Jeff Caton 🌊💙🌈🌏💉

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American expat living in Adelaide, Australia since 94.
Contemporary of Bruce Willis.
Roots in Wisconsin and Minnesota. Most admired: David Attenborough

[Jesus Chrysler @JesusChryslerII]

Five Mexican guys could have fixed the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in one weekend, but we deported them.

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

Bridget Macron is all of us.

And yes, the photo is authentic.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

wow -- Tim Kaine demolishes Kari Lake

KAINE: She accused one of our sitting colleagues of being controlled by the cartels. You had no evidence then nor do you have any now that Sen. Gallego is controlled by cartels, do you?

LAKE: Well, we provided the receipts--

KAINE: This was rated pants on fire. You have no evidence. Isn't that right?

LAKE: I don't know

KAINE: How about an apology to our colleague?

[Covie @covie_93]

In this photo there is a Princeton University graduate and a Harvard Law School graduate.

Michelle Obama is both.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

The performers for the Obama Presidential Library opening on June 18 have been announced:

Stevie Wonder
John Legend
Jennifer Hudson
The Roots
Bruce Springsteen
Christina Aguilera
Marsai Martin
Common
U2’s Bono and The Edge
Eddie Vedder
Marc Anthony
Tems

[Ken Dilanian @KDilanianMSNOW]

News: Secret Service officials are furious that FBI Director Kash Patel prematurely announced on Tuesday morning the details of a sealed and ongoing criminal investigation into a plot to attack the UFC fight event this weekend with drones, according to three people familiar with the incident.

Secret Service and FBI agents had been partnered on the investigation into a group of individuals discussing plans for a drone attack at the White House in the last week, and had discussed unsealing the case and making an announcement later that day. The problem with Patel’s social media announcement, the sources say, was the case had been sealed in court and roughly ten suspects had not yet been arrested and placed in custody at the time Patel made his public social media post.

Secret Service and FBI officials had discussed seeking to make more arrests, unseal the case by late Tuesday afternoon and make a joint public statement, and were surprised by Patel “jumping the gun.”

“We all woke up this morning to see this on Twitter,” said one administration official, who like others, asked to speak confidentially to discuss sensitive matters.

The threat to the UFC event became known to the Secret Service and FBI in the last week when a relative of one of the suspects contacted local police in the Cincinnati area, according to two people briefed on the probe, and reporting that their relative was talking about engaging in some vague plot in DC.

An advanced threat interdiction team at the Secret Service, with the help of the FBI, began seeking a subpoena for an encrypted Signal chat thread and then were able to identify the plot being planned and some of the people discussing using drones and possible snipers to attack the UFC fight event at the White House’s South lawn.

Authorities then arrested one suspect on June 13 and moved immediately to seal the case so the FBI and Secret Service could continue investigating and identifying and arresting additional suspects. The Secret Service also dramatically increased its plans for security around the event as a precaution, and put out an alert to its law enforcement partners to be on the lookout for people with drones in downtown Washington and other identifying information.

Matt Quinn, the Secret Service’s deputy director, called out Patel’s premature announcement in a Tuesday news conference but did not use his name and said the Secret Service made a conscious decision not to reveal the existence of the probe prematurely.

“I’ll tell you a phrase I learned early in my career in the New York field office and that’s `Don’t choke on your own smoke,” he said. “I’ll tell you the Secret Service led that investigation from the beginning. I’ll tell you that case is ongoing. In order to maintain the integrity of the investigation and the security plan, we chose not to leak it.”

He said he was choosing not to discuss extensive details of the case because it remained sealed and ongoing.

With @CarolLeonnig @MarcSantiaNews @lawofruby

[Dice 🎲 🌻 @jdice03]

Why hasn’t Donald Trump apologized to the families of the 12 year-old boy and 12 year-old girl who were molested because he set their attacker free?

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Republican candidate Ryan Dewayne Jenks has been sentenced to 20 years for molesting a 12-year-old girl.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Trump's Campaign Chairman Tim Nolan has been convicted of trafficking 19 girls, 7 of them underage.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Trump grabs Indian Prime Minister Modi's wrist for support as he steps up a small stair during the G7 summit

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

The Justice Department is not a tool for the President to investigate his political opponents.

Welcome to the BS investigations club, Governor Newsom. You’re in good company.

[Russell Drew @RussOnPolitics]

@Timodc The Right is still obsessing over the Obamas' marriage and bliss. When your politics is built on personal cruelty and conspiracy theories, even a happy couple becomes a target. Pathetic.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

“Michelle Obama is a man” shouted on the White House lawn in a ring sponsored by Bud Light only available on Larry Ellison’s Paramount Plus. What a way to celebrate America 250 and the twilight of liberal democracy.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Jan. 6 rioter Dillon Colby Herrington was indicted after raping an unconscious woman in Alabama.

Trump pardoned him anyway.

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

trump’s “deal” with Iran is exactly like Obama’s, except they get $25B instead of $1.5B and Obama didn’t start a war or get the Strait of Hormuz closed or kill thousands of people and waste billions of dollars to do it. Way to go, MAGA. Your racist cult leader is a fucking moron.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

The Art of the Deal? No wonder he's had six bankruptcies. We lost American soldiers because Trump hated Obama this must.

[Muslim @Muslim]

🇧🇷 Brazilian fans wave Palestine flag during Brazil Vs Morocco Match in the FIFA World Cup

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

WIN: A judge dismissed a far-right lawsuit seeking access to Georgia’s election night reporting hub, which aggregates and publishes county vote totals.

Voting rights advocates warned that granting access could open the door to partisan interference and undermine confidence in elections.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

TRUE!