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[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

This may be the image that defines America's 250th birthday.

A woman sits calmly on a Washington Metro train as masked members of the white nationalist and domestic terrorist group Patriot Front surround her.

They covered their faces.

She didn't.

Earlier in the day, Patriot Front marched through the nation's capital carrying Confederate flags and chanting that America must be "reclaimed," the latest expression of a white nationalist movement that has grown increasingly visible, violent, emboldened, and politically influential in recent years.

Their ideology is explicit.

Their courage, apparently, is not.

Not one of them was willing to show his face.

And then there is her.

No mask. No uniform. No fear.

Just an American woman refusing to surrender an inch of her dignity to a group of men who appeared to be seeking exactly that.

The symbolism is almost too perfect.

250 years after the Declaration of Independence, and six decades after Americans marched and died to make its promises apply to everyone, a group of masked white nationalists rode the socialist Metro home in anonymity.

The woman they tried to intimidate is the one America will remember.

The people who hide their faces do not define this country.

The people who refuse to be afraid do.

[Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 @KellyScaletta]

It's amazing watching the consternation by MAGA over why we can't just "get behind" the President who has called us communists, fascists, traitors, demons, and evil, while dehumanizing brown people, black people, transgender people, women, liberals, and immigrants, and who literally tried to overthrow the country, insisting that we didn't vote for whom we did vote for, who has insulted our allies while embracing our enemies, who has used the White House as his own personal cash machine, who has sold pardons to cartel leaders and those who launered money for them, who has cheered on genocide and threatened it, who has committed and defended war crimes, the murder of American citizens, the illegal detainment of them, and who has made the entire celebration of America's 250th birthday about himself.

Gee! It's such a puzzle.

[Mona @AkaBerrier63413]

@notcapnamerica Every single case he worked on needs to be reopened. Now.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Democrats and Republicans worked together for a year and a half on a bill to build more housing, lower costs, and block private equity from buying up homes.

The bill passed the House and the Senate.

But Donald Trump threw a temper tantrum and still hasn’t signed it into law.

[עומדים ביחד نقف معًا Standing Together🟣 @omdimbeyachad]

2/ This image wasn’t leaked. It wasn’t exposed by a whistleblower. It was posted proudly. That’s what makes it even more horrifying. If this is what an Israeli soldier feels comfortable sharing with the world, imagine the abuse that never reaches a camera. It reflects a reality in which the humiliation of Palestinians has become so normalized that it is documented, celebrated, and shared without shame. No human being should be treated this way. No society should accept this as normal. It should outrage every one of us.

[Mark D. Levine @MarkLevineNYC]

NEW: There is a legionnaires cluster on the Upper East Side.

2 cases confirmed so far. But this is very early and more expected.

Zip codes impacted: 10028 & 10128.

If you live, work or have recently visited the two zip codes and have flu-like symptoms contact a health care provider ASAP.

[Selina Wang @selinawangtv]

Trump made $2.2 billion in his first year back in office
-More than $1.3 billion of it came from his family's crypto business
-His meme coin alone brought in $600 million
-Trump-branded watches alone brought in more than $4 million.
His financial disclosures was >900 pages

[MMLady @LadyBleuLady]

@DecodingFoxNews Sen. John Barrasso "I text her if I need to get to the president." He says that Harp is in regular communication with senators and members of Congress via text message.

"You want to get something to Trump, she’s the person to talk to" - Lindsey Graham

https://t.co/tEIyxGBLdY

[Political Punk @actingliketommy]

REMEMBER... WHEN THE BIBLE WAS LAST IN SCHOOLS:

- Segregation was accepted en masse
- Spousal rape was LEGAL & accepted
- Gay people had to hide in fear
- Domestic violence was RAMPANT and tolerated
- Women were allowed no agency over their wombs
- Child abuse was considered "normal" discipline
- Left handedness was considered a defect
- People with long hair were thought to be gay

This was NOT good for anyone in society, except white christian men. Everyone but them SUFFERED. Badly.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: And, see, this is what small men like Donald Trump and Mike Collins will never understand. That our national greatness flows not through our blood or our genes, but through our ideas and our care for one another. Americans are not a race. We are a people united not by ethnicity, but by shared convictions.

Crowd: *chants USA*

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

What a LIAR. The majority of Haitians who have TPS entered the country LEGALLY and have never violated any immigration law! They have been present lawfully their entire time in this country.

Here's lawful entries vs. unlawful entries under the Biden admin.

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

As @DHSGenCounsel cheers on stripping 350,000 people of their status, jobs, homes, and safety, here's a 🧵on some people at risk; real people, not caricatures.

Start with Vilbrun Dorsainvil, a doctor who fled Haiti to Springfield in 2021. He went back to school and is now an RN.

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

Just to be clear, wanting my tax dollars to be used to fund healthcare, infrastructure and affordable housing for all rather than into the pockets of the top 1% does not mean I am a socialist or communist.

[Nicholas Miles @NicholasM1203]

@David_J_Bier "I don't answer questions"
"Am I being detained?"
"What probable suspicion do you have that I committed or am about to commit a crime?"

When they refuse to answer "Am I free to go?"

If they don't answer, you drive away.

You've done everything to protect yourself.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

It's actually mind-boggling that @JDVance would say Watergate would be a "10 hour story" today.
Just to review, Nixon's aides authorized a break-in of the DNC HQ to install bugging equipment--in a caper foiled by a night watchman, who called police. They then enlisted the CIA to mislead the FBI that the break-in was related to a probe of malign foreign actors.
The entire operation was paid for by a slush fund controlled by the WH.
The WH also enlisted the IRS to probe hundreds of Nixon's political enemies.
The AG, the WH COS and several other top aides all were convicted and served time for their involvement in the crimes and coverup.
Nixon was caught on his own secret tape system conspiring with them but was pardoned a month after he resigned by his successor, Gerald Ford.
That Vance thinks this would be a "10 hour story" today speaks volumes about the moral and ethical degradation of the Trump era.

[New Orleans Saints @Saints]

drop your recs for the rooks 🍧⤵️

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

This is why men should get the HPV vaccine as well as women

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This is madness! Deliberate collusion with a federal judge to rapidly erase regulations without any input from affected parties.

It’s clearly an unlawful act by all, and now litigants will have to seek to intervene in the already-completed lawsuit to overturn his actions.

[Charles Booker @Booker4KY]

PROBLEM: Andy Barr and Mitch McConnell cut Medicaid by $625 billion AND Medicare by $500 billion.

Because of them, millions of Kentuckians are going without healthcare.

SOLUTION: Defeat Andy Barr, flip the Senate, and finally deliver Medicare for All.

[Sarah Leah Whitson @sarahleah1]

Very important to note that the UN Commission of Inquiry's conclusion is not only that Israel is indiscriminately killing children in Gaza, but *deliberately* targeting them.

In all my years covering conflicts in the Middle East, I've never before seen armed forces *deliberately* targeting children. But the receipts are there for all to see...

https://t.co/JZ9sOhQU6q