Margaux 🌻

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[Margaux 🌻 @OneMargaux]

@BrianPHuntley @CattardSlim @mojoatelier Yes, oops.
The correct name is in the photo.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

There is a lot of misinformation floating around about California’s election — including from the President.

This explainer is worth a watch.

And yes, for the record: we wish the votes were counted faster, too.

[Margaux 🌻 @OneMargaux]

@asmartbrunette1 @joshgerstein "fine and highly dignified gentleman" 🙃

[Melinda French Gates @melindagates]

Women deserve to live in a world that prioritizes their health—full stop.

That’s why I’m announcing additional funding for women's health, bringing my total investment over the past two years to more than $600 million. Here’s what that looks like:

[Nancy Pelosi @SpeakerPelosi]

By supporting Ukraine, we deter aggression everywhere, combat authoritarianism and reaffirm that the United States does not abandon those who fight for freedom.

While some have been unwilling to stand up to Vladimir Putin, the Congress must.

Tonight, House Democrats did.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🔥🚨 MAJOR JUST IN: The SAVE America Act Just Failed In The Senate.

The measure, which would have required voter ID and proof of citizenship nationwide, was rejected 48-50.

Republican senators Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, and Susan Collins voted no.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Why does he keep waking up?

Go to the light old man. Go to the light.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Perfect example of “If it’s not broken, don’t try to fix it”

[Dan Cluchey @dancluchey]

As someone who preferred Platner to Mills, I am incredibly angry at this guy for putting my fellow Mainers — and given the stakes, all decent Americans — in such an awful position. Susan Collins is a serial abettor of the worst forces in our country; she *must* be defeated. (1/4)

[Laura Rozen @lrozen]

Just using him for illegal skullduggery through the midterms

[ProPublica @propublica]

Following ProPublica’s investigation, a number of lawmakers have criticized a deal between the Trump administration and a company linked to Donald Trump Jr. One called it “corruption to the highest degree.”

https://t.co/cJNsBheGGC

[Ed Markey @SenMarkey]

Here are the quotes Trump's NPS is trying to erase at the Bunker Hill Monument. Congress must not fund Trump's campaign of censorship.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

This is remarkable. Trump is giving Pulte, who lacks the statutory qualification (national security expertise) for the DNI job the position so they can manufacture another stolen election charge, or perhaps try to justify halting them altogether. It’s out in the open.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Democrats abandoned Eric Swalwell over sexual assault allegations.

Graham Platner has been hit with a growing list of red flags, reports from former partners, sexting scandals, allegations of threatening behavior, and stories of repeated infidelity, and he still has the party’s endorsements and blessing.

Apparently, standards aren’t standards. They’re enforced only when it’s politically convenient.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

"To the best of my knowledge" is doing some heavy lifting there.

There is no peace deal. None. There is what Kirill Dmitriev told Luna the Kremlin will accept but has not because Putin prefers to press ahead with taking all of Donbas (more a remote prospect now than ever) at the cost of more than 30,000 Russian war dead per month. Sergei Lavrov, Dmitriev's nemesis, just labeled Ukraine "Trump's war" (it used to be "Biden's war") because in spite of Trump's pro-Russian tendencies, the U.S. continues to provide crucial intelligence to Kyiv and sell weapons to Europe for Ukraine's defense.

Volodymyr Zelensky, meanwhile, has just proposed direct talks with Putin to end the war and an unconditional ceasefire -- something Trump himself endorsed 18 months ago -- while those talks occur. Odd behavior for someone said to be holding out on a peace deal.

Even the "spirit of Anchorage," which the Russians kept citing after last August's summit in relation not just to Ukraine but the entirety of the post-Cold War security architecture, is dead, per Ushakov. Marco Rubio now punts on U.S.-led negotiations and hints at Europe as the new interlocutor on that score.

Leave all that to one side.

Luna's useful idiocy is beginning to comes at her own expense.

She's found herself on the wrong side of an unexpected but emerging MAGA split over Russia. Trump loyalists have cottoned onto Moscow's enticement of anti-Trump MAGA defectors such as Tucker Carlson, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Candace Owens. Yet Luna, who bangs on about foreign influence operations, hasn't got the candlepower or nous to realize she's fallen prey to the oldest one in the book.

[Olivier Knox @OKnox]

Not DC. That's the "Vittoriano" in Rome, a monument to King Victor Emmanuel II and a regular backdrop for Mussolini's military parades. (The flowers in the foreground are red, white and green because: 🇮🇹).

[Margaux 🌻 @OneMargaux]

@OKnox and we all remember what happened to Mussolini....

[Margaux 🌻 @OneMargaux]

@JohnJHarwood "In a three-page memo, the center’s general counsel told employees they needed to scrub all references to Trump, restoring the venue’s title to “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.” 👏