Putin says he and Trump have reached "agreement" over Ukraine, but Trump says no deal yet

Trump torched for rolling out literal red carpet, clapping for Putin after landing in Alaska
Uh, someone in Trumpistan might wanna tell Lord Goldemort that, as the so-called leader of the free world, he probably shouldn't, uh, clap like a giddy BTS fanboy for a murderous dictator arriving for a high-stakes summit to discuss ending the bloody, brutal war he unilaterally started. What. The. Actual. Fuck. Can you imagine if Joe Biden or Barack Obama (or literally any other Democrat) fawned over a foreign adversary in such a manner? For a Big Tough Guy™ Donald sure is giving off serious "Tread on me, Daddy" vibes.

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White House denies Trump lashed out at Epstein victims in private after insiders leaked to Rolling Stone
Uh, there is a 0% chance Donald Trump has not lashed out at Epstein victims. In every instance, at every moment, in the eyes of Donald Trump there is but one victim: Donald Trump. Take that to the bank.

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Texas Democrats make defiant stand against GOP power grab
Powered by People: Rather than sit back and let the GOP redraw the maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the 2026 midterms, Texas state Democrats have pulled out all the stops to derail this flagrant Republican power grab. They’ve left the state to deny the GOP the quorum they need to pass the maps and have no intention of coming home any time soon. These Democrats are laying it all on the line, risking arrest and racking up enormous fines in defense of our democracy. Will you chip in to help us stand against this GOP power grab?

White House officials turn up the heat on Indiana Republicans to ram through redistricting
We are witnessing an unprecedented, brazen, coordinated assault on our representative democracy, with egregious gerrymandering efforts but one prong in a multiscale GOP attack. Republicans cannot run on their disastrous and deeply destructive agenda or rely on Donald Trump's crumbling public support, but they can bend and try to break every rule in the book, including disenfranchising "urban" Democratic voters in states with GOP-run legislatures. We must resist. Then resist again.

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DC sues to block Trump’s federal takeover of its police department as intervention intensifies
The nation’s capital sued to block Donald Trump’s authoritarian takeover of its police department in court on Friday, hours after his administration escalated its intervention into the city’s law enforcement by naming a federal official as the new emergency head of the department. Washington’s police chief said Trump’s move would threaten law and order by upending the command structure. "In my nearly three decades in law enforcement, I have never seen a single government action that would cause a greater threat to law and order than this dangerous directive," Chief Pamela Smith said in a court filing. The legal battle playing out Friday showed the escalating tensions in a mostly Democratic city that now has its police department under the control of the Republican presidential administration that exists in its midst.

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Fears of a total media blackout in Gaza intensify as another group of journalists is targeted and killed
On Wednesday, a Twitter account belonging to Anas al-Sharif, a Palestinian journalist with more than half a million followers, announced a new mission: to be "the voice of Gaza resisting extermination, injustice, and betrayal … to keep the coverage ongoing." Four days earlier, Israel’s military had targeted and killed al-Sharif, an Al Jazeera correspondent, in a drone strike. Five other reporters also died in the strike, pushing the death toll among Palestinian journalists since the start of the US-backed Israeli offensive in Gaza above 180. Their deaths have spurred global condemnation and driven concern about Israel limiting what the world knows about Gaza — where it is preparing to expand its campaign and where it has not allowed international journalists to report freely throughout the nearly two-year war — and fresh calls to prevent a total media blackout.

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