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[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Four Supreme Court justices have argued that Donald Trump can change the Constitution with an executive action, BUT JOE BIDEN CAN’T FORGIVE YOUR STUDENT LOAN DEBT.

It’s rigged. Burn it all down.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

You cannot accidentally do this much Nazi shit.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

“Why is Elon Musk boosting an anti-immigrant film loved by the far right?”

My latest for the Guardian on how the richest man in the world is in love with ‘Citizen Vigilante,’ which promotes the murder not just of migrant criminals but their families too. https://t.co/P5z3jpvulW

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

First Draft: Did Elon Musk 'Sentence' 4 Million Kids 'to Death,' and Will He Sue You If You Say 'Yes'? https://t.co/5AbJmZy891

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A note to my friends who still back Trump:

I am not here to dunk on you. I am writing because you have a working brain, and this story insults it.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool got a $14 million paint job. Shortly thereafter the water turned green and the new “American flag blue” coating started peeling off the bottom in sheets. Trump says vandals did it. He claims, without evidence, that someone took a knife and cut a 300-foot slit, a number that grew to 350 feet while he was still talking.

Back on May 4, Trump bragged about that same coating and said, if you had a knife, you could not even cut it, so strong, like powerful rubber. He cannot have it both ways.

And the green water?

A George Mason scientist tested it and found ordinary, non-toxic algae, the kind that blooms in any shallow sunny pool. To fight it, crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water.

Hydrogen peroxide is also a paint stripper.

That, not sabotage or vandalism, is the obvious reason the paint came off. They wrecked their own paint job, then blamed phantom vandals for it.

The lone "vandal" they paraded is a 67-year-old Olympian who touched a flap of paint already peeling on its own.

Here is the thing. If they will look you in the eye and lie about something this small, something you can see with your own eyes, ask yourself what else they are lying to you about.

Again, you have a working brain. People like Karoline Leavitt are counting on you to stay loyal instead of exercising independent thought.

Prove them wrong.

[Gruff @JeffersonianCC]

@GovCox Lost in all of this is the noise. Living ANYWHERE near this monstrosity will be unbearable
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[ProPublica @propublica]

After a college student finally found a treatment that worked for his ulcerative colitis, UnitedHealthcare decided it wouldn’t pay for the costly drugs.

His fight to get coverage exposed the insurer’s hidden procedures for rejecting claims.
https://t.co/Kyn66KLqmR

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

A reporter asked JD Vance what he advised Trump before launching the Iran war.

His answer:

“I don’t want to go to prison.”
That is a direct quote from the Vice President of the United States.

Not “it’s classified.”

Not “national security prevents me from answering.”

“I don’t want to go to prison.”

The man one heartbeat from the presidency just told the American press that the reason he won’t answer questions about a war that has killed 14 Americans — including Major Alex Klinner whose twins are 7 months old — is personal legal self-preservation.

He campaigned against endless foreign wars.

He is now in the Situation Room approving one.

And his reason for silence is prison avoidance.

The American people funded this war.

American families are burying their children.

The Pentagon won’t release a casualty count.

The Baghdad embassy just told Americans to flee.

JD Vance doesn’t want to go to prison.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Complete confirmation of the ICE arrest quotas. Any kind of quota for law enforcement is dangerous to civil liberties.

[David Moore @ppolitics]

In a federal case in Oregon, ICE officers admitted under oath they have daily arrest quotas and use Palantir's app ELITE for mass targeting.

(January reporting by 404 Media, linked here, describes the app in more detail.)

https://t.co/waLETiPHqe

[Moshik Temkin @moshik_temkin]

This is pretty incredible. Cultural Revolution-type world in which zealous young bros without any real knowledge of anything were destroying the lives and careers of scientists and researchers based on their childish interpretation of what they thought their dear leader wanted.

[Lindsay Aerts @LindsayOnAir]

🚨NEW: @abc4utah has learned that @DHSgov has purchased a warehouse in Salt Lake City. It comes after reports that the agency is buying warehouses for ICE detention facilities nationwide. It's not yet known the plans for this warehouse. 👇READ👇 https://t.co/aXJuzwg2KH

[Natalie Pinkney @PinkneyAtLarge]

ICE doesn't belong in Salt Lake County. I am upset and disturb at the purchase of a warehouse on the west side to be use as a detention center. I am getting as much information as to who the building owner is and how to stop further plans

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Remember when Trump sued ABC, Meta, X, and Paramount, and they all agreed to settle for millions of dollars?

Well, that money was supposed to go to Trump’s future presidential library fund—except that fund has been dissolved with no public accounting of where the money went.

If these payments were labeled “charitable contributions,” the corporations could even write them off on their taxes. That’s why @SenWarren, @SenBlumenthal, and I are demanding answers!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨THIS IS CRIMINAL!!

A DOGE lead just testified under oath that he emailed classified government documents to his personal device and then sent them over Signal.

Under oath.

This is not a leak. This is not a whistleblower. This is a deposition.

Signal auto-deletes messages. Personal devices have no government security protocols. This is textbook mishandling of federal records — the same thing they spent four years prosecuting Hillary Clinton over.
The same DOGE that accessed Social Security databases.

The same DOGE that accessed Treasury payment systems.

The same DOGE that accessed Pentagon personnel files.

Emailing government documents to a personal device and routing them through an encrypted auto-deleting app is not a mistake.

That is a method.

The question is who was on the other end of those Signal messages.

[davey @jerseyh0mo]

At this point I’m convinced every right-winger is a sexual predator and all of their “protect children from the left” bullshit is just projection

[The Daily Beast @thedailybeast]

EXCLUSIVE | Kristi Noem awarded $1 billion in contracts to build the Mexican border wall to a company accused of smuggling illegal immigrants into the country, giving them guns, and allowing them to take part in a wild shootout.

https://t.co/gqCin8pu9a

[Dem Saints @LDS_Dems]

A reminder to my fellow Latter-day Saints that every law used against Muslims will eventually be used against us.

We will eventually be subject to the level of abuse we tolerate in others.

Pluralism is our shield.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This story cannot keep flying under the radar.

A ProPublica investigation uncovered hundreds of millions of dollars in financial ties between Trump officials and the industries they are supposed to regulate.

That is not just a conflict of interest. It is corruption, plain and simple.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history, by far.
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