bjorktwt

long term… you still really think this is all gonna work out better for you - hmm

[bjorktwt @bjorktwt]

@timjhogan @joshtpm @VaughnHillyard Ppl often say how Trump or R’s are willing to, “burn it all down,” - Well, anyone who has dealt w/ a narcissist personally, will tell you, that’s not a joke, that’s real. Trump & his mouth pieces will stoke a full on Civil War then they’ll walk away & watch the Country implode.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

Every state should do this. No public servant, elected or not elected, should be able to enrich themselves off of insider information.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: I can confirm with 99% confidence that the reason Melania Trump came out yesterday with her Epstein Statement is because of information possessed by a former friend, and Epstein survivor, Brazilian Model Amanda Ungaro.

Ungaro was also the partner of Trump admin official Paolo Zampolli, who she alleges had her deported. They have a son together. Paolo Zampolli also claims to have introduced Trump to Melania.

Amanda is a victim of Epstein's and was brought to the US from Paris by her modeling agent Jean-Luc Brunel when was 17. She had a 20 year friendship with Melania.

Remember her name. You will be hearing so much about her in the coming weeks that Trump will likely Nuke Iran over it.

[R A W S A L E R T S @rawsalerts]

🚨#BREAKING: Numerous people are injured as emergency crews are on the scene responding to a mass shooting after gunfire erupted inside a Chick-fil-A

📌#Union | #NewJersey.

At this time, numerous emergency crews are on the scene in Union Township, New Jersey, responding to and investigating a mass shooting at a busy restaurant. Reports indicate a barrage of gunfire erupted inside or near the crowded establishment. Officials have confirmed that at least six people were shot. One victim has been pronounced dead at the scene, while multiple others have been transported to nearby hospitals for treatment. Authorities have not yet released information on a suspect, possible motive, or whether anyone has been taken into custody. The situation remains active and is still developing.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

MASSIVE BOMBSHELL! Prominent journalist Max Blumenthal reveals Lara Trump and Don Jr. own a 30 percent stake in Salem Media, a registered Israeli foreign agent! The Trump family is literally taking millions from the Israeli government to propagandize the American public.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Just a reminder that for all their big talk, DOJ is 0-4 in lawsuits to obtain state voter files. My law firm is 4-0.😎https://t.co/EVNMwg9GMj

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

HARD FACT: If the Republicans cared even 10% about the 67 allegations of Rape, Sexual Assault, Sexual Harassment, and other sexual misconduct against Donald Trump as they do about the four allegations against Eric Swalwell, Donald Trump's political career would have ended in 2016

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

A new lawsuit filed Friday seeks to force the DOJ to divulge communications between senior officials and election deniers during the department’s ongoing efforts to obtain state voter rolls and relitigate President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss. https://t.co/LQ8cCeqlOT

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

On April 3, 1968, the night before he was assassinated, my father delivered what would be his final speech, “I’ve Been to the Mountaintop.”

He spoke with a clarity that came from conviction, not certainty. He acknowledged the difficulty of the days ahead, yet he was not moved by fear. He was anchored in purpose and in a faith that justice would prevail.

What stands out to me is not only what he said, but how he said it. He was preparing people to stay committed, to stay disciplined, and to continue the work, even without him.

His words are not just history. They are instruction.

Watch the full speech: https://t.co/o3QZvVc4GT

#MLK #BelovedCommunity #Nonviolence365

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Every day I watch the chaos in this country and think about how many people got it completely wrong on Joe Biden, especially Democrats and the media.

Democrats turned on him and bought into a manufactured narrative, while the press trashed stability, mocked experience, and helped normalize a convicted felon… and now act like none of it happened.

A lot of people owe him an apology.
Anyone else feel this anger? 🤷

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Robert Mueller died last night.

He was 81 years old. He had a wife who loved him for sixty years. He had two daughters, one of whom he met for the first time in Hawaii, in 1969, on a few hours of military leave, before he got back on the plane and returned to Vietnam. He had grandchildren. He had a faith he practiced quietly, without performance. He had, in the way of men who have seen real things and survived them, a quality that is increasingly rare and increasingly mocked in the country he spent his life serving.

He had integrity.

And tonight the President of the United States said good!

I have been sitting with that word for hours now. Good. One syllable. The thing you say when the coffee is hot or the traffic is moving. The thing a man who has never had to bury anyone, never had to sit in the specific silence of a room where someone is newly absent, reaches for when he wants the world to know he is satisfied. Good. The daughters are crying and the wife is alone in the house and good.

I want to speak directly to the Americans reading this. Not the political Americans. Just the human ones. The ones who have lost a father. The ones who know what it is to be in that first hour, when you keep forgetting and then remembering again, when ordinary objects become unbearable, when the world outside the window seems obscene in its indifference. I want to ask you, simply, to hold that feeling for a moment, and then to understand that the man you elected looked at it and typed a single word.

Good.

This is not a country having a bad day. I need you to understand that. Countries have bad days. Elections go wrong. Leaders disappoint. Institutions bend. But there is a different thing, a rarer and more terrible thing, that happens when the moral center of a place simply gives way. Not dramatically. Not with a single catastrophic event. But quietly, in increments, until one evening a president celebrates the death of an old man whose family is still warm with grief, and enough people find it acceptable that it becomes the weather. Just the weather.

That is what is happening. That is what has happened.

The world knows. From Tokyo to Oslo, from London to Buenos Aires, people are not angry at America tonight. Anger would mean there was still something to fight for, some remaining faith to be betrayed. What I see, in the reactions from everywhere that is not here, is something older and sadder than anger. It is the look people get when they have waited a long time for someone they love to find their way back, and have finally understood that they are not coming.

America is being grieved. Past tense, almost. The idea of it. The thing it represented to people who had nothing else to believe in, who came here with everything they owned in a single bag because they had heard, somehow, across an ocean, that this was the place where decency was written into the walls. That idea is not resting. It is not suspended. It is being buried, in real time, with 7,450 likes before dinner.

And the church said nothing.

Seventy million people have decided that this man, this specific man who has cheated everyone he has ever made a promise to, who has mocked the disabled and the dead and the grieving, who celebrated tonight while a family wept, is an instrument of God. The pastors who made that bargain did not just trade away their credibility. They traded away the thing that made them worth listening to in the first place. The cross they carry now is a costume. The faith they preach is a loyalty oath with scripture attached. When the history of American Christianity is written, this will be the chapter they skip at seminary.

Now I want to talk about the men who stand next to him.

Because this is the part that actually breaks my heart.

JD Vance is not a bad man. I have to say that, because it is true, and because the truth matters even now, especially now. Marco Rubio is not a bad man. Lindsey Graham is not a bad man. They are idiots, but not bad, as in BAD! These are men with mothers who raised them and children who love them and friends who remember who they were before all of this. They are not monsters. Monsters are simple. Monsters do not cost you anything emotionally because there is nothing in them to mourn.

These men are something more painful than monsters.

They are men who knew better, and know better still, and will get up tomorrow and do it again.

Every small compromise they made had a reason. Every moment they looked the other way had a justification that sounded, at the time, almost reasonable. And now they have arrived here, at a place where a president celebrates the death of an old man and they will find a way, on television, to say nothing that means anything, and they will go home to houses where children who carry their name are waiting, and they will say goodnight, and they will say nothing.

Their oldest friends are watching. The ones who knew Rubio when he still believed in something. Who knew Graham when he said, out loud, on the record, that this exact man would destroy the Republican Party and deserve it. Who sat next to Vance and thought here is someone worth knowing. Those friends are not angry tonight. They moved through anger a long time ago. What they feel now is the quiet, irrecoverable sadness of watching someone disappear while still being present. Of watching a person they loved choose, again and again, to become less.

That is what cowardice costs. Not the coward. The people who loved him.

And in the comments tonight, the followers celebrate. People who ten years ago brought casseroles to grieving neighbours. Who stood in the rain at gravesides and meant the words they said. Who told their children that we do not speak ill of the dead because the dead were someone's beloved. Those people are tonight typing gleeful things about a man whose daughters are not yet done crying. And they feel clean doing it. Righteous. Because somewhere along the way the thing they were given in exchange for their decency was the feeling of belonging to something, and that feeling is very hard to give up even when you can no longer remember what you gave for it.

When Trump is gone, they will still be here.

Standing in the silence where the noise used to be. Without the permission the crowd gave them. Without the pastor who told them their cruelty was holy. They will be alone with what they said and what they cheered and what they chose to become, and there will be no one left to tell them it was righteous.

That morning is coming.

Robert Mueller flew across the Pacific on military leave to hold his newborn daughter for a few hours before returning to the war. He came home. He buried his dead with honour. He served presidents of both parties because he understood that the institution was larger than any one man. He told his grandchildren that a lie is the worst thing a person can do, that a reputation once lost cannot be recovered, and he lived that, every day, in the quiet and unglamorous way of people who actually believe what they say.

He was the kind of American the world used to point to when it needed to believe the story was true.

He died last night. His wife is alone in their house in Georgetown. His daughters are learning what the world is without him in it. And somewhere in the particular hush that falls over a family in the first hours of loss, the most powerful man and the biggest loser on earth sent a message to say he was glad.

The world that loved what America was supposed to be is grieving tonight. Not for Robert Mueller only. For the country that produced him and then became this. For the distance between what was promised and what was delivered. For the suspicion, growing quieter and more certain with each passing month, that the America people believed in was always partly a story, and the story is over now, and there is nothing yet to replace it.

That is all it needed to be.

A man died. His family is broken open with grief.

That is all it needed to be.

Instead the President said good.

And the country that once stood for something looked away 🇺🇸

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

More: https://t.co/YmizlLCXAR

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

This is fucking outrageous, and it's the kind of story that should cause Senators to hold up Mullin's confirmation to DHS.

Looking at you, @SenFettermanPA

[bjorktwt @bjorktwt]

@bourscheid Please cross post on BSky

[Q ™️ @QTHESTORMM]

🚨🚨MAJOR UPDATE: ITS NOW CONFIRMED BY TED LIEU AND 17 OTHER CONGRESS MEMBERS THAT "DONALD TRUMP RAPED YOUNG GIRLS, MINORS, THE AGES 13 AND 15 YEARS OLD AND ITS ALL ON VIDEOTAPE"

[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

People don't know what's happening right now. ICE agents are immune to civil suits for constitutional violations, and now ICE is deputizing state and local cops all over America, cloaking them in this shield of immunity. Glad @SenJeffMerkley is on this issue

[Georgia DiPirro @GeorgiaDiPirro]

@ChrisMurphyCT As Ukraine offers to help defend the West.

Russia helps Iran track American forces.

And White House eases sanctions on Russian oil.

While Hegseth Trump, Trump’s Regime …
Even Melania has “open channel of communication to Putin”

https://t.co/AUhDHAu2zf

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

So Iran now has, perhaps for the first time, information about the location of our most sensitive covert sites in the region.

A completely foreseeable, unnecessary consequence of unnecessary war with Iran.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

@BenAptitude She lied under oath. She gratuitously attacked Members of Congress at her hearing. She called Rep Raskin a loser lawyer. She demanded we apologize for bipartisan impeachment of Trump. She disrespected Epstein survivors.

I will fight back and I will not be silenced.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Watching the @NBA All Star game and @TeamUSA at the Winter Olympics, it’s clear that sports — just like music and art — still has the power to bring us together, build community, and remind us of our common humanity.