I remember the Vietnam War well. Trump should too — we're the same age.
I was too short to serve and lost good friends in the war. Trump pretended to have bone spurs.
That war was characterized by lies, arrogance, and stupidity.
What's happening in Iran is starting to feel a lot like Vietnam.
HIRONO: Does anybody have the kind of expertise that Secretary Moniz had when he participated in the JCPOA?
CHRIS WRIGHT: Absolutely. Absolutely
HIRONO: Who?
WRIGHT: Our whole team
HIRONO: Can you see I have some major skepticism?
He just gave away the whole game
GALLEGO: Earlier today, you told Sec. Kennedy that Trump never demanded you to cut interest rates. Is that your sworn testimony?
WARSH: That is, senator.
GALLEGO: Okay. Well someone here is lying then. Because Trump confirmed he pressed you on interest rate cuts.
CHRIS WRIGHT: Energy prices are still well lower than they were in middle of the Biden adminis--
CANTWELL: I want to stop you right there. There is nobody in the Northwest who thinks that. Not when they wake up & airline flights are being canceled because of high fuel costs. No one thinks it's okay
Chris Wright insists that collapsing snow pack in Colorado is the result of "the path of the jet stream last year," not climate change
Kevin Warsh won't commit to defending Lisa Cook's position on the Fed
This cult-like behavior among people being considered for important positions should be disqualifying. Mullin got confirmed in spite of giving a similar non answer.
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lmao rare to see someone so easily baited in a congressional hearing, but RFK jr is a sucker
Ossoff: "You were talking earlier about Jared Kushner. The guy leading our diplomacy in the Middle East is bringing in billions from Middle Eastern princes and sheiks and going around the region asking for billions more while he conducts nuclear diplomacy on behalf of the country. It's obscene."
BALDWIN: Will you use the CDC's wastewater monitoring program to track the use of mifepristone?
RFK Jr: I have no plans to do that at the moment
BALDWIN: Do you think NIH should fund less cancer research?
RFK Jr: No, they should fund more, & one of the few agencies that got a raise in the budget was NCI
B: That increase is less than $1m for an institute with a $7b budget. That's a .01% increase. It wouldn't even cover one additional grant
Warsh claimed that the Wall Street Journal had bad sources. Their source was Donald Trump himself. Either Trump lied to the Journal or Warsh just committed perjury.
The President spent more on bombs in ONE WEEK of his war with Iran than we spend in an entire YEAR to help parents afford child care.
Trump & RFK Jr. are asking to spend $500B more for war—but they won't increase funding for child care by a cent.
New AP poll
Trump’s job approval rating falls to 33%.
Huge warning sign for the GOP —> Trump’s approval on handling the economy has tanked to 30%, falling by 9 points since February before he launched the Iran war.
apnews.com/article/trum...
RUIZ: Bloomberg reports that Trump & the WH have benched you because you're making the president look bad
RFK Jr: That's not true
RUIZ: I think the reporting is correct. You're making the president look bad. You talked publicly about snorting cocaine off a toilet bowl seat. Your words, not mine.
New from me: RFK Jr., who has spent decades pushing disinformation about the safety of vaccines, insanely insisted to Congress today he's played no role in fueling the resurgence of measles in the U.S.
"I've never been anti-vaccine." www.huffpost.com/entry/rfk-me...
Some people are deeply biased against reality.
Graphic showing the amount of paid parental leave provided by countries around the world. The U.S. ranks dead last. Image credit: Pew Research Center.
The U.S. remains the only industrialized nation without a national paid parental leave policy. Estonia offers more than a year and a half of paid leave to new parents. Sweden provides 480 days of shared parental leave and Finland about 14 months. /end
Pretty sure that anti-racist work, including infiltration of far-right groups, is exactly what SPLC’s donors intended to pay for. But the time and expenses swallowed by the court proceedings to come are the point here — regardless of the quality of the case.
A GOP proposal would grant the fossil fuel industry immunity from laws or lawsuits.
This would make it nearly impossible for Big Oil to be held accountable for the climate catastrophe they’re enabling.
Once again, Republicans are trying to protect corporate polluters at Americans' expense.
Cops are such fucking cowards. Anything more than beating up innocent protestors from behind a wall of military hardware and they shit their pants & freeze.
reposting for awareness (sincerely)
Seems like NYT should have mentioned that UAE's spymaster bought 49% of Trump's World Liberty Financial and used $2B of its USD1 stablecoin, directing hundreds of millions to Trump.
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www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/b...
Tucker Carlson: I’ll be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. We’re implicated in this. I misled people.
Plenty of criticism on the right of the #SCOTUS leaker and the Times’s reporting, but has anyone actually responded to the argument that Roberts’s assessment of “irreparable harm” and his refusal to balance the equities is completely inconsistent with his subsequent behavior in all the Trump cases?
Kevin Warsh just lost me. He argues he's going to be an independent Fed Chair, but refuses to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election. If you can't state simple facts when you're in the political spotlight, you aren't independent. You're a coward.
This is a horror.
