Trump has launched three more boat strikes this week, bringing the total death toll to 177.
Remember: No judge or jury has found these boats were trafficking drugs. We're taking Trump's word for it.
This is murder. We must not lose sight of this lawlessness.
This is crazy if correct. No10 and Keir Starmer were reportedly unaware that Peter Mandelson failed his security vetting. How is such a thing even possible? With all the questions that were apparently asked of Mandelson surely someone would have thought to ask “did he pass his security vetting?”
DOGGETT: Were you shocked to see that 850 people who were suspended for fraud had been reinstated at all once?
RFK Jr: President Biden ...
DOGGETT: Reclaiming my time. Biden's administration suspended 850 suspected fraudsters. Yours let them go back to work
Mike Levin: It should be a much bigger story that JD Vance flew to Hungary, stood on a campaign stage, and told voters to return a head of government widely documented for human rights abuses and democratic backsliding. Then, after his candidate lost, Vance said what had happened during the Hungarian campaign was “one of the worst examples of foreign election interference that I’ve ever seen or ever even read about.” Was he describing himself?
The old Russian proverb that President Reagan parroted is “trust but verify.”
As I explain in today's bonus issue of "One First," a major theme of any future agenda for rebuilding the stability of our government institutions needs to be “verify, don’t trust":
www.stevevladeck.com/p/bonus-220-...
Defendants argue that the entire ballroom construction project, from tip to tail, falls within the safety-and-security exception and therefore may proceed unabated. That is neither a reasonable nor a correct reading of my Order! My Order preliminarily enjoined Defendants (excluding the President) from "taking any action in furtherance of the physical development of the proposed ballroom." Prelim. Inj. Order at 2. The accompanying opinion stated that "the ballroom construction project must stop until Congress authorizes its completion." Mem. Op. at 1 (emphasis added). It is, to say the least, incredible, if not disingenuous, that Defendants now argue that my Order does not stop ballroom construction because of the safety-and-security exception!
The Trump admin tried to end-run an order blocking the East Wing ballroom's construction by invoking an exception permitting work on the project’s “safety and security” features.
Judge Leon indignantly clarifies:
“That is neither a reasonable nor a correct reading of my Order!” buff.ly/kWARaBf
Downing Street says that neither Keir Starmer nor David Lammy knew that Peter Mandelson failed his security vetting
The prime minister did not know Lord Mandelson failed security vetting for the role of US ambassador until earlier this week, the government has said
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
posted without comment*
*many thanks to @johnfugelsang.bsky.social
Enten: "You think of the working class, those who have incomes less than $50,000. Look at how much they have turned against the president. His approval rating at the beginning of his second term was +2 -- down he goes, into the smithereens. Now at -34. That's an over 35 point shift."
Don't forget about the time he thought people here on a visa got free Visa credit cards.
Today, more than 80% of the Democratic caucus stood with the American people and voted to block U.S. military aid to Netanyahu and his horrific, illegal wars.
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I'm helping to lead a group of Senate Democrats who are planning to force a vote - every single week the Senate is in session - to end the war in Iran. We have that right under the Senate rules, and we are going to keep putting Republicans on record supporting this insane war.
Holy shit. I don’t have words for how corrupt this is. Keep in mind, the Ukraine whistleblower is still anonymous. And Gabbard kept a whistleblower report from Congress about a call between foreign intel agents discussing someone close to Trump and Iran. @andrewbakaj.bsky.social
Chuck Schumer's two votes tonight in favor of bombs and bulldozers to Israel is yet another reason Senate Democrats must vote to remove him as leader post the midterms.
Here are the 7 senate democrats who voted to continue sending bombs to Netanyahu.
Richard Blumenthal (CT)
Chris Coons (DE)
Catherine Cortez Masto (NV)
John Fetterman (PA)
Kirsten Gillibrand (NY)
Jackie Rosen (NV)
Chuck Schumer (NY)
LFG
BERNIE: “The time is long overdue for members of Congress to listen to the American people and end US military aid to the extremist Netanyahu government.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
The Iceberg Theory, visualized:
Hey, so ICE is still kidnapping and disappearing people in the United States.
Just because they got quieter about it doesn't make it okay.
Abolish ICE. Chinga la Migra.
I think this is the most likely explanation for what unfolded after the fact. #DonaldJChrist
Trump’s budget director Russ Vought was asked about this today by Rep. McGarvey.
Vought responded by saying "our budget fully funds WIC."
McGarvey corrected, "No it doesn't. It says it right here."
The takeaway today was Vought actually couldn’t truthfully defend most of the attacks against him.
useful reminder from Private Eye
For Netanyahu, the war in Gaza was not enough. Iran was not enough. He is now waging a full-blown war of expansion in Lebanon.
The time is long overdue for Congress to listen to the American people and end U.S. military aid to the extremist Israeli government.
The Daily Mail poll about whether the UK should re-join the European Union did not go according to plan.
A jury has ruled that Live Nation-Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly.
A judge will determine whether or not to break the company up, in addition to other damages.
This is a big deal.
Remember that the Trump admin tried to settle the lawsuit with a slap on the wrist — but state AGs said no way.
I will be really, REALLY happy when John Fetterman leaves the Senate.
This GOP war with the Pope might be the new dumbest thing they’ve done, and as usual, it’s completely self-inflicted.
