Jennifer Bendery

Senior politics reporter for HuffPost. On Bluesky: @jbendery.bsky.social. Tips: [email protected]. Signal: jbendery.41

[Jennifer Bendery @jbendery]

gaslighting (v.) -- to manipulate someone by psychological means into questioning their own sanity.

[Mike Pence @Mike_Pence]

President Trump’s decision to lift sanctions on Russian fuel amidst Putin’s ongoing and brutal attacks on civilian targets in Ukraine makes no sense and is a betrayal of the legacy and leadership of the late Senator Lindsey Graham.

While Ukraine fights for its survival, Putin’s war machine continues to prosecute his terrorist war on civilian populations and innocent Ukrainians are dying every day.

Now, Instead of implementing the tough sanctions Lindsey Graham fought to his last breath to enact, President Trump has announced the United States is lifting sanctions on Russian energy, fueling the Putin’s war machine.

As I saw firsthand in Ukraine last month, Putin is losing this war. Ukraine has fought the Russian military to a standstill and reinvented warfare with drones taking the fight into the heart of Russia.

America should not be throwing a lifeline to Putin’s war machine. Now is the time to stand strong against Russian aggression as we did during the first Trump administration.

Putin doesn’t want peace. Putin wants Ukraine. I have no doubt that if Putin overruns Ukraine, it will only be a matter of time until Russia’s military crosses a border that our troops will have to deal with him.

America is the Leader of the Free World. For our National Security, for the security of our Allies in Europe including Ukraine, President Trump should rescind this deal immediately and return to the strong policies of our four years in the White House; impose harsh sanctions on any nation purchasing Russian energy and work with our allies to ensure Ukraine has the military support it needs to repel and defeat this Russian invasion once and for all. Slava Ukraini🇺🇸🇺🇦

[Jennifer Bendery @jbendery]

ok not what I was expecting to be the reason for that VERY loud flyover 🍌

[Adam N @agnach19]

Flyover in Washington DC was for the @BananaBall_ championship game for those coming to Twitter to ask

@TheSavBananas @TXTailgaters

[Jennifer Bendery @jbendery]

anyone know why there was a very loud military jet flyover in DC a few mins ago?

[Jennifer Bendery @jbendery]

@scottsantens @Chris_Cardno Third'd

[Jacob Rubashkin @JacobRubashkin]

A pop-up Super PAC is spending six figures on mailers backing a socialist running as an independent in the Ohio Senate race against Husted and Brown. We won’t know the donors for a while but there are signs it’s a GOP-backed effort.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Strong response from the Catholic Church to the news. "The public execution even of one who has done grave harm will only further undermine the moral fabric of our nation and be a blight on the conscience of its people."

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

As of today, one man, billionaire Trump ally David Ellison, controls:

CBS
CNN
HBO
Discovery Channel
BET
Fandango
MTV
Nickelodeon
Paramount+
PlutoTV
Showtime
TBS
The CW
TNT
Warner Bros.
& more

Call it what it is: oligarchy.

[tyson brody @tysonbrody]

BREAKING: Roger Marshall stiffed a local Kansas business who baked cookies for his campaign, refusing to pay a $678 bill - a bill larger than debts for which Roger Marshall had patients sued, arrested, and jailed, which ran as low as $114.49!

[Sen. Lisa Murkowski @lisamurkowski]

There is no need to livestream any execution, including this one. I would expect this from terrorists and dictators, but not here in America. It would give this individual, who deserves no further notoriety, the martyrdom he seeks. How we carry out justice matters just as much as the justice itself, so I urge the Pentagon to reverse this gruesome decision.

https://t.co/HtKIy8FpBX

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Gov. Abigail Spanberger (D-VA):

"At this point in time in 2022, a little over 200,000 Virginians had voted. At this point in time in 2026, approximately 450,000 Virginians have voted early.”

[Brendan Hartnett @BrendanHartnett]

🚨🚨 In deleted tweets, Trump's new White House press secretary Katie Zacharia shared vaccine conspiracy theories, called for upending constitutional norms, and encouraged the president to run for a third term in office.

My latest @BulwarkOnline: https://t.co/MBM9wjvc8g

[Mary Peltola @MaryPeltola]

Grocery store prices in rural Alaska right now.

Most goods here come by barge or plane, so life here has always cost more. But this? This is as bad as it's ever been.

This is what the price-hiking war in Iran is costing Alaskans. Dan Sullivan has now voted for it 14 times.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Wait, what?!

[Andrew Kaczynski @KFILE]

This is absolutely wild per Status — ABC News completely retracted this story like two days ago just totally nuked it. No note, no explanation , no comment. It had been shared by tons of top lawmakers and democratic officials.

[Laura Bassett @LEBassett]

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows

[Jennifer Bendery @jbendery]

LOL

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

My sources are telling me Talarico is in a mental health facility. His campaign has stopped actively planning events in the vital homestretch of the campaign.

If this is true, this is actually a time to pray for Talarico. We should, of course, savagely mock his smug, awful campaign advisors, by all means...and while yes, of course, this would be disqualifying for Talarico's aspirations to be a Texas Senator, we must hold empathy for anyone undergoing crisis. Campaigns are brutal, and not everybody is cut out for it. You need very thick skin. As much as I don't want Talarico anywhere near government, I also don't want wish him harm, and no political office is worth having a breakdown. His awful advisors are at fault for this. They pushed him to be something he isn't, and it didn't work.

I'm praying that this isn't true, and he's OK. You want to win these fights on the battlefield of ideas, not the minefield of poor health.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

6 of the 8 living governors of Kansas, current or former, have endorsed Adam Hamilton, including multiple Republicans.

Marshall has no endorsements from any of them.

[Andrew Feinberg @AndrewFeinberg]

I have been spared from the bloodletting at @Independent so I will urge y’all to hire @EricMGarcia and @j_bowden4.

They are among the best I’ve worked with and I can honestly say your newsroom will benefit from their presence as much as ours will suffer from losing them.

[Jamie Dupree @jamiedupree]

Rep. Austin Scott R-GA blasts Hegseth's idea to live stream an execution

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

Codel led by Sen. Wicker is in Ukraine talking about implementation of the Lindsey Graham Act as Trump pulls the rug out from under all of them