Charles Gritton

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

The Dem establishment and Dem centrists can wring their hands and complain about the results in Colorado.

Or they can learn a lesson: Their repudiation was in large part about their perceived unwillingness to stand up firmly and unhesitatingly to Trump.

So start doing so!

[Charles Gritton @cgritton]

@ProudSocialist I totally agree - it's not fair. We agreed to host the World Cup. We should behave like proper hosts. It doesn't matter if we disagree with the politics of the countries the teams come from.

[Charles Gritton @cgritton]

@JenniferEValent Amen, sister. I do see signs of more people waking up to that truth. Perhaps all this blasphemy ends up guiding some people back to the actual Christ.

[Charles Gritton @cgritton]

@WajahatAli Emotionally I'm in the same place. Purely partisan reasoning including redefining words and ignoring the principle of being assumed innocent until proven guilty. Even the timing of things is partisan.

Reclaiming democracy must include SC reform

[Charles Gritton @cgritton]

@ChrisMurphyCT Does Cuba also have a right to defend itself?

[Kateryna Lisunova @KaterynaLis]

Very emotional moment from the interview with Zelenskyy. You should watch this.

JOURNALIST: Do you miss being an actor?

ZELENSKYY:?I miss being a good father.

JOURNALIST: When your children were little, what did you tell them the most? What was the thing that you told them the most when they were small?

ZELENSKYY: I love you.

JOURNALIST: And what do you tell them now that they're older?

ZELENSKYY: Oh, I miss you.

JOURNALIST: When was the last time you cried?

ZELENSKYY: I will try to do it after our interview. No, I mean this, between us. I'm a normal man and then there are a lot of different moments, between us, almost each day, a lot of losses on the battlefield and civilians, and there are absolutely crazy attacks on our people.

And I'm just, it's… I mean, It's very difficult really, when I give orders (medals). I said about it. It's always difficult for me when I give orders (medals) to the mothers and fathers, who lost their children. In such moments, really, I often cry.

JOURNALIST: Are you a hero?

ZELENSKYY: No.

JOURNALIST: So who is your hero?

ZELENSKYY:?My hero? My children, my army, our army, and Ukrainian people. So I'm a part… I'm also a Ukrainian, so I'm a part of our nation. But now our nation, I think, that our nation is absolutely heroic.

[Charles Gritton @cgritton]

@anishmoonka The asymmetry in government action here is telling and disturbing. Either the US government believes that ChatGPT 5.5 is significantly behind Claude's Fable OR they are discriminating against Anthropic.

[Mark Cuban @mcuban]

Actually, some form of Universal Care could be cheaper, offer better care, and be less bureaucratic.

But the Democrats think if you just write the legislation, that makes it so. It doesn't

Because other countries do it, it must be easy for us to do it.

Problem in this country is no one really knows what medical care or drugs cost.

Everything related to the cost of care has been made intentionally opague. It's a business strategy at every step. Every healthcare contract has a confidentially clause.
Hospitals don't know how to allocate costs to determine their true cost

If you don't know what the cost of what the government wants to buy from you, and the government doesn't know what the fully burdened cost they will pay is. And we don't know how high end hospitals can offer the same level of care at Medicare pricing. Etc etc etc

And of course every insurance company and big hospital system will tie up the legislation in courts for decades.

Ideology is not a strategy. Until there is transparency so a budget can be attempted , and the influence of the huge HC conglomerates is diminished , universal healthcare isn't achievable.

[Charles Gritton @cgritton]

@RoKhanna @grahamformaine One imperfect candidate (Platner) speaks out against Trump's corruption and incompetence.

The other imperfect candidate (Collins) enables Trump's corruption and incompetence.

Trump's impact on society is more than either of them, so the one fighting him is the better choice.

[Charles Gritton @cgritton]

@WajahatAli Let's correct the framing.

One imperfect candidate speaks out against the massive cruelty and corruption of this administration.

The other imperfect candidate actively enables the massive cruelty and corruption of this administration.

Which one do you want?

[Diane Langberg, PhD @DianeLangberg]

“I swore never to be silent wherever and whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ~Elie Wiesel

[Charles Gritton @cgritton]

@RepJeffries And kill the tax amnesty to Trump and co. That's even worse.

[Charles Gritton @cgritton]

@JoyceWhiteVance The tax amnesty has to go too - not just the slush fund

[Charles Gritton @cgritton]

@GovPressOffice Don't forget that he has also dramatically weakened our national security and world standing.

We went from having strong allies and being seen as champion of human rights and liberties to having a massively corrupt leader destroying that.

[Charles Gritton @cgritton]

@BulwarkOnline That's what Anthropic said to DoD. So you agree with them, Vance?

[Charles Gritton @cgritton]

@SaltyGoat17 Spending a $100 bill is already hard. But $250?

Maybe that's why Trump is working hard to raise inflation - will hasten the day when it will be normal to use $250 bills. Genius.

[Charles Gritton @cgritton]

@McFaul Putin and his pet poodle, Trump, share this particular flaw.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Hero

[Charles Gritton @cgritton]

@SenatorWarnock The Epstein files

[Charles Gritton @cgritton]

@MassieforKY I don't agree with most of your political views but I respect you. You have principles -- something extremely rare in the GOP these days.