Lexie King 🇺🇸 🇺🇦

Nobody with a lot questions.
Here for now.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

NEWSNATION: The Heritage Foundation has dug into this and they found a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of fraudulent voters over nearly 40 years of elections. Doesn't that tell you our elections are secure?

SEN. MARSHA BLACKBURN: I have not looked at the Heritage Foundation data

[Zachary Cohen @ZcohenCNN]

“Losing control of the strait will be the biggest blunder of this era because it is a card the US cannot counter without going all in,” a fourth source involved with the military planning for the war said. “Now there is no way to undo the strait without amassing a massive force.”

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

So the new spin is that even if the actual text of the actual document is as bad it looks, the real secret deal is much much better. It's the "My girlfriend lives in Canada. You wouldn't know her" school of foreign policy.

[Emir Han @RealEmirHan]

Anthony Bourdain once said RATATOUILLE is the best food movie of all time.

“The best restaurant movie ever made, the best chef movie. The tiny details are astonishing:

•The faded burns on the cooks’ wrists.

•The ‘personal histories’ of the cooks.

•The attention paid to the food.

•And the Anton Ego ratatouille epiphany hit me like a punch in the chest–literally breathtaking.

I saw it in a theater entirely full with adults–and the reaction to that moment was what movie making was once–a long time ago–all about:

Audible surprise, delight, awe and even a measure of enlightenment.

I am hugely and disproportionately proud that my miniscule contribution (if any) early early in the project’s development led to a ‘thank you’ in the credits. Amazing how much they got ‘right.’”

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Ana Navarro: “He just said he loves the inflation.”

Vance: “What he said is he loves the fact that the inflation is going to come down when this war is over. That's what he said.”

Joy Behar: “That's not what he said. Are you his interpreter or his vice president? Come on.”

[Mark Hammond @MarkHam80780803]

“Where is Vader today?”
“He’s paying the Rebel Alliance $300 billion dollars after defeating them completely, every day for the last four months, sir.”

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

Hillary Clinton says when she was Secretary of State there was “constant” and “relentless” pressure by Prime Minister Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Ehud Barak to secure U.S. backing for a military strike against Iran.

Clinton recalled hours-long phone calls where Israeli officials used leverage tactics, frequently telling her their "planes are on the tarmac" to imply an imminent, unilateral strike.

Clinton says she would respond to pressure like that with: "Well, good luck."

The New Yorker’s David Remnick asks if she felt the U.S. was being manipulated or "played" by a foreign ally that receives an enormous amount of American aid, Clinton agreed and said it happened "all the time" due to Netanyahu's intense focus on the issue.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

FIONA HILL: Putin is starting to get very nervous about Russian society and perhaps elites.

His choices are shrinking, and we can see that picture has become darker for Putin.

On the front line, his army cannot advance, casualties are enormous and increasing.

The other thing is oil. Everyone was expecting that Russia would have benefited enormously from the increase in oil prices.

But in fact, sanctions that were imposed by Europeans and Ukrainian attacks on Russian oil have actually constrained those revenues.

Revenue isn't the same as having more manpower or more weaponry, and he cannot turn the innovation tide against Ukraine.

It's still costly for Putin to buy from abroad, from China, the components that he or the military needs for their weapons development.

Putin is still trying to get others to hand him Ukraine's capitulation because situation for him doesn't look great.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Trump at G7: Qatar will be investing $19.4… $19.1 $19.2 Trillion in the United States, the record was $3 trillion.

Reality: Qatar’s Total GDP is $220 billion.

He thinks you’re fucking stupid enough to believe him.

Prove him wrong.

[Senate Budget Democrats @SenateBudget]

MERKLEY: Trump's 2027 budget did not include the debt or deficit projections required by law. Will you push to include those next year?

DUNCAN: As the Director testified—

MERKLEY: The director testified that he didn't want to "confuse Americans." Americans are not idiots.

[Scott Bauer @sbauerAP]

President Donald Trump’s attorney for the 2020 campaign in Wisconsin and two former aides all pleaded not guilty Tuesday to felony forgery charges for their roles in a fake elector scheme designed to overturn Trump’s loss in the swing state.

https://t.co/kDibjQxcbM

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

As Ukraine tightens the grip on Russian logistics, Russia's mainstream military commentators enter panic mode, not only predicting a collapse at the front, but fighting among Russian society as the situation deteriorates.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Different people learn at different rates and in different ways that even if Trump does what you want, he'll tend to do it in the most corrupt and incompetent way possible. He's more likely to discredit or destroy your cause than advance it. The Iran War is no exception.

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

There’s always a tweet.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

"they violently obstructed and assaulted law enforcement agents." The only documented, charged violence by any defendant in the actual indictment against any ICE agent's person is this:

[Acyn @Acyn]

Jessica: The punting on the nuclear program for the 60-day negotiation, that's the tough stuff. You say the JCPOA didn't have anything about that. It's in the preamble of the JCPOA that Iran will cease allI efforts to have a nuclear weapon and enrichment will be at 3%.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

They are already doing damage control because they likely destroyed the lawn

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Corporate America has turned its back on democracy and bowed down to Trump. When, in the future, it once agains becomes convenient for them to say they celebrate democracy we should not believe them.

In the meantime, we are on our own.

[Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule]

"The fact that Vance can sell something so ludicrous, with a completely straight face, even though you can see right through him, should frighten every voter in the United States of America as much as it frightens every woman who is paying attention." https://t.co/krNBjfXYJv