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[Jon @jonriegel]

@paulg as long as he and his yes-men remain in charge of the Republican party, our former allies will not trust us. The only way to restore the value of investments that depended on that trust is impeachment and removal from office.

[Jon @jonriegel]

Note: the above charitably assumes that the administration is not committing deliberate sabotage.

[Jon @jonriegel]

The tariffs were conceived by pseudo-intellectuals whose position was achieved via charisma or loyalty rather than correctness, and who rejected true expertise in the field. They were implemented by executive fiat, and defended by motivated reasoning and brazen lies.

[Jon @jonriegel]

This is how the far right does everything. The people on this website defending these tariffs would be doing so no matter what Trump did; they have zero credibility. If he nuked Los Angeles, they'd be on here making fun of Californians.

[Rutger Bregman @rcbregman]

How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Screen-shotting this one for when Gaetz is confirmed with all 53 Republican votes or gets in through a recess appointment.

[Derek Thompson @DKThomp]

For the first time since WWII, every governing party facing election in a developed country this year lost vote share, via @jburnmurdoch

2024 Democrats are the red dot.

Absolutely critical context to any postmortem.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

When Trump says he wants generals like Hitler's, I think he knows what he means. He grasps that those generals were unbound by law & personally loyal to the leader. Hitler replaced generals' oath to the constitution with an oath of personal loyalty to him
https://t.co/BJdZhoW9Rk

[Armand Domalewski @ArmandDoma]

ROGAN: People say you’re like Hitler

TRUMP: *immediately goes into diatribe about how his Black female rival has inferior genetic IQ*

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Someone needs to put these back to back Newsmax host tweets in a time capsule so future generations understand what happened here. 🌍

[Jon @jonriegel]

@BrettKollmann all too easily

[Jakob Sanderson @JakobSanderson]

Sean Payton made me suffer today and I'm going to make you suffer with me:

[Eli Valley @elivalley]

Nazi Vance, along with the entire GOP leadership and the owner of this website, are galvanizing the KKK

[Chase Woodruff @dcwoodruff]

Great news, elected Dems: your highly paid consultants have spent the last five days exhaustively researching this, and early signs indicate that it *might* be okay for you to have a conscience about the active, ongoing spread of a blood libel. https://t.co/ruyI9S3OA9

["Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @BretDevereaux]

One thing I think is important about this sustained attack - Vance is *still* tweeting about it - on Haitians in Ohio, is that it puts the lie to everything a certain sort of immigration restrictionist said they wanted.

"Oh, we just want them to come here legally"

They did!! 1/

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

The game here is to get you to find one single group of people that you'd be OK categorically excluding. Maybe it's Haitians, maybe Somalis, whatever.

After they get you to agree to exclude that one group, it's off to the races.

Don't fall for it.

[Jon @jonriegel]

@rickperlstein "Keep the story close."

[Jon @jonriegel]

@VincentVerhei russ gameplan

[Auon’tai M. Anderson @AuontaiAnderson]

Today, I attended a press conference at the apartment complexes where national and local media have falsely reported that gangs have taken over.

Instead, we heard from residents who debunked this narrative and called out the slumlord responsible for forcing them to live in inhumane conditions.

This is a thread of what I saw and heard.

🧵

[Dave Wiskus @dwiskus]

Timing.