Kathleen Watt | Author, REARRANGED

Once a painter in New England, I moved to New York to sing at the Met. Bone cancer in my face made me a writer. REARRANGED (Heliotrope Books 2023) is my story.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

If you had told me in the 80s that “YMCA“ would be played by a military band as a tribute to the sitting president of the United States, I would’ve assumed the story originated with some mischievous Soviet propagandist

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

REP HUFFMAN: “The CEO of Trump’s Freedom 250 flew to Davos, stood in front of a room full of foreign governments and asked them ‘how they wanted to shape America’s birthday’. Then they stole hundreds of millions and committed wire fraud.”

Holy shit.

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

Voters who do not align with the Democratic or Republican parties make up the largest portion of the American electorate.

Research shows most independent voters hold moderate ideologies and want a system that's focused on open-mindedness rather than rigid political labels.

https://t.co/4jfnF730yH

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

Our government is being run by the dumbest people on Earth.

[Robert Garcia @RobertGarcia]

There’s nothing like celebrating the 4th of July by watching the President of the United States fly over the Capitol in a jet gifted to him by Qatar.

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

The point of setting your thermostat at 78° in a heat wave is so that the power doesn't go out and people don't die.

If trying to make sure people don't die is "socialism," then sign me up.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This is huge! Trump appears to have committed wire fraud in essentially stealing American tax dollars for his "Freedom 250" scam.

LOCK HIM UP!

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

NEW: "Is Democratic socialism the new hotness? Should mainstream Democrats panic? I don’t think so. But mainstream Democrats do need to wake up to what their voters are demanding."

Check out my latest for The Triad only @BulwarkOnline
https://t.co/YC8aM8pqQE

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

The highest levels of the U.S. government have no idea what’s about to hit the planet. And we’ve taken away the vast majority of our humanitarian programs and assistance.

The Super El Niño in 1877, the worst in recorded history, killed 60 million. That was puny in comparison.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

We protect 100-year-old buildings as historic treasures, then cut down 500-year-old trees for furniture. That's insane.

An old-growth tree isn't just some big tree. It is a living carbon bank, seed source, cooling system, water filter, fungal network, bird nursery, insect factory, and archive of centuries of weather, fire, drought, and survival.

The older it gets, the more jobs it does. Big old trees store enormous amounts of carbon, and research has found they can keep adding carbon faster as they grow larger. Some ancient trees add more carbon in a single year than an entire mid-sized tree contains.

They also make habitat younger trees can't cough up. Cavities for owls and bats. Broken limbs for nesting birds. Dead wood for beetles and fungi. Mossy bark for lichens and invertebrates. Cool, damp microclimates for salamanders and seedlings. Fallen logs that feed the soil for decades.

A thousand-year-old tree is not 'renewable' in any meaningful human timeframe. Cut it down for furniture, flooring, paper, or profit, and the ecosystem it carried does not come back when someone plants a replacement seedling.

We already protect old churches, courthouses, barns, bridges, and battlefields because they connect us to the past. Old-growth trees do that too.

[Dan Friedman @dfriedman33]

By popular demand, I'm resharing this piece on Karoline Leavitt getting paid to put her name on op-eds extolling Miles Guo, who got 30 years yesterday for stealing $1 billion from followers of the phony political movement he and Bannon launched. https://t.co/CuXZaySah5

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

If Democrats were really rigging elections, we would have universal healthcare, strict gun control, and a liberal Supreme Court.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

This weekend I’m having huevos rancheros in my district. Then visit the Simon Wiesenthal Center. Grab some rugelach at Canter’s deli. Stroll diverse Venice Beach. Have pho for dinner. And hug my kids and kiss my wife, all of whom have yellow skin and slanted eyes.

I love America

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

Bagman and red sparrow. Are you scared yet? She could convince him to use the codes!

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Trump has begun construction of an unannounced White House helipad. New photo shows excavators at work on the South Lawn behind a black privacy fence. Damage from the recent UFC event is also visible.

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

Somehow rich folks feel entitled to benefits that they believe struggling families are not. 🤬

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

The nation should get to have a do-over of America 250 after Trump dies. We can all pretend it was the real one

[E. Jean Carroll @ejeancarroll]

This Win Is For Every Woman in the World!!

Supreme Court Lets Sex Abuse Verdict STAND against President Trump

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

Dear Washington Post. Once a guilty verdict has been rendered, it’s no longer an allegation. It’s a fact. The jury did not find that the disgraceful president allegedly sexually assaulted & then defamed Jean Carroll. The jury found that he did sexually assault & defame her. Duh