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Donald Trump’s attempts to board Airforce One in a catering cart were exposed when onlookers noticed a stream of bright orange liquid, originally thought to be carrot juice.

“We just thought a carton of carrot juice or maybe pumpkin soup had burst in the catering truck and was leaking through the side,” an onlooker at the airport in Ankara, Turkey said. “But then we noticed the sheer volume of it and we thought, no, that’s Donald Trump’s face melting”.

Others say the rapid response from hazardous materials clean-up teams was also a giveaway. “If it was just juice, you’d just hose it down. But these guys were in hazmat suits and respirators. That face bronzer is pretty toxic,” one observer said.

Maanvi Singh at The Guardian:

ICE plans to spend up to $20m (£15m) to purchase thousands of gloves for officers and agents that can deliver painful electric shocks by March, according to a notice published Monday by the Department of Homeland Security. The devices, called Glove (Generated Low Output Voltage Emitter), are manufactured by Compliant Technologies LLC of Lexington, Kentucky. According to the manufacturer, “the discomfort associated with the stimulation is usually effective in bringing individuals into compliance in less than three seconds and leaves no burns, marks or scars”. The company has advertised the device as a “humane, low-optics, de-escalation solution for many situations facing our men and women in uniform”. The gloves have previously been used in settings such as jails in the US.

Compliant Technologies says the devices function as a normal pair of patrol gloves until officers press a switch to activate their electrical mode. The gloves must be applied directly to someone’s skin to deliver a pain stimulus that typically helps an officer gain compliance within seconds, according to the company. “It’s immediate and sharp, and it will distract you. I call it like a bee sting,” said John Peters, president of the Institute for the Prevention of In-Custody Deaths, who is studying how the device has been used. “If the officer is getting any type of resistance from the person, this is certainly an effective tool.” Civil rights advocates expressed alarm at the plan, saying ICE officers already face criticism for their use of force with little oversight or accountability while enforcing Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown.

Kevin Robillard at HuffPost:

Former Hartford Mayor Luke Bronin easily knocked off incumbent Rep. John Larson (D-Conn.) in a primary in Connecticut on Tuesday night, becoming the fourth challenger this year to defeat a significantly older incumbent Democrat in a primary. While never specifically saying the 78-year-old Larson was too old for the job, Bronin suggested a new approach was needed and implied Larson was out of touch after serving in Congress for 28 years. But while the other successful primaries for generational change this cycle involved millennial candidates who are members of the Democratic Socialists of America, Bronin is a 47-year-old mainstream liberal. Bronin, a Rhodes Scholar who served two terms as mayor, also worked in President Barack Obama’s Treasury Department and did a tour of Afghanistan as a member of the U.S. Navy Reserve. With the help of the super PAC VoteVets, which backs Democratic veterans for office, he was able to outspend Larson and his allies on television ads. But his comparatively conventional ideology ― he still backs Medicare for All and abolishing ICE ― and elite background did not prevent him from capitalizing on Democratic voters’ anger at the party establishment following the political failures of President Joe Biden, who planned to run for a second term in office as an octogenarian.

The CT-01 House Democratic primary featured a decisive win for challenger Luke Bronin against entrenched incumbent John Larsen.