Danielle Lescure

A mixed bag

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Monsters. Inhuman, sadistic, worthless monsters.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here:

Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track. 

Spread the word. Stand up for science.

[Mark S. Zaid @MarkSZaidEsq]

Trump family members just can't help but lie. When will their supporters get this?

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Regime that vandalized the reflecting pool threatens to punish others for their own actions

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Trump is trying to shift the decision about who gets to vote from the states to his administration, using benign sounding administrative procedures, and an executive order that few people are paying attention to. There’s nothing more important to be aware of right now than this. Details here: https://t.co/8dvrOO8Zy6

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Trump told Leslie Stahl something years ago that everyone should hear.

She asked Trump he kept calling the media fake news.

He said, I do it because I need to discredit you, so that when you say negative things about me, nobody believes you.

That is EXACTLY what he’s done.

The problem everyone has with him is that most of us grew up with values, ethics, and integrity.

That is not Donald Trump.

He figured out a long time ago that he can bully his way through any rule and if he keeps pushing harder and harder, people will relent.

For most of his life they did, but we must stand up against it.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

He’s so incompetent, he can’t even make the point he’s trying to make. The U.S. relationship with the UK is closer than any other bilateral relationship and far beyond the U.S. relationship with Israel. It isn’t a partnership, it is a sacrosanct alliance in which almost all intelligence is shared (or was before Trump) and trust is implicit. It’s why chief of London Station is the coveted pre-retirement assignment for CIA officers. We spy on Israel and they spy on us. They are not in Five Eyes and won’t be. Vance just elevated Israel to a level they’ve never attained by way of trying to diminish them. He has no idea what he’s talking about.

[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

you guys are arguing before scotus right now that your own top goal scorer shouldn’t be eligible for US citizenship

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Republicans looked the country in the eye and made a promise. When they rewrote the food stamp program last year, they said children would not be touched.

Pregnant women would not be touched.

Families with young kids would not be touched. They said it on the House floor, on the record, in front of everyone.

A year later we know the truth.

More than 776,000 children have been cut off from food assistance. In the states that track participation by age, kids make up nearly half of everyone who lost benefits.

These are kids who went to bed hungry because a politician wanted a talking point. 

We must be a country that feeds its children. We used to believe that was the bare minimum. Take care of the kid who is hungry through no fault of their own.

The people who broke that promise should have to answer for it, and in November they will.
https://t.co/yZK7shO05q

[PBS News @NewsHour]

A century ago, Black physicians built hospitals, clinics and medical schools across the South — only to see them dismantled by policy, segregation and an influential report.

Investigative journalist Nicole Carr traced that history through her own family and found the consequences are still being felt today.

Geoff Bennett (@GeoffRBennett) spoke with Carr about her book, "The Price of Exclusion."

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

I don't know what to tell you folks, Joe Biden wore orthodepic shoes and Kamala Harris was too joyful so we had no choice but to burn down our alliances and turn over the presidency to a guy who acts like a spurned teenager in the cafeteria

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.   

Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.  

The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.  

Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.  

The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
https://t.co/95K8zIySPz

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

Fellow Americans,

You can’t possibly be this dumb. He’s lying with every word…see, the reflecting pool was terrible from 1922 until just last week when he made it perfect but now unseen criminals ruined it so now he’s got to spend more money.
You can’t be this dumb. He’s lying

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

I have few friends. Ben Taub is one of them. His work is always urgent but timeless. The depth of research and the writing is why he won the Pulitzer Prize. Read this latest piece by him to see how serious all the insane stuff from this criminal admin we mock actually is.

[Masih Alinejad 🏳️ @AlinejadMasih]

Tell me: where are the headlines?

The ink on the deal wasn’t even dry before the Islamic Republic showed its true face. Its first move? Sentencing singer Parastoo Ahmadi to 74 lashes for singing without hijab.
Yes, In 21st-century singing is forbidden for women in Iran.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Surrender document being signed at Versailles

1919 2026

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Trump: "G7 used to be G8. They should have kept the G8. You probably wouldn't have the war with Russia and Ukraine if they did."

FACT CHECK: Russia was excluded from the G8 in March 2014 as a direct response to its illegal invasion and annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula.

[Tom Whipple @whippletom]

Economist has reviewed JD Vance's book about becoming a Catholic.

"JD Vance is very godly, as his godly book makes clear....he even stars out naughty words like p***y"

"As his beloved Matthew says, “What is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his soul?”

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Did the New York times just BOTH SIDES Ken Paxton's sweetheart deal for a child sex predator. Yes, yes it did.

[Centrism Fan Acct 🔹 @Wilson__Valdez]

Seems pretty clear that Meloni said something that upset Trump, so since he's a fragile man-child, he reacted by going on italian TV and making up a total lie about her. And causing yet another rift with our allies.

What a way to conduct foreign policy.