This is my daily thread on developments in Ukraine and its defence against the Russian invasion.

Day 1516 of Putin's attempt to eradicate Ukrainian culture & anyone not willing to bow to its demands.

I've written about Ukraine for 25 years, but only sonsecutively for 1,516 days!

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Trump DOJ Continues To Withhold FISA Section 702 Noncompliance Records The vote is currently scheduled for Wednesday, April 15. The FBI’s misconduct speaks for itself.

In Oct., @cato.org sued for records on surveillance law Section 702, but the DOJ and FBI missed a court deadline and recently released heavily redacted docs right before Congress is set to vote on the law's renewal.

EFF Calls on Kuwait to Release Journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin EFF calls on the Kuwaiti government to immediately release journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin. An award-winning journalist and television host who worked for Al Jazeera for many years, Shihab-Eldin—a dual

EFF calls on the government of Kuwait to immediately release Kuwaiti-American journalist Ahmed Shihab-Eldin. eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Alpacka Raft joined the Save the Forest Service movement.

You’re probably going to hear a lot about what the rich really pay in taxes today.

This chart tells the real story.

VOUGHT: This president has campaigned and led for peace, and against endless wars

BALINT: So it's peace through war? Is that where are right now? Peace through war?

Neguse: "Despite all of that, Speaker Johnson made the decision to gavel the House & send everyone home. Now we're back 2 weeks later & what has the majority decided is the most pressing issue to debate? Apparently it's a resolution commemorating a bill that the GOP passed last year. It's absurd."

This kind of confusion about when a significant event happened is extremely familiar to me, a child of a person who has been diagnosed with both vascular dementia and Alzheimer's disease.

The Trump Administration is starting to admit that shadowy private credit might be in trouble.

But they’re still trying to shove it into YOUR 401(k).

Every day Trump and his cronies find another way to tell working people they couldn’t care less about them.

Why does the American tax system favor the wealthy? And how did it get this way? I chatted with Jon Stewart about this back in 2012. Sadly it's only gotten worse since then. We must keep up the fight to fix the system.

Stephen Miller's Strait of Hormuz His crackdown on immigrants is assumed to be good for America as long as it causes immigrants more pain than it does us.

The war in Iran has made everything — even Stephen Miller’s war on immigrants — feel like a Strait of Hormuz situation. Let me explain.

robertreich.substack.com/p/steven-millers-strait-...

The Buy Now, Pay Later Trap Is "Buy Now, Pay Later" too good to be true?Former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra shines a light on its hidden costs for bor

NEW: Is "Buy Now, Pay Later" too good to be true?

It sounds like a sweet deal, but it carries alarming risks for consumers and our economy as a whole.

Former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra explains.

How Much Has the War in Iran Depleted the U.S. Missile Supply? Defense officials inside the Trump Administration were already concerned that American stockpiles were insufficient for a potential standoff with China. A war of choice in the Middle East has only mad...

How does the US spend $800 billion a year on defense and yet after just six weeks of war with Iran, we're running out of missiles and munitions? For my latest @newyorker.com piece, I dove into the dysfunction of the US defense budget: www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Hello again, prepare for another daily thread on all things Ukraine, and affecting the country.

Day 1512 of defending the country against Russia's full invasion (4,437 since the start of the Crimea invasion)

All the news in one handy thread, updated every minute I get!

thank you @frontlinepbs.bsky.social & @propublica.org !!!

FRONTLINE and ProPublica investigate the violence, protests and arrests stemming from the federal immigration sweeps across the country. "Caught in the Crackdown" premieres tonight on PBS and online.

A new Ukraine thread at the start of a new week, and the week starts full of optimism - after all, whenever Putin is angry, the world's a slightly better place.

It's Day 1510 of Russia's attempt to annihilate Ukraine.
Let's see what's happening today...

1 dead and 1 injured in shooting in Duncanville, Texas.

Mass shooting:
4 wounded including 2 children in shooting in Rosemead, California.

April 12, 2026 By the end of 2024, inflation in the U.S., which had soared in the aftermath of the Covid-19 lockdowns, was almost back to the Federal Reserve’s goal of 2%.

April 12, 2026

2 wounded in shooting in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

2 wounded in shooting in Columbus, Ohio.

2 wounded in shooting in Baltimore, Maryland.

2 wounded in shooting in La Grange, Kentucky.

2 wounded in shooting in Columbus, Ohio.

2 wounded in shooting in Florence, Colorado.

2 wounded in shooting in Stonecrest,Georgia.

1.5 million Russian casualties. Ukraine's losses — a fraction of that.

Benjamin Patton — grandson of General George S. Patton Jr. — said it plainly: the tide is turning. Ukraine is strong with or without American support. And Ukraine needs the US far less than the US needs Ukraine.