Bob Rosenstock 🇺🇦 #

Impact Investor/Crossfit Athlete/News Junkie/Avid traveler.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

This is one of the best analyses of the Trump-Putin diesel deal that I've read. Thank you, @JPavytska.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Utah combed its voter rolls and found only 27 confirmed noncitizens out of more than 2 million registered voters. Of those 27 noncitizens, only 13 had cast a ballot since 2018.

But as the state’s Republican elections chief said, that’s not what Trump wanted to hear: https://t.co/JfBcGF4Qej

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: Democrats are demanding to see a DHS "checklist" for law enforcement on "voter integrity," which the agency has withheld since July.

The document raises more questions about potential Trump administration plans to use armed federal agents to disrupt voting for the midterms. https://t.co/6M4H8wT658

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

KARL: Do you support Trump banning news organizations because he doesn't like what they're reporting?

SCALISE: Look, Joe Biden removed the press credentials from over 400 different agencies

KARL: That's not true. 400 reporters who had credentials didn't reapply. They weren't banned from the White House. That did not happen.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump’s budget director Russ Vought is the most dangerous person you’ve never heard of. 

He wants to turn every federal science grant into a political loyalty test. His plan would make funding for research depend on one thing: whether it “advances the President’s policy priorities.” 

Not whether it works. 

Not whether Congress voted for it. 

Whether it pleases Trump.

This is the appropriations power. It belongs to Congress and to the people.

This is about whether Congress still exists as a coequal branch, or whether we have quietly surrendered the purse to an unelected extremist hack who holds the Constitution in contempt.

History will remember who stood up and who looked away.
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[Truth Matters @politicsusa46]

There is absolutely no question that while Trump continues to delude himself that the U.S. is ‘respected like never before’, the world is rewiring in the background and Mark Carney is leading the charge.

Sarah Paine is a historian, she’s professor emeritus at Sims University Professor Emerita of History and Grand Strategy, she’s taught strategy at the Naval War College since 2000. She lectures on geopolitics, Mao, and the Russo-Japanese, world, Chinese civil, Korean, Vietnam and Cold wars.

She’s not been bankrupt six times, she’s not prone to falling asleep in meetings. She doesn’t have a crypto bribery pipeline and above all, speaks in joined up sentences and IS respected around the world.

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[Truth Matters @politicsusa46]

At some point people will have to listen.
@SRuhle is absolutely correct to draw your attention to the alarm being raised by Stan Drukenmiller, Bessent’s former boss.

I have no doubt that Bessent, is more than aware of the danger. He just doesn’t have the spine to tell Trump the wheels are coming off.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/50fpjrPQJk

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

On behalf of the DNC, DSCC, DCCC, DGA, and Leaders Schumer and Jeffries, this afternoon we filed a new amended lawsuit and motion to block Trump's anti-voting executive order and the USPS rule implementing it.

We will not stop fighting to protect voting rights.

[Daniel Hannan @DanielJHannan]

An apt day to remember that Dolly Parton once recorded a cover of Stairway to Heaven - and, in defiance of every moral law in the universe, she absolutely owned it.

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

Anthony Fauci made mistakes. But his diary reveals a conscientious public servant trying to save as many lives as he could during the pandemic. His recent summons before a Senate committee was surely intended to humiliate him. It should embarrass America https://t.co/cqLVyBBXQx

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Maggie Haberman exposes a massive White House shakedown.

She confirms Trump's personal lawyer Boris Epshteyn is illegally negotiating massive settlements with private firms.

The administration is systematically extorting millions from US businesses!

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Imagine being so far up Trump’s ass you believe any of this.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

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[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

The Trump Slush Fund is even worse than expected: because he and @DAGToddBlanche know that this whole lawsuit was illegal, they withdrew the case so the judge can’t rule on its legality!

This is just mind-boggling corruption. And the “lawsuit” was all a ruse.

Trump and Blanche must be removed from office immediately.

https://t.co/9Y1Pu1eoKg

[Harry Litman @harrylitman]

I have not pulled the trigger on this since Jan 2021 and the pardons of all the Jan 6 defendants, but I think there's a strong argument that the settlement of Trump's bogus, unconstitutional case in return for a $1.8b fund for 'Biden weaponization' is an impeachable offense.

[Sulekha Tripathi @sulekhat95]

A man spends 50 years teaching at MIT.

He knows his time is running out.

So he records one last lecture — everything he knows, distilled into a single hour.

He died 5 months later.

This is that lecture.

The most important hour you'll watch this week. 👇
Bookmark it for later

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 🇺🇸JUST IN: Pete Hegseth canceled a troop deployment to Poland that was already happening.

The unit had cased their colors. The advance team was already on the ground.

The equipment was already there.

Then he pulled the plug. And he didn’t tell Congress. He didn’t tell Poland. The four-star general in charge of Europe pushed back. Hegseth did it anyway.

This came out Friday at a House hearing. The Republican chairman, Mike Rogers, told the Army Secretary to his face:

“We’re not happy. There’s been no statutory consultation with us.”

Rep. Don Bacon — also a Republican, a retired Air Force general — went sharper:
“Reprehensible. An embarrassment to our country.”

The Pentagon’s spokesman called the cancellation “not a last-minute decision.” The Army Secretary, under oath that same morning, said it happened “a couple days ago.”

Both can’t be true.

This is the third time in seven months Hegseth has pulled US troops from a NATO ally without telling Congress. Romania last fall. Germany two weeks ago. Poland this week.

Russia is watching. Poland got a phone call.

[Bob Rosenstock 🇺🇦 # @brstock]

@AdamKinzinger So, did I.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

The NY Times continues to erroneously call the SAVE Act a "voter I.D. bill." I did a deep dive into its history and explain that ID was only added this year and is nots it core.

Stop spreading GOP talking points and focus on the facts. https://t.co/8BWmfViPQW

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

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