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[Juliet Eilperin @eilperin]

SCOOP: Trump officials are diverting roughly $90 million in national parks entry fees to pay for the president’s July 4th plans, including a massive fireworks display. By @jakespring @ddiamond and @NaemaAhmed https://t.co/Oy1OqmYdZO

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Yesterday, the IDF seized 4 students from their homes in the West Bank, including 20-year-old American, Sama Safi.

The Israeli govt didn’t tell her family or the U.S. Embassy where or why she was being taken & is holding her without charges.

America must secure her release NOW.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

You are not seeing a lot of news you should be seeing.

Israel is targeting hospitals in Lebanon. Dialysis patients, babies in NICU, and others will die. This’s a crime against humanity.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

JUST IN: Benjamin Netanyahu just thanked Congress for Section 224 of the NDAA.

That should probably get your attention.

Foreign leaders don’t usually thank Congress for provisions they don’t consider important.

Section 224 creates a “United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative” focused on joint weapons development, data sharing, and deeper military coordination. (Al Jazeera)

Go read Section 224.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel executed Theodosia today in Qlayaa, South Lebanon.

She was on her way to take her exams.

Israel dropped a bomb on her car, killing her and her parents.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 DISGUSTING: Top journalist Zeina Khodr exposes a horrific war crime. The Zionist regime deliberately launched a drone strike on a busy civilian highway linking Beirut to the south.

They are intentionally targeting innocent families and commuters with absolute impunity.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

oh my goodness -- Ted Lieu played Rubio a video of Trump sleeping while Rubio tried to talk to him during a cabinet meeting. Then this exchange happened:

RUBIO: I've never seen him fall asleep

LIEU: I'm gonna show you a video that shows you just lied to Congress

*plays another video of Trump sleeping by Rubio*

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: All I can say is this is fucking so cynical I have no words. https://t.co/y3fgOAbLRJ

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel just dropped bombs on an ambulance in Chour, South Lebanon — assassinating 2 paramedics.

Not fighters.
Not a military base.

Just medics trying to save lives.

Israel has now killed over 135 paramedics in Lebanon in less than 3 months.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BLANCHE: Who the president chooses to pardon is not a problem, period

IVEY: What's the legal basis for that statement?

BLANCHE: The Constitution

IVEY: The Constitution does not give him the authority to pardon in exchange for payments. It does not permit bribery

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel is explicitly warning Christian residents in southern Lebanon not to welcome Muslim residents among them, threatening to bomb Christian neighborhoods.

Israel is now searching for Muslims hiding in the attics of Christians. It’s not 1944. Read that again.

The goal isn't military. It's destabilizing social stability in Lebanon.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized".

That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING

Israel is now threatening to bomb the Christian Quarter in the city of Tyre, South Lebanon.

There are no military targets.

This is one of the oldest continuously inhabited Christian areas in southern Lebanon — over 2,000 years old.

Not a peep from Western governments

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The Trump administration is sending ships to rip 900 ocean sensors out of the Atlantic and Pacific — and Congress already told them twice they couldn't do it.**
They're doing it anyway.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Meanwhile right wing “influencers” are in Moscow talking about how moral they are.

Sick

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Duckworth to Rubio: "That's an astonishing figure. In just 14 weeks, President Trump will have blown through as much if not more money in Iran than he thinks Congress should spend on US diplomacy for the entirety of the next fiscal year."

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

True colors came out.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Israel has destroyed nearly 62,000 Lebanese homes, almost 700 every day for 90 days.

These are war crimes under international law: Wanton devastation not justified by military necessity.

[Canary @TheCanaryUK]

🚨BREAKING: Israel has just bombed Jabal Amel Hospital in South Lebanon – COMPLETELY destroying 3 apartment blocks full of INNOCENT civilians.

We CANNOT allow Israel's barbarism to be normalised.

END wepaon sales to Israel now @Keir_Starmer