Jason Smith

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Where DID this bill to take away DC's sovereignty and control over its budget come from??? 🤔

That is the real question.

[Athena is her 💫 @Athena_is_her]

Surprised Piers kept his mouth shut for 3 mins & O'Leary is probably there worried about Data centres he wants to build in 🇨🇦 or give a masterclass of how to get off a DUI while boating that killed someone in Canada. Americans 🇺🇸 have zero clue how they had it so good with us

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

GALLEGO: Would you say as a former auditor you pride yourself on catching waste?

DENNIS: Yes

GALLEGO: Let's do a test. Would you say $600m on a ballroom, half paid by taxpayers, is a good fiscal decision?

DENNIS: Oh, I'm not going to get involved in what the White House is doing

GALLEGO: As HUD CFO, this is literally the job

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Trump's conservative media allies confidently claimed the Iran War would be over months ago. Now they're scrambling.

[Сarm1ne @carm1nee]

Walter Isaacson on the OpenAI cyber attack: "having cut this thing off from the internet, it figures out a way to escape - it's weird because it seems like it has its own intentionality - and it's not OpenAI that figured out it escaped, it was Hugging Face"

this is him explaining why this is the first time AI has genuinely scared him, why he thinks we're about 10 years away from losing control entirely, and why there's now a race between companies to remove guardrails

"this is the first thing that just totally scares me - if it is no longer aligned with human values and it no longer obeys our commands"

"OpenAI specifically went in when the Pentagon tried to push back on Anthropic, and Sam Altman said oh okay we'll do it for you - there's a race to escapism here"

"Elon is not permanent in his friendships - but one thing he's consistent about is he doesn't like Sam Altman"

bookmark & watch the full conversation ↓

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Trump just pardoned a convicted fraudster who owed $21.7 million in restitution for defrauding investors.

His name is Adam Kidan. He donated millions to Republican campaigns and groups, including more than $270,000 to Trump’s political committees in 2024, and helped host a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago.

Now, his pardon appears to have erased whatever restitution he still owed.

Welcome to Episode 10 of the Pardon Papers.

Read all about this crazy story via The Guardian (https://t.co/1vQ5vJq9aM) & the NYT (https://t.co/jEEYJdicAF)

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Applebaum: Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner negotiated with Russia over Ukraine while discussing mineral, oil and gas deals for connected US companies. They were not bargaining for Ukrainian security or America's European allies. That is a profound abuse of American power. 1/

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Sean Hannity squirms as he tries to cover Trump's election fraud claims without triggering another $787 million lawsuit

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

HEGSETH: President Trump deserves the kind of praise he should get for undertaking this effort

REED: Excuse me. So he should be praised for starting a war without authority and creating a situation in which the world economy is suffering tremendously?

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump on the four U.S. service members killed over the weekend:

“All of them said very strongly, ‘We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.’”

(He literally makes sh*t up.)

[Acyn @Acyn]

Massie: Still, there’s a base—there’s Fox News that’s on TV every day trying to glorify this war. Eventually, I think people’s pocketbooks are going to impose reality on them, and they’re going to quit watching Fox and pay more attention to gas prices. We’re already seeing that with farmers, and that’s why you got this $12 billion bailout. This is essentially trying to buy the farmers off in time for the election, saying, “We’re sorry. We know we wrecked your farm with high fertilizer and high diesel prices, so please don’t punish us.”

[Acyn @Acyn]

CNN split screen comparison of what Hegseth was saying months ago on the Iran War and what he said today.

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

.@jonstewart slams Trump's anti-DEI "meritocracy" and praises short king Jimothy the Raccoon

[David Pakman Show @davidpakmanshow]

Trump setting up to declare emergency

[Rep. Joe Neguse @RepJoeNeguse]

Instead of banning Members of Congress from trading stocks, House Republicans are now pushing a bill creating new loopholes to keep this insidious practice going!

[𝕆𝕙 𝕟𝕠, 𝕀𝕥'𝕤 𝕙𝕚𝕞. 𝕎𝕖𝕒𝕣 𝕄𝕒𝕤𝕜𝕤. @WallaceUofE]

5 1/2 minutes. Worth it.

[CSPAN @cspan]

Sen. Gillibrand (D-NY) grills Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth: "You are asking for unlimited money for bombs when people can't feed their families."

[CSPAN @cspan]

Pete Hegseth refuses to answer @SenOssoff (D-GA), on whether his past statement that Iran's military had been "destroyed and made combat ineffective" was true or false.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Murray: "He has told us over 40 times now that a deal is near and the war will be over soon. But now he's asking for $70 billion more and for us to just trust him it'll work out."

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

.@JonStewart on how Trump's meritocracy talk was a sham from the get-go