Democracy and Israel must stand

Am Yisrael Chai. Bring the hostages home. Humanistic Jew. End voter suppression. Vote blue up and down, except for Hamas apologists

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

I found watching Trump’s UN speech today deeply depressing. It is a matter of national shame and humiliation that he is our president. Every country in the world, friend and foe alike, sees we are governed by a vainglorious fool.

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

State run media, state owned enterprises, prosecuting political opponents, gifts from foreign countries, selling pardons, massive amounts of money flowing into the President’s bank account, and banners with his head plastered on government buildings. NONE OF THIS IS NORMAL.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

In case you needed it, further evidence that Trump just doesn't care at all about democracy or human rights. In fact, he seems to prefer doing deals with autocrats over democratic countries.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Please read this historic document carefully:

Defense of Greenland: Agreement Between the United States and the Kingdom of Denmark, April 27, 1951

https://t.co/Er0whurRsA

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Always defending the dictators. Did same thing with Russia.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Judges are targets in the United States, a backsliding and damaged democracy, because they have repeatedly stood up for democratic notions of justice. We are in a fight for the soul of the judiciary and the future of what law will mean while Trump retains power.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Trump misstating and touting a meaningless deal over Greenland, while the entire Middle East security architecture falls apart due to his own actions, is emblematic of this administration’s foreign policy.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

So, after eighteen months of lying on the supermarket floor screaming at Denmark, Donald Trump has been handed the 1951 defence agreement, which already gave America bases and the run of Greenland for as long as NATO exists, and which it was using so enthusiastically that it closed sixteen of its seventeen installations there. The grown-ups have simply wrapped the toy he already owned in shiny new paper, told him it was the biggest present anyone has ever had, and he is now running round the garden showing it to everyone. He will certainly make the history books, although I fear not in the chapter he was hoping for.

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

Unbelievable. It’s fully transparent what’s going on here. Trump wanted to end the war to do business. He couldn’t end the war so he announced he’ll do business anyway. It was always the intention.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Trump just said he's kicking CNN, MSNOW, and Politico out of the White House.

I was there the day he ejected CNN's Jim Acosta in 2018... Trump's staff gloated... then I watched a federal judge body slam the WH and order Jim's pass restored.

The First Amendment will prevail.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“The American people chose Donald Trump, twice. The American people—and the American political system—sat back and did nothing when Trump threatened to annex Canada and Greenland…The free world now views America as a threat. The free world is right to.”

https://t.co/9VJ2yEqZQa

[Dr. Vin Gupta @VinGuptaMD]

We live in a world where the incumbent HHS Secretary delivers a keynote at a conference that attacks the polio vaccine and where our incoming surgeon general owns stock in tobacco companies and sells “herbals.”

This is deeply abnormal. Save our ship.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

In other words, exactly the sort of person you'd expect to finance and attend Trump's son's wedding: Russian, thug, connected to Putin, would never do anything without a quid pro quo.

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

When Russian oligarchs pay for American oligarchs’ weddings, it’s a very sweet and romantic gesture, but we know who’s really getting married. The Trump government is drowning in Putin-style corruption and authoritarianism, Putin is slaughtering Ukrainians in his filthy war, young Americans can’t afford groceries or find jobs and the Trump family is pocketing billions of dollars in crypto tribute and payoffs. Let the oligarchs marry—the American people want a divorce from all of them.

[Sir William Browder KCMG @Billbrowder]

Ukraine is doing one of the few things that is causing Putin real pain: hitting Russia’s oil industry and Trump is telling Zelensky to stop. I think Trump lost the privilege of telling Zelensky to do anything when he suspended US military aid to Ukraine. Can’t have it both ways.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Pritzker: Just take a look at the lineup of speakers for today and tomorrow. From Texas, we have Greg Abbott, Ken Paxton, and Ted Cruz, each one a poster child for bad governance, bad morals, and bad vibes, respectively.

We have RFK Jr., the health secretary that you can thank for the return of measles and unsafe food. We have Todd Blanche, the attorney general who wanted to give your tax dollars to reward Trump’s insurrectionists. And we have Don Jr., the chief accomplice in his daddy’s shakedown of the American people.

And then we have J.D. Vance, Trump’s chief bootlicker, who wants to hide the fact that he’s the architect of Trump’s endless war in Iran. And, of course, we have Donald Trump himself, a president suffering from dementia, who unleashed violence on our cities, who jacked up grocery prices, screwed our farmers, and now has you paying for his gaudy golden ballroom.

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

No American should care about Putin’s “aspirations!” He’s a war criminal and my aspirations for him are for him to rot in a prison cell.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

These are not vanity projects. That’s being too nice. These are insanity projects. It’s insane that he’s building these gaudy monstrosities and it’s insane that this country’s GOP leaders don’t have the spine to stop him from defacing our nation’s capital. Stop the insanity!

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

.@AOC is right about this.

"On taxing tips, as one of the few here who lived on tips, I want to tell you the scam...The cap is $25,000 while raising taxes on people earning under $50,000 across the U.S.... while kicking them off Affordable Care Act."

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin said Tuesday that ICE agents could enter polling places to make arrests this November, raising fresh concerns about the Trump administration contemplating actions that federal law has long prohibited. https://t.co/0XAevTDyHO