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[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

MS Now: GOP Senator Cassidy was yelling at the president over this Iran deal, which effectively forces Republicans to do a 180 on 10 years of talking points about how bad the Obama deal was.

[Mia Bryant 🇨🇦 @MiaBryant374659]

Definitely worth reposting….

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

GOP Senator Thom Tillis goes off on Trump over his reflecting pool tantrum.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Video captures the moment vandals caused a 350-foot gash in the Reflecting Pool's sealant

[James Henry @Jameshenry1970]

As a DC9 union painter with 30+ years in coatings, I’m looking at the failure not a conspiracy theory.
When a coating is lifting off in large sheets like this, that points to an adhesion failure: improper surface preparation, contamination left behind, the wrong coating system, poor recoat timing, or water introduced before the system fully cured.

A quality two-part epoxy system can perform well but the product is only as good as the prep and application. The substrate has to be properly profiled/cleaned, the specified primer or first coat applied correctly, recoat windows followed, and the full system allowed to cure before being put back into service.

That is not “vandals.” That is a coating failure that deserves a real independent inspection and an explanation of exactly what system was specified and how it was applied.

#Coatings #Epoxy #SurfacePreparation #PaintFailure #UnionPainter #QualityControl #Accountability #ReflectingPool
#Properpreperation #Elonmusk
#DonaldTrump #Donaldtrumpjr
@krassenstein @EdKrassen @eddsmitty @LucasSa56947288 @adammocklerr @harryjsisson @acnewsitics @Acyn @Bakari_Sellers

[Acyn @Acyn]

CNN doing a side by side of Vance and Obama talking about nuclear inspections

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

JD Vance one year ago today:

“I empathize with Americans who are exhausted after 25 years of foreign entanglements in the Middle East. I understand the concern, but the difference is that back then we had dumb presidents"

[Russell Foster A New Texas @RussellFosterTX]

Up until yesterday, this is how people interacted with the reflecting pool, which we all own. Now, Trump will arrest anyone who puts a finger in the water. How exactly is this freedom that the GOP constantly says we have more of now than ever before? Let's get back to the old way

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Greed and dementia, that’s all Fred passed down.

Happy Father’s Day, Donald.

[Max Velocity @MaxVelocityWX]

Absolutely INCREDIBLE video coming out of Sims, Illinois from @project_otus after a LIVE drone intercept of a significant tornado a short time ago!

LIVE: https://t.co/USfnYXBzaQ

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

It is deeply frustrating how easily Americans moved past the reality that Donald Trump attempted an actual coup in 2021 and failed miserably.

He should have been disqualified from ever holding power again the moment he tried to overturn the election results. He is a traitor who belongs in jail, plain and simple.

Treating his actions as just another political scandal that can be brushed aside is completely unacceptable.

The Republicans who enabled this comeback are absolute traitors to the US. They had multiple opportunities to draw a line in the sand and reject him.

Instead, they acted in a pathetic manner by backing him as their candidate and enabling him to become president again

[WAR @warsurv]

BREAKING: Russian Federation! Ukraine has reached Siberia! 🇷🇺🇺🇦

[Richard @ricwe123]

When the illusion finally shatters, what remains isn't disappointment,it's humiliation.

The man you poured your faith into was never a visionary, never a savior, never even remotely exceptional.
He was a hollow fraud wrapped in ego, fueled by noise, and sustained by endless self-promotion.

Every boast, every grand promise, every display of swagger crumbles the instant reality enters the room.
What looked like confidence was arrogance.
What looked like strength was insecurity.
What looked like leadership was little more than a carefully marketed illusion.

Scratch beneath the surface and there's no hidden brilliance, no master strategist, no misunderstood genius. Just an impulsive, self-absorbed figure stumbling from one failure to the next, desperately trying to drown incompetence in a torrent of bluster and spectacle.

In the end, the strongman image collapses into exactly what it always was: cheap theater.
A gaudy performance.
A caricature masquerading as leadership.
A salesman peddling an image he could never live up to.

And the hardest part isn't watching the act fall apart.
It's realizing how long you applauded it, defended it, and mistook obvious bullshit for substance.....

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

If a guy gets arrested for vandalizing government property because he touched paint peeled off from the pool, he should be pardoned just like the January 6th attackers who bashed in windows and smeared shit all over the walls.

RIGHT?

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Why is it only women who stand up to Trump? Remember when these fearless women went after the orange Fleshsack in a Washington DC restaurant shouting: “Trump is the Hitler of our time.” This needs to happen everywhere he shows his fucking face.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

In this 1992 video, Donald Trump, Ghislaine Maxwell and Jeffrey Epstein appear together at a party:

1. One became POTUS.
2. Another is serving 20 years for sex trafficking minors.
3. The third died in federal custody during Trump’s 1st term.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Trump: "G7 used to be G8. They should have kept the G8. You probably wouldn't have the war with Russia and Ukraine if they did."

FACT CHECK: Russia was excluded from the G8 in March 2014 as a direct response to its illegal invasion and annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

He broke every promise. Remember that in November.

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

"I AND ITALY NEVER BEG"
MELONI SLAYS TRUMP AFTER HE SAY: "Meloni? She begged me for a photo, I felt sorry for her"

Giorgia Meloni's rasping response: "Donald Trump's statements are completely made up, I'm frankly appalled. I don't know why the President of the United States behaves this way with his own allies; after all, it's not the first time it's happened. I can only say it's a shame that he doesn't show the same determination with the enemies of the West, with the enemies of the United States, with leaderships toward which he instead proves much more accommodating; however, one thing he must remember: I and Italy never beg."

[PBS News @NewsHour]

New concerns are emerging about President Trump’s sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 defendants after a report found that nearly 100 of them have been arrested, charged or convicted of additional crimes since the attack in 2021.

It comes as continuing efforts by Trump and his allies to recast the events of that day have reignited debate over accountability and the rule of law.

@ElizLanders has more.