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Trump Threatens to Attack Civilian Infrastructure as U.S. Continues Attacks on Iran, Senate Democrats Block $1.15 Trillion Pentagon Budget Bill over Iran War, Progressives Push Back as House Democratic Leader Opposes Ending Military Aid to Israel, Israeli Forces Kill More Children in Gaza, ICE Says It Will Halt Traffic Stops After Deadly Shootings by Agents, Minnesota Prosecutors Finally Receive Evidence in Killings of Renee Good, Alex Pretti, Texas DA Opens Independent Criminal Probe Into ICE Killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, The Guardian: 12 People Detained at Colorado Immigration Jail Contracted Tuberculosis, Report: U.S. Law Enforcement Responsible for Over 400 Misuse of Force Cases Against Civilians, Palestinian Activist Mahmoud Khalil Sues Senior Trump Administration Officials, New York Becomes First State to Impose Data Center Moratorium, Sister of Late GOP Senator Lindsey Graham Sworn In to Fill His Senate Seat, Cuba’s National Electric Grid Collapses Again Amid U.S. Oil Blockade

Russia ships vast amounts of oil, steel, and grain through the Kerch Strait to the Black Sea, but traffic has slowed to a trickle due to Ukrainian strikes.

Nate Bear Do Not Panic The British government has announced it is going to ban Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, an idea which on the face of it sounds ridiculous. The IRGC is the primary military branch of another country tasked with defending that country from hostile aggressors. IRGC soldiers and commanders aren’t lurking in the shadows […]

With over 9,500 missing in Gaza, Palestinians search for family members under the rubble, in the "numbered graves cemetery," or in Israeli prisons.

Kit Klarenberg· The Grayzone The Grayzone has reviewed a sealed indictment for pro-Palestine donor Fergie Chambers, who was arrested in Spain on dubious money laundering charges concocted by the Trump DOJ. His partner accuses the US government of “political persecution.” Fergie Chambers, a communist philanthropist and heir to the Cox family fortune, has been jailed […]

Jeffrey Wernick ScheerPost Many people ignore the Ninth Amendment. James Madison wrote it, and he wrote it to answer an objection he had raised himself. During ratification, Madison and Hamilton opposed adding a bill of rights, and their reason was precise. Enumerating rights is dangerous, because listing some implies the government may touch whatever went […]

This story was originally published by Grist and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. For the past four years, Angie Mummaw has been told the gas-fired electrical plant planned by the Tennessee Valley Authority in rural Tennessee was a necessary stop on its move away from coal. But recent directives from the Trump administration mean the […]

Tensions have risen in the region as Beijing has sought to expand its maritime and territorial claims in recent years.

Acting AG Todd Blanche, Trump's former personal lawyer and defender of his corruption and repression, will face a Senate hearing today. In Maine, fallout from the latest ICE shooting continues.