Hans

Attorney, parent, interested in the Constitution, voting, public education and national security

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

This is a devastating interview.

Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good.

Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

D-Day wasn’t about keeping desperate refugees out of Europe.

It was about defeating a fascist regime that treated human beings as less than human.

Hegseth using that anniversary to score cheap political points is cynical, disgusting & fucking shameful.

[Hans @HansGraff]

@GOP__Ls That's how much Trump is in there.

[Hans @HansGraff]

@maddenifico He cannot stand that people recall Obama fondly. Obama humiliated him at the White House Correspondent's dinner. Worst of all, he knows everyone hates him. He's deranged.

[Jake T. O'Donnell @jaketodonnell]

I have not used this forum to talk politics in a long time. If I lose followers for this, I don’t care.

I’ve been to Omaha Beach. To Point du Hoc. To the Normandy American Cemetery.

Our Defense Secretary using this occasion to score cheap political points is despicable.

[Hans @HansGraff]

@reedgalen @MalcolmNance That sounds exactly like the language Putin uses.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

The countdown until we are told that LLMs are “too big to fail” starts now.

“We can’t afford to lose to China”, they will say, accepting their multibillion dollar bailouts.

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

The closure of @USAID by 20-something DOGE bros (who probably thought "screwworm" was a hilarious joke) will haunt us for years to come.

[Hans @HansGraff]

@RonFilipkowski And he’s the sociopathic cult leader who does not discern fact from fantasy.

[Matt Angle @LSPmatt]

Contrast the grilling Graham Platner is getting (and deserves) from Dems & left-leaning press vs Fox & DC/TX Rs who are locking arms to defend the far bigger sleazeball criminal @KenPaxtonTX. Dems take out their trash. Rs pile it on the front lawn & put a Paxton sign on top.

[Hans @HansGraff]

@jstein_star @davidfolkenflik Sounds like a bailout.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

In 2016, candidate Donald Trump promised to eliminate the national debt within eight years. It stood at roughly $20 trillion when he took office in January 2017.

Now, it has crossed $39 trillion.

The debt has roughly doubled, and the pace is accelerating: the most recent trillion dollars was added in less than five months.

To be clear, this debt wasn’t created by one party alone. It reflects years of decisions by both parties to spend more than we collect in revenue.

But one fact is difficult to escape: in 2017, Republicans enacted trillions of dollars in tax cuts without paying for them. Independent budget analysts projected the law would increase deficits by trillions of dollars, and subsequent analyses found that it did. Many supporters argued that economic growth would offset much of the lost revenue.

It didn’t.

And instead of changing course, Republicans doubled down with the One Big Ugly Bill, which those same analysts project will add trillions more to the deficit over the next decade.

Today the national debt exceeds $39 trillion. Interest costs are approaching $1 trillion annually and are projected to become one of the largest items in the federal budget. That means more taxpayer dollars going to interest payments and fewer available for priorities like veterans’ care, Social Security, Medicare, infrastructure, and national security.

Math doesn’t care whether you’re a Democrat or a Republican.

If Washington keeps borrowing faster than the economy grows, interest costs will consume an ever-larger share of the federal budget, and the room to make different choices will keep shrinking.

I’ll keep fighting for a budget that pays its bills, protects what families depend on, and leaves the next generation with more opportunity, not more debt.
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[Hans @HansGraff]

@MichaelSteele With strong homoerotic aesthetic tendencies.

[Hans @HansGraff]

@emptywheel @DHSgov They could delete “for” from that meme.

[Hans @HansGraff]

@SaraForTexLege @CoxHerb Like when they said they were changing the SHARS Medicaid rule to add auditory devices as reimbursable and made other changes that cut statewide reimbursements by 50%. The comment claimed no fiscal impact as the participation by schools was voluntary. $300 million cut to schools.

[Jason Vaughn @JasonVaughn]

This is why gay Republicans are really counting on Bo French. Thanks to Ken Paxton adultery is completely normalized and celebrated within the Texas GOP. It won’t be long before Bo French becomes the same symbol for gays. We’re rooting for you girl! #txlege

[Hans @HansGraff]

@AdamKinzinger Double snowflake bitch. Afraid of comments.

[Hans @HansGraff]

The Trump administration is a nuclear breeder reactor of incompetence, corruption and malice.

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

Meriwether Farms was founded by a hardcore conservative and former Trump 1.0 alum btw