Gilly Hynes

What's important to me : family, good health, friends, laughter, reading, an enquiring mind, wining and dining, my furry fiends, music, travel. In that order.

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

GOOD NEWS:

Hours after I visited the State Capitol w/ 1000s of Georgians, GA House Republicans announced they are backing down from gerrymandering our maps, potentially giving them two extra seats.

John Lewis never backed down from getting into good trouble, & I won't either.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: LOL! Trump flies into a total panic over the Reflecting Pool algae as a leaked email reveals that his administration has labeled it a "national priority" and is scrambling to hire cleaners.

This has turned into one of his defining disasters...

According to an email obtained by MeidasTouch, National Park Service employees have been informed that "additional personnel" are being recruited to "assist immediately" with "critical pre-July 4th operational needs" at the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool.

This new development is just the latest humiliation for Trump in this never-ending pool saga. First, he wasted $13 million "renovating" the pool in a desperate bid to shore up some kind of physical legacy for himself. Then, when disgusting green algae bloomed in the pool, he sent in workers to vacuum up the growth. When that failed, he had his minions dump hydrogen peroxide in, which only resulted in more discoloration.

With his big July 4th celebrations just around the corner, he's desperate to fix the problem. The email explains that workers are needed for 12-hour shifts performing “scrubbing and pump out operations." It describes the problem as a "regional and national priority."

Yet again, we see Trump focusing on something that doesn't matter at all while Americans struggle to afford groceries and gas. There has never been a more checked out, lazy, out-of-touch President.

On top of that, this is another reminder of this man's staggering incompetence. He made a huge deal out of cleaning up and beautifying the pool and now he can't even manage that.

Please ❤️ and share if you're loving this algae!

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

Can someone ask JD about this

[Acyn @Acyn]

Gowdy: Iran is better off than they were before hostilities began and that should not be the consequence of war. We had total control over that country. When you're in that position, you negotiate from strength. You don't give people money. The regime has not changed. They are just richer

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

We crowned the world's first trillionaire last week.

How does that happen when many Americans can't afford groceries or gas?

I break it down.
https://t.co/mfeqpo8sPs

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

The MOU with Iran is nothing short of a complete surrender. Regardless of whether you support the war or not, there is not reason to have given Iran everything it wanted, to get NOTHING but 60 more days to talk. I’m sorry America, because this is an EPIC FAILURE.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

JD Vance: "If you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation."

Lawrence O'Donnell: "No. They didn't.
WWII ended with ZERO negotiations."

How is Yale Law-educated JD Vance so f*cking stupid?

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

I’ve been thinking about this, actually every American should be thinking about this. @amyklobuchar

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Trump arrives late to a G7 meeting after all the other leaders are already seated and says, “I’m the boss.”

(Only a deeply insecure man feels the need to keep telling everyone he’s the boss and ends every post with “President Trump.”)

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

When California Gov. Gavin Newsom preemptively disclosed a federal probe, the most immediate question for many political observers was not whether he did something wrong, but what it would mean for his 2028 bid. https://t.co/x5n1KnUu6O

[XANDER GEOGRAPHIC 🏕️ @actionxander]

Fellow Floridians! Did you know that our state actually has beavers? My research has driven me to the panhandle and northern region of the Sunshine State. I'd love to know if you have ever seen one!

[Jack Cocchiarella @JDCocchiarella]

I love his advance team

[Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila]

Big losses for KKK Brian Kemp as his attempt for redistricting in Georgia fails and his endorsements for US Senate and Governor of Georgia also failed.

Georgia, vote for Keisha Lance Bottoms to be your next Governor and for Senator Jon Ossoff to keep his seat in the Senate.
💙👊

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: UH, WTF? Trump reveals that he fell "deeply in love" with a foreign dictator and "stayed twice as long" as he was supposed to so they could spend time together.

The dementia is destroying the last of his filters...

"Will you support Egypt's rights, water security, and if it is, how and when?" a reporter asked Trump while he was sitting next to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi at the G7 summit.

"That's what we're talking about, of course I support Egypt, he's a friend of mine," said Trump. "From day one, you know I met him early in the campaign, when Crooked Hillary and I were running against each other, right? And I was told that the President of Egypt is here, that was a big deal, it's still a big deal for me to be with the great President of Egypt. But not as big as it used to be before I ran."

"So he was in a hotel and I met him, and we fell in love, deeply in love," Trump continued. "And he didn't even want to see Hillary, he said, you're going to win, I don't want to meet her. I said, you're going to win. He didn't want to see her, remember that?"

"So we had a good relationship right from the beginning— No we met, we didn't know each other before that," Trump went on. "We had great chemistry, and I stayed twice as long as I was supposed to, took up her time. And then when it was her time, he didn't want to meet with her. But he did because he's a gentleman, but it lasted about one minute. Thank you everybody."

This bizarre rant is in keeping with a long string of incidents in which Trump talks about loving men and finding them incredibly handsome. In this case, the man that he loves just happens to be a brutal strongman leader who carried out a coup against a democratically elected leader and then slaughtered protestors.

It's entirely possible that this was not a case of latent homoerotic tendencies bubbling up unbidden through Trump's cognitively-impaired mind. It's possible that he was just trying to be "funny." But even if that's the case, this is incredibly embarrassing.

The reporter was asking about Egyptian water security, an incredibly fraught and complicated geopolitical issue. The Nile Basin is a hotbed of water disputes, perhaps most notably those involving the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. Egypt gets roughly 97% of its renewable water from the Nile and receives very little rainfall. Ethiopia wants the dam to help with electricity and economic development. Egypt is worried that it will cut off the flow of water downriver into their country. Egyptian leaders have stated in the past that water problems could lead to war.

And that's just one of Egypt's water issues.

Of course, Trump doesn't know any of these things because he doesn't read his briefings (or read at all). He's lazy, incurious, and ignorant. A real President would have used this reporter's question as an opportunity to explain the United States' position on an incredibly important topic.

Instead, Trump rambled about "love."

Please ❤️ and share if you can't wait until Trump is gone!

[Jon Ossoff @ossoff]

Donald Trump’s handpicked candidate Mike Collins is a notorious bigot, antisemite, and extremist currently under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax dollars. Collins, who is only a congressman because his daddy was a congressman, voted to double health insurance premiums for more than a million Georgians, for the Iran War, and for the Trump tariffs.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Warnock: We are witnessing this large redistribution of wealth. I love it when folks on the right talk about redistribution of wealth. They're not against it. The issue is which direction? They are moving the money from the bottom to the top. This is Robin Hood in reverse. This is what Dr. King calls socialism for the rich.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Leader Schumer: "This is a Republican president, a Republican Senate, a Republican House screwing up."

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Remember, one of their stated aims for the war was to destroy Iran’s ballistic missiles.

https://t.co/7miiQVevgT

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Holy shit, this babbling buffoon is rambling through a speech saying he didn't want to cause another "Great Depression" while Marco Rubio can't stop shifting nervously

Complete mental case.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

The coronavirus vaccine reduced the risk of major cardiovascular events linked to covid-19 by about 40 percent, according to a new study.

The findings suggest that such benefits observed in earlier studies have persisted for years. https://t.co/eFWhZ9XfpF