Day: May 26, 2024

NATO is insisting on Ukraine being allowed to strike inside Russia with Western weapons.  Ukraine Business News

Russia is waging a large-scale campaign in Europe to disrupt military supplies to Ukraine – NYT

US intelligence officials and allies are tracking an increase in low-level sabotage operations in Europe that they believe are part of a Russian campaign to undermine efforts to… pic.twitter.com/RDsnUFhmBC

— NEXTA (@nexta_tv) May 26, 2024

“We aren’t going to forget in November…President Biden…attacking the authority of the ICC…is nothing more than an attempt to prevent the genocidal maniac Netanyahu & his senior Israeli officials from being held accountable…You are an enabler” @RashidaTlaib pic.twitter.com/5DIzDH9dK2

— HalalFlow (@halalflow) May 26, 2024

It’s one thing to have a lone far-right extremist on the Supreme Court grabbing headlines with inexcusable behavior or disturbing legal arguments. But when the Court is flooded with them, no sooner does one do something egregious than another one steps in to hog the spotlight.

Recently, it came to light that Justice Samuel Alito has been flying inappropriate (to say the least) flags outside his home. First, neighbors took photos of an upside-down American flag, associated with Trump’s “Stop the Steal” movement, flying at Alito’s Virginia home as the Supreme Court was considering an election case in 2021. Then, we found out this wasn’t an isolated incident. An “Appeal to Heaven, was found flying outside Alito’s beach house in New Jersey two years later. This flag is also associated with January 6 insurrectionism and reflects contempt for the rule of law.

Apparently not to be outdone, Justice Clarence Thomas has gotten heads shaking from his recent criticism of Brown v. Board of Education, in which a unanimous Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation in schools in unconstitutional. In a concurring opinion related to a South Carolina congressional map on Thursday, Thomas argued that the Brown decision represented an overreach of judicial power and an “extravagant” use of equitable remedies. Thomas’s comments coincide with the 70th anniversary of the Brown ruling, which was argued by attorney Thurgood Marshall, who later joined the Supreme Court as its first Black justice and would be Thomas’s predecessor.

If Republicans win in November, we can expect both more alarming antics from Alito and Thomas as well as more justices like them. The United States as we’ve known it could quickly become unrecognizable, drowning in a sea of far-right extremism, fascism, and bigotry. With Supreme Court justices tripping over themselves to legitimize insurrectionists while striving to undo a half-century of progress, it’s time for all voters to reflect on the unprecedented nature of what’s at stake in this upcoming election and commit to vote against the craziness on November 5.

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Seoul, South Korea — North Korea has notified Japan of plans to launch a satellite by June 4, Japanese media reported Monday citing the coast guard, after Seoul said Pyongyang was preparing to put another military spy satellite into orbit.

The Japanese coast guard said the eight-day launch window began at midnight Sunday into Monday, with North Korea’s notice designating three maritime danger zones near the Korean peninsula and the Philippines island of Luzon where the satellite-carrying rocket’s debris might fall, according to the Kyodo news agency.

Officials from the United States, Japan and South Korea agreed in a phone call to urge Kim Jong Un’s regime to suspend the plan, as any launch using ballistic missile technology would violate U.N. resolutions, Kyodo reported.

Nuclear-armed North Korea launched its first reconnaissance satellite last November in a move that drew international condemnation, with the United States calling it a “brazen violation” of U.N. sanctions.

Experts say that spy satellites could improve Pyongyang’s intelligence-gathering capabilities, particularly over fierce rival South Korea, and provide crucial data in any military conflict.

Seoul said Friday that South Korean and U.S. intelligence authorities were “closely monitoring and tracking” presumed preparations for the launch of another military reconnaissance satellite.

The suspected preparations were detected in North Korea’s Tongchang-ri county, Seoul said, which is home to the isolated country’s Sohae Satellite Launching Ground. It was also where the North staged three satellite launches last year, with only the final one being successful.

Seoul has said the North received technical help from Russia for that satellite launch, in return for sending Moscow weapons for use in the war in Ukraine.

The warning from the North comes as Seoul, Beijing and Tokyo’s top leaders are due to meet in South Korea on Monday for their first summit in nearly five years, though differing political stances mean a discussion on North Korea is not expected to be on the table. 

Has Trump Experienced A Political Strikeout? Or Is He About To Hit A Home Run?  Montgomery Independent

The Time Trump Baselessly Accused Joe Scarborough of Murder  New York Magazine

Donald Trump at Coca-Cola 600 NASCAR race; flyover video goes viral  USA TODAY

1. ‘The Apprentice’ Trump biopic shut out at Cannes  Yahoo Entertainment
2. Trump lawyers seek to block US release of biopic The Apprentice  The Guardian US
3. Trump’s Legal Threats Against ‘the Apprentice’ Film Could Backfire  Business Insider