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[Dave Hale - Concerned Republican @CountryFirstRep]

It is legitimately a tragedy that the 250th anniversary of this country's birth will be presided over by a president who is EVERYTHING the founders warned us against -- a partisan demagogue who fundamentally loathes the separation of powers and denies election results he dislikes

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Democrats have provided reflexive & unconditional support to Netanyahu & Israeli governments, even as they undermined the values we claimed to stand for.

It's time to end taxpayer-funded support & condition arms sales to end the occupation & salvage a 2-state solution.

https://t.co/u0670ATFRE

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Honestly pure dictator shit. A real democracy would immediately imprison him for even trying this

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

USAID had a dedicated outbreak response division that tackled Ebola and other outbreaks.

@elonmusk fired that team in the midst of a small Ebola outbreak in Uganda last year, then lied about it.

Today that team, like USAID, no longer exists.
https://t.co/YdXf15kzUL

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

Glasses were placed in front of us but we did not drink them. I know that may be a confusing concept for Director Patel.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: Drugs coming by sea meaning coming by water. A lot of people don’t know what I mean by sea. They think I mean vision. I’m talking about sea like the sea.

[Jack Hunter @jackhunter74]

Trump: I’m gonna wipe out an entire civilization.

Pope: That’s wrong.

Vance: The pope should stick to questions of morality.

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Trump leaving the umbrella for someone else to close, because he can’t do it himself, is a perfect illustration of what he did with Iran.

[Daractenus @Daractenus]

For the record, the president of the United States is now simultaneously claiming that he has won the war, is currently winning the war, needs help to win the war, and needs no help to win the war. All to destroy the nuclear program he claims to have already destroyed last year.

[a newsman @a_newsman]

Many people seem to forget it now, but one of Donald Trump’s main campaign pitches to voters in 2016 was that he was a billionaire who couldn’t be bought by donors and special interests

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

In order to get elected, @BarackObama will start a war with Iran.

[Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump]

Now that Obama’s poll numbers are in tailspin – watch for him to launch a strike in Libya or Iran. He is desperate.

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

A year has passed since @elonmusk began the wood-chipper-ing of @USAID.

Since then, global humanitarian funding has collapsed by almost 1/3, mostly due to the Trump/Elon cuts.

Vast suffering has ensued.

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[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives.

We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

@SStricklandMMA in 2024 minneapolis is police arrested about 1000 people with deadly weapons on their person and didn’t shoot any of them 10 times

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

Even if you take the conservative defense of each ICE killing, you’re left with “We haphazardly scaled up a poorly trained police force to storm into neighborhoods that voted against the president, where we antagonize the local population until someone resists arrest, and then we kill them,” which is morally horrendous on top of being an absurd way to do immigration policy.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

Five stories from just the last 24 hours:

1. Minnesota police chief says ICE has been unconstitutionally stopping & pulling guns on *his own* off-duty officers who are brown/black.

2. The Social Security Administration referred two DOGE employees for Hatch Act violations after discovering contacts with a political group seeking SSA data to overturn election results.

3. Canada struck a historic trade deal with China, declaring them more "predictable" than the U.S., then its PM warned of a rupture with the U.S. and the "end of the rules-based international order."

4. Trump quietly pardoned a slew of more white collar criminals, almost all of whom were convicted of fraud.

5. NYTimes released an editorial documenting how Trump has made $1.4 billion (with a "b") dollars off the presidency in his first year in office -- just on the publicly documented trades and transactions.

That's legitimately 24 hours of news, and it's just scratching the surface.

[Covie @covie_93]

Sad day for those Democrats who bought Bill Clinton hats, shoes, watch, cologne, perfume, bible, NFT, crypto, cellphone and guitar.

[Alexander McCoy @AlexanderMcCoy4]

Cool reporting man thanks

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Outstanding reporting today from the New Media at the Pentagon.