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“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good *people* to do nothing.” —Edmond Burke.

[Joel Montfort @jmontforttx]

Abbott's sudden flip-flop on data centers tells you everything you need to know about how worried the TX GOP is about this issue. Notice he isn't calling for a special session to actually fix it, just empty promises to get through November.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

28 years and Hegseth cancels it. This isn’t anti-DEI. It’s hate designed to push them out of service. — Air Force cites DEI ban in cancellation of wreath-laying honoring women vets https://t.co/Lu6vBCVJ8R

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥😳NASHVILLE: “We are asking to not live like this… we’ll leave if this goes through, and find a place that actually respects the people who live there.”

Last night @NashvilleZoo (+ Fisk U) neighbors spoke out powerfully against the @DCBLOXinc data center. @MetroNashville

[Walker 🌕 @jwalker0X]

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[Fifty Shades of Whey @davenewworld_2]

The GOP's Farm Bill includes a provision that could force school meal programs to sharply limit imported foods like bananas, broccoli, peaches, fish, and other reliable foods that cafeterias depend on.

Nutrition experts and school dining directors say our schools don't have the budget, staff, infrastructure, or flexibility to suddenly replace imported staples with domestic alternatives.

This means less options, higher costs, more stress, and worse meals for American kids.

Not to mention the fact that in 2025, the USDA terminated the Local Food for Schools, which allocated $660 million to help schools source fresh products from local farmers.

Instead of causing chaos for underfunded schools and placing a bigger burden on families, we need a national food policy that makes sure all children in schools are fed with universal meals that are abundant, fresh, and nutritious.

[Walker 🌕 @jwalker0X]

@DarrigoMelanie He’s officially the biggest welfare queen on the face of the planet.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Taxpayers paid for over $38 billion in subsidies and government contracts for Space X, and Elon Musk gets to be a trillionaire off of our tax dollars.
https://t.co/uI5Yy5ervR

[Walker 🌕 @jwalker0X]

@atrupar Interesting… I didn’t realize that Gavin Newsom started a stupid, ill advised war with Iran.

[Walker 🌕 @jwalker0X]

@WABJDC @mustangsallieTM @DCNewsNow

[Nicole Minét @mouvement33]

Oh. So. It's not just algae that's a problem. The Reflecting Pool is now leaking worse than it ever has (which was the reason Trump used to justify this entire project....the leaks) AND it appears the state of the art filter Obama had installed was not re-installed, hence, the algae in just 2 days instead of weeks/months with the filter. Because Obama is black.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

I told you they were coming for the Roadless Rule.

Yesterday, Republicans made their move — and they hid it inside a wildfire bill.

Here's what makes this so enraging:

59 million acres of America's wildest national forests are now on the table.

The 2001 Roadless Rule has protected nearly 60 million acres across 39 states for 25 years. No logging. No road construction. No drilling. No mining.

Built after 1.6 million Americans showed up — at 430 public hearings nationwide — to demand it.

What lives here: bald eagles, elk, black bears, Cerulean warblers, marbled murrelets. Species that need large, intact, unfragmented habitat to survive. For many of them, roadless forests aren't just home — they're the last places left.

What the amendment does: guts the rule. Opens the backcountry to logging and road construction under the cover of "fire prevention."

The administration is pursuing repeal through the executive branch at the same time. And unlike the original rule — they aren't holding a single public hearing.

1.6 million people showed up to protect these forests.
The administration isn't asking anyone this time.

What do you call a wildfire bill that opens forests instead of protecting them?

#DemsUnited

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

This is what Elon Musk doesn't want you to see on this platform. This’s what your media won’t report.

Lebanon is being ethnically cleansed in real time.

[MO @Abu_Salah9]

أحد المقاطع التي ستحاول إسرائيل حذفها من الإنترنت وبفضل منصات مثل X لن تنجح في ذلك

عندما ارتكبت إسرائيل أشد الجرائم وحشيةً على الإطلاق، حين قامت بتجويع شعب بأكمله "أكثر من 2 مليون إنسان" ودفعهم لخوض معركة قاتلة لأجل الحصول على رغيف خبز .. حيث قُتل الآلاف جوعاً

لن ننسى أبداً

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"This Sunday night’s UFC spectacle on the South Lawn...captures something about this moment in our history.

It's vulgar, violent, commercial, grandiose, tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump."

https://t.co/YSuFldfj70

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

People really compare dyinġ from poverty to Darwin’s “survival of the fittest.”

Poverty is a social construct driven by wealth hoarding in the post industrial age, not by any natural shortage of resources.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

RFK Jr has cut Alzheimers research.

Alzheimers.

One of the most devastating, urgent and increasing health problems we face today.

He's not interested.

He's a nasty piece of work.

[Walker 🌕 @jwalker0X]

@NoLieWithBTC @wallisweaver

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Trump is once again talking about Kharg Island and saying we can take it "at a time of our choosing."

He's not wrong. We can get troops on that island.

But he's not telling you what happens next.

Kharg Island is 16 miles off the Iranian coast. Iran has every square foot of it registered for artillery and rocket fire. They've spent the last three months laying anti-personnel mines on the beaches, pre-deploying shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, and moving IRGC troops into hardened positions. They know we might be coming.

Every one of our ships in our assault force is 47 seconds from an Iranian anti-ship cruise missile. Every Marine on that island is within rocket artillery range of a coastline that runs 1,500 miles. We can't suppress that effectively even if we used all of our forces

I flew CH-53E helicopters in Desert Storm, and I know what it means to put troops in a fixed position on a small island with no room to maneuver and no friendly territory within reach. The military term for that is a kill box. The political term is leverage. The human term is a body bag.

The analysts are being careful in how they are framing it. Ryan Brobst and Cameron McMillan of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which is about as hawkish as think tanks get, wrote in March that a seizure and occupation "is more likely to expand and extend the war than it is to deliver any sort of decisive victory." Former CENTCOM commander Joseph Votel said troops on the island would be "very vulnerable" and would require massive logistical backup. Malcolm Davis of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute put it more plainly: "I think the Iranians can probably sit back and attack Americans on Kharg Island, and casualties will mount up."

That's the politically correct version.

Here's what they're not saying out loud: Iran has FPV drones. The same camera-equipped drones being used by the millions in Ukraine. If our troops land on that island, Iranian drone footage of American casualties will be on every screen in the world within hours. Trump will own every frame of it.

Iraq bombed Kharg Island for four straight years during the Iran-Iraq War. From 1982 to 1986, but they never put a single soldier on it. They couldn't. The Iranians rebuilt and kept exporting oil. That's the historical record on what "taking Kharg" actually means.

And here's the part that makes even less sense: seizing the island doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz. Kharg is 300 miles from the strait. The Iranians mine the strait from their southern coastline. You'd have to suppress 1,500 miles of Iranian coast to fix that problem. Kharg is just a political symbol, not a solution.

We can bomb it into rubble. We've already struck over 90 targets there. Trump can destroy every oil facility on that island from the air, permanently. That's a real option with real consequences for Iran's economy and real consequences for global oil markets.

But putting Americans on the ground 16 miles from the Iranian coast, surrounded by water, within range of everything Iran has left?

That's not a strategic or tactical military operation. That's just a sacrifice of American lives.

Are you OK with that?

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🗣️NASHVILLE: “I just came from summer camp at the zoo — did you know elephants, rhinos, giraffes have infrasonic hearing? Please, no data centers. My generation needs you to put every roadblock in place to stop them.” @nonewdatacenters @MetroNashville @DCBLOXinc @NashvilleZoo

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity.

“You are not numbers or case files.

“You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

[Walker 🌕 @jwalker0X]

This explains a lot.👇

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

The star witness in the New York Times' big exposé on Graham Platner spent the fall of 2018 co-founding a group called Ladies for Kavanaugh and publicly branding Christine Blasey Ford's sexual assault account "baseless." The Times ran her story across its front page and never mentioned that part.

Her name is Lyndsey Fifield. She is not a random ex who came forward.

She is a career conservative operative whose longest job was at the Heritage Foundation, the shop that authored Project 2025.

She later did digital marketing for Nikki Haley and is now a fellow at the Independent Women's Forum, the same outfit that handed Susan Collins her talking points for confirming Kavanaugh in the first place.

In 2018 she called the women accusing Kavanaugh liars and said she wanted those allegations to follow his accuser for life. In 2026 she would like to be believed without question.

Believing women is not negotiable, and that is exactly the point. It is the principle that meant Christine Blasey Ford deserved a hearing in 2018, when she came forward at real cost and got death threats for it.

So take Fifield's account seriously too. But notice that the person now anchoring this story is the same one who spent that fall publicly calling Ford a liar, and that a principle built to protect survivors was never meant as a switch a paid operative flips on for herself and off for everyone else.

Here is the mechanism worth keeping.

The Times piece dropped days before Maine's primary, the same week Republican groups reserved more than 100 million dollars in ads to save Collins. Heritage supplies the witness, the paper of record supplies the megaphone, the GOP supplies the money. That is not a coincidence. That is a supply chain.

And the double standard runs straight through it. The same political class now fainting over a Marine veteran's old relationships seated a man in the Oval Office whom a jury found liable for sexual abuse and called it a comeback.

Then came the part nobody scripted.

Maine Democrats watched the tattoo stories, the resurfaced posts, the front-page exposé, none of it flattering, and nominated Platner anyway by roughly 78 percent. Chuck Schumer personally recruited Janet Mills to stop him.

The people who actually live there overruled Washington in a landslide.

None of this means the man is unblemished, and nobody serious is pretending otherwise.

The old posts were ugly. The tattoo was indefensible until he covered it and owned it.

But Maine may have just tested a different proposition: that a person can carry a real and documented dark stretch, can change, and can still be the one worth sending to fight the people actually hollowing out your town.

Voters there seemed far less interested in relitigating a decade-old message board than in who is rigging their rent, their wages, and their healthcare right now.

Fifield's reaction to all of it was not satisfaction. It was rage, aimed at the New York Times, for going too easy on the man she came to sink.

The woman who once wanted a survivor's accusations to haunt her forever is now furious a newspaper wouldn't make her own stick.