Applebaum: Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner negotiated with Russia over Ukraine while discussing mineral, oil and gas deals for connected US companies. They were not bargaining for Ukrainian security or America's European allies. That is a profound abuse of American power. 1/
A baby girl is battling cancer while her father is locked away by ICE. Juan Francisco's 1-year-old daughter has a life-threatening eye cancer and was diagnosed last August. He has been at the Laredo Rio Grande Processing center for 157 days.
Juan came to this country when he was just 5 years old and was raising his two young daughters with his wife in the Rio Grande Valley.
His family is struggling without him and need him home. ICE should release him immediately.
News outlets that covered the US-Saudi nuclear deal without mentioning that Jared Kushner, Trumpโs top foreign policy advisor, is getting paid by the Saudi government:
WSJ
NYT
AP
Reuters
CNN
NBC
ABC
CBS
The Guardian
The Hill
Semafor
Washington Post
Fox News
New York Post
BBC
Newsweek
MS NOW
The Telegraph
Sen. DURBIN: I remember Republicans claiming a chance meeting on the tarmac between Bill Clinton and Loretta Lynch was โcollusion.โ But they express no concern JD Vance is leading sessions with Todd Blanche and Kash Patel to protect Donald Trump from the Epstein scandal.
Jacquelyn Starer, a physician in Massachusetts, pleaded guilty to multiple charges related to the J6 attack on the Capitol & was sentenced to jail, but was pardoned by Trump. Now, the Medical Board revoked her right to renew her license. ๐ #FAFO https://t.co/hV2gZKMX03
Mitch McConnell's team reached out to me earlier today โ through an intermediary, of course โ asking me to take this down.
I won't. I don't bend the knee.
And if they don't like having their name and face attached to it, maybe they should ask themselves why that is.
NEWS: WV GOP Assistant Majority Leader Elliott Pritt has been arrested and charged with enticing a minor after allegedly grooming a 15-year-old through Roblox and Snapchat, then having her meet him in his classroom.
GOP leadership won't call for his resignation.
SECRETARY RUBIO: "The United States doesn't want to be a communist country. We're never going to be a communist country. We're not going to allow communist influences to undermine our politics or our society."
The photo of the sweet-faced, 19-year-old Private Isabella Gonzales, just a year out of high school, hurt my heart. She died for incompetence & was sacrificed for Trumpโs hubris. The mere presence of Trump at her dignified transfer, alas, deprives any sacred occasion of dignity.
Asked about Trump's threats to bomb civilian infrastructure in Iran, Marco Rubio says "it looks like they're not ready to make a deal. So they're gonna continue to pay a price. And every night the price gets higher and higher." (This is a war crime.)
Iโm old enough to remember when Republicans were losing their minds that a Muslim was being elected to head NYC just 25 years after 9/11. Now they are literally handing nuclear secrets and technology to the country that raised the attackers because Trumpโs family is bought and paid for by the Saudi Royal family. This corruption is beyond measure and the Republican Congress is screaming about โcommunistsโ and threatening Cuba.
Sen. @AdamSchiff: How did victims feel watching Todd Blanche interview Ghislaine Maxwell?
Epstein survivor: It really wasn't lost on us that Mr. Blanche spent 9 hours, 2 days, interviewing her, but for months and months, we couldn't get in front of the Department of Justice. When we did, we had about an hour with Mr. Blanche.
Sen. @AdamSchiff: How did victims feel watching Todd Blanche interview Ghislaine Maxwell?
Epstein survivor: It really wasn't lost on us that Mr. Blanche spent 9 hours, 2 days, interviewing her, but for months and months, we couldn't get in front of the Department of Justice. When we did, we had about an hour with Mr. Blanche.