Prosecutor urges jury to convict brother of Honduran president for drug trafficking The brother of Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez “ravaged his country” to send nearly 200,000 kilos of cocaine into the United States, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday during …

Incompetent now, or incompetent then or???

WH now: This was Biden DOJ “lawfare”!

Emil Bove then:
“For almost 15 years the defendant ravaged his country to work with other men to send a title-wave [sic] of cocaine to the United States”

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14-Year-Old Girl Has Mic Drop Message For Megyn Kelly After She Suggests Epstein Wasn't A Pedophile

Thank you for speaking up, Eloise! 👏🏼

Billboards outside US Southern Command urge troops not to 'break the law’ in Caribbean strikes “Don’t let them make you break the law,” reads a billboard along the road to U.S. Southern Command, one of several set up by veterans.

This veteran has questions about the legality of the orders being given to our service members.

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Asked this question in March. Thought this was again relevant..

Pledge to end big money in politics with American Promise. Sign the American Promise Citizen Pledge to support the call for a constitutional amendment to end the dominance of big money in politics.

Hi friends,
I’m working to get anonymous donations (dark money) and foreign money out of our elections. We the people should decide our elections, not elite interests and foreign billionaires.

Sign the pledge to defend our democracy.

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Sara Whitmer • • • 1h • 8 I'm sure many of you have heard by now that earlier this week, IU k*lled the print edition of its student paper, the IDS. The issue that was supposed to print this week contained criticism of the Whitten regime and IUs further slide into scist control, and they couldn't allow that to happen during Homecoming, when all the rich alumni are in town. Enter Purdue! The Purdue student paper, The Exponent, owns its own presses. Yesterday, in an act of tremendous solidarity with their biggest rival school, they printed the forbidden issue of the IDS. They then drove it to Bloomington overnight and stocked all of the IDS boxes on campus, just in time for Homecoming. Solidarity is what makes us stronger, and solidarity will be what ultimately allows us to triumph, if we can ever truly get it together. I hope everyone has a fun, safe day if they're going out today, and I hope we can think about what acts of solidarity we can begin taking to really make this movement MOVE - beyond a permitted expression of upset into more active resistance. 75 12 comments

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

A drawing depicting the original signers of the Declaration of Independence, labeled "NO KINGS PROTEST (ORIGINAL VERSION)"

@hcrichardson.bsky.social @claybennett.bsky.social

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It's not a duty of journalists to repeat the claims of proven liars and pretend those claims are credible. That's the job of propagandists and enablers.

screen capture of an email from the US Department of Veterans Affairs inviting the recipient to celebrate the Army's 250th Birthday.

The VA has invited me to attend the "Army's 250th birthday celebration"...
I am very proud of the Army, I am embarrassed that they are being used to puff up the ego of their Commander in Chief.

Is Trump doing this for his own benefit? What does AI think?

Rate Trump's motivations on personal vs. democratic interest using most recent public polling of independents as indicator. 1: Solely personal, 5: Purely democratic; estimate reflects public perception of self-interest."

America is not under invasion from undocumented immigrants who are mostly peacefully living & working in communities that value their contribution to society

America is under invasion by Trump who is literally sending military to invade & occupy peaceful cities to crush the will of the people there

While Veterans lose care,
Trump rolls tanks through DC,
sends Marines to LA,
and fuels chaos to crush dissent.

This isn’t leadership.
It’s tyranny in plain sight.

MORE: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/u...

X’s Sales Pitch: Give Us Your Ad Business or We’ll Sue Elon Musk and CEO Linda Yaccarino launched a campaign to strong-arm advertisers back onto the platform.

Free markets www.wsj.com/business/med...

Let’s see what AI thinks:

Analyze the electoral impact of authoritarian behaviors by US presidents. Identify historical instances and conclude with estimates of electoral impact when there is popular support, marginal support, and strong negative reactions.

A Trump EO authorizes political appointees to "correct" scientific research, control its communication & “discipline" violators of their agenda.

7000+ scientists & @standupforscience.bsky.social “condemn Trump’s escalated assault on science in America.”

www.standupforscience.net/open-letter-...

There are 435 congressional districts — and in all of them, our groups are organizing the pro-democracy majority to reclaim its power.

Find your local group: indivisible.org/groups

Or let us help connect you with your nearest organizers: indivisibleproject.formstack.com/forms/organi...

Renowned historian @hcrichardson.bsky.social delivered a powerful keynote at The Old North Church’s 250th Anniversary Lantern Service on April 18, 2025. #LetFreedomRing

Watch this clip from her inspiring address:

See the problem here?

@americanpromise.bsky.social

Let’s get corrupting money out of politics.

The Declaration of Independence's warning for Trump "The king violated their rights time and time again, and he basically 'un-kinged' himself."

"The core of the document is saying the king is a tyrant. The argument of the Declaration is that the king was depriving the colonists of their rights. Some of those rights perhaps haven’t resonated w/Americans before now, like depriving them of trials or making them have trials far away from home."

Consider the story of Kseniia Petrova, the Russian anti-aging scientist who had her visa revoked for not declaring medical samples that her Harvard lab director had asked her to bring into the United States. America used to recruit such brilliant and dedicated scientists. Now, we give them away at the behest of men like Marco Rubio. She is in a jail cell in Louisiana, worried she will be deported back to Russia, where she had protested its authoritarian leader. Harvard has done little to object. She said: Even immigrants here, they have to have some rights. But it seems that nobody really cares about our rights here…This is not the kind of America I used to know

US higher ed is:
*an incredible tool of soft power
*which generates billions, subsidizing US students
*attracts the brightest people in the world to come here, and allows the US to retain the best of them
For Rubio & Trump, these are problems to be fixed.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-attack...

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive.

No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief.

1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.

@gtconway.bsky.social
Sorry if you’ve addressed this before, but why doesn’t trumps EO and the resulting capitulation meet the elements of extortion?

1. **Coercion or Threat**
2. **Intent**
3. **Value**
4. **Abuse of Power**
5. **Lack of Consent**

The response is too long, but exactly what would expect…

Public Perception and Accountability:

Responsibility: Voters tend to hold the party in power accountable for any government dysfunction. If Republicans are in charge and a shutdown happens, they are viewed as responsible for failing to reach a budget agreement.

Example: During the Trump administration (2017-2018), when Republicans held both Congress and the presidency, the government shutdowns were largely attributed to Republican leadership failures, particularly concerning negotiations over budget issues.

Let’s see if AI agrees:
Prompt:

Based on recent history, speculate that if republicans control both houses of congress, and the presidency, and there was a shutdown, who is likely to be blamed, republicans or democrats?