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A Minnesota prosecutor charges conservative influencers James O’Keefe and Cam Higby with felony counts of unlawful voting and identity theft after they misrepresented themselves at polling places using the names of registered voters.

Once again, I’m obliged to remind you that the Secretary of Defense is a dangerous idiot

Russia is giving Trump-friendly media figures a tour of Oleshky, Ukraine, the site of a cease-fire reportedly brokered by Melania Trump—but what they’ll see almost certainly won’t be the truth, Zarina Zabrisky reports.

DHS Feeding Citizens’ Bank Records To Predictive Policing Units To Find Drivers To Pull Over Every government does stuff because it can, not because it needs to. But... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/10/dhs-feeding-citizens-bank-records-to-predictive-policing-units-to-find-drivers-to-pull-over/

Susan Collins pulls into town in a bus full of her supporters; then they all get off the bus; and then she addresses the folks who were on the bus with her as if they were regular Mainers; and legacy media covers this, pretending it isn't deeply bizarre. (Notice the guys with cameras.) #MEpolitics

DOGE promised savings. Instead: a hobbled IRS, a dismantled USAID, and a shuttered consumer watchdog that at one time returned $26b to Americans. One estimate: IRS layoffs will cost $600b in lost revenues over 10 years. @michaelmechanic.bsky.social does the math: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

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Canada Begins Construction on Wall

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I generally don't like cross-posting from Twitter, but Mike Young absolutely nails how the US wound up with a resurgence of the flesh-eating screwworm decades after it had been eliminated.

New USDA data released today: H.R. 1 enacted the deepest SNAP cuts in history last July. By January, more than 3 million fewer people were receiving food assistance. Nationwide, SNAP caseloads fell by more than 8% in just 6 months — despite no improvement in economic conditions.

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders. Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order. That's an out-of-control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

This is what Times Square will look like when Congress or a cheeseburger finally does its job

Proof good people still exist 🍕

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NEW: Some DHS contractors told White House officials they were asked to pay Corey Lewandowski, a top adviser to Kristi Noem.

Watching these videos made me ill.

The great Russian disconnect

This might be the greatest split-screen ever broadcast. They’ll play this in museums in future. (🎥 LCI 🇫🇷)

Wow. I thought it was bad, but...😱

Patel fires FBI Iran experts just in time for war. Counter-terror generally has already been taken apart. www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...

This is real life.

Iran’s people were facing a horrible shortage of water before the war began. If we are destroying desalination plants and setting fire to Teheran we are committing unfathomable crimes.

I just submitted my letter to NSF responding to its proposal to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). I argue that doing so would be an astonishing and avoidable misstep, and that federal support for the institution should in fact be *increased.* [1/4]

The girls’ school in Iran, where 165 people were killed by an apparent US-Israeli attack, was hit with two strikes, with the second missile killing sheltering survivors, two first responders and the parent of a slain child have told Middle East Eye.

"A stable, law-abiding Iran will help build a stable, law-abiding Middle East. But in order to achieve that, Iran needs not a new dictatorship but self-determination and a pluralist government that respects basic rights. Right now, the Trump administration is not trying to build one."

Even by cult standards, this is just bonkers.

California residents are noticing new license plate readers that appear to be operated by the Border Patrol. Some have had confusing encounters with agents. bit.ly/3ON0YBI

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AI Found Twelve New Vulnerabilities in OpenSSL The title of the post is"What AI Security Research Looks Like When It Works," and I agree: In the latest OpenSSL security release> on January 27, 2026, twelve new zero-day vulnerabilities (meaning unknown to the maintainers at time of disclosure) were…

Bloomberg says we've spent $3B on Trump's invasion of Venezuela. Which is 6X more than the cancer, Alzheimer, diabetes, and heart disease cures they've cut to pay for it. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Her description sounds accurate.

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Yet somehow Republicans have managed to fool the public into thinking they're better about spending, deficits and debts.

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band will launch their Land Of Hope And Dreams American Tour across the country this spring, kicking off at Minneapolis’ Target Center on March 31. The 20-date run will feature 19 arena shows, and a final night on May 27 at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C.

The horror stories rolling in from Minnesota are just the tip of the iceberg. This 20-year-old, who's lawfully present in the country, was arrested for being Latino, then jailed in a filthy cell where he couldn't even sit down. 18 days of illegal detention. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

An 18-Million-Subscriber YouTuber Just Explained Section 230 Better Than Every Politician In Washington Over the years, we've written approximately one million words explaining why Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act is essential to how the internet functions. We've corrected politicians…

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Here is my conclusion after sitting through Maxwell's deposition with her refusing to answer a single question about the men who raped underage girls, saying she would only do so for clemency. She must immediately be sent back to the maximum security prison where she belongs.

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“We had the best writers in the country and did more with less, and we knew it with a swagger.” Sally Jenkins pays tribute to The Washington Post’s Sports section:

Trump is denying that a deal between his family’s crypto firm and a member of the Abu Dhabi royal family is a conflict of interest—and in doing so, he’s challenging the idea that such a conflict is even possible for a president, Jonathan Chait argues.