Thinking of my friend Alexei Navalny and his family today. He would have turned 50 today. Goodbye to my fearless friend, Alexei Navalny washingtonpost.com/opinions/…

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RT @jakeadelstein: Japan's pacifism used to be a point of national pride– and political necessity. Those days are gone. PM Takaichi has a p…

Today's Supreme Court decision reverses hard-won progress under the Voting Rights Act. It means less representation for millions of Black Americans and other voters of color, as lawmakers gain greater ability to manipulate their districts. There will be more extreme partisan gerrymandering, lopsided elections, less accountable government, and policies that hurt rather than help with everyday life. But this is no time to be demoralized, because we know it does not have to be this way. We can mobilize around reform, new laws, and where necessary, constitutional amendments for fairer government. Only then can we feel the benefits of a balanced Court, a truly representative Congress, and an election system free from the distorting power of extreme corporate and partisan manipulation.

RT @jakeadelstein: On the 40th anniversary of Chernobyl, it’s important to remember that Japan didn’t learn the lessons from that accident…

ぜひ聴いてください！ 3週目は私が京都弁にチャレンジしますどすえ？

Jeffries on Kash Patel: "We have to stop putting all the blame on the people who nominated this incompetent, toxic, malignant individual. What about the people who confirmed him? It's extraordinary to me that Senate Republican confirmed people like Noem, Bondi, Hegseth, RFK Jr, and Patel."

Buttigieg: And my word of warning to my own political party is that we would make a terrible mistake if we thought that our job was to just take power somehow and then put everything back the way it was. That’s not what we’re here to do. We’re not out to go around and just find all the little bits and pieces of everything that they smashed and tape it together and say, “Here you go, I give you the world as it looked in 2023.” That’s not going to work. It’s not what we need. So much has changed, and the truth is they are destroying things right and left. They’re destroying a lot of good, important things. They’re destroying some useless things too, because they’re destroying everything. So now we get a chance to put things together on different terms.

I was shocked at how many young teens were hanging out in this area obviously homeless or almost there. Sadly they might not be interested in any efforts the city makes to help—they seemed to be looking for a place to fit in and a sense of belonging.

One of my fmr students and a @HiroGakuEnglish @HiroGakuUniv graduate doing amazing as a model!! We’re proud of you, @official_nagomi ❤️🌸❤️🌸❤️👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

🚨NEW: @GovernorShapiro SLAMS Trump and Congressional Republicans for cutting Medicaid, leaving Pennsylvanians without health care, and shuttering rural hospitals:    "This is because Donald Trump decided he wanted to give a tax cut to the people at the top and screw over the people that needed access to health care in our communities. It was wrong.”

She’s just Prime Minister Abe in a blue dress. And she’s doing everything that I said she would do. It just takes a while for people to catch on. linkedin.com/posts/jakeadels…

Khanna: "No. I'm not supporting new funding. The answer for every Democrat should be 'absolutely no.' It's $400 billion for a war we oppose? We could have universal childcare for that. We could have free public college for that."

RT @LorraineEvanoff: Fucking outrageous. And highly illegal. "Trump has grifted his entire life. Now he’s just taking it. The State Depa…

ICYMI: A new report from the Japanese police, analyzed by a major newspaper here, adds yet another study to the global pile of evidence that immigrants are far from being dangerous. They are, in fact, less criminal than ever. More below.

The Financial Times is reporting something that should be front-page news everywhere.       Pete Hegseth didn’t just help design the Iran war. He championed it publicly, cheered it on, and sold it to the American people. And according to the Financial Times, while his own department was in the final stages of preparing to launch it, his broker at Morgan Stanley was attempting to make a multimillion-dollar investment in the defense companies that build the weapons we used to fight it.       The investment didn’t ultimately go through, but only because the fund wasn’t yet available on Morgan Stanley’s platform. Not because anyone stopped it.      If these reports are accurate, the Secretary of Defense was positioned to profit from a war he helped start, using information no private investor could ever have. That is a profound betrayal of every service member he commands, and of every American who trusted this Administration with their national security.      No one should be cashing in on privileged information while lives and national security are on the line.

NEWS: Judge Amit Mehta rules Trump is NOT immune for key Jan. 6 conduct—including his Ellipse rally speech, outreach to officials, and related actions—finding they can be treated as campaign activity, not presidential duties. That means civil lawsuits can move forward. The court also rejected Trump’s First Amendment defense and blocked a DOJ effort that could have shielded him from liability.

GORSUCH: Do you think Native Americans are birthright citizens under your test? SAUER: Ah, I think ... so. I have to think that through.

BREAKING: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth lifted the suspension of Army pilots who flew two Apache helicopters that hovered outside Kid Rock’s home during a training mission, saying there will be no investigation. “Thank you Kid Rock…pilots suspension LIFTED. No punishment. No investigation. Carry on, patriots,” Hegseth wrote on Twitter Some straight-up banana republic stuff.

SCOOP: The Trump admin is trying to list antifa as a top counter-terrorism priority in the National Intelligence Priorities Framework, which tells all U.S. intelligence agencies where to focus. The real target, it seems, is domestic dissent. My latest. puck.news/trump-moves-to-ele…