James Packard

Occasional binge tweeter. Ex-Journo. Colorado-raised ✈️ geek, Actor 🎥, Amateur Wine Snob 🍷. Averse to staying put.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

I don't understand how anyone with a soul can see these images and not immediately understand how fucking evil this war is. Every country in the world should be putting maximum pressure on Israel to allow in aid and to broker a ceasefire that permanently ends the war.

[James Packard @JamesSPackard]

The most profoundly stupid rebuttal you can possibly make is to just assert the person you disagree with is inherently dumb.

This line is so tired. Be more original.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Kennedy: You're an actor. Okay? Thank you so much. Now go ahead and shut your pretty mouth until someone writes some words and then you can open your mouth and say someone else's words. Until then, shh.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

A sitting Member of Congress calling for an American citizen to be stripped of his citizenship & deported, all because of that American citizen’s political views. This is fascism.👇

[World Cup Files @KhaledBeydoun]

Watch this. Zohran assesses the limitless racism he’s had to endure

[James Packard @JamesSPackard]

It’s not claustrophobia to notice that elevators are vertical death boxes that seal you into a fixed air supply with no mechanism for autonomous escape and should be avoided at all costs…

…you vile idiot.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Is this what you wanted, @StephenM?

A mother who was 5 months pregnant - who'd just found out she and her American citizen fiancee were having a boy - lost her baby after federal agents in a detention center repeatedly denied her pleas for prenatal care.

Lived and worked in Tennessee for years. Detained by ICE for over a month. Forced to sleep on a prison cell floor. Served food with cockroaches. Said she was starving and having stomach pains. Guards told her it was normal. Begged to be deported so at least she could get prenatal care in Guatemala. ICE refused.

She delivered her stillborn baby in front of two guards who shackled her feet. Then, for two days, she wasn't allowed to call her fiancee or talk to anyone. She cried alone, and was deported to Guatemala shortly after the stillbirth.

DHS has only said they'd review the case. "Worst of the worst", right @TriciaOhio?

[Acyn @Acyn]

CNN: Top Democrats on the intelligence committees were kept in the dark. Their Republican counterparts were briefed, even though they all are members of the gang of eight, who are usually almost always notified before major U.S. Military engagements.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

The President’s disastrous decision to bomb Iran without authorization is a grave violation of the Constitution and Congressional War Powers.

He has impulsively risked launching a war that may ensnare us for generations.

It is absolutely and clearly grounds for impeachment.

[James Packard @JamesSPackard]

Dude fomented an insurrection, shared state secrets, sexually abused women and is the figurehead of a racially-based extrajudicial mass incarceration scheme, but it’s disinviting his grandson from a picnic that’ll really get @RandPaul going…

[Acyn @Acyn]

Rand Paul: I’ve just been told that I’ve been uninvited from the White House picnic. Every Democrat and Republican will be invited.

I just find this incredibly petty.

It really makes me lose a lot of the respect I had for Donald Trump.

[Rep. Eric Swalwell @RepSwalwell]

You have one job.

To. Read. The. Fucking. Bill.

[James Packard @JamesSPackard]

I can’t stop thinking about this. That she would use this as an opportunity to send up her faux-Christian bat signal is beyond parody.

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

Against all odds, Joni Ernst has made it worse

[Olga Nesterova @onestpress]

Scott Pelley—American author and reporter for CBS News for more than 31 years, did not hold back

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

If Trump is serious about tariffs on movies, it's a very dangerous escalation. Tariffs have not traditionally been applied to services, and the United States is a massive net exporter of services. We would be extremely vulnerable to any service-based retaliation.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

WELKER: Your secretary of state says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens, deserve due process. Do you agree?

TRUMP: I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know.

WELKER: Don't you need to uphold the Constitution?

TRUMP: I don't know

[James Packard @JamesSPackard]

July 2024: Trump joins conservative ire over Olympics opening ceremony act that bore striking resemblance to Da Vinci’s “Last Supper”, calling it “a disgrace”

May 2025: Trump makes a mockery of the Catholic Church by literally depicting himself as the new Pope

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

A normal administration would refer this to DOJ for prosecution.

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

[James Packard @JamesSPackard]

Today was the day I met Mountain Pete

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.