Laura Karson 🆘

A wife and mother who is nervous as hell about what schemes Trump will concoct for the November Election

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

A truly shocking moment in last night’s debate: @bradlander doubled down and tried to justify manipulating a video where he spliced parts of two SEPARATE sentences I said to create an entirely different meaning.

Imagine if Brad said “I love the Knicks. I do not support Dan Goldman.” It would be deceptive and wrong to splice a video together where Brad says “I love Dan Goldman.”

According to Brad, this type of manipulation is ok. You be the judge.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

"A pal is a wonderful thing. Happy Birthday—and may every day be another wonderful secret.”

—Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein

[Paul Rieckhoff🇺🇸🇺🇦 @PaulRieckhoff]

The White House now has corporate sponsors.

Because under Trump, even the White House is for sale.

[Steven Huffman @Poeslawisalive]

@WhiteHouse Just hire the guys who did the reflecting pool. It will be green in no time.

[Chris Menahan 🇺🇸 @infolibnews]

John Podhoretz laments Trump appearing to turn on Israel: "Trump is now saying Bibi is indiscriminately murdering Lebanese, but the Iranians are nice?!"

"What's going on!?!" Eli Lake barks. "What's going on!?!"

"I'm telling you what's going on!" Podhoretz interjects. "Something happened, and he decided he went the wrong way, and he is ratcheting himself in the other direction!"

[Floridaman @mcford77]

@real_defender @DemocraticWins You stupid or just playing stupid ? Obama deal cost USA nothing and was working 100% ! They gave up 97% of their uranium and were not enriching any. They were not working towards a nuclear weapon from the day that the agreement was signed until the moron walked away from it.

[Ben Monroe 🇺🇦 🇹🇼 @BenMonroe1]

@real_defender @DemocraticWins The money Obama gave came from frozen funds, not US tax dollars and it was working. Could have been extended, actually, Iran offered to extend it. And we bombed them and ended up getting less.

[What The Hell Is Going On?? @Heel4thewin]

@real_defender @DemocraticWins Obama's DID stop them. We didn't have to kill a bunch of kids in school. We gave them back $1.7B of their own money (not taxpayer money). This war cost $80B, gives them control of the Strait and we propped up a $300B "investment" product to help them rebuild.

Worse. Not better

[Michael Martin @Michael38548127]

@DemocraticWins

[Name Blank @PeteCarrollHat]

@DemocraticWins No. The Epstein Files are still the biggest.
We want to see ALL the Epstein Files!
#TrumpIsARapist #Epstein

[JOHN VALENTINE @NewAgeWriter2]

@DemocraticWins This would be a scandal, but it's yet to be seen if it would be the biggest. We still have the mid-term elections to come. And even more worrisome is that we don't know whether Trump will relinquish his grip on power after his term ends. Hold the presses for now.

[Rohitash Mahur ( Lodhi ) @MahurRohitash]

@DemocraticWins 🇺🇸 Reporter: How do we keep the Strait of Hormuz open for good?

🇺🇸 Trump: Put a strong president Like Me in the U.S. That’s the only way it happens.

Fun fact: He was president three months ago when it shut down.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Bloomberg has secured a copy of Donald Trump’s peace plan that hands $300 billion to Iran. This arguably could be the biggest scandal of Trump’s entire second term.

[Katie @KazooKatherine]

Wow! Raskin just sent Kash Patel this letter. It’s umm… interesting. Read it twice. 👀

The House Judiciary minority says Patel has handed out more than $1 million in “bonus” payments to agents on his Director’s Advisory Team and his security detail. The letter calls it a personal slush fund.

Here’s the mechanism. Federal pay is capped by statute. The letter alleges Patel routed money around that cap. Nearly $8,000 per agent, every two-week pay period. Some collected five in a row. Roughly $40,000 each.

Then the accounts ran dry. Raskin says some of the payments bounced.

Who got paid? The letter points to the unit NOTUS reported as the “Payback Squad.” And it ties the cash to silence, alleging agents were polygraphed over whether they helped cover up Patel’s drinking.

Now the other column. The agents he fired include an FBI Medal of Valor recipient, the official who led the Jan 6 law enforcement response, a Marine combat veteran cut weeks after his wife died of cancer, and a counterintelligence unit that tracked Iranian threats.

Reward the loyal. Purge the rest.

Raskin wants every bonus, every authorization, and every legal memo on whether this broke federal law. Deadline June 29.

[David Shuster @DavidShuster]

Iran says Strait of Hormuz won't have "tolls" but will have "fees." That's because charging a toll is illegal under international law. But fees are allowed for "services," like the service of not hitting your ship with a drone. https://t.co/6tqK4lKdbG

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The leaked Iran deal that is floating around suggests that this is a pretty simple transaction: we are paying Iran billions to reopen the Strait. Period. Stop.

That's probably why they are refusing to release it.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

On July 24th I missed the birth of my son.

I was in West Virginia with the president. Deirdre and I were fighting.

There was no way back to New York.

Then I get fired, my marriage is on the brink, I’ve missed the birth of my son, and the late night comedians are coming for me every night.

I went to a PR crisis manager. He told me to buy a villa in Italy and come back in 2022. You’re never recovering from this.

F*ck that, I went on Colbert, I went on Bill Maher, I faced Saturday Night Live, and I faced the music.

Nine years later my son turns nine on July 24th.

My marriage is intact, stronger than ever, honestly, because we refused to make it disposable.

The firing was the hardest thing that ever happened to me. It also made me more psychologically minded, more empathetic, more human.

And you probably wouldn’t know who I am if it hadn’t happened.

If you’re going through something hard right now, stay in it.

Don’t walk away. The thing that breaks you is often the thing that builds you.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

Trump looks awful. He is bloated, almost seems swollen. He is hunched over, lumbering as he moves, with a lopsided waddle. His hands are covered in an inch of caked makeup, and you can see marks on them. When he spoke at the G7, he rambled about the octagon, Macron had to say - "sir, this is not the octagon." When he stood in a row of leader for a photo-op, he started to wander off, Macron had to steer him back. His sand seems to be exiting his hourglass.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

I told CNN’s Audie Cornish that the most important part of JD Vance’s book about his conversion to Catholicism was what wasn’t in it.

In his first week in office, Vance accused Catholic bishops of profiting from migrant resettlement and lectured clergy on the teachings of St. Augustine.

It led Pope Francis to rebuke him in a letter to American bishops — a letter ghostwritten by Robert Prevost, the future Pope Leo XIV.

The Church loves its converts.

But a convert who walks in lecturing everyone on how they’re doing it wrong — and gets rebuked by two popes in a single year — is pushing his luck.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Exclusive: A detailed project summary of the ballroom prepared for the White House by a contractor estimated the total construction cost at $600 million — with more than half coming from taxpayers, according to a copy obtained by The Post. https://t.co/gHM0D7BmOg