Earlier this week Trump mused about re-imposing tariffs on potash imported from the world’s largest source: Canada. Days later he has lifted tariffs and sanctions on the world’s second largest source of potash: the Belarusian dictatorship, one of Putin’s client states. I am so

As Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis stated in 1933; “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” Today, at a time of unprecedented income & wealth inequality, his words ring truer than ever.

With Putin now essentially paying the Trump family to force Ukraine into giving up what Russia has been unable to take militarily, Kaja Kallas explains that Russia needs Donbass to launch its full invasion of larger Europe.

This hasn't been widely reported, but in addition to premiums doubling for subsidized people, CBO also estimates that premiums will increase by 8% for non-subsidized people--because healthier people will forego insurance, driving up premiums.

Might be a good time to mention that Bill Clinton's assault weapons ban reduced mass shooting deaths by 43%, but after George W Bush & Republicans let it expire, they spiked by 239%. It... is... the... f**king... GUNS.

Reiner had Dodgers dugout seats for years and years, when he knew he couldn’t attend a game he would share his tickets with American Gold Star Mothers, an organization created to help parents deal with the loss of children in the service of the United States Armed Forces.

A former Hamas hostage met with President Biden yesterday and personally thanked him for his tireless efforts to help secure his release and the release of others. Quiet diplomacy. Real leadership. A genuinely powerful moment that the outrage merchants will conveniently ignore.

James Talarico: “The top 1% in this country now owns more wealth than the entire middle class. Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos own more welath than 165M Americans combined. That’s an unacceptable amount of inequality.”

JUST IN: Absolutely devastating. 💔 Brown has identified MukhammadAziz Umurzokov — a gentle, gifted scholar who hoped to become a neurosurgeon — as a victim of the shooting. He survived a childhood brain condition. He mastered every class they offered. He worked a summer job for

Fact checked. Tens of thousands of furious Florida locals have signed a petition to stop Jeff Bezos’ rocket company from dumping 490,000 gallons of wastewater everyday into the fragile Indian River Lagoon, claiming it will finish off the starving manatees and… #Florida #besos

Trump aides celebrated with cake after dismantling USAID, thrilled that they had set in motion a process that will lead to some 88 deaths per minute for the rest of the Trump presidency: propublica.org/article/usaid-… An examination by ProPublica of Trump's most lethal policy.

News — Here is Sen. Kelly’s attorney responding to DoD. “If the Executive Branch were to move forward in any forum—criminal, disciplinary, or administrative—we will take all appropriate legal action on Senator Kelly’s behalf to halt the Administration’s unprecedented and

If they can come for Senator Mark Kelly, they can come for 2M+ military retirees.

Venezuela about to get bombed.

In 1938–1942, Hitler systematically downgraded Germany’s military command structure, sidelined independent generals, abolished the War Ministry, and concentrated control under OKW, ultimately making himself supreme commander. It was a deliberate centralization of military power.

President Trump spoke publicly about Colorado's Tina Peters for the first time since issuing her a so-called "pardon." Trump did not mention the pardon but did make several false claims about Peters' case. We unpack them one by one.

Wow, this 🔥 Rebukes from a few Republicans are noteworthy, but where is literally everyone else? “Corporations that have paid to help him demolish the East Wing of the White House. I didn’t see any statements from any of them. Law firms that capitulated are now doing work for

ICE Accidentally Publishes A ‘Watch List’ Of Immigration Lawyers. The list was discovered by attorney Arlene Amarante who said “One of the troubling patterns I suppose that I recognized, was that a large number of these practitioners on the list were people of color.”

🚨 BREAKING: Senator Mark Kelly says the Pentagon has escalated its review of him into a formal command investigation. Translation: Trump and Pete Hegseth are trying to intimidate a sitting U.S. Senator for doing his job. Kelly’s response was simple: wrong guy. This is what

Ukraine’s history and culture are rooted in centuries of statehood and resistance to empire. Yes, it has its flaws—but it’s a real democracy, something Putin fears. And he has gravely underestimated the will of Ukrainians to fight back