Holding people accountable for the law shouldn’t depend on their badge. If the facts support the charge, the court will sort it out.

Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty: "Are we concerned as to whether there would be federal blowback? Not a concern of ours. Our role is to hold people accountable if they violate the laws of Minnesota. We feel strongly that this ICE agent committed 2nd degree assault."

MacFarlane: Are we to pretend we didn’t watch all that on television on January 6th? Did we not all see what happened at the Capitol?

These vacating of convictions, these pardons, are communicating to the American people: do not believe your lying eyes

Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.

This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning.

Never doubt your power to change the system.

The Potomac River tops the list of most endangered rivers in the country, according to a newly released report that cites the impacts of a recent sewage spill and data centers in the region.
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Amid wellness craze, FDA weighs lifting peptide restrictions Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a self-professed “big fan” of peptides. They have grown in popularity for wellness and antiaging, but many remain untested.

The FDA is taking the first step toward potentially allowing compounding pharmacies to produce seven peptides that are currently restricted because of the agency’s previous warning over safety concerns.

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a self-professed “big fan” of peptides.

Of course he’s a big fan. In this administration, science seems to get evaluated the same way people pick supplements at the gym.

"The problem is that there is what psychologists would call a cognitive dissonance. You have to bend reality, and stuff reality into a box and pretend it's not there ... And you can only do that for so long before you lose your mind."

BARTIROMO: Did you see Europe is drafting a plan to open up the Hormuz Strait without the United States?

TRUMP: It's so sad. Look at Greenland. We should have Greenland.

He’s still ranting about the Pope

Wild to remember the Blazers’ season started with their head coach arrested in an investigation into rigged poker games run by the mafia.

"...watching him [Trump] do what he was doing and do the opposite of what I would expect a reasonable human being—even a slightly flawed one- to do."

It's time we have a president and a Congress that fight for us. Not special interests, not foreign governments, but Americans.

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Klein: I agree that it is a revolutionary technology, that it is going to transform our economy on the scale of the Industrial Revolution.

But unlike the Industrial Revolution, which created huge numbers of jobs, the goal of this revolution is to eliminate jobs.

It’s infuriating when a woman comes forward about a man raping her in his hotel room after drinking and the response is “Why would she go to his room?” “Why would she drink with him?” This is Mike Pence logic. Women should be allowed to hang out with men without expecting they will be raped.

BARTIROMO: Oil prices are up 50% in the last month

TIM SCOTT: Well, they're still lower than they were under President Biden, so that's good news. We can thank President Trump.

Turned on NBC. They talked about “President tipping a DoorDash driver $100”.

This woman participated in GOP ads before playing other roles. There is no DoorDash deliveries to the Oval Office. Please exercise proper judgement when consuming news.

Today, Pamela Jo Bondi, our most recent head of the Department of Justice, is blithely ignoring a valid, legal subpoena requiring her to testify before Congress.

We are not a nation of laws. We are a nation of some people can get away with anything.

Trump: "Europe is desperate for Energy, and yet the United Kingdom refuses to open North Sea Oil, one of the greatest fields in the World. Tragic!!! Aberdeen should be booming. Norway sells its North Sea Oil to the U.K. at double the price. They are making a fortune. U.K., which is better situated on the North Sea for purposes of energy than Norway, should, DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!! It is absolutely crazy that they don’t… AND, NO MORE WINDMILLS! President DJT"

Trump: "Europe is desperate for Energy, and yet UK refuses to open North Sea Oil, one of the greatest fields in the World. Tragic!!! ... UK, which is better situated on North Sea for purposes of energy than Norway, should, DRILL, BABY, DRILL!!! It is crazy that they don’t… AND, NO MORE WINDMILLS!"

EISEN: Critics say you're just trying to chill free speech, and also chill any negative reporting and criticism of this administration

FCC CHAIR BRENDAN CARR: People that don't like complying with the public interest obligations that come with a license are free to switch over to cable or streaming

Public interest obligations” aren’t optional fine print you can shrug off they’re the whole basis for getting a broadcast license in the first place.

The problem isn’t just the foil it’s the system that keeps outsourcing accountability until the next election cycle. At some point, “waiting it out” becomes a strategy, not a solution.

Me: "I never ever wanted to run for Congress or anything .... And I can't be a 30-year congressman. I'm not a career guy; it's not what I'm about.

"I want to get in and get out after a couple terms: one to get rid of the moth— ... guy, and the next term to … help with the legal reconstruction"

Rick Scott: "Fund ICE. They're the ones that are stopping these illegal aliens from raping our daughters."

KERNEN: We'd never be able to send anyone back if you needed a judicial warrant every single time

RAND PAUL: Well, I don't think that's true. Obeying the 4th Amendment of the Constitution shouldn't be too difficult. It's something we fought the revolution over.

Turns out the Constitution is still that annoying thing that applies even when it’s inconvenient.

Trump lost his war on Iran, bigly His nonstop bullshitting can't change the facts on the ground.

New in PN: Trump lost his war on Iran, bigly

"The ability of the free press, much less regime propagandists, to grapple with the scale of the loss & its implications is very much in doubt. It’s worth, therefore, laying out the nature of the defeat, who's unwilling to describe it as such, & why."

Every time someone declares a ‘total defeat,’ it mysteriously turns into a very long ‘we’re still reviewing the situation.

Another day, another pundit monetizing the ‘end of Donald Trump.

People have been predicting the impeachment and removal of Donald Trump for nearly a decade now. At this point it feels more like wishful thinking than analysis.