BREAKING: U.S. paused bomb shipment to Israel over Rafah operation concerns, U.S. official says. My story on Axios
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Senior administration official confirms the first known pause of weapons shipments to Israel:

'We have been engaging in a dialogue with Israel in our Strategic Consultative Group format on how they will meet the humanitarian needs of civilians in Rafah…

🚨🚨The weapons shipment to Israel that the Biden administration decided to put on hold last week included 1,800 2,000-lb bombs and 1,700 500-lb bombs, a senior U.S. official told me
🚨🚨Why it matters: The unprecedented move by the Biden administration, which was first reported…

If we want what's happening on college campuses to be simple we're looking in the wrong place. Our tendency to be tribal has turned protests into Rorschach tests where many of us end up seeing what we want to see. PoliticsGirl and David Rothkopf discuss. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…

MeidasTouch PoliticsGirl David Rothkopf This conversation is a great counterpoint to much of the over the top and charged commentary you’re hearing elsewhere about the protests at American colleges these days. Don’t miss it.

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If we want what's happening on college campuses to be simple we're looking in the wrong place. Our tendency to be tribal has turned these protests into Rorschach test, many of us seeing what we want to see. Join me and my guest David Rothkopf as we discuss.

Judge Cannon’s rationale for indefinitely postponing Trump’s classified documents trial is that a large number of pretrial motions remain unresolved—a state of affairs she has literally engineered by failing to resolve them. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

The apparent failure to prosecute a clear national security threat who is running for the nation's highest office where he can compound the damage he has already done may ultimately be seen as one of the great legal failures in US history.

Judge Thompson got this right and the 11th Circuit must affirm. The right to travel is fundamental. As I argued here: “The Constitution does not permit states to make prisoners of citizens within its boundaries and regulate who can help at their gates.” harvardlawreview.org/blog/2022/03/p…

CNN media reporter on Washington press corps:

“despite the clear toll that the lies promoted by Trump and his propaganda servants are taking on American society, the legacy news media continues to largely turn a blind eye to the story.”

SCOOP – US commerce department is #revoking export #licenses that allow @Intel & Qualcomm to export chips to Huawei for laptops & mobile phones.

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Former Trump WH lawyer Ty Cobb rips into Judge Aileen Cannon for her handling of the classified document case:

“It's really remarkable some of the things she’s done…Just fundamentally unhinged…To her credit, she could merely be incompetent.”
(March 2023)

Jesus fucking Christ

This Court is such a fucking joke

thanks Jay Rosen

Anyone else—anyone—who stole national security documents as Trump did would have been tried, convicted and would be serving a multi year sentence in prison right now. Anyone else. It’s a scandal that he is not.

There are different kinds of corruption in the judiciary. Clarence Thomas represents one kind. Aileen Cannon another. Both are pathetic. Neither should be anywhere close to a position on the bench, or with licenses to practice law.

Former House Speaker Paul Ryan says he’s not voting for Trump : 'Character is too important' finance.yahoo.com/news/former-ho…

Listen - if you can find them - for balanced reactions to this. A not-abjectly-partisan view would be get this tried to assess whether protecting classified information is indeed a public official’s duty. Lower-level officials would certainly face consequences. Many of those who…

.David Rothkopf: ' #Netanyahu has taken advantage of the long-standing ties between his country and the #UnitedStates while in turn providing, especially in recent years, very little except damage, burdens, complications, and worse.' thedailybeast.com/benjamin-netan… #Israel #Gaza