equity’s wish to weaken the protections for YOUR 401(k).

NEW on “Paper Trail”: Reporter @reneedudley.bsky.social heard Microsoft was running tech support for the Pentagon through China, the country’s biggest cybersecurity adversary. She thought it sounded like a conspiracy theory — until she started looking into it. Listen to the full episode:

If Fetterman leaves the Democrats for the Republicans, he will be the first Senator in US history to simultaneously raise the average IQ of both parties.

"Today, Davey Hearn pled not guilty — because he is not guilty," Norm Eisen, one of his attorneys, said outside DC Superior Court. "If Mr. Hearn can be charged with a felony for touching the reflecting pool, every American is at risk — and every American should be alarmed about this prosecution."

🇨🇦 FM Anita Anand: Ukraine has turned the tide in this war. There's every reason to see Ukraine as having capability, expertise, and know-how on the battlefield to fight and win this war. Countries around the world are now seeking out the expertise of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Federal immigration agents have fatally shot 10 people in Trump’s second term. 10 human beings. 10 people with families, friends, hopes, and dreams. 10 people who should still be alive today. Everyone carrying out Trump’s deadly agenda must answer for their crimes.

Let the Prophet George Carlin explain.

Trump has wiped out $1.5 billion in penalties and restitution for taxpayers and victims, thanks to his sweeping pardons of convicted fraudsters. His family and his political groups, on the other hand, are raking it in. Watch.

Just after Trump won reelection, his son joined the board of GrabAGun, a company that hopes to be the "Amazon of guns." Now Trump wants to roll back federal regulations on mailing handguns — a move that would financially benefit GrabAGun and Don Jr. We must not become numb to this corruption.