Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Holy where do I unsubscribe?
Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
New piece ↓
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This is shameful
America voted for this twice. That's not a conversation California needs to be a part of. Let's get out of this dying fascist empire.
#FreeTheBear
THIRTY MINUTES.
thirty goddamn minutes.
Before they were arrested- Vets are demanding an end to the war on Iran at the Cannon Building in Washington, D.C.
"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."
Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.
I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.
There is no good explanation for this Administration to quietly lift sanctions on Russia late on a Friday night.
Congress and the American people need immediate answers. We must not help Russia fund its illegal war in Ukraine and aid Iranian attacks on American troops.
Just cancel it.
Please more attention to this.
Mr. Khalil now faces an appeal to the 5th Circuit; which is only hearing the case because he was arrested and flown away from his home in New York by the Trump admin with no warning and before his lawyers had a chance to stop his detention through habeas corpus.
He is currently free, however.
She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.
But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.
thronging to the new american pontiff
In my head this sentence ended with “little lady.”
DonVito Line works just fine.
screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h • JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO: "When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory." "In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." "And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."
I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far -
POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad
VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church??
POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there
Crap! Just recommended a teenager check them out last week!!!
With two U.S. military strikes on boats in the eastern Pacific over the weekend - killing 5 people and leaving 1 survivor - this Timeline is now updated.
Did I miss the part where Frump became Catholic?
What could possibly go wrong?
Very Serious Analysis of Toddler’s Diaper Explosion
Fancy restaurant in our house was Burger King which my dad constantly reminded us was WAY more expensive than the fancy restaurant “McDonald’s.”
Is this the real reason Israel won’t stop bombing and doesn’t want a peace deal?
Also: how is this not a bigger part of the *analysis* on 🇺🇸 networks?
We’ll hang up and listen.
www.forbes.com/sites/alison...
EZRA KLEIN: “Hasan Piker is not the enemy… he isn’t a “Jew hater.” — He’s an anti-Zionist… The Israel young people know is not the Israel that older people remember.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/o...
So … piracy?
I can no longer tell if this is a joke.
That’s “a strongly worded letter” if ever there was one.
