Robin LaFevers

NYT bestselling author of books about assassin nuns in medieval France (GRAVE MERCY, DARK TRIUMPH, MORTAL HEART) & the THEODOSIA series. Professional Introvert.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Over a million acres of pristine wilderness lakes in Minnesota.

The most visited canoe country in America.

Generations of families have paddled it, fished it, camped it.

The Senate just sold it out outright.

They called it "America First."

Then handed it to a Chilean billionaire — so his company can ship the copper to China.

The Senate voted 50-49 to gut 20 years of Boundary Waters mining protections.

Here's the deal they made.

A Chilean billionaire's company digs the mine.

America can't smelt the copper — we don't have the capacity.

So the ore ships to China.

China processes it.

Sells it on the world market.

Chile keeps the profits.

Minnesotans don't even get the jobs.

Minnesota keeps the pollution.

And Americans get to buy it back from China at full market price.

This same company has a documented history at their Chilean mines: pipeline spills, regulatory fines, and locals fighting back for years.

They paid a former Trump Interior Secretary $380K.

The protection died by one vote.

Here's exactly how it happened — and who made it happen.

Who do YOU think this mine actually serves?

#DemsUnited

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Let me get this straight. Trump sued his own IRS for $10 billion. His own Justice Department is now considering settling that case. And one of the terms on the table is that the IRS drops all audits of Trump, his family, and his businesses PERMANENTLY.

He’s using the full weight of the federal government to protect himself and his family from accountability and potentially pay himself BILLIONS of your tax dollars.
https://t.co/TyfIGUFxqh

[sam @sam_d_1995]

just a friendly reminder that republicans have a trifecta and could pass a federal ban on gerrymandering *tomorrow* if they wanted to.

but they don’t want to. they want to rig the system. and then they turn around and throw a temper tantrum when Dems fight back

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Twenty-six generals and admirals in fourteen months. No misconduct cited for a single one.

A former Fox News weekend host who never held a senior military command has removed the Joint Chiefs Chairman, the Army Chief of Staff, the commander of Army Transformation and Training, the Chief of Chaplains, and at least 22 other senior officers from the most powerful military on earth. He blocked four Army officers from promotion to brigadier general, two Black men and two women, by unilaterally striking their names from a list of 36. When Army Secretary Dan Driscoll refused to remove them, Hegseth did it himself. No hearing. No review board. No Senate consultation. The names were struck because the man who reads the list decided they should not be on it.

The pattern is not random. It is architectural. Every removal serves the same function: shortening the distance between a presidential decision and its execution. The officers who remain are the ones who did not resist. The officers who resisted are gone. The replacement for the Army Chief of Staff is Vice Chief General Christopher LaNeve, who served as Hegseth’s personal military aide. The man who carried the briefcase now signs the orders. The chain of command has been rebuilt so that every link answers directly to the man who removed the previous link.

General Randy George was the commander of the United States Army’s ground forces. That title matters now in a way it did not matter six weeks ago. Before February 28, ground forces in Iran were a theoretical exercise discussed in war colleges and think tanks. After five weeks of air strikes, with the IRGC publishing bridge target lists across four allied nations, with the President saying the military has “not even started” destroying what remains, with MEUs staged in the Gulf and the 82nd Airborne deploying and JSOC operators at forward bases in four countries, the ground option is no longer theoretical. It is a logistics package. And the man whose job was to assess whether that package should be opened was told to retire the same day the President posted “much more to follow.”

Lieutenant General Hodne ran the command that trains every soldier who would execute a ground operation. Major General Green led the chaplain corps that would minister to every soldier who dies in one. George decided whether the operation should happen. Hodne prepared the soldiers to carry it out. Green prepared them to live with it. All three were removed on the same afternoon.

Congress has not held a hearing. No subpoenas issued. The legal authority for a Defence Secretary to unilaterally override promotion lists and force immediate retirement of Senate-confirmed officers during wartime has not been tested because nobody with the authority to question it has chosen to.

The IRGC has said attacks will “intensify from next week.” The Ford carrier is heading back. The CNN intelligence assessment confirms half of Iran’s launchers and thousands of drones remain. The President has named the next targets: power plants, desalination, oil wells, Kharg Island. And every general who might have said “this crosses a line” is already gone.

Twenty-six officers. Zero misconduct findings. One question that every general still serving is asking behind closed doors: who is left to say no? And what happens when the answer is nobody?

https://t.co/dAOBBMsgDS

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Trump is creating this chaos on purpose now.

Today, Republican leaders begged him to sign a bill that funds TSA and he refused. Instead, he said leave TSA closed and Congress must prioritize the SAVE Act, Trump's bill to rig the fall election.

[Joe Cooprider @joecooprider]

Reminder that Mueller indicted 26 Russians and 8 Americans for working together to interfere with the election. All 8 Americans were convicted in court, but 5 were pardoned by Trump.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

Pope Leo XIV’s Vatican newspaper is the only publication in the Western world to run the photograph of 150 Iranian girls' graves — killed in President Trump's military strikes — on its front page.

[Robin LaFevers @RLLaFevers]

@Robert_E_Kelly Love this update! Thank you!

[George Pu @TheGeorgePu]

Sam Altman was fired by his own board.

His co-founder Ilya left.

His top researchers left to start Anthropic.

His head of alignment quit.

He dissolved the safety team and its replacement.

He converted a nonprofit into an $850B for-profit.

He removed 'safely' from the mission statement.

His employees begged him to stand with Anthropic.

He said he would.

That night he took the deal they refused.

Then announced it on X like a victory lap.

And you still think this man is building AI for humanity?

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Still trying to wrap my head around Kash firing a unit that specializes in Iranian counter-intel LAST WEEK -- when they knew war was coming -- because the agents were involved in the Trump classified docs case.

https://t.co/1586YuzT5e

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Trump's DOJ has been quietly removing Epstein files from the DOJ website since the attack in Iran ; CBS reports.

This is a coverup.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump’s billionaire allies will now own CNN, Fox News, CBS, WaPo, WSJ and NY Post — plus 185+ local tv stations and news in 100 markets.

They also control X, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, WhatsApp, TikTok, Truth and Twitch.

They control the AI you're integrating into your lives, the algorithms feeding you content, and your personal data you've given up for access.

This is all by design to manipulate and surveil us, and we’re not talking enough about it.

Pay attention.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

In fifty years, this era will be studied as the moment the media chose power and relevance over country. They targeted a president who was effective. He was also a decent man. Those were disqualifying traits in an industry addicted to chaos.

They called him boring. Stability did not fit their business model. Drama does. So they dismantled him politically and cleared the path for a convicted felon who had already pushed our system to the brink.

This was not incompetence. It was intent. And the country will pay the price for decades.

It will be remembered as one of the greatest scandals and self-inflicted disasters in American history.

[capitolhunters @capitolhunters]

Thinking of fun new projects today for MacKenzie Scott and Melinda French Gates.

[Ayesha A. Siddiqi @AyeshaASiddiqi]

the research project that became Google was publicly funded through grants

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Trump says he has the power to seize ballots — and now his spy chief is joining FBI raids of election offices.

But guess what?

I co-wrote the order he’s talking about. He’s lying. And a crime might be in progress.

https://t.co/bJJjJQZh9C

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: "This is a seismic event. This should have people across the country absolutely shook. This is a huge deal. This is an FBI raid on the Fulton County Elections office ... This is a shot across the bow at the midterm elections. He tried to steal power when he lost it in 2020."

[Lydia Kauppi @lydiakauppi]

Why aren’t any of these right wing “independent journalists” who are so intent on uncovering fraud in MN talking to the republicans who blocked the fraud prevention bill last spring? They aren’t curious to know why the MNGOP didn’t want to uncover fraud?

[Robin LaFevers @RLLaFevers]

@yllekyhprum I love your work so much!!!

[Jared Moskowitz @JaredEMoskowitz]

This is why we must restore all cancer funding.