Zack Hunt

Medgar Evers’ killer was a Klansman, but Trump administration says stop calling him a racist - Mississippi Today Among anticipated changes to a new visitor brochure for the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument is no longer using "racist" to describe the killer of the civil rights leader.

Ask yourself: why would this administration want to delete references to Medgar Evers’ racist assassin being a racist? Why might that be?

I challenge anyone in this administration or Congress to defend this.

Oof

I genuinely loathe Chuck Schumer

To be fair, Tom Homan didn’t have a change of heart.

Because he doesn’t have one.

it's awesome that everyone in the administration seems to have such a deep understanding of economic matters

ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.

"ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers."

Senate Democrats: Do not appropriate any more funds for ICE.

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I did wonder if that was a ghoul I saw walking around this morning…

Cool mix of light and fog outside our house this morning.

Rand Paul: "I see not even a hint here of anything aggressive on [Pretti's] part. I don't think this should take months and months. There needs to be a conclusion ... the public needs to know, if I go to a protest and shout something at people, could I be killed?"

Rand Paul to ICE officials on Pretti's killing: "Because people within the government made conclusions immediately that he was a terrorist and an assassin, people aren't believing that it's gonna be an honest investigation ... there has to ultimately be repercussions ... it's inexcusable."

it really can't be said enough that this is a person who has dined with the president of the united states

RON JOHNSON: Are you aware of training for activists, Mr Ellison?

KEITH ELLISON: Yeah I'm aware. It's common for people to use their First Amendment rights, sir

RON JOHNSON: Did you ever encourage people to go out there and exercise their First Amendment rights?


KEITH ELLISON: I freely admit being in favor of the First Amendment

If anyone has any evidence that folks doing the kind of activism and observing that Pretti and Good were doing when killed were inspired by *elected officials,* I'd love to see it.

Because from my reporting in Minneapolis, exactly zero people cited elected officials as inspiration.

Juana Rodriguez, a U.S. citizen born in Idaho, said she was among those detained. The ACLU said in its news release that her 3-year-old son cried as officers told him to hold on to her pocket.

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Drew Sheneman

Trump tries and fails to extort Canada It's Bridgegate 2.0, only much dumber.

"Trump no longer has the bandwidth to enforce his own edicts. His popularity is in free fall, Ds are over-performing in every election, and, while he can certainly punish Rs who fail to parrot his increasingly unhinged narratives, he can’t make them commit political suicide." — @lizdye.bsky.social

Elon Musk Wants to Build an A.I. Satellite Factory on the Moon In a meeting with employees at his company xAI, Mr. Musk revealed a vision for a facility that includes a giant catapult to launch his satellites into space.

insane to be reporting this stuff with a straight face. like what are we doing here man

NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.

Embarrassing defeat for Trump and Mike Johnson.

STRANGE TALE: Imagine if Bondi (& Patel & Fox) attended early AM arrest of alleged MS13 member, saw the case fizzle, told press he'd be deported instead, brought him up at House hearing......but didn't mention he's facing murder rap & poss death penalty www.politico.com/newsletters/...

It's one thing to get a "no true bill."

It's quite another to get *shut out* in the grand jury.

So they can sue for $10 billion now, right?

A perfect summary of Pam Bondi’s “testimony” today.

House GOP passes sweeping anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions, sends measure to Senate The GOP’s push for the measure was driven by blatantly false claims.

🚨BREAKING: The GOP’s sweeping new anti-voting bill cleared the U.S. House Wednesday, setting up a high-stakes battle in the Senate. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

This is an excellent picture.

It perfectly captures this regime’s total disinterest in justice for Epstein’s victims because of what it would mean for Trump.

This is an excellent picture.

Perfectly captures this regime’s total disinterest in justice doe Epstein’s victims.

Massie: "She didn't answer anything. She came here ready to talk about the Dow Jones and the Nasdaq, which seems kind of crazy to me."

Massie: "The recourse is that the next AG can bring charges against them for breaking the law. I think that's what compelled them to produce 3 million documents, and now they're claiming it's incompetence. They're defense today is incompetence for why they haven't given us all the documents."