Porky Pig

[Gregg Nunziata @greggnunziata]

The Senate confirmation process was designed, as Hamilton said, to prevent the appointment of those who have the "pliancy to render them the obsequious instruments of [the president's] pleasure."

It exists to reject people like Todd Blanche.

[Clemens Wergin @clemenswergin]

It is mind boggling that Mearsheimer ist still taken seriously as a political scientist.

[Mike (not a) Rothschild @rothschildmd]

The overwhelming right wing sentiment is that COVID was an engineered bioweapon that was also harmless. Trump overreacted to it by shutting down the country, then engineered a drive to create a vaccine that was the real bioweapon that killed millions, and it's Joe Biden's fault.

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

Wow that whole “Trump is with Ukraine now!” Lasted roughly 17 hours

[Porky Pig @accessorie61476]

@anders_aslund If Zelensky ends the war he surrenders his country to raping, looting, genocidal war criminals. If Putin ends the war, he removes his military from attacks on Ukraine.
If Trump wants Zelensky to stop the war, he's saying he wants Russia to win, for Ukraine not to survive.

[The Lies & Fall of Donald Trump @CreatesDan]

On the one hand they're mad at Fauci because he advised them to wear masks and isolate for a hoax pandemic that was just like flu, but on the other hand they're mad that so many Americans died from this flu-like hoax.

Make it make sense.

[Kristy Greenberg @KGreenberg_]

Hurling F-bombs at an 85-year-old scientist who won’t fight back doesn’t make you tough. Staying silent after your own daughter accused Rep. Max Miller of holding a gun to her head, pushing her against a wall, and fracturing your granddaughter’s collarbone makes you a coward.

[Porky Pig @accessorie61476]

@Microinteracti1 If Zelensky ends the war he surrenders his country to raping, looting, genocidal war criminals. If Putin ends the war, he removes his military from attacks on Ukraine.
If Trump wants Zelensky to stop the war, he's saying he wants Russia to win, for Ukraine not to survive.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Zelenskyy claims Russia is sharing satellite imagery of U.S. military bases with Iran.

Trump's response when asked about this? "I'll ask Putin."

That's an embarrassing answer from the president of the United States.

[UEFA @UEFA]

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[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

To confirm:

Tim Walz passed a bill in MN banning services that use AI to generate nude images of minors.

Elon Musk, through xAI, is suing to block this bill.

When we call MAGA pedophile protectors, this is what we are talking about.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

a statement from Fauci's lawyers says Fauci's criticisms of Rand Paul "triggered in Senator Paul an intense and seemingly pathological course of retribution, revenge, and obsession with Dr. Fauci ... The accusations that Chairman Paul continues to propagate are false and disgraceful, and we will examine all options to hold him accountable."

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Hi Senator are you wittingly or unwittingly throwing shade at @realDonaldTrump?

[Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @PeterHotez]

No, the opposite my friend. More than 85% of all Covid deaths occurred among the unvaccinated, with many of those deaths sadly before vaccines became available in 2021. But in addition at least 200,000, possibly 300,000 died because they refused vaccines after they were made available. Most of those deaths from vaccine refusal occurred with delta and BA.1 omicron waves in 2021-22

[Nathan Livingstone (MilkBarTV) @TheMilkBarTV]

Tucker Carlson's favourite "political scientist", John Mearsheimer, and his ATROCIOUS predictions on the war in Ukraine:

Feb. 2022: "I don't think Russia is going to invade."
Sep. 2023: "The Ukrainians are doomed to lose."
Jan. 2024: "It's ridiculous to think Ukraine can hold the line in 2024."
Apr. 2025: "It's unimaginable Ukraine will hang on beyond 2025."
Jul. 2026: "The Russians are slowly moving forward."

The Jim Cramer of foreign policy predictions.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

It is tragic watching Ukraine backers getting completely played by Loomer and Trump. She will say whatever she needs to to get paid while he laughs and gives Ukraine nothing of value and continues to help Putin.
Nothing has materially changed in the last weeks--nothing.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

I’m glad the mood music in the Trump-Zelenskyy relationship has changed for the better.

I hope now it will lead to concrete policy changes — more weapons for Ukraine, more sanctions for Russia.

Talk is cheap.

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

Suddenly, just 97 days until the midterms, everybody in Trumps administration is soooooooooo nice to Ukraine 🇺🇦

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

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With the confirmation of Clayton, Trump has loyalists in place at the power agencies who will work to enable his election subversion schemes for 2026 and 2028. They're not incompetent, and they're putting loyalists in beneath them. The threat is far greater than in 2020.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

@SpeakerJohnson @Judy1732243 You could ban stock trading by U.S. Representatives tomorrow with a simple change to House rules. It wouldn’t even have to go through the Senate or be signed by the President.

Instead you put this political gimmick up for a vote which had a poison pill for Dems in it - Voter ID.