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[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

South Carolina Republicans: “Quick, let’s eliminate the one Black district before anyone catches on.”

Black South Carolina voters: “Hold my beer.”

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

The Sergeant at Arms blocks Tennessee Rep. Justin Pearson from entering the committee room as Republicans vote to eliminate the state’s only Black-majority district.

📸 Nicole Hester / The Tennesseean

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

SPIRIT: We shut down because oil prices spiked after Trump attacked Iran.

MAGA: nu uh, it was Biden and the merger.

SPIRIT: No, it is because of Iran. And the judge that blocked the merger- which would make no difference here - was a Reagan appointee

MAGA: FAKE NEWS!!!! What does SPIRIT know about the closure, anyways!!!! TRUMP 2028! FUCK THE CONSTITUTION!!!

[Nicole Minét @mouvement33]

Spencer and Heidi live in a mansion in Santa Barbara. He wanted to run for mayor so he bought a trailer and parked it on his property after the fire. He's a grifter and a liar. They do not live in that trailer.

[Vivian @suchnerve]

The United States Postal Service, USPS, doesn’t “lose” money. It costs money. It’s a public service. Don’t fall for the privatization propaganda.

[VoteNotes @VoteNotes]

"There were no books ..."

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

One of Musk's DOGE bros explains how he flagged "DEI" grants for termination

[CJ G @cjgproduxions]

A lot of people on the left were disappointing today believing the propaganda of End Wokeness of all pages smh … The way yall let Republicans control the narrative with social issues is crazy 🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️🤦🏾‍♂️

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

So Trump is unilaterally committing $10B of US tax payer money...

To an offshore entity that he controls and is the lifelong chairman of.

He is robbing America blind, and about 1/3rd of the country is too stupid to see it!

[VoteNotes @VoteNotes]

To think, they spent their last few hours arguing with Cardi B 🙃

[BNO News @BNONews]

BREAKING: Department of Homeland Security (DHS) shuts down due to lack of funding

[Michael Harriot @michaelharriot]

Have you ever had a relative who stole shit bc they struggled with addiction?

I did

If my shit went missing, everyone knew who had it. He knew that we knew. But if you confronted him, he’d get really mad, accuse YOU of stealing & try to fight you for “disrespecting” him. Then he’d help you look for the thing HE STOLE.

After they do it so many times, you eventually realize that you have to hide your shit when your cousin comes around. You KNOW he has an addiction problem, so if you get got, you don’t even confront him. You just chalk it up as a loss because if you complain, your grandmother will say “you can’t choose your family.” And you wanna say “I don’t smoke crack either, yet here we are.”

Also, you don’t wanna get smacked in the mouth

So when other people come over, you have to warn them that there’s a real possibility that their shit might get stolen by your crack-smoking cousin and that he’s gonna lie about it but he’s also gonna want to fight. Anyway….

This story is about living under Donald Trump

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

NEW: A federal judge in Oregon issued a sweeping rebuke of DOJ's nationwide push to seize state voter rolls, ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith and warning that its conduct threatens voters and states’ rights. https://t.co/BEu4rBCRep

[Michael Wear @MichaelRWear]

I've attended the National Prayer Breakfast for much of the past two decades. I staffed the President and worked on his speech there for four years. I wrote extensively about the breakfast in my first book. One purpose of the Breakfast in history has been to position presidents and political leaders in such a way that they are humbled--their remarks typically focused on ways they fell short, the nation's reliance on grace that politics and politicians can't provide, etc.

Not until this president has someone gone to the breakfast to make so much of himself, and so little of God. And he does it every year. These aren't policy disagreements. These aren't differences resulting from Church-State separation. This is Donald Trump going to a convening that has a central focus on the power of relationship with Jesus as the transformative force in the world, and he uses that opportunity to make light of prayer and suggest he'll go to heaven because he's earned his way in. He goes to a convening built on the premise that Jesus transcends all divides in society, including partisan ones, and says an entire group of people *who are specifically recruited and asked to be in the room and on the program* actually do not belong there. Like he did at a memorial service for one of his most prominent supporters, in previous years he's gone to the breakfast to directly contradict Jesus' teachings on loving your enemies.

During the Clinton years, the Clintons sat on the dais while Mother Teresa lovingly confronted him on the issue of abortion. Now, people sit at their own breakfast while this president mocks their deepest beliefs to their face. And he tells them they love it. He tells them they're lucky to have him.

[🐢✨America Is Musty✨🐢 @DragonflyJonez]

Ok so today Trump waged war on the First Amendment and imprisoned Don Lemon and others, the unedited Epstein files dropped implicating Trump & Elon, and it was proven DOGE was a smokescreen to steal the Social Security information of 300M Americans and overturn election results

[Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReports]

BREAKING via Star-Tribune: GOP gubernatorial candidate ends bid, says he can’t support "stated retribution on the citizens of our state, nor can I count myself a member of a party that would do so.”

Read more https://t.co/Mjq0TeM7Av

[William A Goldsborough @WmAG_V]

Boom!

[Matt McDermott @mattmfm]

As insane as this sounds, it’s true: Pam Bondi sent Minnesota officials a letter today saying ICE would leave the state if Minnesota turns over its voter files to the Trump Administration.

They’re openly using state violence as a bargaining chip to seize election infrastructure.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

So the “everyone should be armed” second amendment crowd is using the fact the a man was armed (maybe) as justification?

Is this right?

[Gina Hinojosa @GinaHinojosaTX]

Want to know who Greg Abbott is?

Watch this.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

UNARMED WOMAN: “Shame on you.”

ICE GOON: “Have you not learned from the past few days?”

UNARMED WOMAN: “Learned what? What’s our lesson?”

ICE GOON: *VIOLENTLY SNATCHES HER PHONE*

(H/T @Mollyploofkins)

[NewsWire @NewsWire_US]

Harris's Eerie 2024 Warning Resurfaces: Trump 'Intends to Use Military Against American Citizens'