Jen Bendery

BREAKING: Israel Killed Al Jazeera Journalist Anas Al-Sharif Journalists in Gaza continue to be murdered in record numbers, while Western media outlets and reporters show little or no outrage.

“How many murdered Palestinian journalists will it take for the mainstream press’s cowardly fever to break?” asks ⁦‪Prem
Thakker,‬⁩ in the wake of Israel’s killing of ⁦‪Anas al Sharif. ‬⁩

holy shit

CDC Shooter Believed COVID Vaccine Made Him Suicidal, His Father Tells Police The 30-year-old shooter also tried to get into the CDC’s headquarters in Atlanta but was stopped by guards before driving to a pharmacy across the street and opening fire late Friday afternoon, the of...

A Georgia man who opened fire on the CDC headquarters blamed the COVID-19 vaccine for making him depressed and suicidal, an official said.

The Legacy of the Washing Machine Pilot Rest in peace, Mr. Lovell.

"Imagine your life’s goal of walking on the Moon has suddenly, without warning, slipped away, and you have no time to mourn that loss. You have to get your crew back safely, and things are looking pretty damn grim."

charlotteclymer.substack.com/p/the-legacy...

He LOST.

YOU win.

(You knew he wanted YOU to pay his lawyers and his legal bills, right?)

We are helping keep an eye on this situation.

Increased police presence expected around midnight each night for the next seven days. Last night spotted on Georgia Ave but keep an eye on any areas folks congregate.

DM us if you see anything & we’ll get word out to outreach & warnings up on socials.

Americans Are Calling 'Bullcrap' On Trump’s Latest Power Grab “We don’t need to be treated like children,” one tourist fumed about Trump bullying museums to rewrite history and erase transgender people from exhibits.

Didn't know about this?

More on Trump's efforts to bully the Smithsonian into censoring art and rewriting history he doesn't like. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

This morning, the National Museum of American History added Trump back into its exhibit about presidents that have been impeached. Last month, it removed two references to his two impeachments.

Pics from someone at the exhibit today:

The Path Is Clear For Donald Trump To Reshape The Courts. Again. With Republicans back in charge in the Senate, Trump can put lots more conservatives into lifetime federal judgeships – and potentially add to the Supreme Court.

Remember how Trump (and Mitch McConnell) were aggressively filling U.S. appeals court vacancies with far-right ideologues in his first term?

And by the time Trump left office, 1 in 3 appeals court judges was a Trump judge?

We're seeing the results of that now. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

Every Republican but one -- Sen. John Kennedy -- voted to put Katsas into his current, powerful judgeship. www.senate.gov/legislative/...

Katsas was Trump's deputy WH counsel in 2017 before Trump tapped him for this court seat.

He called Trump his "principal client" in his paperwork to the Senate Judiciary Committee, saying he gave Trump advice "on virtually any legal issue."

Trump routinely tried to violate the Constitution.

The Latest Chapter in Trump’s Plan to Fill Our Courts With Judges Who Won’t Stand Up to His Abuses of Power The Latest Chapter in Trump’s Plan to Fill Our Courts With Judges Who Won’t Stand Up to His Abuses of Power

Let's see who Judge Gregory Katsas is.

He had an extensive record of advocating troubling assertions of executive power. In 5 cases, he personally pushed for positions that were rejected by by SCOTUS -- and the court he now sits on -- as abuses of authority. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-la...

Trump Court Pick Who Blamed Women For Date Rape To Fill Brett Kavanaugh's Court Seat She's weakened protections for sexual assault survivors and has argued that women can avoid date rape by staying sober.

Before becoming a judge, Rao also denounced “special treatment for minority students” and called the fight for LGBTQ rights a “trendy political movement.”

Every Senate Republican voted to confirm her. www.huffpost.com/entry/neomi-...

Senate Advances Trump Court Pick Who Blamed Women For Date Rape Neomi Rao, up for a lifetime federal court seat, also has a record of weakening protections for sexual assault survivors.

Some BG on Rao, who once blamed women for date rape:

“A good way to avoid a potential date rape is to stay reasonably sober," she wrote, and if a woman drinks to the point where she can't choose if she wants sex, “getting to that point was part of her choice.” www.huffpost.com/entry/neomi-...

*after delaying (without precedent or rationale) this entire episode so that it could occur after Emil Bove’s judicial nomination.

Attention fellow frogs in boiling water:

Here are two Trump-appointed federal judges -- both of whom were troubling judicial nominees to start with -- ruling that it was fine that Trump ignored another court's order.

???????

Pro-Democracy Legal Group Sues To Speed Up Release Of Epstein Files

Pro-democracy legal group sues to speed up release of Epstein files www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

Israel announces plan to retake Gaza City in another escalation of the war Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office says Israel’s Security Cabinet has approved a plan to take over Gaza City.

BREAKING: Israel’s Security Cabinet has approved a plan to take over Gaza City in an escalation of war.

In reality, most progressives weren’t worked up much at all. Criticism of the ad campaign had come almost entirely from a smattering of accounts with relatively few followers, according to an analysis of social media data by The New York Times. Conversation about the ad did not escalate online or in traditional media until days later, after right-leaning influencers, broadcasters and politicians began criticizing what they described as a wave of progressive outrage.

🧵 Right-wing extremists like Libs of Tiktok and Charlie Kirk totally concocted the Sydney Sweeney "outrage."

The supposed left-wing outrage at Sweeney essentially never happened. Republicans made it up.

And as a former GOP media consultant, I know the "one weird trick."

State Department Removes Anti-LGBTQ+ Violence From Human Rights Report Draft A leaked draft of the report scales back criticisms of human rights abuses in El Salvador, Russia and Israel.

"The Trump administration has removed all references to violence against LGBTQ+ people and gender-based violence in drafts of the State Department’s much anticipated annual report on international human rights." www.huffpost.com/entry/marco-...

Like mansplaining but from an insecure robot

This is a dumb stunt. Any DC visitor notices the city is already patrolled by dozens of federal agencies—Park PD, Capitol PD, Smithsonian PD, US Mint PS, Bureau of Engraving and Printing PD, US Secret Uniformed officers, FBI Police, Amtrak PD, and more, plus fed drug, VC, and fugitive task forces.

The VA’s unilateral termination of union contracts for ~360k workers represents a loss of 2.5% OF ALL UNION MEMBERS IN AMERICA.
I’m not sure what it will take for the labor movement to get into crisis mode, but the crisis is here.

What Happened to the Women of #MeToo? Tina Johnson accused Roy Moore of sexual assault. Then the world moved on, and left her behind.

This is just deeply depressing: women who spoke up during #MeToo often found their lives upended, as powerful men used defamation suits to target them, e.g. Roy Moore is still suing many of his accusers.

What Happened to the Women of #MeToo? www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Americans Are Calling 'Bullcrap' On Trump’s Latest Power Grab “We don’t need to be treated like children,” one tourist fumed about Trump bullying museums to rewrite history and erase transgender people from exhibits.

Morning. ☕️

In case you didn't already see that we're living under an authoritarian president, you oughta check out how Trump is trying to censor art and rewrite history at the Smithsonian.

It's already having a chilling effect. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Trump Plans to Send Immigrant Detainees to Notorious Louisiana Prison Once known as the bloodiest prison in the country, Angola is a maximum security facility with a dark history—and a popular prison rodeo.

🚨Unconscionable: the Trump admin will be sending undocumented immigrants to Angola, one of the worst prisons in the country, a place where conditions are notorious bad and deaths are common.

WSJ reports that 450 beds there will be opened for use by ICE.
www.wsj.com/us-news/trum...

Relatedly: If you work at any of the Smithsonian's museums and are aware of efforts to modify or remove art or history exhibits to appease Trump, or if you're feeling pressure to do this, I'd love to talk to you. Anonymity granted.

Email: jen.bendery@huffpost.com

On Signal: jbendery.41

@linkedin.com banned my post on the Trump Regime destroying research into mRNA technology as "misinformation"

The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.