Marjorie Gowdy 💙🌻 📜🖋 🇨🇦🐴 🐾 💙

Poet, artist. Fiction, too. New chapbook: Pillow Fight. Look for me on Bluesky: 🌻🦉🇺🇦

[Marjorie Gowdy 💙🌻 📜🖋 🇨🇦🐴 🐾 💙 @ScribeMarjie]

My poppies. Remembrance. Stunning reminder of beauty beyond all the beastliness of these times. #Arts, nature, education, and liberal values.

[Dante @DanteTheDon]

Hunter Biden is on a mission to make me like him. And he’s crushing it

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

@Donaldus_R @realDonaldTrump Lord and savior? Really man. You need deprogramming my friend. I quit crack- you can quit the cult.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Hunter Biden on Elon Musk:

“You’ve got some motherf-cker who’s made over $251 billion being a United States citizen, that got here and stayed here illegally before he got his citizenship, sitting here lecturing us on who we should allow into the US”

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The only business I engaged in was selling my paintings. I averaged about $225k per year in income over the 4 years of my Dad’s presidency. Now you may be outraged by that but where is your outrage over Don Jr opening a private members club next to the White House called the Executive Branch club where the stated purpose is to rub shoulders with senior White House officials and Cabinet members. And the initiation fee is $500,000. Where is your outrage over Peter Navarro calling from inside the WH to push the Pentagon to grant the largest loan it has ever made to any company for a rare earth startup backed by Don Jr. Where is your outrage when Donald Trump took a Boeing 747 from the government of Qatar. Four hundred million dollars. Over a billion dollars in tax payer money for upgrades. The most valuable gift any foreign government has ever given the United States. And when he leaves office, it goes to his library.
He sued his own IRS for ten billion dollars and settled. And the settlement declares the IRS, and I am quoting the filing here, is “forever barred” from pursuing its audits of him, his family, and his companies.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Hunter Biden is proof that what doesn’t kill you, makes you funnier.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

My Pardon went back to 2014 because that was the scope of the tax investigation I was indicted for. Failing to pay my taxes on time, which I paid in full with penalties and interest in 2021 two years before they charged me. I had no “business deals” in Ukraine. I served on the board between 2014-19. Three of those years my father was neither VP nor President.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

Worse than that, and this is ONE story.

Sazan was a protected marine national park. On Dec 30, 2024, weeks before the inauguration, Albania de-protected it and handed Jared’s affiliate “strategic investor” status for fast-tracked permits. Locals already call it Ishulli i Trumpëve. Trump Island.

The buyer is Affinity Partners. Biggest backer: Saudi Arabia’s PIF, $2B, placed six months after Jared left the White House, over the objections of PIF’s own screening committee (“inexperienced,” “excessive fees”). MBS overruled them.

Kushner’s pulled $110M+ in fees from the Saudis for a fund that, by its own filings, returned NOTHING. Foreign money in Affinity jumped from ~$3B to $4.8B across 2024, right as a second term got likely.

On the ground, bulldozers in a flamingo habitat, no permits, no environmental study. A protester who objected got beaten by private guards while police watched.

Albania’s anti-corruption prosecutors have now opened an inquiry into how the land lost its protection.

So no, it’s not a private island they “discovered.” It’s a national park a foreign government de-protected, financed by sovereign wealth the Saudis’ own analysts flagged as a bad bet, routed through the president’s son-in-law.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Just take the Albanian Island deal. Jared and Ivanka secured a $1.4 billion resort on Sazan, a protected island on state land. By his own account, he was introduced to Albania's prime minister on the Rothschilds' yacht. Ivanka called the place a "private island" they "discovered." Albanian prosecutors have now opened a corruption inquiry into how that land lost its protected status.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Ha. How about this then:

Jared Kushner: $6 billion in Gulf money. Roughly $90 million a year in fees. A protected island in Albania. All while negotiating a war for the United States.
Me: I sold paintings. About $225,000 a year. The whole of my business while my father was President. Congress investigated it.
If that set your hair on fire, where is all your outrage now?

[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

It's fascinating to watch some pundits overthink Hunter Biden's social media presence. Their brains so rewired by focus group pablum and D.C. newsletter speak that a political figure talking like a normal person with honesty + humor is some kind of Oz the Mentalist parlor trick.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Almost 60 Sickened From Raw Milk In Idaho

If ONLY someone had come up with a way to remove harmful bacteria from milk!!

[Luke Johnson 🇺🇸 @Orly_licious]

@LarrySabato Story of the creation of Kennedy Center: Three presidents envisioned a national cultural center and what it would mean to the United States. Pursued by Eisenhower, it opened in 1971 and was named as a "living memorial" to Kennedy after his assassination.
https://t.co/u2agtCT8gD

[Center for Politics at UVA @Center4Politics]

"Peak Trump” may be over.
@LarrySabato joins @CNN's @jimsciutto to discuss cracks emerging among congressional Republicans as November approaches.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Good

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man."

A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life.

Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

the 250th celebration will now officially be a Trump rally, he announces

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

I'm old enough to remember when the White House wasn't the trashiest place in America.

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

NEW: The World Cup of Ugh

What was supposed to be a joyful American summer is clouded with angst and dread. High ticket prices. Slumping demand. Travel bans. ICE agents. A war. And so much Trump

Can it be saved? https://t.co/hGbbINtsGH

[Chris Evert @ChrissieEvert]

awww, thank you, Billie… I remember practicing for hours with you in that Florida sun! You returned the favor by practicing with me during Wimbledon the year I won it. This is what friends do.❤️

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Remember this the next time you see a story about the need for budget cuts at CBS.