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[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

This is the fellow who was railing yesterday against communism.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

In his SOTU speech in 2010, @barackobama warned that with it's Citizens United decision, the SCOTUS had "opened the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our elections."
Today, his grim prophecy has become the reality.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

In a democracy, respect for presidents is earned, not required or coerced.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

This is disgusting.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

😩 JESUS CHRIST!!! Cops give a brutal beating on the bridge between Ohio and Kentucky to young people who were protesting against Trump's policies and against the Genocide in Gaza.

Spread this far & wide!!!

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

These same things were being said about immigrants in the 1920s and '30s, by the same kind of people.
It was exploitative, dangerous and destructive then.
And it is today.
Immigration should be regulated and controlled. Borders should be enforced.
But immigration has always been a strength of our country. Part of America's secret sauce.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

This week someone targeted my family for harm with a false report. We’re physically OK, but that doesn’t mean we weren’t harmed. I am beyond furious.

Whatever your politics, this is awful, wrong, and can never become normal. https://t.co/72wxaVLzVT

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

It's actually mind-boggling that @JDVance would say Watergate would be a "10 hour story" today.
Just to review, Nixon's aides authorized a break-in of the DNC HQ to install bugging equipment--in a caper foiled by a night watchman, who called police. They then enlisted the CIA to mislead the FBI that the break-in was related to a probe of malign foreign actors.
The entire operation was paid for by a slush fund controlled by the WH.
The WH also enlisted the IRS to probe hundreds of Nixon's political enemies.
The AG, the WH COS and several other top aides all were convicted and served time for their involvement in the crimes and coverup.
Nixon was caught on his own secret tape system conspiring with them but was pardoned a month after he resigned by his successor, Gerald Ford.
That Vance thinks this would be a "10 hour story" today speaks volumes about the moral and ethical degradation of the Trump era.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

The irony of Republicans controlling all branches of government while

bankrupting the country, starting a war, sending money to fraudulent programs, violating the Constitution, giving corporations immunity...

but arguing that the biggest problem we have is “stolen elections.”

[Rick Reilly @ReillyRick]

You: Did you break the lamp?
Your 4-year-old: It wasn't me! It was vandals! Arrest them!
#ETTD

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.   

Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.  

The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.  

Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.  

The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
https://t.co/95K8zIySPz

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Dismantling the Dept. of Ed and distributing its duties to a half dozen different agencies is foolish.
Handing responsibility for Special Ed to RFK Jr. is downright perverse.
https://t.co/qOfX8JaBg0 via @NYTimes

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

From today's @WSJ poll.
This level of economic disillusionment is unsustainable if we continue to ignore it. And with the unbridled freight train called AI bearing down on us, bearing huge implications for work and the workforce, that challenge is becoming even more acute.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Pentagon Tells Lawmakers It Needs $80 Billion for Iran War and Other Bills.
The cost of incompetent leaders and bad decisions. https://t.co/DVnHSrW8mO

[Rick Reilly @ReillyRick]

It's not Trump who's left out. It's us.
We elected a moron.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Many Americans are rightly upset about the ugly comment a UFC fighter made about @MichelleObama at @realDonaldTrump's birthday extravaganza.
But really, when the @POTUS himself posted an ugly video depicting the Obamas as apes, without apology, what do you expect?

[Rick Reilly @ReillyRick]

You mean like it was before Trump spent all that money, killed all those school girls and wrecked gas prices?

[Mike Sando @SandoNFL]

@GreenGold4Ever True … but …

Check out Favre before and after Holmgren

Compare to with Holmgren

Even Montana: 2x MVP in 2 yrs with Holmgren calling plays (0 in all those years with Walsh)

Holmgren: called plays for 5 MVP seasons in nine years

[Rick Reilly @ReillyRick]

@covie_93 Fabulous.

[Sophie Pedder @PedderSophie]

D-Day commemoration, Omaha Beach, June 6 2024

Zelensky arrived, the crowd applauded. And then this happened:

🇺🇸 veteran: You’re a saviour of the people

Zelensky: No, no, you saved Europe

🇺🇸 veteran: My hero

Zelensky: No, you are our hero

🇺🇸🇫🇷🇺🇦