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[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Sen. @Ossoff: Who won the 2020 election?

DNI nominee Jay Clayton: I'm not going to do this with you

Ossoff: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee.

Clayton: I'm not gonna get into that with you

Ossoff: You refuse to answer a basic question about who won a presidential election, but you ask to lead America's intelligence community. Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this question? To have to indulge the president's delusions?

[Michal Tal, PhD @ImmunoFever]

Last year some regrettable cost cutting decisions were made about foodborne pathogen testing, ending 28 years of screening for cyclosporiasis and quickly catching and quenching several outbreaks. Now we still have no idea what the source of this outbreak is. This is the price!!!

[Dr. Catharine Young @DrCatharineY]

A year ago, CDC made Cyclospora surveillance optional. It had been tracked for 28 years.

Today: ~3,000 cases across 31 states, no confirmed source, and CDC’s own count (843) is trailing what states are reporting by thousands.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

this is a perfect example of the political double standard that republicans benefit from: Democrats have never denied disaster aid for red states, and it would be a massive scandal if they did

… but Trump does it and it’s barely a story because he does corrupt stuff every day

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

Tubman risked her own life and safety many times to save others from the horrors of slavery. She’s truly one of the greatest Americans who has ever lived. Tubman was everything Trump is not - brave, fearless, intelligent, humble and selfless.

[Dr. Allison Wiltz @queenie4rmnola]

Racists are cowards in every generation

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Rose garden, colonnade, oval office, East wing, reflecting pool… and now the cherry blossoms? This guy is single-handedly destroying Washington history and the Republicans just keep allowing it. Aren’t they supposed to be conservative??
Conserve something.

[John Ganz @lionel_trolling]

David Duke did not express himself this violently in public.

[Sea Slug @sluggymcduggy]

I need her to sue everyone. The entire who pulled the trigger, the entire LAPD department & her neighbor called the cops. EVERYONE.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Not believing in science really comes back to bite you, doesn’t it?

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

The Texas GOP having an elephant at its convention means the Texas GOP enables animal abuse.

And Governor @GregAbbott_TX’s name is on the banner, which also means he condones and enables the abuse of an elephant.

It is scientifically and biologically impossible to have an elephant become controllable in this fashion without subjecting it to abuse.

Elephants are not domesticated.

In order to accomplish this sort of obedience, you have to break the elephant down.

Absolutely horrific.

And it is worth noting that Texas still doesn’t have a statewide ban on the use of bullhooks against elephants.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🗣️NASHVILLE: “I just came from summer camp at the zoo — did you know elephants, rhinos, giraffes have infrasonic hearing? Please, no data centers. My generation needs you to put every roadblock in place to stop them.” @nonewdatacenters @MetroNashville @DCBLOXinc @NashvilleZoo

[Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 @KellyScaletta]

It is important to understand this one thing: No Republicans actually believe there was fraud in California's voting.

This is all a pretext to sabotage the November elections.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

I bet this goes so hard if you’re fucking stupid

[Alaska Wilderness League @alaskawild]

To be clear: the Arctic Refuge coastal plain is the most biologically sensitive part of the refuge. It's where polar bears den and the Porcupine caribou herd gives birth. No amount of oil justifies what drilling would do to this place.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

So if you or I cheat on our taxes, we could spend time behind bars.

But if Trump... or his kids... or his businesses cheat on their taxes, the law doesn't apply.

This is insane & beyond corrupt.

DOJ works for the American people, NOT Donald Trump.

[Christine Villaverde @Villaverde4NC]

Public lands belong to the American people — all of us. Revoking conservation leases on 245 million acres doesn't expand freedom. It transfers your inheritance to extraction industries. That's not liberty. That's legalized plunder.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump had one of his worst mental health episodes yet last night, posting over 55 times in 3 hours. Here is the list:

10:15 PM - Accuses Obama of attempting a coup in 2016
10:15 PM - Says Obama worked with CIA to overthrow Trump
10:15 PM - Reposts tweet saying Obama is a “traitor” and that he should be arrested
10:22 PM - Attacks dominion voting systems for 2020 election saying they switched votes
10:22 PM - Says Fulton County, GA had their 2020 fraud exposed (there was none)
10:23 PM - Accuses Obama of personally making $120 million from Obamacare (wtf?)
10:23 PM - Cites quack lawyer Sidney Powell on the 2020 election
10:24 PM - Posts fake JFK Jr account that says Obama wiretapped Trump Tower
10:27 PM - Demands Senator Mark Kelly resign
10:29 PM - Claims neither Biden nor Harris were in charge of the Biden admin
10:29 PM - Attacks Fulton County, GA again
10:29 PM - Posts Fox News clip of Rep Ro Khanna
10:30 PM - Demands Jack Smith be arrested
10:30 PM - Accuses Obama, Clinton, and Comey of treason
10:39 PM - Reposts a tweet from a MAGA account saying they have secret intel proving Clinton and Obama committed crimes
10:39 PM - Reposts a MAGA tweet saying Hillary Clinton should be sent to Haiti
10:40 PM - Says the DOJ is “working hard” to arrest his enemies for treason
10:40 PM - Reposts a tweet attacking his own DOJ and Todd Blanche for no arrests of political enemies
10:40 PM - Posts a TikTok video of people stealing from a convenience store
10:41 PM - Posts a TikTok of someone taking a Door Dash order
10:41 PM - accuses Obama, John Brennan, and Clinton of sedition and treason again
10:42 PM - Posts a video of a man on CCTV footage knocking over food a waiter was carrying
10:47 PM - Calls Obama the “most DEMONIC FORCE” in American politics
10:47 PM - Posts a tweet from Mike Flynn saying 2020 election wasn’t fair
10:49 PM - Attacks Dominion again claiming they stole the 2020 election (it wasn’t)
10:51 PM - Reposts a fake Charlie Kirk account that claimed Obama blocked Hillary Clinton from being prosecuted
10:53 PM - Claims Obama was part of Hillary Clinton’s emails in some way
11:28 PM - Claims a senior Democrat just testified under oath that Senator Adam Schiff leaked classified information
1:13 AM - Attacks the New York Times for reporting on the reflecting pool

This man is clearly not well.