The Admin needs to explain whether Pennington was killed in that strike and if so whether it was done with help from Russia, as seems likely.
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America's status as the top destination for global talent is being shattered.
The Administration only just published (!) what happened last summer to international student visa issuances. It's grim.
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1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.
An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.
It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.
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Which I wrote up here.
We need to know if Russia helped kill Pennington.
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A short time later Ms. Etherington’s vehicle was spotted following the Border Patrol vehicles again. The BPAs made the decision to stop Ms. Etherington, this time with the intent to use the Border Patrol vehicles to box her in. A few minutes after the decision to stop Ms. Etherington was made, BPAs were able to position their Border Patrol vehicles in front and behind Ms. Etherington’s vehicle. The Border Patrol vehicles then stopped Ms. Etherington’s vehicle by boxing her vehicle in the middle of the road. As BPAs exited the vehicle, Ms. Etherington tried to drive around the Border Patrol vehicle stopped in front of her. As she passed the Border Patrol vehicle stopped in front of her, she bumped the Border Patrol vehicle and continued to drive away. The Government has produced no reports identifying any damage to the Border Patrol vehicle. As Ms. Etherington drove from the scene, BPAs reentered their vehicles and began a pursuit of Ms. Etherington that ended when Border Patrol vehicles rammed into her vehicle bringing her to a stop in front of Roosevelt High School. BPAs immediately swarmed Ms. Etherington’s vehicle with firearms drawn and broke both door windows of Ms. Etherington’s vehicle before forcibly removing her from her vehicle.
Gillian Etherington is one of MN people Pam Bondi rolled out as a trophy back in Jan. She was charged w/felony assault of CBP bc they broke her car window and dragged her out at Roosevelt High (same day Goo was shot).
She's challenging her prosecution on several grounds, incl, basically, CMON.
That's not Tricia, btw. That's Madison Sheahan, Noem's wildly underqualified Deputy, now running against Marcy Kaptur in OH. She ALSO was part of this grift.
Crude oil prices, showing a very sharp increase in the last day, from around 65 to 101 dollars per barrel..
Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy.
This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis.
44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.
To state the obvious, with the selection of the supreme leader’s son to succeed him, the odds of regime change have plummeted, while the odds of at least a somewhat prolonged war have soared. All a product of the failure of advanced planning before bombing.
These crimes are accepted among wealthy circles because the working class is inferior and less than. They rape children, traffic women, and steal wages without a second thought. Evil surrounds itself with more evil.
Thanks @lkatfield.bsky.social!
I'm back from a week off, anything happen while I was away?
Oh yeah, that. Well fortunately Naomi Bethune has supplied for me an entire history of U.S. intervention in Iran. Something to share with your underinformed friends:
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Or how about the secretary of state hanging out with a guy convicted of seditious conspiracy against the US?
MAGA's hate for immigrants should be directed instead towards those who destroyed US manufacturing by moving jobs and know-how to China, towards those who receive billion$ from the US Treasury & raised the deficit but are hardly contributing, & those who are destroying Medicare & public education.
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WTF #BrokenPost! New low: "A wartime presidency defined by Trump’s unique political style...recasting the role of wartime leader in his image...precedent-smashing style of politics...Trump is embracing Trump." Not journalism; masturbation in text.
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I wrote about the Republican Party’s historical trajectory:
From Abraham Lincoln to… Donald Trump. How the hell did we end up here?
Some thoughts from my new piece - an attempt to identify key moments and dynamics in the history of the modern Right:
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The GOP Screamed About Debt—Now They’re Burning $2B a Day
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Anyone who believed this was not paying attention.
Still waiting to see if there's a time when the views Murdoch airs in WSJ affect the coverage he oversees on Fox.
Bc Murdoch could change public opinion pretty quickly...
Another day of interest on the tariffs Trump collected and refuses to give back. American consumers paid the tariffs, American taxpayers pay the interest on Trump holding onto the money as long as possible. Every day the bill goes up.
That was also true in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan.
Trump looks increasingly desperate to restrict voting rights www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
When are we going to get the results of the Pentagon investigating itself on whether they bombed a girls school while using AI?
The biggest way this is like Covid is that Trump has no idea how bad he’s fucking up. And no one he’s listening to will even try to tell him.
Jacob Winckler Got Charged for His Cat Toy because Charlie Kirk Died
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