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[Josh Stein @JoshStein_]

How ‘bout them Heels! Congratulations to the UNC baseball team for making the College World Series Championship Finals this weekend!!! Let’s keep on winning.

[Wendy Siegelman @WendySiegelman]

NEW: Blackwater founder Erik Prince is Chairman of drone company Swarmer which operates in Ukraine - Swarmer has just signed an MOU with drone company Powerus that plans to merge with a firm where Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. are investors. My latest:
https://t.co/hJ4HSmlw0m

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump’s budget director Russ Vought is the most dangerous person you’ve never heard of.

And he just proposed turning every federal grant into a loyalty test.

His plan would make funding for cancer research, housing, transportation, and public health depend on one thing: whether it “advances the President’s policy priorities.”

Not whether it works.

Not whether Congress authorized it.

Whether it pleases Trump.

This is the appropriations power. It belongs to Congress and to the people.
To my Republican colleagues: where are you?

Congress passed this funding. You voted for it.

Vought is telling you to your faces that your votes do not matter, that he and his enablers will override the law whenever it suits them. Every day you stay silent, you give away the institution you were elected to defend.

Grow a spine.

This is not about left or right.

It is about whether Congress still exists as a coequal branch, or whether we have quietly surrendered the purse to an unelected hack who holds the Constitution in contempt.

History will remember who stood up and who looked away.
https://t.co/2yHKBTNLbj

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

WTF timeline are we on. Someone called me the MAGA whisperer and I’ll gladly take the title. Left, right, D or R we all want the same things. We’re being divided on purpose by the Epstein Elite Oligarch class because as long as we’re at each other’s throats, they get fat and rich off of our misery. The second we figure out we agree on more than we disagree, they’re done. Love your neighbor. Be yourself. Radical honesty. No fucks given, no fucks taken. Everything else is just noise. (But still fuck Jake “Brick Tamland” Tapper on any time line)

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

TRUMP: Be quiet. You should be ashamed of yourself. You used to be a conservative from Alabama.

KAITLAN COLLINS: I'm still from Alabama.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Kyle Kulinski: “Jake Tapper wrote a motherfucking book about Joe Biden and his cognitive decline and the massive cover-up. Well Jake, why don’t you get to work on your Trump book now because I guarantee you the cover-up that’s happening with him is way worse and way more severe and they’re covering more extreme stuff. His body is failing and his mind is failing on a regular basis”

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump just lashed out at Kaitlan Collins in a disgusting way “corrupt reporter standing right there, never smiles, a young beautiful woman never smiles, I see her standing there with hatred in her eyes.”

Wildly inappropriate. Collins is doing a great job.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump has just signed an executive order that allows his administration to fire 8,000 federal employees without reason.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Scott Pelley, longtime 60 Minutes correspondent, on being fired for opposing Bari Weiss's MAGA bias:

"New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified... The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well."

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Thank you Donald J. Trump

[Kyiv. The City of Courage @Kyiv]

On May 8 we honor the millions of lives destroyed by World War II. This day is a reminder: “Never Again.”

But for decades, the Kremlin transformed that memory into something else — a cult of victory, militarism, and imperial pride. A tragedy that should have been a warning against war became a tool to justify new aggression.

Today, as Russia wages the largest war in Europe since 1945, historical truth matters more than ever. Because without truth there is no justice.

These are 3 myths about WWII that Russia still uses to manipulate the past — and the present. ↓

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Republican Congressman Thomas Massie exposes Trump for choking off water to Colorado to punish Lauren Boebert after she voted to release the Epstein files.

This is a jaw-dropping revelation...

"Lauren Boebert, they took her over to the Situation Room, right? Like this is where if they're trying to kill or capture Osama bin Laden, this is where they are at the White House," Massie said during an interview with Tucker Carlson. "They took her into the Situation Room and tried to whip her into taking her name off of the discharge petition."

"Over Epstein?" asked Carlson.

"Over Epstein. Yep," confirmed Massie. "And then the president vetoed a bill that would have brought water to a large portion of Colorado."

"Over Epstein," Carlson repeated.

"Over Epstein," said Massie. "And this isn't even— At this point, it's not just about Lauren Boebert. Why are people in Colorado deprived of water because their representative wants to expose a sex trafficking ring?"

"I mean, none of this makes any sense at all," said Carlson.

Unfortunately, it makes all too much sense. Trump is a deeply vindictive man. He wouldn't hesitate to punish an entire state if he thought that it would hurt Boebert's political career. Hell, he wouldn't hesitate to punish the entire country if he thought it would hurt an enemy.

As for why he didn't want the Epstein files released, that's even more obvious. His name is all over those documents. We still don't have the full files, but the ones we have seen include allegations that Trump raped and sexually abused minors with his long-time friend Epstein.

The bill that Trump vetoed to punish Boebert was related to a 130-mile pipeline aimed at carrying water from the Pueblo Reservoir to roughly 50,000 rural Coloradans. Currently, those people struggle to obtain adequate water and what water they do have access to is often contaminated with salt, radioactive waste, and toxic chemicals.

The bill would have extended repayment periods for local municipalities and it passed unanimously in Congress before Trump vetoed it. According to the Congressional Budget Office, the measure would have added a relatively measly (by federal spending standards) $500,000 to the government's costs for the project. Trump vetoed it anyway. This is the same man who's now seeking $1 billion in taxpayer funds for his ballroom.

In other words, Trump chose to make innocent Americans drink harmful water because he was upset that his pedophilia had been exposed.

This is an impeachment worthy offense.

Please ❤️ and share to thank Thomas Massie!

[Laura Barrón-López @lbarronlopez]

SCOOP: Deported Dreamer released from TX detention after ICE brought him back to U.S.

Last week ICE flew Jose Contreras Diaz back to TX and then detained him. DHS said “he will not be able to remain” in U.S. Today he was released and met his newborn son

https://t.co/SojAyvbv84

[Kyiv. The City of Courage @Kyiv]

Russian forces hit a kindergarten in Sumy with drones. This is a violation of ceasefire, proposed by Ukraine. Russia doesn't want peace, it wants to kill Ukrainian kids!

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Let's go win this thing, @KeishaBottoms

[Cathy Young 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 @CathyYoung63]

Horrific tragedy. My heart goes out to Sen. Warner and his family

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: Thirteen brave Americans were killed and hundreds wounded. Thousands of civilians are dead. Skyrocketing inflation. Meanwhile, we replaced Ayatollah Khamenei with Ayatollah Khamenei.

The regime is intact, along with its stockpile of uranium, which it only assembled after Trump shredded Obama’s Iran deal.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: I don’t know if you saw, but JD Vance was in Georgia this week. Don’t worry—no one showed up. The stadium was empty.

But JD came to UGA to attack the pope two days after Trump depicted himself as Jesus Christ. The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice, while he and his family rake in billions from foreign princes.

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: I don’t know who placed those trades, but I’ll tell you this: the SEC better find out. And if they won’t, when you elect this new majority in Congress and you give us gavels and subpoenas, we will.