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[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Turns out following science is … good for national security

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

I will not be clipping Trump’s 250th rally tonight because I am celebrating America’s 250th in my own way by watching Shohei Ohtani pitch.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

Went looking for the 300 foot “slit” or “slits” in the reflecting pool Trump keeps lying about. Didn’t find any of that. But did find plenty of signs the paint on the bottom of the pool has simply disintegrated. My latest pool report.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Cassidy: The president didn't want to hear my question, interrupted me. I'm not going to be bullied when I'm trying to get answers for the American people

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

REPUBLICAN SEN. TILLIS: “What Freakin’ parallel universe did I wake up in? You’re telling me — if it’s true — damaging the reflecting pool lining is something Pirro wants to prosecute… yet they’re releasing people who pled guilty to assaulting officers?”

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

CNN shows a side by side of J.D. Vance taking credit for what Obama already had in place — an Iran deal Trump ripped up before killing a lot of people and wasting a lot of money (at Israel’s request)

H/T @Acyn

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Protests in Albania are escalating, with demonstrators now calling for the resignation of the entire government amid growing anger over the proposed Kushner-Ivanka Trump development project.

What began as opposition to a luxury development is rapidly turning into a broader political crisis.

[Acyn @Acyn]

PabloReports: Does Donald Trump get to keep this Qatari jet after the presidency?

Raskin: No, he does not. You know why? Because the Constitution says he can’t do it.

Because the Constitution says that the president may not receive a present, an emolument—which means a payment, an office or title of any kind—from a king, a prince, or a foreign state without the consent of Congress.

And Congress has not consented to him keeping a $400 million jet. So it’s got to be turned over immediately to Congress for disposition.

We can either send it back to the people in Qatar, or we can keep it and do something different with it. But it doesn’t belong to the president.

You know, Abraham Lincoln, in the middle of the Civil War, wanted to keep some elephant tusks he’d gotten from the King of Siam. He never kept a present before. He wrote a letter to Congress. He said, “Can I keep this?” And Congress said, you know, you’re doing a great job, Honest Abe, and we love you, but no, you can’t keep it. Turn it over to the Department of State. That’s the right way to do it.

Every other president has come to Congress to ask whether they can keep one of these foreign gifts from a government, king, or prince. President Trump should be no different. He’s got to come to us too. And if not, we’ll just have to requisition it and confiscate it.

[Roddy 🇨🇦 @RodKahx]

This is why I haven't left Twitter.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

A literal coverup

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

So apparently, Donald Trump dragged the Secretary of the Smithsonian into the Oval Office to yell at him about being woke, but then he had an episode and forgot the purpose of the meeting. Instead, he talked about renaming Dulles Airport after himself.

The president is unwell, and nobody wants to talk about it.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

THE SENATE JUST VOTED TO REMOVE AMERICAN FORCES FROM HIS ILLEGAL WAR IN IRAN.

F*CK YEAH!
It's about time.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

At noon I will be on the Senate floor giving a comprehensive speech outlining the last 500 days of Trump's dizzying, unprecedented campaign of corruption.

We cannot normalize what he is doing. He is stealing from us.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Video captures the moment vandals caused a 350-foot gash in the Reflecting Pool's sealant

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The irony of Republicans controlling all branches of government while

bankrupting the country, starting a war, sending money to fraudulent programs, violating the Constitution, giving corporations immunity...

but arguing that the biggest problem we have is “stolen elections.”

[Jesus Chrysler @JesusChryslerII]

Five Mexican guys could have fixed the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in one weekend, but we deported them.

[Sgt Pepper @MzSgtPepper]

🎯

#ReleasetheUnredactedEpsteinFiles

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

OOF: The plaintiffs who unsuccessfully sued trying to stop Trump from renovating the Reflecting Pool have just uncorked a scathing update to the judge

"This is the foreseeable result of defendants’ decision to bypass the consultative process required by law and which must occur before the government can alter our nation’s most sacred spaces"

"It should go without saying, Congress required agencies to consult with experts and public before making changes to historic properties for a reason. The public is now witnessing what happens when, instead, agencies barrel ahead with ill-conceived plans in a hasty manner to meet an arbitrary deadline imposed by the White House"

[John Rocha @TheRochaSays]

OBAMA NOW??? HE’S FUCKING BLAMING OBAMA NOW???? 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Now that five people have been arrested for picking up the floating pieces of his shattered ego, when are they going to arrest the person responsible for what happened to our beautiful White House?