Slim 🇺🇸🦅🌻🇺🇦

You know how to whistle, don't you? Just put your lips together and blow. #BelieveandvoteDem #StandwithUkraine #OvereducatedCatWoman #Harris2024

[Slim 🇺🇸🦅🌻🇺🇦 @deetee128]

This is a thread that perfectly describes our political landscape.

[DCPetterson.bsky.social @dcpetterson]

Lots of handwringing over the campaign promises Trump is already breaking, and people blaming media for not informing us that Trump couldn't possibly deliver on them.

No one cares.

We knew it all along. Even Trump's voters knew it. No one ever believes Republican rhetoric.

1/7

[Kenny BooYah! 🖖🏾 @KwikWarren]

I’m from Texas, but don’t live or vote there. I’m a big fan of Jasmine Crockett&was disappointed when she lost to Talarico in the primary. But I don’t get why so many Dems started hating Talarico. Now it’s Talarico or Ken Paxton. Please let the disappointment go&GOTV for Talarico

[Anders Åslund @anders_aslund]

I simply don't understand how the US does not have any mechanisms to stop Trump's physical destruction of Washington, DC.
This country appears completley lawless.

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

How long before Trump can no longer manage going up or down stairs? A month? Two?

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Has Trump ever admitted failure once? He’s now claiming sabotage on the reflective pool.

His brain is filled with tapioca and raisins

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Well, Biden beat Trump in that cognitive test

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

This woman did more to subvert democracy than any other single individual by shielding Trump after he still top secret docs and hid them from the FBI.

She will be a mere footnote in the history of this time, but an evil one.

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

If you act like a Nazi, you're gonna get called a Nazi. It's pretty simple.

[Super 70s Sports @Super70sSports]

Today kids stay in the house and never look up from their phones. Meanwhile, in the 70s we were out there chasing greatness. And, sometimes, we achieved it. Sail high into neighborhood immortality, you sweet bastard.

[Xenta @Xenta777]

❗️"There can no longer be any rules against Kyiv, given the massive attacks on russian cities", - medvedev says

Friday hangover? 🤡

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

And… the deal is off.

Don’t forget, Trump said he capitulated because we’re down to 4 weeks of oil.

He really shouldn’t have told everyone that.

[Covie @covie_93]

A drunk former Fox & Friends weekend co-host is blocking the promotions of qualified women and Black people in the military.

It's sick

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

After last night's Russian attack on Kharkiv, this little fella was saved from the rubble. His wing is broken, but he is receiving care now.

[Andrew McCarthy @AJamesMcCarthy]

Some fascinating things happening in the photo I’m working on… really can’t wait to share the full thing with you!

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

After the Supreme Court first gutted the VRA in 2013, Black voter turnout decreased — especially in the South.

After the Supreme Court gutted it again this year, multiple Southern states have already begun trampling on Black voting power.

This is Chief Justice John Roberts’ legacy.

[Steven Beschloss @StevenBeschloss]

No matter how long I live after we get through this dark chapter, I will never get over the immorality, the amorality, the corruption, the criminality and the cruelty in service to one of the worst humans to ever walk the earth.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Kleptocracy

[Echoes of War @EchoesofWarYT]

240 years ago today, the most underrated general in American history died. From a sunburn.

Nathanael Greene was never supposed to be a soldier. He was a Quaker from Rhode Island who ran his family's iron forge. He had asthma, a stiff leg that gave him a permanent limp, and zero combat experience. His own church suspended him just for going to watch a military parade.

So how did he end up commanding the entire Southern army? He read. He bought every book on warfare he could find and taught himself strategy from scratch. Washington noticed, and trusted him more than almost anyone.

By 1780 the war in the South was a disaster. The previous American general got beaten so badly he fled 200 miles on horseback. Congress let Washington pick the replacement, and he picked Greene without hesitation.

Greene's plan was insane. He looked at his small, starving, half-naked army and decided he could not win, so he would lose correctly. He ran Cornwallis all over the Carolinas until the British were exhausted, far from supply, and bleeding men they could not replace. "We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again."

At Guilford Courthouse, Cornwallis technically won the battle and lost a quarter of his army doing it. That was the whole point. Greene lost almost every fight on paper and won the entire South. Cornwallis limped off to a little tobacco port to rest and refit. The port was called Yorktown.

Here's the part that should make you angry. To feed and clothe his men, Greene personally co-signed for war supplies because the government wouldn't pay. When the bills came due, Congress refused to honor them. The man who saved the South came home buried in debt that wasn't his.

Georgia gave him a plantation near Savannah as thanks. He finally had peace. Then one hot afternoon in June 1786 he spent the day walking a neighbor's rice fields with no hat. He collapsed from sunstroke and a week later he was dead at 43.

One last twist. After he died, his widow Catharine took in a broke young houseguest tinkering with an idea. His name was Eli Whitney, and the cotton gin was invented at the dead general's home.

June 19, 1786. Remember the name. Nathanael Greene.

[Candice Burke @candiburke]

Good news! My heron photo was accepted by Utah State University for their local artist exhibition, June 30 - August 7. My first gallery exhibition. I’m so excited.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A brand new bridge between Detroit and Canada is finished and ready to open. It would speed up traffic for millions of trucks, cut delays for American businesses, and help the auto industry that employs people in every state. There is just one problem.

Donald Trump won’t let it open.

Here is why.

The family that owns the old bridge stands to lose business when the new one opens. So in January, they gave one million dollars to a pro-Trump super PAC.

Weeks later they met with Trump’s Commerce Secretary.

He called Trump.

Hours after that, Trump announced he would block the new bridge. The opening was set for June 12. It got canceled the day before. The bridge sits there finished and empty.

Now here is the part that should make every taxpayer angry.

Canada paid for the entire bridge.

Every dollar. And the United States already owns half of it for free. Trump is holding up a bridge we got for nothing, to protect a donor who wrote him a check, while picking a fight with our closest ally and biggest trading partner.

This is corruption in plain sight.

A billionaire pays, and the President delivers. American workers and businesses pay the price.

Open the bridge. A government should work for the people, not for whoever writes the biggest check.
https://t.co/9o9Gz9UrBo

[Covie @covie_93]

He literally golfs every weekend and sits in the Oval Office supergluing gold ornaments on the fireplace.