John Dunne

Liberty was a blessing written into the preamble of the U.S. constitution but only for white men.
So almost 90 million eligible voters in the USa didn't vote.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

Anyone wondering why I'm criticizing Israel a lot today...

Your Defense Minister just said this:

"We have flattened the entire first line of villages in southern Lebanon, all the houses have been destroyed. The residents will never see them standing ever again. The 200,000 Lebanese residents who were in the 'security zone' are never returning again. Not one of them will ever return to southern Lebanon"

Your Minister of National Security said this:

"For every tear of an Israeli mother, a thousand Lebanese mothers must weep. All of Lebanon must burn."

And that's just today. You think this is normal?

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

The Obama Presidential Center is a reflection close to perfection.

[John Dunne @jonsdun]

@SamaHoole Canfield ocean expansion!

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

There is a dead zone at the mouth of the Mississippi the size of New Jersey. Here is what feeds it.

- Synthetic nitrogen fertiliser, sprayed on the corn belt every year
- The soil cannot hold it all, so the excess washes down to the Gulf
- It feeds algae blooms that strip the water of oxygen
- Almost nothing survives. It hit a record 8,776 square miles in 2017.
- Over 40% of that corn is grown to become ethanol, a fuel additive

Cattle get a documentary made about their burps. The corn monoculture quietly suffocates an area the size of a small state every summer, and keeps its halo.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

When Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was put next to the stinky Orange Assolini, her facial expressions were very telling. 🤣

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

The difference between Gaza and Auschwitz is that the world still has an opportunity to stop the genocide in Gaza.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“Trump's administration has redirected $352m in federal funds toward the president's ballroom project…The law stipulates the money may only be spent on Secret Service personnel, training facilities, technology and related costs, not construction.”

https://t.co/w0IV41aMD6

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

The Pentagon admitted, under oath, that Elon Musk's xAI Grok helped pick targets for 2,000 strikes on Iran in 96 hours.

It surfaced in a lawsuit defending a polluting data center.

The filing measures speed. It discloses no accuracy, in a war that has already killed hundreds of civilians.

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

This is Trump donor and Mar-a-Lago neighbor John Cafaro who got the no-bid contract to install a water purification system for the reflecting pool. He has 2 prior convictions, one for bribing a member of Congress and another for an illegal loan that violated campaign finance laws.

[Jeff Berardelli @WeatherProf]

It’s not your imagination, it has gotten much hotter. There’s been a huge increase in extreme heat across Florida! Look closely: In the blue 1950s most of #Florida averaged 20-30 days a year with a heat index of 100°+. Now in the red that number has doubled, tripled or even 4X (Tampa and Miami) due to hotter and more humid weather. #heatwave #climatechange

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

On the invitation to Hereticon, an event put on by Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund, it says: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you aren’t trying hard enough.”

#ThingsTheAntichristSays

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The Trump administration has sent eminent-domain letters to roughly 400 landowners in the Big Bend region of West Texas to build a border wall. Adan Madrid, 65 — whose family helped found his town — was offered $2,500 for a "right of passage" across his property, including the home he lives in.
Joe Carrasco, a 71-year-old retired oil-field worker, and Yolanda Alvarado, 38, got similar letters.
Here's what makes it absurd: Big Bend is 517 miles — about a quarter of the entire southern border — but saw just 3,096 migrant encounters in FY2025, a 74% drop, and only 1.3% of all border traffic.
They're seizing generational family land for a wall across the emptiest stretch of the border.And the Texas Republicans who built a 20-year brand on "private property is sacred"? Silent.
Eminent domain was tyranny right up until it was pointed at a rancher's home for a wall.
Watch: https://t.co/dpAJ7Gq6uV

[Rear Admiral Eileen Laubacher @EileenforCO]

Lauren Boebert knew the Medicaid cuts she voted for would hurt people in Colorado's 4th District. When a fellow congressman warned about the damage, she responded "you're not wrong." Then she voted yes anyway.

That vote cut hundreds of billions from Medicaid to help pay for tax breaks for the wealthy. And now nearly a quarter of Colorado's rural hospitals are at risk of closing.

Our district deserves a representative who actually fights for us. That is why I am running.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

We are suing to prevent Donald Trump from controlling mail-in voting by dictating to the Postal Service of whose ballot they will and won't deliver. All of this is laddering up to Trump trying to dictate who gets to vote and who doesn't.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Trump was creepy around Brigette Macron & if you watch you will see how he tried to take her hand & it’s obvious she’s trying to be nice,but she feels & looks uncomfortable & then President Macron steps in & rescues her from him.Then Trump goes in the wrong direction again.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The humiliating Iran deal requires the U.S. to come up with a $300 billion reparations payment to Iran. That's more than Iran's entire GDP.

Trump says taxpayers won't pay for it.

1/ So I compiled a helpful list.

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

The look on her face is EXACTLY the look on our faces even without physical contact.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: HAHA! Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton burst out laughing at the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center after Michelle brilliantly shades Trump over the Nobel Peace Prize.

This is just too good...

"You were unflappable at every turn, always focused, always calm, always looking at the long view," the former First Lady said to her husband. "How absurd it is to even imagine that you might have buckled under the pressure even once, lashed out in frustration, lost your temper. How absurd it is to imagine that you might have done anything but make our family and this entire country proud."

We can think of another President who regularly loses his temper, buckles under pressure the moment that difficulties arise, and lashes out in frustration on Truth Social daily. There is an infuriating double standard at play. Obama had to always keep his cool to avoid getting labeled with the "angry Black man" racist trope. As an entitled white man, Trump can blow his top whenever he wants and nobody bats an eyelash.

"No, you were too busy. I'm not done, y'all! Not done," Mrs. Obama continued as the crowd roared with approval. "So much to say. You were doing the people's work, rescuing our economy, expanding healthcare, ending a war, ordering the Bin Laden raid, saving an auto industry, winning a peace prize."

She paused and smiled at that point in the speech, giving the audience a chance to cheer. Seated in the wing, Hillary Clinton burst out laughing at the obvious jab and President Obama laughed along with her.

It's well-documented that Donald Trump is absolutely obsessed with the fact that Obama has a Peace Prize while he himself has been denied the distinction. Trump aggressively lobbied in vain for one, cajoling foreign leaders to nominate him.

He was so incensed by the Norwegian Nobel Committee's refusal to award him that he wrote to Norwegian Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre: "Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace."

He lived up to the implicit threat in that letter by going on to launch a pointless, costly, child-murdering war against Iran that ultimately ended in defeat and surrender for the United States.

And Michelle wasn't done there...

"Keeping us safe from Ebola, regulating the banks, standing up for marriage equality, listening to science, and comforting an entire nation in the face of unspeakable tragedies," she continued, listing more of her husband's accomplishments. "And you did it all with such grace and class and cool that you made the hardest job in the world look like a walk in this beautiful park."

The Ebola bit is another jab at Trump who, with the assistance of RFK Jr. and Elon Musk gutted research and pandemic prevention. This is the most virulently anti-science administration that this country has ever seen.

One thing is certain. The Obamas will have a lasting, radiant legacy in this country. Trump will be reviled by future generations, his name used a byword for incompetence, failure, and corruption.

Please ❤️ and share if you love the Obamas!

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

Donald Trump is beyond unwell.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

Townie Talk Vol.8: Wake up, USA.