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[HannahBC @chibio]

"Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble." — John Lewis

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Last night they tested the UFC stage lighting at the White House. Check it out.

The People’s House is looking more like a Six Flags amusement park after dark. It’s embarrassing.

[HannahBC @chibio]

@atrupar Mike Johnson has a law degree.

[HannahBC @chibio]

@NITESHS9067448 @CalltoActivism Cute.

[M & M Enterprises @sfoguj]

In the slowly growing trend for even Rump-appointed judges to hold him to account, Judge Roy K. Altman orders him to SHOW CAUSE why he blew off a filing deadline.

[HannahBC @chibio]

@RobertJMolnar In one-minute cycles.

[HannahBC @chibio]

@onestpress He knows he can't show his true emotions toward this humiliation, but he's really seething inside, probably already scheming for revenge.

[HannahBC @chibio]

@War_Hamster1776 @Ryan2011Angela @DemocracyDocket Here is an in-depth answer. https://t.co/2VXRVGbbBe

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: Jay Clayton, Manhattan’s top federal prosecutor, falsely claimed that California’s delayed primary results were evidence of election fraud.

The alarming insinuation is just the latest example of President Trump and his allies using the state's protracted tally to fuel conspiracy theories. https://t.co/YETdscK0wZ

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

Trump made it official. Let’s get this started.

Brand new campaign, let’s go!

https://t.co/XG9fVpN0Fg

[HannahBC @chibio]

@RonFilipkowski He'll order something bad to be done to someone for retaliation. To whom or what could it be?

[HannahBC @chibio]

@Variety His inner child wants to cry.

[HannahBC @chibio]

@samstein @willsommer That shows Trump is truly cornered and can't think strategically.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

NEW: Kash Patel and the FBI are openly saying they are investigating MAGA critics of POTUS, inserting themselves into the Candace Owens-related fissures in the movement.

via @willsommer

https://t.co/NbaVi8mqo3

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Europe Wins Again. Obviously.

Armenia went to the polls yesterday. And the results are exactly what you’d expect if you’d been paying attention for the past five years, rather than wallowing in Kremlin nostalgia like a damp sock.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared victory on Monday, with his Civil Contract Party leading with 52.5% of the vote.  Armenia, a landlocked country the size of Belgium that Russia has spent decades treating as a vassal state, has looked at its options and made a decision that required roughly the same level of intellectual effort as choosing between a Michelin-starred restaurant and a skip fire.

They chose Europe.

This election was less a routine vote than a referendum on Pashinyan’s post-2020 course reducing dependence on Russia and moving toward an explicit European orientation. And Russia, naturally, did everything in its power to stop it. According to Reuters, citing Western intelligence officials, the election faced heavy Russian covert interference, including disinformation campaigns and a plan to transport Russian Armenians into Armenia to sway the vote. One analyst collective described it as one of the largest state-backed disinformation campaigns in modern European history. And Armenia still told them to get lost.

Putin had already warned Armenia it would face economic consequences for drifting westward, and introduced restrictions on Armenian agricultural exports in the weeks before the vote.  Threats, propaganda, economic blackmail. The full Russian toolkit. Result: irrelevant.

Now, Trump, Tucker Carlson and JD Vance would like you to believe that Russia represents some superior civilisational model. A proud, white, Christian fortress holding the line against the Muslim hordes supposedly swamping Europe. It is a compelling narrative, in the same way that flat earth theory is compelling if you ignore every single fact available to you.

Here is one such fact: between 10 and 15 percent of Russia’s own population is Muslim. Tatars, Bashkirs, Chechens, Ingush, Dagestanis. Millions of them. Russia is, by its own demographic reality, a multi-ethnic, multi-faith state with a larger Muslim population than most of Western Europe. But you’re not supposed to know that. It complicates the story.

Meanwhile, the Muslim share of the EU population sits at around 5 percent. But the Tucker Carlsons of the world need you frightened, so the numbers get quietly shuffled off stage.

So Armenia joins the queue. Behind Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, and every Eastern European country that isn’t currently run by a Slovak who seems to have wandered in from a Moscow focus group. The pattern is not subtle. Every country that has actually experienced Russian influence in practice is sprinting in the opposite direction. The only nation currently moving toward Russia’s orbit is the United States, which managed to elect a man whose foreign policy instincts were apparently shaped by a property developer’s admiration for strongmen with good buildings.

The world watches America and hopes it finds its way back. Most people think it will. Eventually. The damage, however, is already considerable, and democracy, like a soufflé, does not always survive rough handling.

Armenia made its choice. The right one. Obviously.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Timing of this coincides with NYT reporting that the Pentagon is worried about Israel’s spying on US officials, many of them Vance-aligned such as Bridge Colby.

[HannahBC @chibio]

@goldstar002 Semantic variant PPA? He does overregularization (eg, “mutilization”).

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

This Sunday looks like so many before it, where there has been too much at stake to step back. But there's something worth pausing on, even as we cover recent developments: the sense that has been building over the last few weeks that Trump's grip is loosening. Let's stay informed and keep pushing. https://t.co/AQS0BnCutj

[Edward Luce @EdwardGLuce]

Trump told me this a couple of hours before Bibi struck Iran. He has turned himself into a prisoner of other people's decisions.

[HannahBC @chibio]

@ALLANBATES1 @SarahLongwell25 I think his dementia is a kind that doesn't affect too much of memory loss, but that affects his language abilities.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 BREAKING: Multiple explosions are now being reported across several areas of Iran as the Israeli Air Force launches a new wave of strikes, according to reports.