Lisa Steiner 🕊⚖️🤍

Can't keep quiet any longer - Pro Democracy, Pro human rights ✊🏿🏳️‍🌈♿️ #vote

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The biggest story in America is a president who has completely lost touch with reality. Who thinks the FBI let all the January 6 rioters into the Capitol, that he really won the 2020 election, that the Iran War is going well. Who, when occasionally confronted w reality, panics.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Repeating lies, increased irritability, reduced impulse control, and bursts of anger are all symptoms associated with dementia btw

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

.@Timodc on Trump storming out of his interview with Kristen Welker:

"It's unbelievable, honestly, that the American people could put this fucking ass clown in the White House."

[Ken Bensinger @kenbensinger]

THIS IS EXTREMELY SIMPLE: MORE THAN 60% OF REGISTERED VOTERS IN LOS ANGELES ARE DEMOCRATS. LESS THAN 15% ARE REPUBLICANS.

STOP BEING SHOCKED THAT LA VOTERS PREFER DEMOCRATS AND STOP SPREADING CONSPIRACY THEORIES TO EXPLAIN SIMPLE ELECTORAL MATH.

[⚘️Carina @Carina_Amyth]

@Acyn Here we go again...

[le sociologue grincheux @OhHowByronic]

Spot on.

[Niall Stanage @NiallStanage]

This is a devastating interview.

Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good.

Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Trump says he didn’t promise no new wars….here’s a compilation of Trump campaigning on no new wars

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Here's the full chain of events that led to Trump storming out of his interview with Kristin Welker, beginning with her pressing him on the weaponization fund, continuing with her pointing out the baselessness of his "rigged election" lies, and concluding with him calling her "crooked or stupid" and leaving

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Chris Murphy: Pulte's chief qualification, according to Donald Trump, is that he is willing to go into the intelligence files and pull out information on Trump's political opponents. That's the only reason this guy got picked... Even if he only stays on the job for a couple of weeks, that's enough time for him to go in and fish out information on a whole bunch of people that Trump is trying to destroy.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Xavier Becerra @XavierBecerra]

More than ever, California needs our voices and our values. To the people and the voters of California, this is your state.

Este es tu estado.

We will not be bought. We will not be bullied. And we are never backing down.

[Xavier Becerra @XavierBecerra]

California has spoken. Thank you for standing with us. To every volunteer who made a call, sent a text, knocked a door, or showed up when it mattered most — this victory belongs to you.

We're just getting started. On to November.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING:

WASHINGTON (AP) - Democrat Xavier Becerra advances to the general election for governor in California.

[Covie @covie_93]

California can take two months to count their ballots and it still wouldn't be as long as it took trump to release 50% of the epstein files.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Trying to understand how it’s legal for a POTUS to tell voters he’ll ensure their state receives funding if they vote like he tells them to while promising they won’t receive the said funding if they disobey his orders on who to vote for

Thought we fought a revolution over this?

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Even Trump's own HUD data confirms it:

@CAGovernor Gavin Newsom's homelessness strategies delivered the nation's largest reduction in unsheltered homelessness — and California's largest statewide decline in overall homelessness since 2009.

California ranked #1 in the nation for reducing:
Veteran homelessness
Chronic homelessness
Unsheltered homelessness

[Gigi @Gigi_chienergy]

The screwworm program wasn't charity, it was a $10 million fence that kept a billion-dollar problem from eating our own livestock alive. That's the thing with most USAID funding: it looks like "aid," but it's really cheap self-defense. Solve a problem there, and it never lands on our doorstep. But sure, let a bunch of guys who can't define DEI without Googling take a chainsaw to it. They didn't stop to ask, "Will this cut hurt us too?" Unless that's the point, burn it all down and call it efficiency.

As usual our inept agriculture secretary, blaming the Biden administration as usual, instead of offering a solution to the problem they created.

Texan here

A screwworm infestation is a nightmare for cattle, causing horrific wounds and economic devastation. For Texas, the situation has escalated dramatically in the last 24 hours with the first confirmed case of New World Screwworm (NWS) in over 60 years! This could have been avoided!

Infested animal can kill a cow in less than two weeks.

Treatment is extremely difficult and time-consuming, requiring the painful removal of every visible larva and deep disinfection of the wound. Ranchers no longer have much experience with this labor-intensive process, and there is currently no approved pharmaceutical treatment to make it easier.

This has triggered a massive economic threat. The USDA estimates that a widespread outbreak would drain an astonishing $1.8 billion from the Texas economy alone in livestock deaths, labor, and medication expenses.

How will this affect you? Tightening supplies will drive already high beef prices higher.

[Lisa Steiner 🕊⚖️🤍 @lisalsteiner]

@CEOrockband Because people complained that they didn’t know the process and that it was all being done behind closed doors. The law allows people to observe

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

NEW: Trump just admitted it. He promoted Pulte because he wants to interfere in the midterms.