VA01🪷

"Get in good trouble. Necessary trouble and help redeem the soul of America"

[VA01🪷 @Va7thTownHall]

A normal person would post “Welcome to the world baby (insert name). You are so loved.” This is truly weird.

[Katie Miller @KatieMiller]

Imagine how much propaganda it took to convince women that this is oppressive.

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

Sean Duffy's youngest child, who is seven, has Down's Syndrome, which means the girl will probably hear many derogatory insults in her life from ignorant hateful people

But yesterday it was her father throwing around the term "libtard."

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Call me old fashioned but I think the president shouldn't be such a fucking weirdo

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Good to have this on the record, then. “I’m not a big fan of Ukraine,” Trump said. “Except their women.”

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

will any Fox anchor urge Trump to stop telling preposterous lies so dumb that a third-grader could spot them?

[VA01🪷 @Va7thTownHall]

According to Fluvanna Philosopher in Residence™️, @svkenney our Governor is not allowed to celebrate with a local band and working class people such as teachers, therapists and nurses, etc shouldn’t serve because they don’t have any accomplishments.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

No one could’ve predicted that an impulsive, poorly planned war led by a senile narcissist and a drunk TV host would end in a humiliating defeat.

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

As we have seen with this administration, repeatedly, personnel is policy. When you select an idiot to run the Department of Homeland Security, you get bad results at DHS. When you select someone with behavioral issues to run the Department of Labor, you get one embarrassing scandal after another. When you select a yes-woman who overpromises and underdelivers, you get a mess at the Department of Justice.

And when you select a Manhattan real estate guy who sees previous foreign policy experience as a liability to negotiate with the Iranian mullahs, you end up losing your shirt.

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

I have never been a fan of Witkoff; before Trump’s presidency, the Manhattan real estate mogul never had any experience in international diplomacy and always seemed to be in way over his head. When meeting with Vladimir Putin in February 2025, he used the Kremlin’s provided translator, who is also the chief interpreter for Sergey Naryshkin, a high-level FSB official. In a March 2025 interview, he shrugged and suggested Hamas had duped him. After meetings, Witkoff regularly repeats the Kremlin’s talking points, and in meetings with foreign officials, he almost never brings experienced diplomats, military officials, intelligence officials, or anyone else with him. An unidentified former Trump administration official characterized Witkoff as a “bumbling f***ing idiot.”

Some have questioned whether Witkoff had the technical understanding of nuclear programs to accurately assess and characterize Iran’s negotiating position and offers. This would have been mitigated if the negotiating team had included at least one expert on nuclear energy or nuclear weapons.

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

De-Trumpification -- if it ever comes -- will be a long process, or at least a challenging one. The new government in Hungary is setting an example.

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

Tulsi Gabbard was apparently even more insane than anyone realised, which is somewhat of an achievement.

A resounding slow clap for all her dimwitted boosters, with a particularly dishonourable mention for @MeghanMcCain.

[Jonathan Martin @jmart]

Trump openly and repeatedly says he was tired of what the war was doing to the econ, that he feared greater damage and didn’t wanna be Hoover

But bc he can’t fail - and can only be failed - a chunk of the right is pinning the blame on Vance

[Jim Geraghty @jimgeraghty]

Wait, the same field marshal Munir who attended a black-tie event for the Pakistani-American community in Tampa, Fla., and casually declared, “We are a nuclear nation. If we are going to go down, we will take half the world down with us”?

That Munir?

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

ZERO PERCENT chance Trump does this. I know it, the Iranians know it, and Graham knows it, and this just makes Trump look even weaker and more pathetic b/c if he REALLY wanted to deploy troops to do this, he would have already. Empty threats by keyboard tough guys.

[Bianna Golodryga @biannagolodryga]

“The president’s incoherence has become a source of gallows humor among Iranians. ‘Trump went to delete Ayatollah Khamenei,’ one Iranian told me, ‘but he accidentally pressed ‘Update.’”
There’s no sharper, more objective read on Iran than @ksadjadpour.”
https://t.co/qatrV0ujqj

[Gideon Rachman @gideonrachman]

Never forgave Zelensky for standing up to him in Kyiv and refusing to sign away Ukraine’s mineral rights. According to our correspondent who saw Bessent, immediately afterwards, he was trembling after meeting Zelensky

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Really remarkable to watch the Iranians humiliate our nation in real time - scheduling then canceling meetings then rescheduling them then canceling them again. Agreeing to open the Strait, deciding to close the Strait, to a collective shrug in the press and the GOP.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Scott Bessent is a serial liar, a corrupt grifter, a danger to the global economy. Monstrous.

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

There are people who worship this man like a god. (I've known some of them.) In a democracy, we find out about ourselves -- for better or worse.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Just wanted to point out that Vance used this same "gee whiz, those diplomatic protocols sure are complicated, I don't really understand them" excuse a whole three days ago when asked why the MOU wasn't being made public: