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It's important to know that the deliberations and vote by the grand jury are not transcribed - they are 100% secret, with no court reporter. So there's no way to verify what the first vote was, other than the foreperson's recollection. That's why we insist the GJ vote on the actual indictment.

Trump’s ICE is waiting outside hospital ERs in Charlotte to abduct people in their most desperate hours of need. The cruelty is the point.

Sounds like a total crank!

Every single Republican president in my lifetime has crashed the goddamn economy. Trump’s the first to do it twice.

OVER 90 DOCTORS were involved in her care and she STILL couldn’t get an abortion to save her life!

A reminder that Republican bans have not reduced the abortion rate. All they've done is kill and harm women.

Texas' abortion ban has killed yet another woman. Here's exactly what the anti-abortion response will be:

They’ll claim doctors were legally allowed to “intervene” or “treat” Tierra Walker with "care." They won't say she could have had an abortion because they don’t believe in life-saving abortions

“Ticking Time Bomb”: A Pregnant Mother Kept Getting Sicker. She Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion in Texas. Walker is one of several women ProPublica found with underlying health conditions who died when they couldn’t access abortions.

OVER 90 DOCTORS were involved in her care - and she still couldn’t get an abortion to SAVE HER LIFE

www.propublica.org/article/texa...

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This video is reportedly from Ternopil. A little girl is injured and terrified by the Russian attack.

My heart breaks for Ukrainian kids and their suffering. I'm a dad myself. It's very hard to see what nightmares Russia makes of Ukrainian childhoods.

Last night, the Russians struck Ternopil with missiles and Shaheds. The mayor announced that 9 people are confirmed dead and dozens are injured. Rescue workers are still operating at the impact sites.

Johnson’s victims, according to a pair of arrest affidavits, were the child of his now ex-girlfriend and a friend of the first child.

An ICE employee was among 16 men arrested after trying to solicit a minor for sex in Bloomington, Minnesota, police say

"When he was arrested, he said, 'I'm ICE, boys,'" Bloomington Police Chief Booker Hodges said during a press conference. "Well, unfortunately for him, we locked him up."

A deadly Russian strike ripped through the Ukrainian city of Ternopil overnight, leaving 10 dead and 37 injured, including 12 children.

Entire apartment blocks were blasted apart. Toxic chlorine levels in the air spiked sixfold after the attack.

www.kyivpost.com/post/64495

Massie: “[Speaker Johnson is] trying to say the rich, powerful men who flew to Epstein Island are the victims now. The only way a ‘Christian man’ can stand up there and sell a lie like that is if he’s already decided in his head that protecting them is somehow okay.”

"Things happen" sometimes, like when you walk into an embassy to apply for your marriage license while your bride-to-be waits outside, but then you get bonesawed to pieces for having exercised freedom of speech as an US-based journalist and have to be carried out in a series of suitcases.

I lost a job for calling Charlie Kirk a Nazi, but this is cool.

This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal.

This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.

🚨UPDATE: Texas appeals to the U.S. Supreme Court

! Chuck @schumer.senate.gov asks unanimous consent that the Senate immediately read and pass the bill to release the Epstein files, un-amended, "as soon as it comes over from the House." No objections. Motion succeeds. Bill is deemed to the Senate unanimously, will go to Trump to become law.

A note of caution: this is only *some* districts. Each district has to fight the state on their own, with parents in each district as complainants. It’s a massive pain in the ass that it’s not state-wide.

Republican, Clay Higgins, the only “NO” vote today on the Epstein Files in the House sounds more nervous than a long-tailed cat in a room full of rocking chairs.

I wonder what’s making him so rattled by this bill? …

Federal Court Blocks Texas Gerrymander for 2026, Appeal Expected Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: A panel of three federal judges ruled to block Texas from using its new racially gerrymandered congressional map in the upcoming 2026 election — dealing a significant blow to President Donald Trump’s national effort to rig the 2026 election by creating more Republican congressional seats.

The brain worm defense was part of the divorce that was never finalized because his wife committed suicide.

Texas getting its gerrymander blocked while California and Virginia eliminate 8-9 Republican seats would be a stupendous, comical outcome.

This arrest comes just days after a shooting at a South Carolina Planned Parenthood clinic, and as state lawmakers are debating RIGHT NOW whether abortion patients should face the death penalty.

A South Carolina 20-Year-Old Has Been Charged With Attempted Murder Police say she took medication to end her pregnancy

A South Carolina woman who police say tried to end her pregnancy with medication has been arrested and charged with attempted murder and child neglect.

Don't miss this story from @kylietcheung.bsky.social

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Mob boss attacks female reporter again for her “attitude” and says he will ask his FCC commissioner to look into revoking her company’s broadcast license.

CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

The Crimson has a lot more on the backstory of those creepy Larry Summers/Epstein exchanges 🤢