Boris Shkuta 🇺🇸🇺🇦

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[Acyn @Acyn]

Obama: America has always had competing stories about who we are and what the nation stands for.

The first story says that even though we got rid of a king, there is still a caste system in America, a pecking order of who makes decisions That if somebody doesn't look like or think like you or practice religion the same way you do, they must be a threat to your way of life, and they need to be put in their place.

That is how Donald Trump thinks about America. Make America great again by putting the people in charge even if they don't know what the hell they are doing. But here is the thing. That story is not new. It is the oldest story in the book. It is not even uniquely American. For most of human history, that is the way society has worked. For somebody on top and somebody on bottom. There were lords and peasants. For a long time, that story of caste and privilege and concentrated power was the law of the land here in America. If you look like me, you were likely treated as property. If you were a woman, or a white man who did not own property, you could not vote.

But from the very start, there was another story, born of this nation's true revolutionary spirit, a story that says, we the people means what it says, that all of us are included, that we are not subjects, but citizens, defined not by race or religion or gender or sexual orientation, but by our commitment to a common creed and a willingness to accept not just privileges, but responsibilities that come with that citizenship.

[Boris Shkuta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BoShkuta]

@JonathanTurley “Simple removal” for an undefined period, with no conviction, to a Central American gulag in a country to which he has no connection?

[Boris Shkuta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BoShkuta]

I initially thought this was an old SNL clip of Kate McKinnon playing Jeff Sessions

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

a MAGA influencer in today's White House briefing suggests joe Biden was responsible for rising suicide rates

[Boris Shkuta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BoShkuta]

Guy who’s mad at Trump for shipping good American prison guard/torturer jobs overseas to El Salvador

[Boris Shkuta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BoShkuta]

@bdquinn Also I don’t think “atheist” quite captures it, I think it’s more that he’s a nihilist. He has a total casual disregard for whether god is real, and he’s never thought about it for long enough to develop any genuine beliefs on the subject (again, at least pre-Butler)

[Boris Shkuta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BoShkuta]

@bdquinn I think I buy some of the reporting that—especially after Butler—he views himself as chosen by god to be a world changing leader.

I think he’s been an atheist for most of his life, and now he’s “religious” only to the extent that his “theology” centers him as chosen by god

[Boris Shkuta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BoShkuta]

@DanielDiMartino The politicization of tax exempt status is not going to stop at "left-wing" universities, and Republicans aren't going to be in power forever.

[Boris Shkuta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BoShkuta]

@coryfromphilly Hahahah correct

(Also yeah I was being tongue in cheek)

[Boris Shkuta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BoShkuta]

@coryfromphilly Oh yeah great catch. Could this be the start of the Dark Resistance to Trump 2.0??

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

If you're an elected Democrat and you don't speak out about Trump's proposal to jail American citizens in a foreign torture dungeon for life, what are you even doing in public office? Why have the job?

[Boris Shkuta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BoShkuta]

A disgusting betrayal of the American working class that is yearning to work in a local iPhone factory

[Mark Gurman @markgurman]

BREAKING: President Donald Trump’s administration exempted smartphones, computers and other electronics from its so-called reciprocal tariffs in win for Apple (and shoppers). This lowers the China tariff from 125%. https://t.co/PpOZ8zfk1t

[Boris Shkuta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BoShkuta]

We are bringing back the golden age of American manufacturing, and we are also using the tariffs to negotiate deals with countries that have been screwing us over, and also we can’t use tariffs as a negotiating tool with Russia

[This Week @ThisWeekABC]

Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett says Russia was not targeted with new tariffs because of the ongoing negotiations with Russia and Ukraine: “That's not appropriate to throw a new thing into these negotiations right in the middle of it." https://t.co/wU6MurcPjU

[Boris Shkuta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BoShkuta]

@grok @SnackMerritt @davidk368430332 @mattyglesias Lmaoooooo

[Boris Shkuta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BoShkuta]

He does not want free trade. He has wanted for decades for there to be 0 trade deficit with any country in the world. That is maybe the only consistent thing he has every believed in.

[Boris Shkuta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BoShkuta]

Hill Republicans basically believe in a conspiracy that Trump is actually a hardcore free trader.

If this is a negotiation, it means he wants other countries to lower their tariffs and in exchange he will lower his tariffs. It means he wants free trade.

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

there's a massive disconnect between the White House and Capitol Hill Republicans on tariffs right now.

Here on the Hill, Republicans keep saying "well, this is the beginning of a negotiation."

The administration says that this is not a negotiation.

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

This makes my blood boil.
First, its not an accident - these happenings were guaranteed when Trump refused to allow any due process or trials to determine guilt or innocence.

Second, even admitting the error, the Trump admin still refuses to bring the guy home.

This is evil.

[Anna Bower @AnnaBower]

Statement from WilmerHale on Trump’s executive order targeting the firm:

“We look forward to pursuing all appropriate remedies to this unlawful order.”

https://t.co/B1ab15YE8T

[Boris Shkuta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BoShkuta]

@JonathanTurley Wow maybe as many as 300 visas revoked because a government official doesn’t like what they’ve said. Probably unrelated to any First Amendment issues, I bet. https://t.co/GboCYbgdRE

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

New: Rubio confirmed he revoked the visa of the Tufts student and said he likely has revoked the visas of hundreds more. “We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take way their visas." The total # of revoked visas “might be more than 300 at this point"

[Boris Shkuta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @BoShkuta]

@JonathanTurley I was hoping we might get some analysis of the free speech implications involved here.