Nell Minow (she/her)

Movie critic, shareholder advocate; Contributing Editor at @ebertvoices; #corpgov #movies @miniverpress @valueedgeadvsrs @moviemom @awfj @criticschoice @wafca

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump: The game tonight is gonna be amazing. If they beat us we'll say it was rigged just like the election in 2020

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Jack Smith spent two years building the most serious federal cases against a president in American history. He indicted on classified documents and January 6. Both were dismissed when Trump took office. A federal judge has since permanently blocked the release of his classified documents report.

He said Thursday that the United States is facing an attack on the rule of law different in kind and scope from anything he has seen in his lifetime. He said judges can no longer trust the Justice Department as currently constituted. He said prosecutors in Minnesota refused retribution orders against families of people ICE shot earlier this year. And he said the pardons for January 6 participants send one message to those pardoned and a second, equally troubling message to every federal law enforcement officer watching.

Smith doesn't have political ambitions. He has no book to sell. He resigned, saw his work buried, and is doing press on the eve of the 250th to say what he believes the record requires.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Ana Navarro: “The ballroom, that was supposed to be privately paid, it’s not. The pool, it’s over budget and now it has to be repaired again, that’s coming out of your pocket. The replacing of the grass of the ellipse and this heliport he wants to build, that’s coming out of your pockets. The repaving of the Rose Garden, that’s coming out of your pocket. A lot of the expenses related to this disastrous flop of a state fair, that’s coming out of your pocket at a time when Americans can’t afford basic needs. When Americans don’t have money for healthcare, for groceries, for summer vacations, to pay for medicine or fill their tank with gas. This is what this guy is doing”

[Nell Minow (she/her) @nminow]

@MelRiveraMills @ABCPolitics More like anything not racist is radical to them. Trump and Miller literally want to whitewash history.

[David Stockman @DA_Stockman]

Our loud-mouthed emperor is naked----sporting the worst real economic growth in 80 years:

Average Real Growth During Presidential Terms Since 1947 (real final sales of domestic product):

President(s) Period CAGR
Truman Q1 1947 – Q4 1952 4.5%
Eisenhower Q4 1952 – Q4 1960 2.8%
Kennedy-JohnsonQ4 1960 – Q4 1968 5.0%
Nixon-Ford Q4 1968 – Q4 1976 2.7%
Carter Q4 1976 – Q4 1980 3.4%
Reagan Q4 1980 – Q4 1988 3.4%
Bush 41 Q4 1988 – Q4 1992 2.2%
Clinton Q4 1992 – Q4 2000 3.7%
Bush 43 Q4 2000 – Q4 2008 2.0%
Obama Q4 2008 – Q4 2016 1.9%
Trump 45 Q4 2016 – Q4 2020 1.8%
Biden Q4 2020 – Q4 2024 3.3%
Trump 47 Q4 2024 – Q1 2026 2.1%
Pre-Trump Q1 1947 – Q4 2016 3.2%
Trump 45+47 Combined Average 2.0%

[Nell Minow (she/her) @nminow]

Win win.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

James Comer: All Democrats are gonna do if they flip the House and become the majority is investigate and harass Donald Trump

[Nell Minow (she/her) @nminow]

In other words, history based on facts, data, evidence, and honesty.

[ABC News Politics @ABCPolitics]

The White House has released a scathing 162-page report accusing the Smithsonian Institution of engaging in "extreme political activism" and presenting "a radical view of American history."

Read more: https://t.co/zto9ZCo1dm

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

$MSTR spent the last two weeks selling Bitcoin. The average price on 3,588 Bitcoin sold was $60,196.73. Given MSTR’s average cost, that’s a realized loss of about $15K per Bitcoin, or about $54 million. With over 840K Bitcoin left to sell, the total losses will be much greater.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "Every time I see a crypto guy where they dropped an investigation, I said, 'You're lucky I'm president.'"

[ABC News Politics @ABCPolitics]

The White House has released a scathing 162-page report accusing the Smithsonian Institution of engaging in "extreme political activism" and presenting "a radical view of American history."

Read more: https://t.co/zto9ZCo1dm

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Labor force participation has fallen to 61.5% — the lowest since 2021, erasing the entire post-pandemic recovery.

Since Trump's inauguration, over a million people have left the job market — which explains part of the reason the unemployment rate dropped last month.

[Nell Minow (she/her) @nminow]

@DixieDroo @Mollyploofkins The Mount Vernon fireworks shown on @PBS #acapitolfourth were perfect and I love this drone show from Texas:

https://t.co/Fjb58HZaU9

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

When bigger isn't better. Another thing Trump ruined.

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: Bitcoin falls below $62,000 after MicroStrategy, $MSTR, announces it has sold has sold $216 million worth of Bitcoin “to fund dividends.”

[Nell Minow (she/her) @nminow]

Corrected headline: not conflict of interest alarm but ACTUAL CORRUPTION AND CRIMINAL THEFT

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Vulcan, a rare-earth magnetics firm backed by Donald Trump Jr.’s 1789 Capital, lands a record $620M conditional loan from the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital in a $1.4B bid to curb China’s magnet grip. https://t.co/8UFiXtMnxL

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

Annualized returns of legendary investors:
- Warren Buffett: 29.5%
- Charlie Munger: 19.8%
- Peter Lynch: 29.2%
- Ben Graham: 20%
- Donald Trump: 45%

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

STEPHANOPOULOS: The president has repeatedly claimed vandals cut a 350 foot gash in the pool. That claim is echoed in a legal filing by your department. What evidence do you have?

BURGUM: Ah, well we have the actual cuts that were made

STEPHANOPOULOS: There's a 350 foot gash?

BURGUM: Well it's multiple gashes that add up to 350 feet

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Money saved: 0

People killed: 757,314

[Nell Minow (she/her) @nminow]

I hope he mentioned this to Trump when they had their chat.

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

- Theodore Roosevelt 1918

Theodore Roosevelt wrote these words in 1918, during the final year of World War I, when debates over patriotism, loyalty, free speech, and dissent were at their peak.

Although he was no longer president, Roosevelt remained one of the most influential figures in American public life.

The quote comes from an editorial he wrote for the Kansas City Star, in which he argued that patriotism did not mean unquestioning loyalty to those in power. Roosevelt believed no president was above criticism. Instead, he argued that citizens had a responsibility to speak honestly about their leaders, praising them when they were right and criticizing them when they were wrong.

Those words carried particular weight because they were written during wartime, when criticism of government officials was often viewed as unpatriotic or even dangerous. Roosevelt argued the opposite: that a healthy republic depends on honest criticism, even when it is unpopular.

He wrote the passage in his May 7, 1918, editorial, Sedition, A Free Press, and Personal Rule, published just weeks before the Sedition Act of 1918 became law.

[Ben Norton @BenjaminNorton]

The US loves to boast about how wealthy it is, but its wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few oligarchs.

US oligarchs are so insanely rich that they make average wealth seem very high.

But *median* wealth in the US is lower than in Slovenia & Portugal, and half of Italy's