Secularist, Humanist, Atheist, Naturalistic Evolutionist, Progressive, Liberal. Religion began when the first scoundrel met the first fool.-Voltaire #FBR
@SeditionistGop@kaitlancollins Obviously charmed rather than intimidated. So charmed that he applauded Putin walking, stroked his hand and invited him into his limousine for an uncheduled one-on-one, then listened carefully to Putin's exposition of why his fictional history of Russia means 🇺🇦 must surrender🙄
@kaitlancollins The Alaska press conference was a failure. Trump did not win the Nobel Peace Prize today. Maybe a gift certificate to Arby's. 2 for 1 on beef and cheddar. #arbys
A perfect metaphor for drive-by diplomacy: show up for the photo op, then vanish before the facts arrive. After all, a real estate developer's job is to assess the property, not the consequences of the lease.
This entire Alaska summit was built on a fantasy after Witkoff, who used a Kremlin translator on a Feb 11 trip, misinterpreted Putin's intentions in early August. As they stage this theater, Zelenskyy confirmed today (Aug 15) Russia is "still killing" people, and Moscow is ramping up missile production. Diplomacy by amateurs has a body count.
The envoy can walk out of the room. Ukraine can't walk out of the war zone created by this diplomatic malpractice.
So apparently Laura Loomer freaked out over a video of Palestinian children receiving medical care in the US, and now Trump’s cutting off medical visas from Gaza. The media needs to dig into that relationship—because a conspiracy theorist is whispering in the president’s ear, and the American people deserve to know what’s going on.
Trump promised to lower electricity bills, but they are up 5.5% over the last year. The Big Beautiful Betrayal’s cuts to affordable energy will only drive costs higher.
I’m fighting to deliver affordable, sustainable power for all Americans.
Children and seniors will go hungry.
Hospitals and nursing homes will shut down.
Health care costs will skyrocket.
This is what Republicans voted for. This is the Big Ugly Law.
A state department staffer seems to have left behind 8 pages of info on a hotel printer about the Trump-Putin summit.
We published each of them.
See what they say for yourself: Trump-Putin documents left on hotel printer
https://t.co/qFNNbFy9V5
Mark Zuckerberg has spent $110M to buy 11 houses in one Palo Alto neighborhood.
He's turning the homes into a compound.
That's on top of his 30 bedroom, 30 bathroom compound in Hawaii and another in Lake Tahoe.
I don’t want to hear that billionaires can’t afford a wealth tax.
@schwagerTV@DanPatrick Dear Danny: The Establishment Clause of the Constitution bars the government from imposing any religion on the populace. So...just fuck off.
#FreedomFromReligion
@schwagerTV@DanPatrick@DanPatrick this is exactly why separation of church and state exists. You can’t force people to stand and pray. Imagine being forced to bow for a Satanic ritual, or recite from the Necronomicon—Christians would call it tyranny. Forcing prayer is no different.
@schwagerTV@DanPatrick SCOTUS settled this in 1943: No official can force citizens to stand or participate in religious or patriotic rituals. Dan Patrick missed that memo. #TXLege
Over the weekend, Italian TV host Massimo Giletti went to Russia where he interviewed Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova and top state TV host Vladimir Solovyov
Fellow Italian journalist Alessandro Sallusti wasn't impressed...
(thanks to @LBuscicchi for translating)