Michael Clendenin

Communications and journalism, facts over spin, fan of Mets, movies, good food, anything about golf & Thunder Road. Tweets and posts are personal.

[Megan Basham @megbasham]

All right Google, I’ll give this one to you. This is pretty great.

[Michael Clendenin @ClendeninMike]

Even Ronald Reagan would have delivered and agreed with this speech.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

New York City Mayor Mamdani just gave one of the most amazing speeches you will ever hear:

"We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, and more powerful than everyone else.

"The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed. We may have walked on the moon. But the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence — that work endures, and it belongs to us all.

"It belongs, too, to our newest Americans: those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I, too, felt what you feel: the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American, too.

"You each hold a special power: the power to determine what America means.

"The powerful have always known their answer. America, in their view, is an arena of supremacy where only a select few are allowed freedom; where not all are created equal. America, if you ask them, becomes less the more people it welcomes. America, they will tell you, belongs only to those with the right accent or the right shade of skin. The rest of us, they insist, should be grateful for merely being allowed to visit.

"How small they are. How weak. How unoriginal.

"At every moment in our past, those who led through exclusion and isolation have tried to win power and enrich themselves by turning us against one another. Division is the oldest trick in politics — and the cheapest.

"But time and again, including 250 years ago, those forces of division have been vanquished by the forces of progress."

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Hey MAGA, do you have answers??

[Michael Clendenin @ClendeninMike]

And he Made Iran Great Again!

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Truest cartoon to date

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Truest cartoon to date

[Michael Clendenin @ClendeninMike]

And he Made Iran Great Again!

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

Donald Trump is beyond unwell.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

💯💯💯

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Trump just attacked NATO and then goes on to say that "25 years ago" he said that NATO was a "Paper tiger" and that "they would never come to our rescue".

FACT: 25 years ago was March 26, 2001. Less than 6 months after that, on September 12, 2001, NATO invoked Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty for the first and only time ever. They lost 1100 soldiers fighting for us.

Trump is a Moron.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Holy shit. Even for Trump this is bad.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

The most important Oscar speech tonight wasn’t about film.

The director of “Mr. Nobody Against Putin” just said this from the stage:

“You lose your country through countless small acts of complicity. When we act complicit when a government murders people on the streets. When oligarchs take over the media and control how we produce and consume it. We all face a moral choice. But even a nobody is more powerful than you think.”

He was talking about Russia.

The audience knew he was talking about America too.
Elon Musk owns the platform you’re reading this on.

David Ellison is buying CNN — Pete Hegseth said it will be “far better” when he does.

The DOGE deposition videos were removed from YouTube.

The Epstein files are sealed.
The Pentagon won’t release a casualty count.
Countless small acts of complicity.

That’s how you lose it.
A nobody is more powerful than you think.

Never stop connecting the dots.

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[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

It's "un-American" when an Olympic athlete mildly criticizes the U.S., but all good when Trump calls America "bloated and disgusting"?

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

OH - MY - GOD!!!

Jamie Raskin EVISCERATES Pam Bondi with the truth: "You turned the people's Department of Justice into Trump's instrument of revenge. Trump orders up prosecution like pizza."

Boom! 💥

[Michael Clendenin @ClendeninMike]

@MichaelSteele She’s toast.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Green Day rocked!

Now that’s real Super Bowl music. Good luck with your Kid Rock dude.

[Interrobanged @BexWords]

@TheMaineWonk

[Andy Signore @andysignore]

Jon Stewart just hit it out of the park with the Trump’s administration’s blatant hypocrisy… makes you wonder why they want us so heated and fighting… 🤔

[Michael Clendenin @ClendeninMike]

Their incompetence matches their cruelty.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

This is bad … Right???

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

The President doesn't want you standing up and speaking out against him, so he's coming after me to intimidate all of us.

But I won't back down — and neither should you.