Doug Moran

Life is too short, NOT to sit in the car, waiting for the music to finish. fka @bassooncpa

[Doug Moran @BassoonDoug]

Erm, Clara.

[Doug Moran @BassoonDoug]

2 evenings of great concerts! Jeremy Denk began with a piece by Clark Wieck Schumann.

[Heidi N. Moore @moorehn]

My main idea right now is that all of Congress and the executive branch, including all flacks, should undergo yearly financial audits for any irregularities in their bank accounts. We are seeing a lot of US officials, including the president, who have participated in bribery.

[Heidi N. Moore @moorehn]

Under DoD rules, anyone who gets security clearance has to undergo a financial audit to make sure they do not have excessive debt or suspicious money movements in their bank accounts. We need that same process renewed yearly for all federal officials.

[Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24]

...actually have serious consequences for elections in 2024 and beyond. That's not our hysterical estimation. That is what seasoned, longtime, current elections officials, both Dem & GOP, working in multiple states are telling (or, warning) us right now: https://t.co/kF1POnfewv

[Lara Seligman @laraseligman]

While @TTuberville partially lifted his months-long blockade on 400+ senior military promotions this week, many of those officers still can’t move on to their next posting bc of his remaining holds on a handful of the top positions. W/ @connorobrienNH https://t.co/GvqtgYFxWe

[Julia Davis @JuliaDavisNews]

The Russians Think the GOP Just Won Them the War in Ukraine
‘WELL DONE, REPUBLICANS!’
Russian state TV celebrates the GOP move to block funding and predicts that Trump will do even better and cut off both Ukraine & Israel.

My latest for @thedailybeast:
https://t.co/1i7Jcyj90e

[Alex Finley @alexzfinley]

All federal gov employees will be hired (or retained) based on what they believe, not what their skills are

[Marc Polymeropoulos @Mpolymer]

Reagan would be ashamed.

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

Free advice for others in my profession.
Spend less time reporting on who's ahead in the election, and more time on what they'd do if elected.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Every single American needs to know that Trump has, again, promised to repeal the Affordable Care Act if he's elected. This would rip health care away from millions. Please help spread this far and wide.

[emily bell @emilybell]

CNBC and now Vox shedding climate reporting jobs. Why? I feel for the excellent reporters losing their jobs but I am genuinely mystified as to why this beat is being targeted. It’s important, but I would have thought also just a beat everyone would be interested in

[Connor O'Brien @connorobrienNH]

Flew under the radar, but Joint Chiefs Chair Gen. CQ Brown wrote appropriators yesterday warning about a yearlong CR.

Some impacts he highlighted:
-$5.8B personnel shortfall
-Navy loses an attack sub contract
-DoD can’t enact multi-year missile procurement
-delay nuke programs

[Stormin' @StorminDMV]

@JeffreyGoldberg @RadioFreeTom "black mail with advertising"...that's capitalism..the power of choice...freedom!

[Cincy NP @sdCincy]

@JeffreyGoldberg The @nytimes is fast becoming unreadable. Their bias is obvious.

[Alex Finley @alexzfinley]

“This is a new, revolutionary ad program we are promoting, in which companies pay X exorbitant amounts of money to go fuck themselves. Participating companies, for an additional $8 a month, get ‘verified’ with a 🖕”

[Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya @Tsihanouskaya]

Dictatorship is like cancer — it will keep spreading unless stopped. The pressing question is: who will be next? That's why supporting Ukrainians & Belarusians in the fight for freedom is an obligation for every democratic country. @WebSummit

[George Takei @GeorgeTakei]

A Democrat was in the White House when my family was sent to the internment camps in 1941. It was an egregious violation of our human and civil rights.

It would have been understandable if people like me said they’d never vote for a Democrat again, given what had been done to us.

But being a liberal, being a progressive, means being able to look past my own grievances and concerns and think of the greater good. It means working from within the Democratic party to make it better, even when it has betrayed its values.

I went on to campaign for Adlai Stevenson when I became an adult. I marched for civil rights and had the honor of meeting Dr. Martin Luther King. I fought for redress for my community and have spent my life ensuring that America understood that we could not betray our Constitution in such a way ever again.

Bill Clinton broke my heart when he signed DOMA into law. It was a slap in the face to the LGBTQ community. And I knew that we still had much work to do. But I voted for him again in 1996 despite my misgivings, because the alternative was far worse. And my obligation as a citizen was to help choose the best leader for it, not to check out by not voting out of anger or protest.

There is no leader who will make the decision you want her or him to make 100 percent of the time. Your vote is a tool of hope for a better world. Use it wisely, for it is precious. Use it for others, for they are in need of your support, too.

[Alexander B. Howard @digiphile]

Questions @foxnews won’t shout at Trump:
-Have you been evaluated for dementia, given your family history?
-Are you eligible to run for office, if you gave aid & comfort to insurrectionists?
-Why did you call any of your fellow Americans “vermin,” echoing fascists like Hitler?

[Giles Paley-Phillips @eliistender10]

This is wonderful