Laura Divenere

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

It's only Tuesday and Trump has fucked up a pool for $14 Million, lost a war agreeing to pay Iran $300 Billion, and ballooned his already expensive ballroom budget by another $200 Million.

Where are the Republicans screaming about "waste, fraud and abuse"?

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Sounds like the actual 250th celebration will be held in Chicago at the Obama library opening on Thursday

[Jamie Walters, CAIA @JWalters314]

See the propaganda move?

Make the image emotionally overwhelming, then pretend the only possible objection is hatred of America.

Nobody has to pretend to be mad at a flyover.

It looks cool.

That is not the critique.

The critique is that cool imagery is being used to launder the structure underneath it.

The White House becomes the set.

The military supplies the emotional force.

UFC supplies the combat aesthetic.

Paramount+ gets the paid stream.

Trump-world and politically connected corporations get the branding halo.

And then accounts like this say: if you notice the machinery, you must hate America.

No.

I like the flyover.

I dislike fake patriotism that turns the country into ad inventory.

This is Don Draper selling belonging after tribal sorting so the powerful concentrate more power.

Working-class people are not props.

Marines are not props.

National monuments are not props.

The issue is billionaires turning the White House into branded regime content, then hiding behind “the working class” when anyone notices the circus.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

🇺🇸 No friends left.

[Laura Divenere @ldinteriors]

Protect endangered and threatened species from becoming targets of trophy hunting. - Sign the Petition! https://t.co/SmbhOTeWiP via @Change

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Illegal and immoral

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

Russians hit a zoo in Kharkiv — several animals were killed, and enclosures caught fire.

A day earlier, five emergency responders from Ukraine’s State Emergency Service were killed in Kharkiv after a repeated strike by russia.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

It is hard to imagine that idiots like this were put in charge of blowing up programs that cost millions of lives and livelihoods

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

No one from the Epstein Files has been arrested yet, by the way.

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

When you don’t know how anything works, everything is a conspiracy

[Acyn @Acyn]

Kerry Kennedy on Tarp at Kennedy Center: This is typical of an administration that doesn't believe in transparency. It doesn't believe in transparency and decision making. It doesn't believe in transparency in the courts. It doesn't believe in transparency in when or why it goes to war or why it stops these wars. And it doesn't believe in transparency for something as small as this. Now, to me, it's very, very important that the Kennedy Center be retain its name. But it's also symbolic of a larger problem of transparency and corruption by this administration.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: Florida’s Supreme Court refused to suspend or disbar Kenneth Chesebro, a key architect of Trump’s fake electors plot.

Instead, it restored his ability to practice law and gave him a "public reprimand" — despite a blistering dissent.
https://t.co/ZFxSMybIrp

[Sara McGee for Texas HD 132 @SaraForTexLege]

We need to be clear about what is happening in this photo.

Rick Scarborough, former Southern Baptist pastor, got on stage at the Texas Republican Convention and told state DELEGATE Mohamed Hussein to convert to Christianity or leave the country. He was so upset that he cried. It was then and only then that Rick felt guilty, so he sat down and pretended to pray for him.

The only evil we need to expel from this state are the people who don’t believe in the CONSTITUTIONALLY PROTECTED RIGHT of freedom of religion.

📷 Manoo Sirivelu for @TexasTribune

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

It’s not simply this ocean-monitoring system that’s being dismantled; it’s U.S. science entirely.
https://t.co/gD1lnUxlqz

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

As I recall, the JCPOA did not give Iran $24 billion, control of the Strait of Hormuz, and the promise of a $300 billion reconstruction package. Nor did it cost American lives and treasure, deplete our armaments and shred our relationship with many allies in the Arab world.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration has shuttered the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, which studies harmful invasive species such as the Spotted Lanternfly.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Iowa: the "waste, fraud and abuse" @hinsonashley is referring to was the #screwworm monitoring program she voted to cut funding for. Keep that in mind as the threat of this pest moves throughout America's farmlands.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

ICE vehicles hit their car while their children were inside. Then agents dragged the parents out during drop-off and a preschool graduation, in front of crying kids. All on school property.

https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY confirms that schools are supposed to be safe places for children, not federal ambush zones.

That’s not public safety. That’s state-sponsored trauma.

The ammunition to fight ICE is here: https://t.co/Txyhf9LSil

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

The question inside Trump's White House wasn't whether suspending habeas corpus was a good idea. It was how much the administration could get away with before the courts stopped them.
That's a warning worth paying attention to.
Read here:
https://t.co/jRv5GR7PGa