Wafrara

23 | he/him | dumb | somewhere on the left | UMich Alum

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

In a just released video, @bennyjohnson says the only thing black women did to help America’s founding was being slaves raped by Thomas Jefferson.

Horrifically racist. This is MAGA.

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

Hey @BasedMikeLee

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

~trillionaire celebrates America’s 250 by saying poor ppl shouldn’t vote~ sounds like a tawdry satire of plutocracy and yet

[Wafrara @Wafrara]

@mccombs4519 @RoKhannaNews @billgoldwater Can’t be certain, but I would guess your teacher was talking about Vox, the US media company, not Vox, the right-wing Spanish party that endorsed Trump.

[Wafrara @Wafrara]

@michigeese @JoePostingg Correct. He did a CBS interview where he was asked about previous calls to defund the police and his response was the worst I’ve ever seen him. Happens at the very beginning. https://t.co/0HxcqBhnRB

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

This is how we lose to the Chinese in the 21st century.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

This is fascinating to me, because beyond the surface level it illuminates why conservatives are often so full of shit.

The baseline here is that there's a heatwave, and Mamdani asked New Yorkers to adjust their thermostats to help the grid. This is regular practice in red and blue areas of the country. Daniel posts a defiant "I'm not gonna do what mommy tells me!" style post. He surely thinks he's a very clever boy here.

Now if the message is "This is a free country, and I love my AC, and by god it's my house and no government bureaucrat can force me to change", then fine. Sure. But there is no law being proposed here. No police are bursting down your door demanding to check your thermostat. It's a request from a community leader, a polite ask that you engage in a very small pro-social sacrifice.

You would think conservatives would understand the idea that local communities should pull together in times of need. For the 'common good', perhaps. You'd think. And that they'd be happy if no government force was involved, if they could act merely because they had strong moral character and believed in private charitable action.

"Nobody should ever ask anyone to sacrifice for the common good, even if it's just a polite request" is just dipshit nihilism.

But I suspect Daniel doesn't actually believe in those conservative ideas. Or if he does, they're a distant second to the true guiding star of conservative thought: owning the libs. Given the chance to help people or own the libs, conservatives will always own the libs. Given the chance to demonstrate strong principles or own the libs, they'll always abandon the principle to own the libs. The actual philosophy of the right is merely "We hate the left". And it's sad.

[Rashida Tlaib @RashidaTlaib]

Fuck DTE.

[Wafrara @Wafrara]

@Acyn This is probably the most “where do you come from?” administration in US history.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today marks the 250th anniversary of one of humanity's brightest, strongest, and most influential dreams – the American Dream of an independent, free, and prosperous nation that defends people's freedom, faith, and the pursuit of happiness.

That dream has endured many trials. It did not merely survive – it has, for two and a half centuries now, served as an example for other nations and helped the entire humanity stand firm and become freer. This was especially important in the 20th century, when America helped save the world from the rule of tyrants and built the alliances and partnerships that, for the first time, gave a large part of humanity lasting peace and the opportunity to develop in freedom.

Now, in the 21st century, America's influence and importance are certainly no less. And we see that particularly clearly in Ukraine, which is fighting for its independence, freedom, and our people's right to happiness with much the same hope, the same purpose, and the same determination with which Americans won and defended their own independence.

We deeply value the support of the United States, especially now, during Russia's full-scale war against Ukraine. American weapons – from the Javelins that President Trump decided to give to Ukraine to the Patriots that most reliably protect the lives of our people – everything the United States has provided to help us defend our country demonstrates the strength of the American spirit, American resolve, and American technology.

And we know the value of all these words better than anyone. When we ask America for Patriots, we believe that the values of respect for life and for people that prevailed 250 years ago will prevail again today. The world needs the kind of leadership that guarantees protection for freedom and for life.

I wish America a happy Fourth of July, the President of the United States and all Americans every success, and all of us around the world who value America – fruitful cooperation. "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." That is what unites all of us – all who respect America and thank America today.

May the dreams of free people always triumph over the evil and hatred of those who seek to destroy freedom. America, thank you! I am confident that if we're in it together, we'll definitely achieve peace! Congratulations on your Independence Day!

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

1/10

Want to know how they quickly got 400 makes extremists in DC?

It's because many of them are Republican staffers.

It's the most overlooked scandal in the US right now:

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Not true. In their list of grievances, the Founding Fathers complained that King George III was blocking colonial laws that would promote immigration and make it easier for foreign settlers to become citizens.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

President Biden: Americans never bow. We never bend. We never break when confronted with crisis. We endure, we overcome, and we always, always, always move forward. We are America, second to none, and we own the finish line.

[Mitchell Miller @mmillerwtop]

A group of masked men gathered at Union Station today and called for reclaiming the country and getting rid of immigrants. Some held Confederate flags. They have been marching across Capitol Hill.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

250 years after July 4, 1776, the successor of King George III pays taxes and publishes his returns. The successor of George Washington does not. https://t.co/CbIXDe8UQY

[The Atlantic @TheAtlantic]

Ten years ago today, J. D. Vance called Trump “cultural heroin” in The Atlantic: “To every complex problem, he promises a simple solution … He never offers details for how these plans will work, because he can’t," Vance wrote of Trump.

Read the piece: https://t.co/RgEhVdJBZx

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Bill Cassidy voted to convict Trump at his second impeachment trial. Thom Tillis broke with Trump over the Ed Martin nomination and the Big Beautiful Bill. John Cornyn has quietly disagreed with Trump going back to his first term. All three are now telling reporters they'll show up to Wednesday's GOP lunch specifically to tell Trump his election bill is dead and it's time to move on.

All three are also retiring. None of them will be in office after January.

That's not a coincidence, and it's worth sitting with what it actually means. Members of Congress swear an oath to the Constitution, not to their own re-election chances. If these three only found their voice once they stopped needing votes, the honest reading isn't that they suddenly discovered courage. It's that they had the votes to check Trump the entire time and chose not to use them until using them stopped costing anything.

[Jon Ossoff @ossoff]

Just think, 250 years on, what the founders would see if they visited us today.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump just approved $846 million in disaster aid for nine states, and all nine voted for him in 2024.

Americans in blue states pay the same federal taxes and suffer the same floods, fires, and storms as Americans in red states.

No president in history has treated FEMA as a reward for voting the right way. Every American deserves help when disaster strikes, no matter who their governor is or how their state voted.

This is disgraceful and we will not let it stand.
https://t.co/Xi2bgcHPke

[Wafrara @Wafrara]

@ZaidJilani I was shocked/delighted when I read The Republic to see Plato warning about the ills of extreme poverty and extreme wealth.