🇺🇦 Gordon Lawrence 💯🏆🏆🏆🐐🎾

Proud Kiwi 🇳🇿. Love the All Blacks 🏉, Tori Amos 🎙🎹🎶 & Roger Federer 🐐🎾🏆🇨🇭 #bel21ve #RF104. Views are my own.

[🇺🇦 Gordon Lawrence 💯🏆🏆🏆🐐🎾 @666Tweet]

Our Swiss flag and Roger's back! sign were on TV in MCA when RF showed us the trophy!! 🐐🎾👑🍫🍫🍫❤🍾🏆 https://t.co/Yelkiz4WSR

[#AusOpen @AustralianOpen]

.@rogerfederer visits the screaming fans who watched the #AusOpen final from Margaret Court Arena

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

THE YOUNG DEMOCRATIC SUPERSTAR James Talarico humiliated Steve Toth on the House floor — and got him to admit the bigotry out loud. Talarico held the bill up side by side.

The Senate version scrubbed Frederick Douglass. Scrubbed Martin Luther King Jr. Scrubbed Native American history, Cesar Chavez, Susan B. Anthony. But it kept Alexis de Tocqueville — a white Frenchman. Not even American. Talarico asked: "Could that be because he's a white man?"

Toth had no answer. This is who they are. This is what we've known about this party for a long time. The Democratic Party wants everyone at the table. Republicans are snakes.

He’s the Texas State Rep from The Woodlands who wrote the bill, HB 3979.

This is 2026 and we're still having this conversation — the bitterness, the hate. The whole world is watching this embarrassment. EVERYBODY KNOWS IT

[Helen Clark @HelenClarkNZ]

More from manipulator of #NZ election from his own mouth: “I would be delighted if we just carried on using MMP, just like it is. I can guarantee you right-wing government for foreseeable future.” MMP was designed to deliver proportionality, not this rort:
https://t.co/SqPou6FmUa

[Antonio Arellano @AntonioArellano]

WOW: On the first day of bill filing for the new TX Legislature, Democrats introduced bills to expand Medicaid, raise the minimum wage, end data center tax breaks, ban Flock cameras, legalize marijuana, and repeal ICE partnerships for sheriffs.

Taking Texas by the horns.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "I hope Hegseth addresses the 8 articles of impeachment, and doesn‘t get up and misquote the Bible in Quentin Tarantino fashion and do some pull-ups and call everybody fat and gay. I may have just given you half his speech, I don't know."

[Tori Amos News from Utzdented ♥ @Undented]

Season Greetings! Tori's seasonal album, Midwinter Graces, was released 17 years ago today in North America! The UK had to wait another week. Bit too soon to get all pink and glittery here...but soon!!!

https://t.co/xtSfMAvDRE

[Helen Clark @HelenClarkNZ]

Hard not to conclude when reading this excellent analysis on Radio New Zealand that #NZ’s political system is a shambles. A full inquiry onto how it has operated this year is badly needed.
https://t.co/UboSzs2qDE

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

NEW: The Jan. 6 plaque honoring law enforcement will be moved somewhere more prominent once Democrats are in charge of Congress, Rep. Joe Morelle tells @ChrisMarquette_

https://t.co/S1fhW4j7T1

[Evan @daviddunn177]

She wanted the Ten Commandments in Texas schools.

So James Talarico challenged and humiliated her in front of everybody.

Her name is Rep. Candy Noble. And she lost on the same night James Talarico won his Senate race.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

WOW! Trump tells 60 minutes that everyone’s net worth went up $3 billion and when Ross Douthat said that his didn’t, Trump told him he “should’ve had Stocks.”

This is why Republicans lost. They are so out of touch with the average American.

[Nick Young @nickofnz]

Luxon lied.

He said he needed to remove the right to enrol and vote on the same day because it would make vote counting faster and cheaper.

It is not going to be faster or cheaper.

It was never about saving time and money.

It has suppressed the vote, as predicted, and that is very likely to favour the National Party.

#nzpol

[Martyn Bradbury @CitizenBomber]

What a weakened Luxon does with an empowered ACT and NZF

Last election I was warning voters that they were allowing their post-Covid bitterness towards Jacinda to vote in ACT, NZF and National without appreciating how extreme their policy for donors mentality would be.

You can’t pretend to not know how extreme their platform has been nor what they are planning if they win a second term.

If National + ACT + NZF are the majority it will be an even weaker National Party gutted of half its cabinet by the overhang and a far more dominant ACT and NZF, so expect their second term to be far more dangerous and damaging than their first term.

You didn’t believe me about what a National/ACT/NZF Government would do in 2023, here’s what they will do if they win a second term in 2026.

#nzpol
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[News to Remember @allchronology]

If you can't back El-Sayed, you're just not paying attention.

His take on Stephen Miller, and his appointment to Chief of Staff is the best and most precise read on what's going on.

This is 100% right on EVERY POINT.

El-Sayed gets it, and is able to communicate this properly. This is 🔥🔥🔥

[Essenviews @essenviews]

Hit with facts, Fox News runs out of time ..

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

Unless RFK Jr. is interested in spending the next two years in front of Congressional committees, he should go ahead and resign now.

[Maxou Rona 🎸🇫🇷 💙💛 #TAEM #PFM @Madximilian]

This is why people who say their votes don't matter...need to pay attention and actually vote!

[Helen Clark @HelenClarkNZ]

This man’s strategy also set out to discredit MMP, which he has surely done. He represents big money working to distort electoral outcomes. #NZ law on political donations & 3rd parties running political campaigns is far too loose. Reform needed. https://t.co/Pi2QZ5UaGa #nzpol

[The Beaver Program @BeaverProgram]

Trump Media Company stock price has COLLAPSED.

From $82 down to $3.99 a share of DJT won’t even get you a gallon of gas.

Because of course, what else were you expecting?

#ETTD

[🌊 Negative Tendencies (Neg Ten) 🎸 @NegTendencies]

The word is out about the Election Night Watch Party at the White House on Tuesday.

For weeks, Trump had been assured by Susie Wiles and his staff that all the polls were wrong, and that, once again, the Blue Wave would only be a ripple, if one even showed up at all. And the DOJ was ready to pounce on it if it did.

Trump, after all, was on the ballot. "Vote like I'm on the ballot,' he said, "Because I am."

He told every rally that. He said it on FOX. He had a 90% approval rate, he said. And $5000 checks for everybody. What could possibly go wrong?
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So the East Room was decked out with the finest crystal and china. Staffers thought it would be a fun "cheeky rebuke" to order in platters of finger food from Cheesecake Factory. Just to give a finger to Barack Obama, for his viral joke about Trump’s gaudy renovations to the White House.

EVERYONE showed up in their party clothes. His Staff. His Cabinet. Top GOP politicians. Donors.

But there was no Host or Hostess to greet them. Which was a little odd. The guests mingled among themselves, and waited to be formally welcomed and invited to sample the refreshments.

Where were Trump and Melania?
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Trump waited upstairs in his residence, in order to make a grand entrance to a standing ovation with cheers, once the happy results started pouring in.

And was Melania also waiting upstairs, to march in at his side?

Nope.

Melania was not at the White House at all. On election night, the most anticipated night in politics, with the rest of her husband's term on the line, Melania was somewhere else.
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Finally at 8:00 the first election results came in. But during that entire first hour, not ONE Republican was named. It was only Democrat after Democrat, starting with Jon Ossoff.

Trump never came downstairs. At all.

Marco Rubio was the first to go missing, according to the Daily Mail. Then, one by one, the rest of the party goers slipped out the door.

Only two hours later, an enormous decision was called. Democrats had flipped the House of Representatives to their control. And in most cases, the Democrats won, not by slim majorities, but by double digits.

It was 10:00, and the East Room was empty. The party goers had gone to a nearby Washington bar to drown their sorrows. The Cheesecake Factory food lay untouched on the East Room tables.

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And Trump? He was upstairs watching the results on FOX News, and posting angrily on Truth Social.
He wasn't alone. No, Melania wasn't with him. But Natalie Harp was.

The Daily Mail reports that Susie Wiles, his Chief of Staff was upstairs as well. The one who had assured him day after day that Republicans would win.

By 11 pm, Trump stopped posting. “He’s watching Fox News barely uttering a word and paralyzed into silence,” a source close to the president told the Daily Mail.

“It’s very, very dark in the residence,” one senior official said of Trump’s mood. “It’s a dark scene.”
Another source said, “They were delusional right until the very end.”
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Commentary by Glee Violette

[Nick Young @nickofnz]

Christopher Luxon went ahead with his plans to change electoral laws, despite warnings from his own attorney general the changes could breach human rights law and exclude more than 100,000 voters.

That is what happened and he should be held accountable.

https://t.co/v2KlEAhZyf

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🔥HOLY HELL: In a stunning moment, Republican Senator Ron Johnson went on Fox News and admitted there is MASSIVE corruption within the Trump Administration.

Every American needs to see this 👇👇👇