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Congress hopes to raise heat on Russia amid souring relations between Trump and Putin A bipartisan coalition has joined forces to push aggressive new sanctions on Russia and believe the souring relationship between President Trump and Vladimir Putin has created a new opening.

A bipartisan coalition has joined forces to push aggressive new sanctions on Russia and believe the souring relationship between President Trump and Vladimir Putin has created a new opening.

The Court’s Liberals Are Trying to Tell Americans Something Justices Kagan, Jackson, and Sotomayor aren’t merely disagreeing with the majority’s technical readings of the law.

“The three liberal justices are writing about a majority unbound by law,” Aziz Huq argues—a dramatic change in the way that Supreme Court dissents work.

EU approves one of its “strongest” sanctions packages against Russia The European Union has finally approved one of its “strongest” sanctions packages against Russia, which includes lowering the price cap on crude oil.

🇪🇺 EU approves one of its "strongest" sanctions packages against Russia

Just spent two days discussing how/whether the Euro-Atlantic security community continues to hold together and in what form. Despite all the thoughtful analysis, you have to come back to the problem that its most powerful state is headed by someone who writes stuff like this.

This is just magnificent. Absolutely perfect.

@thedailyshow.com

Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:

This is serious, rigorous analysis and it should change the way the media has been covering these protests. These were, in the aggregate, *massive.*

A few hundred Americans of all ages standing in dappled sun with flags and signs

Hello from Berlin where a few hundred Americans are outside the embassy, currently reading aloud from the Declaration of Independence. #nokings

RFK Jr. Is as Bad as We All Imagined If it walks like a quack, talks like a quack, and quacks like a quack. . .

Things could get very ugly very quickly. And folks like Senator Cassidy, who allowed this to happen, have a unique responsibility to try and stop it—if that’s even possible at this juncture.

From a dear comrade who was kind enough to let me share their video.

Veterans stage a sit-in on the US Capitol steps and say, “Military off our streets!” Hell yeah!

Thin blue-and-yellow line The line between American chaos and American greatness runs through Ukraine

Americans take to the streets to defend their democracy & & rule of law — & try to take back American identity

The ideology of “thin blue line” is nearing culmination

But it was originally meant as a warning against oppression by state violence. Read to the end:

www.greatpower.us/p/thin-blue-...

Ukrainian refugees boosted Poland’s GDP by 2.7% in 2024, finds UN study

Ukrainian refugees boosted Poland’s GDP by 2.7% last year while not increasing unemployment or pushing down wages, finds a report by the UN refugee agency and Deloitte.

"Whoever thinks refugees are a burden on the economy should think again," says @unhcr.org.

🚨 💥 2025 is the first time EVER that the liquid assets in Russia’s savings account, the National Wealth Fund, has fallen below the budget deficit.

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The difference in rubles is even more pronounced as the currency strengthens.

DOGE Developed Error-Prone AI Tool to “Munch” Veterans Affairs Contracts We obtained records showing how a Department of Government Efficiency staffer with no medical experience used artificial intelligence to identify which VA contracts to kill. “AI is absolutely the wron...

New: A DOGE staffer developed an AI tool to review Veterans Affairs contracts.

But there was a slight hitch.

It hallucinated the size of those deals.

For example, it concluded that more than a thousand contracts were each worth $34M, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000.

Al Gore destroyed the orange cheeto.

#USDemocracy

NEW: Russia's refusal to give Ukraine its memorandum with its terms for a peace settlement before Ukrainian and Russian delegations met in Istanbul on June 2 ensured that the meeting was largely unproductive and further protracted the negotiation process. More ⬇️(1/3)
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Your key takeaway from the brilliant Ukraine attack with small drones into Russia shouldn’t be “wow, small drones make it so easy to score huge hits,” it should be “wow, Ukrainians are insanely good at covertly planning and executing extraordinarily difficult missions of which drones are one part”.

The sharp-eyed reader will notice that well-documented Russian gunrunning freighter LADY MARIIA enters NATO territorial waters repeatedly without signs of fear.

I count 7 times along European coasts as she returns from delivering weapons to Congo. Not counting in English Channel or Öresund.

'Russian bombers are burning en masse' — Ukraine's SBU drones hit 'more than 40' aircraft in mass attack, source claims "Currently, more than 40 aircraft are known to have been hit, including the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3," a source told the Kyiv Independent.

If even a fraction of this is true, it’s a remarkable achievement & a mark of how far Ukr deep strike has come. ‘An operation by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) has hit ‘more than 40" Russian bombers at air bases “in the rear of the Russian Federation”…’ kyivindependent.com/enemy-bomber...

History Will Judge the Complicit Why have Republican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous president?

Reposting this in honor of the Republican Senators who have allowed Trump to usurp Congress's right to determine tariffs

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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After more than three years in Russian-occupied territory, a 15-year-old boy has been reunited with his father in Ukraine.

His return is not only a family’s reunion but a step toward justice for children robbed of safety, freedom, and home.

#BringUkrainianKidsBack

I wonder who did Kaliningrad exported potatoes to

GOOD FOR SCOTT PELLEY OF CBS NEWS.

“Our sacred rule of law is under attack,” Pelley began his message. “Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack, and insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses and into our private thoughts.”

A Permanent Stain on Our History The Trump administration’s embrace of nativism is as shameful as it is self-destructive.

If the sudden arrests and deportations of law-abiding immigrants checking in as ordered at government offices seems unprecedented, it’s because it is.

It Should Not Be Controversial to Plead for Gaza’s Children Israel’s limits on aid have put the region at “critical risk of famine.” Help is within reach. But it’s not enough—and it’s arriving too slowly.

It should not be controversial to say that the starvation of Gaza’s children is wrong, @julieebeck.bsky.social argues:

NEW: Russian forces conducted one of their largest drone & missile strikes of the war against Ukraine on May 25 after three nights of record strikes. Russian strikes against Ukraine continue to disproportionately impact civilians & civilian infrastructure.

Latest: isw.pub/UkrWar052625

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Defendants have mischaracterized this Court's order, while at the same time manufacturing the very chaos they decry. By racing to get six class members onto a plane to unstable South Sudan, clearly in breach of the law and this Court's order, Defendants gave this Court no choice but to find that they were in violation of the Preliminary Injunction. Even after finding that violation, however, the Court stayed its hand and did not require Defendants to bring the individuals back to the United States, as requested by Plaintiffs. Instead, the Court accepted Defendants' own suggestion that they be allowed to keep the individuals out of the country and finish their process abroad. In the interest of full transparency, the Court quotes at length from the hearing transcript:

NEW: Judge Murphy, sounding MAD, rejects the Trump admin's request to reverse his order to give due process to deportees on their way to South Sudan, saying that they are "manufacturing the very chaos they decry." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Why you shouldn't say "Happy Memorial Day" Memorial Day is about more than cookouts, travel, sales, and the unofficial kickoff to summer.

Someone please tell Trump that Memorial Day is not just another holiday to attack your political opponents, play golf, and laugh at veterans for being "losers and suckers."

The meaning behind the Memorial Day federal holiday. 😳👇 tinyurl.com/37vazxx4