Jenny Park

City Planner turned Travel Designer. NextCity Vanguard ('14). #ExperiencesNotThings

[Covie @covie_93]

The same administration that cut nearly $1 billion in funding for cancer research labeling it 'waste, fraud, and abuse' is spending nearly $1 billion to paint the border wall black.

[Ben Wikler @benwikler]

The Department Of Government Efficiency, for example

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Trump is deporting people with legal status and no criminal convictions to foreign hellhole’s without due process.

His idiot team is sharing classified attack plans on insecure channels and accidentally including a reporter.

He’s pushing us toward a recession.

He’s threatening to invade allies.

They’re grabbing students off the streets and deporting them for legally protected speech.

He’s attacking every part of our judicial system from judges to law firms.

He’s letting an unaccountable MAGA billionaire illegally dismantle the government.

That same MAGA billionaire is working to buy elections by literally handing out million dollar checks to people.

Republicans are helping him.

We’re losing the things that are great about America—free speech, due process, strong allies, a functional legal system—right in front of our eyes.

America better find its backbone, and soon.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

So. This is the state of American democracy.  

The richest guy in the world is handing out million dollar checks in order to win a Wisconsin Supreme Court seat and elect an anti-choice judge.  

We MUST overturn Citizens United and move to public funding of elections.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

This is sickeningly chilling:

Adolf Hitler’s rise to power was marked by a systematic campaign to dismantle democratic institutions, suppress dissent, and undermined democratic elections, while dehumanizing minority groups.

Shortly after taking power in 1933, Hitler’s regime began reshaping how German history and culture were presented to the public while demanding loyalty instead of institutional allegiance. The Nazis purged museums, universities, libraries, and cultural institutions of anything that contradicted their ideology. School curricula and museum exhibits were rewritten to glorify the Aryan race and erase Germany’s responsibility for World War I. Any content deemed "degenerate" or "un-German" was removed.

Hitler then undermined judicial independence by pressuring judges to conform to Nazi ideology and calling for the expulsion of those judges who did not. Hitler and his propaganda machine frequently claimed that protesters and political opponents were not genuine, but rather paid agitators working for foreign interests—especially Communists and Jews. This narrative helped justify violent crackdowns and mass arrests.

His regime also crushed independent journalism, replacing it with tightly controlled propaganda that manipulated public opinion. Hitler sent thousands of people who were perceived threats to concentration camps without trials or due process.

Most significantly, he cast aside the constitutional limits of the Weimar Republic, which destroyed any remaining constitutional limits on his rule.

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

It’s not “America First” to pull the rug out from under an ally and leave their people to die. This kind of foreign policy will end with no one in the world trusting America. Our alliances give us strength and the damage being done makes our country weaker and us all less safe.

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

These are war crimes carried out by Russia. It shouldn’t be difficult for anyone to say who the aggressor is in this war. And a President of the United States should see things firsthand. Skip a round of golf and visit Ukraine!

[Sen. Elissa Slotkin @SenatorSlotkin]

Musk said the quiet part out loud: he’s going after your Social Security and Medicare. Period.

Mark my words. They will make you pay in every part of your life.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Quick reminder ahead of Donald Trump’s speech tonight:

He promised that he would “immediately bring prices down, starting on Day 1.”

It’s now Day 44.

Prices have gone up.

Inflation’s gotten worse.

And Trump’s done nothing to lower costs for working people.

[Jon Favreau @jonfavs]

Elect Democrats and cars won’t be $20,000 more expensive for absolutely no good reason

[Tommy Vietor @TVietor08]

Reminder that Trump says he's slapping tariffs on Canada because they haven't done enough to combat fentanyl, but US Customs and Border Patrol data says only 0.2% of all seizures of fentanyl entering the US are made at the Canadian border.

[Jenny Park @jennypark]

@Harri_Est 🇺🇸

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Fascism 101.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Scenes from Ontario, Canada....

"Making America Great Again" by making the world hate us and not buy from us.

This is American liquor, produced in Red States, that has been ordered to be taken off the shelves across Ontario.

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

1/ An interesting analysis by ChatGPT on the psychological aspects of the meeting between Zelensky and Trump-Vance is circulating online.

It reveals a masterclass in gaslighting, manipulation, and coercion from Trump and his entourage. Let’s break it down.

1/n

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Despicable. As families grieve, Trump should be leading, not lying. We put safety first, drove down close calls, grew Air Traffic Control, and had zero commercial airline crash fatalities out of millions of flights on our watch.
President Trump now oversees the military and the FAA. One of his first acts was to fire and suspend some of the key personnel who helped keep our skies safe. Time for the President to show actual leadership and explain what he will do to prevent this from happening again.

[Danny Boy @Care2much18]

Blaming the air traffic controller - and somehow linking it to 'diversity' - is incomprehensible nonsense from a man devoid of empathy.

ATC audio can be listened to by anybody, including the American president who can't be bothered to do that.

I'll go through the transcript. /1

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

Substance over bluster.

Optimism over negativity.

And yes, a new generation over the same, old, tired show.

She crushed it tonight.

[Kylie Brakeman @deadeyebrakeman]

wow I can't believe we're getting a Fun Ticket. a good vibes ticket. like being at a wedding when the aunts start to dance

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

With the news of Kamala Harris vetting @PeteButtigieg to be her VP, here’s 3 mins and 11 secs of Pete owning Fox News.

Yes, I’d like 4 years of this.