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Real life stuff going on here.

[This You? @Thiss_Youu]

Americans realizing Trump out-traded Pelosi in just 1 year compared to what she did in 25 years

[“Wonderful Secret”🤫 Trump’s a Corruption Bonanza! @2sunsky]

@Thiss_Youu No, it’s worse. Pelosi made <200 trades over 39 years. (5/yr)

Trump made 2200 trades in ONE year!

That’s *440 x’s more trades/yr. So, ppl who endlessly bitched about Pelosi, should be 440 x’s more outraged!

But they won’t, bc trump gets a pass… bc integrity left the building.

[Tomer Azarly @TomerAzarly]

According to ESPN Analytics, in the 4 games the Spurs lost in the NBA Finals, they had a...

— 91.6% chance of winning Game 1 up 13 points midway thru the 3rd
— 72.8% chance of winning Game 2 up 2 points with 1 minute left in the 4th
— 99.6% chance of winning Game 4 up 20 points with 9:33 left in the 4th
— 95.4% chance of winning Game 5 up 10 points with 7:54 left in the 4th

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

If you can’t tax billionaires and trillionaire because “its unrealized gains until they cash out,” then stop letting them leverage that wealth for loans, as collateral, or as equity.

If it’s not real enough to tax, it shouldn’t be real enough to leverage.

This is why we say the system is rigged in favor of the super wealthy. Abolish billionaires, tax them out of existence, protect working people.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Actual quotes from President Trump:

Trump’s “victory timeline” claims.

Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully.
March 10: practically nothing left to target
Mar 11: “You never like to say too ⁠early you won. We won. In ​the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"

Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
Mar 28: No major quote
Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.

Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
April 6 :a whole civilization will die
April 7: total and complete victory
April8: objectives were met

A true disaster

[Pablo Torre 👀 @PabloTorre]

I look forward to future generations watching this clip in order to get some sense of how proudly stupid the self-proclaimed Great Men of our time actually were

[emily @emnode]

My time on X.​com has given me the impression that a large faction of the tech elite are absolute f*cking morons who circle jerked themselves into thinking they possess deep wisdom

[Seattle Seahawks @Seahawks]

21 months in the making. Stacked every opportunity to get here.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

This video eviscerates Noem’s false claims. She should be fired.

[Mayor Jacob Frey @MayorFrey]

ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

How the fuck is this not everywhere

[FOX Sports: MLB @MLBONFOX]

"YOU'VE CHANGED THAT CITY, LET'S KEEP GOING!"

The celebration has begun in the @Mariners clubhouse! 🍾

[Clark Lawson @clarksonlawson_]

MAGA: “This is so crazy!” “It can’t be true!”

Yeah… That’s because it isn’t.

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

JD Vance holds a JD from Yale Law (and so do I). Presumably, he knows that he is disregarding the law here, and being deceptive about the protections it affords.

Non-citizens physically present in the United States, regardless of their immigration status, are entitled to due process protections under the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments. It is not relevant whether Kilmar Abrego Garcia is sympathetic, or how much you believe an (apparently shaky) claim from an informant that he had gang connections. The disposition of this case, based on a judge’s review of the facts, was to grant Abrego Garcia protected legal status, preventing his deportation. Abrego Garcia‘s due process rights, under the law, required the government to go back to immigration court and make the case, if they wanted to terminate that protected status. There is no good faith legal reading in which his right to due process was respected; indeed, the government has conceded that it erred, and is essentially arguing that it doesn’t matter enough to address it. This is because they assume people will not care. But everyone in the United States should care—we all depend on these basic legal rights being predictably upheld.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Any comment on this, @marcorubio? How about you, @JDVance? @elonmusk?

You just admitted to accidentally sending an innocent father from Maryland to a torture dungeon in El Salvador. And you refuse to do anything about it.
https://t.co/TCykWFQH4Z

[Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅 @1zzyzyx1]

Here is @ezraklein sitting with @SRuhle discussing the future with this administration and what they are doing to our government.

[Aes🇺🇸 @AesPolitics1]

What the fuck are we in a trade war with Canada for?

Who the fuck voted for this stupid fuck?

[Brian J. Karem @BrianKarem]

I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Here is a recap of the Ukraine situation, for those choosing to reject propaganda and continue seeking truth:

December 1994, Ukraine agrees to give up its nuclear arsenal in return for security guarantees from the US, UK, France, China and Russia.

February 2014, Russia invades and subsequently annexes Crimea, President Obama does next to nothing. War through weakness.

July 2019, Trump admin withholds $250 million in military aid to Ukraine to apply pressure to investigate alleged corruption by Hunter and Joe Biden.

February 2022, Russia invades a weakened Ukraine, world expects Zelenskyy to flee and Kyiv to fall within days. Ukrainians fight bravely for 3+ years, inflict hundreds of thousands of casualties on Russian army, weaken Putin politically.

U.S. has sent ~$70 billion in outdated military equipment to Ukraine since start of war, providing opportunity for U.S. military to modernize its weaponry. We’ve sent an additional $30+ billion in budget support, $75 billion in ancillary appropriations related to war.

~50,000 Ukrainians have died defending their homeland, protecting U.S. and Western interests in the process. Meanwhile, the U.S. President and V.P. are calling democratically-elected Zelenskyy a dictator and berating him in Oval Office in pursuit of a financial payoff.

The U.S. should be thanking Ukrainians, who have fought for our common interests with only modest financial support from a country with a ~$30 trillion GDP.

America can and will reclaim its backbone again soon, with better policy and messaging from common sense moderates.

Slava Ukraina.

[Josh Marshall @joshtpm]

Remembering the time Elon tried to bogart his way into that cave rescue with those teens in Thailand with his moronic idea of a cave submarine and then had a fit and defamed the lead rescuer accusing him of being a pedophile.