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Retired engineer. 3 sons, 7 grands. Love reading and gardening. Hate the orange thing. Snarky. Way too woke to sleep. #Resist
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senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
A direct result of trump’s weakness.
"Rudy Giuliani nursed an injured crow back to life with warm milk, then drove to a place not a liquor store, and then got in a car accident. After this, an unscrupulous stranger littered the backseat of his car with scores of emptied airline-size bottles of Gilbert’s vodka. Two may have been gin."
I am truly disgusted to see that the Chrisleys, criminals pardoned by Trump, have a new show on ABC. Truly vile.
You were the coolest kid in class if you had this pen in the 1970s…
Fatality.
So the photos we get of the “golf outing” today is a pale and feeble looking one of him getting to a car at the WH and this one of him returning. Nothing from the course.
Our son, DIL, and 6 year old grandson just returned from a week spent touring all the amazing features, museums, etc offered by the beautiful city of Chicago. They had perfect weather, safe travels, and a wonderful week. Safe streets. No violence. No issues. Just FUN.
NEWS Robert Mueller Has Parkinson’s Disease. The former special counsel, who led the Russia investigation during President Trump’s first term, has had difficulty speaking in recent months and will not be able to comply with a request that he testify before Congress. Full Story: nyti.ms/4g7ABjM
Every last person I know in this country is miserable, angry, and frightened right now.
MORE: Judge Sooknanan order DOJ to file yet another status report. She sets 10:45 pm deadline for Ensign to address whether all of the children have been returned to ORR custody.
I’ve heard wall streeters are buying up the tariff refund rights from importers as speculative investments.
Apparently the final straw alienating Modi was Trump going on and on about how great Pakistan (India's biggest enemy) was for nominating Trump for a Nobel, and how Modi should do the same. Trump ignored Modi when he pointed out that Trump had nothing to do with the ceasefire he claimed credit for.
Oh, Andy Borowitz. What a gem you are.
NEW: DOJ says the Guatemalan children should be back in the custody of the Office of Refugee Resettlement by 10:30 p.m. ET. It counts 76 children who had been boarded onto planes at the time the court blocked their removal. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Reporting tonight on my tv: “blue cities being TARGETED by the White House”. Imagine: our cities are being threatened and invaded by the President of the United States.
This is a good idea, @govwesmoore.bsky.social. Signed, A Marylander.
That's not going to make it to the floor Bernie.
If you prefer to read this thread on our site, here’s the link: www.lawfaremedia.org/article/emer...
THIS ➡️ "the New York Times is very much implicated in the false balance and "performative neutrality that enabled this moment"
But Trump says he wants to bring 600,000 more over.
I spoke to @kgosztola.bsky.social about the Illinois Supreme Court’s ridiculous decision that the state’s anti-SLAPP law doesn’t protect news reporting, and the recently passed legislation to repair the damage.
From @levparnas.bsky.social "Once again, the nightly attacks on Ukraine—families killed, cities burning—barely make a headline. But what truly stopped me cold was the near-total silence about what is happening right now on the other side of the world." levremembers.substack.com/p/breaking-d...
He obviously knows where he’s going.
NEW: The trump administration attempted to remove 600 terrified unaccompanied minors to Guatemala in the middle of the night on a holiday weekend. Judge Sooknanan stopped it. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/the-sookna...
"hell is empty and all the devils are here"
Trump’s new ‘Rose Garden’ more suitably called ‘The White House Patio’ This is it…Enjoy the landscaping, foliage & serenity…
Governor Jared Polis says on a reddit AMA that Colorado will fix it so that people can access COVID vaccines without a prescription within the next few days.
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ABC News is still calling RFK Jr. a “vaccine skeptic.” The dude was one of the most prominent anti-vaccine activists for decades. There’s video of him in 2023 saying that there’s no vaccine which is safe and effective. You can call him an anti-vaccine activist!
The Justice Department had once argued that Ghislaine Maxwell should be sentenced to at least 30 years in prison. Now its second-ranking official—and Donald Trump’s former lawyer—is aligned with a woman whose crimes the department had called “monstrous.”
J.B. Pritzker is 100% right. Please listen to him, pay attention, and join us in speaking out against authoritarianism and to protect free and fair elections.
Once we've reduced the current fascist regime to a smoldering pile of crap, and we've sent the Republican party home to reflect on their cowardice and complicity in destroying what's left of America, then we'll go after the media who allowed the traitors to skate on their lies with no backlash.
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Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."
“I look forward to watching the videos of soldiers entering Chicago.” Our Founders would be sickened by today’s Republican Party. Anyone who believes in freedom and supports the Constitution should be sickened by today’s Republican Party.👇
"The straw man being put forward is that it's either we have the military or we're going to get our throats cut at night in DC. Is there no middle ground? Do local law enforcement account for nothing? We've got the National Guard GARDENING right now in DC. Is that an efficient use of our resources?"
I seriously doubt that he was even physically able to get out of his car without a walker. 🤷♀️
Rudy Giuliani is sincerely asking that no one spread conspiracy theories about the car accident in which he was apparently involved. Yes. Rudy is asking.
Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
This is the way
Of course.
As a federal operation looms, Chicago's mayor signed an executive order looking to safeguard the city. “Unfortunately we do not have the luxury of time. We have received credible reports that we have days, not weeks, before our city sees some kind of militarized activity by the federal government.”
Bill Cassidy is a physician who is being humiliated daily by Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy has exposed Cassidy’s craven prioritization of his own power over the health and safety of his constituents and of the United States of America. Kennedy has exposed Cassidy’s powerlessness to stop him.
New plan: we get Obama to demand the death certificate
“As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one’s life or one’s work,” Leonard Cohen said, in 2016.
The immanent threat in America that requires national guard deployment sleeps in the White House. He defines waste fraud and abuse and needs to be removed from office. 8647
Just because you feel like your day to day life may have not changed that much much doesn't mean that America hasn't changed dramatically under Trump. Authoritarianism is here, right now. We all need to be as clear eyed about it as @vermontgmg.bsky.social: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Free advice for the administration: If you want to stop the Trump health coverage, maybe stop posting verifiably old videos and keeping him as far away from cameras as humanly possible
Dead or alive, he’s still in the Epstein Files.
Can a dead president start a war with Venezuela to distract from the fact that he's dead and also STILL in the Epstein Files?
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RFK Jr. is a national threat to the health and safety of America. This heroin-addicted psychopath is all about eliminating vaccine studies and spreading lies about science-backed facts. We're going to die if he stays head of the Health Department. He must be removed along with Cankles Caligula.
To be clear: 1. We’ve taken in roughly $150 billion in tariffs - nowhere near a single trillion, much less trillions. 2. Tariffs single-handedly saving our military — which has been the strongest in the world for decades — is the dumbest shit I’ve read today.
Worm-brain RFK Jr. blames America's mass shootings on antidepressants. The top users of antidepressants are Iceland, Portugal, the U.K., and Sweden, which have fewer mass shootings in their entire combined histories than the US has in the AVERAGE YEAR. It's the GUNS!!!
“'ILLEGALS' my ass.” Rami Othmane has a green card and is married to Dr. Wafaa Alrashid, a hospital chief of staff. Despite having legal residency, ICE detained him for 13 days after grabbing him during a grocery run. This injustice cuts deeper than words.
What kind of shit human do you have to be to be an ICE or HSA agent at this point?
I guess he changed hats and won’t go anywhere near the press for 5 days for no particular reason. Also can’t get any video of him actually playing golf from the usual sources.
Three Scottish brothers who embarked on a 9,000-mile row across the Pacific Ocean completed their journey Saturday, setting a new world record.
Just think how callous and indifferent one has to be to the wellbeing of the citizens of this country to vote for someone like RFK, Jr. Just think about that.
52 of 53 Republican senators voted to confirm him.
Dying narcissists think they can negotiate with god to get into heaven. And this is not about god or heaven. It's about stupid criminals that think they can negotiate...so, let's not get sidetracked arguing whether heaven exists.
I’m old.
🚨SHAME!!! This is NOT a criminal; he was sitting on a park bench. 🚨 1/2
If you say 'heteronormative' or 'unhoused person' or 'food insecurity' you're basically talking gibberish and nobody can understand you but if you say you can see inflammation in children at the airport and that vaccines lower IQ or that germs are a myth you get to fire all the scientists.
Pritzker on Trump's authoritarian takeover: "The playbook is the same. It's thwart the media. It's create mayhem that requires military interdiction. These are things that happen throughout history and Donald Trump is just following that playbook."
It’s more like perversion of duties.
Remove RFK Jr for dereliction of duties. Immediately.
O'Keefe to Noem: "At least 20 people who signed this letter were current FEMA employees & they've been placed on administrative leave. Is it now the policy of DHS that anytime an employee puts their name on something criticizing you or POTUS, they should anticipate being put on leave or fired?"
Trump’s plan to rename the Department of Defense as the Department of War shows (once again) that his self-characterization as the “pro-peace” candidate was complete bullshit. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
KEILAR: Of 172 mass attacks between 2016 & 2020, 96% were non-trans men. Are you missing bigger picture? GORKA: No. When you look at shootings at Christian schools the data is different K: Of 32 school shootings since 2020, only 3 were trans shooters G: Forgive me if I don't go with CNN's stats
He hasn’t been “mayor” since 2001.
A leading vaccine expert warns of the Trump Administration’s effort to limit COVID shots at pharmacies, which would be “disastrous” for the American public.
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
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Pritzker: "National Guard troops, any kind of troops, on the streets of American city don't belong unless there is an insurrection, unless there is truly an emergency. There is not."
This should be much-much more of a GAP!!
Thou shalt not end vaccines. God will not save you from plague. The Middle Ages should’ve made that very clear.
New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!
It’s just too bad that we couldn’t have made that “rumor” a reality.
REP. BUDDY CARTER: What eroded confidence in the CDC was the covid vaccine BEDINGFIELD: Who was president in 2020?
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BREAKING: Bernie Sanders wants RFK Jr. under oath. He’s demanding a special Senate hearing on the CDC disaster RFK Jr. helped create. Go Bernie!
Do I have this right: two of the most mentally ill people in this country are going to end our mental health crisis? 🤬
He starts randomly jabbering on about getting into heaven. Mysterious bruising on his hand. He disappears from the public eye for days. Even a child would suspect something was up. Everyone but Congress and mainstream media.
I'm still waiting for the relentless onslaught of media demands for a press conference and calls to resign.
I was discussing this with my friends a few days ago. We have never experienced such a phenomenon. My 24 year old granddaughter called me early yesterday morning because she had seen the rumor that it was dead. She was so excited. I felt so bad when I had to tell her that it was golfing.
As the DoJ tells the court that it will not remove unaccompanied minors to Guatemala, we can only hope they’re telling the truth.
