Jim McCasland ☮️

Neuroscience Prof. Emeritus, new focus on global issues, positive path, innovative solutions. #Climate #SDG, #HeForShe, Co-Founder #WomenRising w/@PH_D888

[Jim McCasland ☮️ @textifyer59]

No big deal. Just your typical trillion ton iceberg, breaking away from Antarctica, in the dead of their winter. #LarsenC #Antarctica https://t.co/TM6PfRjs2Z

[UN Climate Change @UNFCCC]

#Antarctica's #LarsenC ice shelf has just calved a trillion ton iceberg https://t.co/Bt5zRD0OOq #climatechange @MIDASOnIce

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: The Supreme Court yesterday went beyond its recent ruling gutting the Voting Rights Act, making it all but impossible for courts to strike down a map as intentionally discriminatory.

And it did so by essentially contradicting its own 2023 ruling — in the same case.

Jim Saksa explains👇
https://t.co/ac6cy2Sm10

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Rubio once again complains US-led negotiations between Ukraine and Russia were "unfruitful":

"We invested tremendous amount of high-level time in that conflict over last year. Neither side is prepared to make concessions necessary to reach agreement."

Once again, it is necessary to point out the obvious: when you have a nation trying to murder its neighbors to steal their land, and people just trying to survive, there is no middle ground.

Ukrainians, as the victims of this unprovoked attack, cannot just agree to die under Russian occupation, rot in FSB torture chambers, and be thrown into unmarked mass graves to never be found.

We simply want to live. There is zero room for concessions. As for Russia, they can be forced to stop killing us.

You could bring them to that breaking point much faster than we can do without you, if you finally stopped this disgusting bothsidesism, stopped endless sanctions waivers, seized their shadow fleet, and armed Ukraine to the teeth.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

MYTH: A slow release of election results means it can’t be trusted.

FACT: Counting election results has always taken time and different factors can prolong the process.

If you have questions about your ballot, call your election office. They have the answers.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Hormuz *could be* still closed come Labor Day.
Yes, the Labor Day that's in September.
Over 3 months from now.

$6/$7 gas this summer, and Iran sitting in an unprecedented position of power... and Trump put them in there.

Had enough yet?

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

Reuters: "Ukraine struck an oil export terminal in St Petersburg hours before President Vladimir Putin's annual ‌economic forum got under way in an attempt to embarrass the Kremlin chief and show how vulnerable Russia's big cities are."
"The city's Pulkovo airport had to temporarily restrict flights"

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

The Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum of 2026 (SPIEF 2026) in Russia has started with a very fiery keynote speech by the Ukrainian surprise guests.

[Jaime Harrison @harrisonjaime]

The greatest threat to American democracy may no longer be found in Congress or the White House.

It may be found across the street.

The Roberts Court has become an unelected super legislature, rewriting decades of settled law, weakening voting rights, stripping away freedoms, and shielding the powerful from accountability.

This is not judicial restraint. This is judicial activism in a black robe.

History will not remember this Court as conservative. It will remember it as the Court that dismantled some of the most important civil rights and democratic safeguards of the last century.

Every federal candidate should run on reforming this Court. The American people deserve judges, not politicians with lifetime appointments.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Rachel Maddow Says The Fight Over Scott Pelley Is Bigger Than One Journalist.

Reacting to Pelley's firing, Maddow said she hopes he lands back on television immediately.

"I hope he's on TV tomorrow." 🔥

But her larger point was about the press itself.

She argued that journalists and news organizations now face a coordinated effort to weaken independent media and must find ways to fight back.

The story is no longer just about Scott Pelley.

It's about whether one of America's most influential news institutions can survive a leadership shakeup that many inside the industry see as an existential threat.

[Harry Litman @harrylitman]

In Senate hearing, DHS Sec Markwayne Mullin refused to commit to following court orders, saying that some lower court decisions are politicized and overturned by higher courts. Not clear if he appreciates that his answers, to sure-footed Q/A by Sen Murphy, are breathtaking, the soul of lawlessness.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

When 60 Minutes is in trouble, we are all in trouble. When Pelley says CBS is meddling in his reporting for political reasons, believe it. https://t.co/lWpjdv1Unm

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Absolutely embarrassing morning for Russian President Vladimir Putin. As Ukrainian one-way attack drones fly nearly unimpeded over St. Petersburg - over 500 miles from Ukraine - several slamming into a major oil terminal in the city, starting massive fires and creating pillars of black smoke that can be seen by everyone who has arrived Wednesday for the start of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF).

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

NAACP: “The Supreme Court continues to unleash chaos in our democratic process, and with this latest action, gives Alabama approval to use a congressional map that had previously been found to be intentionally discriminatory.  This is a Court that is stripping Black voters of power and voice at a speed that would put Jim Crow jurists to shame”

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

WARNOCK: Do you still driving deeper into debt to extend billionaire tax cuts was a good investment?

BESSENT: During the Biden admin--

WARNOCK: Look, Joe Biden has been out of office for two years. The fact you keep talking about him tells you everything.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

CORTEZ MASTO: Do you intend to give the 400,000 taxpayers who also had their information leaked the same immunity as President Trump and his family received?

BESSENT: I'm unable to provide any additional information

CORTEZ MASTO: It's very clear you're dodging this. It's just outrageous.

[Brinda Adhikari @brindaadhikari]

I worked at CBS News for almost 6 years. It was a place that frequently drove me crazy bc of how resistant it was to change. How difficult it was to get things done bc you had to fight so many people and their “Cronkite and Murrow would roll over in their graves if they saw” mentality.

For those who think Scott Pelley was part of the problem, you are wrong. Yes he could be rigid and a stickler for certain traditions. But I will tell you now the Gen Z people I worked w all loved him. Like me, they forgave a lot of his boomer ways bc we were in awe of investigations he did using hidden cameras exposing snake oil salesmen hurting Americans; showing us how Assad was using chemical weapons on his own people; the pain of rural Americans waiting for half a day to get affordable healthcare in a parking lot of a mobile clinic; his searing interviews w survivors of mass shootings.

Yeah he was old fashioned in some ways. I used to tease him bc he always had trouble pronouncing Beyoncé’s name.

But he was willing to be pushed. He was open to new ideas. The fact that someone like me and someone like him got along so well is proof of that. The guy made me a better thinker and a better journalist.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”

[Acyn @Acyn]

Lieu: Instead of holding North Korea style cabinet meetings where everyone kisses Trump’s ass, I’m going to ask you to come clean—there is something wrong with Trump. There’s a reason he keeps going to the hospital and they keep giving him cognitive tests. We have not seen him in eight days.

Rubio: I assure this is not a president who sleeps or who is cognitively impaired in any way.

Lieu: I just showed you three videos of him sleeping.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Donald Trump hates Democrats. He also hates Republicans. And - he hates Independents.
He hates Ukraine and Russia, Taiwan and China, Israel and Gaza. He hates Europe and despises Canada.
He hates the Rule of Law more than anything. He wants to change it, dictate it, be it, and wield it as a weapon. His hiring of Pulte to help him consolidate power through election shenanigans underscores this.
You know who else he hates? He hates his followers. In fact, he not only hates them, but they nauseate and disgust him. Privately, he marvels at how gullible they are and scoffs at how easily he influences them.
He has all this hate and no love. No ability to feel empathy. No sense of shame. No capacity for contrition. No counterbalance to any of his malice. He cannot see beyond himself. He has no friends - the allies he has, are allies as long as they are useful to him.
What does he have? Only self-based cravings and impulses. He craves attention, adulation, money, power, revenge, domination, and the illusion of grandiosity. He is a human id.
Deep down, he even hates himself.
He is ill, trapped, miserable, and malign. He is fearful of humiliation, fearful of death, and in decline.
He is a narcissist, sociopath, fraudster, sexual deviant, and parasite.
You couldn't build a worse person in a laboratory.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BESSENT: I believe the president's remarks were taken out of context

HASSAN: No. He said, 'I don't think about Americans' financial situation. I don't think about anybody.' That's a direct quote

BESSENT: Groceries are going down

HASSAN: When was the last time you were in a grocery store?