The Washington Post reports that Marco Rubio's State Department has launched a new project of sorts: Getting foreign nations — particularly, nations who may want to curry favor with the tariff war — to adopt Elon Musk's Starlink service.   The Post obtained an internal State memo

A man battling stage 4 lung cancer was preparing to fly across the country for a life-changing double-lung transplant when his insurance company denied him coverage. abc7.la/4d8mWaq

Lindsey Graham is woke now

NEW: The U.S. will waive the requirement for Hamas to disarm as a precondition for a ceasefire in Gaza, Kann reports

There is a man on the Pakistani side of the border who died 10 days after his wedding. There is a woman in the Indian side of the border who lost her daughter a month before her wedding. Kashmir pays the heaviest price for people who treat war like a fucking cricket match.

The Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank that has railed against cancel culture, reportedly fired Glenn Loury (Glenn Loury) for opposing Israel’s actions in Gaza. At the same time, the Manhattan Institute continues to employ Ilya Shapiro, who has openly advocated for

Suspending habeas corpus would suspend the right for everyone, not just for undocumented people. So what Stephen Miller is saying here is that Trump is thinking about asserting the right to throw Americans in prison while giving them no opportunity to use the courts to get out.

It only took him 18 months and retirement to state the obvious theguardian.com/world/2025/may…

Great news. But she still has to fight the Trump admin's attempt to deport her for writing an op-ed criticizing a foreign govt & calling for peace in a foreign conflict.

A Pakistani official tells me that Pakistan has started "Operation Bunyan ul Marsoos" and multiple targets are being targeted, including a BrahMos storage site in Beas, India.

As I suspected, the Trump Admin is getting its deportation targets from Betar, a Jewish supremacist terrorist organization that openly advocates violence against anyone who disagrees with them on anything. Maybe don’t rely on certifiable psychos when determining who should be

Proudly using a phrase primarily known from religious and colloquial sayings about how NOT to act seems about right for S. Asian govt messaging.

Seems true (& thus terrible. India should deescalate), but it's getting harder to separate truth & falsehood in military sources' statements. Both the Indian & Pakistani military have been giving statements combining plausible w wildly implausible claims that Reuters just repeats

I wrote a piece for the guardian about the reaction to my settlers documentary. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…