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<\/a><\/p>\nYaroslav Trofimov @ WSJ<\/em>: Putin\u2019s Strongman Image Is Fading as Ukraine Brings War Home to Russia<\/a><\/h2>\nRussian president\u2019s \u2018Victory Day\u2019 cult backfires as conflict drags on longer than Soviet battle against Nazis<\/em><\/p>\nEver since coming to power more than a quarter-century ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin has built a state religion around May 9, the anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany and the holiest day in the Russian calendar. <\/p>\n
AP<\/em>: Russia to hold a Victory Day parade without military equipment for the 1st time in nearly 2 decades<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Irina Tsukerman @ Small Wars Journal<\/em>: How America\u2019s Adversaries Learned to Weaponize Reality<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nWho is actually winning<\/a> the wars in Ukraine and Iran, and what would victory even look like if neither battlefield momentum nor economic punishment produces political collapse? How much territory would Ukraine have to recover before Russia could be said to have lost? How much damage would Iran have to suffer before its regional position is truly weakened<\/a>? If both regimes continue to function, mobilize support, and persuade their populations that the struggle remains necessary, then the more uncomfortable question will begin to surface: whether the real contest has already shifted away from terrain and toward something far less visible but ultimately more decisive.<\/p>\nWars today increasingly turn on whether governments can control how reality itself is interpreted. …
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Christine Drews Sieger @ Dagens<\/em>: Epstein document raises new questions about the final weeks in prison<\/a><\/h2>\nAn old document from Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s time in prison has now been made public.<\/p>\n
The case is not only about the note itself, but also about the chaotic events in the weeks before his death.
\n(Christine Drews Sieger @ Dagens<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Paul Waldman: The Confederacy rises again<\/a><\/h2>\nUndoing the 1960s isn’t enough. They’re even taking aim at the 1860s.<\/em><\/p>\nWhen the Supreme Court smashed the last meaningful vestiges of the Voting Rights Act last week, it took literally a matter of hours before the reigning political powers in one state of the old Confederacy after another began moving to eliminate Black representation in Congress.<\/p>\n
Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, and Tennessee all look like they\u2019ll get rid of some or all of their substantially Black districts, and other Southern states could follow. There was no hesitation, no deliberation, and no doubt about it: If the Court is going to let them eliminate any chance for Black representatives to get elected from their states, they\u2019re going to do it.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s just Congress; with the VRA effectively overturned, many will likely redraw their state legislative maps to rid themselves of Black political influence as well.<\/p>\n
… The right never lost their faith that if they were patient and determined enough, the 1960s could be undone \u2014 and maybe some of the 1860s as well.
\n(Paul Waldman more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJoyce Vance: The New Jim Crow<\/a><\/h2>\nJay Kuo: The DOJ Just Came For Virginia\u2019s L. Louise Lucas<\/a><\/h2>\nHeather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – May 7, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\nToday Tennessee state representative Justin Jones burned a Confederate battle flag in the rotunda of the Tennessee State Capitol in protest of the legislature\u2019s redrawing of the state\u2019s congressional district maps to erase the majority-Black 9th Congressional District. By cracking the city of Memphis into three pieces and joining them to white suburbs, the legislature turned all the state\u2019s districts into Republican seats.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Shanelle Kaul, Costanza Maio, Suvro Banerji, Elli Fitzgerald @ CBS<\/em>: Texas mother of 4 says “no one is safe” after spending more than 6 weeks in ICE custody<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Louise Nordstrom, Simon Feisthauer Fournet @ France24<\/em>: Tehran says fired missiles after Iranian oil tanker came under US attack<\/a><\/h2>\nWarren P. Strobel, John Hudson, Ellen Nakashima @ Washington Post<\/em>: U.S. intelligence says Iran can outlast Trump\u2019s Hormuz blockade for months<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nIran retains about 75 percent of its prewar inventories of mobile launchers and about 70 percent of its prewar stockpiles of missiles, a U.S. official said. The official said there is evidence that the regime has been able to recover and reopen almost all of its underground storage facilities, repair some damaged missiles and even assemble some new missiles that were nearly complete when the war began.<\/p>\n
Trump painted a rosier picture in Oval Office remarks on Wednesday, saying of Iran: \u201cTheir missiles are mostly decimated, they have probably 18, 19 percent, but not a lot by comparison to what they had.\u201d
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Cassandra Swart @ People’s World<\/em>: Hondurasgate: Recordings reveal alleged scheme to restore Trump ally to presidency<\/a><\/h2>\nA leak of supposedly private audio recordings<\/a> from Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram\u2014speculated to come from a source close to former Honduran president and convicted drug trafficker<\/a> Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez\u2014has unmasked an alleged plot to force regime change in Honduras and other Latin American countries.<\/p>\nSaid to be spearheaded by U.S. President Donald Trump and supported by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Argentine President Javier Milei, and current Honduran President Nasry Asfura, the scheme involves an effort to engineer Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s return to power and undermine left-led governments in other countries.
\n(Cassandra Swart @ People’s World<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Catherine Armecin Martin @ International Business Times<\/em>: Trump Reportedly ‘Gutted the CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program’ After Firing Cruise Ship Inspectors Before Hantavirus Outbreak<\/a><\/h2>\n
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Emily Atkin @ Heated<\/em>: Trump\u2019s NOAA cuts would save less than a day and a half of Iran War spending<\/a><\/h2>\nThere’s always money for war. But when it comes to protecting people from climate disasters, suddenly we’re told the cupboard is bare.<\/em><\/p>\n
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Liz Dye: Trump Never Stopped Harassing E. Jean Carroll<\/a><\/h2>\n
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James Eagle: Wall Street has turned panic into muscle memory<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Joseph Cox @ 404 Media<\/em>: \u2018HELLO BOSS\u2019: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World<\/a><\/h2>\n404 Media has obtained a copy of \u2018Haotian AI\u2019, a popular piece of realtime deepfake software marketed to scammers. It can turn a fraudster’s face into anyone else’s on WhatsApp, Zoom, and Teams.<\/em>
\n
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\n(Joseph Cox @ 404 Media<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Dean Blundell: Canada\u2019s Quiet Boycott Is Crippling American Industries<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Antonia Mufarech, Selcuk Gokoluk @ Bloomberg<\/em>: Chile Solar Panel Thefts Threaten Energy Infrastructure<\/a><\/h2>\nThe green technology has become more valuable as solar power goes mainstream.<\/em>
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\n(Antonia Mufarech, Selcuk Gokoluk @ Bloomberg<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nApocalypse Early Warning System<\/a><\/h2>\nAl Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nICE Accountability Project<\/a><\/h2>\nSergio Mart\u00ednez-Beltr\u00e1n, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR<\/em>: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- April 16: Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt<\/a>\n
- March 25: Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano<\/a>\n
- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez<\/a>\n
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil<\/a>\n
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam<\/a>
\nApril 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide<\/a><\/p>\n- January 24: Alex Pretti<\/a>\n
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez<\/a>\n
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz<\/a>\n
- January 9: Parady La<\/a>\n
- January 7: Ren\u00e9e Good<\/a>\n
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz<\/a>\n
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres<\/a>\n
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos<\/a>\n
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n
Suffering Under President Obama<\/a><\/h2>\nNACDL Criminal Case Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTexas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks\u2019 journey to Washington<\/a><\/h2>\nWalk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nMargaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience<\/a><\/h2>\nNPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive<\/a><\/h2>\nAccountability Initiative ICE List<\/a><\/h2>\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"curated news excerpts & citations Yaroslav Trofimov @ WSJ: Putin\u2019s Strongman Image Is Fading as Ukraine Brings War Home to Russia Russian president\u2019s \u2018Victory Day\u2019 cult backfires as conflict drags on longer than Soviet battle against Nazis Ever since coming to power more than a quarter-century ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin has built a state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10216"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10257,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216\/revisions\/10257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Ever since coming to power more than a quarter-century ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin has built a state religion around May 9, the anniversary of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany and the holiest day in the Russian calendar. <\/p>\n
AP<\/em>: Russia to hold a Victory Day parade without military equipment for the 1st time in nearly 2 decades<\/a><\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
Irina Tsukerman @ Small Wars Journal<\/em>: How America\u2019s Adversaries Learned to Weaponize Reality<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nWho is actually winning<\/a> the wars in Ukraine and Iran, and what would victory even look like if neither battlefield momentum nor economic punishment produces political collapse? How much territory would Ukraine have to recover before Russia could be said to have lost? How much damage would Iran have to suffer before its regional position is truly weakened<\/a>? If both regimes continue to function, mobilize support, and persuade their populations that the struggle remains necessary, then the more uncomfortable question will begin to surface: whether the real contest has already shifted away from terrain and toward something far less visible but ultimately more decisive.<\/p>\nWars today increasingly turn on whether governments can control how reality itself is interpreted. …
\n<\/p>\n
\n\n<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Christine Drews Sieger @ Dagens<\/em>: Epstein document raises new questions about the final weeks in prison<\/a><\/h2>\nAn old document from Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s time in prison has now been made public.<\/p>\n
The case is not only about the note itself, but also about the chaotic events in the weeks before his death.
\n(Christine Drews Sieger @ Dagens<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
<\/a><\/p>\n- \n
Paul Waldman: The Confederacy rises again<\/a><\/h2>\nUndoing the 1960s isn’t enough. They’re even taking aim at the 1860s.<\/em><\/p>\nWhen the Supreme Court smashed the last meaningful vestiges of the Voting Rights Act last week, it took literally a matter of hours before the reigning political powers in one state of the old Confederacy after another began moving to eliminate Black representation in Congress.<\/p>\n
Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, and Tennessee all look like they\u2019ll get rid of some or all of their substantially Black districts, and other Southern states could follow. There was no hesitation, no deliberation, and no doubt about it: If the Court is going to let them eliminate any chance for Black representatives to get elected from their states, they\u2019re going to do it.<\/p>\n
And that\u2019s just Congress; with the VRA effectively overturned, many will likely redraw their state legislative maps to rid themselves of Black political influence as well.<\/p>\n
… The right never lost their faith that if they were patient and determined enough, the 1960s could be undone \u2014 and maybe some of the 1860s as well.
\n(Paul Waldman more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJoyce Vance: The New Jim Crow<\/a><\/h2>\nJay Kuo: The DOJ Just Came For Virginia\u2019s L. Louise Lucas<\/a><\/h2>\nHeather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – May 7, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\nToday Tennessee state representative Justin Jones burned a Confederate battle flag in the rotunda of the Tennessee State Capitol in protest of the legislature\u2019s redrawing of the state\u2019s congressional district maps to erase the majority-Black 9th Congressional District. By cracking the city of Memphis into three pieces and joining them to white suburbs, the legislature turned all the state\u2019s districts into Republican seats.
\n(Heather Cox Richardson more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Shanelle Kaul, Costanza Maio, Suvro Banerji, Elli Fitzgerald @ CBS<\/em>: Texas mother of 4 says “no one is safe” after spending more than 6 weeks in ICE custody<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Louise Nordstrom, Simon Feisthauer Fournet @ France24<\/em>: Tehran says fired missiles after Iranian oil tanker came under US attack<\/a><\/h2>\nWarren P. Strobel, John Hudson, Ellen Nakashima @ Washington Post<\/em>: U.S. intelligence says Iran can outlast Trump\u2019s Hormuz blockade for months<\/a><\/h2>\n…
\nIran retains about 75 percent of its prewar inventories of mobile launchers and about 70 percent of its prewar stockpiles of missiles, a U.S. official said. The official said there is evidence that the regime has been able to recover and reopen almost all of its underground storage facilities, repair some damaged missiles and even assemble some new missiles that were nearly complete when the war began.<\/p>\n
Trump painted a rosier picture in Oval Office remarks on Wednesday, saying of Iran: \u201cTheir missiles are mostly decimated, they have probably 18, 19 percent, but not a lot by comparison to what they had.\u201d
\n
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Cassandra Swart @ People’s World<\/em>: Hondurasgate: Recordings reveal alleged scheme to restore Trump ally to presidency<\/a><\/h2>\nA leak of supposedly private audio recordings<\/a> from Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram\u2014speculated to come from a source close to former Honduran president and convicted drug trafficker<\/a> Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez\u2014has unmasked an alleged plot to force regime change in Honduras and other Latin American countries.<\/p>\nSaid to be spearheaded by U.S. President Donald Trump and supported by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Argentine President Javier Milei, and current Honduran President Nasry Asfura, the scheme involves an effort to engineer Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s return to power and undermine left-led governments in other countries.
\n(Cassandra Swart @ People’s World<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
\n- \n
Catherine Armecin Martin @ International Business Times<\/em>: Trump Reportedly ‘Gutted the CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program’ After Firing Cruise Ship Inspectors Before Hantavirus Outbreak<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Emily Atkin @ Heated<\/em>: Trump\u2019s NOAA cuts would save less than a day and a half of Iran War spending<\/a><\/h2>\nThere’s always money for war. But when it comes to protecting people from climate disasters, suddenly we’re told the cupboard is bare.<\/em><\/p>\n
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Liz Dye: Trump Never Stopped Harassing E. Jean Carroll<\/a><\/h2>\n
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James Eagle: Wall Street has turned panic into muscle memory<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\n(James Eagle more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Joseph Cox @ 404 Media<\/em>: \u2018HELLO BOSS\u2019: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World<\/a><\/h2>\n404 Media has obtained a copy of \u2018Haotian AI\u2019, a popular piece of realtime deepfake software marketed to scammers. It can turn a fraudster’s face into anyone else’s on WhatsApp, Zoom, and Teams.<\/em>
\n
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\n(Joseph Cox @ 404 Media<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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Dean Blundell: Canada\u2019s Quiet Boycott Is Crippling American Industries<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n- \n
Antonia Mufarech, Selcuk Gokoluk @ Bloomberg<\/em>: Chile Solar Panel Thefts Threaten Energy Infrastructure<\/a><\/h2>\nThe green technology has become more valuable as solar power goes mainstream.<\/em>
\n
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\n(Antonia Mufarech, Selcuk Gokoluk @ Bloomberg<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\n
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\nApocalypse Early Warning System<\/a><\/h2>\nAl Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nICE Accountability Project<\/a><\/h2>\nSergio Mart\u00ednez-Beltr\u00e1n, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR<\/em>: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- April 16: Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt<\/a>\n
- March 25: Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano<\/a>\n
- March 16: Royer Perez-Jimenez<\/a>\n
- March 14: Naseer Paktiawil<\/a>\n
- February 25: Nurul Amin Shah Alam<\/a>
\nApril 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide<\/a><\/p>\n- January 24: Alex Pretti<\/a>\n
- January 14: Heber Sanchaz Dominguez<\/a>\n
- January 14: Victor Manuel Diaz<\/a>\n
- January 9: Parady La<\/a>\n
- January 7: Ren\u00e9e Good<\/a>\n
- January 6: Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz<\/a>\n
- January 5: Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres<\/a>\n
- January 3: Geraldo Lunas Campos<\/a>\n
- December 31, 2025: Keith Porter<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n
Suffering Under President Obama<\/a><\/h2>\nNACDL Criminal Case Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTexas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks\u2019 journey to Washington<\/a><\/h2>\nWalk for Peace – Dhammacetiya – The Ancient Sacred Buddhist Scripture Stupas<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nMargaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience<\/a><\/h2>\nNPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive<\/a><\/h2>\nAccountability Initiative ICE List<\/a><\/h2>\nGriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nTimeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\nTracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\nTrump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\nProject 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nDOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\nProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\nWired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n\n- The Impact Map<\/a>\n
- United States Disappeared Tracke<\/a>r\n
- ICE Flight Tracking<\/a>\n
- Regulatory Changes Tracker<\/a>\n
- Trump Administration Litigation Trackers<\/a>\n
- Far Right Groups Targeting Pride Month<\/a>\n<\/ol>\n<\/ul>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"curated news excerpts & citations Yaroslav Trofimov @ WSJ: Putin\u2019s Strongman Image Is Fading as Ukraine Brings War Home to Russia Russian president\u2019s \u2018Victory Day\u2019 cult backfires as conflict drags on longer than Soviet battle against Nazis Ever since coming to power more than a quarter-century ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin has built a state […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10216"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10257,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216\/revisions\/10257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kewus.net\/yesterday\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
… Wars today increasingly turn on whether governments can control how reality itself is interpreted. … An old document from Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s time in prison has now been made public.<\/p>\n The case is not only about the note itself, but also about the chaotic events in the weeks before his death. Undoing the 1960s isn’t enough. They’re even taking aim at the 1860s.<\/em><\/p>\n When the Supreme Court smashed the last meaningful vestiges of the Voting Rights Act last week, it took literally a matter of hours before the reigning political powers in one state of the old Confederacy after another began moving to eliminate Black representation in Congress.<\/p>\n Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, and Tennessee all look like they\u2019ll get rid of some or all of their substantially Black districts, and other Southern states could follow. There was no hesitation, no deliberation, and no doubt about it: If the Court is going to let them eliminate any chance for Black representatives to get elected from their states, they\u2019re going to do it.<\/p>\n And that\u2019s just Congress; with the VRA effectively overturned, many will likely redraw their state legislative maps to rid themselves of Black political influence as well.<\/p>\n … The right never lost their faith that if they were patient and determined enough, the 1960s could be undone \u2014 and maybe some of the 1860s as well. Today Tennessee state representative Justin Jones burned a Confederate battle flag in the rotunda of the Tennessee State Capitol in protest of the legislature\u2019s redrawing of the state\u2019s congressional district maps to erase the majority-Black 9th Congressional District. By cracking the city of Memphis into three pieces and joining them to white suburbs, the legislature turned all the state\u2019s districts into Republican seats. … Trump painted a rosier picture in Oval Office remarks on Wednesday, saying of Iran: \u201cTheir missiles are mostly decimated, they have probably 18, 19 percent, but not a lot by comparison to what they had.\u201d A leak of supposedly private audio recordings<\/a> from Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram\u2014speculated to come from a source close to former Honduran president and convicted drug trafficker<\/a> Juan Orlando Hern\u00e1ndez\u2014has unmasked an alleged plot to force regime change in Honduras and other Latin American countries.<\/p>\n Said to be spearheaded by U.S. President Donald Trump and supported by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Argentine President Javier Milei, and current Honduran President Nasry Asfura, the scheme involves an effort to engineer Hern\u00e1ndez\u2019s return to power and undermine left-led governments in other countries. 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\nWho is actually winning<\/a> the wars in Ukraine and Iran, and what would victory even look like if neither battlefield momentum nor economic punishment produces political collapse? How much territory would Ukraine have to recover before Russia could be said to have lost? How much damage would Iran have to suffer before its regional position is truly weakened<\/a>? If both regimes continue to function, mobilize support, and persuade their populations that the struggle remains necessary, then the more uncomfortable question will begin to surface: whether the real contest has already shifted away from terrain and toward something far less visible but ultimately more decisive.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nChristine Drews Sieger @ Dagens<\/em>: Epstein document raises new questions about the final weeks in prison<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Christine Drews Sieger @ Dagens<\/em> more…)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\nPaul Waldman: The Confederacy rises again<\/a><\/h2>\n
\n(Paul Waldman more…)<\/a><\/p>\nJoyce Vance: The New Jim Crow<\/a><\/h2>\n
Jay Kuo: The DOJ Just Came For Virginia\u2019s L. Louise Lucas<\/a><\/h2>\n
Heather Cox Richardson: Letters from an American – May 7, 2026<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nShanelle Kaul, Costanza Maio, Suvro Banerji, Elli Fitzgerald @ CBS<\/em>: Texas mother of 4 says “no one is safe” after spending more than 6 weeks in ICE custody<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nLouise Nordstrom, Simon Feisthauer Fournet @ France24<\/em>: Tehran says fired missiles after Iranian oil tanker came under US attack<\/a><\/h2>\n
Warren P. Strobel, John Hudson, Ellen Nakashima @ Washington Post<\/em>: U.S. intelligence says Iran can outlast Trump\u2019s Hormuz blockade for months<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nIran retains about 75 percent of its prewar inventories of mobile launchers and about 70 percent of its prewar stockpiles of missiles, a U.S. official said. The official said there is evidence that the regime has been able to recover and reopen almost all of its underground storage facilities, repair some damaged missiles and even assemble some new missiles that were nearly complete when the war began.<\/p>\n
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\nCatherine Armecin Martin @ International Business Times<\/em>: Trump Reportedly ‘Gutted the CDC’s Vessel Sanitation Program’ After Firing Cruise Ship Inspectors Before Hantavirus Outbreak<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nEmily Atkin @ Heated<\/em>: Trump\u2019s NOAA cuts would save less than a day and a half of Iran War spending<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nLiz Dye: Trump Never Stopped Harassing E. Jean Carroll<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nJames Eagle: Wall Street has turned panic into muscle memory<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nJoseph Cox @ 404 Media<\/em>: \u2018HELLO BOSS\u2019: Inside the Chinese Realtime Deepfake Software Powering Scams Around the World<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nDean Blundell: Canada\u2019s Quiet Boycott Is Crippling American Industries<\/a><\/h2>\n
\nAntonia Mufarech, Selcuk Gokoluk @ Bloomberg<\/em>: Chile Solar Panel Thefts Threaten Energy Infrastructure<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nApocalypse Early Warning System<\/a><\/h2>\n
Al Jazeera Death toll and injuries live tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
ICE Accountability Project<\/a><\/h2>\n
Sergio Mart\u00ednez-Beltr\u00e1n, Ximena Bustillo, Jasmine Garsd @ NPR<\/em>: Deaths of migrants in ICE custody hit record high under Trump<\/a><\/h2>\n
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\nApril 1 – Jennifer Peltz and Jake Offenhartz @ AP: Death of a refugee left at a Buffalo doughnut shop by Border Patrol is ruled a homicide<\/a><\/p>\nSuffering Under President Obama<\/a><\/h2>\n
NACDL Criminal Case Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
Texas Tribune: A Walk for Peace: photos of Fort Worth monks\u2019 journey to Washington<\/a><\/h2>\n
Margaret Chase Smith: Declaration of Conscience<\/a><\/h2>\n
NPR: January 6, 2021: A visual archive<\/a><\/h2>\n
Accountability Initiative ICE List<\/a><\/h2>\n
GriftMatrix<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Action Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
Timeline: Tracking the Trump Justice Department\u2019s Anti-Voting Shift<\/a><\/h2>\n
Tracking the Lawsuits Against Trump\u2019s Agenda<\/a><\/h2>\n
Trump Pardons Database<\/a><\/h2>\n
Project 2025 Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
DOGE Tracker<\/a><\/h2>\n
ProPublica: Elon Musk\u2019s Demolition Crew<\/a><\/h2>\n
Wired: 6 Tools for Tracking the Trump Administration\u2019s Attacks on Civil Liberties<\/a><\/h2>\n
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