Walter Appling

Retired engineer. Grateful for the American experiment in self-government and rule of law. Long may it last.

[Walter Appling @WalterAppling]

@LincolnShepher @Acyn That’s because he’s seriously deranged and sees an opportunity for self-pity on every occasion.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump to farmers: You have a nice safe beautiful life. Your life is much better than my life. Your ear wasn’t pierced. You didn’t get pierced.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Fatal Attraction vibes at this point. Move on.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: The cheapest price for the game you’re going to is $8,000. Everyday Americans can’t afford these sporting events.

Trump: No, but they can watch it on television. It’s sort of semi-free to watch it on television. But that’s the way life goes…

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

Extraordinary Letter.

Points to Bill Pulte appointment as national security danger.

"The undersigned include twenty-eight former service secretaries and retired general and flag officers who
collectively served under every president from John F. Kennedy to Joseph R. Biden, Jr"

[Walter Appling @WalterAppling]

Major oil firms skip Trump’s auction of Arctic wildlife refuge drilling leases

The sale of 72,000 acres in leases is nonetheless a step toward extraction in the wilderness home to caribou and polar bears.

https://t.co/KwQbi72LGG

[Walter Appling @WalterAppling]

‘Unbelievable how accurate’: How paid influencers hype Polymarket’s odds

The company’s chief marketing officer, Matthew Modabber, used a personal PayPal account to send money to content creators, according to records reviewed by POLITICO.

https://t.co/Lpge2rQJyW via @politico

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Pride Month Trump 🌈

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Another one…🤡🤡🤡😳😳😳

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

The closure of @USAID by 20-something DOGE bros (who probably thought "screwworm" was a hilarious joke) will haunt us for years to come.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Maybe all the whales cashed out and it's just the losers HODLing forever now

[Pradheep J. Shanker, M.D. @neoavatara]

Unless Trump hands over pallets of cash, there is no deal.

[MFT Guy 💙 @TimTakeMFT]

@patriottakes @Acyn These people, and maybe the entire world, have gone crazy.

[Walter Appling @WalterAppling]

Trump announces $800M plan to prop up the struggling coal industry

The coal subsidies would tap funds passed by Congress for clean energy. They would be used to open the first new U.S. coal plants since 2013 and keep 14 struggling facilities operating. https://t.co/30PgrD1Ovm

[Natalie Andrews @natalieandrews]

NEW: Trump tells @schwartzbWSJ that he wants Bill Pulte, his incoming acting director of national intelligence, to begin the process of firing a large number of employees as part of a shake-up of the U.S. intelligence community.

[Walter Appling @WalterAppling]

@officeninja67 Very possible. Near as I can figure, Trump wants the U.S. to return to the 1880s or ‘90s and Russ Vought & Kevin Roberts want to return to the 1830s or ‘40s.
To their imaginary versions of those times anyway.

[Walter Appling @WalterAppling]

Trump administration announces $850M to modernize US coal capacity, build 2 new plants

New coal-fired plants in Anchorage, Alaska, and Mt. Storm, West Virginia, would total 2.85 GW. They would be the first new U.S. coal plants to come online since 2013.

https://t.co/nXaadeEjk2

[Walter Appling @WalterAppling]

@Caroline_Yunker Polio. Is that an “illness” or a “disease” by your reckoning?

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

MAHA going well I see

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“This is an insane way to run a country. And it’s why Europe and Asia are decoupling from America as fast as possible. I cannot think of another global power that downshifted so quickly from world leader to regional bully without losing a war.

Oh, wait.”

https://t.co/yE6WBRN9fo

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

Have you noticed that our political campaigns are almost completely devoid of ideas? No arguing over the size and scope of government. No arguing over America’s role in the world. It’s all personalities, “vibes,” and memes. Our political culture has been badly degraded. Its perfect symbol is that grotesque “cage” on the White House lawn.