Larry Herbert

Rule of law; separation of church & state; voting rights; science. Swing/Shag Dancer, HLAA (hearing loss)🦻, IRC, VA Capital Trail 🚴🏻‍♂️

[Carolyn from Maryland™ @carolyn_from]

@BillKristol @morgfair Sounds like a crime to me.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"The biggest question is whether or not the Supreme Court understand the moment we’re in and are ready to meet it. By that, I mean did they recognize we’re dealing with a rogue administration that’s engaging in radical lawlessness? And they didn’t."
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[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“We should be grateful that Ronaldo Salgado Araujo came to live here in the United States, to build houses for Americans, and to raise three American sons. As his son said, he had sought to live the American Dream and to help others to do so.”

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[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

💙💙💙

[Brad Lander @bradlander]

I was back in Immigration Court this week, this time for the hearing of a sweet little three-year-old girl, I’ll call her Estrella. She’s been in federal custody, separated from her family for more than 10 months – even though her mom lives here in NYC. The cruelty is truly mind-boggling.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Donald Trump has pardoned more than 70 people convicted of fraud.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

NEVER forget what Traitor Trump did on J6 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

I agree with Don Winslow…

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

He Lived Here for 35 Years. Put Three Kids in College. ICE Killed Him.

@Carrasquillo on Lorenzo Araujo

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[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"Mr. Araujo did not deserve to be killed by ICE agents. Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal did not deserve to die in ICE custody. These deaths—and many others—are a direct effect of mass deportation. That policy embodies the cruelty of the Trump administration."

https://t.co/LMUGV2brNW

[David French @DavidAFrench]

This was exactly what I was concerned about. When I was reviewing targeting decisions in Iraq, one of the absolute first questions you ask was, "How fresh is the intelligence?" Using deadly force based on years-old data is inherently dangerous.

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Worth watching this chilling account from Amb. Samantha Power about Elon Musk & Trump ignoring evidence in plain sight that destroying USAID would lead to deaths around the world: “There was no regard for human lives at stake.”

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

Happy 4th to President Trump, who can effectively pursue his new anti-Communist campaign by not sending any more love letters to Kim Jong Un, the “top of the line” Communist dictator of North Korea with whom he has “great chemistry”; not lavishing praise on President Xi, the “top of the line, brilliant” Communist dictator of China; and not serving dictator Vladimir Putin, former head of the KGB, by calling him “very smart” and his bloody imperialist moves against Ukraine “genius,” and by bolstering Putin’s campaign against our democratic allies in NATO. Anticommunism is easy, Mr. President, when you start defending human rights and stop fawning over Communist tyrants! https://t.co/3TtF9bFrZc

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

Phang: Blanche maintains that FOIA was my only and remains my only option. And then he has the balls to say the following. He says that my lawsuit "threatens the interdependence and the reciprocity between Congress and the executive branch." You know, folks, last I checked, I don't see a lot of interdependence or reciprocity between Congress and the executive branch.

What I have seen, I've seen people like Todd Blanche, Pammy Jo with the bad hair, Kash Patel, Susie Wiles, JD Vance, and others, assembling repeatedly in the Situation Room at the White House with Todd Blanche quarterbacking strategy on how to avoid turning over the Epstein files to the American people.

Does that sound like interdependence or reciprocity?

[David Frum @davidfrum]

250 years after July 4, 1776, the successor of King George III pays taxes and publishes his returns. The successor of George Washington does not. https://t.co/CbIXDe8UQY

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Donald Trump ran for office for 3 reasons: 1. To stay out of jail. 2. To exact revenge on his enemies.
3. To line his pockets and the pockets of his family.

Everything else he says is "bullshit."

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

​Pope Leo XIV:
​"The world is being pushed toward destruction at the hands of a handful of tyrants."

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Liz Oyer is really excellent here, on just HOW corrupt Todd Blanche’s conduct as Deputy AG has been with respect to Ghislaine Maxwell and the Bureau of Prisons and the Jeffrey Epstein coverup, and to running the Justice Department more broadly.

https://t.co/8hYAIxZEXA

[Covie @covie_93]

Shoutout to all the Christians who spent the week telling Haitian refugees to go back to their country and then woke up this morning and head to church.

You're the real hypocrites.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

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