This is the old-school, 2008, and 2023 (before the Biden re-election hammered them for being critical) Joe Scarborough, whom I've watched, listened to, disagreed with, but have respected since Morning Joe's inception, and I'm here for it.
It's good TV... because it's good advice
Firefighters in France and Spain are battling to control wildfires which have raged for days near the major cities of Bordeaux and Madrid.
300,000 people have been evacuated.
@MelissaBellCNN has the latest from Southwestern France.
Live updates: https://t.co/ymHxIQPNkG
A violent extremist stabbed a Jewish New Yorker and an Asian New Yorker while shouting “Allahu Akbar.”
The attacks serve as a bloody reminder that we are living in an age of heightened hatred and antisemitism, with hate crimes against the Jewish community reaching levels rarely seen before.
Instead of combating antisemitism, American politics has become increasingly consumed by an unrelenting campaign of demonization directed at the Jewish people and the Jewish state.
Enough is enough.
Bad guys often agree with your politics.
We need more people voting in primaries who think a person’s qualifications to hold a position of public trust include more than angry vitriol directed at our political opponents.
Character matters. Vote like it.
If you watch one thing from the America 250 coverage, make it this three minute long @andersoncooper monologue about optimism. We are, he says, "still very much in the middle of our story."
Happy Birthday America.
As long as we’re here there is hope.
As long as America lives in the heart of one of us there is hope that we can be what we committed to 250 years ago.
Fight for each other because you’re really fighting for yourself.
And remember to be grateful…
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Happy 250th birthday to the greatest country to have ever existed in human history.
There is no other place that compares. There is no country with our freedom, liberty and prosperity. We are the greatest that ever was and ever will be. Thank you to our founding fathers for creating this incredible experiment that has prospered for so long.
We love you America, never change.
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Socialism may sound appealing to some people today but history shows it has failed in many countries.
Just look at Venezuela, Cuba, the Soviet Union and others. Those countries faced economic decline, shortages, and a loss of freedom. We shouldn’t repeat those mistakes.
Many young people are struggling with high housing costs, student debt and uncertainty about their future. Those are real problems and we shouldn’t ignore them. But history shows that socialism doesn’t solve those problems. It often leads to less freedom, less innovation, and fewer opportunities.
Instead of abandoning the system that has created so much opportunity, we should fix what’s broken while protecting the freedoms that have made America a country that millions of people still dream of coming to.
"Scapegoating of Jews happens in failed societies"
Jacob Auchincloss is a Representative from Massachusetts. He is Jewish and a veteran of the war in Afghanistan. Here he is calling out antisemitism in BOTH parties.
He also calls out one of the most important drivers: the lack of regulation that allows social media companies to profit from hate.
The DSA want you to believe they have conquered the Democrats, but they are actually a fringe. We need more voices like Auchincloss, not just refusing to participate in the antisemitism-as-electoral strategy, but actively calling it out.
Big Bear eaglet Sandy, who fell out of the nest before taking her first flight, has been spotted midway up a nearby tree. Her mother Jackie is making sure she's OK, exchanging sounds with her. @DavidMuir has details on the reassuring news. https://t.co/5AfNO4k7g3
So, predictably, there are some haters of the Lebanon-Israel framework agreement, and I gotta tell ya - you're all spinning your wheels and driving yourselves crazy for no reason.
Before opining, ask yourselves - do you prefer war? Do you prefer the Iranian regime to handle this for Lebanon because they absolutely will. Did you think this issue would magically resolve on its own? Do you believe the U.S. was going to tell Israel to withdraw without any conditions? (Ha!) Do you believe that negotiations come without compromise on both sides? Do you not think peace between two nations is something worth fighting for? If not, then what kind of low bar and sad future do you have for your country?
Take a step back and try to see that what's important in this step is that the most important parties involved wrangled this peace track away from the prying eyes of the Iranian regime. They told the Islamic Republic that only they will dictate their own destiny. Understand that this is ONE (important and historic) step. It's a process, and there is a road ahead with a lot of work but great potential. And that makes it worth seeing through.
Most importantly, stop being so negative. It must be so exhausting.
Jim Himes: "The rhetoric that really works fabulously well in the hipster regions of Brooklyn, and frankly, some rhetoric that is absolutely reprehensible, you know, hatred or bigotry or whatever it is, not only is that wrong, but that really hurts the larger mission of building a majority that allows us to implement those bold economic policies that the progressives are not wrong to say America needs."
I don't believe the people who claim to be devastated by the civilian suffering in Gaza and do nothing but blame Israel for it. Let me explain why.
If you were genuinely concerned with the civilian suffering, you would blame the side that:
(i) built the largest bomb shelter in human history;
(ii) provoked a vastly superior military with one of the most horrific deliberate attacks on civilians we've ever seen;
(iii) refused to let a single civilian on their own side into the record-breaking bomb shelter they built knowing that the vastly superior military they provoked was coming for them;
(iv) used force to keep those same civilians between themselves and the military coming for them for the horrific attack they launched; and
(v) did all of this with the express aim of manipulating the world into thinking Israel was responsible for the civilian deaths they deliberately engineered.
Looking at where the world is today, it's remarkable how successful this strategy has been despite being so transparently and deliberately demonic. In my humble opinion, the people who devote their lives to blaming Israel for war casualties deliberately engineered by Hamas are not seriously concerned about civilian deaths (or "genocides" as they like to pretend)--they are simply doing their part in making sure Hamas's entire strategy of sacrificing Palestinians so that Israel becomes a pariah state actually works.
When it comes to these people--and I don't mean the genuinely confused and propagandized--their hatred for Israel far exceeds their concern for Palestinian lives.
Have a nice day!
Hamas has launched an industrial‑scale campaign of terror, intimidation, interrogation, and blackmail against thousands of Gazans it suspects of planning to join tomorrow’s June 26 demonstrations against its violent, authoritarian rule. Hospitals across Gaza have been turned into makeshift police stations, interrogation sites, and torture centers. Clan elders are being coerced into issuing statements. Hamas operatives are stealing phones and posting fabricated messages to sabotage the protests. Families are being threatened, people placed under house arrest, and Hamas’s al‑Qassam brigades (the same forces responsible for October 7) have been fully mobilized to reinforce police and intelligence units with explicit shoot‑to‑kill orders.
Meanwhile, the mainstream press is largely absent, apparently because Israel is not involved – so no Jews, no news. And the Western “pro‑Palestine” industry is either celebrating the electoral victories of pro‑Hamas, hard‑left candidates or actively smearing Gaza’s protesters as collaborators undermining the “resistance.” As for the UN, NGOs, and major human‑rights organizations: silence. Not a word for Palestinians risking their lives to say they are done with Hamas’s terror and rule.
This is what the abandonment of Palestinians in Gaza looks like. Shame on all who stay silent in the face of jihadi, ISIS‑like violence against the very people they claim to champion.
The level of antisemitism on the far Left & the far Right is a Five Alarm Fire that can’t be ignored. 🚨
It’s sick. It must be condemned and rooted out or we are on a very dangerous crash course in America.
Three Jewish women gave birth and kept their babies alive inside a Nazi concentration camp. Marked for death, they overcame unimaginable odds to survive.
Eva Clarke says her mother would say, “And in the end, we won,” because their family line goes on. Clarke, now 81, has four grandchildren. https://t.co/EOkQun6kMP
Two women-- from very different worlds-- have a lesson for all of us. A Palestinian refugee, a Jewish American grandmother, bound not by politics but by something stronger… compassion. Linsey Davis reports. https://t.co/eMxKqU0gu6