A tale of two Americans: The Pope speaks out against Russian atrocities. The president says nothing (and even worse, relaxes sanctions on Russia while ending aid to Ukraine).

Ossoff: I don’t know who placed those trades, but I’ll tell you this: the SEC better find out. And if they won’t, when you elect this new majority in Congress and you give us gavels and subpoenas, we will.

UN warns South Sudan at risk of ‘full-scale famine’ as fighting intensifies UN aid chief Tom Fletcher says hunger is tightening its grip amid rising humanitarian needs and intensifying fighting.

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Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems

The national media is eating up this report as justification for perpetuating the lie that universities themselves - as opposed to decades of attacks from the far right authoritarian party - are responsible for eroding trust in higher education. You can almost hear them salivating at the chance.

Jim Jordan is commenting on Eric Swalwell's sexual misconduct allegations. Jordan was assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State while team doctor Richard Strauss sexually abused at least 177 athletes. Multiple wrestlers testified under oath they told Jordan. He did nothing. He was never charged.

if you wanna keep your job, don't be a fucking creep. it's really that simple.

Exactly. @juliadavisnews.bsky.social points out this was not the first time👇🏽

Trump is very obviously lying (as usual) and anyone pretending to buy it is just telling on themselves

Russia Hits Major Water Supply Dam Near Kharkiv With Six Guided Bombs, Video Russia launched six guided aerial bombs (KABs) at the Pechenihy dam in Ukraine's Kharkiv region, a critical water supply facility.

🔴 Russia struck the Pechenihy dam in Kharkiv region with six guided bombs, targeting one of the area’s largest reservoirs and a key water supply facility.

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When all this is over, I'll keep coming back to the fact that the US both 1) un-sanctioned Iranian oil and 2) blocked Iranian oil exports within a 30-day period as the best encapsulation of the strategic incoherence of this whole war.

This is a must read

Orban's system was rigged to give plurality winners with widespread support in the countryside super-majorities in the parliament - so Peter Magyar generated widespread support in the countryside and has been rewarded with 69% of the parliamentary seats. Now he can undo Orban's constitution!

Hungarians deserve every congratulations for giving Peter Magyar a bigger margin than Orban has ever gotten in all of his rigged elections - and this within the system that Orban rigged. Magyar now has a constitutional majority to undo Orban's constitutional prison and govern as a democratic leader.

Zach gets it exactly right. Orban was an authoritarian who built a rigged election system for his own gain. But Peter Magyar cracked the code - realizing that every vote in the countryside was worth two to three votes in the cities and so racked up countryside support, winning 2/3rds of the seats.

Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable If Viktor Orbán can lose, then his Russian and American admirers can lose too.

Illiberalism is not Inevitable

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The end of Viktor Orbán’s autocratic regime is a victory not just for Hungary, but for people who value democracy around the world. Congratulations to Tisza, to incoming leader Péter Magyar, and to Hungarians everywhere.

I’m shocked since we sent our best negotiators.

Thousands of Wisconsinites volunteered their hearts out in 2024, re-elected Tammy Baldwin, but were crushed to fall short in the presidential contest. They got back up and helped Susan Crawford beat the world's richest man in 2025. And they never stopped. Tonight is Chris Taylor's win—and theirs.

Chris Taylor wins state Supreme Court election - Civic Media Chris Taylor has defeated Maria Lazar for Wisconsin Supreme Court in the 2026 Spring Election.

Chris Taylor wins state Supreme Court election

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Wisconsin is showing that you can fight creeping authoritarianism by getting organized and consistently voting, year after year, in small races and big ones, to win back democracy by voting in people who actually support democratic process.

Sincere question: does Iran need or want a nuclear weapon now? The nuclear issue seems less and less central.

THE AP CALL IS IN: CHRIS TAYLOR HAS WON THE RACE FOR WISCONSIN SUPREME COURT

Liberals Gain Seat on Wisconsin Supreme Court, Adding to Firewall in Voting Cases - Bolts Voters in Wisconsin ensured on Tuesday that the supreme court in one of the nation’s premier swing states will be controlled by liberals through at least 2030.  Chris Taylor, a... Read More

JUST IN: Liberals have won a decisive victory for the Wisconsin supreme court race tonight.

Chris Taylor will join the supreme court, flipping a conservative-held seat.

This expands liberals' majority on the court to 5-2.

Why it matters:
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Correct

A madman has control of the most powerful military in the history of the world and the leaders of his party are too afraid to say or do anything to stop him.

It remains truly incredible how the three central issues of the 2024 presidential election were inflation, Joe Biden’s mental/physical unfitness for office, & the <checks notes> Democrats’ ongoing support for genocide & other war crimes.

Our Darkest Hour The civilization we destroy may be our own

Powerful words by Paul Krugman in very dangerous times. It’s time for everybody to speak out against war crimes, and at least try to do something to stop this

It’s probably nothing. 🤡

@dkthomp.bsky.social

Exclusive: US intelligence assesses Iran maintains significant missile launching capability, sources say | CNN Politics Roughly half of Iran’s missile launchers are still intact and thousands of one-way attack drones remain in Iran’s arsenal despite the daily pounding by US and Israeli strikes against military targets ...

"Roughly 50% of Iran’s missile launchers are still intact and thousands of one-way attack drones remain in Iran’s arsenal despite the daily pounding by US and Israeli strikes against 12,300 military targets over the past five weeks, according to recent US intelligence assessments"

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans:

1940: 81%
1950: 84%
1960: 91%
1970: 72%
1980: 70%
1990: 28%
2000: 40%
2010: 35%

For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

If you weren’t already allowing AI to mess with your feed, you wouldn’t need to block BS accounts. Just unfollow anyone propagating BS, or posting more than you have time to read. It’s OK to specialise.

Corollary: it’s important to repost important posts. Each of us is a filter as well as a source.