Frank Drain

You never know what effect kindness will have because it's effects are not always immediate.

[Frank Drain @catnamedlink]

@NoLieWithBTC

[Sean Casten @SeanCasten]

A quick thread on Trump's Project 2025 thing that's been on my mind. It's not just Trump's agenda. It's the agenda of the entire @GOP. A small deep dive:

[Frank Drain @catnamedlink]

This thread is spot on. A must read. @NoLieWithBTC

[The Editorial Board @johnastoehr]

At the VP debate, JD Vance perfectly distilled "Wilhoit’s law." A THREAD.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

I can’t believe that in a country stripping women of their rights, there are still men who think it’s HILARIOUS to make fun of women’s “issues”…

[Patrick S. Tomlinson @stealthygeek]

Learned more about the story of this photo and now I'm mad.

This was taken today at Arlington National Cemetery. The grave belongs to Sgt Nicole Leeann Gee, USMC. She was among the 13 US service members killed in a suicide bombing during the Afghan withdrawal 3 yrs ago. 1/

[Acyn @Acyn]

Walz: Why would you think I would need your advice to tell me what books I can and cannot read? Or when to have a family or how to have a family? Or what religion to worship? Or how to organize? You stay in your lane and I'll stay in mine. That's not that difficult.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Jessica: I don't know what kind of socialist runs number six best state in America for big business. Target is there for a reason, 3M, United Healthcare, General Mills are there for a reason….

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

King or Country?
Pick a side America.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

IF this #debate happens, here’s what we need to keep reminding ourselves…

[Michael Podhorzer @Mike_Podhorzer]

1. SCOTUS shielding Trump from pre-election accountability for January 6th and the criminal conspiracy to overturn the results of the 2020 election. If the MAGA justices really thought this case was worth hearing, they would have said so when Jack Smith first asked them about it in December.

Now the MAGA majority has created an impossible bind: Proceeding with Trump’s trial in a timely fashion would supercharge his lies that the election wasn’t/won’t be free and fair. Yet NOT holding the trial before the election would surrender the imperative for voters to know the full extent of Trump’s legal accountability for the insurrection.

[. @GregTSargent]

An important development: Trump's criminality is becoming a genuine wedge issue against Republicans.

Don't be fooled by GOP's outward shows of unity behind Dear Leader. The cracks in the facade are very clear.

Here's some evidence. 1/

(Link to piece)
https://t.co/ORopWwJSwv

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Senate Republicans just voted against the Right to Contraception Act. You only need to look at Texas to see the future they’re planning for women.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

JUST IN: The producer of 2000 Mules said in court that every single accusation made in the movie was totally invented out of thin air by Dinesh and True the Vote.

[Dan Crenshaw @DanCrenshawTX]

Enjoy your Memorial Day and let us remember why we celebrate. We celebrate the lives of the heroes we have lost. Never Forget.

Please read the entire post.

Brendan Looney. Did our first deployment together at SEAL Team 3. One of the best and most respected leaders on the Team. Husband, son, and brother. “Be Strong. Be accountable. Never complain.”

[President Biden Archived @POTUS46Archive]

Congressional Republicans’ plans to cut taxes for the wealthy, protect special interests, and slash Social Security and Medicare would skyrocket costs.

I have a different vision:

One in which we take on special interests to lower costs and give the middle class a fair shot.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

“You can’t call yourself a Christian and deny health care to the sick.

You can’t call yourself a Christian and cut food stamps for the poor.

You can’t call yourself a Christian and reject the stranger seeking asylum.”

[Katie Phang @KatiePhang]

Katie's Sidebar:

Take a moment and consider the below testimony and evidence.

Donald Trump, while in the OVAL OFFICE, is signing checks (drawn on his personal checking account) intended to reimburse Michael Cohen for the hush money payment Cohen made to adult film star, Stormy Daniels, who had an affair with Trump...so that Trump could protect his 2016 presidential campaign.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Suozzi: In December, I talked to a member of the Republican Party who's now the chairman of a major committee. I won't say who it is, but I said, "You know, we can't just appease Vladimir Putin. We have to support Ukraine. If we don't support Ukraine and we appease the Russians, it will be no better than Neville Chamberlain." And his response was, chairman of a major committee now, a major player, his response was, "Who's Neville Chamberlain?"

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

The Congressman fails to mention that, at the behest of the NRA, Pennsylvania Republicans passed preemption laws, which prevent the state’s cities - including Philadelphia - from enacting any gun policies that are different from the state’s lax and dangerous gun laws.

[Laurence Tribe 🇺🇦 ⚖️ @tribelaw]

“What emerged in two interviews with Trump, and conversations with more than a dozen of his closest advisers and confidants, were the outlines of an imperial presidency that would reshape America and its role in the world. To carry out a deportation operation designed to remove more than 11 million people from the country, Trump would be willing to build migrant detention camps and deploy the U.S. military, both at the border and inland. He would let red states monitor women’s pregnancies and prosecute those who violate abortion bans. He would, at his personal discretion, withhold funds appropriated by Congress, according to top advisers. He would be willing to fire a U.S. Attorney who doesn’t carry out his order to prosecute someone, breaking with a tradition of independent law enforcement that dates from America’s founding. He is weighing pardons for every one of his supporters accused of attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, more than 800 of whom have pleaded guilty or been convicted by a jury. He might not come to the aid of an attacked ally in Europe or Asia if he felt that country wasn’t paying enough for its own defense. He would gut the U.S. civil service, deploy the National Guard to American cities as he sees fit, close the White House pandemic-preparedness office, and staff his Administration with acolytes who back his false assertion that the 2020 election was stolen.” 
https://t.co/KbPfdHHE15

[The Cultural Tutor @culturaltutor]

This is Borgund Church in Norway, made entirely out of wood and built over 800 years ago.

It is a "stave church", an incredibly unusual type of Medieval building.

What makes them so special? Well, there are only 30 original stave churches in the world...