heathercs @heathercs

At least 9 VA commonwealth's attys (county prosecutors) have publicly vowed not to enforce VA's new law banning sales of assault weapons & high-capacity magazines. Important story by @GregTSargent newrepublic.com/article/211462…

💯 And even if odds were higher that the military would defy a nuclear strike order by Trump, the fact remains that vesting a cognitively deteriorating, increasingly disinhibited, delusional, and decompensating narcissistic psychopath with nuclear codes is exceedingly perilous.

Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom

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I regret to tell you that they are not, in fact, zero

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ProPublica analyzed the genetic code of America’s measles outbreaks and here’s what we found: The measles virus still spreading in Utah as of this May is very closely related to the one that sickened Texans over a year ago. projects.propublica.org/measles-outbre… @Nat_Lash @SheInvestigates

“It all feels quite like the Handmaid’s tale,” Emily Waldorf wrote in her diary. “I had to seek refuge, travel by ambulance across borders.” propublica.org/article/arkans…

NEWS — Ken Paxton’s impeachment defense lawyer is endorsing Democrats James Talarico for Senate, @NOTUSreports scoops Dan Cogdell, who represented Paxton in his 2023 impeachment trial and several personal cases, told NOTUS in a statement that Paxton “has lost sight of his core mission” Cogdell is well-connected in Texas GOP politics, and has represented top state party officials. He donated $6,500 to Paxton’s campaign, contributing as recently as last year But he’s been critical of Trump. A clip of him calling Trump the “greatest threat” to democracy was even turned into an NRSC attack ad last year. It’s been scrubbed from the web. Talarico said in statement “if you voted for John Cornyn, you have a place in this campaign.” More: notus.org/2026-election/…

Nearly two dozen Epstein accusers told Reuters that speaking out sparked threats and relentless harassment, in some cases after Justice Department files exposed their identities. Some now carry weapons and live in constant fear reut.rs/3QaK4y7 @specialreports

At least 9 county prosecutors in pro-Trump areas of Virginia have now openly declared that they won't enforce the assault weapons ban that the Dem state legislature recently passed. And the movement is growing. New piece from me: newrepublic.com/article/211462…

Join International Spy Museum Executive Director Chris Costa for a live Spy Chat with retired Gen. Bryan P. Fenton (@Bryanfenton001), former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command. 📅 Thursday, June 11, 2026 🕡 6:30 PM ET 📍 Hybrid: International Spy Museum & Online 🎟️ Register: bit.ly/4vzSLBa Costa, a former intelligence officer with 34 years of service, including assignments in Panama, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and a past Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council, will lead a timely discussion on intelligence, national security, and terrorism with Gen. Fenton. Gen. Fenton served as the 13th commander of U.S. Special Operations Command. He oversaw all Special Operations for the US Department of Defense with 70,000 special operations personnel across the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. A career Special Forces officer, he has commanded at every level and deployed across multiple theaters, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, and the Philippines. The program will include a Q&A session open to both in-person and virtual attendees. #BreakingNews #NationalSecurity #SpyChat

Dr. Ayoub Sayeg’s ads have an appealing ring to budget-minded consumers: “Most Affordable Plastic Surgery Center in Chicago. Period.” But a Tribune investigation has found eight of Sayeg’s patients died in a seven-year span shortly after their surgeries. chicagotribune.com/2026/06/07/pla…

BREAKING: Iraq closes airspace following missiles launched from Iran towards Israel, according to NOTAM

Asked for actual evidence of his claims, Trump throws a tantrum and runs away. Notice—he never offered a shred or scintilla of evidence. He just yelled at her and ran away.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

a day ago

Here's the full chain of events that led to Trump storming out of his interview with Kristin Welker, beginning with her pressing him on the weaponization fund, continuing with her pointing out the baselessness of his "rigged election" lies, and concluding with him calling her

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Karen Newton, 65, from Hertfordshire in England, left home in late July 2025 for the road trip of a lifetime through the United States with her husband Bill. Valid passports. Valid visas. Weeks on the road through California, Nevada, Wyoming and Montana. Then they tried to cross into Canada and things fell apart. Canadian officials said Bill didn’t have the right paperwork to bring the car across the border. When the couple turned back to the American side, U.S. border agents found that Bill’s visa had expired.  Karen’s tourist visa was valid. Her British passport was valid. She has no criminal record. None of it mattered. She was handcuffed, shackled, and spent the night sleeping on the floor of a locked cell before being driven 12 hours through the night to an ICE detention centre. She and her husband spent the next six weeks there.  She is now warning anyone planning to visit the United States that the situation is “totally out of control” and advises people not to go while Donald Trump is in office.  A British grandmother. A valid visa. Six weeks in chains.

Despite multiple fatalities and a $56M jury verdict, state allows Dr. Ayoub Sayeg to keep operating

Gregory Royal Pratt @royalpratt

a day ago

NEWS: One plastic surgeon. Eight women dead. The state hasn’t disciplined Chicago doctor despite an investigation that began in 2020. At least three women have died since they started. With @ChristyGutowsk1 chicagotribune.com/2026/06/07/pla…

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One family watched oily black liquid bubble up through their home’s foundation; another saw their well water contaminated. This new documentary tracks their fight against a powerful industry and the state regulators that looked the other way. propublica.org/article/toxic-…

This is a national tragedy. It was inevitable after 2020 and Megyn's probably lying here, but if you get to the point where you can't believe Rs finished third in jungle primaries in a deep blue state in a year the R president's favorability is minus a billion, nothing's real

The Megyn Kelly Show @MegynKellyShow

3 days ago

"No one is going to trust this outcome if Steve Hilton and Spencer Pratt are eliminated from the general election." Megyn rips California for their third-world election process.

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One thing I keep thinking about from the Big Beautiful Bill debate. When the idea of selling off public lands came up, people on the left and right both seemed to say, “Whoa. Not so fast.” It made me wonder if we agree on more than we think. Clean water. National parks. Public lands. Places to fish, hike, camp, and make memories. Outside of MAGA/MAHA, I feel like this is the emerging data center debate, arctic drilling, park fences, “clean” coal (lol), drill baby drill, not windmill stupidity and whatever this ocean thing is We outnumber them The Tech Bros tell us this is inevitable. But why do they get to write the future? Why should we trust people who have bunkers? My brother took me on a tour of every house my parents lived in in the Bay Area growing up. Every house was near some environmental hazard, a garbage dump or railroad tracks. Like the areas in the south that are predominantly black that are downstream from pig farms. Or the GA data center. Today I learned they want to put a data center near the Nashville Zoo. There are reasons they are doing this in the shadiest and fastest way possible. We are not powerless. My area shut down a data center. I looked at our city and county and state AI policies and called/emailed You can’t fight what we don’t know. And so many of these fights are local. Utah is embarrassing Kevin O’Leary and it took a Tucker Carlson interview to expose the con (strange bedfellows = understatement) Like many of you, I have felt stuck. But I made phone calls on the big beautiful bill and I’m a data center. It helps me sleep at night. There are lots of resources that you can use today to fight back, including the make 5 Calls app and I will post some anti-data center resources. A lot of us use Twitter for venting, but it can also be a tool for finding teammates and taking action. Thanks for listening to my TED talk Your reminder that this is the real Big Beautiful Bill we know at love @KellyScaletta 😘

Karen Kenyatta Russell🍀 @Karen_Russell

2 days ago

Now I get it! “The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident. That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the

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LIE. I was there. They were walking through the building, destroying property, spreading feces on the walls, stealing things, rioting and threatening to kill the Vice President. But other than that . . .

The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow

3 days ago

Mike Johnson: The January 6 insurrectionists as "people who were just there and happened to be walking through the building.” *FC: False. @atrupar (April 2024)

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This is a devastating interview. Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good. Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

Watching people who have never seen the reflecting pool in person argue about it with people who actually live in DC is wild. But it’s not a cult

Pregnant girls as young as 13 are being held in a remote Texas immigration facility while a member of Congress (Rep. Maxine Dexter) says she was blocked from speaking to them. Some of these pregnancies are the result of rape. This is one of the most horrifying immigration stories right now in the USA. How many pregnant children are there? Where are these girls coming from? Where are they being sent? Are they getting real prenatal care? Do they have access to proper legal representation? Are newborn babies being ripped out of their mother's arms? Why are members of Congress being blocked from speaking with them? No agency should be able to hide where vulnerable kids are being sent. We need to free these children and give them healthcare, lawyers, family reunification, and safety.