Kristmar

Swede with American kids and with a Swedish perspective on American island mentality.

[Kristmar @keyharbo]

@Ygeman https://t.co/cgdw5QEPb0

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

The NYT reports that Trump personally called FIFA President Gianni Infantino and asked him to review Team USA’s Folarin Balogun’s World Cup suspension after his red card.

Days later, FIFA reversed the suspension.

It’s the first time since 1962 that FIFA has overturned a World Cup red-card suspension.

Wow

[Kristmar @keyharbo]

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[Kristmar @keyharbo]

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[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Turns out Trump’s market manipulation with a series of tariff announcements and pauses that tormented American businesses was done to enrich himself.

[Kristmar @keyharbo]

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[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

The fact that Todd Blanche has refused to comply with the court order to release the Epstein files following Katie Phang's lawsuit, should be a more significant story.
The fact that the Epstein Estate ACTUALLY PAID a settlement to one of the women who alleged that Donald Trump raped her as a minor, and it was paid AFTER Epstein died, as told under oath by Epstein's longtime accountant, should be a more significant story.
The fact that Trump said he wasn't ever on Epstein's plane and now we found out he was, should be a more significant story.
The fact that senior officials gathered in the Situation Room to concoct and coordinate an Epstein coverup should be the most significant story of all.
And when you combine ALL these stories and add to it his hiring of Alex Acosta, the birthday card, the movement of Maxwell to a more lenient facility, and then - especially - his panicked behavior on all things Epstein, it really should be the end of his presidency.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

DOGE deletes itself on July 4th. It will be remembered as a hugely destructive failure.

Musk promised $2 trillion in savings.

What we got, by DOGE’s own unverified math, was $215 billion. Even that number was never proven.

The costs were atrocious. Nearly 140,000 federal workers pushed out. Veterans waiting longer for care. USAID dismantled while people died overseas as a direct result. 20-year-olds with Red Bulls and no college degrees rummaging through Americans’ most sensitive data.

Musk, the world’s richest man, a federal contractor with billions in government business, auditing the government that pays him, accountable to no voter anywhere. 

Even Musk now says he wouldn’t do it again. The guy who ran it calls it a mistake.

Government reform was there for the taking. Both parties know federal technology is outdated. Both parties know waste exists. Fixing it required serious people working with career civil servants who know where the problems actually are. Instead we got a chainsaw, a photo op, and years of lost expertise we now have to rebuild.

Now Trump’s budget director says there will be no final accounting or receipts. They promised transparency and they’re closing up shop in the dark.
They’re counting on us all to forget.
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[Kristmar @keyharbo]

@NanoBubble63 @BarbMcQuade https://t.co/1uOcfUJeDx

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Trump’s profiteering in office was once unimaginable in a democracy, particularly by a sitting American president. The Trump family’s earnings move him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey. @jasondhorowitz https://t.co/GXUa2Bx797

[Kristmar @keyharbo]

@julie_kelly2 The individuals who received seditious conspiracy charges—most notably leaders of the Proud Boys were not prosecuted merely for shaking a fence. They were convicted of coordinating a violent plot to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power, assaulting officers, destroying property

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“This is how Trump hijacked 🇺🇸’s birthday.”

@RepHuffman explains Trump turned a nonpartisan 250th celebration into a way to steal hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars + take bribes from corporations & foreign governments.

Endless corruption. Even the fair is a grift.

[Kristmar @keyharbo]

@tizzywoman How do you people know who you are sending your money to?🤔

[Kristmar @keyharbo]

@Supermansings @CheriJacobus And it had an impact!✌️💪

[Kristmar @keyharbo]

@anders_aslund @AgnesWold And still, even though USA has no part in the war or peace negotiations any longer, Trump will still take all the credit once the war stops. I bet you!

[Jamison Daniel @AntiquarianMuse]

This needs to go viral. He’s saying exactly what I’ve thought through all this. Now we need everyone to take note.

[Caolan @CaolanReports]

A European capital is on fire because Russia spent the night firing missiles at civilians in their beds.

Kyiv is full of smoke. People are buried under rubble.

This is terrorism.

[Christina Mörtvik 🇪🇺 @CMortvik]

På 1000 dagar har minst 21000 barn dödats i GAZA enligt Rädda barnen. Men visst, enligt dårpannorna med frontallobsskador så har dom sig själv att skylla pga Hamas och allt IDF gör är försvarbart. Vad jag tycker om er som försvarar Israles agerande kan inte ens anges i skrift…🤬

[Jeremy @jeremyct]

Just got off the phone with my college roommate.

His daughter was diagnosed with leukemia in January.

He has insurance. Good insurance. The kind you feel safe having.

7 months later:
Savings: wiped out. 401k: cashed early. Penalties and all. House: refinanced to cover the gaps insurance decided weren’t their problem.

He told me he’s not the same person anymore.

Said watching your child fight for her life while simultaneously fighting an insurance company over coverage codes does something to you that doesn’t go away.

They did everything right.
Two incomes. No debt. Responsible their whole lives.

One diagnosis undid all of it in 7 months.

And somewhere a health insurance CEO is getting a $30 million bonus this quarter.

I don’t know how people defend this system with a straight face.

I really don’t.

[Kristmar @keyharbo]

@DanOxing @OlofFlodin Har du en länk till en undersökning som styrker ditt påstående om att priset inte påverkar hur mycket vi använder bilen? Jag är uppriktigt intresserad.

[Kristmar @keyharbo]

@Lothar61936006 @OlofFlodin T.ex åker och handlar något som jag saknar. Om jag planerar om kan jag skjuta upp det tills jag "måste" resa.
För Stockholmarna t.ex. finns det många sådana möjligheter. Som att åka kommunalt i stället för att sitta en och en i varje bil i km.långa köer.

[Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer]

It was just reported that Trump made over $2 billion in the first year of his presidency. My friend @katiecouric asked me: Is this really legal? Watch and subscribe to https://t.co/AO494tqaxM for answers. Thanks for the great question, Katie, and keep them coming, everyone! https://t.co/7muzedmbxM