Gov Newsom ‘handcuffed’ police as LA riots expose ‘reactionary’ leadership failure: former sheriff’ s deputy Former sheriff's deputy Patrick Gipson criticizes Gov. Gavin Newsom and Mayor Karen Bass for handling of LA riots, blaming delayed National Guard deployment and progressive policies.

I have no idea how many people get their news from Foxnews.com rather than the cable channel, but those people would have no idea — none — that there were any protests today against the President. The only even tangentially related story I found on the home page:

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When you spent $25 million on your birthday party but the tanks were old and the clown wasn’t funny and the taco bowls didn’t have enough cheese and all the cool kids went to a different party.

Pennsylvania Governor’s Residence Targeted in Arson The governor, Josh Shapiro, said the State Police banged on the door early on Sunday to wake him and his family after an arsonist set fire to the governor’s residence in Harrisburg.

The governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, said he and his family were evacuated from their home early on Sunday after an arson attack that significantly damaged a section of the governor’s residence.

Last night at about 2AM, my family and I woke up to bangs on the door from the Pennsylvania State Police after an arsonist set fire to the Governor’s Residence in Harrisburg.

The home of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro was set on fire this morning — while he and his family were inside — Shapiro says. No one was injured. The incident is being investigated as arson by state police.

‘Why are they still there?’ asks Rachel Goldberg-Polin, on 2nd Passover with hostages in Gaza 'This year there is one question and one question only,' says mother of slain hostage Hersh, as Jews mark festival of freedom with 59 hostages still held, 24 of them believed alive

‘Why are they still there?’ asks Rachel Goldberg-Polin, on 2nd Passover with hostages in Gaza https://www.timesofisrael.com/why-are-they-still-there-asks-rachel-goldberg-polin-on-2nd-passover-with-hostages-in-gaza/

Congress is voting tomorrow on the #SAVEAct, a dangerous bill that could bar millions of Americans from voting – including almost 70 million married women. Join us in protecting the sacred right to vote, urge your Member of Congress to vote NO:

Trump is the arsonist who wants to be made a hero for putting out the fire he started. And MAGA is eager to give it to him, when all that happened is he realized his tariff idea is a disaster.

Sure, Kamala Harris would have have preserved our global power and domestic prosperity. But she would have done so as a Black woman.

by Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller

Hamas would rather hold onto 59 hostages, including 35 who are dead, and let the war resume than free them and save their own people.

They’re willing to sacrifice everything just to keep torturing Israelis.

This isn't just donalds doing. The Republicans in Congress own this. They had the ability to stop him and they didn't. This isn't donalds economy, this is the republican economy.

🔥🔥 Good job MAGA you did it!

off to a good start at the boasberg hearing, with drew ensign for doj acknowledging that "to the extent that [administration statements] are contrary to things that are true, they would be false"

The last day on which a majority of the Supreme Court’s justices had been appointed by Democratic presidents was May 14, 1969.

One of the things we do in the legal academy is support our claims with facts.

LIVE: Cory Booker speaks on the Senate floor YouTube video by Associated Press

Are you listening? It’s the least you can do.
Powerful, substantive, passionate. A clarion call to stand.
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Someone I know cancelled their trip to the US because, according to them, "it looks too crazy over there."

He lives in Pakistan, folks.

When MAGA folks say “no scalps” and pledge to stand by Hegseth no matter what, they are telling us something very important.

More mistakes will be made. Signalgate can happen again. They are fine w that.

People are going to get hurt.

Especially irritating because Randy Fine is such a good drag queen name, and this is an embarrassment to the brand

Forward Booking Snapshot: Canada - US Market March 2024 vs March 2025 Summer Season Bookings Month of Booking Snapshot April May June July August March 2024 March 2025 1,218,570 817,912 649,878 516,344 370,228 295,982 226,980 184,720 147,679 103,914 % Change -75.7% -72.2% -71.6% -71.4% -71.9% Source: OAG September 233,160 65,680 -71.8% OAG

Canadian travel to the US is absolutely cratering.

The purpose of the deportations we have been seeing has not been to fight antisemitism, but rather to use antisemitism as a beachhead to eventually do away with foreign students altogether, using Jews as a pretext for a non-Jewish political agenda.

Well done Trump voters. When you voted for him last November, is this the kind of thing you wanted his administration spending time doing? Going door to door in Greenland to find Greenlanders who wanted to chat with the VP’s wife?

As Trump’s Policies Worry Scientists, France and Others Put Out a Welcome Mat European universities have begun recruiting researchers who lost their jobs in the administration’s cost-cutting efforts, or are anxious over perceived threats to academic freedom.

Universities in France and elsewhere in Europe have begun recruiting researchers who lost their jobs in the Trump administration’s cost-cutting efforts, or are anxious over perceived threats to academic freedom.

Long waits, waves of calls, web crashes: Social Security is breaking down A flood of cuts led by Elon Musk has sent the agency into chaos as a new commissioner prepares to take charge.

They are breaking Social Security, because they do not like Social Security.

Today on Fascist News:

“The Constitution is too cumbersome”

The Trump administration announced plans to expand drilling in the Arctic, including in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Interior Department stated it would begin steps to open the entire 1.56 million-acre Coastal Plain of the refuge to oil and gas exploration.

If you ever wondered how the KGB manipulated foreigners and got them to repeat Soviet propaganda, spend some time listening to Steve Witkoff talk about his wonderful conversations with Vladimir Putin.

USAID isn't charity. It's a foreign policy tool with bipartisan origins that is critical in this dangerous global environment.

Gutting it means gutting our ability to compete and keep America safe.

Important note about this breakthrough:

Literally would not exist without the kind of Federal support the current administration is slashing.

Took 15+ years of research at a federal lab (Lawrence Berkeley) to get this to a point at which private enterprise could take over and make these at scale.

He’s an idiot. He’s an authoritarian. And he’s dangerous. In other words, he’s a dangerous, idiotic authoritarian.👇