Brian Stucky

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The Foreign Emoluments Clause (art. I, § 9, cl. 8): No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under the United States, shall, without the Consent of the
Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

This is the stupidity we're talking about: She got an abortion after helping ban them. Blamed the democrats for the struggle she had to get one. And doesn't want interviews talking about it to be public.

[Top Girl Keiko, J.D. ✝️🙏 @TopGirlKeiko]

Trump threatened to blow up the plane carrying the entire Iranian delegation if they close the Strait of Hormuz in response to Bibi’s continued bombing of Lebanon, a subject of the peace negotiations. As a consequence, they immediately ended the negotiations in protest. A few days ago, an Israeli official expressly stated that Bibi would fully release the Trump’s tapes in his position. Now Trump wants to kill the entire Iranian government. So many people shouldn’t have to die to save one man from prison for his sex crimes. What is wrong with the world?

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL: Former US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene confirms Donald Trump personally fought the hardest to permanently hide the Epstein files!

She reveals the Trump administration explicitly ordered Pam Bondi to cover it up and forced Mike Johnson to block the release!

[Ford News @FordJohnathan5]

There is literally a 24 hour live cam of the pool and national monuments you fucking idiot at all times. You have arrest from people touching paint at the surface of the water. Some took chunks that was already vandalized by Trumps incompetency.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Worth pulling the actual sequence out of the Wolff framing, because the timeline does the explaining better than the theory does.

Trump told La7 that Meloni begged for a photo at the G7. Meloni answered, on camera, in Italian, "Neither I nor Italy ever beg." Trump escalated on Truth Social, claiming she asked "over and over" and suggesting her low approval traces back to declining to back the Iran war. Meloni answered again, in writing, that her popularity depends on defending Italian interests, not on her relationship with him, and that American base access in Italy runs on mutual agreements rather than personal goodwill.

That last sentence is the real one. She is not describing a friendship gone sideways. She is describing an alliance with terms, and reminding him those terms do not include flattery.

The biographer calls this a strategy shift among world leaders. It reads more like one head of state finally saying the obvious part out loud.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

96% of Trump’s second-term clemency grants have gone to recipients who didn’t fulfill longstanding DOJ guidelines for such requests. Past presidents on occasion have sidestepped those rules before.

But fewer than 1% of those who received clemency during the Biden administration and just 14% of recipients in Trump’s first presidency failed to meet the guidelines.

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

🚨 The most interesting part of the Tulsi Gabbard story isn't Tulsi Gabbard.

According to a Washington Post investigation, reporters obtained more than 25,000 pages of internal documents from her religious circle.

The documents reportedly included detailed guidance on:

• Policy positions
• Legislation
• Media appearances
• Public messaging

In multiple cases, the guidance allegedly appeared later in Gabbard's public statements almost verbatim.

But here's the bigger question:

How many other influence networks have we missed because nobody has obtained the documents yet?

The public imagines politics works like this:

Voters → Politician → Policy

Reality is often:

Voters → Politician ← Advisors, donors, activists, consultants, religious groups, think tanks, lobbyists, and political operatives.

Most of those people are never on the ballot.

Most voters don't know their names.

Most journalists never see their internal communications.

This story isn't remarkable because someone may have influenced a politician.

That happens every day.

It's remarkable because someone found the paperwork.

The most powerful people in politics are often the ones the public never sees. The real surprise isn't that influence exists. It's how rarely we get to see the receipts.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

There is a 24/7 camera that shows the reflecting pool. If someone went into the pool and made a 250 foot gash, it would have been seen.

trump is lying again. Everyone knows it, but the people at @TheJusticeDept are randomly going after people to soothe trump’s fragile ego.

[Spiro’s Ghost @AntiToxicPeople]

Your father would be so ashamed of you. How sad for you to post this pathetic shit on Father’s Day. Really sick. Insane you would defend mentally ill @TulsiGabbard and try to parrot all the insane made up nonsense about Fauci. Vile and reprehensible ultra MAGA cult member lunacy.

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

CNN was right about the war, and I was wrong — by @BecketAdams

“Everything the U.S. has done in this conflict — from Trump’s impotent screaming on social media to the administration getting jerked around in negotiations to its eventually agreeing to hand Iran everything — points to one painful and embarrassing reality: The White House went to war with no plan to counter or neutralize Iran’s most important asset.”

________

“The memorandum is a humiliation for the U.S. A theocratic death cult responsible for thousands of dead Americans is being handed everything but the kitchen sink.”

“And the only thing the U.S. has to show in return is a document that amounts to an unconditional surrender, along with the loss of 13-plus U.S. servicemen.”

“Happy 250th anniversary.”

https://t.co/VXM4trmwXP

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

I guarantee that @JudgeJeanine will not charge anyone for dumping chemicals into the reflecting pool. Because if they had any evidence they would be parading it around 24/7.

The reality is trump screwed up the reflecting pool by overpaying on a no bid contract to an amateur.

[Amanda Carpenter @amandacarpenter]

A remarkable Reuters investigation into Trump's pardon abuse.

"[U]nder Trump, clemency now is far more dependent upon access to his inner circle. That access, Reuters found, is enhanced when an applicant can craft a narrative that resonates with the president’s own sense of victimization..."

https://t.co/IY0PEwlYUA

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Trump wants to create a national database of every registered voter in the country.

Then, he and the GOP want to decide who gets to stay on it.

“It’s a way of essentially taking over the voter registration process,” Marc Elias says, “or, more precisely, taking over the results.”

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: Iran's FM Araghchi announces the US has now launched the $300 billion reconstruction plan, waived all oil & petrochemical exports, lifted the naval blockade and released some frozen Iranian assets, extracting all of these items shortly before the delegation walkout over Trump's assassination threat. All parties also agreed to a roadmap to reach a final deal in 60 days.

This roadmap won't start and Iran refuses to implement any commitments if Israel doesn't fully withdraw from southern Lebanon and all fighting stops, with Araghchi saying a newly established "Lebanon deconfliction cell" is "the first real test of the deal."

Israel has refused to comply with the Lebanon deconfliction cell, with Defense Minister Katz declaring Israel "will not withdraw from the security zone in Lebanon" and Ben-Gvir vowing "not a single inch" of withdrawal, directly violating the MOU's first clause and stalling the entire 60-day roadmap before it can begin.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Besides the fact that he didn’t vandalize anything, the 3-time Olympian is 67 years old and has been retired from competition for 24 years.

[Juliette Kayyem @juliettekayyem]

Mullin owes us proof. This is totally pathetic way to get attention. It is very unlikely the head of the Iranian soccer federation would try to "sneak" into the US. Mullin? @DHSgov? Can you give us more details?

[BigDaddy @strujillo075]

IF THERE'S NOTHING TO HIDE...Expressing an urgent need to "correct the record," lawmakers have asked a federal appeals court to overrule U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon and make Jack Smith's report on the Mar-a-Lago classified documents prosecution of President Donald Trump public.

[Jimmy Rushton @JimmySecUK]

Tulsi Gabbard was apparently even more insane than anyone realised, which is somewhat of an achievement.

A resounding slow clap for all her dimwitted boosters, with a particularly dishonourable mention for @MeghanMcCain.

[Michael Freeman @michaelpfreeman]

Congress cannot revoke pardons and does not have the power to indict.

Other than that, super tweet.