Mary Clewlow Loch

I appreciate all the thoughtful writers on Twitter, especially those that support the law.

[Jamie Raskin @jamie_raskin]

It's time for the liberals, progressives, radicals, and conservatives to come together and take America back from MAGA and Donald Trump. We must save all of the freedoms and progress we have fought for and we must keep making essential progress for our people.

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

The US war on Iran is presumably the most stupid war in US history:
1. Trump started it for no good reason, whether to detract from the Epstein files or because he was carried away by Netanyahu. It was a lose-lose war & remains so.
2. Apart from wishful thinking that the Iranian regime would collapse, Trump had no strategy. When the regime did not collapse, Trump had lost.
3. The US has effectively given Iran control of the Strait of Hormus.
4. The US has facilitated Iran's acquisition of nuclear arms out of sheer stupidity.
5. With incredible thoughtlessness, the US has wasted on minor targets its most expensive & important missiles, Tomahawks and Patriots, which cannot be replaced for years.
6. Through its attack on Iran, then US has exposed its Gulf allies & its own bases in the region with little defense.
7. Through his outrageous & unjustified attacks on European allies, Trump has weakened whatever remains of the Western alliance.
Is there any greater enemy of the Western alliance than Trump?

[Ben Meiselas @meiselasb]

This is also not signed by all the parties which is required to rescind under the terms of the original agreement, para. 8. This is an unenforceable sham document.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

This cannot be emphasized enough.

@SenThomTillis @JohnCornyn

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

The same is true about the “stolen” election

[Just Jack @7Veritas4]

The way republicans are going after Fauci you’d think he was prominently mentioned thousands of times in the Epstein files.

[Crosby Tatum @crosbyt123]

@atrupar Again, for those in the back. We have the receipts.

[The Watcher @watcher_th23814]

@thejackhopkins It boils the blood to hear the self-righteous declare that the US is a “Christian” nation and then turn around and support and cheer behavior that is exactly contrary to the word of Christ. Those who offer no mercy, grace, or forgiveness deserve none in turn. Sick fucks!

[Andrew Weinstein @Weinsteinlaw]

He attacks mail‑in voting while voting by mail. He mocks vaccines while getting vaccinated. He pushes “Buy American” while selling foreign‑made merchandise. He demands action against undocumented workers while his own properties hired them. He rages about classified information while mishandling it. And now he’s falling asleep on the job after calling Joe Biden “Sleepy.” The hypocrisy is staggering.

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

@Acyn Stephen Miller, Bannon, Roger Stone, these are people who, even 10-15 years ago, would have been relegated to the outermost fringes. They are now the heart of the party. The Republicans have become the party of hatred, freaks, weirdos, losers, and crazies.

[Amy McGrath @AmyMcGrathKY]

That’s probably what this is all about. Now that the numbers are higher than the Afghan pullout, Trump wants the numbers to be changed…but nothing will take away the truth and sacrifice of those who gave their lives for Trump’s tragic war of choice.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

18 killed, 600+ wounded, for a war that has depleted the best US weapons and left Iran in a strategically stronger position than 6 months ago.

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

Trump’s tariffs keep changing. But what doesn’t change is who pays for the chaos: Americans, every time they check out at the grocery store.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Really think that Gov of Kentucky needs to demand answers or declare the seat vacant

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

McConnell's on eternity leave.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Massie on Epstein: Look, it's a political liability to the Republican Party, but it's one that they created. Trump could fix it. He could direct his attorney general to start prosecuting crimes. That's the only way you can fix this. And then just to come clean.

I believe, Melania Trump when she said Epstein did not act alone. I believe JD Vance, when he said that Epstein was connected to U.S. And Israeli intelligence. If and if they believe what they're saying, then Republicans should just come clean, produce all the documents and start prosecuting men.

[Irlandarra @irlandarra2019]

Brooklyn Park Police Chief Mark Bruley:

"The last weeks we as a law enforcement community have been receiving endless complaints about civil rights violations in our streets from US citizens. What we're hearing is they're being stopped in traffic stops or on the street with no cause and being demanded to show paperwork to determine if they are here legally.

We started hearing from our police officers the same complaints as they fell victim to this while off duty. Every one of these individuals is a person of color ... it has to stop"

[Prof. Katharine Hayhoe @KHayhoe]

How much is Canada responsible for the wildfire smoke reaching the U.S.?

Right now, nearly 900 wildfires are burning across Canada. Last week, Toronto's air quality was the worst of any major city in the world. But as the smoke spread south to the U.S., many politicians began blaming Canada for poor forest management.

It's true that local and regional forestry practices matter. Leafy deciduous trees hold moisture and can act as natural fire breaks; so clearing them for conifer monocultures can leave forests at higher risk to burn. But fire suppression, a big issue in the dry forests of the western U.S. where putting out frequent fires let fuel pile up, isn't a major factor here. Canada's remote boreal forests already burn naturally, in less frequent but higher-intensity fires.

The single biggest reason for the record-breaking *increases* in the area burned by wildfires that are causing all this smoke isn't land management. It's human-caused climate change.

As the world warms, winters are no longer cold enough to kill off tree-eating beetles. Their populations explode, leaving millions of acres of dead trees ready to burn. Warmer winters also mean less snowpack, so soil dries out earlier and the fire season runs longer. And climate change has more than doubled the frequency of hotter, drier fire weather across Canada and increased the frequency of the lightning strikes that spark most fires in northern Alberta and BC.

Every one of those four dials is being turned in the same direction by the same thing: the heat-trapping gas emissions from burning fossil fuels. And that's where the numbers start to tell a different picture.

The United States has emitted more carbon than any country in history: around 435 billion tonnes since the 1800s. That's close to a quarter of all the carbon humans have ever put into the air, 12 times Canada's total and still 50% more than China's 285 billion tonnes.

Look at it by company instead of by country, and 88 of the world's largest fossil fuel producers are responsible for the emissions that led to more than a third of the forest area burned across western North America since 1986. At the top of that list is Saudi Aramco, followed by US companies Chevron and ExxonMobil. The first Canadian company, Suncor, doesn't appear until number 76 ... but that could change, as Canada is building more pipelines!

Bottom line? If politicians want to clear the smoke from our skies, tell them the most effective place to start is by cutting the emissions that are driving these fires - no matter which side of the border we're on.

Sources, I'm a scientist so you know I have them: Doubled fire weather risk (World Weather Attribution, 2023). Fire suppression near communities (Parisien et al. 2020, Nature Communications). Climate-beetle-fire connections (e.g. Woo et al. 2024, Ecosphere). Climate-driven lightning increases in northwestern Canada (Burrows et al. 2024, Atmosphere-Ocean). Cumulative CO₂ by country (Our World in Data). 88 producers behind 1/3+ of western N. American area burned (Dahl et al. 2023, Environmental Research Letters). Company ranking (Carbon Majors). And for an exhaustive review of how we know human emissions are driving climate change, see the next post in this thread.

https://t.co/Spedt9SMaI

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

Naming an airport after a conman who used it for decades to sex-traffic teenage girls with his fellow Palm Beach resident, Jeffrey Epstein, and who is actively interfering in the next democratic election so he can continue to grift USA with his fam is the most Florida sh*t ever.