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While US bombers were heading to a base in Italy, they were denied landing According to Corriere della Sera, the aircraft were already in the air and planned to land at Sigonella base before continuing to the Middle East. However, Italian authorities said no permission had been granted and ultimately refused access to the base. Earlier, Spain also closed its airspace to US aircraft involved in operations against Iran.

NEW: A big day for voters in a key battleground state! The Arizona Supreme Court refused to hear three anti-voting cases — blocking efforts to restrict mail-in voting, allow dubious hand counts and weaken early voting and election certification rules. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/ar…

The Army suspended the aircrew flying military helicopters by Kid Rock's house over the weekend, a U.S. official says. nbcnews.com/news/military/…

This you?

Trump: "When crazy people have nuclear weapons, bad things happen." He's right. Just look at America-the only country that's actually used them. On civilians. Twice.

ICE agent at the airport gets asked what they’re doing to help TSA. “I don’t have to answer.” Then he laughs. Says “thank you” when told taxpayers fund his salary. That’s the part that gets me. Not even embarrassed. Just comfortable acting like that in public. Why? #DemsUnited

But a single rainbow sidewalk in Orlando leading to the Pulse nightclub had to be taken down because it was “too political.”

JUST IN: FBI agents who worked on Trump probes have filed a class action lawsuit, saying their abrupt firings violated due process and civil service laws. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…

🚨BREAKING: A huge win in the conservative 8th Circuit! Arkansas requirement of an original "wet signature" on voter reg. applications is BLOCKED for violating the Civil Rights Act. Victory for our clients Get Loud Arkansas and Vote.org! democracydocket.com/cases/arkansas…

Hi Covid vaccines don't cause AIDS You conspiracy theorist lunatic

ICE agents have begun placing bets in which detainees will try killing themselves next. ICE is a terrorist organization. Gestapo 2.0

Do you really think you can bully and threaten other countries the way you do Republicans in Congress? Italy, Spain, UK, Germany, France, Belgium, Ireland, Japan, Pakistan, Oman, China, Australia, Canada, South Africa, and Slovenia don’t want to be dragged into your Iran war.

If the bullet doesn't fit... you must acquit.

Notable of this press conference that Hegseth is still too chicken to allow in our traditional media to cover an ongoing war, he is only fielding questions from handpicked sycophants. This is the kind of thing that happens in authoritarian regimes.

New: Under AG Pam Bondi, the DOJ has dropped 23,000 criminal cases — including hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime and drugs — while prosecuting 32,000 new immigration cases in just the first six months of Trump’s second term. propub.li/4m4Vzmf

Should we be concerned that the Secretary of Defense does not understand that NATO is a defensive alliance and not an attack coalition?

JUST IN: The U.S. has asked Poland to send one of its Patriot missile batteries to the Middle East, but Warsaw says NO. Defense Minister Kosiniak-Kamysz: “Our Patriot batteries… are used to protect Polish skies and NATO’s eastern flank… we have no plans to relocate them anywhere.”

Breaking: The Supreme Court has just issued a ruling siding with Trump to bring back “gay conversion therapy.” This practice involves physically abusing teenagers to try to turn them heterosexual, including with electric shocks and chemically-induced nausea.

The Trump administration wants to pretend none of it happened. Renee Good. Alex Pretti. All of the others. Kristi Noem is officially out at DHS today. It's our job to make sure Trump & co. are held accountable for what happened. Read here: joycevance.substack.com/p/kristi-noem-…

I miss boring Joe Biden who had a great cabinet and just did his job.