Marie Merkel

[Joe Baldacci @JoeBaldacci]

When I see Mike Johnson and Paul Lepage in Maine, not their natural habitat, my first reaction: Donate to Matt's campaign.

Looking forward to cohosting this event with Jordan Wood and Paige Loud. And thank you Jordan for opening up your home. I'm looking forward to this event. Hope you can join us or at least pitch in if you can't make it at this link:

https://t.co/6leOPq3J70

#democrats
#unity
#victory

[Marie Merkel @MarieMerkel]

@CheyenneHuntCA @aseitzwald This is my neighborhood. Platner would help Troy Jackson immensely by keeping as low a profile as possible. Anything else is selfish. It will seem like he's missing the sugar high of adoring crowds.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

THEY NEED THE PUBLIC TO KNOW WHAT ICE IS DOING TO THEM.

https://t.co/6QdRQVzdcz

Maryam Tahmasebi and her husband are professors. They are legal permanent residents with valid green cards and no criminal records. Yet ICE detained them and their high-school-aged son, handcuffed the child, shipped the family from Los Angeles to Texas, and separated Maryam and her son from her husband.

After more than 120 days, the family remains imprisoned. Maryam says they are permitted to speak with her husband for only 10 minutes every two weeks. Even when they asked to leave the United States voluntarily, the government opposed it.

This is not public safety. It is bloodline punishment, family separation and calculated cruelty.

Read Maryam’s own words. Share them everywhere. Make this family impossible to ignore.

[Marie Merkel @MarieMerkel]

@realMGHein @MaineDems @TroyJackson207 A zoom call - it was over 600 and rising when I logged on.

[Barbara pragmatic dem @realcavewoman]

@RoKhanna @FrancescaHongWI Ro, you need to give this lecture to your own people. Because Normie Dems aren’t like you guys. We are team players.
You saw how quickly & unequivocally Haley endorsed Abdul? Please encourage this kind of behavior in your own base. They don’t seem to be capable of it. Yet, anyway

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

Maine rules. Accept no substitutes.

(Pond name redacted to protect innocent swim holes)

[Marie Merkel @MarieMerkel]

@AlinejadMasih I listen. And hurt for these beautiful young people you show me.

[Troy Jackson @TroyJackson207]

RT if you don’t want Elon Musk’s dirty money in our politics.

[Marie Merkel @MarieMerkel]

Who is financing this hatred for the Jewish people?

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Hunter Biden: The only thing that I say about my dad, about his health right now, is I wish he would complain more because it’s not good.

The cancer has spread and metastasized into his bones and further. It’s very painful

[Marie Merkel @MarieMerkel]

@WalshFreedom That was clear in the summer of 2016, back when Paul Mannafort rewrote the Republican platform as a love note to Putin.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

I was on CNN about 14 months ago. Same discussion then - Why isn’t Trump helping Ukraine? I was tired of the back & forth tiptoeing, so when it was my turn to speak, I said “Let’s quit beating around the bush. Trump is a Russian asset. He works for Putin. Period.” The moderator responded with the “to be clear, CNN has no evidence of that, blah, blah, blah…”
Whatever. 14 months later, I hold to it - “Donald Trump is a Russian asset.”👇

[Jordan Wood @JordanWood]

This week alone: the President sold early access to his posts, kept his family's IRS immunity in writing, and made his own criminal defense lawyer Attorney General.

Susan Collins could only muster concern once.

87 days.

[Marie Merkel @MarieMerkel]

@RepDonBacon @scottlincicome Donald Trump. America's 1st Communist President.

[Russ Roberts @EconTalker]

What is appalling about this is the application of "bloodthirsty" to an entire nation. He says we've gotten "so bloodthirsty" under Netanyahu. (This is after describing the entire country as "an illegal apartheid regime" ignoring the 2 million Arab-Israelis with full rights.) You can criticize what Israel has done since October 7. But there is nothing "bloodthirsty" about it. We could have leveled Gaza with the people in it. We could have leveled Gaza without sending in troops on the ground who die. Now that the hostages are out, if we were bloodthirsty, we would take real revenge. We did none of those things. Instead, we warned the population when we were coming to their neighborhood. Is that consistent with being "bloodthirsty?" We sent food in enormous amounts knowing that Hamas would steal most or all of it? Is that "bloodthirsty?" I wish someone would ask him what he means by that other than the implication that this country is a nation of vengeful vampires, subhumans, deserving to be harmed or killed. And I can't tell you how many Israelis I know who have served for months in Gaza or on the Lebanon border who have not a vengeful bone in their body. They are sick of war as we all are and want to come home. To call them bloodthirsty is despicable and is an example of what @DavidDeutschOxf calls The Pattern--the excusing and justifying of hurting or killing Jews.

[Saint Javelin @saintjavelin]

The cruel irony is that Oleksii Yukov was killed by a landmine while recovering the remains of Russian soldiers.

He often said that every fallen soldier deserved to come home. He called them “souls,” not bodies. His mission was to bring Ukraine’s defenders back to their families for a proper burial. He also recovered Russian soldiers so they could be exchanged, allowing more Ukrainian heroes to return home.

His death is an immeasurable loss for Ukraine. And, whether they realize it or not, it is also a loss for Russia. The very people celebrating his death are cheering the loss of someone who helped ensure their own dead did not remain abandoned on a battlefield.

Oleksii believed that every family deserved the chance to bury their loved ones. He lived by that principle until his very last day. Ukraine lost an extraordinary man.

[Marie Merkel @MarieMerkel]

@AlinejadMasih The cruelty is overwhelming - in that hot land to force a woman into all black, head to toe.

[SPRAVDI — Stratcom Centre @StratcomCentre]

Russians have destroyed the 300 year old Holy Nativity Church in Beryslav – the only surviving example in Ukraine of 18th-century wooden Cossack religious architecture.

The church was built in 1725 from oak logs, without a single metal nail. It survived wars, empires, and Soviet anti-religious campaigns.

In 1784, the Cossacks transported the church across the Dnipro River from Peryvolochne to Beryslav, where it stood for over two centuries.

On August 1, a Russian drone completely destroyed the shrine. This is the 337th Ukrainian church destroyed or damaged by Russia since the beginning of the full-scale invasion.

The destruction of the church is yet another act of cultural genocide and a deliberate attack on Ukrainian shrines.

[Troy Jackson @TroyJackson207]

Our fight has never changed. From universal healthcare to reproductive rights to dependable childcare, now's our time to say to the system: This isn't working.

[Marie Merkel @MarieMerkel]

@brhodes Hasan Piker.