DCWineWonk

Pursuer of Great Affordable Wines

[Sen. Jeanne Shaheen @SenatorShaheen]

From delaying clean water protections to repealing the endangerment finding, the Trump Administration is damaging our environment and America's public health.

This year's World Environment Day takes on special importance as we continue the fight back to protect our planet.

[Martin Heinrich @SenatorHeinrich]

A metaphor for what Trump is doing to the country.

[DCWineWonk @DCWineWonk]

@JeanRomanik @CoryBooker Hi! I’m wondering if the disabled Veterans laid off at VA offices across the country by DOGE last month feel the same as you. Real people with real jobs and families to feed .https://t.co/qBYQq8gdQE

[DCWineWonk @DCWineWonk]

@CoryBooker TY, Senator Booker!

[DCWineWonk @DCWineWonk]

@triciajanzen @ReedTimmerUSA These are scientists - not bureaucrats - they're Americans - who were doing their jobs one day - and then were fired the next without cause - and who suddenly have no job, no health care, no income. Try to put yourself in their shoes.

[Al Gore @algore]

Today, President Trump will issue a series of Executive Orders that deny the climate emergency facing our country in favor of a phony “energy emergency”. These performative acts show the pervasive influence that the fossil fuel industry will have in the United States over the next four years. But make no mistake, the global Sustainability Revolution is unstoppable.

As was the case in 2017, withdrawing the US from the Paris Agreement is a shortsighted abdication of leadership that will only serve to put our nation at a disadvantage. Clinging to the industries of the past instead of embracing the industries of the future may boost the short-term profits of fossil fuel companies, but it will come at the expense of the broader American economy - including American workers who risk being left behind.

This is the first of what will be many attempts to ignore reality and try to stall the world’s unstoppable and irreversible move to a clean energy economy. But these proclamations are not reflective of our political and economic reality. These efforts to roll back progress – particularly the hugely popular clean energy investments in the Inflation Reduction Act – will be met with opposition from both political parties.

That’s why, in the coming weeks, months, and years, climate leaders and activists must not be deterred or distracted. From extreme weather disasters like Hurricane Helene and the still burning Los Angeles wildfires, to the growing number of climate refugees, to competitiveness in the global economy, the climate crisis will have profound consequences for the United States over the next four years.

If the new Administration won’t lead on this issue, it is up to all of us. Now is the time for Governors, Mayors, business leaders, investors, and activists to put their heads down and do the work that will advance the climate solutions our nation and the world so urgently need. We were able to keep up the pace of climate action during the first Trump Administration, and it is urgent that we take up the mantle once again.

[DCWineWonk @DCWineWonk]

@ChrisCillizza Been there. Awful.

[Joe Lockhart @joelockhart]

There seems like there are only about a couple hundred protesters in each state. It seems the media is giving a few hundred people outsized coverage and significance.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

I guess he thinks by shouting down reporters he can erase the litany of times when he assured us that the virus was a non-event, a hoax, fewer than 15 cases, it would just go away.
Now he insists that he knew it was a pandemic all along.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Ready to defeat Trump in November.

[DCWineWonk @DCWineWonk]

I never post food but had to share: the BEST #chocolatechipcookie in #DC. Chewy inside, crispy outside, perfect chocolate to butter ratio with a pinch of fancy salt to bring it together. Worth the zillion calories. Find @maketto1351

[11thandBark @11thandBark]

LOST DOG: Osla got out of the yard, was hit by a car, and ran off this afternoon. Last seen at 4th and Crittendon. Her owner’s phone number is on her tag. @popville

[Katherine Mangu-Ward @kmanguward]

Peleton wife is really having the last laugh these days, isn't she?

[Marcus Mescher @marcusmescher]

As persons, families, and communities brace for #ICEraids that will tear loved ones apart, a reminder that crossing the US border illegally is a MISDEMEANOR. This terrorizing punishment does not fit the “crime.”

https://t.co/YSUyuMCOqY

[Ana Navarro-Cárdenas @ananavarro]

GOP silence as Trump makes a partisan ode to himself out of July 4th & squanders military resources, is pathetic. Ironic that on day we celebrate American Independence from a monarch, Republicans again show they’ve lost their independence & bow down to Emperor w/no clothes on.

[PoPville @PoPville]

“After we have worked for years with the National Park Service to refurbish the National Mall, at a cost of millions of taxpayer dollars, President Trump now proposes to have 60-ton battle tanks there, where they would likely do significant damage.”
https://t.co/6zCfxVWNm8

[CNN @CNN]

"We know this is a President who's lawless, who's willing to divert resources for toothbrushes and use it for detention."

Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett says President Trump is to blame for the terrible conditions and overcrowding in border facilities. https://t.co/IX91uYYqYp

[CNN @CNN]

President Trump's planned July 4th event is not "in keeping with what our country is all about," says former CIA Director Leon Panetta. "We're the strongest military power on the face of the Earth and we have never had to display that power to the world in order to prove it."

[Pat Toomey (US Sen. ret.) @SenToomey]

The Commerce Department has it wrong. Toyota Corollas and VW Beetles do not pose a national security threat. Putting tariffs on imported cars would hurt our economy, and raise vehicle and car repair prices for Americans. https://t.co/vELkEyRDFK

[Jonathan Capehart @CapehartJ]

This is a read AND shade in one response. The ice skating equivalent of a quadruple followed by a triple salchow.