Laure Woolverton

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 Tim Kaine Just Put Trump’s Nominee In A Brutal Box.

KAINE: “Was the 2020 election rigged?”

HAL DUNCAN: “President Trump won the 2024 election.”

KAINE asked again.

Duncan still wouldn’t answer.

Then came Kaine’s response:

“How about that? He was asked twice if the 2020 election was rigged, and he wouldn’t answer the question. You’re afraid of making an insecure president mad.”

[🦋the-michael-datson.bsky.social🦋 @fuller_sean]

I don't think anyone on either side of the aisle is under any delusion about how corrupt Trump has been in this second term. I mean even Megyn Kelly is calling it out. The baseline expectation is that Trump will be going to prison if he survives this administration and Republicans lose the White House.
https://t.co/gDsRnyhsD5

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

I am more and more convinced that - even though Trump's piss-poor polling to date is largely economically related (about gas prices and kitchen table issues), THE thing that WILL bring him down, that even MAGA is beginning to see and deplore, is his CORRUPTION.
And in that vein, he's going to be sorry he decided to f*ck with Newsom on investigative BS, because Newsom don't play and he knows how to get a narrative across eloquently, and he WILL advance the TRUTHFUL representation that Trump is maximally corrupt, like nothing we've ever seen before, nor will again.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

https://t.co/upZrycEuH5

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Trump supporters are hoping against all odds that the MOU will not be terrible.

But even without the MOU, here are the realities: America lost, and Iran is now more politically powerful than four months ago.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BRENNAN: But there is a crisis with those weapons stockpiles right now

HEGSETH: No there is not. That is a manufactured story that the media wants to peddle

BRENNAN: You have testified to it in front of Congress

HEGSETH: You don't have to read back to me what I testified

[Acyn @Acyn]

Wilson Cruz: When the governor of Texas clicked his little boot spurs and had all the rainbow crosswalks painted over, activists grabbed their brushes and painted the sidewalks instead, because that’s what we do.

It goes to show: if you lower our flags, we will raise them back up.

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

Not only is Trump capitulating to a deal weaker than JPCOA (which he ripped up), not only is he doing so after having had FAR MORE on the table before he launched this illegal war...

But he's ending it with an autopen signature, by his terms, a sign he's too old to understand what he's signing.

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

.@stephenm's subintelligent breeding partner says Todd Blanche is perfect bc he:

Celebrated Jan6 cop assailants
Lied under oath to Congress
Violated DOJ ethics rules
Destroyed DOJ's independence

Why is @KatieMiller so horny for criminals?

[American Solidarity Party of Wisconsin @aspofwisconsin]

@atrupar This is unfortunately backed by the data. Under Trump, the United States is now viewed as one of the three greatest threats to the world alongside Russia and Israel based on the annual Democracy Perception Index.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

New in PN: The US under Trump is a global scourge

"Authoritarians disregard the voices and needs of their own people, but they are even less constrained when they deal with people that are not their own. If you want to see what Trump would like to do at home, you have only to look to the misery he has unleashed in Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and Africa. It’s a bleak and terrifying picture." https://t.co/pET3IKsnBp

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 Wow. JD Vance sidesteps confirming a long-term, toll-free reopening of the Strait of Hormuz by stating that those details would be determined in upcoming technical negotiations:

“Well, our expectation is that the strait is going to be opened in a toll-free way for the long term, and that's the sort of thing that we're going to figure out in these technical negotiations. You know, there are a lot of very important details to figure out that we're actually going to sit at the table and discuss together, and figure out a path forward on these.”

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Iran claims:

* It’s missile programs and support for Houthi and Hezbollah will not be in the final agreement.

* There has been no discussion of nuclear right now and won’t be till 60 days after $24 BILLION in funds released

* They’ll only consider it binding after a UN Security Council resolution on it

They have dogged walked the US into this agreement, and now intend to make it painful and embarrassing.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

"This is worse than a failure. It is a strategic calamity."

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: CBS National Security Analyst Aaron MacLean Just Highlighted A Pretty Extraordinary Situation.

According to MacLean, the Iran agreement is already signed.

It's already in effect.

And the public still hasn't seen the text.

For days, the White House has accused Iranian media of mischaracterizing the deal.

Iranian outlets have accused the U.S. of misrepresenting key provisions.

Yet neither side has released the actual document.

MacLean's question was simple:

If the administration wants to settle the debate, why not release the text?

Think about that.

The agreement is reportedly active.

Global markets are reacting to it.

The Strait of Hormuz is being discussed in relation to it.

Yet the public is still being asked to trust competing descriptions of a document it cannot read.

That's becoming a story in itself.

[Reefer Coupings #smokefleet @ReeferClippings]

@Acyn #MayTheirNamesStand #SmokeFleetandNAFOfortheWin #SmokeFl33t #NAFO #smokefléét #SmokeTheFacists

[HIGH PLAINS RESISTER @I_Wait_I_Watch]

@Acyn

[Acyn @Acyn]

Julia Roberts: Renee Nicole Goode is not a symbol. She is an American woman, a queer woman who was doing the very best she could do to be good in an unjust world.

And I am honored to celebrate her life and her legacy tonight, because the life she gave is our responsibility to carry.

[EU says Elon should not lie abt my blue check @emptywheel]

WOW.

@SenAshleyMoody says celebrations should not involve crime but that's a surprise because it is her CONSTITUTIONAL job to prevent some of the crimes that happened at Trump's birthday party, such as the emoluments violations, the bribes, and the self-dealing.

Will she impeach NOW?

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

The United States is sending this 80-year-old man with a limited vocabulary, face painted in orange pigment, hand bruises covered in caked makeup, girdled pants, and hair that is indescribable, overseas to high level meetings with world leaders, ostensibly to speak to America's interests.
But all he will do - like he always does - is insist that up is down and bad is good, and he is smart and they are not, and he will recite grandiose claims of wars he thinks he has ended, he will insult his predecessors, and then - in incomplete and broken sentences - he will rant, ramble, and riff ... it might start on subjects of global import but will descend to windmills, witch hunts, whales, water pressure, and whatever, and the audience will roll their eyes collectively.
He will make a few veiled threats, and then - perhaps - dangle a proposition or a concept of a proposition, filled with hyperbole, which enriches his oligarchy, presented as an opportunity, which all should abide because he is competent and smart, and the audience's eyes will almost roll out of their sockets.
The world leaders that are the recipients of all this are respectful and smiling on the outside but making fun of him privately at every turn. Each and every one of them knows they cannot trust the 80-year-old man, knows that the 80-year-old man is ill and in decline, susceptible to praise and grift, and they know that if they wait it out a little longer, the 80-year-old man will be gone, and they'll have a more comfortable and less risky discourse with someone else soon.