I should have added that in this pod we discuss this piece on Orban:
newrepublic.com/article/2090...

Co-sign. @talkingpointsmemo.com is a must-read.

Say what you will about the worst members of the Roberts Court, but they all make sure their wives are in on the grift.

Jane Roberts, Martha Alito and Ginni Thomas are equal partners with their husbands in the grand project of destroying the United States and enriching themselves in the process.

Accountability = court reform.

"Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider."

Trump coup conspirator John Eastman has been disbarred. That’s good. He abused his status as a White House lawyer to advocate lawbreaking, even doing so in writing the night of Jan. 6

But quite bad that this, years later, is the only consequence for him, or just about any high level coup plotter.

Can confirm

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Well worth calling your Rep and asking them to support the Articles of Impeachment.

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti at risk in Israeli jails as he faces ‘escalating abuse’ ‘Palestine’s Mandela’ suffers three recent attacks including assault where prison guards set a dog on him, lawyer says Jailed Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti is at immediate risk in Israeli jails, where he has been attacked three times in as many weeks, including in one assault last month where prison guards set a dog on the 66-year-old, his lawyer has said. Barghouti is often called Palestine’s Nelson Mandela. He is respected across otherwise feuding Palestinian factions, has broad popular support across occupied Palestine, repeatedly engaged with Israeli officials before his detention and long backed a two-state solution. Continue reading...

Palestinian leader Marwan Barghouti at risk in Israeli jails as he faces ‘escalating abuse’

Trump Spirals into Fury at Bad Iran News as Polls Hit Shocking New Low As Trump starts raging at his allies over Iran, the author of a piece on the politics of the war explains why this fiasco is fracturing the MAGA movement so badly—both domestically and internationally...

Trump coalition is collapsing. His net approval among noncollege whites has dropped 34 points. On Iran he's 13 points underwater with them. Orbanism is done. Meloni snubbed him.

On the pod, @alexshephard.bsky.social and I dissect MAGA's collapse at home and abroad:
newrepublic.com/article/2090...

Ohio’s nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters Long-term care facilities in Ohio are increasingly discharging their residents to homeless shelters, according to interviews and facility inspections.

Shocking story: Ohio’s nursing homes are dumping patients at homeless shelters

There are good lessons to learn about voting, organizing etc.

But I worry people will learn the wrong lesson about concessions. Orban conceded. Trump never will. We cannot get lulled into a false sense of security for 2026.

More tomorrow…

Magyar: “No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions.”

Worth noting that Hungary was much further down the road to fascism than we are. And with one election and a motivated electorate, it’s over.

The NYT quotes a young conservative operative without identifying him as such.

On the left, the NYT quotes him wondering why anyone would think Trump is different from any other president. And then on the right, is that kid's Substack insisting that Trump is different from any other president.

Stansbury: I just walked out of the briefing room, and what is absolutely clear is that Pam Bondi has no intention of complying with the law and the subpoena that we've issued for her to be deposed under oath in front of the committee.

They said, we've released what we're going to release.

Inside the DHS Campaign Against US Citizens Must Read The Wall Street Journal over the weekend published an extensive...

Inside the DHS Campaign Against US Citizens talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

Utah GOP push to repeal anti-gerrymander law falters amid fraud allegations tied to firm backed by Trump Jr. As a result of the growing controversy, the GOP ended its partnership with Patriot Grassroots.

🚨BREAKING: A Trump-backed, GOP effort to repeal a Utah law that could give Democrats one extra U.S. House seat appears to be unraveling after county officials flagged thousands of potentially invalid and fraudulent petition signatures. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The Atlantic wrote a piece saying the Epstein Files are not a big conspiracy but then there's a photo of the owner with Maxwell

Hahaha OK that's pretty good.

Marc Bloch to be inducted into French Panthéon. 🗃️

the skewer seems loosening out of the middle of the world

Don't forget that Donald Trump is referenced in the Epstein files more than 38,000 times according to NYT. He's likely worse than racist.

This was posted in the new Epstein files release and removed about 20 mins later.

Wonder why that is.

Yep- that’s the wedge

- IRAN UPDATE HRANA's latest numbers. The total number of fatalities - confirmed and under review - has now surpassed 23,000. Reminder: HRANA death confirmations take time, as they go through multiple layers of verification. Very limited internet access continues to make the collection and processing of data difficult. We still do not know the full extent of the Islamic Republic's carnage. Confirmed fatalities: 6,126 Protesters: 5,777 Children (under 18): 86 Forces affiliated with the regime: 214 Non-protesters: 49 Fatalities under investigation: 17,091 TOTAL: 23,217 Severely injured individuals: 11,009 Total arrests: 41,880 Broadcast of forced confessions: 245 Summoned to intelligence/security agencies: 11,024

Latest numbers out of Iran.

Reminder that, as of the latest reports, Liam Ramos is still in prison in Texas - now for 5 days.

His parents are legal asylum seekers with no criminal record.

New date for the General Strike. We demand: Stop ICE murdering, remove the regime and release Epstein Files. There are many different ways to strike:
1) BRING BACK MAIN STREET-
2) TAX STRIKE
3) JOIN LOCAL PROTESTS
4) JOIN MUTUAL AID GROUPS
5) CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES-

Must read.