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[Asante Samuel @pick_six22]

Donald Trump’s entire mission is to feel loved like Barack Obama.

He could never be Obama

[Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla]

@atrupar

[Political Punk @actingliketommy]

I saw this video on Viola Davis' instagram this morning and everyone needs to see it.

The gutting of the VRA is the most significant attack on ALL civil rights in America in my lifetime, and after they already came for the women..

We better wake the fuck up. None of us is safe:

[Shaiel Ben-Ephraim @academic_la]

The WSJ report that Israel built a clandestine military base in Iraq's western desert before the air war against Iran began. It housed special forces, search-and-rescue teams, and served as a forward logistics hub for the air campaign roughly 1,000 miles from home. The U.S. knew about the base. Iraq did not.

1) In early March, a local shepherd spotted unusual helicopter activity and alerted the Iraqi military. Iraqi troops drove out at dawn in Humvees to investigate on their own territory.

2) Israel struck them with airstrikes, killing one Iraqi soldier and wounding two others, to prevent the base from being discovered.

3) Iraq condemned the attack and filed a complaint with the UN, attributing it to the U.S. The U.S. wasn't involved but didn't correct the record.

4) Iraq sent elite Counter Terrorism units to search the area afterward. They found evidence of military presence but couldn't identify whose it was.

In sum, Israel operated a military installation on the sovereign territory of a country it is not at war with, without permission or coordination. When that country's soldiers investigated activity on their own soil, Israel used lethal force against them to protect the secret. This is nothing short of an act of war against Iraq and shows that Israel disregards the sovereignty of all nations.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I’ve spent most of the last 48 hours doomscrolling through people’s reactions to the destruction of the Voting Rights Act by the Supreme Court. The people I follow most regularly have split into predictable camps. There are people like me and Adam Serwer who are trying to put the court’s decision into the larger context of the long-standing white hostility to Black voting rights and Black political power. There are the folks like Ian Millhiser who have tried to explain the immediate legal effects of the court’s unconscionable decision. The activist set is taking some time to digest what has happened and plan for next steps, with some vowing to “fight” and ultimately “win” in some fashion.
Predictable, too, has been the reaction from the right. White supremacists and, to the extent there’s a difference, Republicans have been giddy. I read one particularly risible piece of trash in National Review crowing about how the Supreme Court’s decision will allow Republicans to gerrymander away Black political power while stopping Democrats from restoring that power. I think that legal analysis is wrong. But what struck me was not the stupidity of the argument but how happy they were to make it.
That happiness, from whites, is something that most of the articles and analyses, including mine, have failed to capture sufficiently. It is as distressing to me as the actual decision and the terrible results that will result from it. Republicans always want you to believe that they’re not racist “in their hearts,” that they just happen to prefer a set of policies that coincidentally result in inequality, oppression, and less opportunity for non-white Americans. But this reaction to the death of the VRA proves they’re lying. They hate Black people, and they hate Black people who have political power most of all. Read more from Elie Mystal: https://t.co/dYdj2yoR1m

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.

A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts.

In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention.

Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, the Trump family’s deals are expanding, and not a single Washington Republican is willing to say a word about any of it.

This is a corruption of everything the office of the presidency is supposed to stand for, and the American people deserve to know about it.
https://t.co/A4lQE3ktoG

[Being J Wood @BeingJWood]

When Trump loses power, his assets should be liquidated and returned to the American people.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

This is actionable securities fraud. Criminally and civilly. Guess what else? Trump can’t pardon away state crimes, and states have their own body of securities fraud laws. And they aren’t preempted, except certain civil class actions for damages. We need to hammer these people.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump has repeatedly used his war with Iran to manipulate markets so those close to him can make millions.

This should be investigated and prosecuted.

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

I’m beginning o wonder if Trump has a foreign policy at all, or if this all just a new form of securities fraud.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Anyone else getting the sense that Trump is colluding with energy market robber barons to screw every last one of the rest of us? Anyone else starting to feel like the Second Iran War is a grift to enrich domestic and foreign billionaires at the expense of America's middle class?

[Pablo Manríquez @PabloReports]

SCOOP: Home Depot $HD shareholders move to force the retail giant to account for how its license plate reader network may be enabling immigration enforcement. Reporting by me: https://t.co/ZCAb8uur29

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

In case you missed it, Pete Hegseth stood at the Pentagon yesterday and compared journalists to the Pharisees who plotted to kill Jesus, likening the administration’s actions to those of Christ.

Let that sink in, and let’s be clear about who Pete Hegseth actually is.

A former weekend TV host with no senior command experience, promoted over generals who spent decades in uniform.

A man who faced documented allegations of drunkenness on the job.

A man who ran details of a government war plan through an unclassified group chat and added a reporter to it by mistake.

A man who, this week, quoted a monologue from Pulp Fiction at a Pentagon prayer service and passed it off as scripture.

The job of a Defense Secretary is to keep Americans safe and tell them the truth. Not to play preacher or to cast reporters as villains in a Bible story while Americans are still in harm’s way. Not to dress up a controversial war in religious costume so nobody asks hard questions.

All of this happened on the same week the President posted an AI image of himself in a Christ-like healing pose, then claimed he thought it was him as a doctor.

You do not have to be a Christian to see this for what it is.

Hegseth is a man without qualifications, managing a war poorly, using faith as a shield.

He is wholly unfit. He should have never been confirmed. He should resign.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

$760M in leveraged positions worth BILLIONS.

Right before Trump’s announcement that misconstrued the Iranian statements on Strait opening.

There have now been more than 40 of these insider trading moments, each worth $2B-$3B+

Trump’s inner circle has grifted the American public out of **hundreds of billions** of dollars.

Much of which was held by mutual funds, pension funds and retirement accounts.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Analilia Mejia wins election to U.S. House in New Jersey's 11th Congressional District.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

Can some explain why it takes years to build anything. Roads, schools, bridges, etc. but data centers are everywhere overnight!?

[Missi Hesketh for MO 7th @MissiforMO]

The City of Festus, MO canceled their Council meeting for tonight following last night's election whereby citizens voted out of office every single member who voted for the data center there that the people did not want.
Micro to macro, that is how we hold them accountable.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

The information we have about the Iran War is incomplete and unreliable and it’s still clearly a debacle. The full story is likely much worse.

[David Dennis Jr. @DavidDTSS]

LeBron (and his peers) trashing Memphis to his golf bros is corny. The city deserves better from these brothers. I want yall to hear every word of this.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Trump just threatened a war crime on national TV.

Every Senator and member of Congress who refuses to stop him is complicit.