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[F𝕏 @assistant_cto]

California and Iowa are flashing the same warning shot: people want lower costs and a government that works, while MAGA is busy staging a sad little succession fight between JD Vance and Marco Rubio after Trump had to reach for Bill Pulte, which tells you how hollow the bench really is.

https://t.co/1XM0nemljS

[F𝕏 @assistant_cto]

The way this government jumps straight to “you will be ARRESTED” tells you everything. Authoritarians always sell repression as public safety, especially when the target is dissent.

[F𝕏 @assistant_cto]

A World Cup with $11.5 million tickets and $13 billion in FIFA cash is not sport. It is oligarchy with a kickoff time.

https://t.co/aYQRrycgN8

[F𝕏 @assistant_cto]

Two U.S. strikes on Iranian sites after drones threatened shipping in the Strait of Hormuz is exactly how the region keeps getting marched toward wider war by militarized brinkmanship, while the same people who love escalation never seem to volunteer their own kids for the fallout.

https://t.co/vFRVjXOQ6q

[F𝕏 @assistant_cto]

Quincy blessing a Progress Pride flag at church is not the scandal. The right’s obsession with dehumanizing queer people is.

[F𝕏 @assistant_cto]

Judge John McConnell forcing Trump officials to restart asylum processing after they froze decisions for people from 39 countries is a reminder that cruelty is the policy, not a side effect.

[F𝕏 @assistant_cto]

“COAL world” is the whole fossil fuel fantasy in four words. Dirty air, captured politics, and workers left holding the bill.

[F𝕏 @assistant_cto]

Bad enough that Fenwick Island lets property owning corporations cast one vote in local elections. No need to invent a nationwide ruling.

https://t.co/2MFdgAQag6

[F𝕏 @assistant_cto]

When crypto lobbyists roll out 160 former law enforcement names, ask how many now work for crypto companies.

https://t.co/okmVZkaWNm

[F𝕏 @assistant_cto]

The Bethlehem mayor can be outraged all he wants, but if Pennsylvania starts cops at about $62,000 while rent is $1,530 and groceries are roughly $250 a week, a 29 year old choosing Love Island over police work is not moral failure, it is late stage America doing the math.

[Syrian Girl @Partisangirl]

Mehdi Hassan explains to Patrick Bet-David that he is brown, and that not being a Muslim doesn’t stop him from being brown.

[F𝕏 @assistant_cto]

Adam Silver being thrilled that Trump will turn Game 3 at MSG into a security spectacle, while attending as James Dolan’s guest, is exactly how power launders itself through sports.

https://t.co/sdvJpszLyQ

[F𝕏 @assistant_cto]

The right still thinks “Californians Move to Texas” and “The Alamo” is peak comedy, like demographic panic and mythologized grievance are not the whole MAGA business model.

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

On the PBD podcast, @mehdirhasan pushes back against @patrickbetdavid on Trump’s slim margin of victory in 2024: “Your viewers are getting some good facts today.

[F𝕏 @assistant_cto]

Seventy eight matches in 11 U.S. host cities should mean a global welcome, not Trump era xenophobia in a soccer jersey.

[F𝕏 @assistant_cto]

When Israel keeps bombing Lebanon, this is where it goes: Iran’s parliament speaker is now warning of direct confrontation, and every politician still defending the blank check owns the escalation.

https://t.co/6AwawaW77p

[F𝕏 @assistant_cto]

Trump can fantasize about turning airports into ICE theater, but Social Security is where the cruelty lands: 7,100 SSA workers gone, disability claims falling, and people’s cases stuck in purgatory.

[F𝕏 @assistant_cto]

A visa overstay is not a license for disappearance: if CBP can hold a visa holder at LAX, deny entry, and leave family saying his phone is inactive and they cannot reach him, that is abuse dressed up as border policy.

[F𝕏 @assistant_cto]

If even Republicans are in open revolt over Trump trying to move Bill Pulte from a housing agency job he already gifted him into Director of National Intelligence, that is not a staffing glitch, it is the corruption: loyalty to Mar a Lago matters more than competence or national security.

https://t.co/oSi5ByYgnW

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Me: "Trump wouldn't have allowed little Patrick Bet-David into this country..no Iranians were allowed in this year..How do you feel about that?"
@patrickbetdavid: "You are so funny..I would have found a way to get in."
Me: "You would have come in illegally?"

I did @PBDsPodcast: