Susan Littman

Abstract Painter, Digital Artist & Photographer. Former PR pro.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: Dr. Fauci derails Republican’s bullshit attempts to incriminate him by pleading the Fifth, making the hearing useless.

If they want to prosecute the person responsible for killing millions of people during COVID, he is in the White House.

[Van Jones @VanJones68]

This weekend I shared a post voicing my concerns about the far left. The response has been overwhelming. Leaders in both parties called to tell me the same thing: this stuff has gone too far.

To be clear: I'm a progressive Democrat. My whole life, I've wanted to see a youth movement fight for affordability, for healthcare, for real opportunity. It’s time! The system has utterly failed the next generation. Young people deserve real change — and they are right to fight for a better future.

But the movement is being hijacked by too many people with insane, outlandish and nutty ideas that have nothing to do with affordability, climate solutions or health care.

For example: Mamdani picked a DSA candidate who wants to abolish the police, empty every prison, erase every border and discourage interracial dating. Okayyyy ... So clearly, Chevalier has no problem condemning things! UNLESS it’s a designated terrorist organization. Believe it or not: Chevalier has refused to denounce the terror group Hamas — four times. That’s INSANE — and progressives can’t be afraid to call nonsense like that out.

Supporting Hamas is NOT progressive. The idea of “no police, no prisons, no borders” — which would let pedophiles, human traffickers, terrorists, hate groups and crime syndicates run wild — is NOT progressive for vulnerable communities. Celebrating the murder of Israeli civilians is NOT progressive. These ideas are REGRESSIVE.

If we can't tell right from wrong, good from bad, smart from loony tunes — Team Blue will go down the same road that turned the Republican Party into a shell of itself.

We can’t let that happen to the Democratic Party.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Samuel Alito’s son has worked as a lawyer inside Trump’s Treasury Department since early last year. The administration hid it.

No public resume, no LinkedIn, no mention on the Treasury website, outdated bar listings. Four former officials confirmed it.

The public was never told.

Here is why that matters.

Philip Alito served as an attorney-adviser in Treasury’s general counsel office, briefed on department matters across the board, while the Supreme Court took up a case in which the Treasury Department was a named defendant.

The department never disclosed the connection in court.

Justice Alito did not recuse.

The federal recusal law is plain. A justice must step aside in any case where his impartiality might reasonably be questioned.

That is the test.

Not whether anyone can prove influence but whether a reasonable person looking at this would doubt it. A justice ruling on cases involving the very agency that employs his son fails that test on its face.

And Treasury sits at the center of many upcoming issues, including the fight over Trump’s $1.776 billion dollar fund to reward the January 6th rioters he pardoned. That fight could be headed to the Court too.

This is exactly why the honor system has failed.

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no enforceable code of conduct. I support withholding funding from the Court until the justices adopt a binding code with real recusal review.

Congress holds the power of the purse.

We should use it.

https://t.co/t2aZrXpaoU

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: And my word of warning to my own political party is that we would make a terrible mistake if we thought that our job was to just take power somehow and then put everything back the way it was. That’s not what we’re here to do.

We’re not out to go around and just find all the little bits and pieces of everything that they smashed and tape it together and say, “Here you go, I give you the world as it looked in 2023.” That’s not going to work. It’s not what we need.

So much has changed, and the truth is they are destroying things right and left. They’re destroying a lot of good, important things. They’re destroying some useless things too, because they’re destroying everything. So now we get a chance to put things together on different terms.

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

Trump agreed to a terrible deal to save face, but the damage was done with his unhinged, deranged threats to commit war crimes. He is unwell and unfit to serve.

It's time to invoke the 25th and remove him.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Applebaum's piece is worth reading slowly because the specific details are doing work that the summary can't.

Danish military commanders - inside a NATO alliance the United States founded - had to sit in a room and war-game whether their forces would shoot down American planes and kill American soldiers. Some of them still haven't fully recovered from running that exercise. The most popular app in Denmark during Applebaum's visit was one that identifies American products so users know not to buy them.

NATO has invoked Article 5 exactly once in its history. On behalf of the United States. After September 11th. Allied troops went to Afghanistan and some of them died there. Trump told reporters those allies "stayed a little back, a little off the front lines." The families of soldiers who didn't come back heard that.

Now Trump is in the middle of a war in the Persian Gulf with the Strait of Hormuz locked, oil prices spiking, and he's telling NATO allies - the same ones he insulted and tariffed and threatened - that he's "demanding" they come help solve a problem his own decisions helped create.

Applebaum's conclusion is precise: he doesn't connect what he does on one day to what happens weeks later. Allied leaders have drawn their conclusions. The rupture, as Mark Carney called it, isn't coming. It already happened.

[Jill Wine-Banks (now on Threads and Bluesky) @JillWineBanks]

Head unbowed and baseball cap in white. Total disrespect

[Neal Katyal @neal_katyal]

My statement: 
“Today, the U.S. Supreme Court stood up for the rule of law and Americans everywhere. Its message was simple: Presidents are powerful, but our Constitution is more powerful still. In America, only Congress can impose taxes on the American people.  

The US Supreme Court gave us everything we asked for in our legal case. Everything.

I’m grateful for the leadership of the Liberty Justice Center, and in particular for the brilliant advocacy by its chair, Sara Albrecht, who led the fight when others wouldn’t and was dauntless in its defense of our constitutional order. I'm also grateful to the five small business owners who stood up against these unjust, unconstitutional taxes. By taking a stand, they have delivered crucial relief to tens of thousands of businesses and millions of consumers across the country.  

Finally, I lack the words to properly thank my brilliant Milbank team, especially Colleen Roh Sinzdak and Sami Ilagan, who worked with me day and night for many months to craft the winning argument.  

This case has always been about the presidency, not any one president. It has always been about separation of powers, and not the politics of the moment. I'm gratified to see our Supreme Court, which has been the bedrock of our government for 250 years, protect our most fundamental values.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

NEW: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker sent Trump a letter and an invoice demanding the return of $8.6 billion taken from Illinois families after the Supreme Court ruled Trump’s tariffs are illegal.

[Bridgett Fertig @LightOnLiberty]

Senator Ron Wyden, the Ranking Member of the Senate Finance Committee, said details from his office's investigation into Jeffrey Epstein's finances shows a MASSIVE Treasury Department file locked away in a cabinet drawer, containing records of 4,725 wire transfers totaling nearly $1.1 BILLION flowing in and out of just ONE of Epstein's MANY bank accounts.

Senator Wyden stated HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS more dollars flowed freely through other accounts stating if we "FOLLOW THE MONEY" we'd surely get leads as to who was directly involved in helping Epstein traffic all these children.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Back in 2005 I wrote a scathing column about a corrupt CEO named Andrew Wiederhorn, but I haven't thought about him much since. Today we have a new @nytopinion piece about him: After he got out of prison, he emerged as CEO of another company and, according to DOJ, stole $47 million that financed his 10-bedroom mansion in Portland with an indoor basketball court. He won't face prison this time, though: He then donated $100,000 to Trump's second inaugural committee, and the Trump administration fired the prosecutor and dropped the case. When will the public rebel against this banana republic kind of corruption? https://t.co/SplAFf2wEU

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

In ICE’s holding facility in Baltimore, the Trump Administration is packing dozens and dozens of people shoulder-to-shoulder like sardines, 24-7 with no breaks, no showers and one group toilet. No one wants their family stuffed into a putrid locker room. With tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, ICE can do better.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

We live in challenging times. But these are also clarifying times, where the choices are clear, and we have examples to admire.

All honor to the Epstein survivors.

All honor to the people of Minneapolis.

All honor to the people of Ukraine.

[Charlie Sykes @SykesCharlie]

She didn’t turn around. She didn’t look at them.

They were right there.

She could have arranged to get their contact information.

She could have shown a scrap of sympathy.

But Pam Bondi wouldn’t even look them in the eye.

And that was a defining moment.

https://t.co/wR9XWHPBtv
https://t.co/wR9XWHPBtv

[Olena Halushka @OlenaHalushka]

Dear US Administration,

[Nerdy Pursuit 🐉 @nerdypursuit]

Pete Buttigieg:

"In my military training, I was taught that I should obey and enact all *lawful* orders... I was also taught that, if I was ever ordered to do anything unlawful, that my responsibility was to the law and the Constitution."

https://t.co/WYeiY86f2A

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

The President wouldn't last five minutes as an air traffic controller, and after everything they've been through - and the way this administration has treated them from Day One - he has no business shitting on them now.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

OMG the Cincinnati Children’s hospital Pastor speaks after being detained for 73 days by ICE and he is a legal U.S citizen & they knew it when they took him & they’ve known it for all 73 days! He said the there are a lot of people in there that are U.S citizens & no crimes ever!

[Jews Fight Back 🇺🇸🇮🇱 @JewsFightBack]

🚨 Jews make up just 0.2% of humanity.
And half of us live in a country smaller than Maricopa County, Arizona.

So when mobs scream to “wipe it off the map” or “from the river to the sea” that’s not politics. That’s a call for extinction.

Remember that.
H/t @ScottJenningsKY

[Just saying @kangaroos991]

Wave a 🇺🇦 flag if you stand with Ukraine and Zelenskyy! 🙏 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦