Susan

Mom. Liberal. Fan of good tweets. Hoping for peace for everyone.

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

This may be the image that defines America's 250th birthday.

A woman sits calmly on a Washington Metro train as masked members of the white nationalist and domestic terrorist group Patriot Front surround her.

They covered their faces.

She didn't.

Earlier in the day, Patriot Front marched through the nation's capital carrying Confederate flags and chanting that America must be "reclaimed," the latest expression of a white nationalist movement that has grown increasingly visible, violent, emboldened, and politically influential in recent years.

Their ideology is explicit.

Their courage, apparently, is not.

Not one of them was willing to show his face.

And then there is her.

No mask. No uniform. No fear.

Just an American woman refusing to surrender an inch of her dignity to a group of men who appeared to be seeking exactly that.

The symbolism is almost too perfect.

250 years after the Declaration of Independence, and six decades after Americans marched and died to make its promises apply to everyone, a group of masked white nationalists rode the socialist Metro home in anonymity.

The woman they tried to intimidate is the one America will remember.

The people who hide their faces do not define this country.

The people who refuse to be afraid do.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MAJOR BREAKING: Thomas Massie will be giving a Notice of Intent to bring forth a Privileged Resolution to release of ALL names of U.S. Representatives who have used tax dollars to settle sexual misconduct claims.

I support this. Do you?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

America hates Donald Trump.

He is an abject failure in every conceivable dimension.

He is the worst President in our history.

Soon, the Trump name and the Trump family will be in the dustbin of history, reviled and ridiculed.

Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[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?”

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

It will be at least 40 years before our loved and lovely America recovers from the wounds this selfish, stupid, and ego-driven man has inflicted. That it will recover seems certain to me, but it will leave scars.

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

Trump is trying his toxic beta-male handshake, and Charles is having absolutely none of it.

[Fred Guttenberg @fred_guttenberg]

Why does this hit differently @Kash_Patel? Because you were there? Because you felt what many Americans have already felt? Stop acting as if you matter more than my daughter and other victims of school shootings. Following her murder, we worked with the FBI on the enhanced under 21 background checks. You are ruining our good work. Instead of whining into a mic, work to end gun violence.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

He never had the money to pay for the ballroom.

It was always a scam.

We were always going to have to pay for it.

They were just waiting for the right moment to hit us with the bill.

This is now the time.

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

I can't believe we're even having this conversation: In the last ten years, NOBODY has engaged in more violent political rhetoric than Donald Trump.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

If i'm following the congressional GOP position, the ballroom, which was to be paid for with private dollars, will now be paid for with taxpayer dollars in order to, in part, accommodate an event that won't even be held there.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

I agree with Fred Guttenberg…..

[JΛKΣ @USMCLiberal]

When my fellow Marines and I were being shot at by al-Qaeda and ISIS, I kept thinking, “if only we had a ballroom.”

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

Melania Trump says Jimmy Kimmel should be canceled. Last week her husband commented on Robert Mueller’s death: “Good. I”m glad he’s dead.”
Said Pretty much the same about my old friend Rob Reiner.
People who live in glass houses should’t throw shit.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

I’m sorry, I was reliably told this was going to be privately funded.

[Holden Culotta @Holden_Culotta]

Thomas Massie just sounded the alarm:

Congress is on the verge of handing Monsanto total immunity to mass poison Americans with glyphosate.

This is existential for MAHA.

“If farmers contract a form of cancer … from this chemical, if this makes it into the Farm Bill, you won’t be able to sue.”

Instead of pushing to repeal Big Pharma’s vaccine liability shield, Trump and his cronies are trying to expand immunity for even more poison.

It’s a complete betrayal of MAHA.

And it would cause vastly more harm than all of the benefits that MAHA has done combined.

@RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

What happened last night might have seemed extraordinary because President Trump and so many people in the presidential line of succession were in the ballroom when shots were fired outside.

But we need to say out loud that it was actually all too ordinary. In America, this is all too common: a shots-fired moment, a chaotic lockdown, a spasm of violence interrupting a peaceful gathering.

Thousands of media and political elites have now gone through what countless millions of other Americans have experienced in their schools, offices, malls and churches.

And on most of those occasions, there were no Secret Service agents.

As I crouched underneath a table in the ballroom, I didn’t know much, but I knew that help was on the way. Waves of law enforcement officials were pouring into the room, leaping from chair to chair, securing the scene. A man near me seemed hurt, or at least dazed, and a police officer helped him limp away.

Everyone in the room gave thanks to the agents, bodyguards and officers who responded. But I couldn’t help but think that most of the Americans who have found themselves in the middle of a shots-fired emergency feel much more exposed, much more vulnerable.

And I think we should keep acknowledging that during the follow-up news coverage of this incident.

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[Damian Low @DamianLow3]

Trump just got owned.

Trump to Spain: “We’ll remove you from NATO and suspend all trade agreements.”

President Sánchez: “Do whatever you want, just stay away from us.”

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Well there’s this special interest called the gun lobby and they convinced the GOP to embrace guns for anyone, anywhere and turned their base into rabid gun extremists and now over 120 people are killed by guns every day and politicians are routinely shot at or assassinated.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Wow. The Pope was just asked his stance on migration. His answer is amazing:

“I would change the question: what is the global North doing to help the global South in its situation that forces them to migrate.”