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No justice, no peace.

@adepsis.bsky.social; @[email protected]

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

The US has never looked smaller or weaker on the world stage. https://t.co/HPfRhyBbJa

[Amjad Taha أمجد طه @amjadt25]

This was humiliation. No one in modern history has made America wait and beg for negotiations. This was the moment JD Vance should have returned to Washington. The Islamic regime did this on purpose. Trump, if you don't understand politics, you should at least understand protocol.

The visuals from Switzerland:

• The U.S. delegation entered well before the Iranians. In diplomacy, the side with leverage doesn't wait in the room. You claim to be leading and winning, yet you arrived first. First mistake.

• Ghalibaf did not enter while the press was inside. JD Vance did. Another mistake. It looked as though you didn't just abandon allies, including Israel, you also diminished America's image by ignoring basic diplomatic protocol.

• The Iranian foreign minister entered last and refused to shake hands. We didn't need photographs to tell us who looked confident and who looked desperate, but these images made it easy for the world to draw its own conclusions.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Trump's family crypto business is expected to soon be allowed to operate like a bank — a decision, made by the Trump administration, that would give U.S. companies a new route to steer money to the president.

"For the first time in history, a president is leaning on a bank regulator to give his private enterprise the implicit backing of the federal government." https://t.co/Kq7ToFVZgi

[ａｄｅｐｓｉｓ🦎 @adepsis]

Tax wealth, not work. Before it's too late.

Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire. How scared should you be? https://t.co/twAHt8Q9Sv via @YouTube

[ａｄｅｐｓｉｓ🦎 @adepsis]

46th President Joe Biden Speed Shifts His 1967 Corvette with Jay Leno | ... https://t.co/0LiFtWNRUo via @YouTube

[ａｄｅｐｓｉｓ🦎 @adepsis]

Heads up. Thieving auto companies are starting to move to subscription models for f**ing cars and trucks now. If you want to really own that you paid thousands for - beware.

Mechanic Sends HUGE WARNING: Don't Buy NEW Vehicles in 2026. https://t.co/mHZQkkwYlo via @YouTube

[ａｄｅｐｓｉｓ🦎 @adepsis]

So in addition to fake websites tied to das Weiße Haus, the actual Dept of State site has been compromised by backend pass throughs to FB, Reddit, and so on. 😒

Trump built a new passport . gov website https://t.co/NwDl1Aeqxn

[Birds gallery @Birdsgallry]

This bird sews leaves like a human 😳

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @WhiteHouse: Apologized yet for cutting the programs designed to prevent screwworm outbreaks?

DOGE was a massive failure. The people involved were arrogant, naive and lazy. They had no idea what they were doing.

Oh, and the deficit and debt increased as well.

[ａｄｅｐｓｉｓ🦎 @adepsis]

The Cost of Doing Business https://t.co/DsovnVlbVK

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.

[A.R. Moxon 🦋 @JuliusGoat]

Yes, it's a lie to frame the resistance movement against ICE as violent; now, let's examine that assumption that a bunch of Nazi goons kidnapping our neighbors deserve or should expect a peaceful resistance.

[ａｄｅｐｓｉｓ🦎 @adepsis]

I'm not thrilled with Platner's red flags, but I can't ignore this either. I just hope he votes the way he sounds on the campaign trail.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It's kind of wild to find out that the Republican in the NYT story that says she had a toxic relationship with Graham Platner is Lyndsey Fifield. Having been in DC for too long, I know a decent number of people who know her quite well. For a long time she was the co-host of a podcast with her best friend Bethany Mandel, called Ladybrains, though she has also worked for multiple super PACs, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Heritage Foundation.

Some background, presented without judgment: In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.

In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.

The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns."

In an interview for a news outlet called Red Alert Politics that named her to a “30 under 30” list back in 2016, she said that she wanted to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Breitbart, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to political combat, is perhaps best remembered for having exposed Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending nudes to young girls, and for his work elevating James O’Keefe.

That she worked for Independent Women's Forum recently is even wilder since IWF played a critical role in Kavanaugh's confirmation and in persuading Collins to support it.

Heather Higgins, chair of IWF, laid out the group’s role in a talk several years ago. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’”

Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then. Apparently this is the kind of thing the NYT thinks is important now, so I guess it requires more reporting. I'll report back.

Here is Heather Higgins celebrating IWF's role in getting Susan Collins to confirm Kavanaugh:

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This thread aged amazingly well. 👇🧵

[Stuart Buck @stuartbuck1]

@TECleveland @cremieuxrecueil Despite some bogus grants, a lot of government is like this cartoon. I bet this "small team" would find a line item for "screwworm sterilization" and delete it, not knowing that they just devastated American farming: https://t.co/OAnAkxDSEK

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

There is nothing left of the Justice Department I worked at.

[ａｄｅｐｓｉｓ🦎 @adepsis]

"60 Minutes did not threaten anyone because it leaned left. It threatened people because it knocked on doors that powerful men wanted left shut."
https://t.co/KKBY8tciJe

[The Redistrict Network @RedistrictNet]

It should be a much bigger story that Alabama voided an entire primary election after it was conducted.

[ａｄｅｐｓｉｓ🦎 @adepsis]

Scott Pelley, standing up for what's right.👊🏽
https://t.co/sXekXdldsq

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

The fact the brooms end up wasting gargantuan amounts of water is [chef's kiss].

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

Happy Pride, patriots.