Currently There Is A List Of 1,200+ ICE Agents Facing Felony Investigations, And Another 5,000+ Facing Civil Rights Violations, 8,000+ Facing Crimes Against Humanity, As ICE Whistleblowers Continue To Provide Evidence To Prosecutors.
“If the strait remains closed for even a month…sustained higher oil prices could plunge the world into a recession, raise borrowing costs, alter the outcome of ongoing wars, and shift the balance of global-power competition in favor of Russia and China”
www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026...
China is watching & taking action as we throw away the best thing we have ever built.
China has proposed to increase its overall research & development expenditure by at least 7%/yr over the next five years, which translates to billions of extra dollars each year.
🧪 go.nature.com/4rqZQ4u
⚠️ Houthis to join in Iran War
Yemen's participation in the war is “only a matter of time.”
Iran state media reporting:
www.ms.now/news/jerome-...
The Kushner brand is basically: I'm hear to offer peace deals and get money, and I'm all out of peace deals
Americans are dying so that Kushner can make money
This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating.
Must-read reporting by ProPublica.
The Trump administration is so incompetent and so unprepared for war that they pulled their minesweepers out of the Strait of Hormuz just weeks ago
They are now in Philadelphia
BOASBERG: “.. the subpoenas’ dominant (if not sole) purpose is to harass and pressure Powell ..
“.. the Government has offered no evidence whatsoever that Powell committed any crime other than displeasing the President ..”
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
so my understanding is the basic options are:
▪️keep bombing, human cost rises but regime remains in place, everyone takes an economic hit
▪️wind down with no strategic goals whatsoever accomplished
▪️invade
how ironic to see the state protect two people who sought to strip the state while working under the direction of elon musk, who has made it impossible to seek recourse when people get death threats and harassment on twitter
Pete Hegseth is hoping the administration’s friends in the media “crack down on reporting that casts an unflattering light on the administration’s behavior”—but that’s not the point they’d emphasize if the war were going smoothly, @jonathanbchait.bsky.social argues:
Chancellor Merz:
Six out of seven [G7 members] were clearly of the opinion that we should not abandon our commitments to Russia. And we were a little surprised to hear this morning that the American government is deciding differently.
1. Trump launches a war against Iran.
2. Putin helps Iran track down and kill American service members.
3. Trump rewards Putin by lifting sanctions on Russian oil.
If Donald Trump isn’t a Russian agent, he’s going out of his way to make people think he is.
Around 50%, maybe up to 60%, of asylum seekers whose claims initially fail but whose appeals are considered are successful.
But you won’t learn that here⬇️, as the BBC is fully bought into the rightwing framing that the only relevant figure is how many people are in the backlog and/or live in hotels
The biggest thing that is giving me hope right now is that pretty much everyone with a functioning brain can see that the emperor is naked.
He’s even losing some of his previously hardcore MAGA supporters, surprisingly.
The GOP is absolutely panicking about the midterms, and they should be.
Axis of evil consolidating around Trump, Putin, and Netanyahu. Orban clinging on by fingernails. Modi doesn’t seem to have been in the news so much lately, but maybe I’ve missed something.
There need to be some arrests.
And the world ended not in a bang but in a ‘just-in-time’ supply chain.
The Lonesome Death of Daphy Michel
Haitian woman, 31, dies alone at Pittsburgh bus stop days after ICE released her to the streets far from home to perish. Rest in power, miss.
migrantinsider.com/p/the-loneso...
Aha - so he thinks that’s a problem?
ICYMI, @gregsargent.bsky.social had a great article just out about the unpopularity of the war in Iran. The war is also, unfortunately, entirely consistent with MAGA’s "vocabulary of civilizational Armageddon" and its fragile hypermasculinity (here he cites FURIOUS MINDS). Check it out!
Hegseth is proudly proclaiming the intention to commit war crimes.
There’s a reason the US is not a signatory to the Rome Statute establishing the International Criminal Court….
Not even the Nazis expressly announced they were committing war crimes. Indeed, at Nuremberg war crimes were denied.
But here, openly, the US Secretary for Defense is explicitly admitting to committing war crimes.
Other, more serious countries have actual constitutional courts
Epstein bombs drop, Trump drops bombs
The transparency push is moving to a new level. ⚖️ Following the recent DHS changes, Congressman Shri Thanedar has officially filed articles of impeachment against Pam Bondi regarding the Epstein file release. Accountability is the name of the game.
Get the full breakdown of the filing here: 👉
