SMartin

Let’s go BLUE.
Pro Freedom; Slava Ukraine; MAGA is a scourge and stain on the American experiment.

[Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer]

As Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche fired me for doing my job, then subjected me and my family to months of retaliation. My story is one of many reasons the Senate should not confirm Blanche again. Read and share my letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. https://t.co/g8bFrhZ9Dg

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

To everyone celebrating the first flight on Qatar Force One today, understand what you are actually applauding.

A foreign government handed the sitting President of the United States a $400 million plane. American taxpayers then paid to retrofit it, with an estimated cost of at least another $400 million (some estimates far higher), for security and communications work in a Texas hangar since last September.

When Trump leaves office, the plane does not stay with the government. Ownership transfers to his presidential library foundation. In other words, he keeps it.

You are being asked to treat pure corruption as normal, to shrug at a President personally profiting from a foreign gift the taxpayers paid to upgrade.

In any other administration this would be the scandal that ends a presidency.

With Trump, it’s Wednesday.
https://t.co/qAfVUp8KBd

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Any other FBI Director would have resigned before this story broke. The real news here is that Trump is willing to tolerate this.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Good to have this on the record, then. “I’m not a big fan of Ukraine,” Trump said. “Except their women.”

[David Collier @mishtal]

Dear @realDonaldTrump

If Iran did not want Hezbollah to fire at Israel.
Hezbollah would not fire.

Iran signs deal.
Tells Hezbollah to attack
Israel responds
Iran claims ceasefire broken.
U.S. pressures Israel
Israel gets blame
Iran wins more concessions

STOP BEING STUPID!

[Barry R McCaffrey @mccaffreyr3]

The Iranians are going to stick garbage in Trump’s face. The US is in a very dangerous position. After 21,000 air sorties…. hard to imagine a renewed air war. Iran now owns the Strait. They now are sure they must have nuclear weapons.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

"Collective apathy" will be the estocada to American democracy.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

JD Vance: “My understanding talking to Steve and Jared this morning is that things are going well…The US has all the cards. The straits are now open.”

(Fact check: Iran announced just hours ago that it had closed the Strait of Hormuz.)

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Was waiting for this video to drop ever since I saw the news item about Boston. Garron doesn’t disappoint.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

He’s so incompetent, he can’t even make the point he’s trying to make. The U.S. relationship with the UK is closer than any other bilateral relationship and far beyond the U.S. relationship with Israel. It isn’t a partnership, it is a sacrosanct alliance in which almost all intelligence is shared (or was before Trump) and trust is implicit. It’s why chief of London Station is the coveted pre-retirement assignment for CIA officers. We spy on Israel and they spy on us. They are not in Five Eyes and won’t be. Vance just elevated Israel to a level they’ve never attained by way of trying to diminish them. He has no idea what he’s talking about.

[Erin Burnett OutFront @OutFrontCNN]

28-year CIA veteran John Sipher reacts to CNN reporting that Trump’s new acting intel chief asked if he’ll have access to a government plane and a security detail: “He’s unserious and unqualified.”

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @WhiteHouse: If trump actually believes there are no limits to his power in the Iran conflict, why did he surrender to Iran at Versailles?

Asking for @SecRubio.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Zelensky tells the Belarusian dictator that he has one week to remove the missile guidance systems that he allows Russia to use for targeting Ukrainian cities or "we will remove them ourselves".

[Greg Jaffe @GregJaffe]

A Black Admiral's Promotion Seemed Like a Given. Hegseth Blocked It Anyway
He has blocked the promotions of more than 40 officers. Women and minority leaders account for 50 percent of those removed.

https://t.co/zehPD822kH

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

"Please don't put in the newspaper that I got mad."

[Eli Clifton @EliClifton]

Today, at the newspaper owned by Trump’s biggest donor, Miriam Adelson.

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

@RonFilipkowski You can tell from the body language here that she “begging”. 🥴

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

RFK Jr: "Gardasil is probably the single worst mass vaccine that we've ever seen

The reality

It's SO GOOD that no one vaccinated in England has died from cervical cancer.

In fact it's on the way to eliminating it.

Yes - ELIMINATE CERVICAL CANCER

Don't listen to RFK Jr

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Here are Italian PM Meloni's remarks about Trump, translated to English:

"So certain things deserve an immediate response. Donald Trump's statements are completely made up. I am frankly stunned.

I don't know why the president of the United States behaves this way with his own allies. It's not the first time this has happened. After all, I can only say it's a shame he doesn't show the same determination with the enemies of the West, with the enemies of the United States, with leaders with whom instead he proves to be much more accommodating.

But he must remember one thing: Italy and I never beg. "

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

Iran announces Hormuz is closed again, because Israel hasn't withdrawn from Southern Lebanon.

They're smelling blood. Trump has surrendered so thoroughly that they're seeing what else they can get away with.