Lora🐾🦋🌻🐾

Doxie mom, animal and butterfly lover, obsessed with all things in nature, avid romance reader #LongCovid

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

This is the most corrupt words to come out of a Speaker's mouth imaginable. The job of Congress isn't to protect the President and his family. It's to provide checks and balances on the Executive Branch. You're damn right we will investigate crimes and corruption. Who moved $180 million in oil futures 15 minutes before Iran announcements? Who has gotten sole source contracts because of their connections to the Trump family? Where did our social security data go when DOGE downloaded it into portable hard drives? Where are the rest of the Epstein files? On and on this Congress has chosen covering up crimes instead of stopping them. That ends in November. @WellmanForMO

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

I saw a comment saying the U.S. is the only country in the World Cup without universal healthcare. And I was like nahhh no way that's accurate.
20 seconds on the world wide web later, THE UNITES STATES IS THE ONLY COUNTRY IN THE WORLD CUP WITHOUT UNIVERSAL HEALTHCARE.

[Scott Robertson @sarobertson_]

Kind of odd that all the Trump "I’m the boss" clips leave out the part where he enters the room like he's part of the South Korean delegation, blindly following Lee Jae Myung to his seat.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Crazy.

Strait of Hormuz open without tolls? ❌

Limits on Iran’s missile program? ❌

Limits on Iran’s support to proxies? ❌

Securing the enriched uranium? ❌

National embarrassment? ✅

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

“Ramaswamy wants to fill Ohio with data centers, and he is not subtle about it… What his stump speech leaves out is that he is personally invested across nearly every tier of the industry he is promising to expand — and that the agencies which subsidize, site and regulate it would all report to him”

[VoidScreamer @theun4seen]

@Acyn Lambert is another MAGA Liar.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Right! And we are all brainwashed to think it’s something to aspire to. I know this is old but the difference between one million and one billion is so vast I think people can’t comprehend it. One million seconds equals is 11.5 days. One billion seconds is 31.7 Years. And Elon is about to be a trillionaire. That would be 31,700 years. Now do the math in dollars. And the fact is that no one in the history of the world has ever attained that wealth by any other means then some form of domination over others. I do not begrudge financial success, but I do have a real problem when the the top 0.1% (130,000 families) hold 6 times the wealth as the bottom 66 million households combined. Put another way 905 individuals in America have twice the wealth of the entire bottom half of the country- 165,000,000 people. And it wasn’t always this way. The top 0.1 percent’s share of the U.S. wealth pie has grown 59.6 percent since just 1989.

[Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @Amy_Siskind]

OMG 💔

[Aaron Blake @AaronBlake]

George Washington declined to be featured on currency when he was living, fearing it would be reminiscent of a monarch.

Congress in 1866 passed the Thayer amendment, which stated "no portrait or likeness of any living person shall be engraved or placed upon any of the bonds, securities, notes, or postal currency of the United States."

[Spencer Althouse @SpencerAlthouse]

this was so sweet. Stephen Colbert just ended his final episode of The Late Show while singing "Hello, Goodbye" with Paul McCartney. his family and the show's crew then joined them on stage before Paul turned off the lights to the Ed Sullivan Theater

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

So strange. Thomas Massie votes with Republicans 91% of the time. The few times he breaks with them are usually over excessive spending bills, foreign aid, and war powers resolutions.

And then there was the cardinal sin: pushing for the release of the Epstein files.

These are all issues MAGA claimed to care about—until Donald Trump decided to abandon many of the very positions he campaigned on.

In many ways, Massie is more aligned with the principles MAGA once said it stood for than Trump himself.

And they hate him for it.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

I want this war to end - now. And I want a deal that constrains Iran's nuclear program.

But what we are learning is that any deal Trump gets - and a deal is still very unlikely - is going to be WAY worse than the nuclear deal he cancelled a decade ago.

1/ Here's what we know:

[The Daily Show @TheDailyShow]

Did he take a cognitive test or just watch "Zootopia"?

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Scott Jennings is from Kentucky. Let’s see how these two states stack up…

Murder rate (per 100,000, FBI 2024):
🔵California: 4.5
🔴Kentucky: 6.1

Life expectancy (at birth, CDC 2022 latest state-level):
🔵California: 79.3 years
🔴Kentucky: 73.6 years

Obesity rate (adults, CDC BRFSS 2024):
🔵California: 27.1%
🔴Kentucky: 37.2%

Educational ranking (U.S. News Best States, ~2025):
🔵California: #20
🔴Kentucky: #32

Healthcare ranking (U.S. News Best States, ~2025):
🔵California: ~#7
🔴Kentucky: #45

GDP (total, BEA ~2025):
🔵California: ~$4.25 trillion
🔴Kentucky: ~$307 billion

GDP per capita (BEA ~2025/2024 data):
🔵California: ~$108,000
🔴Kentucky: ~$66,600

Teen birth rate (per 1,000 females 15-19, CDC 2023):
🔵California: 9.1
🔴Kentucky: 20.7

Infant mortality rate (per 1,000 live births, CDC 2023):
🔵California: 4.1
🔴Kentucky: 6.58

Poverty rate (official, Census ~2023):
🔵California: 12.0%
🔴Kentucky: 16.4%

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made a false claim in his testimony to the House on Wednesday. Then he repeated it in his testimony to the Senate on Thursday.

Hegseth said Wednesday: “In 2024, troops were depl… – that was Joe Biden by the way, Joe Biden –  were deployed to polling locations in 15 states." He continued, "2024 – Joe Biden – troops deployed to polling locations in 15 states. Explain that one to me.”

Here’s the explanation: Hegseth’s claim isn't true.

Not only were all National Guard activations for the 2024 election done by individual states rather than Biden, all 11 states that responded to my inquiries said *no troops* there were sent to polling places.

Rather, they said, Guard personnel were in other locations helping with election cybersecurity, doing other behind-the-scenes support work, or not actually activated for the election after all.

Fact check with on-record quotes:

https://t.co/65YvqPJ8NA

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Trump did have a first-term initiative to cut the price of insulin, but Biden’s subsequent initiative was much more extensive and secure.

Trump: Got $35 insulin for some seniors in Medicare Part D with a voluntary pilot program for pharma firms.
Biden: Through legislation, got $35 insulin for all seniors in Medicare Parts D and B with a mandatory program requiring coverage of more products.

Full fact check from 2024: https://t.co/TdnecHHBFs

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

That would be bad if that ever happened. https://t.co/X2QzakHajh

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

The “miracle” is how Trump managed to destroy the strongest economy in the world in a year and a half.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

NASA wasn’t “closed” before Trump. The US doesn’t pay NATO anywhere close to “trillions of dollars” or “hundreds of billions of dollars a year.” Trump hasn’t built anywhere close to “over 1,000 miles of wall.” Trump hasn’t “ended eight wars.” It’s not true that “nobody” else has ended a war. Trump didn’t achieve “no tax on Social Security.” Ruth Bader Ginsburg died weeks before a presidential election, not right after one. Senator Thom Tillis is still a senator.

And more. Quick fact check of some of Trump’s many false claims on Fox this morning:

https://t.co/RKmgICu3Tc

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

https://t.co/YITsH2klAV