New in PN: Lindsey Graham and the rot of modern conservatism
"Lindsey Graham died a coward. From Gingrich to Trump, he embodied the movement-to-racket transformation of modern conservatism. Has America ever witnessed a capitulation so self-abnegating as his conversion from snarling Trump critic into swooning cheerleader and apologist?" https://t.co/6w153kvSr7
⚠️⚠️Hey Florida ( esp my SARASOTA peeps)
READ IT AGAIN —💰💰a DEVELOPER on the judiciary nomination committee !!!
Did you know that developer Pat Neal was just appointed by Ron DeSantis again to be on the 12th judicial circuit judicial nominating committee, that appoints our local judges in Sarasota and manatee counties?
🦨🦨His term expired from his previous appointment by DeSantis on July 1st, and was reappointed.
While we were distracted by the homestead tax issue he was pushing, he appointed one of the biggest billionaire developers destroying our area to appoint judges.
I wonder if it could have something to do with the over $200,000 he "donated" to DeSantis 🤔 #votingmatters
Polite reminder. Trump & Brexit are not 2 different things. They are the same thing. Same companies. Same data. Same Facebook. Same Russians. Same Cambridge Analytica. Same Robert Mercer. Same Steve Bannon. Same Breitbart. Same Alexander Nix. Same Donald Trump. Same Nigel Farage.
Stephen Miller: "Children will be taught to love America … As we close the Dept of Education and provide funding to states, we're going to make sure these funds are not being used to promote communist ideology."@atrupar (2025)
💥Tim Burchett on Mitch McConnell: "Nothing in Washington ever happens by accident. It's a cover-up up on top of a cover-up ... This whole thing is a farce."
"Washington, DC is just a large man-made sewer. And we rarely stir it. We just let it sit there and stink."
Wilson: I guarantee you there are 10 reporters in D.C. right now who know exactly what Mitch McConnell’s medical status is. Maybe more.
They’re not reporting it.
We know from people who are very clear that he’s in a certain rehab wing for acute cardiac failure, all this stuff, at the hospital. He is alive. Our source is not able to say if he’s conscious or cogent.
I don’t think the magical 20-minute conversations about Mitch McConnell—you know, “He’s perfectly fine”—are real. I think we’re going to find out all that was a lie because they want to run out the clock on the special election question in Kentucky.
If I’m Andy Beshear, brother, just declare the election. And if they want to prove that Mitch McConnell is alive and well, go do it. But that is not something I think they can prove.
When Joe Biden’s health scares started to mount up, we had 24-hour-a-day coverage. It never stopped. They were beating the White House down every single day about it.
When the July 7 debate happened in 2024, that was a clock that went off because the media drove the story. They pushed and pushed and pushed. They turned over every rock.
We don’t see that coverage about Trump. We don’t see that coverage about McConnell.
Lindsey Graham: Dead.
Mitch McConnell: Probably Dead.
Donald Trump: Monthly Trips to Walter Reed
92 Year Old Sen @ChuckGrassley (R-IA): Alive, farming and 3rd in line to the Presidency.
WWII Veteran and Purple Heart recipient Robert Hilliard:
"Next week I'll be 101 years old. In February 1944 when I was 18 years old I was inducted into the army and what they taught me to do there was to kill people who set up detention camps. Can you imagine how I felt earlier this year when they announced that one of the future detention camps would be at that same camp landing in Florida? We have a fascist, a fascist government, that allows innocent people to be put in detention camps and incarcerated."
Source: @tomaskenn
Folks have asked me if this is the start of Republicans having a spine.
No. Not even close. This is low-hanging fruit to make them LOOK like they’re standing up to Trump without actually doing anything.
‼️ 🇺🇸 Downed US Pilot Reportedly Witnessed Iranian ‘Jellyfish’ Drone Swarm Formation
The F-15E pilot shot down over Iran in early April during Operation Epic Fury told intelligence officials he witnessed Iranian drones linking together and moving as a single coordinated swarm in what he described as a “jellyfish” formation.
The pilot, flying under the callsign Dude 44 from the 494th Fighter Squadron, was downed on April 3 over southwest Iran by what officials believe was an infrared-guided shoulder-fired missile.
Before ejecting, he reported seeing multiple drones that appeared “interconnected and moving as one,” with smaller drones hanging below a central mass like tentacles, describing the encounter as flying into a “minefield of drones.”