LUTNICK: It is outrageous that Canada will not put US spirits on the shelf. It is insulting and disrespectful to America
SHAHEEN: They won't do it because of the insults from this president and comments like yours
We are spending billions to keep our entire navy in the Strait to fecklessly fail to open a waterway that wasn’t closed until Trump’s pointless war of choice closed it.
He’s just burning your tax money.
I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.
WE Pay for
Best Twitter riposte of the day.
Odesa…
Moscow’s Actually Governing America
Indeed—Elect more women!
Well... Orban down, many more to go!
January 6 was a violent assault on our democracy, and those responsible must be held accountable.
Erasing these convictions undermines the rule of law and disrespects the law enforcement officers who put their lives on the line defending the Capitol.
At Pentagon worship service today, Pete Hegseth again read a violent prayer to bless the Iran war. But this time his prayer was apparently borrowed from 'Pulp Fiction.' I promise I'm not writing for @theonion.com now:
publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/hegseth-bo...
How did Magyar win? A long running grassroots campaign in rural and small town Hungary; a refusal to be distracted by government propaganda; a focus on economic issues and corruption; a central promise to bring back democracy and the rule of law
For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩🚀🚀💕
*All four astronauts went to public schools!
But of course the consequences are only leveled at women, who must protect themselves from rape by abstaining from any activities that could establish them as equals to men.
Reminder that Trump and the GOP snuck a huge tax break into their Big Ugly Bill allowing private jet owners to write off the cost of their planes faster than before.
Meanwhile, the Big Ugly Bill will kick millions of people off food assistance and healthcare programs.
"Party of the working class."
🇭🇺 Péter Magyar has vowed to join the European Public Prosecutor’s Office, giving EU investigators the power to probe fraud cases and potentially reopen scrutiny of how Brussels funds were used under Viktor Orbán’s rule.
🇺🇦 Ukraine is forming a new order together with other countries, — Budanov
Answering the question of whether the war in Ukraine and Middle East is part of one big conflict:
💬 A new order is being born with great pain. The old one is dead, so we must fight until the new world is strengthened.
Really important story from @wired.com: The Christian Nationalists who want to destroy the American secular state are now making their presence felt
www.wired.com/story/govern...
The World Cup is irrelevant in this environment… sadly, sports cannot transcend what is happening in this world.
All this because Donald Trump couldn't abide the idea of a Black president having a success. This war may have been triggered by his desire to distract from Epstein...but his tearing up the JCPOA (like his Nobel Prize obsession) is driven by his profound and unyielding racism.
Among the many awful aspects of Orban’s government and the many good things about its defeat:
Its targeting of universities to push right-wing politics and policy was the Heritage Foundation’s explicit model here.
And for JD Vance when he said “the professors are the enemy.”
In competitive authoritarianism, leaders abuse state power to tilt the electoral playing field in their favor, manipulate the media environment and minimize opposition voices, maybe even steal close elections by lying about fraud. But they usually can't overcome a large majority voting against them.
Magyar used a clever strategy for his own political campaign:
He built a grassroots movement from over 1000 so-called “islands”: Small groups with at least 5 members, which are split once they reach a size of 50. Locally active in city neighborhoods and villages. - h/t Pedro @mfphhh on X
CARNEY:
“.. Many of our former strengths — which rested on our close ties with the United States — have become our weaknesses.” 🇨🇦
For instance, Marco Rubio.
For contrast, Elon Musk's SpaceX rockets experienced several fiery "rapid unscheduled disassemblies" (RUDs), which saw vehicles break apart, explode, or lose attitude control due to fuel leaks, creating massive fireballs. (I know, different type of development, but still...)
The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.
Best Twitter riposte of the day is from Ronald Reagan's budget master.
The fact that Republicans have falsely smeared Dem candidates so often is REALLY bad for actual victims of sexual harassment, abuse, rape.
