dpokela

Father of three kids between 16 and 22, outdoor & endurance enthusiast and alternative/americana music lover; Tar Heels/Cubs/Red Sox/Bears fan.

[Paul Freid @PaulFreid5]

An American Dirtbag. Please retweet if you agree.
@SenEricSchmitt

[Evan @daviddunn177]

“I’d like to go ahead and solve it. The Atlanta Hawks.”

[dpokela @dpokela]

@bud33345 I like the graphic way you did that. Some of the places are hard to determine from the picture. Is there a write-up-equivalent of your rankings?

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Dear @MaElviraSalazar

This is terrible.

It's going viral for a reason.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Re-upping this.

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Trump, the biggest failed strategist in US history, has plunged America into a strategic catastrophe.

During his self-proclaimed “victory parade” against Iran, he squandered at least 45% of the US's precision-guided missile arsenal in just seven weeks—including half of all THAAD missiles and nearly 50% of Patriot interceptor missiles. This isn't some fake news blog reporting this, but CNN, citing a CSIS analysis and internal Pentagon data. The result? An “imminent risk” of munitions depletion should a real conflict erupt in the coming years—for example, with China. Trump has ruined the US defense capability for years to come.
And for what?

For nothing.

No regime change in Iran. No destroyed nuclear program. No strategic breakthrough. Just a shaky ceasefire that gives the mullahs time to rearm while America stands naked. Trump, the great “Art of the Deal” master, has once again only produced hot air – and in doing so, burned through the most expensive and scarce weapons in the USA like a pubescent boy with fireworks.

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Just read it.

Spot On -

An Aussie reply to Trump’s rant about ‘NATO not being there for us’:

“Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.

You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.

Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.

Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.

And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.

And you're calling Greenland poorly run?

Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.

"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.

And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.

So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth.”

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Holy shit. It’s time to subpoena Trump! 😡

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The fuck we aren’t.

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[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THIS.

[Lorena Knobchopper🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 @Gypsypup13]

This is why he's bombing Iran. Wake the F up

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

The Justice Department has withheld thousands of documents from the Epstein files, including FBI documents that detailed a woman’s unverified allegations of sexual misconduct against President Trump, according to a review by WSJ. https://t.co/eHyb4LcnRs

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Trump's DOJ deleted 65,527 pages from the Epstein files, covering up the truth. Info on Epstein’s death, call logs, photos with Lutnick - all gone. And Trump thinks MAGA will stand by and cheer on another needless war.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Trump's DOJ has been quietly removing Epstein files from the DOJ website since the attack in Iran ; CBS reports.

This is a coverup.

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

If Trump really wants to destroy Iran he should go be its president for a few months.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Idk this seems like the First Lady you might want to question about Epstein.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Rubin: "MS NOW reports there is at least one witness for whom 3 interviews with the FBI in rapid succession in 2019 are missing [from the Epstein files]. What's the big deal? We can also confirm that woman is the same person who in a 2025 FBI presentation is identified to have accused Donald Trump of a sexual assault when she was between 13 and 15 years old."

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: For 50 years, the religious right convinced our fellow Christians that the most important issues were abortion and gay marriage—two issues that aren't mentioned in the Bible.

Jesus tells us exactly how we're going to be judged: by feeding the hungry, by healing the sick, and by welcoming the stranger.

Don’t tell me what you believe. Show me how you treat other people, and I’ll tell you what you believe. Jesus gave us two commandments: love God and love neighbor.

There was no exception to that second commandment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, immigration status, or religious affiliation.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

This is the interview Donald Trump didn’t want you to see.

His FCC refused to air my interview with Stephen Colbert.

Trump is worried we’re about to flip Texas.