Cindy 💙💛🌻

I am a mother, wife, student, feminist, climber, and ally for equality. #resist #snowflake #blm

[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.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

You’re a fucking liar with blood on your hands.

[Cindy 💙💛🌻 @cyj90]

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[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

[Ashley Winter MD || Urologist @AshleyGWinter]

I once did surgery on a guy who had mumps 50 years prior. His testicles looked like someone had microwaved them, chewed them, spit them out, and then shoved them back in his scrotum. That is what mumps does to testicles. Vaccines prevent this from happening.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

More of this please

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

You can blame Garland if you want to — and I agree that he has faults — but reading through the Smith report on election interference makes one thing clear:

Voter apathy saved Trump from real accountability for the first time in his life.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Trump wants to cut the corporate tax rate to 15%. This would give...

-The 5 largest banks a $4.1B tax cut
-The 5 largest drug makers a $3.1B tax cut
-The 5 largest US oil companies a $2.5B tax cut
-The 5 largest grocery stores a $1.7B tax cut

Some populist, huh?

[Sean T at RCP @SeanTrende]

@HeadAsploding Normies probably know more about the fact that Tyson is fighting Jake Paul than that Trump appointed Matt Gaetz.

[Rhonda Elaine Foxx @RhonnieF]

Can we stop with the shock? Trump said he would do all of this, and we warned you about it and offered an experienced and competent leader as an alternative. But you couldn't vote for that woman, so here we are. Buckle up.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Why not cut out the middlewoman and just name Putin as director of national intelligence?

[Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk]

Trump primarily mobilizes White people and men. Wins handily. After the election, Democratic pundits say mobilizing “identity groups” don’t work and “failed miserably,” erasing Trump’s mobilization of White and male identity groups. Instead, they claim Trump prevailed with a “working class coalition,” erasing the women and Black people who are disproportionately working class. Double erasure.

To be racist and sexist is to erase the presence of Black people, of women—and center White identity and male identity so profoundly that White people and men are no longer seen as “identity groups.”

https://t.co/X03HLPUfJ9

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

Demanding Senate Republicans back Gaetz as attorney general and Hegseth as Defense Secretary is the 2024 version of forcing Sean Spicer to say it was the largest inauguration crowd ever.

These aren't just appointments. They're loyalty tests. The absurdity is the point.

[Arieh Kovler @ariehkovler]

Remember now? This is how it felt every day for FOUR YEARS. Every fucking day never knowing if he was going to buy Greenland, sell Alaska to Putin, invite Kim Jong Un to party or fire the FBI director and appoint some guy he saw on TV. That feeling? Get used to it again.

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

Hardcore, pro-Israel, white Christian nationalist. I'm sure this will help Palestinians. Well done, everyone.

[Matthew Sheffield @mattsheffield]

Donald Trump repeatedly boasted about walking into women's and girls' locker rooms but more people were concerned about imaginary trans people doing it.

That's the power of media ecosystems.

The platform is greater than the message.

[SP Kalantri @spkalantri]

The day physicians and the public understand that medicine is an imperfect, uncertain science—driven by probabilities in diagnosis, treatment, and outcomes—the world will change. Physicians won’t be hailed as demi-gods for success, nor vilified for failures. #MedTwitter

[❤︎ @spillmez]

Notice how Benny Blanco, Travis Kelce and Ethan Slater all gained relevancy because of their girlfriends yet yall still try and say women need men….no, men need women

[Stuart Stevens @stuartpstevens]

I've been involved in winning presidential races and races that lost. One common thread is that everyone seems to have a reason why you won or lost which usually reflects a personal perspective or agenda.

So here's mine: I think VP Harris ran a very good campaign that operated at a high level. She had a great convention, crushed Trump in a debate, and put on a series of big event rallies that were the best I'd ever seen.

As a Republican operative, I spent years pointing out flaws in the Democratic Party and I'm not here to say it doesn't need to go through a period of questioning and self-reflection. Those are much larger questions than one election and one campaign. But the Republican party is an anti-democratic movement, attacking the pillars of American democracy from elections to the judicial system.

I understand those who say that if there had been a "normal" Democratic primary, the results would have been better. Maybe. But think about it. In modern political history, every time a sitting VP has run for the nomination, that VP has won. Perhaps it would have been different this time and the eventual nominee would have emerged stronger for the process. But more likely there would have been a bloody primary fight that left the nominee broke and trying to patch together a fractured party to face a Republican party that has become Donald Trump's party. In all probability, VP Harris would have won that primary and been in a weakened and vulnerable position when it was finally resolved in May or June.

I would say to my Democratic friends to go through this post-election process with open minds and hearts but never doubt that the Democratic party is the only pro-democracy party in America. No one will have a position in Trump's administration who is not an election denier adhering to the Big Lie. That's toxic to a country's sense of self and the damage will take a generation to repair, if it is possible to heal.

Losing an election does not mean that you were wrong and they were right. It means you lost an election. I grew up in Mississippi watching my parents back candidates opposed to segregation. When those candidates lost, and they did for a long time, my parents didn't question if they were on the right side. They didn't ask themselves if the majority who supported segregation had proven the justness of their cause by winning.

The mid-terms start after the Super Bowl. It will likely be a good election for Democrats and then the 2028 presidential race will be upon us. After a loss, the days seem long but the months will pass quickly. Reflect, rest up, but come back prepared to fight. Fight not because victory is assured but fight because not to fight is to give up. And if we do that, we no longer deserve to call ourselves Americans.

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[🪷Ambiguous Brown Emotional Support Canadian 🪷 @GammaReigh]

I'm not doom posting.

I'm a sociologist explaining to you what you have done.

You dumb fucks