Mark Jeter ☮️ &🍒👻

[Mark Jeter ☮️ &🍒👻 @Beatles1967]

"We're facing down an autocracy, people. Sing along."

-Jeff Tweedy, 2.23.17

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

House GOP out here cutting ads for Dems:

NEHLS: Affordability? What are you talking about? I'm gonna go there tomorrow. I'm gonna get me a couple of big lobster tails. I'm gonna get me some nice ribeyes.

MT: Do you think the 60% of Americans living paycheck to paycheck can afford lobster tails and rib eyes and all of that?

NEHLS: Maybe not. Maybe the 60% of Americans don't work as hard as I do.

They have NO IDEA what’s coming in November.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

America's 250th birthday party is starting to look like one big money-laundering scheme, with your tax dollars funding PragerU propaganda trucks and our favorite foreign agent, Brad Parscale.

A decade ago, Congress set aside $150 million for America's 250th and created a bipartisan commission to run it.

That commission has received just $25 million and is now begging for more. The rest was steered to "Freedom 250," a shell LLC Trump stood up in 2025 and hid inside a National Park Service charity. It has pulled in around $80 million.

It gets worse.

Follow the money highlights below:

1️⃣ A $10 MILLION grant, library and museum money, was moved into Trump's birthday LLC to build "Freedom Trucks," mobile propaganda exhibits made with PragerU, the nonprofit whose CEO served in the IDF's Unit 8200. Only 8% has been spent. It reports ZERO sub-awards. No public record of who got the money.
Someone in Congress should look into this.

2️⃣ Around $50 million more is obligated and simply gone dark. Not itemized anywhere the public can find it. This looks intentional.

3️⃣ The White House is paying Campaign Nucleus, the company of Brad Parscale, a REGISTERED FOREIGN AGENT OF ISRAEL, to run the birthday events and harvest the data of everyone who signs up compliments of our tax dollars. (More on this one soon.)

Every dollar runs through a charity. Why? A charity is a wrapper. It lets you take in tax money, corporate cash, and foreign money and spend it on your own projects with the books closed.

If you wanted to design a machine to hide where money goes, it would look exactly like this.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

A young woman named MacKenzie Tuttle graduated from Princeton in 1992 with a degree in English. One of her professors was Toni Morrison, who later described her as one of the finest creative writing students she had ever taught.

After graduation, MacKenzie took a job at the New York investment firm D. E. Shaw. There she met a colleague named Jeff Bezos, who had an ambitious idea: selling books on the internet.

She didn’t laugh at the idea.

They married in 1993, and the following year drove across the country to the Seattle area to build what would become Amazon.

In the beginning, there was no global empire.

There was a garage.

MacKenzie handled accounting, wrote business materials, answered customer emails and phone calls, and packed orders alongside Jeff. Like many startups, everyone did whatever needed to be done.

As Amazon grew, MacKenzie stepped away from day-to-day operations to raise their four children while continuing to pursue her own passion for writing.

Her debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright, won the American Book Award. She later published a second novel and quietly built a respected literary career.

Meanwhile, the story of Amazon became one of the most famous business stories ever told.

Jeff Bezos became one of the world’s most recognizable entrepreneurs.

MacKenzie’s role was rarely part of the public narrative.

She never seemed interested in changing that.

What many people don’t know is that she also knew financial hardship.

Her family filed for bankruptcy while she was still a student, and she has spoken about the kindness of people who helped her through difficult times—acts of generosity she never forgot.

In 2019, after her divorce, MacKenzie Scott received approximately 4% of Amazon’s shares.

Almost immediately, she made a decision that surprised the world.

She signed the Giving Pledge, promising to donate the majority of her wealth during her lifetime.

Then she did something even more unusual.

Instead of building a massive public foundation or attaching her name to buildings, she began giving away billions of dollars through large, unrestricted grants.

Universities.

Food banks.

Housing organizations.

Rural communities.

Women’s health initiatives.

Tribal colleges.

Climate organizations.

Small nonprofits that had never imagined receiving gifts of that size.

Many recipients reportedly thought the phone calls were scams.

They weren’t.

Since 2019, MacKenzie Scott has donated tens of billions of dollars to thousands of organizations, making her one of the most significant philanthropists of the modern era.

Despite giving away enormous sums, her fortune has remained substantial because of Amazon’s continued growth.

The woman who once packed Amazon’s first orders is now helping fund opportunities for millions of people she will probably never meet.

She never asked for buildings in her name.

She never demanded headlines.

Sometimes the greatest legacy isn’t the company you help build.

It’s what you choose to do with the success that follows.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Velshi: He wrote an entire book about DEI being our weakness, how women were not suited to be in the military. Why are people surprised about Pete Hegseth? 

Basil Smikle: “…anyone that served in WWII would never say that the Tuskegee Airmen were a waste. They would never say that, and I wonder, could a Colin Powell exist in Hegseth’s army today? He couldn’t…so this isn’t really just about DEI, this is literally an attack on Black people…on women…on people of color…If you don’t like a policy, you can fix a policy, but this is intentional about going after people and taking them out of service…and it is important as you said, that these were senior individuals because the qualifications are unmistakable…and it’s decades of service…”🤔

[Joel Goldberg @goldbergkc]

What a special moment at Rate Field. The Royals and White Sox gathered along the foul lines to cheer on Melanie Marquez as she rounded the bases. The 4-year old is battling brain cancer.

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

From the Navy SEAL officer who planned and executed the Bin Laden raid: “In recent months, President Trump, upon advice from Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, has relieved or forced the retirement of some of the finest officers that have ever served this nation. I have personally worked with most of them in combat….And this week, in an egregious decision, the president forced General Chris Donahue to step down from his position in command of U.S. Army Europe. Donahue is without question one of the most brilliant officers I know. He is strategically focused, tactically aggressive, personally courageous, exceptionally thoughtful in his planning and execution, and compassionate with his troops. He has the respect of every man and woman who ever served with him—and you can put me at the top of that list.”

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Republicans always claim there is election fraud because they are the ones doing it.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump is asking Congress for $11 billion to bail out farmers, and has the audacity to blame Biden for the losses.

Biden did not put a single tariff on the inputs farmers buy. Trump did, and when Trump taxed the world, the world hit back.

Trump’s tariffs closed markets to American farmers and drove up the cost of the equipment, seed, and chemicals they depend on. China retaliated with tariffs on soybeans and much more, and pulled back its purchases of American soybeans. China is the single biggest buyer of American soybeans on earth, and Trump handed that market away.

This is not the first bailout but the latest in a string of them.

This $11 billion adds to the $12 billion already sent to farmers this year. $23 billion and counting, all to patch a wound Trump inflicted himself.

We are now on track for roughly a third of all farm income in 2026 to come from government checks.

Also, nearly 40% of the last bailout flowed to the largest farms while small family operations went under. In 2025 alone, 15,000 farms closed, most of them small.

So when Trump says Biden did this, that is complete and utter nonsense, and everyone knows it.

Trump raised the costs, started the trade war, lost the markets, and is sending you the bill.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

It's actually mind-boggling that @JDVance would say Watergate would be a "10 hour story" today.
Just to review, Nixon's aides authorized a break-in of the DNC HQ to install bugging equipment--in a caper foiled by a night watchman, who called police. They then enlisted the CIA to mislead the FBI that the break-in was related to a probe of malign foreign actors.
The entire operation was paid for by a slush fund controlled by the WH.
The WH also enlisted the IRS to probe hundreds of Nixon's political enemies.
The AG, the WH COS and several other top aides all were convicted and served time for their involvement in the crimes and coverup.
Nixon was caught on his own secret tape system conspiring with them but was pardoned a month after he resigned by his successor, Gerald Ford.
That Vance thinks this would be a "10 hour story" today speaks volumes about the moral and ethical degradation of the Trump era.

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

Here are some of the facts about Gen CD Donahue’s storied Army career. Hegseth is forcing him to retire with no explanation, sending shockwaves through the Army and Special Ops community where Gen Donahue is widely respected.

* Commander of Delta Force in Iraq and Syria during the ISIS fight

* Led the mission to capture the Benghazi planner in Libya

* Ordered to secure the Kabul Airport after a chaotic withdrawal; returned order to the airport; arranged for hundreds of evacuation flights saving tens of thousands of lives; was NOT in charge of security at Abbey Gate where Marines were in charge of securing that entrance to the airport where 13 Americans were killed by a suicide bomber

* coordinated military aid to Ukraine after the Russian invasion and knows more about lessons learned on the Ukraine battlefield and advances in drone warfare than any senior officer in the US military

* led humanitarian aid efforts as head of 82nd Airborne from post at Ft Bragg during NC floods two years ago

* stint as head of US Army Europe cut short and will require presidential waiver not to lose 4th Star and retirement benefits after Secretary Hegseth forced him to retire early, having not had his 4th Star for the requisite 3 years. He was 18 months into current assignment.

[Jacob Perry @RealJacobPerry]

Meghan, those excited European visitors are visiting the very liberal cities that you constantly trash.

Boston
NYC
LA...

[Winnipeg Jets @NHLJets]

This kid from St. Vital played 1,149 games in the @NHL, scored 912 points, won three Stanley Cups, two Olympic Gold medals, and so much more.

🥹🥹🥹

[Chicago Blackhawks @NHLBlackhawks]

Hawks fans, show some love for the Captain 👏❤️💬

[Chicago Blackhawks @NHLBlackhawks]

3 championships, 16 seasons, 383 goals, and countless memories to last a lifetime!

thank you for all you gave to the game ❤️

[Sheree’ Woke AF @ShereeWokeAF]

This is what Class, Grace, Intelligence, Courage, Compassion, Beauty, Tenacity and Black Excellence looks like 🖤🔥🖤

[Michael McKean @MJMcKean]

Scumbag.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Michelle Obama: "No one — and I mean no one — has the right to sit in judgment of who's American enough."

[Henry Djoutsa @HDjoutsa70694]

"Being a decent human being is a choice"

-Michelle Obama 💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙💙

[jamie @gnuman1979]

We can all get along.

[George W. Bush Presidential Center @TheBushCenter]

For the last 13 years, the Bush Center has proudly carried the flag as the “new kid on the presidential center block.” Today, the @BarackObama Presidential Center takes on that role. On behalf of all of us at the Bush Center, congratulations to the @ObamaFoundation team. Take it from us: once the pomp and circumstance of opening passes, the real fun begins: serving the American people and guests from around the world. We’ll be cheering you on from Dallas!

📸: The 43rd President and the 44th President at the Dedication of the George W. Bush Presidential Center, April 25, 2013.