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Important things in life: @easmith007, #family, #hockey, #beer, #cars, #android

[CBS News @CBSNews]

New analysis warns FEMA overhaul would make disaster aid harder to access, shifting costs to survivors. https://t.co/VJeVIgFQ8u

[Jonathan Richie @JRichieTX]

UPDATE: New World Screwworm is no longer contained to Texas.

USDA says that the infested dog announced earlier today lives in Lea County, New Mexico and will be reclassified as the first detection in that state.

And now a goat in Gillespie County, TX, has also been confirmed.

[PolitiFact @PolitiFact]

An image of a blue-haired person supposedly stuffing a ballot box is not a “California voter.” It’s AI-generated.

https://t.co/dk4x66gVmY

[justin serb-ert 🇷🇸🍉 @markocantdunk]

Just finished reading Hemingway’s FOR WHOM THE BELL TOLLS and I had to stop and take a picture when I got to the famous line about the United States:

[Stephen Richer @stephen_richer]

Sure. You'd just need to:

1) Forge her signature (commit a felony).

2) Hope your forgery is sufficiently accurate

3) Hope that she (intended voter) doesn't call election office and ask about why she never got a ballot (in which case that mail ballot would be deactivated, and it would be investigated if returned)

4) Hope that she doesn't send back a replacement ballot or show up to vote in person (in which case the same as #3 would happen).

But more importantly, instead of showing us a picture of a mail ballot (which could just be from anywhere and is not evidence of material fraud), why don't you answer:

Where are the mass arrests? Trump has been in office for 18 months now. And there have been lots of ambitious Republican prosecutors and sheriffs in office for 6 years since the 2020 election.

And together they've scraped up a handful of individual voters. A few noncitizens vote. A few people voting in multiple jurisdictions.

Hundreds of thousands of hours have been searching. And yet...

What you have is, at best, evidence of a clerical error that yielded no harm.

[Jordan @JordanChariton]

🚨NEWS: Unlike right-wing grifter @nicksortor, I did actual journalism (took me 30 min). Contrary to his lies about a violent "antifa" camp at Delaney Hall —which went viral on here and picked up by Fox News & the right wing machine:

Here is reality...

https://t.co/zjzYnSIiPp

[Eric Katz @EricM_Katz]

Admin officials say it's necessary to hold accountable any employee working to subvert the president's agenda. A lawsuit is ongoing. Full story: https://t.co/iSQppO3ZXF

[Labor Campaign For Single Payer @LaborforSPayer]

Economists Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman did the math.
Replacing our current system with #MedicareForAll would result in a net pay raise of thousands of dollars for most workers, even after factoring in the additional taxes needed.
Details: https://t.co/Z7qXsPpisB

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

(1/X) I would argue that the vast majority of all commentary is essentially pro-Trump. I don't mean pro-Trump in the sense of liking Trump, I mean it in the sense of them not holding him to the anything close to the same standards as Democratic politicians....

[Rio Veradonir @RioVeradonir]

Trump’s second administration is a level of third-world style corruption that was unimaginable in the west until a few years ago. It’s not an exaggeration to say that the leaders would be arrested in any functioning democracy.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Thomas Massie is someone that Republicans would’ve cheered on 2 years ago. Anti-war, pushes for Epstein file release, etc. But since MAGA is in a cult, they change their minds whenever Trump tells them to.

A truly insane political ideology.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Ultimately, I think this is one of the reasons we're cooked as a nation. The media - writ large - has just completely abdicated its role to fact check and report objectively and become Mean Gene standing like a potted plant while Republicans cut bullshit-filled promos.

[Cato Institute @CatoInstitute]

Pennsylvania audited 210,905 voter registration forms tied to PennDOT. Result: 1 noncitizen was improperly sent and registered—he never voted and is no longer registered. Another real-world data point against claims of noncitizens voting en masse.

https://t.co/32ZaogYWox

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Conservatives suddenly care about Christianity until it’s time to follow literally anything Jesus taught.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Think about what’s being unleashed against Thomas Massie simply because he dared to push for the release of the Epstein files.

Tens of millions of dollars in outside spending. Coordinated smear campaigns. Attacks from some of the most powerful figures in government and media. Members of his own party are mobilizing to destroy him.

And this is happening to a sitting member of Congress who is, in many ways, even more conservative than Donald Trump.
Whether you agree with Massie or not is beside the point.

If this is what happens to a powerful elected official with a national platform and millions of supporters when he challenges entrenched interests, imagine what Epstein survivors are up against when they consider coming forward.

The money. The political power. The government connections. The defense and media apparatus. The intimidation campaigns.

If this doesn’t make clear why so many survivors remain silent for years, or never speak at all, we don’t know what does.

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

This graphic from @FT shows trump has suddenly gotten very interested in trading stocks

[John Bresnahan @bresreports]

3,700 trades by a sitting president

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

A president's trading of securities for his personal account can in no way be argued to constitute activity that falls within the "outer perimeter" of his "official responsibilities." If it is based on inside information used in violation of his fiduciary responsibilities, it is brazenly criminal conduct, and he would not be immune from prosecution for that criminal conduct even under the Supreme Court's 2024 decision in his favor in the Jan. 6 case.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: "Trump came to China! We won!" CNN anchor reveals the tidal wave of mockery coming from China as a dejected Trump begs Xi Jinping for mercy!

CNN’s Erin Burnett was visibly stunned by the sheer level of unrestrained mockery China is hurling at Donald Trump during his high-stakes visit.

While Trump begins meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Chinese social media has exploded with viral posts openly ridiculing the U.S. president, and Beijing’s strict censors are happily letting it spread.

Some of the posts going viral across China include:

-- “America has lost its swagger. They’re nothing but a paper tiger.”
-- “Trump came to China! We won the tariff war!”
-- “They will look up to us from now on.”
-- “Trump, you’re welcome to visit China and learn from us.”
-- “The U.S. is no longer a country that we look up to. We can now compete with them with confidence and strength.”

Burnett pointed out that this kind of open political mockery – especially during a visit by a foreign head of state – is extremely rare in China unless the government explicitly wants it to happen.

The message from Beijing is crystal clear: they believe they have the upper hand and are enjoying Trump’s humiliation.This is the embarrassing reality of Trump’s failed tough-guy act.

After years of bluster and tariffs, Trump is now flying to China as a weakened leader, getting openly laughed at by the Chinese public with their government’s approval.

The “strongest president ever” is being treated like a joke on the world stage by America’s biggest rival.

This is what happens when an incompetent, blustering president thinks he can bully the world. The rest of the planet is watching, and laughing.

If you are embarrassed watching Trump get clowned and disrespected by China, like and share this post.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

When did we normalize this? When did it become okay for a president to tell a female reporter she’s a ‘dumb person’ for asking a totally legitimate question about his contradictory answers? Was there a specific date and time it become okay? Normal? Normalized?