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Zelenskyy: “I told Trump: If you enable Starlink access inside Russia, we can quickly destroy their ballistic missile launchers. Putin would come to negotiating table, and I wouldn’t need to destroy a single energy facility. But instead, they shut down Starlink.” As they say, "from RU, with love"

Watchdog group @citizensforethics.org files legal challenge, asking court to block Jared Kushner from serving as Trump envoy They allege he's “breaking the law by acting as one of the country’s top diplomats without undergoing Senate confirmation or filing financial disclosures.”

Maybe the most important political story of our time. People just want the bullshit to stop.

Two possibilities. Either he is the worst kind of scumbag liar or he is insane. It could of course, be a combination of the two.

This is the one kind of questioning that Trump has literally never faced: just basic questions about facts & how the world works. He was able to become president while never understanding the first fucking thing about anything, in part because he was *never asked*.

Conservatives on the Supreme Court have been diluting Americans’ votes for decades. Let’s dilute theirs. Expand the court in 2029.

HODGES: Witkoff and Kushner achieved absolutely zero, at least nothing positive, during their trip. The disgusting sucking up to Putin on display by Witkoff and Kushner was hard to even watch. It's embarrassing. And then they went to Kyiv to basically deliver Kremlin's message,

Oh. Trump and DHS lied about non-citizen voters in Nevada? No way!

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court BLOCKS US Postal Service from implementing Section 3 of Trump’s anti voting EO. Has nationwide impact. A huge victory for voters and defeat for Trump and DOJ. www.democracydocket.com/cases/trump-...

A federal judge stepped in today to protect the midterm elections from something the Trump administration is trying to do. The details matter. A lot: joycevance.substack.com/p/judge-decl...

My takeaway from that speech is that we are headed down the road of Trump trying to outright rig elections. It probably won't work, but he's going for it.

Trump will lie about the 2020 election. Trump will lie about the 2026 election. But, if Trump claims powers he does not have, or tries to undermine free and fair election, we will sue and we will win. If you doubt me, take a look at my record in beating him and his allies in court.

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Alarms should be going off.

So sad, but so true!

Cool PBS report on plug-in solar. (Wish they'd gotten into plug-in batteries too!)

Trump Yesterday: "I wasn't involved in the creation of [the $1.776 billion slush fund] and the negotiation." Trump Today: "I was the one who decided how much money would go into the $1.776 billion slush fund." He lies about everything.

Oh my.

Dana Bash at the end giving credence to this “debate” is shocking. Whether to vaccinate your children against measles is NOT A LEGITIMATE POLICY DEBATE.

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Here are the facts: People have always had and will always have abortions in all 50 states. Abortion pills are safe, effective, and have been used by millions of people. No court or politician can change either of those realities.

This is pretty amazing.

BTW, the cost to repair the reflecting pool went from $1.8 million to $7 million and now it's $13.1 million. A reminder that not a single soul asked for this project.

This is some fine doom from @jvl.bsky.social and it will remind you of what voters are like in the real world. www.thebulwark.com/p/people-wan...

Here’s more proof that DOGE was a failure: The Federal Student Aid office is scrambling to hire hundreds of employees after DOGE gutted their office last year. Looks like firing the workers who help students afford school wasn't eliminating "waste, fraud, and abuse" after all.

AOC on possibly running for the Senate or President: They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.

MacFarlane: People in Virginia voted by the millions. Their voices were heard and now have been silenced. And you want to talk about what starts a political wave in a year like this: a mass of people who think their voices have been silenced. That doesn't stop a wave that fuels one.

What Rick correctly said..

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Codifying Roe, passing the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, and holding members of this administration criminally accountable are important goals, but none of it sticks without Supreme Court reform.

1. When was the last time you had to show your ID to walk into a restaurant? 2. If he means to purchase liquor, unlike the SAVE act, I don’t have to prove citizenship with a birth certificate or passport to do that. 3. Going to a restaurant isn’t a right.

Right wing domestic terrorism -- by every measure, the overwhelmingly most common kind of domestic terrorism -- cost a legislator her life and the national press did not give a shit. Barely covered it. Read this lovely tribute.

"I'd love for people to get a sense that the American story is a lot more complex than perhaps we all initially thought, and that Muslims are a part of that story," says Asma Khalid, a host of the new documentary series "American Muslims: A History Revealed." https://to.pbs.org/4tM1ks3

🚨BREAKING: On behalf of the National Council of Jewish Women and Louisiana voters, my law firm has sued Governor Jeff Landry (R) and Secretary of State Nancy Landry (R), challenging the state’s decision to suspend the 2026 congressional primary elections. www.democracydocket.com/cases/louisi...

Today’s Supreme Court ruling guts the Voting Rights Act and turns back the clock on the foundational promise of equality and fairness in our election systems.

He hates comedy because it speaks truth to power & a malignant narcissist can't handle that. Period. End of story. With many thanks to: @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social @colbertlateshow.bsky.social @latenightseth.bsky.social @thedailyshow.com 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏

Trump set April 30 as a deadline for the Zambian Govt: Either accept Trump's new health funding agreement & keep access to critical AIDS meds—and give USA expanded access to its precious mineral resources like copper, lithium, & cobalt—or let its citizens die due to lack of vital AIDS meds. 1/2

I’m listening to seasoned reporters talk about how frightened they were during the shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner last night and imagining how much worse it is for America’s children. If there’s ever been a time to pass sensible gun control laws, it’s now.

One of the brightest auroras I have ever seen…

Politics was invented to prevent violence. When violence enters politics, politics fails

We don’t know the shooter’s motive at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner tonight. His target could have been Trump, but it could just as easily have been a member of the media. Let’s stay patient, avoid jumping to conclusions, and wait for the facts to come out.

Honestly, it’s exhausting to have such dumb, corrupt, incompetent, reckless and evil people currently running the country. What a sad expression of the failure of education and morality in a country that once could pride itself on advancing talented and capable people.

If Republicans hate the CA and VA redistricting, they can thank the person responsible - Donald J. Trump. None of it would’ve been possible without his leadership on this issue.