Joe Merrill

Be someone's good luck

[Hend Amry @LibyaLiberty]

Two virulent Nazis are the marshalls, give it a pass.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Maybe one of the most unforgettable surfing moments was captured by David Tereva.

[🏄‍♂️ terevadavid]

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump looked into the camera and said of the ballroom, “This is taxpayer-free. We have no taxpayer putting up 10 cents.”

Three weeks earlier, his own contractor had already put it in writing. The ballroom would cost $600 million, with half of it from you, the taxpayer.

Trump knew. He said it anyway.

This administration has no problem shortchanging Medicaid or food for kids.

But $300 million for a ballroom and a private bunker? Found that money instantly.

I am an appropriator. I see the budget. This was never about what we can afford. It is about who they choose to spend it on.

I will fight this in every hearing, every markup, every vote, until the last dime is accounted for.

Most of my Republican colleagues are silent while the public is robbed in broad daylight.

Where in the hell are they?
https://t.co/rAptrfcaCd

[Rob Sand @RobSandIA]

A $205K/yr taxpayer funded job for your former staffer that didn’t even get posted to the public, just days after firing 200 state employees, is the corruption you get when you have ten years of one party control.

My opponent spent 10 years as a paid political operative for them, count on more of the same.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

This is 73-year-old Valentina Kubrak.

Yesterday, russia killed her.

She wasn’t a soldier. She wasn’t near a battlefield. She was just living her life.

russian terrorists deliberately targeted the civilian car she was traveling in with an FPV drone.

This is who russia kills.

[Robert holgate @415holgate]

Exactly👇🏿🎯

[Isaiah Martin @isaiahrmartin]

Also, JD, our invisible Vice President, if you want to talk about inflation, let’s talk about how it was 2.7% under Biden the night of the presidential election. You slapnuts came in and 1) put blanket tariffs, 2) got rid of ACA subsidies to make health care cost more, 3) ignored national intelligence and started a dumb war to send our energy prices soaring. Your DIRECT actions and incompetence are what made prices GO THROUGH THE ROOF!

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

"The President may not ignore statutory mandates." Federal Judge Richard Mark Gergel didn't mince words when he legally forced the EPA to restore $2.8 BILLION in climate grants the regime tried to quietly erase. Read the historic ruling: 👇 https://t.co/OL1hX4buYA

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

It was literally the entire point of this illegal war...it's on video.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

This is fascinating to me. Investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill reports that midway through indirect talks to end the war, Tehran’s negotiating team added two senior psychologists to help craft messages to Trump. They were experts in the fields of cognitive impairment and anti-social behavior, and they were added to manage what an official described as "the American President’s psychopathic behavior pattern.” See follow-up tweet.

[Burgess Everett @burgessev]

Hmm, Rep. Ashley Hinson's primary opponent tells supporters "I cannot in good conscience ask you to vote for Ashley Hinson. She does not share our values and a Republican label is not enough."

He got about 25 percent of the primary vote

[Iowa Democrats @iowademocrats]

ICYMI: A West Branch plastics producer announced plans to lay off 77 workers this summer, citing decline due to Whirlpool Amana’s ongoing reductions.

Iowa Republicans are completely failing to protect our manufacturing industry and the communities they employ.
https://t.co/pwb7U4GJ3L

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 ABSOLUTE BOMBSHELL: Retired US Army Lt. Gen. Mark Hertling confirms Donald Trump is a complete pariah at the G7. He reveals global leaders are actively avoiding the US President.

The American empire is completely isolated due to Washington's disastrous foreign policy.

[Maggie Reed @mermaidmamamags]

It looks blue if you don’t look at it. #reflectingpool

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

Esta no es una escena de una película, es el ejército de mercenarios de la Gestapo de Trump, el ICE, esta noche, en el campo de concentración para inmigrantes de Delaney Hall, secuestrando a quién protesta contra él en sus puertas.

Así se está jugando el Mundial de EEUU, no lo verás en los medios de comunicación... que si llega a ser Rusia u otro pais enemigo de ellos, estarían contándotelo hasta en braille.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

But we can’t “afford” pediatric cancer research.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

He sent 13 service members to their deaths over “not very valuable stuff”?
168 Iranian school girls.
Thousands of civilians killed.
Our bases badly damaged.
Stockpiles depleted.
$80 billion price tag.
$6 gas.

For “not very valuable stuff”?

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Republican candidate Ryan Dewayne Jenks has been sentenced to 20 years for molesting a 12-year-old girl.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Trump's Campaign Chairman Tim Nolan has been convicted of trafficking 19 girls, 7 of them underage.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Tennessee is sending letters to immigrant parents of disabled and terminally ill children enrolled in a last-resort public health program — kids on ventilators, kids with cancer, kids in wheelchairs - telling them that if their child keeps receiving medical care after June 30, the state will report them to ICE.

This program has existed for over 50 years. It has never required immigration status. Until now.

Children's Special Services is Tennessee's last-resort public health insurance program for low-income kids with the most severe disabilities and life-threatening illnesses - kids with no other coverage, no other options. The state just sent letters to at least 90 Nashville families giving them an impossible choice: keep your child alive, or stay invisible.

One mother, Gabriella, has a 10-year-old son born with spina bifida who requires near-monthly emergency care. They're six months from a final ruling on their asylum case. She said if they're sent back to Honduras, "he's not going to make it."

Here's the part that should make your head explode: the law Tennessee is using to justify this explicitly applies only to people 18 and older. These are children. Pediatricians, advocates, and lawmakers are all saying the state is misapplying its own law to reach kids it was never meant to cover.

The Tennessee Justice Center says the directive is unlawful and is preparing a legal challenge. But families are afraid to come forward as plaintiffs. Because coming forward means being seen.

The state health department has not responded to a single press request for comment.

What kind of government sends a letter to the mother of a child on a ventilator and calls it immigration enforcement?

📷 Jose Carlos Cerdeno/Getty

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