NBC News: Tulsi Gabbard wants to overhaul Trump’s daily intelligence briefing to match how he “likes to consume information.” One idea: a Fox News style video version. Truly, the dumbest president in history.

esidubatl: For the record, Trump has only attended 12 intelligence briefings since he took office. In contrast, most American presidents, unless restricted by an emergency, sit down for an intelligence briefing EVERY FUCKING DAY.

Banning the Book Bans

Sen. Chris Murphy to Kristi Noem, Trump's Homeland Security Director

Sen. Chris Murphy to Kristi Noem, Trump’s Homeland Security Director: [Y]our department is out of control. You’re spending like you don’t have a budget. You are running out of money for this fiscal year. You are illegally refusing to spend funds that have been authorized by this Congress and appropriated by this committee. You are ignoring the immigration laws of this nation, implementing a brand new immigration system that you have invented that has little relation to the statutes that you are required to follow as spelled out in your oath of office.

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Oscar Wilde: “If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. but if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly. If he shut the doors of the house of mourning against me, I would move back again and again and beg to be admitted so that I might share in what I was entitled to share. If he thought me unworthy, unfit to weep with him, I should feel it as the most poignant humiliation.”

ICE detained a trans migrant at her asylum hearing. Her lawyers still can’t contact her

Graceful degradation is the ability of a computer, machine, electronic system or network to maintain limited functionality even when a large portion of it has been destroyed or rendered inoperative.

Claymation The West Wing

A busy, busy day at the airport

If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing.

G. M Gilbent: I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining It: a lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants. A genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow man. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.

DENY COMFORT TO THE OPPRESSOR. DEFEND THE POOR AND SICK. DEPOSE THE CAPITALIST OLIGARCHY.

FEMA staff baffled after head said he was unaware of US hurricane season, sources say | Reuters

The real cover-up is of Trump’s disordered mental state

The Department of Homeland Security’s fiscal 2026 budget would eliminate the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction directorate and split its functions among other DHS components.

Trump administration ends HIV vaccine funding weeks before potential approval of breakthrough prevention drug, with scientists warning cuts will set back research “a probable decade.”

The Truth is a Niche Interest for Human Beings

Justice Department curtails ABA role in vetting Trump’s judicial nominees

Are you more likely to die on your birthday?

Imane Khelif singled out in World Boxing’s sex testing rule