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DOJ Is A Joke

Hail the size of golf balls and damaging wind gusts pound northern and central Arizona in a rare storm blowing through, bringing with it tornado risks and possible flash floods.

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173 million people in the U.S. live within 20 miles of an operative data center — a number that would increase to 196 million if all the data centers that are under construction and a portion of those planned are built. nbcnews.to/4ibI8PT

Gabby Giffords shares memories from her hospitalization after surviving a 2011 mass shooting at a constituent meeting in Arizona, that left 13 people wounded and six killed. The former congressman joins GIFFORDS Executive Director Emma Brown in a sit-down interview with NBC News' Lester Holt.

The mother of a toddler found alive in an Arizona hospital morgue more than five hours after being pronounced dead tells NBC News she thought she heard him breathing as she hugged him goodbye, but instead of listening to her gut, she believed the doctor.

Rep. Ilhan Omar describes in detail for the first time the early-morning search of her home last week by federal agents. She reveals that she can no longer live there because of safety concerns.

French President Emmanuel Macron says that “illegitimate” protests will be banned in the coming days and blamed “seditious” ultra-left groups and vandals for last weekend’s riots and looting.

Mike Rogers can keep his yachts and his McMansion in Florida.

"This isn’t policy -- it's a mess" A disappointing September jobs report is highlighting the growing wealth divide. The White House calls Trump’s economy "strong," but Tenant Union Federation’s @taraghuveer.bsky.social argues,"Trump and his billionaire friends are just getting richer."

"It was a high moment in American history – that we held a powerful president accountable. And Trump wants to take that down." Watergate vet Liz Holtzman on the Trump administration's push to rewrite Nixon's history. "If it doesn't make any sense, there's always a reason" 👀

What will the hackers find in Kash Patel’s files: “The guy's cuckoo, so I don't know…. You open a nest, you find all kinds of stuff.” #PredictionMarkets

For Mahmoud Khalil, ‘No Land To Stand On: Notes from Detention’ is about more than his own story. It’s about all of us. "It's about whether anyone in this country can speak out against something that this administration disagrees with and not fear being punished for that speech.”

“They can’t be that stupid.” Former Rep. Liz Holtzman, a lawmaker who served on the House Judiciary Committee that voted to impeach Richard Nixon, slams Trump over reports the DOJ is reviewing whether Watergate prosecutors committed misconduct. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Last week, Donald Trump unveiled an A.I.-powered ‘giant wiener chatbot’ to simplify access to gov't information. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social tested it out and … it also fact checks some of his favorite lies 🫢 Or at least it USED TO. Some of the bot’s answers have reportedly since been reprogrammed.

On Friday, a federal judge temporarily BLOCKED the Trump administration from building a border wall across the Big Bend region—including inside the national park. Stay tuned. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

Awesome Lineup

Please join me on MS NOW 10a-1p w/ @jumaane.bsky.social Dr. Jonathan D. White Ayman Mohyeldin @mosababutoha.bsky.social @melatkirosco.bsky.social Dr. Tristan Buckmaster @kabirkhanna.bsky.social Ken Salazar Kelsie Kimberlin

ICE Thug/Goon

An ICE agent fired seven rounds into a car with a 5-year-old inside. NYC Public Advocate @jumaane.bsky.social: “If this was happening in another country right now, we’d probably be trying to figure out how to intervene" "We need to remember this in the midterms.”

“Everyone should be appalled.” A year out from the declared ceasefire, Pulitzer Prize-winning writer and poet Mosab Abu Toha describes conditions in Gaza as children are orphaned and families remain buried in the rubble of their own homes. “It breaks my heart every single moment.”

AI just solved hundreds of elusive math equations. Mathematicians are sounding the alarm. “Destroying early-career mathematicians with a PR stunt,” says NYU prof Tristan Buckmaster. “It's not just science and mathematics...It’s going to affect all of us”

GOP candidates seem to be feeling the political deadweight of the President as midterms approach. "The American people have seen exactly the product of this administration,” argues @melatkirosco.bsky.social. “This is our opportunity…We have to start leading with an actual vision."

Leave no trace? Not if you’re Donald Trump. Under his administration, long-standing public land protections have been rolled back, and history erased. “There’s a reversal that’s taken us back 100 years,” said Ken Salazar, former Secretary of the Interior.

Awesome Lineup

Please join me on MS NOW 10a-1p w/ @zohranmamdani.bsky.social // @mayor.nyc.gov Eddie Huang @anandwrites.bsky.social @ginafortexas.bsky.social @troyjackson207.bsky.social Yuval Abraham @obeygiant.bsky.social @angieforfl.bsky.social @elisehu.bsky.social Charles Shaughnessy

In his 1st interview since Thursday's ICE shooting, @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on frustrating talks w/ Trump & Mullin. ICE agents “ view the law as a suggestion," says Mamdani, making a "mockery of what law & order is supposed to be". “Trusting ICE at their word is a fool’s errand."

‘I think people should be trusted to have their own logic and reasoning, and I think books are a resource to our society,’ said Eddie Huang. Haung discovered his own memoir was banned in Texas during an anti-censorship event. “I’m worried for this country,” says Huang.

“It’s the worst it’s ever been.” Maine Dem Senate Nominee Troy Jackson says this administration’s war in Iran has driven energy costs to untenable levels. “I do not know how people are going to heat their homes this winter.”

“It is clearly, in my view, a crime.” Academy Award-winning director Yuval Abraham spoke about what he learned in the making of his new critically acclaimed film, “NAZA.” “I think it's clear that the IDF… the Netanyahu government, don't want these revelations to come out.”

A Gen Z voter on why she’s going to the polls: “Our President should be someone who's setting an example for the rest of the world and…all I can think of is Cornell Seven, and like, how can you even blame those guys when their president is doing the same thing?”

see you saturday for our LIVE "No Kings" day coverage! right after "Connect" from 4-6 p.m. ET / 1-3 p.m. PT 😎 @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

what's the ~spookiest~ thing you think will happen between now and the midterms? let us know your thoughts for this week's "prediction markets!" 👻 @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

Earlier this month the IDF called the doc “a distorted, misleading, and disingenuous picture of the IDF’s target planning and striking process," adding that the IDF is "is bound by and committed to international humanitarian law." Yuval responds in our interview here: youtu.be/Z_Q7eq7yrt8?...

Just days earlier, Jacob Soboroff spoke to Oscar-winning director and investigative journalist Yuval Abraham about his film and about the backlash from Netanyahu and the IDF. Watch the full interview here: youtu.be/Z_Q7eq7yrt8?...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is now calling for an investigation and prosecution of the anonymous intelligence officers and soldiers featured in the new documentary "NAZA," accusing the subjects of "(harming) Israel’s diplomatic and security interests." @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

Watch the full interview here: youtu.be/Z_Q7eq7yrt8?...

“There was this sense of helplessness.” Oscar-winning director Yuval Abraham talks about interviewing 24 Israeli intelligence officers and soldiers for “NAZA,” his new documentary on Israel’s military operation in Gaza, and why they agreed to speak out. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

Will thousands more ICE agents on the streets of America make the country safer? Here's how one woman responded in a recent "Prediction Markets."

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programming note! after my show Saturday morning I'll be hosting a *very special* afternoon edition of @connectwithjacob.bsky.social LIVE from the No Kings Day rally at Gloria Molina Grand Park in Downtown Los Angeles. 4-6PM ET. 1-3PM PT. come say hello!

NYU math professor Tristan Buckmaster and his collaborator Levent Alpöge had made significant progress on solving an historic math equation before OpenAI’s model beat them to it. Watch our full interview here: youtu.be/a65dI2AYL3o?...

OpenAI recently dumped a staggering trove of answers to elusive math problems solved by its internal artificial intelligence models. The mathematics world isn’t happy about it. @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

good morning! happy No Kings Day. pulling double duty today. see you on @connectwithjacob.bsky.social at 10AM ET then again on our special No Kings Day live broadcast at 4PM ET from Gloria Molina Grand Park in DTLA.

Awesome Lineup

Please join me on MS NOW 10a-1p w/ @leahgreenberg.bsky.social // @indivisible.org @blackvotersmatterfund.org Mariia Ulianovska @ufw.bsky.social @mariaressa.bsky.social @justinjpearson.bsky.social Mariana van Zeller 1/2

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