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[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Conventional wisdom, with which I agree: Trump is more narcissistic, self-absorbed, and megalomaniacal than ever.

Conventional wisdom, with which I disagree: Oh c’mon, Trump understands he really can’t run again.

My hunch: Trump “understands” no such thing. He wants to run. He’ll try to.

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: A reporter asked Mike Johnson at a press conference today, “Should we bother asking you any questions about Trump reigniting his illegal Iran War without any Constitutionally mandatory Congressional deliberation and authorization... or have you not heard about it yet?"

[Brad Polumbo @brad_polumbo]

If you are a waitress and no-call, no-show even one shift, you could get fired.

But you can be an ancient elected official at the highest levels of our government and just go AWOL for weeks or even months with no real explanation, and we're supposed to pretend that's... fine?

[Deb @DontCallMeDebby]

This is why I’ll never leave this app.

[Danny Manus @DannyManus]

Mitch McConnell is actually the best Metaphor for, and representation of, America and our political system. He spent almost a century making the world a better place for only himself and his friends, married an immigrant while working tirelessly against other immigrants, manipulated the system to increase his power only to be usurped & made impotent by someone even more unethical, unscrupulous and power hungry. Then when the system is finally done with him, they keep his dead body on life support just to use him for one more power move until finally allowing him sweet sweet death while his wife flees the country and his children go into hiding. And when it's all said and done, he'll be best remembered for a meme that made him into a turtle. America.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is just dumb. We run a trade surplus with Spain. They buy more from us than we buy from them. Cutting off trade with Spain means selling less to one of our customers. That hurts American exporters, American workers, and the communities that depend on those exports.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

He has Nazi tattoos and sexually assaulted some women but you can't tell if I'm talking about Graham Platner or Pete Hegseth

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES!
What exactly is the hold-up?
IT'S THE FUCKING LAW!

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is just embarrassing at this point.

The President of the United States flew all the way to a NATO summit and the first thing out of his mouth was that we should take Greenland from Denmark.

Folks, this is not complicated.

Denmark is a NATO ally. Article 5 means an attack on one of us is an attack on all of us. That mutual defense promise is the entire reason the alliance has kept the peace for nearly 80 years. Taking land from a NATO ally by force shreds the one guarantee that holds the alliance together.

Vladimir Putin has spent years trying to split the West apart. Trump is doing that work for him, for free. Every time he menaces an ally, he weakens the wall that keeps Russia and China in check.

And for what? Trump claims Greenland matters to us but not to Denmark, as if 56,000 people who live there have no say over their own home.

We do not strengthen America by bullying our friends. Enough with this nonsense.
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[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

Y’all acting like you’ve never seen an octogenarian drug addict whose never read a book & gets talking points from Putin after spending decades laundering money for the Russian mob & sex-trafficking girls w/his pal Jeffrey Epstein confuse Iran and Japan & screw up NATO before?

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: Nurses at Mitch McConnell's hospital bedside say they've yelled into his ears, "There's a Black president trying to fill a Supreme Court vacancy!" and he didn't stir at all.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

My arch nemesis Steve Bannon, someone I genuinely can't stand, actually nailed this one.

He said pay attention to Zohran Mamdani.

He’s a great communicator and has a real vision.

He understands where people are and how upset they are.

And Trump's response is to slap a broad brush on it and call it communism.

Which I think is a serious mistake, because when you do that you miss the entire point of what's actually got people upset.

Listen to Mamdani's speech, that's not communism, that's Scandinavianism.

He wants a regulated capitalism with a stronger safety net.

Trump is successfully labeling it something it isn't and a lot of people are buying it.

But the underlying anger is real and mislabeling it doesn't make it go away.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

@RapidResponse47 @POTUS To any White House staffer reading this: please put him in a home

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

The UN voted 141-8 to adopt a resolution backing a world court opinion that countries have a legal obligation to address climate change.

The US was in the 8, with gems like Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Belarus. Bad company.

[Ed O'Malley @EdwardOMalley]

@McFaul Trump probably asked them to do it. Not kidding.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Why? What changed?

[John Fugelsang @JohnFugelsang]

Hi folks. Romans 13 is the favorite Bible verse of revoltingly fake, anti-Jesus "Christians" like Steve here.

They use one line to argue that God put Trump in power so you must submit to him.

Here's how to know a Fake Christian is lying at you:

1. Romans is Paul, not God or Jesus.
2. Jesus never tells you to obey Caesar, or any human leader
3. There is no Jesus-justification for Trump support. You've got to reject JC to support DT policy. That's why Steve cites Paul, bc Jesus is useless to him.
4. Jesus Himself did not "submit to the governing authorities;" it's why they killed Him.
5. Paul himself did not submit to the governing authorities, either; he set up the modern church and they killed him for it.

Fake Christians choose one line of a book they don't follow. Steve here HATES the rest of Romans:

*"Contribute to the needs of the saints; extend hospitality to strangers." (Romans 12:13)
*Never avenge yourselves." (Romans 12:19)
*"If your enemy is hungry, feed him." (Romans 12:20)
*"Do not be haughty, but associate with the lowly." (Romans 12:16)
*"Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you." (15:7)

AND:
Paul also commands all Christian men kiss each other when they meet.
"Greet one another with a holy kiss." (Romans 16:16)

Fake Christians don't follow Paul any more than they follow Christ. But they'll use them both, whenever convenient.

Trump's movement continues to be anti-Jesus's teachings. Paul's too.

Your true Messiah Trump would be proud of your hate, if he gave a shit about his supporters.

Keep calling people "bitch" to prove how spiritually deep you are, you frightened little thing.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is a great piece by two ex-White House ethics lawyers, one Republican and one Democrat. It should alarm every American.

Trump and his family are profiting from the very industries he regulates.

Nearly a million everyday investors lost a combined $3.8 billion on his meme coin while Trump pocketed $636 million.

Then there is all the foreign money. The founders wrote the emoluments clause into our Constitution to stop exactly this. Foreign cash flowing to a sitting president was their nightmare, and we are living it.

Congress has the power to end this. We can ban officials from trading stocks and holding assets that overlap with their duties. We can investigate who paid, who benefited, and whether policy was bought.

Trump’s allies stay quiet because they fear his money and his threats. But we must fight back. Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.
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[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The US is getting ready to spend a billion dollars to get rid of screwworms because Doge canceled the $300 million dollar contract to control them. Doge should pay the full amount with penalities not us taxpayers.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

And yet Hegseth - after everything from Signalgate to this - still has a job, because loyalty to Donald Trump is more important than competently running the Defense Department.