Papa T

A zentrepreneur/ activist that seeks truth thru an interconnected ensemble of knowledge & universal principles. May the F=ma B/w U!

[Papa T @Tom_PCF]

@HawleyMO What do you suggest? So what do you propose, Josh? “First seek to understand, then to be understood!” - SR Covey

All prospective politicians and current politicians could do themselves a favor by reading this book. Principles such as honesty, integrity and service matter!

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Trump is now saying gas prices are lower than they were under Biden. They’re higher than they were on 1,334 of Biden’s 1,460 full days as president (91%), including every day of Biden’s final 29.5 months in office, though lower than the June 2022 peak: https://t.co/7TFsLXVxDw

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Republican message in 2026:

Return us with a majority so we can go ahead with our secret plan to cut Social Security and Medicare in 2027.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Destroying confidence in the electoral system and other pillars of democracy (media, courts) is their goal, it’s not just pathetic whining. Then they use that lack of confidence to push strongman powers, restrictive voter suppression laws, and other crackdowns.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

63 federal courts threw out all of Trump’s BS claims.
All of them. The Supreme Court rejected all of Trump’s BS claims. He now screams and cuts off interviews because he constantly lies about elections being rigged. He’s projecting again.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Trump is exactly what we knew he was. The harshest questions and criticisms of journalism today and history tomorrow are about how a generation of Republican politicians, partisan media, and US voters willingly chose to ignore it for power.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Trump’s egregious (repeat) lie about Jan. 6 in the new NBC interview he walked out of: “They had FBI agents ushering them into the building. They had FBI: ‘Go into the building.’”

There’s precisely no evidence this happened. DOJ’s inspector general found that the FBI had zero undercover agents in the Capitol crowd. Kash Patel has himself debunked a Trump-promoted conspiracy theory on this subject, saying FBI agents were merely deployed to do crowd control after the police declared a riot.

And of the dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who tried a “the cops let me in” defense, just one (1) was acquitted. Even in that case, the acquitting judge said that though the defendant reasonably believed he was being allowed in, the officers in question were actually overrun by the crowd and standing back reasonably and responsibly, not explicitly encouraging anyone to enter. (And they weren’t FBI.)

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Pay attention to who is willing to break the law for Trump as we head into the midterms—because his end goal is to create a system where others will break the law for him. It's about building a custom where it's normal to break the law for a person. The big case is the military

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Such language, such values, used to be considered the norm for America and American politicians. Especially Republicans, if you’re old enough to remember the ancient days before 2016.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

History will not remember either of us. But I know that history will record that the most disgraceful man ever to hold the office of President of the United States stood in Arlington, looked around, and asked: "I don't get it. What was in it for them?"

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

The DOJ is literally investigating a sexual assault survivor, E Jean Carroll, instead of a single perpetrator in the Epstein files.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

So the "ballroom" will have a bunker underneath and a "DronePort" on top. It's not just a childish extravagance. It will be a kind of military encampment.

All the more reason, obviously, for Congress to stop it.

[Scott Jennings @ScottJenningsKY]

Looks like a huge win for President Trump and the US. Hearing from a Senior Admin Official this report is TRUE and the U.S. appears to be getting everything we want.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

The Justice Department removed information about the January 6 insurrectionists from its website. @lawfare has preserved and posted it

https://t.co/NDPFbkTPlb

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Fact check of some of President Trump’s comments at his Cabinet meeting today, including false or misleading claims about the economy, the Iran war, Social Security and the reflecting pool: https://t.co/T6ISfbbmZb

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

You can be sure that whatever Beijing offered in return, it was to Trump and his personal allies, not the US. It’s the only motivation he has. Occasionally those interests may overlap, but his are always top priority.

[MediaRater @BLStrangfeld]

@FaceTheNation 📢📢📢📢📢
Hey @FaceTheNation the leaks occurred during the TRUMP Administration. Lawler was flat out lying and YOU are deliberately repeating lies. That is not journalism. How about changing your name to Deface the Nation?

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

Biden was not president
when Trump's tax returns were leaked

Trump was

the lying by Republicans like Mike Lawler is utterly shameless

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

This guy is utterly shameless.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Under Trump’s ICE, investigators spent 33% fewer hours pursuing child exploitation cases, while arrests of people with no criminal record surged 300%.

That is the tradeoff:

Less time hunting child predators.
More raids sweeping up workers, parents, neighbors, U.S. citizens, good people.

We can fight Trump, an adjudicated sexual abuser, Epstein defender, self-confessed sexual predator, and teen beauty pageant creeper, while defending law-abiding immigrants who work, pay taxes, raise families, and help hold America together: https://t.co/VXiWmshWgj

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

NYT out with a jaw dropping investigative report on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 60 Minutes reported last Sunday on some of this, too. The NYT report is a must-read, the 60 Minutes report should then be watched. 1/3