Foreign Office unit tracking Israel’s potential breaches of international law closed Exclusive: Officials warn department will lose access to database of 26,000 verified cases by cutting funding The Foreign Office unit tracking potential breaches of international law by Israel in Gaza and more recently Lebanon has been closed because of cuts within the department, the Guardian can reveal. The decision to shut the international humanitarian law cell follows a review by Olly Robbins, the permanent secretary at the Foreign Office dismissed last week by the prime minister over the Peter Mandelson scandal. Continue reading...

Foreign Office unit tracking Israel’s potential breaches of international law closed

Impunity.

It's official! Jared Kushner was instrumental in getting the Paramount bid approved by Warner Bros shareholders, which means Kushner and the Trump family stand to profit from the merger. shero.substack.com/p/jared-kush...

2026 GOP: we’ve dusted it off for recycling!

i have really come to the view that partisanship is to be embraced wholesale. partisanship and principle but not purity.

One more strain of thinking to go along w/ this: the courage to say I told you so. Biden and Harris and every leading Dem told the electorate that Trump would do what he's doing. We *cannot* let these morons believe they are the center of gravity. No, shut up. WE WERE RIGHT. Listen to us next time.

Considering all my maps in 1978, and for around 20 years after that (even when I studied cartography) were dead trees this one whizzed right over my head.

Well, when this song was released (August 1978), I was in the SF Bay Area about to enter 6th grade. The geography, fortunately, hadn’t changed by 1979.

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Xi Jinping wants a powerful currency. America’s war has helped More countries are starting to use China’s payment infrastructure

More countries are starting to use China’s payment infrastructure

The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.

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Todd Blanche smears SPLC on Newsmax

Rightwing media outlets are great at creating villains for their audience - and the Trump regime is playing this game with SPLC. Nothing in the indictment shows that the group’s informant program was used to sponsor extremists, as opposed to dismantle them. More to come…

Warnings For Americans From A Historian of the Nazis The 12 "warning signs" of authoritarianism every American should be aware of, from Laurence Rees, author of 'The Nazi Mind.'

the good news is that Trump's presidency has become a political shambles as well as a governing catastrophe

the bad news, as a leading historian of the Nazis tells us, is that he's following the time-tested authoritarian playbook

my @zeteo_news column

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Senate Republicans Have a Plan to Suspend Congressional Oversight of ICE for Trump’s Whole Term This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis....

The DHS reconciliation bill, Republican leadership has said, will go far beyond the expected year’s funding for ICE.

I made a donation to the SPLC today. If someone reading this can (or did) make one and will quote this post, maybe we can get a chain thing going and help this storied group of wonderful people in their hour of need.

Democrats with aspirations to enact any kind of policy need to confront the fact that a right-wing super-legislature currently possesses veto power over anything any Democrat might want to do. Voters need to know their plan to clear this hurdle.

It has taken over five years of murderous chaos for Republican voters to start to see what was obvious all along: that Donald Trump should not be trusted with a box of matches, let alone the most powerful office on Earth. That's the power of propaganda for you.

For my fellow catastrophists…

Yes, time to eat the rich & toss their greed on history’s ash heap.

It is their greed that drives our inability to get along as they try to get us at each other’s throats instead of looking at the fact that they are evilly selfish.

Van Hollen confronts Howard Lutnick over alleged Jeffrey Epstein ties YouTube video by The Washington Examiner

They are never going to answer any questions about the Epstein Files or any of the other illegal bullshit they have done or are doing. They will only be held accountable if Dems flip the whole Congress at the midterms. Until then they will get away with everything.
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Trump LOSES IT as State JUDGES STRIKE BACK YouTube video by Katie Phang

Former State Senator & veteran trial lawyer @jenjordanga.bsky.social is running for the Georgia Supreme Court. She joins me on why voters need to focus on statewide elections, especially for the judges who are increasingly deciding the issues that are personal to us all.

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All civil litigation should be paid out of ICE's bloated budget

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

While he was detained at Dilley for over four months, 13-year-old Gustavo Santiago said he felt as if he would “never get out.”

“I just ask that you don’t forget about us,” he told ProPublica in a video call.

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"We are not on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. We are in the middle of it." Senator Chris Murphy just went to Spain to join a global movement of 100 countries organizing against Trump’s brand of fascism. Read his urgent warning: www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-in-f...

Opinion | What the DOJ’s Southern Poverty Law Center indictment is really about Michael Edison Hayden: Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said: “The SPLC is manufacturing racism to justify its existence.” That’s patently absurd.

I’ve been critical of the SPLC lately but this indictment feels like a stunt.

It targets one of the primary enemies of their shared cinematic universe at a time when MAGA is divided over the war.

Me for MSNOW:
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So, HI, CA, OR, and WA can join Canada, or form their own union, stay part of NATO, claim all the formerly national-to-the-US assets within their respective states on behalf of their next nation, and deny the US a west coast (except for Midway & Guam unless they want to join the new venture).

Goodnight America, before I retire for the night I leave you with these parting words;

screenshot of WashPo editorial board August 20 2025 "The Texas Gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy"

screenshot of April 21 Wash PO editorial board: "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

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New poll: 55% support impeaching Trump Support for impeachment rivals levels during Donald Trump's first presidency, when he was impeached twice, and for impeaching Richard Nixon after the Watergate scandal

Support for impeaching Trump is at 55%, according to a new Strength In Numbers/ @Verasight.io poll, with 37% of adults opposed. Crucially 1 in 5 of Trump’s own voters support impeachment.

Read and share:

www.gelliottmorris.com/p/2026-04-22...

📌In 2010, Virginia Republicans gerrymandered congressional & state legislative maps, packing Black voters into districts to secure an 8-3 Republican U.S. House advantage.

There was no vote, just old-school racism.

Their indignant behavior over yesterday's VOTE is laughable, appalling and pathetic.