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The cost of safety's paid when no one is free

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

Spain-Argentina is the first World Cup “Colonizer vs Colonized” match that makes me say “well, let’s consider the nuances”

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

RAH, IT'S PRIDE MONTH

RETWEET TO SCARE A HOMOPHOBE/TRANSPHOBE

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The winner of the TX GOP Senate primary is Ken Paxton, who:

—Was impeached by his own party for corruption
—Paid $300,000 to settle his felony fraud charges
—Had multiple extramarital affairs
—Is under investigation for mortgage fraud
—Stole a $1,000 pen from another lawyer
—Was sued for firing whistleblowers

[Frank Conniff @FrankConniff]

Americans are being sent to die in Iran by men who don’t even have the courage to say, “Uh, thank you, Mr. President, but I wear a size 9 shoe.”

[Earl Watford @EWatts78]

Apologize to JMU

[The New Yorker @NewYorker]

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://t.co/qRt3yTyaoO

[awlivv @awlivv69]

rt if you fucking hate AI

[CFB Kings @CFBKings]

James Madison in their first CFP game:

• 509 yards
• 23 first downs
• 0 turnovers
• 34 points

They didn’t get the outcome they wanted but they fought hard and represented their school well. Awesome season. 🫡

[JD Vance @JDVance]

What possible interest would the US government have in keeping Epstein’s clients secret? Oh…

[Leading Report @LeadingReport]

BREAKING: President Trump reportedly received a COVID booster today.

[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

Giving ICE Agents student loan forgiveness is like giving Stephen Miller a comb

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power.

The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.

Every single major Democratic politician condemned the murder of Charlie Kirk.

Meanwhile, before EVEN KNOWING WHO THE SHOOTER WAS, the Republican president gave a speech calling for VIOLENCE against Democrats.

There are masked thugs running through the streets dragging people out of cars at gunpoint.

There was an attempted violent coup at the Capitol building brought on by the President himself.

Hell he threatened to INVADE an American city FOUR DAYS AGO.

I’m genuinely sad the man died. Not because I agreed with a word he said but because he was a misguided person who was himself caught up in the culture of violence.

He deserved to be shouted down for his backward ideas, not murdered.

The most sickening part of this whole ordeal is the excitement you see in Republicans, how quickly they moved past any respect for the dead, any reflection on the environment they helped foster, straight into who should be murdered next.

THEY DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO THE SHOOTER IS, yet they are ignoring the obvious marks of a professional killer who clearly had a highly trained military background, and the fact that these guys tend to be right wing nut jobs with an obscure axe to grind.

But they’ve already given him (and we all know it’s a him not a her) an identity: the faceless embodiment of everything they hate and fear with a clearly coordinated messaging campaign to call him a “leftist.”

So it’s clear what they want and it’s not peace. They want a justification for more violence. They want a bloody shirt they can point to and say, “See? THIS is why there are thugs in the streets in masks pulling people from cars at gunpoint. THIS is why we must end the American experiment in democracy.”

And the most pathetic part of all is that none of it is necessary. Violent crime is down. Everywhere. This is all INVENTED. And it was done so to protect the pursuit of power of one man: a dim-witted child rapist who became a violent extremist simply because selling his dark vision of America was the only way his corrupt, soulless ass could stay out of jail.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

White House says helping me secure a vote to release all the Epstein files is a “Hostile Act.”

They’re threatening anyone who helps bring true transparency and justice for the survivors.

This is a tacit admission the Oversight Committee data release is woefully incomplete.

[Senator Mazie Hirono @maziehirono]

We're back in session today, so here's everything Republicans hoped you'd forget over recess:

-They voted to RAISE your energy bills
-They slashed essential programs to hand out tax breaks to billionaires
-Trump is in the Epstein files

Oh & tariffs are why prices are soaring...

[Amber Woods @AmberWoods100]

🚨🚨 BREAKING: Epstein survivors will hold a press conference on Capitol Hill Sept 3rd, 10:30AM ET.

For the first time, many will speak publicly about what happened and demand the release of the Epstein Files.

I’ve been on this relentlessly and won’t stop now.

I will be live covering—follow me for updates and coverage they can’t bury.

Please share this so survivors voices are heard in the madness of the news cycle. This is important. 👏🖤

#EpsteinTrumpFiles

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

Trump's attempt to fire Lisa Cook won't:

—distract Americans from the rising costs they see every day.
—distract them from his continued refusal to release the Epstein Files.

It will:

—put everything from your life savings to your mortgage at risk.

Oh, and it’s illegal.

[Peter Schiff @PeterSchiff]

Let me get this straight: the Republican Party now favors concentrating power in one individual to impose protectionist tariffs, centrally plan the economy, nationalize stakes in private businesses, and use the Fed to create massive inflation to monetize soaring budget deficits.

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

If you hated Biden because you didn’t want an old guy in charge and prices were too high and the government was too involved in the private sector and there was chaos on the street oh boy I’ve got bad news.