Howard M. Jones

The Dude....no, The Other Dude.

[Susan Rice @AmbassadorRice]

This is a jaw-dropping, horrific surrender document complete with hundreds of billions in reparations. It is the predictable result of incompetent negotiation and the foolhardy strategic catastrophe of starting and pursuing this disastrous war. The U.S. will not soon recover from this, the biggest national security blunder in decades.

[Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @CongressmanRaja]

Todd Blanche’s mishandling of the Epstein files should disqualify him from leading the Department of Justice.
That’s why I sent a letter with my colleagues to Senate Majority Leader Thune urging the Senate to reject Blanche’s nomination for Attorney General.

[Anderson Cooper 360° @AC360]

Former Trump WH Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci says "the reaction is so bad" to the agreement with Iran that President Trump will "now start lying about it and saying, 'okay, that wasn't really the deal, go look at this shiny object over here.'"

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel poisoned the land in Lebanon, just as it did with the water wells in Palestine, violating the Chemical Weapons Convention.

Israel sprayed toxic and carcinogenic chemicals all over Lebanese agricultural land, resulting in catastrophic levels of cancer-linked chemical in the soil, concentrations reached 22,750 mcg/g, that’s 11,000 times above the safe levels of 0.5/2 mcg/g.

Poisoning and destroying agricultural lands during an armed conflict is a war crime and an act of genocide.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨Ken Paxton was reported to the FBI for accepting hundreds of thousands in bribes.

His own staffers were the ones who reported him.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

How the fuck do we have $300 billion to rebuild Iran after we spent $80 billion bombing it, when we don’t “have the money” for pediatric cancer research?

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Trump is the first president to surrender once in each term. 1) Taliban 2) Iran

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

The decision to go to war was never the President's to make.

Senate Democrats have insisted that Congress play its constitutional role and stop these illegal and deeply harmful wars.

Senate Republicans have now voted EIGHT times to shirk their duty and greenlight Trump's illegal war of choice.

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Reporter: “Will you hold anyone accountable for the strike on a school that killed more than 100 children?”

Trump: “No. It’s such a strange question to be asked. It’s a long time ago. Mistakes are made. I would ask Hegseth that question.”

You killed 168 little girls and not a single word of regret or condolence. There has never been a bigger piece of human garbage than this fucking monster.

[Jon Ossoff @ossoff]

Donald Trump’s handpicked candidate Mike Collins is a notorious bigot, antisemite, and extremist currently under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax dollars. Collins, who is only a congressman because his daddy was a congressman, voted to double health insurance premiums for more than a million Georgians, for the Iran War, and for the Trump tariffs.

[Senator John Hickenlooper @SenatorHick]

$100B spent. 14 servicemembers lost. Military stockpiles drained. Costs soaring.

Trump’s “deal” with Iran puts the U.S. in a worse position than we were before his illegal war began.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Republican Senator Bill Cassidy slams Trump’s Iran deal, calling it “The worst foreign policy blunder in decades.”

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The utter failure of this war - and the surrender document Trump just signed - was completely predictable. This war was unwinnable and that's why so many of us opposed it from the start.

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

ICE is already larger than the Marines. And Republicans in Washington are trying to give them even MORE money.

What if we funded health care instead?

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Trump said no taxpayer money would be spent on the ballroom. A contractor's invoices show otherwise.

An internal cost estimate in March by the project's contractor put its cost at $600 million — with half coming from tax dollars. https://t.co/DODAnjI2CG

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Reminder, Mike Collins is a bigot.

A Black woman protesting at Ole Miss was mocked by white fraternity students, one even making ape-like gestures.

Instead of condemning it, Mike Collins cheered them on, posting: "Ole Miss taking care of business."

When faced with blatant racism, Collins sided with the mob.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The net result of a war that cost $60 billion, killed 13 Americans and thousands Iranian civilians, set off a new war between Israel and Lebanon, and caused massive U.S. inflation:

America agrees to give Iran billions in exchange for nothing.

A disastrous humiliation.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: In Queens, New York, ICE agents were caught on video violently shoving, and threatening, U.S. citizens because they dared to stand on a public sidewalk.

The U.S. citizens weren’t blocking traffic.
They weren’t interfering.
They weren’t even yelling…

They were filming, while another agent stood right next to them, without issue.

Then, out of nowhere, an ICE agent came charging from off camera, screaming, “BACK THE FUCK UP,” and then violently shoved one of the men multiple times.

Even as the U.S. citizens backed up, the ICE agent continued to violently shoved one of them, held pepper spray inches from his face, as the other agent threatened the second man with a taser.

When you’re walking down the street, observing a traffic stop from the sidewalk, normally police officers don’t sprint over, scream profanities at you, assault you, and then threaten you with weapons…

And that’s because watching law enforcement activity, from a public place, is protected by the First Amendment.

Recording law enforcement performing their duties, in public, is constitutionally protected.

The law generally only allows officers to use force when they’re facing an actual safety threat, active physical resistance, or someone trying to flee… not because U.S. citizens are standing on a public sidewalk, watching and filming.

And the most telling part?

If these U.S. citizens, standing on a public sidewalk, were really a threat… the ICE agents wouldn’t have instantly turned their backs to the threat, and walked away.

Because that just proved they were never a threat at all.

So, why did ICE agents violently shove U.S. citizens, and threaten them with weapons?

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Ukrainian drones hit a Moscow refinery and disrupted air traffic Thursday in the largest attack on the Russian capital since Russia invaded Ukraine more than four years ago.

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

When both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal call out Trump’s Iran deal as a U.S. defeat, that’s telling.