Stephanie

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

It's not hyperbole to say that the US plan to force 350,000 Haitians to leave the country and return to Haiti would lead to mass deaths.

Earlier this year, the bodies of four women deported by ICE were found beheaded in a river on the Haiti/Dominican Republic border.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

to hear Trump tell it, American elections were completely corrupted while he was president and he was helpless to stop it, then they were cleaned up by Biden ahead of Trump's victory in 2024, and now that Trump is president again they are once again becoming third world-caliber

[A.J. Perez @byajperez]

Taylor Farms not only supplies lettuce to Taco Bell, but also Walmart, Target, Safeway and many others.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

If literally anyone in Congress could say something about this, that’d be great!

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

🚨 White House press release: “far-left extremism will be treated with the same seriousness and ferocity the world has long reserved for jihadist terrorism.”

[ProPublica @propublica]

An Arkansas private school owner …
• had no prior experience running a school
• forced her students to scrub floors as punishment
• urged a group of kids to physically attack their classmate

She’s now gone. The state still funds that school.
https://t.co/Kxw83ETpo4

[Pastor Ben @BenjaminPDixon]

@atrupar That so many adult men openly admit that they don't have the spine to stand up to Trump is really fascinating.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe Democrats were capable of stealing the 2020 election while out of power, but somehow incapable of doing the same in 2024 while in power. That is a categorically, phenomenally dumb thing to believe.

[Brian Schwartz @schwartzbWSJ]

SCOOP: Top Treausry tax official and acting IRS chief counsel Ken Kies was ousted from his job after he warned that the White House was at risk of violating a federal law prohibiting senior officials’ involvement in IRS audits.

Story w/ @RichardRubinDC and @jdawsey1
https://t.co/r8Mwdso4kP

[Sam Stein @samstein]

This is really incredible. Docs released by Trump tonight confirm RUSSIA tried to spread claims Biden was engaged in criminal activity vis-a-vis Burisma and that it advanced those narratives "with US officials" and planed a "high-profile corruption scandal... at the peak of the 2020 US presidential campaign."

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "I don't think the problem is that our elections aren't secure because we control the House, Senate, White House, and to some degree we control the Supreme Court. So I ask my Republican colleagues, why are you complaining about election fraud? We won all the damn elections!"

[Matthew Cappucci @MatthewCappucci]

Folks – remember in 2023 when parts of the Northeast saw the skies turn orange? That may happen again.

It may be time to break out the N95 masks – you don't want to breathe in all these microscopic aerosols and particulates.

An upper-echelon wildfire outbreak is happening in southern Ontario. Low pressure swirled a cold front through southeast Canada on Tuesday, and all that smoke is pouring southeast behind the front – spilling into the Lower 48.

There's no immediate end in sight to the fires, and, with prolonged northwesterly flow, we're expecting continued smoke buildup.

That will make for eerie-orange sunrises and sunsets. Some folks will see fully-white skies as a veil of thick smoke blots out the blue. Others will be shrouded by fully-orange skies.

At the surface, it will smell like a campfire for days. In many cases, fine particulate matter will be hazardous to ALL groups. If you can smell smoke, we recommend minimizing time outdoors.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Former Pardon Attorney: 2 days after Mr. Blanche was confirmed as Deputy Attorney General, he fired me from my position as a pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a political favor for Trump's friend and it cost me my job. Blanche sent US Marshals to my home in an effort to prevent me from speaking with members of Congress.

[Carol Leonnig @CarolLeonnig]

EXCLUSIVE -- VP arranged for his elementary school son to be flown in a military helicopter -- for a golf lesson across town. @SecretService detail is getting "fed up" with Vance family entitled protection expectations and last minute travel
W @VaughnHillyard

https://t.co/AuoEMGXint

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Jay Clayton's election denialism did not go well

During his confirmation hearing for DNI, US Attorney Jay Clayton was reduced to shrugging and sitting in silence as Democrats like Jon Ossoff and Mark Kelly simply asked him to acknowledge the obvious truth -- that Joe Biden won the 2020 election, and Trump lost

But Clayton was too afraid of offending Trump to do so, instead stammering through dodges like "uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you"

Here's a supercut from Clayton's disastrous hearing:

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

Deputy attorney general Todd Blanche meeting with convicted child sex trafficker: 9 hours
Blanche meeting with her survivors: 0

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Why is Riley Gaines being invited onto the news to discuss ICE? What qualifications does she possibly have?

[Jeremy Diamond @JDiamond1]

One year after Saif Musallet - an American citizen - was killed by settlers, his father made the dangerous journey to the site where he was beaten to death.
Within minutes, Israeli settlers armed with clubs, rocks & a knife descended on us.
4 settlers were arrested, but Saif's killer still roams free. His father Kamel says the US gov't has failed his son.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

IMO, a lot of people don't have a worldview. For them, politics is about gender performance. Andrew Schulz fantasizes about joining the military to fight for his country, but won't set his thermostat to 78°. It's not about civic responsibility, but about performing machismo.

[Clash Report @clashreport]

Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz on Lebanon:

I said that Southern Lebanon would become Gaza. We would apply the Rafah model.

We would destroy everything there. We would deal with them in exactly that way.

And that is what we did.

The infrastructure has been destroyed. Homes in 24 villages along the border—villages that had existed for hundreds of years and were used by Hezbollah as military outposts against Israel—have been demolished.

The army systematically flattened the villages with bulldozers and explosives. Ninety percent of the houses are gone. Between 15,000 and 20,000 homes have been destroyed.