Carol @AmericanForSure

I discussed with Prime Minister of the United Kingdom @Keir_Starmer the steps needed to reinvigorate diplomacy and Ukraine’s current needs. I informed Keir about the need for additional missiles for air defense systems and the things that are important for protecting energy infrastructure and preparing for winter. We also coordinated our positions ahead of the G7 and NATO Summits and the meetings of the Coalition of the Willing. I am grateful to Keir for organizing the E3–Ukraine meeting and for his constant and effective support for our state.

"Hostilities have continued since February 28 and never terminated; the 60-day clock specified in the War Powers Resolution does not have a pause button" 35 Democratic Senators ask White House for the legal basis behind Trump's claim that "hostilities in Iran have ceased"

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I stopped by Rendezvous Coffee in Isanti and was glad I did.Great coffee and great to meet Hannie and Riley pictured here, while  supporting a fantastic small business! ☕️

A federal judge just struck down a ruthless regime policy that froze green cards and work permits for thousands from 39 countries based purely on where they were born. Read the major court victory: 👇 dworkinsubstack.com/p/ossoff-expos…

Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking today: Active Voting Rights Cases: 158 Active Redistricting Cases: 44 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 80 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 74 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 32 democracydocket.com

NEW: 11th hour legal challenge to HALT the weekend White House U.F.C. event has been assigned to Judge Amit Mehta here in DC Mehta asks plaintiffs and Dept of Interior to confer before 12pm on a schedule for briefing the court on request for emergency order to stop event

Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews

6 hours ago

JUST FILED: A barrage of legal challenges this week, will test Trump's slush fund and White House UFC fights open.substack.com/pub/macfarlane…

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Rosie O'Donnell on Donald Trump, "If you grew up in New York you knew he was an assh*le and a liar from day one" "I am 64 years and spent my whole life here" "I remember when his were repossessed at the runways at LaGuardia Airport "I remember when he was broke" "I remember when he would call up places and pretend to be his own publicist" "He is a conman, he is a narcissist, and he is a psychopath if you ask me"

In a famous 1972 televised debate, David Susskind argued that a woman could not be president because of the hormonal changes that occur during menstruation. ⁠ ⁠ Germaine Greer immediately put an end to the debate by asking him if he could tell whether she was menstruating at that very moment, which left his argument without a response.⁠

A little girl in Boston went home one day and asked her Nigerian mother if she could change her name to Zoe. Nobody at school could say Uzoamaka. Her mother was cooking. She didn't even turn around. "If they can learn to say Tchaikovsky, Michelangelo, and Dostoyevsky, they can learn to say Uzoamaka." That girl kept her name. Then she went to Hollywood and won three Emmy Awards. And now the whole world knows exactly how to say Uzoamaka Aduba. Your name is not a burden. It's a prophecy.

NEWSFLASH: SOMEWHAT INTELLIGENT. LMAO! Hannity to Koppel: "Do you think we're bad for America?" Koppel: "Yeah." Hannity tried to gaslight him. Koppel wasn't having it. Hannity's desperate pivot: "We have to give the American people some credit that they're somewhat intelligent..." Koppel stares, bottom lip drops. You could see every Fox lie from the last 12 years flashing behind his eyes—his face screaming, "They absolutely do not know the difference." Let's give Sean the benefit of the doubt: his viewers are somewhat intelligent—his words, not mine. I'm just the messenger.

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Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews

a week ago

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WHAT THE FUCK HAPPENED TO AMERICA 🤷🤔

WAR BREAKS OUT… Netanyahu IS OVER?!

I am up late trying to figure out what to write about the state of voting rights three years after our big win in SCOTUS. Words are hard to come by, but I hope you will read. Subscribe to Democracy Docket now for free. bit.ly/4a7l1TR

Europe Wins Again. Obviously. Armenia went to the polls yesterday. And the results are exactly what you’d expect if you’d been paying attention for the past five years, rather than wallowing in Kremlin nostalgia like a damp sock. Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared victory on Monday, with his Civil Contract Party leading with 52.5% of the vote.  Armenia, a landlocked country the size of Belgium that Russia has spent decades treating as a vassal state, has looked at its options and made a decision that required roughly the same level of intellectual effort as choosing between a Michelin-starred restaurant and a skip fire. They chose Europe. This election was less a routine vote than a referendum on Pashinyan’s post-2020 course reducing dependence on Russia and moving toward an explicit European orientation. And Russia, naturally, did everything in its power to stop it. According to Reuters, citing Western intelligence officials, the election faced heavy Russian covert interference, including disinformation campaigns and a plan to transport Russian Armenians into Armenia to sway the vote. One analyst collective described it as one of the largest state-backed disinformation campaigns in modern European history. And Armenia still told them to get lost. Putin had already warned Armenia it would face economic consequences for drifting westward, and introduced restrictions on Armenian agricultural exports in the weeks before the vote.  Threats, propaganda, economic blackmail. The full Russian toolkit. Result: irrelevant. Now, Trump, Tucker Carlson and JD Vance would like you to believe that Russia represents some superior civilisational model. A proud, white, Christian fortress holding the line against the Muslim hordes supposedly swamping Europe. It is a compelling narrative, in the same way that flat earth theory is compelling if you ignore every single fact available to you. Here is one such fact: between 10 and 15 percent of Russia’s own population is Muslim. Tatars, Bashkirs, Chechens, Ingush, Dagestanis. Millions of them. Russia is, by its own demographic reality, a multi-ethnic, multi-faith state with a larger Muslim population than most of Western Europe. But you’re not supposed to know that. It complicates the story. Meanwhile, the Muslim share of the EU population sits at around 5 percent. But the Tucker Carlsons of the world need you frightened, so the numbers get quietly shuffled off stage. So Armenia joins the queue. Behind Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, and every Eastern European country that isn’t currently run by a Slovak who seems to have wandered in from a Moscow focus group. The pattern is not subtle. Every country that has actually experienced Russian influence in practice is sprinting in the opposite direction. The only nation currently moving toward Russia’s orbit is the United States, which managed to elect a man whose foreign policy instincts were apparently shaped by a property developer’s admiration for strongmen with good buildings. The world watches America and hopes it finds its way back. Most people think it will. Eventually. The damage, however, is already considerable, and democracy, like a soufflé, does not always survive rough handling. Armenia made its choice. The right one. Obviously. Gandalv / @Microinteracti1 x.com/LesiaLVD/statu…

Since the WSJ editorial board mentioned my earlier post about Justice Alito’s son, I’m happy to reply. Pointing out that his son works for an agency whose interests may come before the Supreme Court is not harassment. It is basic transparency. The federal recusal statute, 28 U.S.C. § 455(a), requires a judge or justice to step aside from any proceeding in which his impartiality might reasonably be questioned. That standard is about public confidence in the courts. It does not require proof of actual bias. Whether a particular case would require recusal depends on the specific facts, including the nature of the case and the family member’s role. Reasonable people can disagree about where that line should be drawn. But the existence of the relationship itself is a legitimate subject of public discussion. If the risk of a 4-4 tie were enough to keep a Justice on a case, no Justice would ever recuse from anything, since every recusal raises that same possibility. The recusal statute already weighs that cost and still commands stepping aside when impartiality is reasonably in question. The public has every right to know about potential conflicts and to debate whether recusal is appropriate. Transparency is not a threat to judicial independence. It is one of the ways judicial independence maintains public trust. wsj.com/opinion/harass…

ZELENSKYY: Ukrainian attacks on St. Petersburg and Moscow region, on military and energy targets, are our response to Russian attacks on our energy sector. This is also our answer: we will not just silently die — we will respond, and we will grow stronger each day, day by day.

Whoa.

Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1

3 hours ago

Ken Paxton's impeachment defense lawyer just endorsed James Talarico. Dan Cogdell says his former client "has lost sight of his core mission, which is to represent the people of Texas." "And unlike Ken, I believe to my core that James Talarico believes in unity over division

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BREAKING: Indiana Democrats just chose Marine Corps Veteran Beau Bayh as their nominee for Secretary of State, putting a top-tier candidate forward in a race that many are calling the best opportunity to win statewide in more than a decade. This is HUGE.

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