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Retired Fire Captain, centrist, 🇺🇦, trying to get blocked by who those who lack critical thinking skills

[Adam Mossoff @AdamMossoff]

Billions in cash, no sanctions, and Islamic regime of Iran gets to keep its uranium. Calling it a "lovebomb" is right. Obama could have only wished his 2015 Nuclear Deal with the Islamic regime of Iran was so generous for a country that still chants "death to America" and if still firing missiles and using its proxy armies of Hezbollah and Hamas to attack a U.S. ally.

[National Review @NRO]

The MOU abandons all the red lines Trump went to war to secure. | @NoahCRothman

https://t.co/s1xTdCwTAt

[Senator Dick Durbin @SenatorDurbin]

Russia’s war in Ukraine has now lasted longer than WWI. Instead of appeasing Russia by sending an official U.S. delegation to Putin’s sanction evasion conference, Trump should back our Ukrainian allies in their fight for freedom.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

2 years ago I was on TV with a Nikki Haley Donor who said he'd be for Trump in the general because of Biden's "unforgivable appeasement of Iran" and the "separation of the US from Israel."

If anyone can track him down for me I'd like to get an update our chat.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Gangel: In March, Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan go to the oval office for a formal sit down interview with the president. He's very proud about some presidential historian has given him this document, which he says shows he's more powerful than Hitler and Stalin. 

He's proudly reading it and showing it to them, and they can't figure out who the presidential historian is. And they start searching. Name doesn't show up. But the president had said that this historian was a friend of former hall of fame golfer Gary Player. So they search…the historian is Gary Player's former caddie.

[Illia Ponomarenko 🇺🇦 @IAPonomarenko]

And for those suffering from very selective amnesia, let me remind you once again that Russia has been carrying out regular and systematic mass missile and drone strikes against Ukraine — including power plants and heating infrastructure, hospitals, schools, apartment buildings, supermarkets, as well as historical landmarks and national heritage sites — since 4 a.m. on February 24, the very first day of its full-scale invasion.

At that point Ukraine could not even dream of striking any targets inside Russia, let alone Moscow, and remained practically powerless to do so for many months, if not years, of the war.

So you can go to hell with your “now Russia will strike back.”

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump spectacularly failed his latest cognitive test

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

Who needs enemies when our president himself defames our democracy?

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“Trump's administration has redirected $352m in federal funds toward the president's ballroom project…The law stipulates the money may only be spent on Secret Service personnel, training facilities, technology and related costs, not construction.”

https://t.co/w0IV41aMD6

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

March 9: "We're now totally independent of the Middle East. We don't need their oil."

April 1: "It doesn't really affect us. We have so much oil. We have tremendous oil and gas, much more than we need."

June 17: If I didn't agree to the MOU, we "would run out of reserves at about 4 weeks...we would really run out, and there'll be a time when you wouldn't be able to get it."

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This is an astonishing document. Not a single war aim has been achieved, but Iran receives enormous financial incentives, and even Hezbollah gets some benefits. What an absolute disaster. https://t.co/uj3990eh6q

[Dominik Hasek @hasek_dominik]

Exactly like that. And of course Russia must pay for the temporary annexation and the people responsible, like the criminal and murderer Putin, must be convicted and punished.

[National Review @NRO]

It is impossible to describe President Trump’s Iran deal as anything other than total humiliation. | @philipaklein

https://t.co/3CxlqcwwgC

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

To those outraged by drone strikes on Moscow, yet quick to call Ukraine’s actions “terrorism”: this is what real terrorism looks like.

That terrorism has a name: russia.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Ukraine has cards.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Wow. The first time I saw this video I thought it was AI.

Ukraine is winning. Russia is losing.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Gowdy: Iran is better off than they were before hostilities began and that should not be the consequence of war. We had total control over that country. When you're in that position, you negotiate from strength. You don't give people money. The regime has not changed. They are just richer

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

My friend Jamie Raskin is one of the most careful and principled people in Congress. So when he says the director of the FBI may be running a taxpayer funded slush fund, I pay attention.

Here is what he found.

Kash Patel directed more than $1 million in bonus payments to a small circle of agents in his inner circle and on his security detail.

Some were getting nearly $8,000 every two weeks on top of salaries that were already maxed out at the federal ceiling. A number of them collected close to $40,000 over consecutive pay periods.

The payments came so fast that the FBI’s bonus reserve accounts ran dry and some checks bounced.

So who got the money?

Agents on Patel’s so-called "director’s advisory team."

That is the unit created in 2025 and described internally as a payback squad, built to dig up dirt on the law enforcement officials who investigated Trump and his allies.

Raskin has given Patel until June 29 to account for every payment, every recipient, and any internal review of whether this was even legal.

Patel should answer for all of it.
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[Richard Blumenthal @SenBlumenthal]

Cruelty seems to be the point. Putin’s bombing is taking bloodshed & destruction to new heights—now hitting the sacred, cherished Monastery of the Caves. Ukraine needs air defense to stop his rising reign of terror.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

This agreement is far worse than I expected. To reopen the strait— a strait that was open before the war— we and our partners are transferring billions to the autocrats. We get nothing else— no elimination of enriched uranium, missiles, or terrorist support. And to add one final gift, we agree to not help the Iranian people pursue their democratic aspirations. Just incredible.