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NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

The Trump administration Justice Department suffered a massive setback on Tuesday, as a federal grand jury refused to indict former GOP aide Cassidy Hutchinson on charges of lying to Congress.

Dude is a professor at Cambridge and he’s the dumbest person alive

The left’s soft pedaling of mao is not a fringe phenomenon

In practice, Mao was intensely colonial - from Tibet to the mass persecution of various ethnic minorities in Western China during the Cultural Revolution. But what many of these people see is the establishment (and establishment means "white") center-left attacking an Asian emancipator.

A clearly frustrated federal judge warned President Donald Trump's administration it could face contempt sooner rather than later, giving its lawyers just hours to detail every step toward returning an unlawfully deported man.

I hope that she does not run again. Not with that loser energy. You impeach because he did the high crimes and misdemeanors, not because you have removal “in the bag”.

Any Democratic politician seeking the presidency that puts any measure off-the-table or out-of-reach in the pursuit of redressing this egregious national & global grievance of injustice is, in my humble opinion, completely self-disqualified for the role.

If you've noticed the Hamasbots losing their minds on social media today, it's probably because of the Israeli election. If Netanyahu ends up out of power, they will have lost their Israeli Big Bad whose government has been their ostensible reason for their "antizionism."

Her campaign also calls out Trump for his nonsensical post on Monday claiming Flanagan can only win this race by cheating. "Trump, who tried to overturn a free and fair election in 2020, is already laying the groundwork to reject next week’s results when Minnesotans reject his candidate."

People Magazine had a reporter who accused T of sexual assault while she was on an assignment for the mag. people.com/politics/don...

A single camera shot from President Donald Trump's latest rally sparked a wave of online ridicule, with critics zeroing in on one detail.

For starters, IMO there is a good case to treat the TikTok acquisition as void ab initio. Trump violated the strict letter of a statute for a year in order to arrange its sale to a regime-aligned oligarch

now we're cooking bsky.app/profile/russ...

before the election, doing dogpile coverage on Trump's heavily documented and extremely plausible rape allegations would be Political and therefore improper. after the election it's time to turn the page, let bygones be bygones, look forward not backward, bsky.app/profile/hoff...

this is just insanely damning stuff when you lay it all out democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

Kudos to TIME for getting it right time.com/article/2026...

Homepage of the @miamiherald.com with story by @jkbjournalist.bsky.social that mentions rape in the first paragraph. See, it's not so fucking hard. www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

The NYT story does not even include the word rape. Not once.

Beyond disgusted by even more rape allegations against the President of the United States. "In total, more than 25 different women...have independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct." Report w/ new details: democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

The only reason I can think of for this news not being absolutely everywhere is that large media orgs don’t want to be seen as putting their thumbs on the scales a week before election day. And that’s cowardly as shit.

1/ Republicans cut Medicaid, then want credit for objecting when care disappears. In Georgia, autistic children are losing therapy while their insurer says it remains covered. A promise on paper cannot help a child whose provider is gone. #DV1 #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory #USDemocracy

Trump claims that there was a "military invasion" of Texas during the Biden administration

Trump speaks to small Corpus Christi crowd, repeatedly glitches and makes strange noises during speech where he also slurred heavily while his dentures seemed to be falling out Supercut:

Keep in mind, he spent a year living in Iraq in a noncombat role as a Public Affairs officer in 2005-6, back when he was going under the name James David Hamel, the third of his four aliases. bsky.app/profile/atru...

This is such an integral part of the story that the UK Supreme Court convicted him last week of gross negligence for losing his entire fleet on the way back to Ithaca. (Yes this was a charity event, but the legal arguments were semi-serious. Personally, I voted him guilty on both counts)

We are literally sending dissidents back to Daniel Ortega while claiming to be protecting Bolsonaro from a scary leftist.

Off the charts Trump family corruption. Kushner got Billions of foreign funds, while spearheading foreign policy. And the Hunter Biden hunters are silent. @MarshaBlackburn

Putin: “Russia is exploring the possibility of cooperation with the US in the Arctic.” Just a reminder of Trump’s lies that he wanted Greenland to keep Russia out of the Arctic.

JD Vance: "Gas prices are too high ... they skyrocket every time some tinpot dictator decides to throw a tantrum"

Obama’s Muslim and he won the Nobel Prize???

Truly pathetic, absolutely Trump levels of baseless whinging from a position of power (which pretty much sums up modern China and its apologists from a cultural perspective, brillant though much of its tech is) www.bbc.com/news/article...

My latest article about the recent Starlink/Starshield crisis and how Europe can at least partially mitigate this vulnerability, with some effort, using existing assets. fronts.co/article/the-...

60 days after Trump pardoned him, convicted Honduran narco ex-president Juan Orlando Hernández was recorded discussing a US destabilisation plot targeting Mexico, he said the operation was backed by Republicans linked to the Trump administration.

Please enjoy my cartoon in today's Toronto Star

no amnesty

This is what Kyiv's Pivdennyi (Southern) Bridge looks like after a Russian attack. Residents are crossing it on foot to get to work. Last night,Russia attacked Ukraine with 16 ballistic missiles&more than 280 drones. Kyiv was the main target. Sixteen people were injured and one person was killed.

Major press failure: treating Jared Kushner taking foreign bribes and shaping US foreign policy as less relevant than Hunter Biden not taking bribes nor influencing policy. Covering Kushner accurately was considered partisan, biased. Lies about Hunter or his minor actions treated as more important.

TIL the extremely secret (circulation only to named individuals in top brass) 1966 plan of defending #Finland against “an attack or coup attempt that originates from the eastern and/or southern direction” was codenamed KALERVO, which is inordinately funny in ways that unfortunately defy translation

Regal doesn’t have any theaters near me or I would definitely purely go to some of these. gizmodo.com/regal-deep-c...