Thank goodness, some hope.

Good piece here by ⁦Dan Balz⁩ washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Law enforcement officials told The Associated Press the assailant who opened fire at the rally was a 20-year-old man from Pennsylvania. apnews.com/article/7c7ba6…

THRILLED to retire my cape.

Here’s how the dictatorship in Nicaragua helped finance its police state. washingtonpost.com/investigations…

Dramatic morning at the Whole Foods in Tenleytown DC. One police officer I interviewed said, laconically, ‘Brakes and gas are very different pedals.’ No one was hurt, so far as I can tell.

"CABEI’s multiyear lifeline to the Nicaraguan economy came as a group of human rights experts commissioned by the United Nations concluded that the government, led by Ortega...had turned Nicaragua into a police state." washingtonpost.com/investigations…

#Nicaragua | Los préstamos del BCIE a la administración sandinista aumentaron de $365 millones en 2018 a $805 millones en 2021. Parte de esos fondos financió la construcción de comisarías y sistemas de comunicación, en medio de la represión estatal: sbee.link/k8huc9dpqg

Las confesiones de Dante Mossi: “Ortega me hizo sentir como estrella de rock” y “un préstamo ruidoso” a la Policía. Investigación del Washington Post : los préstamos BCIE “ayudaron al régimen de Ortega a construir un brutal estado policial en Nicaragua" confidencial.digital/nacion/las-con…

Investigación de The Washington Post confirma: los préstamos BCIE “ayudaron al régimen de Ortega a construir un brutal estado policial en #Nicaragua" buff.ly/4dUH1A9

Dozens wounded after pagers detonate in Lebanon. Hezbollah pagers targeted by Israel, state media says apnews.com/article/8893a0…

Key witness and victim in Miami sex trafficking case was found dead. Here’s what happened next

Great thread here.

Voices of reason

A truelife mystery bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…

Incredible story about a woman who was brutally raped, then has to decide if she should pursue a lawsuit and go public, or stay quiet.