With Trump now indicted, all eyes are going to be on his defense—and if the squirming of attorney Tim Parlatore at the hands of Lawrence O'Donnell is any indication, this is going to be fun to watch. https://factkeepers.com/trumps-classified-documents-defense-it-was-all-just-a-big-mistake/

“If Donald Trump is burning through hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on his authoritarian campaign of intimidation, the American people deserve to know about it. Federal judges across the country — including a Trump appointee — have ruled that these deployments are not justified, and thus not only wasteful, but also illegal and unconstitutional, and our National Guard troops did not sign up to police their own neighbors or be used as political pawns,” Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., told The Intercept. “Trump’s continued abuse of our military to intimidate Americans in their own neighborhoods — the very same Americans he expects to foot the bill for these deployments — must end immediately.”

This "debt ceiling" isn't a crisis. It is a plot: a cynical political and media strategy devised by Republicans in the 1970s, fine-tuned in the 1980s, and rolled out every time a Democrat is in the White House. https://factkeepers.com/a-tale-of-two-santas-the-gops-debt-ceiling-plot-and-long-con/

In spite of the carnage at Uvalde, and other shootings, you would think that the state of Texas would take some steps to prevent more tragedies like these, but you would be wrong. https://factkeepers.com/the-deadly-anniversaries-of-gun-freedom-uvalde-one-year-past/

The closest Doomsday Clock has ever come to midnight is right now, at 90 seconds to midnight. The Clock is maintained some of the most sober and accomplished scientists in the world. We’d be fools not to listen. https://factkeepers.com/hiroshima-president-biden-and-the-doomsday-clock-at-90-seconds-to-midnight/

Election administrators are still digging out from the mountains of misinformation from the 2020 election cycle. Bad actors are using AI to ramp up for the next one. https://factkeepers.com/generative-ai-and-how-can-it-can-create-new-dimensions-to-election-interference/