NEW: Just two months before Paris Olympics, the global agency tasked w/ policing doping in sports finds itself in crisis, fending off claims it covered up positive tests of Chinese swimmers who won medals at last Olympics. w/tariq panja Jenny Vrentas nytimes.com/2024/05/12/wor… 🧵

This is the moment aurora chasers have been waiting for.

An extreme geomagnetic storm hit Earth for the first time in over 20 years, causing stunning aurora displays across northern Europe and very low latitudes in the U.S. wapo.st/3JXy38v

Tonight’s Northern Lights over Lake Michigan. Doing it old school selfie style. Tripod+Timer+Run To Spot. #weather #northernlights #auroraborealis

The Aurora Borealis May 10th 2024. Never will I forget the night where she put on the brightest dance performance I have ever seen! Twisting, pulsing, flowing through the night sky… Simply epic!
#aurora #aurora borealis #northernlights #northernlights uk #northernlights 2024

Currently in Portland, #Maine . I’m facing southeast! #aurora #Auroraborealis #NorthernLights

Look up, Michigan! Northern lights seen dazzling across the skies, even in metro Detroit freep.com/story/news/loc…

Today is the day! My new book 'Small Acts of Courage: A Legacy of Endurance and the Fight for Democracy' is OUT NOW. You can find it wherever you get your books. static.macmillan.com/static/smp/sma…

I appreciate every Republican who refuses to endorse Trump. I really do. But saying you’re going to write someone in is such a cop out. If Trump is dangerous and unfit for the job then you vote for the only person who can keep him out of the White House.

BREAKING:

Judge Merchan threatens Trump with jail time for further violations of his gag order.

'Defendant is hereby warned that the Court will not tolerate continued willful violations of its lawful orders and that if necessary and appropriate under the circumstances, it will…

Whoa. In his gag order ruling, Judge Merchan laments that Trump can’t be fined more than $1,000 for his violations. “While $1,000 may suffice in most instances to protect the dignity of the judicial system…it unfortunately will not achieve the desired result in those instances…

This is so very good.

The first words of my testimony before The United States House Select Committee on the Attack on the United States Capitol were that, “A stake was driven through the heart of American democracy on January 6, 2021, and our democracy today is on a knife’s edge.”

Have a listen to the first ever episode of The Rest Is Politics: US 🇺🇸
They talk Trump’s hush money trial, why he won’t go to jail (yet) and what’s going to happen on college campuses across the United States.

Links:
@Katty Kay : lnk.to/TRIP.US.KK

Anthony Scaramucci :…

POTUS has no official role in the 1/6 count. When a candidate pressures/threatens the President of the Senate (Pence), pressures and lobbies state legislatures & members of Congress, and oversees a fraudulent elector scheme, his acts are private. And plotting to appoint an AG in…

This tells you all you need to know about today’s Republican National Committee: The person in charge of election integrity for the GOP was just indicted in Arizona for lack of election integrity.

BREAKING: Arizona prosecutors have charged 11 fake electors for their roles in efforts to subvert the 2020 election. mcusercontent.com/cc1fad182b6d6f…

Pecker: I observed Trump's business practices. When I was in his offices, Rhona would bring in a batch of checks and invoices to sign. While he was reviewing the accounts payables packages, I notice he'd review the invoice, look at the check, and sign check.

Trump just claimed that the police have shut down the streets around the courthouse for blocks & that his protesters can’t be here.

Just…not true. There is one pro-Trump person here & the main street along the courthouse is open to traffic.

Here's a short -- and hopefully digestible way -- to understand the emerging Chinese-WADA doping scandal in Olympic swimming.

nytimes.com/video/us/10000…

Fallout from allegations China/WADA looked other way has been swift, especially from US. “I feel that Team USA was cheated,' said a top swimmer on US relay team that won bronze right behind Chinese team featuring a swimmer who had tested positive.
nytimes.com/2024/04/21/wor…