Anne Kiefer, she/her ◼️◻️🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈◻️◼️

What we do is more important than what we say or what we say we believe. ~ bell hooks

You only know as much as you do. ~ Francis of Assisi

[Anne Kiefer, she/her ◼️◻️🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈◻️◼️ @anmalaki]

https://t.co/mwozuFSjEr

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Joe Biden and Lindsey Graham were friends for years. In 2015, Graham tearfully called Biden an amazing human being.

Then Trump came along.

Graham threw that friendship away to serve a man he once called a danger to America, attacking Biden personally and even going after his family.

Biden still chose grace.

That ability to rise above betrayal and remain a statesman is what makes Joe Biden better than most of us.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

I see the "Fuck Your Feelings" crowd is out policing civility this morning.

Remember when Lindsay blasted Trump for mocking Robert Mueller's death? Or Colin Powell's? Or John McCain's?

Odd...me either.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE.

His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook.

Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

One lesson of the Trump years: the US signature on an international agreement is worthless. There was an agreement in place to govern the bridge. Trump repudiated the agreement at behest of a donor with a direct anti-public-interest stake.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Kinda hard to read this and then think that cognitive test went well

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Whew. Maggie Haberman confirms today that Trump was surprised by his *own* tariff numbers and rates: “At one point, he didn’t realize how high China’s tariffs burden had gotten. It was up to 145% & his reaction was holy shit…It’s not a formula. It’s a gut feeling.”

[David Frum @davidfrum]

If more US alllies had followed Canada's courageous example, and brought home to Trump the folly of his economic war on the world, American consumers would have been spared the pain of Trump's higher prices - and American workers would not have lost jobs to higher input costs.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

What a surprise that Netanyahu says his last conversation with Lindsey was that he wanted US military aid to Israel to continue forever.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Sen. Jim Banks on gas prices, which are again increasing: "Look, President Trump has brought gas prices down"

(Gas is more expensive now than it was when Biden left office ... )

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Lindsey Graham on Trump:

“He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn’t represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for”
(2015)

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Trump's strategy is to flood the zone until everyone forgets.

Remember what he said his war with Iran would accomplish—and compare that with what's actually happened so far.

The costs have been enormous. The results have yet to materialize.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Linda McMahon is named in an active civil lawsuit alleging she and her husband ignored, and helped cover up, systemic child sexual abuse by a WWE employee during the 1980s and 1990s.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

It's precisely because Sen. Graham was so steadfast in opposing authoritarianism abroad that Anne's piece (written before Russia's renewed 2022 attack on Ukraine) focuses on his incongruent unwillingness to oppose authoritarianism here.

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

An idiotic tweet from a complete idiot that will give rocket fuel to the conspiracy theories circulating online

[Covie @covie_93]

He paid an adult film star $130k to keep quiet about the sex they had while his third wife was home recovering after just giving birth to their son.

[Anne Kiefer, she/her ◼️◻️🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈◻️◼️ @anmalaki]

@TheTNHoller @jaketapper Access journalism.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

TAPPER: “Iran says the Strait is closed…”
TRUMP: “Don’t talk about it.”
@jaketapper: “Ok.”

Journalism! This is tough to watch.

But hey can’t make things awkward at the White House Correspondents Dinner, right?

[Dick Harpootlian @HarpootlianSC]

For three years, former CEO of Overstock, Patrick Byrne accused @HunterBiden of treason and linked him to a terrorist attack.

Yesterday, a federal judge - Republican appointee - found that every one of those claims was fabricated. The Court described Mr. Byrne as not a credible person.

This decision affirms that the rule of law still exists in this country.

The judgment includes $1.7 million in punitive damages to be paid to Hunter Biden and that is the floor, not the ceiling, of what Mr. Byrne owes for his conduct.

If Mr. Byrne repeats any of these claims, we will see him back in court.

- Dick Harpootlian
Lawyer for Hunter Biden

[Dan Pfeiffer @danpfeiffer]

Trump saying WE in this sentence, "We're trying to have CNN go on a normal path," could not be more damning for David Ellison and alarming for the people who work at CNN

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

ICE lied about how Renee Good was shot.

They lied about how Alex Pretti was shot.

And now they’re lying about how Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot.

Don’t believe their story for a second.