⚡️Melat Kiros says House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries should not become speaker if Democrats retake the House, arguing the party must “root out the corruption and get money out of our politics” by voting out incumbents “taking that kind of corporate PAC money.”
Her comments to Politico came as Jeffries publicly congratulated Kiros on her primary victory, calling it a “hard-fought” win and saying House Democrats would “end the culture of corruption in Washington.”
🇱🇧 🇺🇸 U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib’s message to the Lebanese Aoun government after it recently agreed to a framework agreement with Israel:
“To the Lebanese government: Learn the lessons of the countries before you and the lessons of Lebanon’s own history.
The Israeli government does not abide by any agreements. They have violated every single ceasefire and all the so-called peace agreements, time and time again.
A ceasefire with Israel means: You cease, they fire.
Wake up! The so-called agreement is not protecting the Lebanese people. This is about an apartheid government and structure expanding into your country.
Do not abandon your land and your people and become another subcontractor for the Israeli occupation.”
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Finally got my appendix removed yesterday after 3 ER/hospital visits this year. I would not wish the US health system on even my worst enemies (not that I have any ahem). Take care of your health everyone! You never realize how good you have it until you lose it
Zohran Mamdani celebrating with the candidates he backed after a string of victories last night. 💙
For some time now, critics dismissed his movement as too small, too young, or too ambitious.
Now the wins keep piling up.
Politics is ultimately about turning energy into votes.
Last night, that happened across the board. 👀
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🚨 REPORT | Britain ignored more than two years of intelligence warning of a “genocidal” massacre in Sudan’s El Fasher to protect its relationship with the United Arab Emirates, leading war crimes investigator Nathaniel Raymond, head of Yale’s Humanitarian Research Lab, has told Parliament in a written statement, the Telegraph reports.
Key Details:
🔸Raymond testified to the House of Commons International Development Committee that his team gave UK officials real-time intelligence as the UAE-backed Rapid Support Forces besieged the city, which fell last October.
🔸 He said officials “prioritized” Britain’s “economic, security, and diplomatic relationships with the UAE above preventing the intentional starvation, forced displacement, and the genocidal slaughter of tens of thousands of civilians.”
🔸 Yale’s analysis estimates at least 60,000 people may have been killed within weeks of the city’s fall, a toll Raymond noted was about six times that of the 1995 Srebrenica genocide.
🔸 As the UN Security Council “penholder” leading on Sudan, Britain had “more than sufficient” intelligence to act, he said, including sanctioning UAE officials to cut “the clandestine UAE pipeline of advanced weaponry flowing to the RSF.”
🔸 Raymond also said that in May 2024, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) officials asked his university lab, rather than British intelligence, to publicly release intercepted phone data linking the UAE to the RSF, because Britain faced “significant private pressure” from Abu Dhabi.
🔸 He explained that the RSF briefly paused its assault after a UN resolution, on Abu Dhabi’s instruction, to gauge whether there would be consequences. When the UAE faced no further consequences, the attack resumed.
The failure, he said, spanned two governments, covering Foreign Secretaries David Cameron, David Lammy, and Yvette Cooper.
🔗 The full report is linked below.
Scholars John Mearsheimer and Trita Parsi argue the US-Iran deal marks a rare rupture between Washington and the Israel lobby, one Trump and Vance could turn into broad public support.
Professor Mearsheimer said the lobby long ago “lost the game” in public discourse, where criticism of Israel is now widespread, but kept winning at the policy level, until now. “What you see happening here is a huge crack at the policy level. It’s the first time we’ve seen that,” he said, adding that a sophisticated appeal to a war-weary public would resonate.
Parsi warned the bigger threat to the deal may be Democrats. He said many senior Democrats who once backed diplomacy are now leveling “bad-faith” and “intellectually dishonest” attacks to make the deal as costly as possible for the administration, behaving as Republicans did against the 2015 accord.
If their resistance helps sink the deal and the US slides back toward war, “it will also be the Democrats’ war,” he warns.
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⚡️New: Delegates at the 2026 UAW Constitutional Convention in Detroit, Michigan, have approved the resolution “End Complicity With Israeli Genocide and Imperialist Wars,” which includes divesting UAW funds from Israeli bonds. The measure will require divestment from an estimated $400,000 to $700,000 in Israeli bonds held by the union, according to the Detroit Free Press.
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A day after murdering a 1-year-old baby the police returned to the scene of the crime they committed to protect capital (Walmart) and tear-gas the community. There is no reforming a system that is this barbaric and inhumane.
Vice President JD Vance rebuked Israeli ministers attacking the Iran-U.S. agreement, saying President Trump is “the only head of state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel” and warning that Israel should not be criticizing “the only powerful ally” it has left.
Vance said Israeli officials should “wake up and smell the reality” of their country’s dependence on American support.
⭕️ Senate threatens to freeze Hegseth’s travel budget over Iran school bombing, boat strike videos
Senate lawmakers are threatening to withhold 75 percent of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s travel budget if the Pentagon doesn’t turn over more details on the deadly February bombing of an Iranian girls’ school and full videos of lethal strikes in the Pacific Ocean, under provisions tucked into the Senate Armed Services Committee’s defense policy bill filed Tuesday.
The measure escalates a similar restriction Congress imposed late last year, when the Senate passed and President Donald Trump signed defense legislation that reduced Hegseth’s travel budget by 25 percent in an effort to force the department to turn over videos of the Pacific strikes and to meet other demands.
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SpaceX is set to debut at a staggering $1.77 trillion valuation. It is the largest IPO the market has ever seen and will make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire.
But to make it happen Elon used his influence to get the rules changed so Index funds that hold millions of Americans’ retirement savings are forced to buy in.
That’s right. This IPO was engineered to make Elon Musk the world’s first trillionaire by risking your retirement savings.
You don’t hate capitalism enough. It’s all fake. It’s all a scam. It’s one giant pyramid scheme to funnel wealth to the ruling class off the backs of our labor and retirement savings.
🚨 This May Be One Of The Most Remarkable Things Trump Has Said About Iran Yet.
According to Trump, the United States has been secretly taking “millions of barrels of oil” from Iran.
Then he added:
“Iran just found out.”
For months, Americans have been told the goal was deterrence, diplomacy, and regional stability.
Now comes a statement suggesting something very different. Because if the United States has been covertly seizing Iranian oil on that scale, that raises a lot of questions the administration is going to have to answer.
🚨🇱🇧 Since the April 17 “ceasefire,” Israeli forces have killed at least 1,232 people and wounded 3,189 others in Lebanon.
According to Cradle Media’s running tally, Israeli attacks on Thursday alone included:
▪️ 30 drone strikes
▪️ 43 airstrikes
▪️ 7 instances of artillery shelling
The overall toll since the war resumed on March 2 has now risen to more than 3,526 killed and 10,733 wounded.
Despite the scale of the bombardment, Kaja Kallas the European Union’s top diplomat and foreign policy chief, describes the violence as “skirmishes” and warn only against a “return to full-scale hostilities.”
Jeremy Scahill told Sky News yesterday that a “ceasefire” announcement simply gives Israel’s PM Netanyahu an international stamp of legitimacy on his ongoing war of annihilation – which continues regardless of any announcement.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich is wanted by the International Criminal Court for the genocide and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians.
Yet here he is marching in New York City today with Chuck Schumer and other Democrats.
There is no bottom to the abyss that is Zionism.
🚨 THIS IS GETTING AWKWARD.
Trump keeps bragging about passing the Montreal Cognitive Assessment like it's some superhuman achievement.
A neurologist just explained what the test is actually for.
It's a screening tool used to look for signs of cognitive decline.
Read that again.
The test Trump keeps holding up as proof of mental sharpness is literally designed to detect potential cognitive impairment.
🔥 That's why doctors keep pushing back.
Passing a dementia screening test is not the same thing as proving you're mentally equipped to handle the most powerful job on Earth.
And according to the neurologist, it doesn't measure the very things people are questioning:
Judgment.
Decision-making.
Impulse control.
Executive function.
The test answers one question.
Trump keeps acting like it answers all of them.