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This was such a good job by the NYT's Shawn McCreesh.
He asked a very pointed and direct question to Trump about the school bombing, leading the president to corner himself (was he claiming the US sold Iran Tomahawks???) before admitting he doesn't "know enough" and will abide by the final report.
Apparently Eugenio Suarez had his citizenship application taken off the books because he's Venezuelan and his response was "it is what it is."
Signs you might be a far right authoritarian party (#3330):
A high-powered Chicago law firm announced a plan Monday to push for the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate and potentially charge the agents who carried out Operation Midway Blitz.
@sophiesherry.bsky.social reports: chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2026/0...
Musk is just one example. A huge chunk of Silicon Valley bowed down to Trump, ranging between the begrudging, the opportunistic, and the enthusiastic. Professor Francesca Bria has referred to the emerging: “Authoritarian Stack“— “a network of firms, funds, and political actors turning core state functions into private platforms.” She points out that the key actors in the Silicon Valley right — including Anduril, Palantir and venture capital funders like AndreessenHorowitz — are closely connected and working with one another. They also, crucially, share an ideology that places them as empire-makers able to compete with sovereign states. Another example: Larry Ellison joined phone calls about overturning the 2020 election, and Trump has enabled him and his son to expand their media empire via TikTok, Paramount (including CBS News) and now Warner (including CNN). Also: HBO, Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central, BET, TNT.
Larry Ellison is another example of the authoritarian stack in government. Oracle is a long-time government contractor, unlike some newer members of the stack, and Ellison is now using his fortune to build a media empire that will be critical of Dems. Why keep paying him?
New, from me: Trump's retribution against Anthropic is over the top. But it should cause Democrats to think about how they will deal with contractors like Musk or Ellison when they return to power.
What do you do with vendors working to oppose you? 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/procuremen...
He has also deported dozens of dissidents back to Iran, where they were likely executed.
Full disclosure: I met with the minority staffers and helped strategize and explained the history.
Ilan is taking his historical fiction on the road. It’s amazing what sloppy and methodless historical scholarship can do for one’s career.
The path from "I am not sure if the case in favor of brightright citizenship is as one-sided as people says it is" to "Senate commitee hearing witness against birthright citizenship" is apparently a straight line.
Oh my god no! The Iranians were developing Trump's healthcare plan.
Moderate Democrats with columns in newspapers are constantly saying the Democratic Party is way too liberal on "social" issues. Moderate Democratic voters in real life do not feel this way. With some polling data from @gelliottmorris.com and @dataforprogress.org. newrepublic.com/article/2074...
Lindsey’s diplomacy working wonders in UAE.
Ukraine has sent drone experts and interceptor drones to help defend US military bases in Jordan from Iranian drone attacks.
Washington asked for help last week, and Ukrainian specialists were deployed the very next day. “We reacted immediately,” Zelensky said.
www.kyivpost.com/post/71523
Or how about the secretary of state hanging out with a guy convicted of seditious conspiracy against the US?
Trump’s slanderous accusation that Iran and not his own government committed this horrific atrocity in Minab was obviously going to be untenable, and it’s already falling apart in a way that will tarnish America’s reputation around the world.
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@miamiherald.com
The United States and Iran have offered sharply different accounts of the sinking of an Iranian warship in the Indian Ocean.
We are aware of recent reports regarding targeted phishing attacks that have resulted in account takeovers of some Signal users, including government officials and journalists. We take this very seriously. 1/7
This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.
dementia don. no longer has a filter. putting us soldiers in grave danger in order to gloat about murdering unarmed sailors
I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well
A fuel bowser at Oof servo, Plenty Rd, Kingsbury
Forget fuel prices soaring. Some servos are already out of fuel.
Only some e10 left and staff member has no idea when fuel will be delivered.
It’s here, now, today in Australia all thanks to fucking Yanks and Trump
I find it extremely difficult to believe that anyone experiencing what honestly looks like the apocalypse is going to regard it as a form of liberation or that anyone responsible for it actually cares about how Iranians regard it at all.
The DOJ released evidence, which the FBI deemed credible, that the President of the United States sexually and physically assaulted a 13 year old girl AND she was afraid to talk about it because Trump would kill her—and it’s somehow not the biggest scandal in American history?
keep in mind for the next few days:
The Discourse has become sort of numb to the fact that the richest guy on earth and owner of a major social media platform just routinely spits out the kind of nakedly white supremacist shit that until a decade ago you rarely saw outside of places like Stormfront.
Documents reveal a web of financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they help regulate:
ProPublica is releasing a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees who declined to identify former clients.
It's stunning how ignorant the DOGE bros were who were sent into agencies. Justin Fox cannot even articulate in his own words what his "present understanding of DEI" is: he can't even formulate a coherent sentence about it. I wouldn't hire him for basic tech support. #NEH
youtu.be/jomaMvItnew?...
This is the Israeli playbook from Gaza (and Putin's in Ukraine for that matter) and it is ultra-disturbing to see the US carry out repeated attacks on civilian infrastructure. It simply does not serve a military purpose.