Lemon Slayer

Veteran and Progressive.

When life hands you lemons, make lemonade!

A Subject Matter Generalist (SMG) on most things.

Also at @lemonslayer.bsky.social

[Lemon Slayer @LemonSlayerUS]

@MargLTaylor @USAID @WhiteHouse @JoeBiden @KamalaHarris @SamanthaJPower @JeremyKonyndyk Measure twice and 𝙘̶𝙪̶𝙩̶ tweet once.😉

[Lemon Slayer @LemonSlayerUS]

AFRICOM has since changed their reporting of this to a single airstrike instead of its reported multiple airstrikes.

Idk why AFRICOM was confused by the number of airstrikes, but this isn't the first time they've changed their reporting.

https://t.co/Z08Gy1GLuq

[Lemon Slayer @LemonSlayerUS]

Icymi👇

AFRICOM reported late last night that the US conducted multiple airstrikes in Somalia on 25 July.

But only on AFRICOM's website.

Not on Twitter.

Not on BlueSky.

Only on AFRICOM's website.👇

https://t.co/Z08Gy1GLuq

[Lemon Slayer @LemonSlayerUS]

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[Lemon Slayer @LemonSlayerUS]

👇!!!

[Manu Raju @mkraju]

Burlison on talk of a pardon for Maxwell.

“I think it would be a mistake. At the end of the day she committed heinous acts, that I think that it would be a disservice to her victims were she to not have to serve her sentence.”

[Manu Raju @mkraju]

New - GOP Rep. Eric Burlison says it’s been a “political mistake” and “misstep” over how administration has handled Epstein files

“You only fan the flames of conspiracy unless you demonstrate you’re trying to get the information released.”

Would be “mistake” to pardon Maxwell

[Lemon Slayer @LemonSlayerUS]

When the starvation of civilians is a deliberate and willful governmental policy!👇

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[Lemon Slayer @LemonSlayerUS]

Cruising the virtual universe with the virtuosi of the Trio (Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris & Dolly Parton) and "Blue Train". So very fine and mellow!

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[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Easy! Because there wasn't a corrupt Deputy Attorney General willing to promise a pardon or commutation to help whitewash Trump!

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

In the past 25 years, renewable energy has received about $350B in direct and indirect subsidies.

In the same period of time, fossil fuels have received $2.5T in indirect and direct subsidies.

Dumbest president in American history.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

His insane obsessions - windmills, toilet flushes, shower pressure - get not even 1% of the coverage, or mental health discussions, as Joe Biden’s verbal gaffes and frailty did.

[Jeff Stein @SpyTalker]

Legendary CIA mole hunter Sandy Grimes has died, a family member announced on Facebook. Grimes, 80, who had been in ill health for some time, was a key member of the CIA-FBI team that uncovered the traitor Aldrich Ames in their midst. https://t.co/vQKSlelqM4

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

It's fairly normal for @SpeakerJohnson to just assume that adjudged liars will change their ways if it'll help Donald Trump cover up for something.

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

I can't decide whether Trump rolled out @SenMullin bc he knows he's too stupid to understand these details, or he's the only one willing to lie to cover up Trump's sex trafficking problem.

But he literally said last week he's covering for Trump.

[Breaking the Silence @BtSIsrael]

Here's the gist: the IDF is still using food as a weapon.
Today, the IDF announced daily “humanitarian pauses” and resumed airdrops of aid into Gaza. But this doesn’t mark a policy shift, just a new phase in the same twisted logic of control through aid🧵

[Lemon Slayer @LemonSlayerUS]

A reminder.👇

https://t.co/oDIYdoUeh2

[Lemon Slayer @LemonSlayerUS]

I post about the US airstrikes in Somalia because they ARE news!

If the US conducted an airstrike in Yemen, that would make the news.

If the US conducted an airstrike in Colombia, that would make the news.

US airstrikes in Africa don't get reported as news.

Why is that?

[Lemon Slayer @LemonSlayerUS]

@unamuno1898 Ta!👍

[Lemon Slayer @LemonSlayerUS]

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[Lemon Slayer @LemonSlayerUS]

@unamuno1898 Thanks! Do you have a link? I'd like to check that out.

[Lemon Slayer @LemonSlayerUS]

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[Eric Schmitt @EricSchmittNYT]

How the Air Force is paying to refurbish Trump's "free" Air Force One is tied up in a mysterious, $934 million transfer of funds from one of the Pentagon’s most over-budget, out-of-control projects w/@SangerNYT
https://t.co/EqM9tlbHGN