Bill Alexander

Fair winds and following seas

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

TRUMP: “I just want to find 11,780 votes”

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 BREAKING: Trump Administration ordered to release unredacted Epstein files by judge.

The DOJ has announced it will not comply.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "I'll be honest -- I think I'd be the greatest communist in history"

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

They found money for a pointless Arch Project while the housing crisis leaves people without stable homes.

It only takes a minute to click below and tell Congress to kill this wasteful spending.
https://t.co/1JLhrYlrXw

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Ken Paxton says he often doesn’t want to be in Texas and prefers spending time in California, where he grew up, instead:

“I like places in California, even though I don’t like to admit that I go to California, but it’s beautiful.”

[Chuck Todd @chucktodd]

So the “gash” is now longer than a football field and still no evidence to support the claim.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: Postmaster General David Steiner told senators that, under a new proposed rule, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will not deliver mail ballots unless states hand over their voter lists to the Trump administration https://t.co/WA59TUHa59

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

A new book by the Times reporters Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan contends that Trump ran in 2024 for one reason above all: “This was about staying out of prison.” https://t.co/tiWqJrmDWc

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

Trump will release the video evidence of vandals cutting a 350 ft gash in the Reflecting Pool lining when he releases the Epstein files, and proof that the 2020 election was stolen, and evidence that the ICE agents who killed Americans acted in self defense, and

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"Pulte has begun to follow in the footsteps of Hegseth at the Pentagon, Blanche at Justice, and Patel at the FBI. Looking at their purges along with the mass hirings at ICE, one sees that we’re entering a period of maximum authoritarian threat."

https://t.co/p4dd3TkuEG

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

How does the country survive when the head of the other party has such contempt for the American creed and the Constitution and public intellectuals and TV hosts get rich pretending it’s patriotism?

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

It's because no one is vandalizing the reflecting pool.

[Grant Stern  @grantstern]

Republicans hate cheap electricity with a passion.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

Why won't anyone from the White House release any footage of these purported "vandals" cutting a 300 ft gash in the reflecting pool?

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This would be a scandal that would have ended any other presidency.

Qatar gave a $400 million Boeing 747 to the Pentagon. Trump calls it a “free” gift. It is not free. The Air Force just spent months retrofitting it with secure communications, missile defense, and electromagnetic shielding.

The cost of that work is classified.

Estimates say north of a billion.

The number is enormous, and you are paying it.

Now the part they bury.

Under the memorandum signed by the Pentagon and Qatar, ownership of the plane transfers to Trump’s presidential library foundation when he leaves office. His own son says it will sit in the lobby of a future Trump hotel.

So follow the chain.

A foreign government hands a luxury jet to a sitting president. American taxpayers rebuild it from the inside out. Then Trump takes it home.

A gift you use for four years and then keep is still a gift. The Constitution bars foreign gifts to a president without the consent of Congress. This one never got that consent.

We are paying a fortune to gift wrap a luxury jet that ends up in his private collection.

Grift in plain sight.
https://t.co/RqGjdCjV6n

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built.

Think about that.

At a time when electricity demand is rising, the Trump administration is spending billions to reduce the amount of power that could reach the grid.

Trump has spent years attacking wind turbines as ugly and inefficient. He is entitled to his opinions about how they look. He is not entitled to make taxpayers finance those opinions.

Seven states have already sued over earlier agreements. Federal courts have repeatedly found legal defects in this administration’s efforts to halt offshore wind development. The administration has cited national security concerns while providing little public evidence to support them, and judges have said they were not convinced.

Strip away the politics and what remains is hard to defend.

Billions in taxpayer money paid to private companies to cancel planned energy projects during a period of rising demand.

Governments usually spend money to build things.

This administration is spending billions to make sure some things never get built.
https://t.co/rB2naxc27j

[Bill Alexander @BilliamAlex]

@PeterHamby Isn’t that the accepted name of Czechia now? But otherwise I agree. Why not say España? Deutschland? Nihon?

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Fun Fact:

When Trump assumed the presidency on January 20, 2025, former president Biden left him a 2.9% inflation.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Compare and contrast.

#G7