Live Updates: Iran and Israel Trade Strikes as Trump Calls on Them to Stop (revealing who the real decision makers are in this “war”—and their names don’t start with @realDonaldTrump) https://t.co/c2P3bXvyNF via @NYTimes
MAGYAR: Ukraine is the victim, and it has every right to protect its territorial sovereignty and integrity by all means at its disposal. I would also like to emphasize this, because independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine were guaranteed by Budapest Memorandum in 1994.
Three billionaires just bought a House seat for $32 million.
Paul Singer. John Paulson. Miriam Adelson.
They funded a super PAC that ran an AI-generated deepfake showing Rep. Thomas Massie in a fake “throuple” with two Democratic women. The disclaimer that it was AI showed for 4 seconds.
AIPAC and the Republican Jewish Coalition spent millions more.
The President personally visited the district.
The Defense Secretary traveled to Kentucky the day before the vote.
Yesterday, Massie lost by 10,035 votes.
The lawmaker who wanted the Epstein files released lost.
The lawmaker who opposed the Iran war lost. The lawmaker who voted against the spending bill lost. Three billionaires. One Cabinet Secretary on the road. A sitting President campaigning against a member of his own party. $32 million.
That’s not how primaries used to work.
That’s how primaries work now.
Trump raised millions of dollars to knock out his own party members - just because they disagreed with him on a handful of issues. All that proves is that he can manhandle his own teammates.
Unfortunately: at the same time, he’s proving that he CANNOT manhandle inflation. He CANNOT manhandle these gas prices. And he CANNOT manhandle Iran.
So he can feel better about himself for punching down inside his own party. But it’s not good for our economy — or our democracy— to have a president who is more obsessed with PAYBACK for himself than PROSPERITY for the rest us.
@RealDonaldTrump demonstrated he didn’t understand tariffs. Now he wants to show that he doesn’t understand taxes either?!? Trump Proposes Suspending Federal Gas Tax Until Prices Fall https://t.co/q0IDByytId via @NYTimes
Sorry. This alternative headline writes itself:
Will capitalist United States ever pay back the billions (trillions?) it confiscated from Africans forced into slavery?
https://t.co/QFTx6641us
Will capitalistic United States ever pay back the billions (trillions?) it confiscated from Africans forced into slavery? https://t.co/e0toAI0TD0 via @BostonGlobe
It’s funny to think that just because Wickoff and Kushner are rich and close to @RealDonaldTrump that they really don’t know anything more than I might about how to negotiate with the Iranians. 🤣https://t.co/8VYyaJCxYp via @NYTimes
Anyone interested in knowing why the U.S. started its own "special military operation" in the Middle East shouldn't waste their time going to Washington. A trip to Jerusalem would be more effective...if you can get a flight and don't mind waiting in line.
https://t.co/ss4yiyf48V
.@jamestalarico: I've had a lot of interviews with national media. No one's ever asked me about the cost of housing. No one's asked me about the cost of prescription drugs. The only thing the media wants to ask me about are trans athletes.
The only minority destroying this country is the billionaires. Trans people are 1% of the population. Undocumented people are 1% of the population. We are all focused on the wrong 1%.
Trans people aren't taking away our healthcare. Undocumented people aren't defunding our schools. It's the billionaires and their puppet politicians
Vance: "When people like Kamala Harris send our sons and daughters, our young people, to fight in stupid wars, it is the young generation that carries the burden of that. We're gonna stop sending our young people to far away lands. We are not the policemen of the world."
AOC: He impulsively went in on Venezuela. He impulsively went in on Iran. It led to increased global instability everywhere he goes. And every time he’s done that, it has been consistent with a spike or a revelation in what is happening with the Epstein files. I think that he feels existentially tied to it.
And I actually think that it is one reason that he must be removed from office, because if the Epstein files have such a hold on President Trump and this administration that they are willing to plunge us and risk world war in order to save themselves politically, that is the definition of someone who cannot make objective decisions for the American people.
SERIOUSLY??? Special Military Operation obviously. Duh @GOP & @@realDonaldTrump Republicans Toil to Avoid Saying ‘War’ as Iran Conflict Widens https://t.co/EOLV0S9uVz via @NYTimes
We have the Department of War. How about the Party of War (POW), @GOP & @RealDonaldTrump ? Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. https://t.co/71bhCojtbL