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As a longtime humanitarian who has battled famines and hunger crises, I fear that starvation in Gaza has now passed the tipping point and we are going to see mass-scale starvation mortality. A thread on famine momentum, famine response, and what it means for Gaza today.

Kaitlan Collins He did the meme

NYT & WaPo have Gaza’s hunger crisis above the fold today

Politico has compiled a list of people who've left The Washington Post over the last eight months or so. It's three pages long. politico.com/f/?id=00000198…

Asked Judiciary Dems about this. Spox: “We have reviewed the evidence and it is concerning. We believe it shows Bove misled the Committee.”

Spox for Chuck Grassley says the Judiciary chairman is “unaware” of an additional whistleblower complaint and says his office has reached out to Whistleblower Aid about the alleged new claims. Whistleblower Aid has said they were submitted to DOJ’s inspector general.

Some of the oldest currently sitting federal judges were eligible to retire the year Josh Divine, the new youngest federal judge, was born (1990).

Gaza is on the brink of running out of the specialised therapeutic food needed to save the lives of severely malnourished children, United Nations and humanitarian agencies say. reuters.com/business/healt…

‼️#Breaking Secret Service SCOOP: Security Breach on Trump’s Scotland Trip—A Dallas USSS special agent tried to smuggle his wife on a Secret Service car plane accompanying President Trump’s security detail to Scotland. The agent flew his wife to Maryland, then she even received

DOJ going after the DC fed judge who has issued some rulings hampering Trump admin agenda:

#BREAKING: AG Pam Bondi announced Monday that she directed the Justice Department to file a misconduct complaint against Judge James Boasberg for “making improper public comments” about President Donald Trump and his administration. Ryan Knappenberger courthousenews.com/doj-files-misc…

Sky News reporter says journalists were told by Israeli officials that aid drops into Gaza could be cancelled if media onboard filmed the shattered enclave from above. news.sky.com/story/mile-aft…

EPA seeks to defang fight against climate change The head of the EPA bragged about driving a dagger into the heart of climate action on a conservative podcast. Courthouse News courthousenews.com/epa-seeks-to-d…

And there it is — Trump calls for the end of the Senate blue slip process for both judges and attorneys. Often viewed as one of the last vestiges of bipartisanship in the chamber. Trump is calling it a “hoax.”

Statement from Grassley spox doesn't signal to me that he's ready to walk away from blue slips - spox points out that Grassley/Judiciary have already moved US atty noms with Dem blue slip approval and that "all 100 senators have a say" on noms once they clear Judiciary.

SCOTUS scheduled Maxwell's petition for conference on Sept. 29. We could hear their decision in the Oct. 6 order list, BUT there's no guarantee. Big petitions often take multiple conferences to review More on her appeal here: courthousenews.com/doj-turmoil-ad…

Keep politics out of parishes, nonprofits say in letter to Trump Organizations around the country are raising red flags over political endorsements from the pulpit, warning of a sea change in campaign finance laws. Courthouse News courthousenews.com/keep-politics-…

News: Trump brings back the presidential fitness test

Supreme Court asked to overturn Obergefell v. Hodges Courthouse News courthousenews.com/kentucky-clerk…

The 6/24 episode of Sidebar by Courthouse News examined before and after the Supreme Court's 2015 ruling in Obergefell v. Hodges: open.spotify.com/episode/54xM7h…