So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:
- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.
A handwritten letter from a child detained at Dilley center. It features a drawing of a house and a crying person’s head. Translated text reads: "We are all stuck in rooms that can hold 12 people they won’t let us go out to the playgrounds and park and it’s very boring to do every day God touch the hearts of those at ICE let us out We are not criminals I want to go home."
While detained at the Dilley detention center, 13-year-old Gerson Lopéz Garcia wrote: “We are all stuck in rooms that can hold 12 people … let us out we are not criminals I want to go home.”
➡️ Read more of the children's letters: https://propub.li/3OJUwLV
Republicans always think that the rules don't apply to them.
They lie, they cheat & they're corrupt AF!
It's outrageous that they would subpoena Secretary Hillary Clinton, who never even met Epstein, yet HOTUS along with POTUS were friends with #Epstein & have tons of pictures with him & Maxwell.
“Unfortunately, because Congress is not taking any steps to rein ICE officers in, there really is no option other than states protecting their constituents’ rights," said Joanna Schwartz, a law professor at UCLA.
Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.
Here’s what experts say you need to know.
We obtained the Dilley detention center’s 911 call logs.
Among them are pleas for help for toddlers having trouble breathing, a pregnant woman who passed out and an elementary-school-aged girl having seizures.
CNN follows NPR and Politico in finding that DOJ scrubbed the Epstein files of evidence related to a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old.
We need to get corporate special interests out of our healthcare and out of our government. That's why I support Medicare for All, and why I'm not taking a dime of Corporate PAC money in this Senate race.
The ax is falling at WGN-Ch. 9, cutting a wide swath out of “Chicago’s Very Own” TV newsroom. Eight veteran reporters and anchors were laid off Monday, according to newsroom sources.
Important update: Trump raises tariffs to 15% as legal challenges begin.
Large scale boycott of Trump’s State of the Union growing.
MAGA rebukes Trump as he fails to accomplish key campaign promises.
Largest military buildup since 9/11 as the U.S. prepares for war.
Alysa Liu proves that an Olympic gold-medalist figure skater can be strong, warm to her competitors, and salty all at the same time, @sallyjenx.bsky.social argues.
Last weekend.
This weekend.
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Mercury is a powerful neurotoxin that can damage the brain, heart, kidneys, lungs, and immune system. Lead is also a neurotoxin and is especially harmful to children, affecting brain development and long-term health. Arsenic exposure has been linked to cancer and other serious illnesses.
The Trump administration rolled back restrictions on toxic pollution from power plants, including limits on the release of mercury and lead.
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Gov. JB Pritzker has sent a letter and invoice to President Donald Trump, demanding a refund after the Supreme Court ruled against the president’s sweeping tariffs.
Read more: https://tinyurl.com/w5dxcwad
Here’s a story about him with no paywall: www.military.com/daily-news/h...
Leonard Leo is a lawyer, but he's never argued a case in court. He's never held elected office.
But for years he rebuilt the American legal system, resulting in the Supreme Court's right-wing supermajority.
(Published Oct. 2023)
NEW — I spoke with Rep. Delia Ramirez (@ramirez.house.gov) about her calling DHS leaders "inheritors of the Klan hood and the slave patrol," the prospect of one day seeing them behind bars, and what it's like to see the public [finally] embrace her long-held dream to abolish ICE.
Our conversation:
The heads of Amazon, Alphabet, Meta, and Tesla all joined Trump at his inauguration.
Since then, largely thanks to Trump's Big Ugly Bill, their companies have reaped $51B in federal tax breaks — paid for by huge cuts to our social safety net.
This is what oligarchy looks like.
This is sickening. For comparison, this is more than the Department of Energy spent for all solar power and wind power R&D for the whole country.
Trump threatens to bar new US-Canada bridge from opening, demands talks with Ottawa reut.rs/4aKWDqj
Bad Bunny’s closing messages during his Super Bowl performance:
“The only thing more powerful than hate is love”
“Together, we are America”
A couple fascinating things I learned reporting this:
1. Much of the plant life on the field was people in costume.
2. The finale required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics.
3. That was a real couple that got married during the Lady Gaga number.
So many more details here in the piece. Go read!
Major update: New Epstein emails outline list of powerful people, including Donald Trump.
Possible Epstein-Russia-Israel connection deepens.
More horrific emails that everyone needs to see as Pam Bondi faces scrutiny on Capitol Hill. open.substack.com/pub/aaronpar...
On Saturday, Jan. 24, federal agents shot and killed Alex Pretti.
Our photojournalists @cengizyar.com and @peterdicampo.bsky.social were on the ground in Minneapolis, covering events in the days surrounding Pretti’s death. This is what they witnessed.
Read more: https://propub.li/3ZjL7wH
Vice President JD Vance was met with a chorus of boos at Friday’s Winter Olympics opening ceremony in Milan.
In California, police didn't investigate after two men were shot by federal immigration agents in separate incidents.
Police in Phoenix said they are leaving it to the FBI and ICE to probe the shooting of a man who allegedly fled immigration agents.
Toddler was returned to ICE custody and denied medication after hospitalization, lawsuit says reut.rs/4r7JNt4
“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”
Ossoff: "You're seeing what I'm seeing, right? The president posting about the Obamas like a Klansman."
