Trump’s morning posts:
— Let’s kill Iranians who don’t want a deal
— I’m ordering the Navy to shoot any boat putting mines in the Strait
— We actually have full control over the Strait
— I don’t need a deal
Russian collusion buddies finally getting their payout.
The president's son, who was never involved in this industry before his father became president, should not be getting contracts from the Pentagon. This is absurd corruption that Republicans in congress will say nothing about and do no oversight. bsky.app/profile/atru...
"The indictment is a grotesque attempt to recast white people as real victims of racism. In the DOJ’s telling, advocates who spent decades dismantling the Klan are its secret benefactors, 'enriching' themselves by secretly creating racism — something in such short supply it can only be generated."
The Trump family turned the right's "Biden Crime Family" bullshit into a business plan. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...
NEW: Nearly 140,000 people filed claims against Purdue for the harm they said its drugs caused.
Fewer than half of them will get any compensation under a new payout plan.
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This is expert trolling from Jamie Raskin. If Republicans are suddenly angry about losing in the gerrymandering wars, then they're welcome to join him and Dems in passing bans on gerrymandering in the next Congress, he tells me:
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The Supreme Court recently ruled against Pres. Trump’s sweeping, economically debilitating trade tariffs. A $160 bn reimbursement victory for 300K importers, but not a refund win for American consumers who’ve born most of the cost of the tariffs through higher grocery and other prices.
#MEpolitics
Since his dad was re-elected, Forbes estimates Eric Trump's net worth is up 10x, to $400 million.
How are you doing?
Important to note that the Congress in the most powerful country in the world has chosen to completely ignore a deepening global economic and political crisis flowing from Trump's failed war.
No hearings, no legislation, no studies about mitigating the damage, rebuilding afterwards. Just this 👇
Statesmanlike.
Three-byline alert: 🚨
“.. an assessment that means the conflict’s economic impact could extend late into this year or beyond.”
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“.. Developing Asia is already in a full-blown energy crisis. .. Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines are facing shortages, rationing and demand destruction. .. If the strait remains closed, this will develop, horribly, into a food crisis ..”
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I was shocked to learn in Tennessee that Nashville's single Democratic Congressman was gerrymandered out of a seat, leaving the city divided into several half-urban, half-rural constituencies and with no real representation at all.
That was years ago, and I didn't hear any Republicans object.
Rural health care providers in Virginia are already making tough calls and shutting doors because of last year’s GOP budget bill—and it hasn’t even gone into full effect yet. I’m going to keep pressing the Trump-Vance Administration about the care they've threatened.
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“Russia can sustain extremely high levels of casualties and losses in human lives. They don’t care about people’s lives,” a Ukrainian officer told me. However, “it is painful for them to lose money.”
Senator Patty Murray 4 A @Patty...3h X There is no excuse. None. Republicans have the votes, they have the power —and tonight they are choosing, deliberately, to do nothing for families and everything for ICE. It's past 3 AM and they're jamming through $70 billion for ICE and $O for families. Spread the word.
Did John Phelan refuse to commit a war crime(s)?
And what was it? And how quickly will it be asked of his more malleable, doofus replacement?
That’s pretty much the cult line. All he’s got left are people who will drink the kool-aid if the order was posted on Truth Social.
Ossoff: "The financial entanglement, the way UAE money, Emirati money has compromised this WH is astonishing. It may be one of the most significant scandals in US history. Who are Trump's 2 chief negotiators? Kushner & Witkoff. The people doing diplomacy are at the same time on personal business."
Thanks to everyone who came out to our Meet and Greet in Warren Township tonight!
Screenshot of a Twitter/X thread showing the Democrats (@TheDemocrats) posting that Pete Hegseth "needs to go," Hegseth responding that their agenda of "illegals, trans & DEI" are no longer allowed at the DoD, and Democrats replying "Pete's POV:" with an image of a smartphone screen showing multiple apps with notification badges, implying Hegseth is distracted by his phone — a reference to reports about his use of Signal and other apps for sensitive communications.
Give this staffer a raise.
90,000 views on the accusation. 11,000 on the oopsie.
A reminder while Republicans bitch about Dems finishing the redistricting fight they started: they have full control of gov’t— they can pass a law banning gerrymandering any time they want. They won’t. Republicans aren’t mad gerrymandering exists; they’re mad that they’re not the only ones using it.
✊🏼 May they continue to hold the line! These are OUR treasures! ✊🏼
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With the U.S. once again sending its young people to war, Americans need to see our film "One More Mission.” It tells the little-known story of the veterans of the Vietnam War who joined together to stop it. Find out more at www.onemoremissionfilm.com. Here’s a clip. vimeo.com/1176989772.
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The First Battle Over Military AI
A contract dispute between the Pentagon and an AI company may determine who controls the technologies shaping surveillance, targeting, and the future of war before laws or treaties ever catch up.
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Have you heard of the Japanese American photographer who smuggled camera parts into his incarceration camp, used a drain pipe to add focus, & captured bracing & moving images of life & baseball in that community? That & more in the Fifth Inning of Diamond in the Rough! 🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social
