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[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

This Muslim mother had a terrorist son killed fighting for Hezbollah. So her older son places a Hezbollah scarf around her neck and congratulates her on his ‘martyrdom.’

She then says to him: “Allah willing, you will become a martyr and die soon too.”

It’s a literal death cult.

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

Chair of Trump Religious Commission: "Separation of Church and state is not in the Constitution"

From the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion."

I am begging MAGA to read the Constitution of the country they claim to love.

[Sarah Adams @sarahadams]

Saturday Preparedness Check

What's the one emergency item everyone should own but most people don't?

I'll start: a quality tourniquet.

Most people carry a first aid boo-boo kit but don't have the one piece of equipment that can stop life-threatening bleeding literally within seconds.

It's only useful if you know how to use it, but that skill could save someone you love, a stranger, or even your own life.

What's your pick?

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Will this be part of Texas's Bible study?

Leviticus 19:33–34: “When a stranger sojourns with you in your land, you shall not do him wrong. You shall treat the stranger who sojourns with you as the native among you, and you shall love him as yourself.”

https://t.co/0W4e3OjhPT

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

North America's newest international bridge is finished.
The roads are painted.
The customs booths are staffed.
The lights are on.
But not a single car can use it.

The Gordie Howe International Bridge, a $6.4 billion (CAD) project connecting Michigan and Ontario, was built to ease congestion, lower shipping costs and speed up the movement of goods between the United States and Canada.

It carries enormous importance.
More than 25% of all trade between the two countries crosses at Detroit.

That means car parts.
Food.
Medical supplies.
Manufacturing equipment.
Products that eventually end up in supermarkets, dealerships and businesses across North America.
The bridge was supposed to make all of that faster and cheaper.
Instead, it sits empty.

Why?
Just before it was due to open, the Trump administration reportedly refused to issue the final federal approvals needed to connect it to Interstate 75.

Trump then demanded that Canada hand over a 50% ownership stake in the bridge, despite Canada paying for its construction under a long-standing international agreement.

Then another detail emerged.
Just weeks before the bridge was blocked, Matthew Moroun, whose family owns the aging Ambassador Bridge that currently dominates the crossing, donated $1 million to a pro-Trump Super PAC.

The new Gordie Howe Bridge was specifically designed to compete with that decades-old private monopoly.
Now the new bridge sits empty while the old bridge continues collecting tolls.

The administration insists its actions are about protecting American interests.
Others see something very different.
Because this isn't just about a bridge.

Every week it remains closed delays more efficient freight movement, adds costs to supply chains and creates more uncertainty for manufacturers already struggling with higher prices.
Those costs don't disappear.
They eventually reach businesses.
Then consumers.
Then your wallet.

The bridge is reportedly costing its operators around $7 million CAD every week in lost revenue while it sits unused.
It was built to move people and goods.

Instead, it has become another political bargaining chip.

And once again, ordinary people are left paying for Washington's games.

[Charles P. Pierce @CharlesPPierce]

Fake quote, boys. JQA never said it. It was said ABOUT him by an author named John Wingate Thornton in 1860. Call David Barton and get your money back.

[JerryRigEverything @ZacksJerryRig]

Actually that phrase was invented in 1954 - which was 167 years after the constitution was signed. 👍

[Sarah Adams @sarahadams]

Thousands of women are being raped in Iranian prisons, and they want me to care that some entitled soccer players had to take a private jet 4 hours away!?

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Famous libtard Ulysses S. Grant:
“Leave the matter of religion to the family circle, the church, and the private school, supported entirely by private contribution. Keep the Church and State forever separate.”

—Address to the Army of the Tennessee, Des Moines, September 29, 1875

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Elias's comparison is the one worth sitting with. When Bill Clinton briefly boarded Loretta Lynch's plane on a Phoenix tarmac in 2016 and they talked about grandchildren and golf - no documented request, no documented outcome, a conversation - the media treated it as a scandal that required weeks of coverage. Trump stood at a podium in Pennsylvania, described personally calling a federal prosecutor to investigate an election while his preferred candidate was losing, and the Pennsylvania federal prosecutor was sitting in the audience being publicly thanked. Elias: none of the reporters present found this worthy of a question.

The normalization that allows that to happen is not benign. When the president describes using the federal prosecution apparatus to intervene in a state election and it registers as a moment of rally color rather than a constitutional question, the mechanism that would otherwise produce accountability has been eroded. That erosion is itself the story underneath the story.

[MERICA MEMED @Mericamemed]

A gallon of water was wasted on this, and it's worth it.

[JT Boone @JTBoone_]

@MatrixMysteries Muslims plan to make the law once they achieve political power. @AmyMek @laralogan

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

In Egypt, Copt Christians, the descendants of ancient Egypt, are humiliated and forced to work as garbage collectors.

They are denied most forms of employment and called “Garbage People”, because Muslims consider Christians dirty.

This is life for Christians under Islamic rule.

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

here's the problem:

Like Trump, Hegseth is a TV clown of low character - best known for drunkenness, cruelty, sexual infidelity to his wives, misogyny, and racism.

Adm McRaven is a brilliant military commander of high character.

High-character commanders expose Hegseth's rot.

[PJefferies @PerryJefferies]

Hope they’re explaining the sixth or seventh properly in relation to our leaders.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

NEW: Texas becomes the first state to require students to read the Bible as part of the literature curriculum. In a 9–5 vote, the State Board of Education approved the new standards, affecting all 5.5 million public school students.

“We are bringing the Bible back into schools this week for the first time in 60 years,” SBOE member Brandon Hall said.

[Bill Bramhall @BillBramhall]

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[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

DHS is preparing to blast canyons & bulldoze roads through thousands of years of human history along the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park—where virtually nobody is crossing.

In Arizona, just a month ago, they destroyed a 1,000-year-old sacred site and faced no consequences.