John Drake

Don't follow me if you aren't horrified and angered by Israel's campaign of slaughter and starvation in Gaza.

[John Drake @TheRealNumber6]

I'm RT-ing my response to someone yesterday.

Our government wasn't like this, even 30 yrs ago.

There's one main reason why it's this way.

It doesn't have to be.

Federally fund campaigns.

https://t.co/hVzqmkv9Th

[John Drake @TheRealNumber6]

@jgkoomey @SeriousSam26 What you're describing is a symptom, rather than a root cause.

An @npratc piece circa 1980 said big business was afraid voters would punish them if they donated too heavy-handedly and appeared to be buying the government they wanted. (Remember that PACs were a new thing.)

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[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Rep. Ro Khanna says it was Benjamin Netanyahu who ordered Congress to insert Section 224 into the 2027 NDAA, which would coordinate and expand U.S.-Israel military cooperation.

He says Nethanyahu needs to be kicked to the curb.

"The American people are tired of the arrogance of Benjamin Netanyahu telling America what we should do."

[John Drake @TheRealNumber6]

Shame on you @JoeNeguse.

You continue to be a huge disappointment to anyone but AIPAC.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

Here are the 117 Democrats who voted with Republicans against Rashida Tlaib's Lebanon war powers resolution.

Thomas Massie was the one Republican to join 91 Democrats — who all bucked party leadership — in voting for it.

[🌼🌹Raquel🌹🌼 @eternallyRaq]

117 House democrats are completely in favor of Israeli war crimes against the people of Lebanon.

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

“The new wall of red tape for legal immigrants isn’t some anomalous departure for the Trump administration. Rather, the bureaucratic hoops are an essential component of mass deportation.” https://t.co/i2pXfWWcVG

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick says he does not think acting Attorney General Todd Blanche should be confirmed to permanently lead the Justice Department.

"I've been at the tip of the spear on fighting back against the so-called anti-weaponization fund," he tells @IAmAmnaNawaz. "I think it was a serious abuse of authority by the acting attorney general."

[John Drake @TheRealNumber6]

@crunchyrugger Making it reign.

[crunchyrugger @crunchyrugger]

having dinner at a hotel bar the other night struck up a conversation with a mid-level United Healthcare exec. he told me he puts over $300,000 a year on his company credit card just for entertaining clients. In case you’re wondering why you can’t afford health insurance

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Yesterday I told you the government is pulling 900 ocean monitoring instruments out of the water.

Here is the part that should make every American angry, regardless of where you stand on climate.

Congress voted to fund this network. Not once. Twice. The Trump administration proposed cutting it by 80 percent in 2025. Congress restored the money. Proposed the same cut in 2026. Congress restored the money again.

So the administration labeled it a "descope" and ordered the instruments pulled anyway.

That is not a budget disagreement. That is an executive branch telling the legislative branch that its votes do not matter. The public paid for this infrastructure. Congress protected it. One office in Washington decided the public should not have it.

This is the pattern I document in 𝑾𝒆 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒅 𝑮𝒖𝒚𝒔. It is not about left or right. It is about who decides what Americans are allowed to know about their own planet.

Who should make that call?

[Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 @infolibnews]

AI presents an incredible opportunity for Jews because "instead of trying to control the whole world" and "manage" social media, "we can go directly to the companies" with "advocacy solutions," Dr. Maya Ackerman tells the American Jewish Committee.

"For the first time, there is a path to correcting the digital world!" Ackerman says.

[Prem Thakker @prem_thakker]

NEW: Netanyahu & Republicans are trying to fuse Israeli & US military. Turns out, FDD planted seeds for this.

FDD (who Trump copied Iran talking points from) is staffed by ex-Israeli officials — including a top negotiator for the *current $3.8B* to Israel:https://t.co/t0lJM3FeaW

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group. https://t.co/wEAqxMA7AG

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump’s budget director Russ Vought is the most dangerous person you’ve never heard of.

And he just proposed turning every federal grant into a loyalty test.

His plan would make funding for cancer research, housing, transportation, and public health depend on one thing: whether it “advances the President’s policy priorities.”

Not whether it works.

Not whether Congress authorized it.

Whether it pleases Trump.

This is the appropriations power. It belongs to Congress and to the people.
To my Republican colleagues: where are you?

Congress passed this funding. You voted for it.

Vought is telling you to your faces that your votes do not matter, that he and his enablers will override the law whenever it suits them. Every day you stay silent, you give away the institution you were elected to defend.

Grow a spine.

This is not about left or right.

It is about whether Congress still exists as a coequal branch, or whether we have quietly surrendered the purse to an unelected hack who holds the Constitution in contempt.

History will remember who stood up and who looked away.
https://t.co/2yHKBTNLbj

[Ihab Hassan @IhabHassane]

HORRIFIC: Israeli settler terrorists are attacking the village of Shouqba right now — setting fields and vehicles on fire, storming a soccer field, and beating children.

Residents are pleading for help from neighboring villages.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

It’s more than Trump. It’s the Republicans in the room who smile, but let it go. That’s the poison that has been injected into this country’s veins.

[John Drake @TheRealNumber6]

@LeverNews @davidsirota The first season of Lever News' own "The Master Plan" makes me think this SCOTUS will overturn any effort they can claim encroaches upon the first amendment.

Demand that Congress fully federally fund campaigns in a voluntary system that matches dark $ expenditures.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

It’s a great day to remind Bari Weiss, the CBS News chief now destroying 60 Minutes, that freedom of the press is not a suggestion.

It is a constitutional right.

Scott Pelley says CBS forced him out for refusing to compromise his integrity, for refusing to bend the broadcast to appease the White House.

We must not stay quiet while the people running a major news outlet are accused of choosing partisan games and political interference over telling the public the truth.
https://t.co/3bZvy0l48d

[Tyler McBrien @TylerMcBrien]

NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfare's Katherine Pompilio finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.

[Reuters @Reuters]

CORRECTION: Israel plans major settlement push across occupied West Bank https://t.co/1MGC3gNXdo

We will delete a post that referenced Israel’s latest settlement push as being seen by many as illegal; Israel’s settlements in the occupied West Bank are deemed illegal under international law

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🎥 “You leave right now or you die.”

Israeli soldiers went door to door in the border village of Ain Arab, forcing residents from their homes at gunpoint, journalist Lylla Younes reports in her latest Drop Site investigation.

The forced expulsion of Ain Arab was a striking example of the Israeli military’s campaign to ethnically cleanse villages across southern Lebanon, with an estimated 60 villages completely destroyed south of the “Yellow Line” Israel declared on April 19, barring residents from ever returning.

Younes said it is emblematic of what Israel is doing across the south:

“There isn’t any sort of discernible calculus here besides mass destruction and mass instability really and mass punishment of a people.”

🔗 Read @LyllaYounes’s story for Drop Site at the link below.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

For many years, there were allegations that ICE would “release” critically ill people so their deaths wouldn’t be recorded as in ICE custody. To fix this, in 2021 the Biden admin required ICE to report deaths occurring up to 30 days after release.

Now that rule has been dropped.