Kim Bly

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

@atrupar Ha! JD, did you just admit Trump has committed so many crimes that Nixon would be a 12‑hour story today?

Couldn't agree more. Love it when you all accidentally tell the truth.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Mallory McMorrow just took to the Senate floor and destroyed Donald Trump for holding the housing bill hostage. Every American needs to watch this speech.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Jeff Bezos just said the bottom half of Americans should pay zero federal income tax.

And honestly? He may have accidentally exposed the entire scam.

Bezos pointed to a nurse in Queens making roughly $75,000 a year and paying around $12,000 in taxes:

“We shouldn’t be asking this nurse in Queens to send money to Washington.”

Think about how insane this system has become.

A nurse working 12-hour shifts is taxed before she even sees her paycheck while billionaires borrow against appreciating assets, exploit loopholes, and sometimes pay lower effective tax rates than school teachers.

The average American is funding an empire they can barely afford to live in.

Wars.
Interest payments.
Corporate subsidies.
Defense contracts.
Lobbyist wish lists.

Meanwhile the person changing bedpans in Queens gets her paycheck carved up like she’s financing Rome before collapse.

The most dangerous thing Bezos said wasn’t about taxes.

It was admitting out loud that the people carrying the country on their backs are getting crushed while the system tells them it’s “normal.”

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The NRA buys off Congress. No action on guns.

The oil industry buys off Congress. No action on climate.

Insurance companies buy off Congress. No action on health care.

The list goes on and on.

Money in politics is the root of our dysfunction.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

INCREDIBLE!

Washington Post journalist Hannah Natanson who had Trump’s FBI raid her home and take her phones and laptops, just won the Pulitzer Prize with the Washington Post.

Congrats!!

[Kim Bly @kim_bly]

@SpiderMLAX Congratulations!!!

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

This really touched me.
Don’t rush past the moment
be in it.
Savor it.
Honor it.
Love the people in it.
Because time plays tricks on us 
the minutes feel long…
but the years disappear.
So open your heart and your eyes.
See the beauty in broken places.
Find the light in the shadows.
See the perfection in imperfection
the wonder in the ordinary.
Anchor yourself in something deeper than time.
Know this:
Moments may pass…
but love can endure.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

TWEEPS: Democrats have repeatedly asked to fund TSA separately to keep Americans safe while demanding reforms to ICE. trump and Republicans refuse.

Fund TSA. Freeze ICE until it’s fixed.

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Please and thank you! 🙏💪

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

America must be strong and smart. Today’s actions were launched by a president who has rarely proven to be either.

Let me be clear: The Iranian regime is one of the most dangerous, destabilizing forces in the Middle East. It has American blood on its hands. It has armed and supported terrorist proxies who have killed tens of thousands. It has brutalized its own people, killing thousands in recent weeks, simply for demanding basic human rights and a future free from oppression. Iran remains the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism, and a nuclear-armed Iran would pose an intolerable threat to the United States, to our allies, and to global security. That outcome must never be allowed.

But none of these facts suspend our Constitution or confer upon any president the authority to unilaterally wage war. The Constitution is unambiguous: Congress alone has the power to declare war and to authorize the use of military force.

Today, Americans are feeling less safe because President Trump launched “massive and ongoing” military strikes on Iran without Congressional authorization, without meaningful consultation with lawmakers, and without presenting a credible legal justification or coherent strategy. He has taken our nation into a major military confrontation with the stated intent of regime change and in doing so has put our troops, our diplomats, and our regional partners at grave risk, while dragging the United States toward another costly and protracted conflict in the Middle East.

The president has presented no strategy for what happens if the Iranian regime collapses.

No plan for managing the inevitable power struggle among armed factions.

No plan for securing nuclear material.

No plan for preventing a humanitarian catastrophe.

No plan for protecting tens of thousands of U.S. troops and civilians across a region now on high alert.

No plan for coordinating with suddenly imperiled neighboring nations.

No plan for what comes after the bombs.

And no transparency with Congress or the American people about the human and financial costs of his military actions.

In fact, in the weeks before these attacks, even Secretary of State Rubio cautioned that no one can predict what would follow the fall of Iran’s leadership and that the risks to U.S. forces and regional stability would be enormous. These warnings were not heeded.

Military action alone cannot solve Iran’s nuclear challenge. We saw this last year when President Trump claimed he had 'completely obliterated’ Iran’s nuclear program with a set of strikes - claims that were swiftly proven false. The American people deserve honesty, not bluster; clarity and sober judgment, not reckless adventurism in matters of national security.

The Trump administration must immediately brief Congress on the intelligence, objectives, legal basis, and long-term strategy underlying today’s action. Congress must reassert its constitutional role - not simply roll over - because war and peace cannot be left to the impulses of any one president, especially not this one.

We should have learned from the last two decades of conflict in the Middle East that wars launched without clear goals and without an end-state in mind rarely end well. They cost lives, destabilize regions, embolden adversaries, and weaken America’s moral standing.

I am grateful for the professionalism and bravery of our service members who now find themselves in harm’s way, and I pray for their safety. They are the finest fighting force in human history, willing to shoulder dangers most Americans will never see. They deserve leadership guided by strategy, grounded in law, and worthy of their sacrifice - not reckless decision making that places them in the path of escalating danger.

[Kim Bly @kim_bly]

@allenanalysis Give him a truth serum. We can’t count on him to tell the truth, ever!

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

Take a moment to look at the inhumanity captured in this extraordinary photo running on the front page of tonight's Minneapolis @StarTribune. It shows federal immigration agents immobilizing a protester on the ground and spraying chemical irritant directly into his face. The scene reminds me of the brutality used against civil rights protesters in the 1960s. We look back at those old photos and wonder how the authorities could have behaved so savagely; many years from now, young Americans will look at these photos from 2026 and wonder how anyone could have justified shooting a woman in the head as she tried to drive away, arresting 5-year-old schoolchildren on the street, or holding a man down and spaying chemicals into his face. Thanks to the Star Tribune reporters and photographers for documenting this work; they create accountability, they make democracy work, and they make all of us in journalism proud.

[Kim Bly @kim_bly]

@NimoShaf @HistoricHub I believe it is when she stands on the top bar and back flips and catches it. Such perfection!

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Because nothing stops avian influenza faster than unregulated backyard chickens.

[Captain Mark Kelly @CaptMarkKelly]

This week Trump is firing IRS agents and closing IRS offices to protect rich people from being audited, while you’ll be left on hold if you have questions about your taxes.
https://t.co/Zsf5Jx6zsb

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

People don't shed many tears when the IRS gets smaller.

But I want you to understand the game here. The 5,000 people Trump is laying off are those who go after the billionaire/corporate tax cheats. The Trump/Musk plan is simple: make it easer for the super rich to not pay taxes.

[David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙‍♂️🌈 @DavidLeavitt]

When did firing FBI agents, IRS agents, park rangers, scientists, and air traffic controllers becoming a better idea than simply taxing billionaires their fair share? 🤔

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

This guy is a leech on the public. No matter how many billions he gets in tax cuts and government contracts, it will never be enough for him.

Now he’s going after the elderly, the disabled, and orphaned children so he can pocket it in tax cuts for himself.

It’s disgusting.

[Jeannine-High Priestess of Antifascism💙 @ArtemisBSG]

@ZelenskyyUa She would’ve treated you with respect and compassion 👇😔

[Dean Blundell🇨🇦 @ItsDeanBlundell]

American Veteran has a word for Trump and Zelensky.

Take two mins…

[Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt]

Bunch of pot-bellied, sunken-chested Men’s Wearhouse Putin-poodles trying to bully a scary-quiet, wasteland survivor who stared down death is gorgeous cringe.