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[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

They thought we didn't need food inspectors or disease experts. Now we have explosive diarrhea, parasitic worms, and salmonella.

They thought we didn't need new forms of energy. Now fossil fuel supplies are disrupted, and prices have soared.

They thought we didn't need vaccines. Now measles cases are at the highest levels in over 30 years.

They thought we didn't need checks and balances. Now we have an illegal war, corruption in the White House, and attacks on the Constitution.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

George Conway: “We’re so far beyond the legal and the constitutional and the decent and the honorable. Watergate ended with the resignation of Richard Nixon which came about because a tape was released that had Nixon just suggesting the CIA discourage the FBI from investigating something. Never really happened, but just the suggestion was enough for Republicans to go to the White House and say you will lose in an impeachment trial. We are so many orders of magnitude beyond that at this point”

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night.
It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me.

Sad and embarrassed and exhausted.

Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one.

People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room.

Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old.

He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second.

That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed.

There is a name for it.

So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers.

The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin.

And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride.

Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was.

And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving.

Just another joke at our expense.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: "The price of admission to the president's service seems to be proof that you're willing to lie for him. Have you seen it? Maybe you saw Jay Clayton, the president's nominee to lead our intelligence services, refuse again and again while he was under oath to affirm Donald Trump's defeat in 2020, or Pete Hegseth before the Senate this week refusing to recant his lies about the war. There's something uniquely despicable about lying a nation into war, treating citizens as fools."

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

The corrupt Trump administration has just admitted to withholding taxpayer dollars from states based on how they voted.

Last I checked we were a democracy, not a dictatorship.

Where the hell is Congress?

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Intentionally concealing the death of a U.S. senator to manipulate legislative business or the succession process could expose those involved to serious federal criminal charges.

No one gets to hide a death for political gain.

#WhereIsMitch

[Athena is her 💫 @Athena_is_her]

Surprised Piers kept his mouth shut for 3 mins & O'Leary is probably there worried about Data centres he wants to build in 🇨🇦 or give a masterclass of how to get off a DUI while boating that killed someone in Canada. Americans 🇺🇸 have zero clue how they had it so good with us

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

cult shit at the White House as Trump's cronies give him a standing ovation for minutes on end. Note how nobody wants to be the first to stop clapping.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Let me explain this absurd ruse: The Pentagon is pretending there have been two Iran wars separated by a brief cease-fire.

The reality: By going more than 90 days without congressional authorization @SecWar IS BREAKING THE LAW and must be held accountable.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨SHOCKING CLIP: As the family of Virginia Giuffre calls on Thom Tillis to VOTE NO on Todd Blanche, a video is going viral showing Blanche announcing that Donald Trump has a duty to hunt down everyone who indicted him.

This is mafia-style retribution dressed up as justice.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

We are supposedly at war to stop Iran from enriching the uranium we “obliterated” over a year ago.

Yesterday we signed a deal to help Saudi Arabia enrich uranium.

The first time the United States has ever helped another country enrich uranium on foreign soil.

The Saudis refused the inspection protocol 140 other countries accept. Too intrusive, they said.

Trump agreed. He signed a national security waiver to get around the rule.

The Saudis paid Kushner $100 million. They put $2 billion into his firm. They put another $6 billion into LIV Golf, which pays Trump properties to host its tournaments. They signed ten billion dollars in Trump-branded real estate deals in Jeddah and Riyadh. All in just the last few years.

But sure. My paintings.

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

Donald Trump is subpoenaing journalists — demanding they betray their sources — and now he's targeting their families too. This is straight-up authoritarian intimidation. When a leader weaponizes the full power of government to silence the press and terrorize their loved ones, democracy itself is under attack. We cannot allow this.

Op: @thebriefingwithpsaki

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Hunter Biden on Trump: “We’re living under a dictatorship right now. It’s less Adolf Hitler because he’s not as concentrated as that. It’s more Idi Amin. It’s buffoonery, complete and utter incompetence. On top of a giant grift of the likes no one in the world has ever seen”

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

NOTHING TO SEE HERE, FOLKS! VERY NORMAL!

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Jared Kushner holds no government position.

Yet he is our Middle East Envoy.

The Saudis have paid him $100M and invested $2B in his firm.

He pushed for Saudi nuclear enrichment over the objection of national security officials.

Today his father-in-law made it happen.

But what about my paintings…

[CSPAN @cspan]

Sen. Gillibrand (D-NY) grills Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: "You are asking for unlimited money for bombs when people can't feed their families."

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

The FBI will no longer investigate ICE agents for crimes they commit while enforcing immigration law.

Don’t ever tell me again that this isn’t the Gestapo.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump claimed his tariffs would bring about a golden age of American manufacturing.

Yet since his re-election, we've lost 75,000 manufacturing jobs. Over the same period, Biden had created 625,000.

[ninefortyfive @Anthony_Curnow]

@afterlifeprep @Michell71078349 @RonFilipkowski @expobear1 Ahh fck me Shawny - Remind me again who made the deal with the Taliban to withdraw US troops??

[nick alvear @GoodLionTV]

Trump wired money to Epstein not once…

4,700 times.

Yeah.

Let that fucking sink in.

Pst… hey MAGA… is still not too late to evolve.