Kayt Sukel

We're no more than a few hours away from the next phase of digital propaganda: unverified videos of "liberated people celebrating" will go viral. Many of these videos will later be revealed to have predated the illegal war, or be entirely unrelated to current events

Upshot: verify before amplifying

The next Big Lie is to taking shape right in front of us. Donald Trump will try to use this to assert illegal and unconstitutional powers over the 2026 elections.

Get your shit together, USA

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

ICE protesters keep beating Trump in Chicago court, but the battles take a toll — 'It’s about intimidation' Cases against 17 of 32 people charged with crimes during Operation Midway Blitz have already collapsed, and no one has been convicted. But federal prosecutions are daunting, they carry the threat of p...

Several people have been cleared of federal charges tied to Operation Midway Blitz in Chicago. But they still had a price to pay.

For example, the 17 cleared defendants spent a combined 150 days in federal custody, records show.

From @chicago.suntimes.com: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

I think if I'd gotten away with attempting a coup, suffered no consequences for it, then won an election four years later, got away with executing citizens in the streets and foreigners in boats, and successfully abducted a head of state, I too might think I could just bomb my way to regime change

Novartis settles with Henrietta Lacks' estate over use of her 'stolen' cells to advance medicine Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and...

Whoop whoop

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Dr. Catharine Young: We are now at 1136 new measles cases - in just the first 8 weeks of this year alone. A preventable disease resurging. This is an abject policy failure.

Cool cool cool 🫠

Inside the upheaval at the Minnesota U.S. Attorney’s Office Nearly half its lawyers have left since President Trump’s return, leading to dismissed criminal cases, stalled fraud prosecutions and a rare contempt citation against a Justice Department attorney.

Nearly half the lawyers at the U.S. Attorney's Office have left since President Trump’s return, leading to dismissed criminal cases, stalled fraud prosecutions and a rare contempt citation against a Justice Department attorney.

Sent a message to Senator Roger Marshall about Casey Means. Got a form letter in response:

"On November 5th, the American people sent a message to Washington, D.C. by resoundingly electing Donald J. Trump."

Quite striking with this week's Lancet cover. So much for his oath to do no harm.

Cover of The Lancet:

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The Ellison’s bid is $111B (perhaps minus a $7B fee if regulators block the sale, which ha, fat luck of that), but this Saudi backing should have everyone alarmed — in addition to antitrust concerns by combining WBD with Paramount (not to mention CBS with CNN).

👋 Hello States Attorneys General!👋

We genuinely need a revival of virtue in the United States.

In my view, that’s almost as critical a project as any other structural reform project necessary in the wake of trumpism. We should become a society that actually values human life such that we would feel shame about this.

The email also says that prosecutors are on track to present the indictment to the grand jury by Wednesday. Singh replies on Sunday, May 18: "Let's keep close hold until we get clearance."

Patton: Clearance means approval, right?

McGuire: Not sure what he meant by "clearance"...still not sure

Every stage of this process - his arrest, spending a year in jail, being dumped on the streets to die - would be deeply shameful in a society that actually valued human life.

things can’t be this evil and this stupid at the same time

Hillary Clinton just posted her opening statement to the Comer Committee which she is testifying before today. It's part of the Save Donald from Epstein Investigation. The committee has essentially taken over the town of Chappaqua for the purpose. @hillaryclinton.bsky.social

I just moved here but I am shocked that I am only hearing about this now. How did this move so quickly?

Mean and unnecessary.

Stop looking at my computer screen.

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I’m sure this is fine.

Dozens of FBI records apparently missing from Epstein files, including Trump accuser interviews | CNN Three interviews related to a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago appear to be among the missing files in the DOJ release.

Dozens of FBI witness interviews from the investigation of Jeffrey Epstein appear to be missing from the files released by the Department of Justice last month, according to a CNN review – including interviews related to a woman who accused President Trump of sexually assaulting her decades ago.

This is already a fact checker nightmare

Top commentary on tonight’s State of the Union address.

And during those rare times, how often has the Coke broken open and resulted in a mess? :)

How often does it fall off your head?

It is not fair to limit it to just one. I should be able to cultivate my love of sweets on a global scale.

This makes me think something worse is going to drop.