Blue In The West

Wife, Mom And Grandma, Democrat Since forever 😀

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

From someone who built an entire career off a loss. https://t.co/aDr2fotJME

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Only 3 data centers into what will surely be a campaign of dozens, and Ukraine's strikes are already creating chaos in basic services all across Russia, with Putin's centrally planned North Korean style internet even more vulnerable than expected.

A thread of Russian chaos:

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

For those that still don't understand that Trump works for Putin.

"American officials contacted representatives of European countries this weekend and demanded that they halt the supply of weapons"

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Trump cutting off US weapons to Ukraine 18 months ago wasn't enough to please his Russian master. Now he wahts to prevent European nations from helping Ukraine as well.

Trump is Putin's whore.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

A Short Lesson in Cause and Effect

There is nothing complicated about this. The United States buys Russian diesel, which puts money in Moscow's pocket. Moscow then spends part of that money on backing, arming and shielding Iran.

Iran, in turn, uses that support to hit American bases, ships and soldiers. So the money leaves America as a fuel payment and comes back as incoming fire, which is about as clear a result as foreign policy ever produces.

I would love to say this takes some expertise to grasp, but it really doesn't. Most people work out by the age of ten that you shouldn't pay the people who are helping someone hurt you. The Trump administration has had rather longer than that to think it over.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Trump in his rally speech tonight: "China makes the windmills, but try finding a wind farm in China. There is no such."

Here's a map of wind farms in China, which has by far the most wind capacity in the world and continues to install far more than any other country:

[Jonathan Pie @JonathanPieNews]

American Morality
https://t.co/X899UyBwFB

[Politics & Poll Tracker 📡 @PollTracker2024]

#KansasSenate

Win Senate, a Super PAC affiliated with Senate Democrats, releases its first ad against Senator Roger Marshall.

[ProPublica @propublica]

A defense contractor CEO and his close associates donated nearly $900,000 to dozens of politicians and got over $40 million a year in government funding.

He told the FBI that Sen. Susan Collins was his most important patron.
https://t.co/lNQaJylGaM

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Corrupt to the core

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

The United States is now officially allied with Vladimir Putin and Russia. We will fund Russia’s genocidal war machine in exchange for Putin helping Trump and the Republican Party in the midterms. One of the most shameful and disgusting days in the history of this Republic.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

With deep sorrow and regret I must report that President Donald J. Trump did not win this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. I know how devastated all of you must be. But inevitably, someday, in the not-too-distant-future, he will give the world something much greater to celebrate.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: GOP lawyer Cleta Mitchell and convicted election denier Tina Peters are pushing a scheme to have Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick seize voting machines, as part of a broader effort for the Trump administration to interfere with the midterms. https://t.co/hSnA0EU6zM

[Sofia B. Kinzinger @sofiakinzinger]

Dear Republicans in DC,

As you sit behind closed doors expressing your frustrations, and stay awake at night trying to figure out how to brace for the big punch you all know is coming, let me remind you of something:

This is your fault.

You’ve known who he is all along. You’ve bet on the same deeply currupt man over and over again, convincing yourselves that somehow, this time, it would be different.

He isn’t breaking you. He has destroyed you.

And you are just as responsible for where you find yourselves today. You enabled it. You defended it. You stayed silent when you knew better. You made the calculation, again and again, that protecting him was worth the cost.

Now the bill is coming due.

Thank you for your attention.

And we won’t let you forget it. 😑

[Grok @grok]

Philip Esformes: $1.3B Medicare/Medicaid scheme (commuted 2020)
Salomon Melgen: $42M Medicare fraud (commuted 2021)
Lawrence Duran: $87M Medicare fraud (commuted 2025)
Judith Negron: related $87M scheme (commuted 2020)
WellCare execs (Farha et al.): ~$35M Medicaid fraud (pardoned 2021)
Daniela Gozes-Wagner: $50M Medicare/Medicaid (commuted)
At least 13 cases totaling over $1.6B per reports.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

It appears that the National Guard shot and killed an unarmed man (in the back).
https://t.co/LzTNFR9Ux2

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

garbage

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

JUST IN: Renee Good's partner and family have filed two lawsuits stemming from her death — one aimed at the ICE agent who shot her and a several senior Trump admin officials, the other aimed at the federal government itself. https://t.co/pZMjqgUWOY

https://t.co/UolXkxLh2f

[Oregon Zoo @OregonZoo]

let the gourd times roll 🎃

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

The same Brendan Carr who wanted to investigate NBC because Kamala was on SNL?

The same Brendan Carr who wanted to dismantle independent fact checking and accused them of being a “censorship cartel?”

Periodic reminder that the corruption is a feature, not a bug.