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Trump publicly berates Zelenskyy in Oval Office, makes Putin's points for him
Donald Trump and his lapdog of a vice president, JD Vance, on Friday effectively took the side of Russian dictator Vladimir Putin in his brutal invasion of Ukraine, calling visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy "disrespectful" and telling him he has "no cards" with which to negotiate. "You're either going to make a deal or we’re out, and if we’re out, you'll fight it out. I don't think it’s going to be pretty," Trump said, berating Zelenskyy in the Oval Office with the entire world watching. Vance added, "I think it’s disrespectful for you to come to the Oval Office to try to litigate this in front of the American media… You should be thanking the president for trying to bring you into this conference." Trump has been trying to coerce Zelenskyy into handing over hundreds of billions of dollars worth of mineral rights in exchange for US support, and the purpose of Zelenskyy’s visit was ostensibly to reach an agreement. Trump also told Zelenskyy that the Ukrainian leader was currently in no position to complain about the state of affairs, even though it was Putin, not Zelenskyy, who began bloody three-year war that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives, including tens of thousands of civilians.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: World leaders combine to issue shocking rebuke of Trump
Trump's infantine, obnoxious, and overtly anti-American meltdown in the Oval Office with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy on Friday marked the end of the official post-World War II order that has lead to the longest period of peace in the history of the world. The MAGA cult leader has unequivocally aligned his Republican administration with Russian dictator Vladimir Putin and put on full display his fascination with and affection for authoritarian autocracy. In the vacuum of America's leadership, other countries are thankfully stepping in to fill the void. Leaders from nearly every democracy on earth signaled that, unlike Trump, they will not abandon Ukraine in its existential fight for survival as Russia's brutal invasion drags into its fourth year.

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Congress plots devastating clean energy rollback
EDF Action: Your ability to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and afford clean energy is in jeopardy as some politicians have made it clear they are hell-bent on undoing all of the efforts made to create a healthy future for our families and communities. Will you add your name to tell Congress to protect our clean air and water from polluters?

A measles crisis decades in the making: How RFK Jr. helped drive America to this moment
A child in the United States has died from measles. Just two weeks after his confirmation as Health and Human Services secretary, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faces the public health crisis that experts have long warned would come. Little is known about the child, besides that they were school-age, unvaccinated, and lived in an area of West Texas with a large Mennonite community, where vaccine refusal is among the highest in the country. In another administration, the death of this child, and the growing outbreak that has sickened more than 150 across Texas and New Mexico and hospitalized 20, would likely have been met with urgent calls from the president and health secretary for parents in Texas and beyond to vaccinate their children. But this is public health in the Kennedy era, where the secretary’s life’s work has been dismantling trust in the very vaccines that could have prevented this outbreak, and where the public official now in charge of the agencies that regulate and advise on vaccines wrote in a 2021 book that measles outbreaks had been "fabricated to create fear that in turn forces government officials to 'do something.'" And so, at a Cabinet meeting Wednesday, Kennedy’s response to the child’s death offered something else entirely: an unconcerned and casual reply.

Musk doubles down on justify-your-job email scheme
After telling federal employees last week that they would need to send weekly emails summarizing their accomplishments at work, and sparking an avalanche of backlash, Elon Musk has doubled down, sending a second round of emails late Friday. Despite speculation that the emails would be delivered in a different format this time around — sent from a different email address, with the request phrased differently — the emails came from the same Office of Personnel Management as last week’s, and included the same request asking government workers to, "Please reply to this email with approx. 5 bullets describing what you accomplished last week and cc your manager." Workers were expected to respond to the emails by 11:59pm ET yesterday. Less than half of all federal employees responded to last week’s emails, with many being told by their superiors to ignore them, including FBI employees under newly confirmed director Kash Patel.

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Trump announces he’s taking materials from stolen documents case BACK to Mar-a-Lago
The wannabe dictator announced he is taking the government-generated documents he absconded with after his first term back to Mar-a-Lago, where they were seized by the FBI while executing a search warrant in 2022. Trump was criminally prosecuted by former special counsel Jack Smith, who alleged that the president willfully took classified material to Mar-a-Lago after departing the White House in January 2021. Smith further alleged that Trump obstructed the government’s efforts to retrieve them. The case stalled thanks to a series of much-maligned rulings from Judge Aileen Cannon, who was appointed by the MAGA cult leader in 2020. She ultimately dismissed the case on the grounds that Smith’s appointment as special counsel was illegal. The convicted felon took to Truth Social on Friday to say he is taking the documents — some still classified — back. Wonder which bathroom they'll end up in this time...

BTC leads collective of progressive creators with plan to take back the internet from Joe Rogan and the right-wing machine
Chorus: This election has made it painfully clear that Democrats' messages are just not getting through the tsunami of right-wing propaganda and lies flooding through social media, and we have no real answer to a Joe Rogan or a Ben Shapiro...until now! Chorus Collective is a new collaborative founded by creators like Brian Tyler Cohen, Leigh McGowan (Politics Girl), Roland Martin, David Pakman, Elizabeth Booker Houston, and Adam Mockler, who are bringing their audience of 40 million people together to create a new infrastructure to scale their voices and build support for more creators like them. Chorus aims to not only amplify progressive voices but also uplift new creators and build a left-wing social media ecosystem that supports its voices ALL the time, not just in the months leading up to an election. Will you chip in to help Chorus get off the ground and help break the right-wing stranglehold on social media?