Heather Reid

They Became Symbols for Gazan Starvation. But All 12 Suffer from Other Health Problems. A Free Press investigation found that the viral photos lacked important context: The subjects have cystic fibrosis, rickets, or other serious ailments. By Olivia Reingold and Tanya Lukyanova 08.17.25 -Israel and Antisemitism

I’m kind of speechless with this one. I can’t imagine the kind of person who continues to make the argument that it doesn’t count as real starvation if the kids were already sick.

Opinion | Jeanine Pirro is plenty sober enough to serve as the US Attorney for DC.

by Pete Hegseth

Trump’s Texas Power Grab Why dozens of Democratic politicians just fled their own state.

Democratic members of the Texas House of Representatives began to flee the state on Sunday. It's a last-ditch attempt to stop President Trump and Texas Republicans from adopting a redrawn congressional map that could help lock in a Republican majority in next year’s elections. Listen to "The Daily."

A fun reminder that a loss of 60,000 jobs in and around academia is ~50% more than all coal mining jobs in the entire country.

Texas GOP: how far can we possibly debase ourselves? Could we be low enough to slither under Trump’s boots?

Texas Dems: bet

No Democrat should support military assistance for a government that is starving an entire population. This should not be a close call or some agonizing debate.

One of Sen. Ernst's constituents points out that people are going to die if Republicans' cuts to Medicaid go through. Ernst's response?

"Well, we all are going to die."

Republicans know exactly what they are doing—all so billionaires can get another tax cut.

Israeli strike on school-turned-shelter in Gaza kills 25, medics say An Israeli strike on a school-turned-shelter in the Gaza Strip has killed at least 25 people, mostly women and children, according to the territory’s Health Ministry.

BREAKING: An Israeli airstrike on a school-turned-shelter has killed at least 25 Palestinians, mostly women and children, Gaza's Health Ministry said. The school was hit three times while people slept, setting their belongings ablaze, they added.

In old enough to remember the campaign to “find the liberal Rush Limbaugh.” This will work as well.

The GOP didn’t build Rogan, and Democrats sure won’t be able to build a liberal one.

They should focus on funding existing liberal outlets and local newspapers and Spanish language radio and TV.

He’s not technically a Chicago pope until you drag him through the garden

American conservatives calling the pope woke and Marxist is a great indicator for people who don’t realize just how unhinged American conservatives have gotten

SCOOP: ICE tried to raid Chang Chang restaurant in Dupont (Washington, D.C.) but the manager ran then off.

I’ve been thinking, and what I really want for Mother’s Day is for every Republican who doesn’t support universal paid family leave and universal child care to shut the fuck up.

DOGE's $160 billion in savings have cost $135 billion, analysis finds The push by Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency to slash federal funding will cost taxpayers money, nonpartisan group finds. Here's why.

So from 2 trillion promised to a net 25 billion, and it was never shown to be fraud and abuse, and no one can tell us if they were useful savings (i.e., firing people that are effective, efficient, critical...).

Tricia McLaughlin & @TriciaOhio 0... The narrative being pushed about Jose Hermosillo is false. On April 8, Hermosillo approached Border Patrol in Tucson and stated he had entered the U.S. illegally through Nogales. He said he wanted to turn himself in and completed a sworn statement identifying as a Mexican citizen who had entered unlawfully. He was processed and appeared in court on April 11. Afterward, he was held by the U.S. Marshals in Florence, AZ. A few days later, his family presented documents showing U.S. citizenship. The charges were dismissed, and he was released to his family. This arrest was the direct result of Hermosillo's own actions and statements.

In an interview with Popular Information, his first with any media outlet, Hermosillo said DHS'. 's account was false. According to Hermosillo, he was visiting his girlfriend's family in Tucson from his home in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Several hours before his arrest, Hermosillo was transported to a hospital in Tucson by ambulance after suffering from a seizure. He has a New Mexico state ID, but did not take it with him during the medical emergency. After being released from the hospital following treatment, Hermosillo did not know how to return to where he was staying. He approached the Border Patrol officer because he was looking for someone to help him. "I saw a car, and I askled] him for help," Hermosillo said. He told the officer that he was staying in Tucson.

"You" re not from here. Do you have your papers?" the officer said, according to Hermosillo. When the officer asked where he was from, Hermosillo said he told the officer, "New Mexico." The officer then accused Hermosillo of lying. "Don't make me lout] like [I'm] stupid," the officer said. "I know you're from Mexico." After that, Hermosillo said, he was arrested. Hermosillo said that he never told the officer that he was born in Mexico, was a citizen of Mexico, or entered the country illegally. And he would not have said those things because they are not true. He signed the transcript released by DHS because the officer ordered him to "sign everything." But Hermosillo did not read it, because he cannot read. According to Hermosillo's girlfriend, Grace Hernandez, Hermosillo has learning disabilities and can only write his name. Hermosillo said he did not graduate from high school and dropped out after the 10th grade.

The officer also signed the document, which said Hermosillo "read" the document or had it read to him. But Hermosillo said no one read him the document. Other documents created by the officer have inaccuracies. For example, the criminal complaint says that Hermosillo was detained "at or near Nogales, Arizona." But Hermosillo was detained in Tuscon, which is more than 70 miles from Nogales. John Mennell, a spokesperson for the U.S. Border Patrol, said that it was an "unintentional" error. Hermosillo said he was detained with about 15 other men in a cell at the Florence Correctional Center. He was served only cold food. He said he contracted the flu because "they have it cold in there and everybody's getting sick." Hermosillo said he requested medicine but was not provided with any.

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

I. Ruling on General Objections 1. “False Premise” Objections. Defendants object to certain discovery because they claim the requests are based on the “false premise that the United States can or has been ordered to facilitate Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador.”2 See Defs.’ Objs. & Resps. to Pls.’ First Set of Expedited Interrogs., ECF No. 98-1 at 3. Defendants—and their counsel—well know that the falsehood lies not in any supposed “premise,” but in their continued mischaracterization of the Supreme Court’s Order. That Order made clear that this Court “properly required the Government to ‘facilitate’ Abrego Garcia’s release from custody in El Salvador and to ensure that his case is handled as it would have been had he not been improperly sent to El Salvador.” See Noem v. Abrego Garcia, 604 U.S. –– (2025), slip op. at 2; see also Abrego Garcia v. Noem, No. 25-1404, 2025 WL 1135112, at *1 (4th Cir. Apr. 17, 2025). Defendants’ objection reflects a willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations. The objection is overruled. Defendants are therefore ordered to supplement their answers in full compliance with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure. Their answers must include facts responsive to the requests, not oblique and incomplete, non-specific characterizations. See Fed. R. Civ. P. 33(b)(3) (requiring that each interrogatory be answered “fully”)

NEW: Judge Xinis largely rejects DOJ's opposition to discovery requests in the Abrego Garcia case, accusing the Trump admin of "a willful and bad faith refusal to comply with discovery obligations," citing their continued denial to acknowledge what the Supreme Court ordered.

II. Ruling on Specific Objections & Incomplete Responses 1. Defendants’ answer to Interrogatory No. 5, in which they name exactly two individuals who “have been or will be involved in any of the actions responsive to Interrogatories 1–4 or in ordering or authorizing Abrego Garcia’s removal to El Salvador, his initial placement in CECOT or his continued confinement in CECOT,” reflects a deliberate evasion of their fundamental discovery obligations. Defendants identify only Robert Cerna, Acting Field Office Director for Harlingen, and Evan Katz, Assistant Director for the Enforcement and Removal Operations at DHS, as the universe of individuals responsive to the question. Given the context of this case, Defendants have failed to respond in good faith, and their refusal to do so can only be viewed as willful and intentional noncompliance. Defendants must supplement their answer to include all individuals involved as requested in this interrogatory.

WOW. After the Trump admin refused to name individuals involved in sending Mr. Abrego to CECOT, Judge Xinis says DOJ is engaged in "a deliberate evasion of their fundamental discovery obligations," which she says "can only be viewed as willful and intentional noncompliance."

Seeing this chart just as Isee a quote from Musk saying fully autonomous self-driving will be ready this year.

Two NYT headlines stating the WH wants to promote more childbearing and the EPA is ending testing for chemicals that hurt children.

Two headlines in the New York Times today.

“Why aren’t people having kids”

If you’re waiting for polling to tell you whether you should have a moral compass or a spine, you shouldn’t be in public service to begin with.

"It was malpractice on the side of Harvard's lawyers not to pick up the phone and call the members of the antisemitism task force who they had been talking to for weeks," said May Mailman, the White House senior policy strategist. "Instead, Harvard went on a victimhood campaign." Still, Ms. Mailman said, there is a potential pathway to resume discussions if the university, among other measures, follows through on what Mr. Trump wants and apologizes to its students for fostering a campus where there was antisemitism.

it’s so funny to see this woman get all huffy in the times story about trump backing off harvard bc someone flagged her for me recently as a white house rando who’d been elevated to a big job with no experience and really sucks at it

Everybody will learn this lesson or they will go down with the fascist ship.

This is what I have been yammering on about to anyone who will listen for weeks. Every single goon involved in this should be taken for every cent they are worth.

The Trump administration is reaching their greasy fingers into elderly folks’ bank accounts and draining them dry. Ghouls, every one of them.

Trump ready to ‘move on’ from Ukraine peace talks if no progress, Rubio says Rubio’s remarks appear to reflect the president’s frustration with the difficulty of achieving peace in Ukraine after Russia’s 2022 full-scale invasion.

i cannot emphasize enough that if you thought trump would bring the war to a close or even make headway on a peace agreement then you are among the dumbest people alive www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

Shout out Mr. Render 🤘

In high school, our AP history teacher assigned us to read The Jungle — it was the only thing I ever read in school that I couldn’t finish because I was so physically disgusted.

Can’t wait to head back there.

Mike Croley, who was working at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration as a presidential management fellow when Trump axed the decades-old program in February, told The Bulwark he never considered himself very political, but he felt “radicalized” as he watched his colleagues lose their jobs and important government work come to a halt. (Croley’s fellowship was set to end this summer, but he resigned in April out of frustration.) He attended a Run for Something training last month before deciding to launch a longshot race against Rep. John Rose (R-Tenn.). “I feel like as federal employees, we were under attack. And for me to be attacked by my own president and the unelected richest fucking man in the world telling me that this career that I’ve spent 45 years manifesting is no longer? I just couldn’t stand by and watch that happen,” said Croley. “I’m angry and I’m motivated.”

Mike, a federal worker impacted by DOGE's cuts, attended a @runforsomething.net candidate intro call last month - now he's running for office.

"For me to be attacked by my own president and the unelected richest fucking man in the world...? I just couldn’t stand by and watch that happen."