Dean

There’s more than one Crib Tree in a forest. That’s not a lesson, by the way. Just a comment on lumber availability

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe Democrats were capable of stealing the 2020 election while out of power, but somehow incapable of doing the same in 2024 while in power. That is a categorically, phenomenally dumb thing to believe.

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

💢 Breaking: The ICE agent who shot and killed 26-year-old Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, on Monday has been identified as David Michael Brouillette, 37, a former Maine law enforcement officer and Army veteran, the Portland Press Herald reported.

Brouillette was first identified Wednesday by ICE List, a public database of ICE officers run from the Netherlands, which cited two people who knew him personally. His ex-wife confirmed it the next day.

His ex-wife, Ashley Brouillette, said he called admitting to the shooting and asking her to “lie for him.” She said she reviewed footage of the scene and disputed his account, saying “nowhere in there does it show that this man charged at you with a car.”

Ashley Brouillette also said that her ex-husband was abusive during their relationship and that she had previously reported concerns about his mental health to his military superiors. DHS has refused to identify him.

Photo: Ice List

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Tonight, America watched the ramblings of a mad king.

Donald Trump’s address was not about the last election — it was THIS one.

Before a single vote has been cast, he’s already laying the groundwork to rig this election and convince YOU not to trust the results if they don’t go his way.

This is what authoritarians do. Don’t fall for it.

Organize. Mobilize. SHOW UP and VOTE in November!

[Mr. Chau @Srirachachau]

Kinda nuts to watch everything fall apart in exactly the way you'd think based on who is in charge lol

[maK 🔻 @TheyThemItalian]

she's being too nice

[🍺man (Realist) @kcsports69]

Democrats and Republicans who claim they hate each other when it’s time to pass a 2 trillion dollar aid package for Israel

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: Who won the 2020 election?

Clayton: I’m not going to get into that with you.

Ossoff: Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this question, to have to indulge the president's delusions?

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

This morning in Biddeford, Maine, a 26-year-old man said goodbye to his wife and daughter and left for work. Moments later he was dead, shot in the head by ICE agents, the second man ICE has killed in six days.

ICE is killing our neighbors. ICE cannot be reformed. Abolish ICE.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

there is no way to reform this. it’s pure lawlessness. we must restore law, order and accountability.

we must abolish ice. we must punish ice.

politicians who have funded and thanked ice should take a cold hard look at what they’ve allowed to take place on our streets.

[Kyle the Butler Fan @kjmac111]

Current mood

[Dean @Cool_Deans]

Zohran’s speech articulates perfectly what the best version of America should be, and what I hope we one day return to. The Government’s purpose is to serve its people, not to enrich and protect those in power, and I look forward to a day where our electorate reflects that vision

[Dean @Cool_Deans]

The United States was founded by, built by, and continues to be strengthened by immigrants. The right have no actual policy positions to improve American lives and therefore spend their time peddling in rascist, jingoistic culture war garbage.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Mamdani: There is a term so often used to describe our nation and those who have shaped it: American exceptionalism. 

American exceptionalism, the conventional wisdom tells us, makes our freedom a little more free, is how we dug the Erie Canal and irrigated the West, is why children in far away lands grow up dreaming of one day moving here.

And yet the irony is that the story of America has so often been written by those who were told by others with power and influence and wealth that they were anything but exceptional.

For generation after generation, we have been told that when the world has sent its people to our shores, it has not sent its best. It sent Puritans and Sikhs and Quakers and Muslims and Jewish people who were banished for praying the wrong way, worshipping the wrong Gods, angering the wrong people. It sent peasants and serfs from who were treated as less because they hardly owned clothes, let alone land. It sent immigrants for whom power was something someone else had.

We are told that America is exceptional because we are richer, stronger, more powerful than everyone else.

The truth, my friends, is that America is exceptional because here, nothing is fixed into place. The frontier may be closed, we may have walked on the moon, but the work of fulfilling the values first enshrined in the Declaration of Independence-that work endures, my friends, and it belongs to us all.

It belongs too to our newest Americans, those standing here with me today, all of whom were recently naturalized. Nearly a decade ago, I too felt what you feel— the joy of no longer being just a New Yorker, but an American too.

[Dean @Cool_Deans]

Concerning!

[Lee Roach @leevalueroach]

You can track Nancy Pelosi’s stock trades on X. But once you start tracking Donald Trump’s that’s a no no. What’s up with this @nikitabier.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

The top 50 mega-donors already spent over $1.3B on the midterms.

Only 20% of that is for supporting Dems.

9 of the top 10 mega-donors are supporting Republicans.

Last cycle, Elon Musk alone spent $290M supporting Trump and Republicans.

But you wouldn’t know that by reading the Republican-billionaire-owned NY Post.

This is what a system rigged for fascism, backed by propaganda, looks like.

How much billionaires spend in an election isn’t a conversation that should be had in a Democracy — it’s time to overturn Citizens United.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

I will die on this hill if necessary.

The United States guaranteed the rights of atheists in the first ten words of the Bill of Rights. I should not have to avoid entire states because they institutionally indoctrinate kids into magical thinking.

[679 Enthusiast @marionumber4]

MAGA when actual sharia law

[Dean @Cool_Deans]

Sharia Law but for maga freaks lmao

[Sara McGee for Texas HD 132 @SaraForTexLege]

To the Supreme Court we go.

[Dean @Cool_Deans]

https://t.co/uFR6OPmTDd

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Mike Johnson: "If we were to lose the midterms, heaven forbid, these Democrats…will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body and they will go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, and friends. Half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. I'll take care of you."

[Maxwell Alejandro Frost @MaxwellFrostFL]

Trump refuses to sign a bill that would make housing cheaper for you because he rather make voting harder for you!

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

3 out of 3 Mamdani-backed candidates won their Democrat primaries tonight

Face it: This is his party now