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[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Look! Obama! A real president! An actual leader! On TV!
Speaking to ALL the country - about values, history, courage, sacrifice, allies, empathy, and our commitment to Democracy.
He is frank, forceful, articulate, truthful. No spin, no digression, no hyperbole, no bribes, no self-aggrandizement, no disconnects, no random body sounds, no ass talk.
Just communication filled with information and good sense. In a spirit of unity, urgency, and hope.
Honesty. Truth. Teamwork. Togetherness. Leadership.
I miss it so much and it's great to feel it again.

[AnthonyAndrews @anthon7yandrews]

Short thread

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

I’m pretty sure Donald Trump raped anything that moved during the 1990’s.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

Absolutely insane. Hegseth has no idea what he is doing.

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

Scoop from @nancyayoussef
This means the Joint Staff that serves the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Dan Caine is without its chief planner on the eve of possible resumption of strikes against Iran. It is the 2nd General serving in the Pentagon’s top planning role (J-5) that has been fired/forced out by Hegseth.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Pete Hegseth wanted to livestream an execution. 8 in 10 Americans said no, and even Trump backed off.

Republicans in Congress still haven’t touched him.

150 letters to 14,500. Impeach him:
https://t.co/YmTFU5hfPh

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Giving the felon two more years of unchecked power would be catastrophic.

[Covie @covie_93]

Ramaswamy weaponized Amy Acton's childhood rape for political gain and is out here now telling people to 'relax'????

[The Rule of Law Project @RuleOfLaw_Proj]

"A constitutional republic cannot long endure when criminal law enforcement puts the politics of revenge ahead of the justice of accountability. The Rule of Law Project is brilliantly designed to combat that lethal perversion of priorities at this historic time of testing. I’m honored to join its Advisory Council."
- Laurence H. Tribe (@tribelaw), Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus, Harvard University.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🔥OBAMA: I'm not making this up — the president of the United States is spending time supergluing gold medallions to the mantle in the Oval Office.

He's literally doing arts and crafts while we are fighting a war and trying to deal with out of control prices.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

To speak honestly is one of our weapons, to be open, and to be clear. Not to play games with our partners. This is my rule of thumb. There is a lot of pressure on Ukraine at the moment, and of course I have to be louder. And I will be, because it's part of our defense strategy. We are not trying to be somebody else. If I feel that dangerous things are looming over Ukraine, I have to defend my country. And I do what I can, like our soldiers on the battlefield and people who work for Ukraine. And I, the President, have to use every format of diplomacy.

From an interview with The Sun. (2/3)

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

Imagine thinking that a Cuban-American would be a bigger risk than an Egyptian-American.

Egypt has been a lot closer to the US for a lot longer.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Boom.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: FBI records reveal 16 Epstein-related items, including CLASSIFIED materials, were delivered to Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche’s office in March 2025, yet their whereabouts remain unclear as millions of pages remain unreleased, according to CBS News.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Progressive star Kyle Kuliniski unleashes a SCATHING takedown of "blackmailed pedophile" Donald Trump in a tirade for the ages.

Do you disagree with ANY of these points?

"We know Epstein's houses were all bugged. We know he was Mossad. So that means there's pictures and videos of Trump raping underage girls, which means he's blackmailed," Kulinski, whose YouTube channel Secular Talk boasts 2.3 million subscribers, said.

"He's a blackmailed pedophile. He's a blackmailed pedophile! It's that fucking simple," he went on. "And so when you look around, you know, you look at how Trump operates in office and you go, hey, that's weird. He's literally never said no to Israel once. I wonder why that is? I wonder why that is..."

"You look at what he's doing with Alaska where he's effectively acting like Alaska is his to sell, and he's making deals to, like, give Putin and Russia Alaska's natural resources. Like, why the fuck would he do that?" asked Kulinski. "Well, maybe because they have dirt on him and they can release it if he doesn't allow them to do that, right?"

"When you have a blackmailed pedophile as President, he will do anything to prevent that from coming out, the details of that from coming out, pictures, videos, etc," he went on. "Well, yes, you own him! You fucking own him. And that's what we're looking at here. A man who is owned completely and utterly owned."

"So just a massive bombshell story here. More allegations against Trump. It was a new allegation. The 24 year old one is a new one that people are now talking about," said Kulinski.

A report that was recently released by Democratic staff on the House Judiciary Committee revealed that former Miss Switzerland contestant Beatrice Keul alleged that Trump raped her at the Plaza Hotel in New York in 1993. She also claimed that Jeffrey Epstein introduced himself to her as Trump's best friend and offered to arrange for her travel to Mar-a-Lago.

"And look, it should have become obvious to you when Ted Lieu came out and said Ted Lieu, the congressman, came out and said Trump raped little girls," said Kulinski. "That should have been like, OK, this is as serious as it gets now, right? You have a congressman throwing that around. Trump sues fucking everybody for any reason whatsoever."

"But weird, he's never sued anybody who called him a pedophile!" observed Kulinski. "Strange, strange... He wages lawsuits over polling data that he doesn't like. Remember that? Remember the Ann Selzer poll he didn't like? He sued Ann Selzer, the pollster, because Ann Selzer had Kamala winning Iowa. He sued her over that. He sued CNN. He sued all these news outlets for stories he doesn't like. He sued Bill Maher over a joke he didn't like."

"But he never sues anybody who calls him a pedophile. What does that tell you? I think you know," he concluded.

Now look, we can't say with 100% certainty that Trump's crimes against underage girls were caught on video during the two decades he spent paling around with Epstein and preying on women... But we can piece things together here. We know that Trump is an avowed sexual predator. We know that he raped women. We also know that documents in the Epstein files allege that he sexually abused children. We know that Epstein likely had connections to intelligence agencies and that his properties were wired for video.

Make of that what you will. And vote accordingly.'

Please ❤️ and share if you think that Trump is blackmailed!

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

Republicans seem genuinely despondent over early voting numbers. The fake “color revolution” plot they are trying to sell about Dems is both stupid and too complicated to follow.

Trumpism seems set to fade out with a whimper, but the two folks who may not be able to accept that are Elon Musk and Donald Trump, and they each would seem to pose a unique danger in this moment of deep rejection. Eyes on those two.

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

Putin discussed Polar LNG’s $25B Alaska gas project with Witkoff and Kushner as Russia’s Novatek secretly financed the venture. CEO Joel Riddle resigned over the funding. https://t.co/jJxwqZtWgm

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Marco Rubio was confirmed unanimously in the Senate. A stain on 99 senators.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

💯💯💯

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Man, oh man. Obama just roasted Trump and some of his cabinet members for minutes in Atlanta. Stop what you're doing and watch this. There is no way Trump is sleeping tonight.