Laurie Ross

Chef, fine wine lover and Trump despiser.
I follow back. Wash your hands.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

The National Guard is now guarding the algae in the Reflecting Pool to protect against an utterly deranged conspiracy theory Donald Trump thought up on the can

We are so far beyond America being *just* a global joke

There are simply no words anymore for how pathetic all this is

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Republicans looked the country in the eye and made a promise. When they rewrote the food stamp program last year, they said children would not be touched.

Pregnant women would not be touched.

Families with young kids would not be touched. They said it on the House floor, on the record, in front of everyone.

A year later we know the truth.

More than 776,000 children have been cut off from food assistance. In the states that track participation by age, kids make up nearly half of everyone who lost benefits.

These are kids who went to bed hungry because a politician wanted a talking point. 

We must be a country that feeds its children. We used to believe that was the bare minimum. Take care of the kid who is hungry through no fault of their own.

The people who broke that promise should have to answer for it, and in November they will.
https://t.co/yZK7shO05q

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

If Kamala Harris had become president of the United States, Trump would be in prison, the strait of Hormuz would be open, Ukraine would be victorious, gas would be under $3 a gallon, and the U.S. would STILL be respected and supported around the world.

[Grant Stern  @grantstern]

Donald Trump’s pro-crime policies are ASTOUNDING and going onto Newsmax to call them out is a job I’ll take any day of the week.

That is right. I said it. The Republican Party is pro-crime. Specifically, they’re pro-crime agains the police.

Someone needs to explain to me why anyone in America thinks Republicans are tough on crime when President Pardons is around!

Never in American history has there been a president who abuses the power of the pardon to wipe out the convictions of cop assaulting thugs who commit pedophile crimes like child molestation and collecting child porn, until now with Donald Trump.

Have you ever heard of any literally other politician, president or dictator who wants to pay criminals caught on video assaulting police officers?

This is unprecedented.

And that’s not the worst of Donald Trump’s constant string of pardons for high-level fraudsters.

Check out the list of Republican former Congressmen that he’s pardoning for accepting millions in bribes (Duke Cunningham, committing bribery themselves (Robin Hayes), racketeering and fraud (Rick Renzi), insider trading (Chris Collins and Stephen Buyer), public benefits fraud (George Santos), tax evasion (Michael Grimm), using campaign money to carry out four extramarital affairs (Duncan Hunter), stealing from charities (Steve Stockman) or obstructing justice and failing to register as a foreign agent (Mark Siljander).

AND THOSE ARE JUST THE FORMER REPUBLICAN CONGRESSMAN.

Donald Trump has pardoned fraudsters TWICE for stealing from people.

Donald Trump pardoned Philip Esformes who committed a $1.2 billion Medicare fraud in Miami (which had a location on the block I lived on when he went down in 2010), who then got arrested again for domestic violence.

Donald Trump is a one-man crime wave himself. He’s cancelling all punishment for major crimes for his friends, cronies, Republicans and whoever can pay him.

Yet, for NOT reason I understand, public polling still shows Republicans are more trusted on crime.

What is wrong with this picture?!?!?

It shows the failure of the corporate media to pin the tail on who the real criminals are in this country. How many local news reports focus on small crimes while the big fish are swimming away laughing?

That’s why I hope everyone who gets this far shares this far and wide.

Because no joke, I have gone on Newsmax where they are busy pushing the ‘Republicans are tough on crime’ sham narrative, and people are buying it.

They need to see how Republicans are defending the INDEFENSIBLE here, which is not just Donald Trump, but their entire party’s platform of being pro-crime.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

Fox News commentator threatens to "Call ICE" on Hispanic woman—over Starbucks drive thru dispute.

Nyanza Moore is a regular contributor on Fox 26 Houston television coverage.

"Go back to Mexico!" she yells.

"You'll have to prove you're not illegal when I call ICE!"

She works as a lawyer—and is the Founder and Managing Attorney of her own firm The Moore Law Group.

The incident occurred at a Starbucks location in Houston, Texas.

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: New York State just passed a law that lets YOU sue ICE (and other federal agents) for violating your constitutional rights.

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

Since Trump's One Big Beautiful Bill passed, SNAP enrollment has declined by 4.7M. In states where demographic data are available, about half the decline comes from kids losing food aid.
The Trump administration describes this as a success story
https://t.co/dM2ZrxaPRd

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

DO NOT STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.

Does anyone else notice that no matter how many folks are posting about the Epstein files, it never trends on X?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

RICK SCOTT: Government is your problem. They're causing the cost of everything to go up

McENANY: But you were one of the few Republicans to vote against the bipartisan Road to Housing Act. Why?

SCOTT: I don't see how it's going to drive down the cost of housing. The federal government cannot drive the cost of housing down

McENANY: Except you do have your own bill

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Carville on Trump: “Save yourself now. Leak, leak, and more leak. He’s gonna be gone by April of next year. The fat bastard is falling all over himself, don’t know where he is, he can’t get out of a chair. Go look at the approval ratings, I’ve never seen anything so devastating in my life”

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

To be so super clear, USAID was giving food to starving Africans, mostly children. Elon cutting USAID will cause 2 million deaths by malnutrition alone by 2030. That’s why he’s saying this.

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

WCGW - The Surgeon General of Florida just announced ALL VACCINE MANDATES IN FLORIDA will be ENDED; thus allowing: polio, whooping cough, influenza, etc,,

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Hodges: Putin's nightmare — momentum shifts irreversibly in Ukraine's favor. He loses oil and gas exports. Oligarchs push back openly. Europe begins stopping shadow fleet vessels in the Baltic and Black Sea.

When all of that converges — it's over for him. He'll know it. 1/

[Freyja1 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇸🇯🇩🇪🇮🇪🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @FreyjaBakke]

THIS IS JUDGE TIMOPHY WORKMAN

You know what this judge did? Well he has allowed his fellow judge David Selwood walk free from his court room on a community order despite admitting 12 counts of making indecent images of kids as young as EIGHT!! 🤬

Meanwhile people are walking into courts and getting jailed for hurty words on social media.
Predator awareness

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: @jdvance: “If you go back to WWII, if you go back to WWI, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation.”

Lawrence: “NO, they didn’t. WWII ended with ZERO negotiations. WWII ended the way Donald Trump claimed his war in #Iran was going to end—unconditional surrender. Japan and Germany each signed unconditional surrender documents. Adolf Hitler killed himself rather than submit Germany to the unconditional surrender that he knew was coming. Every vice president, everyone, prior to JD Vance has KNOWN that President FDR demanded the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan during WWII and when FDR died…his vice president, then elevated to the presidency, Harry Truman, accepted those unconditional surrenders without a word of negotiation with anyone about those surrenders. That kind of statement by JD Vance demonstrating a complete IGNORANCE of how WWII ended is the kind of thing that used to get you drummed out of American politics before Donald Trump’s DUMBING DOWN of the Republican Party and it tells you something about  the quality of thinking that the vice president of the United States brings to his job.” 😳

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🇮🇷 Iran’s Foreign Minister Araghchi in Switzerland 🔥

He stated: "The first line of the deal reads, 'ending the war on all fronts, including in Lebanon.'"

"Although Iran has stayed committed to maintaining the agreement, the Zionist regime broke it by killing civilians in Lebanon.

Look at the chronology: whenever we moved toward peace, Netanyahu dragged us back or into something worse.

He is the real cancer of the world."🔥

Brutal reality by Araghchi. He is going to expose Netanyahu on Global level 💪

[Anonymous TV 🇺🇦 @YourAnonTV]

🚨🇦🇱 BREAKING: Day 21 of mass protests in Tirana, Albania

✊️🇦🇱Over 350,000 people have taken to the streets, no longer asking, demanding Edi Rama’s resignation for selling Albanian land and Sazan Island to oligarchs and Kushner.

✊️The people have crossed the point of no return.
⚡️The old Albania is dying in these streets.

✊️🇦🇱NEW ALBANIA is rising.

#Albania #FlamingoRevolution

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

BREAKING: Lawrence: “In the report by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan in today’s NYTimes, @JDVance began a White House meeting last year by arguing that it was time to invoke the Insurrection Act which allows the president to deploy the American military to put down insurrections and rebellions inside the United States. He did this after Renee Good and Alex Pretti were shot and killed by Donald Trump’s federal agents in Minnesota, when video recordings of the incidents showed that they did not pose any threats at all to the agents who shot and killed them. The Times reports Mr Vance got to the point. They needed to invoke the Insurrection Act SWIFTLY to crush the unrest in Minnesota. It would be painful in the short term, he said, but the message it would send, that paid agitators could not get away with disrupting ICE operations, would make sure no one tried it again. There was no evidence that either Mr Pretti or Ms Good had been paid activists.” 😳

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

🚨 Zelensky blew a bombshell declaration

The myth of unlimited power.
For decades, the world lived under two opposite myths.
One was that Russia possessed an almost unstoppable military machine.

The other was that American power was virtually unlimited.

Reality has been cruel to myths.

Russia spent years projecting the image of the world’s second army.

But when it stepped forward in Ukraine, the world discovered that propaganda, corruption, and nuclear threats had concealed profound weaknesses.
Much of what looked like overwhelming power proved to be an illusion.

Now another uncomfortable reality is emerging.
President Zelensky revealed that the United States produces only about 60–65 PAC-3 anti-ballistic missiles per month. During the first day of the Middle East conflict, roughly two years’ worth of production was consumed in just 24 hours.

This does not mean America is weak.
It means that even the world’s strongest military-industrial power has limits.

Factories have limits.
Stockpiles have limits.
Supply chains have limits.

The lesson is not that the United States is declining, just as the lesson from Ukraine was never that Russia was powerless.

The lesson is that dependence itself is a vulnerability.

Europe cannot build its security on the assumption that America will always have enough missiles, factories, political will, or enough attention to fight multiple crises simultaneously.
As Zelensky put it:

“We need our own European independent strong system. And we will build it.”

Because sovereignty is not a speech.

It is the ability to defend yourself.

#StandWithUkraine

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Lawrence: “…award-winning journalist Julie K Brown, whose work helped lead to the 2019 arrest of Jeffrey Epstein and 2020 arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell, reports in the Miami Herald: Sarah Kellen, a longtime personal assistant to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein has disclosed for the first time that Epstein’s preferential treatment at the Palm Beach County Jail may have been the result of him PAYING OFF Palm Beach Sheriff’s Deputies. Kellen during her interview with the House Oversight Committee last month was questioned about perks that Epstein received while he was incarcerated at the Palm Beach County Stockade…from 2008-2009. She said she visited Epstein several times at the jail and one time when she was home, he was able to use Skype from a jail computer to contact her. He used that jail computer to get her to undress for him on camera while he was in the jail…She was then asked by Florida Congressman Maxwell Frost, a Democrat who represents the Orlando area, whether she knew of any other ways that Epstein used to get special treatment while in jail. I know that he arranged to have cash and…Disneyland tickets taken to the officers in the jail and I’m not sure what he received with that, Kellen replied…She identified the Palm Beach Sheriff’s Deputy as Michael Fox…”😳