Storey

Mainly in this money pit of subhuman interaction called Twitter for the jokes and laughing at thinly veiled bigots.

MPS w/ emph. in IR

[Storey @Storey33]

See ya, Hank! Hope you're getting your fill in a version of hell so gruesome & twisted, it would make the Marquis de Sade sick to his stomach.

[Doug Henwood @DougHenwood]

A classic, discovered by @KenSilverstein1 when he was a correspondent in Brazil. It had a caption something like, “Henry Kissinger at a conference in Rio yesterday."

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

Hi. This is the president

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

SUBRAMANYAM: You tweeted in March that the US Navy had successfully escorted an oil tanker through the Strait of Hormuz. Was that true?

CHRIS WRIGHT: No.

[Nicole Minét @mouvement33]

🚨BREAKING: Epstein file says Trump knew about underage sex parties occurring at his golf course and that revenue from the club was used to fund them.

Trump has known for days this was about to be published in his home state of Florida.
https://t.co/NrVeCtDXRJ

[Zachary Cohen @ZcohenCNN]

New: Before he was announced as Trump’s pick to lead the US intel community as acting DNI, Bill Pulte did not have a security clearance granting him access to highly-classified information, per multiple sources.

ODNI initiated the vetting process for his security clearance on Thursday by requesting a background investigation, one of the sources told CNN.

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

New Yorker exposé of Andrew Tate is even more horrifying than what we already knew. According to it, he raped and beat a 15-year old girl and bought her off with teddy bears. Tate was promoted by Tucker Carlson, Don Trump Jr., and Musk suggested he should be UK prime minister

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

NEW: Another flurry of court filings in 11th hour suit to halt UFC event at White House

Natl Park Service, which appears to be taking its instruction from the UFC, says there'll be filming of participants INSIDE the Lincoln Memorial

And they will closing access to Memorial

[Storey @Storey33]

@NewsHour Imagine how much better it would be with ranked choice voting with runoffs across the board.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Jessica: Kellyanne talking about his scandals, cheated on his wife, lied, insulted heroes—that's Donald Trump.

Compagno: No, he did not insult heroes. That’s a hoax.

Jessica: Oh, Donald Trump never insulted John McCain?

Compagno:

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Hegseth: "These Gitmo detainees should have been executed in my mind personally a long time ago"

[Sophia A. Nelson @IAmSophiaNelson]

Executed? What the hell??!

[Storey @Storey33]

@EW

[Sheryl Gay Stolberg @SherylNYT]

NEW: Major posts are vacant. Waves of scientists are gone. Ebola looms. How RFK Jr. manages HHS:

“If the C.E.O. lacked deep expertise in the company’s business and the leaders of its most important divisions were missing, investors would revolt."

https://t.co/QTZtLMUmUl

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The man running the agency responsible for 340 million Americans' health arrives at 10am, leaves by 4pm, skips his own division chief meetings, and when he does show up - scrolls his phone and gets described by colleagues as "checked out."

Ebola is spreading. Six Americans already exposed. He has not briefed himself with CDC scientists. His response to a reporter asking if he was worried: "Yeah, we're working on it."

The CDC is being run by a health economist with no public health experience who already has another full-time job running NIH. Half of the 27 NIH institutes have no permanent director. The top FDA drug regulator got fired in May - Kennedy found out after it happened.
When measles killed two children in Texas, the CDC official leading the response asked repeatedly to brief Kennedy. He was rebuffed every time.

The person actually running HHS operations is a longtime personal adviser whose policy spreadsheet - more than 50 items - is hidden from the department's own policy team. When Kennedy gets asked a question, his standing answer is "just run that by Stefanie."

This is not a management philosophy. This is a vacancy wearing a title.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

WARNOCK: Right now somebody is trying to buy groceries in Georgia and they can't afford it

BROOKE ROLLINS: Well, that's because of the Biden administation

WARNOCK: Two years later that's your answer? Because of the Biden administration?

[Acyn @Acyn]

Platner: Susan Collins has gotten 21 times wealthier just in the last 15 years. Has anybody else gotten 21 times wealthier since Susan Collins was elected to office? Does Maine have 21 times the schools and hospitals? No, we have less. Susan Collins is getting rich while we're getting screwed.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Democrats need to start asking these nominees the following four questions:

1. Who won the 2000 presidential election?

2. Who won the 2004 presidential election?

3. Who won the 2016 presidential election?

4. Who won the 2024 presidential election?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BLUMENTHAL: Was the Capitol attacked on January 6?

TRAYNOR: The actions on January 6 were deeply troubling to watch, but I'm not going to characterize it

BLUMENTHAL: You are perpetuating a lie. That's the loyalty the president demands. I don't know how you can continue as a district court judge, let alone serve on the court of appeals. I think that frankly it's shameful.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

TRUMP: We're gonna be attacking Iran, and attacking them very hard.

REPORTER: Resuming bombing?

TRUMP: Yeah. We are.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump announces that the United States has secretly been stealing "millions of barrels" of Iran's oil

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Q: Are you concerned about the latest inflation numbers that came out this morning?

TRUMP: No, I love it. I love the inflation. You know why? Because as soon as this war is over -- do you know we've been taking out millions of barrels of oil? Nobody knows it. You know who doesn't know? Iran until right now.