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[ellelle☮️ @ellelle44]

@EricLDaugh Who knows what information they will be collecting or how they will use it? Be afraid … very afraid!

[ellelle☮️ @ellelle44]

@DougWahl1 @Titasan I would love to see him gone, but then we would be stuck with Vance and that could be even worse! We’re between the proverbial rock and hard place.

[ellelle☮️ @ellelle44]

What a lovely Father’s Day tribute.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

“Fifty-four years ago, in 1971, my grandmother Katharine Graham, publisher of The Washington Post, risked everything to stand up to a corrupt president. That president sought to destroy her newspaper’s autonomy. Today, faced with another such president, Jeff Bezos, the paper’s new owner, is tearing down the very newspaper she defended.”

[Dan Lamothe @DanLamothe]

In today's press conference, @PeteHegseth said:

"When a few drones get through or tragic things happen, it's front page news. I get it. The press only wants to make the president look bad, but try for once to report the reality the terms of this war will be set by us at every step."

A fact check: The press -- particularly the legacy Pentagon press corps -- has a long history of covering U.S. military casualties. Under Bush. Under Obama. Under Biden. And yes, under Trump.

Those efforts haven't always been perfect. But they've highlighted sacrifices by American service members and their families, and shortcomings that sometimes allowed those deaths to happen.

We'll continue to do so. It's too important to stop.

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

Who did this?? 😂

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

COULD IT BE MORE OBVIOUS AMERICA 🤷 THIS IS A RACIST AGENDA🤬😤 FUCK THESE RACIST ASSHOLES IN THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION 🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕🖕

[ellelle☮️ @ellelle44]

Please read his full comment

[kasey @kaseyklimes]

I just got off a call with a friend in minneapolis

I didn’t understand how bad the situation is right now, I don’t think any of us outside MSP do

they were patrolling outside her window as I was talking to her

there are thousands of them

she (a white woman) now carries her passport with her when she leaves the house

our call was interrupted by helicopters

last year the ICE budget was $10B

it’s now $85B

this is coming to your doorstep soon

the silence of CEOs and even Democratic leaders right now is shameful. if you don’t understand how 1930s Germany happened, this is how it happened.

there’s nothing more unamerican. my grandpa manned a machine gun in the south pacific to fight this ideology. our constitutional rights are being shredded to pieces, and the powerful are bending their knee to it.

i don’t care about your stance on immigration, if you support masked thugs terrorizing american communities, pointing guns at citizens and demanding papers, entering homes without warrants— please, take a hard look in the mirror and reevaluate the dissonance with your american values and the freedom your ancestors fought to give you.

[Bricktop_NAFO @Bricktop_NAFO]

Afghanistan Withdrawal Facts

Trump not Biden Negotiated directly with the Taliban terrorists and excluded the Afghan army.

Trump not Biden Drew down US forces from 13,000 to 2,500, making them vulnerable to attack.

Trump not Biden Ordered the release of 5,000 Taliban fighters from prison, one of whom would become the new leader of Afghanistan.

Trump not Biden Wanted to invite the Taliban leaders to Camp David on the anniversary of September 11th.

Trump not Biden Agreed to a May 1st exit from Afghanistan, then bragged that he didn’t need an exit strategy.

Trump not Biden Refused to brief Biden’s incoming team on the situation in Afghanistan.

Trump not Biden Shut down every airbase in Afghanistan except one, crippling the US’s ability to extract its assets safely.

[Charlie Sykes @SykesCharlie]

„Um ein Territorium zu kontrollieren, muss man es verteidigen, verbessern und bewohnen können. Dänemark hat bei jeder einzelnen dieser Prüfungen versagt.“ —Original German

“To control a territory, you have to be able to defend a territory, improve a territory, inhabit a territory. Denmark has failed at every single one of these tests.” — Stephen Miller.

https://t.co/h8Qym4r9lF

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
George Orwell, 1984

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Exactly

[David Hogg 🟧 @davidhogg111]

But America first right?

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

1962: JFK warns against lawless defiance. "If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men... can defy the commands of our court... then indeed the American experiment has failed."

2025: 63 years later, Trump is the embodiment of that warning.

[Senator Chris Coons @ChrisCoons]

He’ll put his name on anything but the economy.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump gets caught funneling $620 million to Don Jr. with a record loan to his investment firm — and it’s all about those magnets that Drowsy Don doesn’t understand.

In the latest episode of the never-ending MAGA money machine, Donald Trump Jr. just scored yet another massive government payday — this time a jaw-dropping $620 million Defense Department loan — thanks to a rare-earths start-up quietly backed by his own venture firm.

That’s right: while President Donald Trump rambles on national television about how “nobody knows what a magnet is,” his son is cashing in on them like they’re the secret to eternal life.

Vulcan Elements, the barely known company boosted by Trump Jr.’s 1789 Capital in August, is suddenly getting the largest loan the Pentagon’s Office of Strategic Capital has ever issued. And — surprise! — it’s only the newest in a string of fat government contracts funneled to firms connected to Trump Jr.’s portfolio. Four of them have already raked in $735 million since the president returned to office in January.

Ethics experts are sounding the alarm, warning that presidents are supposed to avoid even the appearance of funneling taxpayer money into their own family’s pockets. But this administration has blown straight past “appearance” and into full-blown “walking conflict of interest in broad daylight.”

And if it weren’t so corrupt, it would almost be funny: President Trump spent November insisting on Fox News that magnets are mysterious forces nobody understands — apparently unaware that scientists cracked that code two centuries ago. Critics couldn’t help but note the uncanny similarity to Insane Clown Posse’s legendary line, “F---ing magnets, how do they work?”

Turns out it’s pretty simple — when your dad runs the government, magnets work extremely well — especially for your bank account.

Please like and share to spread the news!

[Sen. Elissa Slotkin @SenatorSlotkin]

Earlier this morning, President Trump threatened me and a group of service and veteran Members of Congress with arrest, trial, and death by hanging.

Here’s my response:

[Sen. Elissa Slotkin @SenatorSlotkin]

A joint statement from myself @SenMarkKelly, @RepJasonCrow, @RepDeluzio, @RepGoodlander and @RepHoulahan.

“We are veterans and national security professionals who love this country and swore an oath to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. That oath lasts a lifetime, and we intend to keep it. No threat, intimidation, or call for violence will deter us from that sacred obligation.

“What’s most telling is that the President considers it punishable by death for us to restate the law. Our servicemembers should know that we have their backs as they fulfill their oath to the Constitution and obligation to follow only lawful orders. It is not only the right thing to do, but also our duty.

“But this isn’t about any one of us. This isn’t about politics. This is about who we are as Americans. Every American must unite and condemn the President’s calls for our murder and political violence. This is a time for moral clarity.

“In these moments, fear is contagious, but so is courage. We will continue to lead and will not be intimidated.

“Don’t Give Up the Ship!”

[ellelle☮️ @ellelle44]

@liamcunningham1 One day later and I have neither seen nor heard a single mention of this on any news service. Un-f***ing-believable! C’mon folks, stop giving Israel a free pass for every grievous action they take. Enough!!!