My dad, Frank Crean, served in WWII, as did his brother Joe, Merchant Marine, Bill, Army, Tom, Marines. Miraculously, they all returned. My dad was in N Africa, Anzio & the second wave of D-Day. He wasn't just my hero. He was legitimately "A" hero, as was each of his comrades.
Have your or someone in your family served in the military?
Please respond to this tweet with a photo and #WeRespectVets.
Let's show @realDonaldTrump what real heroes look like.
#WeRespectVets 🇺🇸
@DaveMil84461863 My Pittie, Sadie, was the best animal - best dog I ever knew. She was a rescue and the kindest, most gentle, loving girl. Miss her so much. Sending love and hugs to you.
Hey MAGA Texans.
Let me reintroduce you to Adam Hoffman. He raped his son’s best friend from the age of six years old to nine years old. For three years this man raped a little boy.
Paxton made sure his buddy only got a 60 day sentence. Oh wait it gets better, he didn't even serve the full sixty days.
Wait wait, it's gets even better. He doesn't have to register as a sex offender and his record has been wiped clean.
MAGA maniacs want women to go to prison for miscarriages but are cool with pedophiles going free.
Ken Paxton is a disgusting criminal, that's why Trump endorsed him.
Make sure you have a plan to vote. @jamestalarico is what Texas needs. Not more of the Epstein Class.
#DemsUnited
Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley:
"The last weeks we as a law enforcement community have been receiving endless complaints about civil rights violations in our streets from US citizens. What we're hearing is they're being stopped in traffic stops or on the street with no cause and being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they are here legally.
We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints as they fell victim to this while off duty. Every one of these individuals is a person of color ... it has to stop"
It's destroying Elon Musk's tiny little mind that this Black Woman Lupita Nyong'o played Helen of Troy in Odyssey.
Help me destroy it a little bit more.
Congress is not serious.
We are voting on a stock trading ban for members of Congress…
BUT Republicans added voter-ID in the legislation.
Not to get Dems to vote for voter-ID,
but to get them to vote against the stock trading ban, so they can use it in the Nov. election.
@wildstein To be clear, the State DID turn over its voter registration rolls to DOJ. It just redacted SSNs and DL's, which are confidential. 15 courts have ruled against DOJ in identical lawsuits, including 6 Trump judges. NO judge has ruled in DOJ's favor. It is 0-15
NEWS: WV GOP Assistant Majority Leader Elliott Pritt has been arrested and charged with enticing a minor after allegedly grooming a 15-year-old through Roblox and Snapchat, then having her meet him in his classroom.
GOP leadership won't call for his resignation.
The US-Saudi nuclear deal makes no sense
A few points on the shocking U.S.–Saudi nuclear deal announced.
🔺This reflects a weaker American bargaining position, not a stronger one.
The broader context is China. The Biden administration pursued a nuclear deal with Saudi Arabia, as part of a broader expansion of Trump’s Abraham Accords, in part to pull Riyadh closer to Washington and away from Beijing. But Washington’s position has deteriorated since then. The credibility of the U.S. security umbrella has weakened, GCC states have become more strategically autonomous, and Saudi Arabia has gained leverage by diversifying its partnerships.
The result appears to be that Washington had to offer substantially more to try to keep Saudi from drifting further toward China, while getting substantially less in return.
🔺Biden was going down the same path…
The Biden administration reportedly considered similar arrangements, but its efforts were derailed by the repercussions of the October 7 attacks.
Biden officials also understood the risks, although it did not prevent them from pursuing it and signalling willingness to offer Saudi major nuclear concessions. Some of the contingency ideas reportedly discussed bordered on the surreal: having American troops physically guard Saudi enrichment facilities from the Saudis themselves, or designing systems that would allow the United States to disable—or even destroy remotely—the facilities if necessary.
The fact that such safeguards were seriously contemplated should itself have been a warning. If your proposal requires extraordinary mechanisms to prevent your own ally from using the technology you are providing, perhaps the proposal is fundamentally flawed.
🔺This likely weakens Washington’s negotiating position with Iran
If there is eventually another U.S.-Iran nuclear agreement, today’s decision establishes an entirely new benchmark.
It becomes impossible to argue that Saudi Arabia may enrich uranium while Iran cannot, although Tehran was never going to accept zero enrichment in the first place. But proposals that earlier had been entertained - such as a 5- to 10-year moratorium on enrichment - may now also be out of reach.
Moreover, and perhaps more importantly, it becomes harder to insist on intrusive international inspections for Iran while accepting a far lighter non-IAEA inspection regime for Saudi Arabia. And it becomes much more difficult to portray enrichment itself as an unacceptable proliferation risk.
Washington has made the type of deal it wants from Iran more complicated.
Full analysis on Substack: https://t.co/sOyMu19U3m
Wow the dishonesty and racism of the right
1) he says nothing about Jews in this clip
2) Islam obviously doesn’t command Muslims to ‘hate Jews’
3) there are literally dozens of pro-Palestine *Jewish* protesters behind him!!
FFS. Stop the gaslighting.
Susan Collins getting chummy with the architect of Trump's Iran war, which is costing taxpayers $1 billion a day while our hospitals shutter and our grocery prices explode.
Final vote total for the NDAA today which tragically merges our military technology and supply chains with Israel’s. Let’s hope this version fails in the Senate because Section 219 is a betrayal of our sovereignty.
the moment ChatGPT persuaded that first poor boy to kill himself, Sam Altman should have pulled the product from the market for emergency refinement. but he didn’t, & his glorified Magic 8 Ball has pushed child after child into the grave. hard to see him as anything but a monster
Pretty sure AIPAC just casually announced it is spending more to boost Haley Stevens over the next few days than the DNC has in its entire war chest for 2028
Tomorrow, the House will vote on the NDAA, which includes a provision to merge parts of our military with the IDF.
This amendment is an existential threat to American sovereignty and democracy.
Every member of Congress must vote NO.
Excited to announce I started a podcast with my friend @trufelman, where here we read classic philosophical works and explore what they can teach us about why we buy, wear, and value the things we do. It’s a basically a podcast for people who love clothes, books, and big ideas.