Brad Fox

Loves dogs, birds, squirrels, chestnuts, and persimmons. Opinions in retweets are not necessarily mine.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MUST WATCH:

Clip from Larry David's new show "Life, Larry, and the Pursuit of Unhappiness"

Rob Reiner (before his death) as George Washington.

Trump is going to hate this.

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of Americans signed their names to a piece of parchment and made a promise no nation had ever made before: that we're all created equal, endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights — life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We're the only nation in history built not on ethnicity, or blood, or geography but on an idea. That's always been what makes us exceptional. We chose that path 250 years ago but that’s where the work began, not where it ended. Every generation has had to choose it again. At Valley Forge, at Gettysburg, on the beaches of Normandy, in the streets of Selma. Americans recommitted themselves to the principles on which our nation was founded.

Now it's our turn.

There's nothing guaranteed about our democracy. We have to fight for it, defend it, and earn it. Over and over, year after year. That's not a burden. That's what it means to be an American.

250 years in, we still haven't fully lived up to those words in the Declaration. But we've never walked away from them, and this July 4, I hope all of us can commit to one thing: that we never will. I don't believe we're as divided as we're told we are. I've bet my whole life on the American people, and I'm not stopping now.

Happy 250th birthday, America. Our story isn't finished. Let's keep writing it together.

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

BIG NEWS: I just signed and filed a discharge petition to force a floor vote on my legislation to permanently block Trump’s $1.8 BILLION taxpayer-funded slush fund for his January 6 private militia and family-sized Super Pardon.

I'm calling on all members of Congress to sign on. We can stop this self-dealing scheme and stand up for the taxpayers.

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Vast crowd celebrates Bicentennial Day on National Mall, Washington DC, 1976:

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The number of financial side deals the Trump family is running is so shocking it can sometimes be hard to track.

According to @Reuters, their crypto ventures alone have delivered $2.3 billion to Trump & co. while creating a similar-sized loss for investors.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

Birthright citizenship is more than a law...it is a promise that if you are born here, you belong here.

On the eve of America's 250th birthday, may we always keep this promise: "We The People" means all of us.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The top 1% now hold as much wealth as the entire bottom 90% of Americans combined — about 32% each.

This is what runaway inequality looks like, according to the Fed's most recent data released this month.

[Sophie Pedder @PedderSophie]

France last night showed again its mastery of the public theatre of national tribute. This time, the Résistant and historian Marc Bloch entered the Panthéon. The “sprit of defeat” that he fought, said Macron, remains “the slow poison of our public life”

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Ta-Nehisi Coates: “The latent racism of the Republican Party was the kindling and Trump just lit the flame. But it’s always been there. There is a tendency to see Trump as this departure from what Republicans previously have been, but he’s not. What he’s done is taken the mask off. Trump is vulgar, that’s the difference”

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

This person is a fucking lunatic, Republicans have just stopped talking him, and everyone is going along as if the next election is business as usual. Strange times.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Oops

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

This is dumb even for you, @Mike_Pence. Good Lord. Just stop.

[Brad Fox @bradfox]

@BillKristol No.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

“Babies, their heads cut off.”

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Shouldn't Biden/McConnell/Schumer agree now on a big, year-long Arsenal of Democracy supplemental, with ample funding for Ukraine and Israel as well as for border security? Get it passed ASAP in the Senate, and have a discharge petition ready with 218 signatures in the House.

[Brad Fox @bradfox]

@BillKristol Finally someone says it!

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

"Elon Musk's X, in the months before conflict erupted in Gaza, ceased utilizing a software tool used to identify organized misinformation now spreading across the platform formerly known as Twitter." https://t.co/UwIwlWm2wK

[Kerry Kennedy @KerryKennedyRFK]

Bobby might share the same name as our father, but he does not share the same values, vision or judgment. Today's announcement is deeply saddening for us. We denounce his candidacy and believe it to be perilous for our country. @roryekennedy @joekennedy @KKT_Kennedy

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Republican firsts:

First president in 28 years to not serve a second term.

First president in 45 years not to release any of his tax returns.

First president in 89 years to lose the presidency, the House and the Senate in a single term.

First president in 102 years to allow more than 120,000 Americans to die in a single virus outbreak.

First president in 129 years to lose the popular vote twice.

First president in 152 years to boycott his successors inauguration.

First president ever to fail to hit a 50% approval rating at any point during their presidency.

First president ever to be elected with the help of a foreign nation.

First president ever to be impeached twice.

First president ever to have a member of their own party vote for conviction in an impeachment trial.

First president ever to have an arrest warrant issued against him by a foreign nation.

First president ever to refuse to concede defeat.

First president to be banned from social media.

First president to refuse to ensure the peaceful transfer of power.

First president to have their home searched for official national security documents.

First former president found liable of sexual abuse, defamation & business fraud.

First former president criminally indicted (also the second, third and fourth).

First former president with a mugshot.

First House Speaker elected on the 15th vote, the most since before the Civil War.

First Speaker (see: 15 vote guy) removed by a U.S. House vote.

So many firsts in so little time.

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

Pout harder.