Renee J Mitchell

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

President Obama takes a swipe at VP Vance.

"When you have the current Vice President making a speech that is basically a blood and soil version of We the People. That it matters who your parents were and how long they've been here despite him being married to a daughter of an immigrant himself.. Hypocrisy."

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Ken Paxton’s billionaire handlers won’t let him answer questions in public. It’s why he hasn’t debated in over a decade.

But I want him to prove me wrong.

I’m challenging Ken Paxton to three televised debates.

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

CNN's Kaitlan Collins: "We'll be monitoring what the president says tonight, as we always do, but aren't taking it live, given the president has a well documented history of saying blatantly false things about elections."

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

After listening to the president’s rambling address, I want him to know that the SAVE America Act is going NOWHERE in the Senate.

It belongs in the trash with the rest of Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories.

America, use your vote and your voice to save our democracy. 🇺🇸

[KateCleve23 @KateCleve23]

It’s a real shame @SecWar is so threatened by smart, assertive women & people of color. What a snowflake! P.S. And testosterone testing?? Don’t get me started on what a STUPID idea this is.

[Carolyn Rockey @CarolynWRockey]

Jo Nagai was raising swallowtail butterflies at his home in Kobe, Japan, when he noticed something odd. The ones he had looked after as caterpillars seemed to recognize him. Wild butterflies fled. His didn't.
He was in second grade. He wrote a four-page letter to Dr. Martha Weiss, an entomologist at Georgetown University who had studied whether moths could retain memories through metamorphosis. He asked if she could help him design a version of her experiment for butterflies.
She said yes.
Using a muscle therapy device, Jo trained caterpillars to associate the scent of lavender with a mild vibration. When the caterpillars became butterflies, 70 per cent of them still avoided the lavender. Their brains had been completely rebuilt during metamorphosis. The memory survived anyway.
Then he bred them.
The offspring, which had never been trained, also avoided lavender. So did their grandchildren. Without ever experiencing the vibration, two generations of butterflies inherited an aversion to a scent their grandmother had been taught to fear.
Jo documented it all in a 33-page research paper and presented his findings at the International Congress of Entomology in Kobe in 2024. He was 10.
A second grader wrote a letter to a Georgetown professor, and together they found evidence that butterflies can pass memories down through generations.

-Wilderness Whisper

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Former Pardon Attorney: A federal judge found that Mr. Blanche personally misled this Congress about the department's settlement agreement with Trump. To the public, it looks like Mr. Blanche is running the Justice Department as Trump's personal law firm. Blanche has repeatedly placed Trump's interests ahead of the interests of the country. The settlement agreement is a perfect example. It protects the entire Trump family and all of their businesses from any investigation forever. It gives away $2 billion of our money for no reason at all.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Boy he must have really been hoping no one would look at the documents he talked about tonight because they underscore what I've been saying for 6 years, which is that the Trump-Ukraine Scandal was infinitely worse than people thought from the facts revealed during Impeachment #1

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

Tulsi Gabbard had her “biolabs” conspiracy. She declassified records that said at the top “this is Russian disinformation.” Now Trump declassifies records for his ridiculous election conspiracy and it says Russia is the only one meddling. These people are intractably stupid.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Wow! During Todd Blanche's confirmation hearing, Jeffrey Epstein survivor Dani Bensky just seemingly accused Todd Blanche and the Trump administration of intentionally releasing her personal information!

"I'm a teacher. In my school, if a student released a nude photo depicting a peer's sexual assault and abuse, they would almost certainly face expulsion. And yet, this is what our Department of Justice did to crime victims.

"Today, Todd Blanche has been at the helm of the release of nude images of survivors, the outing of Jane Does, and the exposure of more than 100 victims' identifying information and documents describing horrific acts of abuse, including my own.

"Instead of treating this release as its own violation and holding the man who led it accountable, you have a decision on whether you place him in the highest law enforcement position in this country.

"In December, before the document release, our attorneys submitted 350 victims' names to the Department of Justice as victims' names to be redacted prior to the release. In that first release, I found my name in two places.

"In that next release in January, my name appeared again. But this time, the redactions were so far worse. The files displayed not only my name, but my phone number, my former addresses, where I worked, and other identifying information.

"When my name appeared in the third file release, it became difficult to believe that this was not intentional."

[Jon Ossoff @ossoff]

Tonight I heard a failed and desperate president who as war spirals and prices rise is as always focused on his grievances, his shame, and above all his fear of the accountability that will come with defeat.

I also heard a president signaling his unmistakable intent to attack these elections and our voting rights, just as he tried to throw out our votes and seize the presidency in 2020.

Our answer will be overwhelming.

Across Georgia a wave of defiance is building to rebuke him so decisively that no president ever again dares such brazen corruption and abuse.

The power of the presidency is nothing compared to the power of the people.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

We watched Trump's dangerous and deranged speech so you don't have to. Here are the moments you need to know about:

— He openly laid groundwork to challenge the midterms. He claimed our elections were "compromised," clearly setting up the justification to tamper with results before a single vote is counted.

— He said he'll "correct vulnerabilities" in our elections. Translation: he told you exactly what he plans to interfere with.

— He contradicted himself on China in real time. He first claimed China was "working to influence" and "undermining confidence" in him, then said he was doing a "great job" with them back when he made the claim. He couldn't keep his own conspiracy straight.

— He claimed China rigged the 2020 election, this time by getting journalists to write bad stories about him, because China supposedly wanted Biden to win since Trump was "wise to them."

— He said they found "burn bags" from the Obama Administration full of supposedly incriminating material, without ever saying what was actually in them.

— He said he needs "urgent measures" to stop our elections from being "hacked," citing Maduro's rigged machines in Venezuela in 2020 as his "evidence."

— He attacked networks for not airing him live, accusing them of being "part of the conspiracy to rig elections" and suggesting they should lose their broadcast licenses.

— He announced he wants to seize voter data from states he's deemed "vulnerable" ahead of the midterms.

This was a sitting president telegraphing, step by step, how he plans to undermine the 2026 midterms with egregious lies and conspiracy theories.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

You want to play that game? You guys are fascists—trying to overturn elections to steal power, killing Americans in the streets, dehumanizing immigrants, handing power to a tyrant, and murdering innocent school girls with your illegal war in Iran.

And by the way—Trump wants the government to run gas stations and buy private companies. Sounds pretty communist to me.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents were filmed assaulting, handcuffing, and kidnapping a U.S. citizen in Passaic, New Jersey… while refusing to even look at the ID he repeatedly begged them to check.

A man is pleading with federal agents to verify who he is…

And they refused.

Instead, one agent says, “We need to get him on the ground,” puts him in a chokehold, throws him to the ground, and multiple agents pile on top of him before handcuffing him, and throwing him into their vehicle.

Under the Fourth Amendment, the government cannot arrest, or seize someone, without probable cause that they have committed, are committing, or are about to commit an offense that authorizes the arrest.

U.S. citizens are also not required to carry identification unless they’re driving a motorized vehicle.

And if federal agents are refusing to verify someone’s identity before arresting them, then they are openly ignoring the constitution.

Which should terrify every American.

Because that means no one is safe from being kidnapped by the government… and disappeared.

Every agent involved should be publicly identified, and DHS should be forced to explain why they believed they had the legal authority to seize someone, while refusing to verify who he was.

This cannot become normal.

[Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @JudiciaryDems]

Sen. COONS: How many January 6th rioters were convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers?

Blanche: ~120.

Coons: 200+. How many had their sentences commuted or were pardoned?

Blanche: Every one.

Coons: The pardons are a shameful slap in the face to law enforcement.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Sen. @Ossoff: Who won the 2020 election?

DNI nominee Jay Clayton: I'm not going to do this with you

Ossoff: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee.

Clayton: I'm not gonna get into that with you

Ossoff: You refuse to answer a basic question about who won a presidential election, but you ask to lead America's intelligence community. Isn't it humiliating to be unable to answer this question? To have to indulge the president's delusions?

[🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Jae🧣 @KopiteJae]

Why should the US national anthem be played? And don't give me the "because they're the host nation" argument. I can't remember a single World Cup where the host country's anthem was played before the final unless the host nation was actually one of the finalists. This World Cup has been more politicised than ever. Trump will present the trophy, and for the first time the US national anthem will be played despite the United States not even being one of the finalists. It's all becoming pretty disgusting. More than ever, FIFA needs its next president to be someone who can't be manipulated – someone with integrity, who will do the job properly. The current president is doing nothing but damaging the world of football.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Donald Trump attacking Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock is only making them stronger.

They’re quickly becoming two of the biggest names in Democratic politics and either one would give JD Vance a serious fight in 2028.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

This is epic by Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez 🔥

🇺🇸 Trump at 7:00 PM: "We will cut off our trade relations with Spain. They are bad people."

🇪🇸 ​Pedro at 8:00 PM: "Do what you want. Some things matter more than money. Like human life. Spain will not participate in any war that kills women, children, and the elderly."👏🔥

Massive courage. 92% of people consider Pedro the spine of Europe. 👏

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

🚨JUST IN: Donald Trump was reportedly “apocalyptically angry” that everyone is calling the diarrhea epidemic “Trumporrhea.”