I stood at this pool, at both monuments and saw both reflections…
He’s a God damn idiot, as are the fools that support him. The “Reflection Pool” wasn’t designed by American architect Henry Bacon a hundred years ago to look like a swimming pool. It’s designed to have a darkened characteristics that has reflective qualities to reflect the monuments.
That way, the Washington Monument is reflective to you when at the Lincoln Memorial, and when at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial is reflective to you.
It’s designed to enhance the grandeur of monuments, create an illusion of reflection, and inclusion of expansive space of unity.
He’s a tacky vulgar person that vulgarizes everything he touches. America isn’t becoming great, it’s becoming vulgar.
Credit - Mathew Reed
A federal judge just ordered Trump’s name stripped from the Kennedy Center within 14 days, completely blocking a crooked 2-year closure. The judge’s ruling was brutal: “Only Congress can change it.” See how Trump's ultimate vanity project just got crushed: 👇
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Graham Platner: “I believe the legacies of the Women’s Suffrage Movement, the Labor Movement, the Civil Rights Movement, that is the blueprint for what we need to be doing now. It’s not a tactic for me. This is my politics. People know what’s going on. When Americans look around and see everything getting harder and then they also see Elon Musk on his way to being the first trillionaire. When people see collapsing housing markets, but also recognize private equity’s allowed to buy up single family homes, people see it”
⚡️ Frederiksen: Ukraine is capable of producing weapons faster, more creatively, more intelligently, and more cheaply than the rest of us.
"The rest of Europe is still wasting far too much time on processes, decision-making, and deliberating on exactly which capabilities or armaments should be purchased for the next 10 years."
The President of the United States said I insulted Jesus.
You want to know what insults Jesus?
Kicking the sick off their healthcare.
Bombing schoolchildren in Iran.
Deporting moms and babies.
Covering up the Epstein files.
Rick Wilson: “When they say Talarico’s a trans, the answer is Ken Paxton’s a fucking degenerate. Ken Paxton is a fucking criminal. Ken Paxton let a child rapist go because he paid him $25K”
trump’s selfish need to make America’s 250th birthday ALL about HIM has sucked every ounce of joy out of it.
Instead of a unifying celebration of OUR country, we get another narcissistic trumpapalooza full of whining, grifting, and cult worship.
He ruins everything he touches. Even our history.
We are trying to intercept all Russian drones, even when some of them are going in the direction of other countries, like Romania, Moldova, Poland, or the Baltic states. If we can't, we immediately notify our partners and try to help them.
Russia uses drones to pressure NATO countries and gauge the reaction. This is their typical message: Don’t help Ukraine. I think there should be a stronger response from a united NATO.
Putin is comparing this reaction to what he saw in previous years. And he is also testing air defenses of NATO countries bordering Russia or Belarus. Are they capable of intercepting all the missiles and drones?
From an interview with Face the Nation. (1/5)
Gordon Brown: a special tribunal, modelled on Nuremberg, will prosecute Putin's inner circle for the crime of aggression against Ukraine.
The Council of Europe and EU agreed on the mechanism this month. — The Guardian.
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🇺🇸🇷🇺 KASPAROV SAYS TRUMP GAVE PUTIN THE CONDITIONS, BUT NOT THE VICTORY
"Trump must feel offended: I did everything, so why can’t Putin win? All the conditions were ready.
But Putin has not won and the war is moving in the wrong direction for Moscow. Russia has no serious breakthrough potential." - Garry Kasparov 🇷🇺
That is the brutal part for Moscow.
Even with political chaos in Washington.
Even with pressure on Ukraine.
Even with Western hesitation.
Putin still cannot turn this war into the victory he promised.
Trump may have opened doors for him, but Ukraine keeps slamming them shut on the battlefield.
FUKUYAMA: Ukrainians developing new generation of drones built in Ukraine, along with rockets that can strike operational targets. We've seen this unfolding as we speak in Russian-occupied Crimea.
Withdrawal from Crimea would mean an enormous political defeat for Vladimir Putin. Ukrainians have been systematically taking out Russian air defenses with medium-range drones and missiles.
The peninsula has very constricted supply lines, with single road and rail connection through the narrow isthmus to the north and Kerch Strait Bridge connecting Crimea to Russian mainland to the east.
Ukrainians have reportedly now taken control of the isthmus route from the air and have been attacking the bridge repeatedly over the past three years.
Under these circumstances, it would not be at all surprising if Russian command decided at some point in the coming year that their position in Crimea was untenable and began to withdraw forces there, just as it has already withdrawn the bulk of its navy.
Today, I presented state awards of Ukraine to the people without whom Operation “Spiderweb” would not have happened. We have no right to name them – everything remains absolutely classified and will remain so for a long time. This is already a historic operation by the Security Service of Ukraine, one that was carefully prepared, and on this very day one year ago, it entered its final stage – striking Russian military equipment. Farther than Ukrainian long-range capabilities had ever reached before. As precisely as no one in Russia expected. And as justly as the enemy’s strategic aviation deserves.
“Spiderweb” destroyed or at least damaged 41 aircraft. Never before had Russia lost such equipment, in such numbers, and as a result of strikes by drones that were incomparably cheaper. Ukraine has once again proved that it knows how to act asymmetrically, that it defends itself actively and truly creatively, and that Russia has no chance of overcoming Ukrainian courage. Ukraine will always be one step ahead – in technology, in bravery, and in the ability to capture the world’s attention and rally the support of millions of human hearts.
Ukraine is now applying long-range sanctions against Russia for this war literally every day. We did not start this war, we did not provoke it, and the only thing we wanted for Ukraine and Ukrainians was peace. But as long as the Russians choose the opposite, and as long as Russia does everything to drag out this war and expand it, Ukrainians will continue to find responses that will definitely work. I thank all our warriors for their precision! I thank the Security Service of Ukraine for its long-range leadership! I thank everyone who helps us! Glory to Ukraine!
Sen. @ossoff: Just weeks into this war. They said they'd need $200 billion to fund it. Let me put that in perspective for you, $200 billion would fund a decade, 10 full years of nationwide universal pre-K. The America first president who said he would end foreign wars to put America first and focus on America's working class. Instead, now he says, "it's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid or Medicare." Now he says all we can afford is war.
Breaking News! Amanda Ungaro a friend of Melania Trump’s for 20 years & the ex of Paolo Zampoli just released an audio recording where’s she’s telling him you know you weren’t the one that introduced Melania to Trump it was Jeffrey Epstein and she says that Melania was a Escort!
Grateful for every Alaskan who took the time to talk with me this week. Whether it's fish, the ferry, healthcare, public radio, cost of living – whatever is top of mind – I'm fighting to make sure every community in Alaska is heard in the U.S. Senate.
Alaska first!
Mark Bingham (pictured with his mom) was a gay man who tried to wrestle a hijacked plane (United Airlines Flight 93) from terrorists on 9/11.
He will always be remembered as a hero.
#PrideMonth#DemsUnited