Michael Kleber 🌐🌅

le vivre-ensemble. coastal elite / lefty scum. he / him. all opinions my own.

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

No one actually knows what’s in Trump’s deal with Iran since the administration refuses to release the text, but here’s what I would like to hear Democrats say about what we know based on news reports:

✅Ending the war immediately and reopening the Strait is the best available outcome. Every day Trump delayed would’ve made things worse.

✅Trump lost the war to Iran. Iran now knows it can control the Strait of Hormuz at any time and cripple the global economy.

✅Trump achieved none of his core objectives: Iran still possesses its highly enriched uranium, most of its ballistic missile and drone arsenal, and will almost certainly continue to support proxy groups.

✅The US/Israeli regime change strikes were a disaster for the Iranian people. Iran now has a younger, hard-line Supreme Leader and a more powerful IRGC in place.

✅If the reports about the unfreezing of assets/sanctions relief/reconstruction fund are true, Iran will have access to far more money than it ever got from the JCPOA.

✅Trump could have had a strengthened JCPOA-like deal through negotiations. He was just too impatient to try, and his team was too inexperienced to understand what was on the tabl

✅America did enormous damage to its standing in the world and real harm to poor and developing economies all over the world, which will still face fuel crises and potential famine in the foreseeable future as a direct result of the war.

✅We still don’t know the full scope of the damage to US military bases in the Middle East because the Pentagon is covering them up, but it's safe to estimate this disaster could cost up to $100B in direct costs.

✅Democrats should be skeptical of every claim this administration makes about what's in the deal, and whether Iran follows up. Trump wants this humiliation to go away and change the subject. The result would be an emboldened Iran with de facto control of the Strait.

The reason I want to hear Democrats making all of these arguments is because the narrative around this conflict will be set in the coming weeks, and we need to kill off for good this insane, hawkish neocon/FDD worldview that the US can bomb its way to peace.

[Jamie Walters, CAIA @JWalters314]

See the propaganda move?

Make the image emotionally overwhelming, then pretend the only possible objection is hatred of America.

Nobody has to pretend to be mad at a flyover.

It looks cool.

That is not the critique.

The critique is that cool imagery is being used to launder the structure underneath it.

The White House becomes the set.

The military supplies the emotional force.

UFC supplies the combat aesthetic.

Paramount+ gets the paid stream.

Trump-world and politically connected corporations get the branding halo.

And then accounts like this say: if you notice the machinery, you must hate America.

No.

I like the flyover.

I dislike fake patriotism that turns the country into ad inventory.

This is Don Draper selling belonging after tribal sorting so the powerful concentrate more power.

Working-class people are not props.

Marines are not props.

National monuments are not props.

The issue is billionaires turning the White House into branded regime content, then hiding behind “the working class” when anyone notices the circus.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Oh so it’s not open?

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Listen to this absolutely haunting sound.

Putin’s attack on the Lavra must be condemned by leaders around the world. It’s also a wake-up call, Ukraine *is* the Lavra, it’s survived but only by facing off the utter barbarity of Putin’s regime

[Rep. Dan Goldman @RepDanGoldman]

First, @SecKennedy refused to pay the legal non-profits representing unaccompanied minors for work they did per a contract.

Now, @SecMullinDHS is sending federal agents to ambush their offices and demand confidential client records without a warrant.

This is disgusting intimidation and a massive waste of time, resources, and money.

The cruelty of this administration targeting the most vulnerable along us is repulsive and un-American.

[Johanna Nyman @JohannaNyman5]

It is frankly embarrassing that a sitting U.S. Vice President is unaware of one of the most elementary facts of World War II. Nazi Germany did not negotiate an end to World War II. The war in Europe ended with Germany’s unconditional surrender after total military defeat and the collapse of the regime in May 1945.

[Sara McGee for Texas HD 132 @SaraForTexLege]

Hey look, it’s a guy who pulled a gun on his wife and led to his children being so terrified that they called 911 from a closet, endorsing a guy who cheated on his wife multiple times, was reported to the FBI by many members of his own staff, and gave a plea deal to a pedophile.

God bless Texas, y’all. 🤠

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Are you fucking kidding me?

[Glen Carroll @MrGlenCarroll]

The Ultimate Irony Elon Musk Never Saw Coming

Remember when Elon Musk spent $44 billion to buy Twitter, rebranded it to X, fired everyone who knew how to run it, and turned it into a right-wing echo chamber so he could help Trump win?

Yeah. About that.

Because out of the shadows comes Dark Brandon Junior — and he's running laps around the entire MAGA ecosystem.

Hunter Biden (@HunterBiden) marked 7 years clean and sober on June 1. Instead of hiding, he posted a video thanking his recovery community. Then the trolls came for him. And instead of clapping back with anger, he disarmed them with something MAGA doesn't know how to fight: self-deprecating wit, radical honesty, and zero fs given.*

When someone accused him of leaving that White House coke behind, Hunter replied: "It most definitely was not. I would never have forgotten my drugs."

When someone photoshopped a pipe in his mouth, he corrected them: "A crack pipe doesn't have that little bowl at the end. This is why we can't trust AI."

When a user said they'd vote for him if he made a crack joke campaign ad, Hunter fired back: "How about 'Let's take another crack with a Biden.' Needs work but the possibilities are endless."

The result? Even his former MAGA tormentors are apologizing. One user called him "the MAGA whisperer." Hunter's reply summed up the whole damn problem: "Left, right, D or R, we all want the same things. We're being divided on purpose by the Epstein Elite Oligarch class because as long as we're at each other's throats, they get fat and rich off of our misery."

Meanwhile, I posted a side-by-side: Don Jr. looking like he just crawled out of a three-day bender vs. a clean, sober, sharp-witted Hunter Biden. Asked a simple question: Which first son's family would you trust with American democracy?

You know what's beautiful? Elon Musk spent billions to control the narrative. And now Hunter Biden — the man they spent years trying to destroy — is using X to unite Democrats who felt voiceless, shame trolls with humor, and remind everyone what actual redemption looks like.

So here's my message to every Democrat clutching their pearls about "messaging" and "optics":

Stop. Just stop.

Hunter Biden is out here doing more for Democratic morale than half the party's consultants. He's not running for anything. He's not farming for clicks. He's just speaking like the Americans his father and our parents raised — honest, unafraid, and unwilling to let bullies define him.

Meanwhile, the other side nominated a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist and didn't blink. They don't do purity tests. They do power.

So let's be clear: Laugh at the memes. Share the posts. Tag @HunterBiden every chance you get. Because every time you do, you remind people that redemption is real, that sobriety is worth celebrating, and that the party of "family values" spent years attacking a man for his addiction while their own golden boy Don Jr. can't even keep his eyes open in public photos.

Elon Musk, thank you. Without you, we wouldn't have Hunter Biden lighting up your own platform with truth, humor, and the kind of unscripted humanity MAGA can never fake.

#DarkBrandonJunior #MAGAWhisperer #HunterBiden #SobrietyWins #X #ElonMusk #DemocratsUnited #smokefléét

[حيدر | Haydar @chronicalihere]

The World Cup will kick off in the United States tomorrow afternoon at the same time that the American military will yet again be committing illegal war crimes against a sovereign foreign state thousands and thousands of miles away. Against a nation participating in the tournament no less.

[Michael Kleber 🌐🌅 @KleebsM]

@AATXNow Embarrassing that there's enough inbred Neanderthals to even warrant a list like this. Right-wing clowns stuck in their own deluded sense of reality.

[Sara McGee for Texas HD 132 @SaraForTexLege]

The entire premise of the Republican Party is running on promises that they absolutely cannot deliver because they are fiscally or constitutionally impossible to achieve, then convincing their voters to vote for them again anyway because of some made up boogeyman that will surely be world ending if Democrats get elected.

Meanwhile, they rob you absolutely blind, ruin your schools, rob you of healthcare, and destroy public land, air and water.

I’d like for one person to tell me how having the Ten Commandments in public schools helped you afford groceries this year.

It is all a lie. For the love of Texas, snap tf out of it!

[Jenni @hashjenni]

They were scared of Mamdani winning because now every city in every state across the whole country wants a Mamdani of their very own.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump just installed Bill Pulte, a guy with ZERO national security experience to run the office that coordinates our entire intelligence community. And his marching orders? Gut it.

Pulte is the same man who, as housing finance director, urged the DOJ to investigate Trump’s political enemies. Now he’s handed the keys to our intelligence apparatus and told to fire anyone considered disloyal.

Trump said it himself. Serving on an acting basis “gives you more power.” He wants Pulte to “shake it up” before a permanent replacement arrives, so nobody has to be saddled with the dirty work. The President is openly describing how to evade accountability.

Then there’s the order to dig into the 2020 election Trump still falsely claims was stolen. Just one problem with that. Our intelligence agencies are legally barred from operating against American citizens. They exist to track foreign threats, not to referee domestic elections, which states run and courts review. The 2020 results were already examined to death through recounts, audits, and dozens of lawsuits, including before Trump’s own judges. There is no intelligence question here. There is only a president trying to weaponize the agencies that keep us safe against a loss he cannot accept. That is how authoritarian states operate, with security services serving the leader instead of the country.

Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?

A few muttered their “dismay” to reporters and went silent. Dismay isn’t oversight.

Wake up!
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[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Let's walk through what actually happened here, in order.

DOGE cut the USAID program specifically designed to prevent screwworm from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. DOGE cut USDA's animal disease control and prevention funding. That funding had supported more than 180 outbreak investigations in 22 countries and capacity-building in more than 160 laboratories. The screwworm monitoring and response program that watched the border for exactly this parasite - cut.

Then screwworm showed up in Texas cattle. Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a disaster for Zavala and Uvalde counties this week.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins went on CNBC this morning and blamed the Biden administration, 17 months out of office.

Her specific words: "obviously not much had been done to push back."

The program that was supposed to push back existed. DOGE eliminated it in March 2025. Rollins has been Agriculture Secretary since February 13, 2025. The cuts happened on her watch.

Beef prices are already high. Ranchers in south Texas are now dealing with a flesh-eating parasite that was eradicated in this country in the 1960s - eradicated, specifically, using the sterile fly program her department defunded.

The flies existed. The program existed. The budget existed.

Until it didn't.

[Hemant Mehta @hemantmehta]

Turning Point sent seven buses with 350 people to the Capitol on January 6.

[Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez]

In all seriousness though, this will (or at least should) go down as one of the biggest media failures in modern history.

The political media absolutely HOUNDED the previous president and made his age/health THE ONLY issue that mattered of his presidency.

And then they helped elect a guy who was just a few years younger (aka still old as shit) with a litany of unexplained health issues, a brain that is visibly detoriating and who brags about taking his dementia test 3x a week.

And then....they just haven't talked about it. At all. You can barely even get them to acknowledge it.

They alleged a big coverup of Biden's health, but they are literally complicit in covering up the current president, Donald Trump's health...which we can all see, right in front of our very eyes.

Just can't put into words how much of a disgrace the political media is...

[Jeff Timmer @jefftimmer]

Wanna know what also contributes to skyrocketing costs?

Rick Scott was CEO of Columbia/HCA when the hospital chain orchestrated what became the largest healthcare fraud case in U.S. history. The company pleaded guilty to 14 corporate felonies and ultimately paid a record $1.7 billion in federal fines for systematically defrauding Medicare and Medicaid.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Even Fox News is FORCED to admit Trump’s DOJ is led by weaponized liars:

"At the end of the podcast, Mr. Hannity’s producers posted a disclaimer in all capital letters, slapping asterisks on almost every person Mr. Blanche had discussed.”

The Disclaimer: “John Brennan, Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Matthew Colangelo, Arthur Engoron and James Clapper have not been charged with any crimes in connection with any alleged conspiracy. Charges against James Comey related to alleged false statements and obstruction have been dismissed. There have been no findings that Rod Rosenstein, Tim Walz, Gavin Newsom or Jacob Frey engaged in professional misconduct.”

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[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

CNN = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
CBS = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
FOX = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
WaPo = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
WSJ = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.

Ah yes, tell me more about how the mainstream media is “far left.”