Matt

Alea iacta est

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

8D Chess

[Matt @Matthewlpearce]

@TQPurdon Smdh. Peacock Ally erasure

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Interesting how the national debt panic (and the beltway groups that fulminated about it) vanished - even though the total debt has more than doubled since the 2011 debt ceiling wars.

Great @RichardRubinDC story, WSJ A1, no discourse! https://t.co/aAFAhrmboV

[Matt @Matthewlpearce]

@TQPurdon As a fullback

[Yonatan Touval @Yonatan_Touval]

The algebra of the war makers will have been flawless. But what they cannot read, they will not have reckoned with — and wars are made of resentment, dishonor, loyalty and grief as much as of algorithms and fire.

My Guest Essay in @nytimes: https://t.co/2g8dXJoe28

[Bianna Golodryga @biannagolodryga]

“The exemptions, which were issued by the Treasury Department, will be in place until April 11.

‘In one fell swoop we’ve undone a huge amount of pressure on Russia,’”
https://t.co/9cKmHl0JIJ

[PGA of America @PGA]

Happy Presidents Day from the heart of our nation’s capital. 🇺🇸

[Larry @Tom & Marty's @tomandmartys]

@MSanker13062 I love the Count of Monte Cristo.

[Matt @Matthewlpearce]

@PardonMyTake #boycottPMT until @hen_ease is gone

[David Weigel @daveweigel]

Always baffled when people use this line - it was maybe the most predictable agenda in political history, laid out by the candidate and think tanks during campaign. If you listened to two Trump speeches you were caught up.

[Susan Glasser @sbg1]

New video shows that the final act of his life was trying to help a woman who was being physically assaulted by the masked agents who would then kill him.

[Jim Newell @jim_newell]

Holy shit

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

Over twenty-five years in the U.S. Navy, thirty-nine combat missions, and four missions to space, I risked my life for this country and to defend our Constitution – including the First Amendment rights of every American to speak out. I never expected that the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense would attack me for doing exactly that.

My rank and retirement are things that I earned through my service and sacrifice for this country. I got shot at. I missed holidays and birthdays. I commanded a space shuttle mission while my wife Gabby recovered from a gunshot wound to the head– all while proudly wearing the American flag on my shoulder. Generations of servicemembers have made these same patriotic sacrifices for this country, earning the respect, appreciation, and rank they deserve.

Pete Hegseth wants to send the message to every single retired servicemember that if they say something he or Donald Trump doesn’t like, they will come after them the same way. It’s outrageous and it is wrong. There is nothing more un-American than that.

If Pete Hegseth, the most unqualified Secretary of Defense in our country’s history, thinks he can intimidate me with a censure or threats to demote me or prosecute me, he still doesn’t get it. I will fight this with everything I’ve got — not for myself, but to send a message back that Pete Hegseth and Donald Trump don’t get to decide what Americans in this country get to say about their government.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

The Kennedy Center was named after my uncle, President John F Kennedy. It was named in his honor. He was a man who was interested in the arts, interested in culture, interested in education, language, history. He brought the arts into the White House, and he and my Aunt Jackie amplified the arts, celebrated the arts, stood up for the arts and artists.

It is beyond comprehension that this sitting president has sought to rename this great memorial dedicated to President Kennedy. It is beyond wild that he would think adding his name in front of President Kennedy’s name is acceptable. It is not.

Next thing perhaps he will want to rename JFK Airport, rename the Lincoln Memorial, the Trump Lincoln Memorial. The Trump Jefferson Memorial. The Trump Smithsonian. The list goes on.

Can we not see what is happening here? C’mon, my fellow Americans! Wake up! This is not dignified. This is not funny. This is way beneath the stature of the job. It’s downright weird. It’s obsessive in a weird way. Just when you think somone can’t stoop any lower, down they go…

[Sahil Kapur @sahilkapur]

President Trump, Jan 20: “I will also sign an executive order to immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America. Never again will the immense power of the state be weaponized to persecute political opponents.”

[Rep. Jason Crow @RepJasonCrow]

You’re lying @JDVance. Stop using tragedy to stoke divisions between Americans so you can grab more power.

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

1. History isn’t there to be liked or disliked.
2. History is there to be learned from.
3. History offends you? Even better. Then you’re less likely to repeat it.

It’s that simple.

[Matt @Matthewlpearce]

@RepSpartz @SpeakerJohnson

[Warren Sharp @SharpFootball]

Bears fans turning on the draft

[James Surowiecki @JamesSurowiecki]

This is exactly how it felt in 2008-9, when we waited for the futures on Sunday night to see how bad things would get. But then, the crisis was the result of a real problem: the housing bubble bursting. This time around, the crisis is literally the result of the whims of one man.