Kevin Ball

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Imagine if the Iranians were doing this to the US military on Biden or Obama’s watch. Republicans would be screaming in the streets and Fox would have these images on air on a loop, 24/7

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Congress has worked so few hours this year that lawmakers wouldn't even meet the Medicaid work requirements they passed.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

How can they justify leaving right now?

Diesel costs just hit an all-time high. Our nation is at war. The bond market is quivering. The urgency of AI regulation has come to a critical moment.

Congress should be working overtime. Instead Speaker Johnson sent them home. All to dodge one uncomfortable vote - much like his maneuvers last year to hold off the Epstein files.

You don't have to be a Democrat to find that disgraceful.

In less than seven weeks, Americans can change all this. 48 days to go.

[Dr. Simon @goddek]

The fact that this Epstein Island visitor doubled his net worth instead of rotting in jail is beyond disgusting.

America started a revolution for much less.

Literally over a fucking cup of tea.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

This is so fucking damning.👇

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Many people in the states can’t afford food but we can pay for this

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

And so here we are. This statement from Trump blows my mind. That a sitting president would not let any renovations to a public building go on unless he gets to first put his name in the said building… What a sad state of affairs. What a tragedy. Actually, how small minded, how narcissistic. Actually
great men, devoted to public service and the public good do not act like this.

It seems that this man will not rest until his name is permanently connected to the name of a great president, whose memory this building was dedicated to. Imagine spending your time and your days focused on this, as everyday Americans struggle with healthcare, gas prices, rent, and food. Imagine spending your days focused on this, while a war rages under your leadership.

Enough said. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

[Covie @covie_93]

'Moms for America' endorsed the guy who beat his wife, threw hot water on her and broke his 2yo daughter's collar bone.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Booker eviscerates Patel: "He's like an 18 year old kid who wants to join a fraternity that he could never be a member of, doing keg stands and chugging with friends. He's an embarrassment. He is a disgrace. This is a mockery and a sham. What's bad are the people enabling him."

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

On this day in 1963, four little girls: Denise McNair(11), Carole Robertson(14),Addie Mae Collins(14) and Cynthia Dianne Wesley(14) were killed when white supremacists bombed the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham.

The bomber was found not guilty of murder.

[Smithsonian’s NMAAHC @NMAAHC]

#OnThisDay in 1963, a bomb planted by the Ku Klux Klan ripped through 16th Street Baptist Church killing four little girls. The tragedy marked the third bombing in 11 days in Birmingham, Alabama following the federal order of Alabama school integration. #ANationsStory

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

Sixty-three years ago today, Addie Mae Collins, Denise McNair, Carole Robertson, and Cynthia Wesley were murdered in the bombing of Birmingham’s 16th Street Baptist Church.

They were children. Their lives were stolen by racial hatred and terrorism.

Remember their names. Honor their lives. And continue the work of confronting the hatred and dehumanization that made their murders possible.

#16thStreetBaptistChurch #AddieMaeCollins #DeniseMcNair #CaroleRobertson #CynthiaWesley

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump has pardoned the following people charged with fraud:

—George Santos, wire fraud
—Ross William Ulbricht, fraud with identification documents
—Rod R. Blagojevich, 8 counts of wire fraud under color of official right
—Brian Kelsey, conspiracy to defraud the United States
—Devon Archer, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud
—Trevor Milton, securities fraud; 2 counts of wire fraud
—Jason Galanis, 2 counts of conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud; investment adviser fraud
—Ozy Media, Inc., conspiracy to commit securities fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud
—Carlos Roy Watson, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud; aggravated identity theft
—Michele Fiore, 6 counts of conspiracy to commit wire fraud; wire fraud
—Scott Howard Jenkins, conspiracy to commit bribery concerning programs receiving Federal funds, honest services mail fraud, and honest service wire fraud; honest services mail fraud; 3 counts of honest services wire fraud
—Julie Chrisley, 5 counts of conspiracy to commit bank fraud; bank fraud; wire fraud; conspiracy to defraud the U.S. to obstruct and impede the Internal Revenue Laws
—Todd Chrisley, conspiracy to commit bank fraud; 5 counts of bank fraud; wire fraud; conspiracy to defraud the U.S. to obstruct and impede the Internal Revenue Laws
—Lawrence S. Duran, conspiracy to commit health care fraud; 11 counts of health care fraud; conspiracy to defraud the United States and to receive and pay health care kickbacks
— Michael Gerard Grimm, aiding and assisting in the preparation of false and fraudulent tax returns
—Marian I. Morgan, conspiracy to defraud the United States; 7 counts of wire fraud; 5 counts of transfer of funds taken by fraud
—John G. Rowland, conspiracy to defraud the United States
—Charles Overton Scott, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud
—Glen Casada, conspiracy to defraud the United States; 4 counts of honest services wire fraud; use of a fictitious name to carry out a fraud
—Cade Cothren, conspiracy to defraud the United States; 6 counts of honest services wire fraud
—Robert Henry Harshbarger, Jr., health care fraud
—Joseph Lewis, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; 2 counts of securities fraud
—David Gentile, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; conspiracy to commit wire fraud; securities fraud; 2 counts of wire fraud
—Jacob Deutsch, conspiracy to commit mail fraud and wire fraud
—Adriana Isabel Camberos, conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud; 7 counts of wire fraud and aiding and abetting
—Andres Enrique Camberos, conspiracy to commit wire and mail fraud; 7 counts of wire fraud and aiding and abetting
—Julio M. Herrera Velutini, 2 counts of honest services wire fraud
—David Levy, conspiracy to commit securities fraud; securities fraud
—Hollie Ann Nadel, conspiracy to commit money laundering and bank fraud
—Mark T. Rossini, honest services wire fraud
—Wanda Vazquez Garced, honest services wire fraud
—Terren Scott Peizer, securities fraud
—Timothy S. Smith, conspiring to defraud the Internal Revenue Service
—Stephen E. Buyer, 4 counts of securities fraud
—John Dougherty, 24 counts of wire fraud; conspiracy to commit honest services fraud and federal program bribery; 7 counts of honest services wire fraud
—Joshua L. Davis, conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Clean Air Act
—Matthew Sidney Geouge, conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Clean Air Act
—Adam R. Kidan, conspiracy to commit wire fraud and mail fraud; wire fraud
—Spade K. Bailly, conspiracy to defraud the United States and to violate the Clean Air Act

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

If you're reading stories about the Kennedy Center, you're probably reading that it's on the verge of bankruptcy.
The Trumpian Board believes that Trump could and would raise money from donors to avert bankruptcy, but this requires putting Trump's name back up on the building, and the Board believes this should be done.
This story, more than even the Reflecting Pool saga, is emblematic of Trump 2.0 and a cautionary tale of why we cannot elect a president with Cluster B disorders - like acute narcissism - ever again.
Here is what actually occurred: Trump added his name to the Kennedy Center in 2025. He did it without Congress. Trump's name is a metaphorical plague. Performers cancelled. Ticket sales tanked. Donations dried up. Trump was ordered to remove his name and was so humiliated by that progression, that he left a tarp up for months rather than let anyone even photograph the building with his name removed.
So - once again - Trump IS RESPONSIBLE for the economic malaise to begin with. And - once again - putting his name on the building as a solution is a case of sycophants indulging his psychosis. They'd be giving the arsonist an award for putting out his own fire.
Let it go. Let the Kennedy Center declare bankruptcy. Add it to Trump's legacy. Add it to the long and ever-growing list of examples where everything he touches, dies.
And add it to the things we'll fix after he's gone.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

.@NBCNews left out the part where this was a plan of The Trump administration and Republicans for hell to drop on Americans RIGHT AFTER THE MID-TERMS.

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

Saying non-white people make the country “dirtier” is exactly what you would expect to hear at a KKK rally. And since this is a GOP convention, that totally fucking tracks. One day, JD Vance is going to have to explain to his wife and kids why he said this racist shit about them.

[KissingTheCockroach™ 💜💋🪳 @cockroachkisser]

@thejackhopkins Bigger story to me - he is only one dumb fat old man. It is all the others who are propping him up and following in his footsteps with impunity.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

I’m fed up and you should be too.

Trump’s breaking ground on his ridiculous “Arch de Trump” WITHOUT congressional authorization and BEFORE it’s been properly reviewed by a federal panel...which is ILLEGAL by the way.

Not to mention it’s an affront to a national resting place for 400,000 of our nation’s fallen.

Our veterans do not want this. Their families do not want this. We, the American people, do not want this.

All of this is ridiculous ego-stroking work, paid for by YOU.
https://t.co/BMOteS9Pnr

[Stella Parton @StellaParton]

Imagine a country where the citizens seem to think it’s normal for their President to tell them in front of the whole world to “cheat like hell” in the upcoming election and no one has said anything about it. Not Congress, SCOTUS, Governors, former Presidents, no one!

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

For years, our dictatorial enemies -- Russia, China, et al. -- have said that our democracy is a sham. What need is there of Kremlin propaganda, for example, when the U.S. president himself says the same things?