Christine Gittens 🇺🇲

I'm a baby boomer w/ 16 grandkids & 1 great-grandchild. I have a wonderful husband. I love books, music, & having fun with friends & family. I love to eat.

[Brent Baker 🇺🇲🇺🇦 🇮🇱 @BrentHBaker]

Scott Pelley fires back at President Trump during @NYTimes podcast with @LuluGNavarro. Pelley: “I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in combat for this country.” Citing his experience covering combat: “I’m not aware that the President of the United States has ever done any of those things for his country.” Pelley, getting emotional: “‘Stupid.’ I can take that. ‘Stiff,’ yeah, probably. ‘Don’t care about the country.’ I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in combat for this country. In Afghanistan and Iraq, Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in fox holes filling up with water in the desert. I’m not aware that the President of the United States has ever done any of those things for his country....You become a journalist because you love the country....There is no democracy without journalism. It can’t be done. And that is why I am a journalist.”

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Many many times he promised just that

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Welker: "You insisted no new wars."

Trump: "First of all, I didn't guarantee no war."

Welker: "You said it over and over again."

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

🚨 They thought the Supreme Court was safe from accountability. They were wrong. John Roberts' impeachment papers are filed. Tell Congress to back it right now:
👇
https://t.co/yrqb1AFXim

[Christine Gittens 🇺🇲 @ChristineGitte6]

I agree and said as much.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Coward

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Alaska Republicans are panicking as Democrat Mary Peltola skyrockets in the polls against her Republican opponent, Dan Sullivan. This would be a major flip seat for Democrats and could help secure a Democratic Senate majority. Let's go!

[Christine Gittens 🇺🇲 @ChristineGitte6]

What a coward. He doesn't have the strength to sit through an interview and answer the questions truthfully. I expect some spin, but not outright lies. He presented no evidence for his allegations and he was extremely rude.

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

This is beyond outrageous.

A man caught on video storming the Capitol has no place in a sensitive counterterrorism role at the Pentagon.

op: @washingtonpost

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

Trump Calling Welker “crooked” “stupid” and then the ultimate—“darling”—for asking him what evidence he has that elections are rigged? What is “crooked” is the money for the ballroom, what is “stupid” are the tariffs. And what is “darling” is a first class journalist.

[Christine Gittens 🇺🇲 @ChristineGitte6]

What a coward. He doesn't have the strength to sit through an interview and answer the questions truthfully. I expect some spin, but not outright lies. He presented no evidence for his allegations and he was extremely rude.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump has a meltdown and ends the interview

Welker: Just to be very clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying.

Trump: There’s a lot of evidence. There’s tremendous evidence. There’s nothing but evidence. The election was rigged. And it’s happening again in California. They’re cheating.

Welker: Do you have evidence?

Trump: All I have to do is look.

Welker: That’s not evidence. The local officials acknowledge they are slow

Trump: They’re crooked. Just like you’re crooked. You’re either crooked or stupid.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump has a meltdown and ends the interview

Welker: Just to be very clear, there's no evidence of what you're saying.

Trump: There’s a lot of evidence. There’s tremendous evidence. There’s nothing but evidence. The election was rigged. And it’s happening again in California. They’re cheating.

Welker: Do you have evidence?

Trump: All I have to do is look.

Welker: That’s not evidence. The local officials acknowledge they are slow

Trump: They’re crooked. Just like you’re crooked. You’re either crooked or stupid.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: A widely circulated voter fraud claim in L.A.'s mayoral primary race is debunked by an unlikely source - Trump’s U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli.

But that hasn't stopped Trump from falsely repeating that Cali's elections are rigged.
https://t.co/5iulCVFegM

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

ICYMI: The American Postal Workers Union is “deeply alarmed” about the new USPS rule carrying out Trump's attack on mail-in voting. The union says it “rejects the premise” that the USPS needs to comply with Trump’s orders.
https://t.co/tZvAPVTIuU

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

https://t.co/yzaWuAP83o

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

The hair-loss drug Trump took for years is now absent from his medical records.

White House officials say they're not obligated to disclose all of Trump's medications — including whether he still uses finasteride.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

I don't know if y'all noticed, but Hunter Biden is back on X and he's not fucking around — he's kicking MAGA's ass, taking names, and turning their entire pro-pedophile movement into ash and rubble.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Looking to address the rising cost of housing, healthcare, and utilities in Trump’s America?

There’s probably a map for that, Ashley Cleaves writes.

“If voters can elect the state and federal representatives of their choice, they’re much more likely to get their most important needs addressed.”
https://t.co/haYJsZFMV2

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

When the courts fail, it shows us the harm our government is causing, Skye Perryman, CEO of Democracy Forward, says.

“And if you want to be able to make change, you’ve got to be able to look that harm in the mirror and not blink and take the next action.”

Watch the full interview:
https://t.co/eVYOiW2Ylm

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

The Trump administration’s assault on the media has been relentless. But Scott Pelley’s firing from “60 Minutes” this week is the one that stopped Brian Tyler Cohen cold, he writes.

“This is what the end of an institution looks like.”
https://t.co/j9EGAk5eVc

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv