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[CNN @CNN]

The former top US general whom Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth fired last year criticized the use of the military for political missions in an op-ed published Friday, pointing to the Trump administration’s deployment of troops to clamp down on crime in major cities. https://t.co/Yy7Tp3OhqM

[Tom Joseph @TomJChicago]

Blanche's refusal to follow a court order to release the Epstein Files is a huge sign they contain rock solid evidence proving Trump's guilt.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Shapiro: When you have a president who is focused on making money for himself, that corruption leaves us all worse off because it means he’s picking favorites not based on what benefits the American people, but on what benefits him and his children.

He’s picking sides in battles that ultimately are un-American because he’s putting his own profiteering ahead of the needs of the American people.

That’s point one: his corruption has a real cost to the American people.

Point two, though, is that what he’s doing seemingly is totally protected because the Supreme Court of the United States made one of its worst decisions, really over the last century, to give this president absolute and total immunity. And so he feels like he can do anything.

So while he sits in that gilded Oval Office, he’s not focused on solving your problems, getting you health care, putting a roof over your head, or driving down your costs. Instead, he’s focused on trying to figure out how he can make a buck for himself and his family. And that is at odds with meeting the needs of the American people.

So the first thing is his corruption has a cost to you, and the second thing is his corruption has been enabled by this Supreme Court, which has given him absolute and total immunity.

That’s why we need real reform. That’s why we need anti-corruption laws at the federal level. I could make an argument that we need a 28th Amendment to our Constitution to bake in some stricter guardrails to protect the American people from a president of the United States who lacks integrity, ethics, and honor the way this president does.

I think everything needs to be on the table. We need real reform.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Maybe Republicans should spend more time condemning stuff like this and less time condemning the mayor of New York.

[Erica 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 @EricaRN4USA]

As a critical care nurse, looking at Senator Mitch McConnell’s situation through an ICU lens tells a very different story from the public updates.

Following the release of emergency audio detailing an unconscious person and active CPR for cardiac arrest at his residence on June 14, his staff issued a statement claiming he continues to improve and is working closely with his office. 🙄

However, anyone with extensive bedside experience knows that for an 84-year-old frail patient who has sustained an out-of-hospital cardiac arrest requiring full resuscitation, the idea that he is actively participating in daily Senate business is highly unlikely.

The brutal physical trauma of chest compressions combined with the high risk of acute neurological insult makes a return to a high-functioning baseline virtually impossible for someone with his preexisting vulnerabilities.

From my clinical perspective, the statistical chances of a full recovery are slim to none, serving as a stark reminder that political status cannot override physiological limits.

Who agrees that his constituents and the rest of America deserves the truth? 🤔
#CriticalCare #ICUnurse #ResuscitationReality #PatientAdvocacy #HealthcarePerspectives #AdvancedCarePlanning

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

China added over 543 Gigawatts to their grid last year. 434 GW was renewables because they are faster to build. The U.S. added a paltry 53 GW. We are losing the “AI race” to China because these idiots hate green energy. This is suicide by stupid.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

DL Hughley on Clarence Thomas: “He’s literally a DEI hire. There’s nothing you could ask him to do that would hurt Black or brown people he wouldn’t do. I think Clarence Thomas, if he gets up in the middle of the night and sees a Black man in the mirror, he’ll call the police”

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of Americans signed their names to a piece of parchment and made a promise no nation had ever made before: that we're all created equal, endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights — life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We're the only nation in history built not on ethnicity, or blood, or geography but on an idea. That's always been what makes us exceptional. We chose that path 250 years ago but that’s where the work began, not where it ended. Every generation has had to choose it again. At Valley Forge, at Gettysburg, on the beaches of Normandy, in the streets of Selma. Americans recommitted themselves to the principles on which our nation was founded.

Now it's our turn.

There's nothing guaranteed about our democracy. We have to fight for it, defend it, and earn it. Over and over, year after year. That's not a burden. That's what it means to be an American.

250 years in, we still haven't fully lived up to those words in the Declaration. But we've never walked away from them, and this July 4, I hope all of us can commit to one thing: that we never will. I don't believe we're as divided as we're told we are. I've bet my whole life on the American people, and I'm not stopping now.

Happy 250th birthday, America. Our story isn't finished. Let's keep writing it together.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Republicans need to tone down the rhetoric. This kind of language can lead to political violence, as I have been told. https://t.co/SpJVFCa6EV

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

Today would be a good day to indict Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez for murdering Alex Pretti.

[Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar]

RFK Jr. looked me dead in the eye and lied. He said, "there are no cuts to Medicaid."

Now we have receipts: 3.8 million people lost Medicaid or CHIP.

All to pay for tax cuts for billionaire donors.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

“Fuck you Nazi” is the way Pete Hegseth should be welcomed everywhere he goes.

[𝘼𝙣𝙘𝙖𝙥 𝘼𝙞𝙧 🛫 @AncapAir]

So... A bribe.

[Christopher Walkin™ @Quadcarl]

I know more about the two people that climbed the Empire State building yesterday than I do about these two guys.

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

Hilarious coming from the South African Space Nazi who would have nothing if he hadn’t been born into a fortune in Apartheid blood emerald money and handed billions of taxpayer dollars. And Elon Musk hasn’t built shit. He just slapped his name on other people’s accomplishments.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

America has always been a work in progress.

What has carried our nation forward is not the absence of challenges, but the willingness of ordinary people to meet them with hope, courage, and action.

As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday this weekend, we must continue to fight for one another, our democracy, and the promise of what we can build together.

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

This brave soldier told us, his protest against trump unconstitutional regime’s reach, may put him in jail for ten years. He said that price is worth to him to save his country that he took an oath to protect. His bravery is historic, and it should challenge our conscience.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

The corrupt conman is out of control: Every major newspaper in America and the world is now reporting on Trump's unprecedented greed-driven self-dealing and corruption.

[QueenMother👸🏻 @QueenMother1976]

“I work the front desk at a small doctor’s office, and I wish people could see what happens on the other side of the phone.
Every day, older patients call us confused.

They are told to use the patient portal, upload documents, check lab results online, fill out forms before the visit, and confirm everything through a link.
Some of them do not know what a portal is.

Some do not have a smartphone.
Some have one, but they are afraid to click the wrong thing.
Last week, a man in his late 80s called about his test results.

He said, “Ma’am, I don’t mean to bother you, but the computer says I have a message and I don’t know how to open it.”
He sounded ashamed.
That broke my heart.

He should not have to feel ashamed for needing a human being.
Technology can be helpful. I understand that.

But when people who built this country are made to feel helpless because everything became a login and a password, we have gone too far.
Not everything needs to be an app.
Not every answer should be hidden behind a screen.

Sometimes people need a voice.
A patient person.
A real human who says, “Don’t worry, I can help you.”
Progress should not leave seniors behind.

Because one day, the world will move faster than us too.
And I hope someone is kind enough to slow down.

~Unknown