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Work| Salon, Insider, NBCThink, Next Avenue, and beyond. Essayist, memoir in progress. Habitual re-Tweeter.

Photo Creds: Life Magazine, Maine Magazine

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

Anyone think it’s odd that every event is just a bunch of sycophants standing behind an immobile president pretending it’s normal?

[scb writer @SCBeckner]

Please stop the lunacy.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump: "On Wednesday, June 24th, at 7 P.M., in magnificent Washington, D.C., now totally beautified, and one of the Safest Cities anywhere in the World, and in celebration of our Country’s 250 Year History, we will be bringing you, LIVE, the Greatest Rally, EVER! It will be special at every level — A Rally to end all Rallies! We don’t want singers with no talent, but big fees to put you to sleep, we’ve told them all to stay home. All we want is you, me, a few speakers, and the Greatest Music ever played, the same Music you have listened to for years! We will have the fabulous Lee Greenwood introducing me with what has turned out to be one of the Greatest Hits of All Time, GOD BLESS THE U.S.A., and the amazing Christopher Macchio, who will sing Nessun Dorma, Hallelujah, Ave Maria, God Bless America, and others — Not since the legendary Luciano Pavarotti has there been such a voice! The Rally will also be featuring the wonderful U.S. Army Band “Pershing’s Own” and Armed Forces Choir, and “The President’s Own” Unites States Marine Band, with the Joint Armed Forces Chorus, all of your favorite Hits, PLUS a fine and highly dignified gentleman known as, President DONALD J. TRUMP!"

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Wait…Did he just say checkered past ? I’m 28 felonies, 6 bankruptcies, and an Epstein bromance short of his checkered past.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Trump promised not to “touch” Medicaid.

Now he is cutting it by $1 trillion and taking health care away from patients with cancer, AIDS and other life-threatening diseases to pay for tax breaks to the top 1% and his wealthy campaign contributors.

Unimaginable cruelty.

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

This photo/screenshot will live in infamy.

[Acyn @Acyn]

A drone view showing a protest in Albania against a luxury resort development planned by a company linked to Jared Kushner

📸: REUTERS/Florion Goga

[VoteVets @votevets]

BREAKING: Rep. Pat Ryan just got the House Armed Services Committee UNANIMOUSLY to force Pete Hegseth to explain every senior military firing within the next 5 days. Hegseth has fired 24+ officers without cause or explanation. Even Republicans want answers.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

The Revolt Inside 60 Minutes Just Got Worse.

Legendary correspondent Steve Kroft is now accusing CBS leadership of "journalistic interference."

His verdict?

"It was a slap in the face to everybody who has worked there."

Notice the pattern.

Scott Pelley says he was stonewalled.

Sharon Alfonsi says Pelley was fired for asking questions.

Now Steve Kroft says management is interfering with journalism.

At some point, this stops looking like a personnel dispute.

And starts looking like a newsroom rebellion.

[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.

[Tara Setmayer 🌻 🇺🇸 @TaraSetmayer]

🚨Remember Schedule F where Trump could fire career civil servants at will?

Well, it’s back. He just removed civil servant protections from 8000 federal employees so he can fire them if they don’t do his bidding. I explain in more detail on my Substack “Uncompromised”

H/t @MilesTaylorUSA

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

Why? why? Are we allowing this? People wake up. It’s going to be too late, if it’s not already too late.

“According to security scholar Phillips P. O’Brien, Trump has set the United States on a downward spiral in which it is “weaker every day.” Perhaps even more alarming, the US “may never come back” from the diminished state Trump will leave it in.”

[scb writer @SCBeckner]

@HQNewsNow

[scb writer @SCBeckner]

It's time for We the People to fill the streets until DT and this administration are GONE. We can't risk waiting until November.
REMOVE THEM ALL NOW. STARTING WITH DT.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Q: The Black unemployment rate is 7.3%. You campaigned on 'Black jobs.' How do you explain this disparity?

TRUMP: Well, we're doing very well with the Black jobs

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

AI could generate trillions in wealth in the coming years.

We can let Elon Musk and a few Silicon Valley billionaires become richer and richer—OR we can tax AI and invest in schools, healthcare, and workers.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

President Trump says he missed the middle of the Knicks-Spurs game last night because he was speaking with generals all night long.

[scb writer @SCBeckner]

He's not focused on reality. At all.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 WOW: CNN confirms a massive supermajority of Americans completely reject Donald Trump's priorities. A staggering 68 percent say the US President is not focused on real issues.

He is intentionally ignoring inflation to focus on his own vanity projects. Total failure!

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Marco Rubio yesterday: “I have never seen Trump fall asleep.”

[scb writer @SCBeckner]

So we're at the point where either he's missing for a week or sleeping in The Oval. Enough is enough.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

DOZY DON IS BACK (HE NEVER LEFT)

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

@atrupar This is a real photo. 🤦🏼‍♀️