Eric Goetz

Seattle

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

I can pretty much post this every week after each new death where there remains zero accountability for any of the agents or their supervisors. Lowered standards, unqualified people, rushed through shortened training, toxic culture & leadership, lots of weapons. A perfect storm.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

The bombs in Vietnam didn’t cost $2 million a piece.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

I'm such an old man that I can dimly recall this same orange goblin spending all of 2024 telling American voters that any politician who got us into a forever war was not just a fool but something just shy of a traitor to our nation

Now apparently an *18-year war* would be okay

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

ICE has shot and killed another person — the second death in two weeks.

This is beyond horrific.

ICE is terrorizing our communities, and Republicans in Congress voted to send the rogue agency more blank checks.

Enough. The Senate must stop ICE’s violence.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

The reason why ICE agents continue to shoot people is because nothing ever happens to them when they do. They essentially have been granted full immunity for whatever they choose to do to people by a lawless regime of thugs.

[Eric Goetz @leftydisc]

@cougsgo @PuckSports Seven

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

New in PN: Lindsey Graham and the rot of modern conservatism

"Lindsey Graham died a coward. From Gingrich to Trump, he embodied the movement-to-racket transformation of modern conservatism. Has America ever witnessed a capitulation so self-abnegating as his conversion from snarling Trump critic into swooning cheerleader and apologist?" https://t.co/6w153kvSr7

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.

A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”

That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.

I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.

[Tom Joseph @TomJChicago]

Trump is spiraling downward. These are not physicals. They are frequent hospitalizations. Think about people you know. It doesn’t get better. Trump will not finish his term. He’s deteriorating way too fast now.

It’s already difficult for him to stand or walk any distance. The helipad af his doorstep is a big sign for what’s coming.

The Mitch thing is preview for what might happen with Trump. He could be hospitalized and we just won’t see him… At all. Vance will assume temporary presidential duties and we won’t get a read on Trump’s condition. Then they would make up fake diagnosis, deny the dementia and he departs for good. Many other scenarios exist, of course.

[Aaron David Miller @aarondmiller2]

The box Trump put himself in is remarkable. Focus of the war was to prevent Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapons has now devolved into a single focus on reopening Straits free and unfettered before war began. Try to explain that to a family paying more for gas and groceries.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump’s next bankruptcy: The U.S. Military

[Kaivan Shroff @KaivanShroff]

Wow. Not a single tweet (or retweet) from @jaketapper about Mitch McConnell in the past 24 hours.

The hypocrisy is astounding. Meanwhile an entire book pretending that Biden being old was some crazy scandal. Zero credibility.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

A severely mentally ill man has control of the launch codes for America's nuclear arsenal, but it doesn't seem that many people care.

[Covie @covie_93]

Ken Paxton returned from his July 4th vacation with someone else's wife because his wife divorced him for cheating on her to tell Texans that the views of James Talarico, a pastor-in-training in a monogamous relationship, “are antithetical to historical Christian views.”

[Tom Joseph @TomJChicago]

Trump‘s doctors and enablers are dreading being held accountable for him getting experimental dementia treatments, while he lies about having perfect physicals. They think fake “cognitive tests” where they give him the answers, are their get out of jail free card. He can’t pass that test or the real tests.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

It's possible some of the lies being told about McConnell constitute Conspiracy to Commit Election Fraud—as it appears MAGA must continue lying about McConnell until August 4 to avoid a new election.

CNN must decide if it wants to be involved in a potential future investigation.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Having said that, I will add that it is beyond belief that under the circumstances described below CNN has not already fired him. A major media organization cannot continue to hold itself out as a going news concern when it is forced to do something like this. A dark day for CNN.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

If it turns out Mitch McConnell was dead, in a coma, brain-dead or otherwise incommunicado on the day an analyst for CNN, Scott Jennings, claimed on national TV that McConnell was making calls and discussing issues of the day with colleagues, CNN must fire Jennings *immediately*.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Trump's fledgling lawsuit vs Des Moines Register & its pollster had tough day

Per @LauraRBelin at courthouse, paper's attorney argued

- "Everything looks like a conspiracy theory if you don't understand how anything works"

- "Plaintiffs don't even pretend to provide evidence"

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

I’ve said this before, but we all knew 2nd lieutenants like this. They never lasted. But Trump made this one SecDef.