What are in the Epstein files that is worth keeping the government shutdown?

⚡️ NEW: State Rep. Aftyn Behn has won the Democratic Primary in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District Special Election

@aftynbehn.bsky.social

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

Air traffic control facilities across the United States are reportedly experiencing staff shortages amid Trump’s government shutdown.

These shortages are taking place in Nashville, Chicago, Dallas, Phoenix, Washington, and more.

US imposes visa restrictions on Brazilian officials for working with Cuban medical mission The restrictions target government officials from Grenada and Brazil, among other countries.

The US revoked the visas of two former senior health officials in Brazil for their involvement in a program that sent Cuban doctors to remote areas in the South American nation.

Texas Private Schools Hire Relatives and Enrich Insiders. Soon They Can Do It With Taxpayer Money. An investigation by ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state law...

NEW: An investigation by ProPublica and @texastribune.org found more than 60 instances of nepotism, self-dealing and conflicts of interest among 27 private schools that likely would have violated state laws had the schools been public.

By Lexi Churchill and @emsimani.bsky.social

No, JD, belonging in America does not depend on how many generations of your family have lived here. The values of this country matter - deeply - to who we are and what it means to be American.

LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member.

RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.

Disgusting.

I’m Not panicking. I’m Outraged. Read more here.

I have been the subject of many spurious accusations and politically motivated attacks, but this one is in a class by itself. According to Tulsi Gabbard — the nation’s top intelligence official — my refusal to post on Twitter is being reviewed by the Department of Justice as evidence of wrongdoing.

What Trump and Pam Bondi Are Doing in New Jersey Is a Bigger Deal Than You Think The Justice Department rejected a federal court’s authority to name a new U.S. attorney to New Jersey to replace Alina Habba.

Pam Bondi wants to seize powers that the Constitution grants to Congress and the judiciary, constructing an authoritarian presidency that respects no limits on Trump’s rule.

This administration simply does not believe the other branches have a legitimate claim to power. slate.com/news-and-pol...

ICE agents are harassing the courthouse volunteers who assist besieged immigrants "They want to be doing this with no witnesses."

At a fed building today for an errand, I rode in an elevator with a family headed to immigration court. The mom prayed all the way to the 10th floor.

If you can volunteer to accompany people to court, please consider it. The fact that they're harassing volunteers tells us how important this is.

Trump/Bondi knew this was going to happen, which is why they went to this distraction when things got hot. Now they can just blame the judge. Hey, we tried!

Captain Picard, from Star Trek: TNG, shouting "There are 3 branches!"

Me, everytime SCOTUS issues a new shadow docket opinion:

Yesterday, Maurene Comey, who prosecuted the Epstein case, was summarily fired from SDNY. Her letter to colleagues pulls no punches. "Fear is the tool of a tyrant, wielded to suppress independent thought."

h/t @msnbc.com

Cornyn highlights the people who didn't die in the Texas floods: "It's a very sad time, but it's also a time when 850+ campers were accounted for and recovered ... this was a 100 year flood event ... it's just a time of very many conflicting feelings."

Supreme Court allows Trump to resume 3rd-country removals without court-ordered due process requirements The Supreme Court handed Trump a major win by allowing officials to resume deportation of migrants to third countries without additional due process requirements.

Justice Sotomayor said it best: the conservative majority is “rewarding lawlessness.”

Migrants are being deported—without notice or due process—to countries they’ve never even set foot in.

This is what happens when the Court starts playing politics.

Why we’re barely keeping track of this growing climate problem Fossil fuel sites can emit a powerful greenhouse gas long after they shut down.

Small methane wells leak massive amounts—but are barely tracked. Like microplastics, pesticides, and biodiversity loss, they’re invisible by design. Profit demands willful ignorance.

www.vox.com/climate/4164...

This is an egregiously shameful tweet from a US senator

Goodnight 🌙

Fuck ABC News

BREAKING: ABC News announces they will NOT be renewing Terry Moran’s contract and with that I will NOT be watching ABC News ever again. I stand with Terry Moran 💙

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”

They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

The disparity btwn what’s actually happening in Los Angeles and the way it’s being mischaracterized is one of the biggest stress tests of modern media in recent memory. Botted socials, AI, old clips, declining literacy—it’s like seeing a broken emergency response system hit by a storm.

New Jersey Rep. LaMonica McIver indicted following ICE protest U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba announced three charges Tuesday night.

NEW: A grand jury has indicted NJ Rep. LaMonica McIver following an ICE protest.

I feel safer already.

Yes.

WATCH: Kanew calls out Bulso for knowing Ogles is wrong about non-citizens not having a right to due process— but not speaking up at that anti-immigrant presser inside a locked Capitol this week, despite preaching about “following the law” and “Liberty”🇺🇸

Full: www.instagram.com/reel/DKMsmpZ...

Trump's budget bill will cut food stamps to fund the golden dome.

Trump's budget bill will cause millions of Americans to lose health care to help millionaires get richer.

Trump's budget bill is a nightmare for working people & a gift for the ultra wealthy.

All 7 articles on top of NYT are written from insanely pro-Trump-bias compared with reality. Russia stories make it seem like Trump is rationally weighing foreign policy rather than serving interest of Putin for 10+ years. Other 4 articles are SaneWashing and minimizing scope & impact of corruption.