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[Tara Setmayer 🌻 🇺🇸 @TaraSetmayer]

Seriously America....what the HELL are we doing?

[Susan Glasser @sbg1]

#FirstAmendment. If journalists won’t stand up for it, hard to ask everyone else to.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Liz Cheney is standing by a warning she first made years ago.

In 2022: “There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.”

Now: “Long after he’s dead and gone, those who propped him up will be held to account. For now, we wait.”

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I watched Trump’s speech at the Correspondents’ Dinner last night.
It’s hard to articulate how sad it made me.

Sad and embarrassed and exhausted.

Here is the thing about a man who is a joke. He can’t tell one.

People think humor is a talent. It isn’t. It’s a capacity. To make someone laugh you have to be able to laugh at yourself, and to laugh at yourself you have to step outside of yourself and see what everyone else sees. For one second you have to be just another person in the room.

Most people can do this by the time they are nine years old.

He has never once managed it. Not in fifty years of cameras. Not for a second.

That is not a quirk. It is a symptom. The muscle that lets you tell a joke is the same one that lets you feel what another person feels. A man who cannot survive being laughed at cannot imagine being anyone but himself. He will only ever be generous when it is photographed. He will only ever be kind when it is filmed.

There is a name for it.

So he stood up there and did what he always does. He hit down. He made jokes about people’s weight. He made jokes about their intelligence. He made jokes about how women look. He read out the names of people he doesn’t like, and mocked them. Always mocking. And when no one laughed he blamed his speech writers.

The cruelty dressed as humor has worn so thin.

And for the 30% of you still in the cult who will inevitably call me a crackhead and blame it all on my Dad, all I can say is please, for the love of God, open your eyes. Wake the fuck up. Have some dignity. Have some pride.

Joe Biden wasn’t standing at that podium last night. Donald Trump was.

And at the end of it he put on a red hat that said Trump 2028 and told the room he was running again. No one laughed because everyone knows he has no intention of leaving.

Just another joke at our expense.

[Olivia Julianna 🇺🇸🦅🗳️ @0liviajulianna]

Can confirm she does smile when you’re not a disgusting creep.

[KATY PERRY @katyperry]

I am deeply appalled and angry to see “Firework” used on the @WhiteHouse TikTok account as a backing track for video footage of military strikes. I did not approve this, I was not asked, and I absolutely do not condone it.

I wrote this song to be an anthem of hope, healing, and inner strength for people going through their darkest personal moments. To see a message of self-worth and upliftment weaponized to soundtrack destruction and violence is a complete violation of everything my song stands for.

My music is for bringing people together, not celebrating warfare.

[Paul Rudnick @PaulRudnickNY]

Jared's Dad Charles Kushner claims he's leaving NYC due to Mamdani. Here's Kushner under arrest for sending his brother-in-law a prostitute and then blackmailing him with the sextape. Kushner will be much more comfortable living in Miami with the Tate brothers

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

You might not like the messenger, but he's right

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

We are supposedly at war to stop Iran from enriching the uranium we “obliterated” over a year ago.

Yesterday we signed a deal to help Saudi Arabia enrich uranium.

The first time the United States has ever helped another country enrich uranium on foreign soil.

The Saudis refused the inspection protocol 140 other countries accept. Too intrusive, they said.

Trump agreed. He signed a national security waiver to get around the rule.

The Saudis paid Kushner $100 million. They put $2 billion into his firm. They put another $6 billion into LIV Golf, which pays Trump properties to host its tournaments. They signed ten billion dollars in Trump-branded real estate deals in Jeddah and Riyadh. All in just the last few years.

But sure. My paintings.

[JennyCohn ✍🏻 📢 @jennycohn1]

😳 Trump wants to redirect $200B “toward AI, away from Colleges”*** The plan was laid out in a new report by the Office of Science & Technology Policy (OSTP) — led by “Peter Thiel Protégé” Michael Kratsios. 1/

[Covie @covie_93]

"WoMeN ArE tOo EmOtIoNaL tO lEaD"

[Evan @daviddunn177]

Democrats need to just let Jon Ossoff do all the questioning from now on.

[Nick Field @nick_field90]

Dems don't need four Senate seats in November, they need five
https://t.co/rh4T8633bD

[VaDivaMom @VaDivaMom1]

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[le.hl @0xleegenz]

Edward Norton explains why he's concerned about American exceptionalism

"I don't want to use too harsh a word but I think if you're lucky enough to travel, you'll see something that I don't think a lot of Americans do"

"We have this enduring narrative of American exceptionalism you know like America's cultural superiority"

"I don't think people fully grasp the degree to which we're going to ghettoize ourselves in terms of education, in terms of health, and in so many other areas"

"You know, we're not anywhere near the top of what other people are experiencing"

"If we keep embracing this idea of pride in regression, where is that going to take us?"

"It's not going to take us to a place that we're happy about for our kids"

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

Sen. Kristen GIllibrand: So essentially you're asking for literally $1.5 trillion for a war that President Trump said he already won?

[Ellie Leonard🇺🇦 @RedPencilScript]

Remember when Michael Cohen said the Katie Johnson case was a nothing burger, and barely remembered it? According to @RonanFarrow's 2019 book Catch and Kill, that’s not even a little bit true.
#EpsteinFiles

[Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule]

Ossoff: "So, just to review, you will not answer whether your statement made on the 14th day of the war that Iran's military had been 'destroyed' and made combat ineffective was a truthful statement...as you sit here and ask for tens of billions more..."

Hegseth is SCARED.

[Roger Sollenberger @SollenbergerRC]

The FBI director is traveling to Russia weeks before the midterm elections. “His host is likely to be the FSB, the Russian security service that is heir to the Soviet-era KGB”
https://t.co/mQaEf7SfY3

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

"Trump’s sons Donald Jr & Eric Trump have amassed a portfolio of defense technology start-ups that are benefiting from new Pentagon priorities and spending" and giving them a direct interest in US security policy
new reporting from @washingtonpost
https://t.co/eBNT2f9MKZ

[VaDivaMom @VaDivaMom1]

@LangmanVince Melania is looking chubby but there's no need to be rude!