@amymackinnon
Former member of The Boston Globe editorial board, editorial director of the New England Aquarium, editorial page editor of The Patriot Ledger, congressional aide, forever a champion of democracy and effective climate policy.
CNN: "Another photograph - these are notes AG Bondi brought to the hearing today. This shows a list of Rep. Jayapal's search history. Lawmakers are allowed to go to a DOJ facility to search unredacted files. We learned from this photo that the searches are apparently being tracked & read by the DOJ"
NEGUSE: AG Bondi, that man works for you now, right? The man in that video from J6 yelling 'kill them!' at cops. His name is Jared Wise.
BONDI: He does work for us, yes. I believe he was pardoned
NEGUSE: And you expect hard-working police officers to believe you take law enforcement seriously?
Jayapal asks Epstein survivors in hearing room to stand and raise hands if they still haven't been able to meet with Bondi's DOJ. Every single one of them doe. Jayapal then gives Bondi an opportunity to apologize. She responds by trying to attack Jayapal and Merrick Garland but doesn't apologize.
Read the letters referenced by Rep. James Walkinshaw here:
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
NEW: A newly updated reference manual for U.S. judges that provides answers to scientific and technical questions has eliminated some 90 pages about climate science.
It comes as numerous climate cases make their way through state and federal courts.
Bloomington police announce arrests in sex trafficking bust: "Rashad Johnson out of Maple Grove. This is the most disturbing arrest that we've had here. He is a backgrounder for ICE, Homeland Security, and federal agencies."
A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.
NEW: The FBI’s search warrant, which sought 2020 election ballots, tabulator tapes, digital data and voter rolls from Fulton County, GA, marked what experts described as a significant escalation in President Donald Trump’s breaking of democratic norms.
Frey: "In Mpls, we heard them say they'll end this siege when we hand over voter rolls. The DOJ is being used as a weapon. They're investigating me and several other local elected officials not because we've done something wrong because we speak on behalf of our constituents.
The US government has lost more than 10,000 people with PhDs in the STEM or health fields since Trump 2.0 took office — 14% of the federal civil servants with PhDs in those areas, a @ScienceMagazine analysis shows.
What could possibly go wrong? www.science.org/content/arti...
Here's what ICE is up to in Northeast Minneapolis today. Absolutely heartbreaking.
Warning: video is hard to watch
The Trump administration invaded Venezuela without Congressional approval, kidnapped its president, and plans to get "strongly involved" in its oil industry. Imagine if that happened here.
Yes this is as strange and alarming as you think it is: www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...
When they defund independent journalism, we defend it. Join @steveinskeep.bsky.social, @tizianadearing.bsky.social, and your fellow listeners, and defend independent journalism by donating to @npr.org stations today.
Wowser!
In March, we reported on how two leaders of a white supremacist network allegedly helped create a detailed hit list of U.S. politicians, execs, academics and others, according to court documents.
Each entry included a photo of the target and their home address.
W/ @frontlinepbs.bsky.social
Some personal news:
I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting.
Thread incoming.
substack.com/@karenattiah...
Moskowitz on Mike Johnson: "If he was lying then, is he lying now? ... I don't think in the history of this country we've had a Speaker of the House say the president was an FBI informant ... we need to hear from the FBI."
Oh. My. Gosh. This is wild.
In May, Senator Cory Booker was the lone Democrat to vote in support of Trump's nominee for ambassador to France, convicted felon Charles Kushner.
The Senior League Baseball World Series is a tournament for 13- to 16-year-old baseball players from around the world.
A qualifying Venezuelan Little League team will not be in attendance this year because players were unable to secure visas.
New podcast with MCJ where I discuss how climate science is under attack and why it matters now more than ever:
mcj.vc/inevitable-p...
NEW: A draft executive order viewed by ProPublica directs the secretary of transportation to “use all available authorities to eliminate or expedite” environmental reviews for launch licenses — a change Elon Musk’s SpaceX and others have long sought.
So the former NYPD commish is suing Mayor Adams and the NYPD, accusing them of a "coordinated criminal conspiracy."
As evidence, the commish points to my investigation of a "rogue" that answered directly to City Hill.
That story, from March.
www.propublica.org/article/eric...
The Trump administration has chosen not just to trivialize the danger presented by climate change, but to revoke funding for the very data collection and research that would help the country better understand and prepare for this moment.
By @abrahm.bsky.social
Th-th-that’s all, folks!
Opponents of social safety net programs claim that gobs of cash are being paid to people who refuse to work.
But as @propublica.org showed in 2021, several states have refused to spend BILLIONS in federal funds meant for families in need - or made it effectively impossible for them to qualify.
