Mark Veres

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

Lindsey Graham was a simple, tragic man. He lacked a moral core. The great empty spaces of his life were filled with an insatiable need for “relevance.” He found it as a cast member in the most malignant reality show ever made.

https://t.co/DoUCOvHC5t

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

Unreal . So corrupt

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: Sources told CNN that Trump has been fuming over reports about security concerns surrounding the $400 million gift from Qatar, and was embarrassed and angry in recent days after it became public that the plane wasn’t properly equipped to fly directly from the NATO summit in Turkey back home

[The Jazz Estate @thejazzestate]

Remembering the great Lee Morgan who was born this week in 1938. A prodigy known as the most expressive trumpet virtuoso of the bop idiom and one of its most popular performers, Morgan was a professional musician at age 15, and at 18 he was a featured soloist with the Dizzy Gillespie big band.

His attack was aggressive; half-valved, slurred, and stuttered notes lent expressive character to his lines. Emotional complexities, from exuberance to dark moods, were typical of his improvising, as evidenced by his melodic intricacy and great rhythmic poise.

He began leading his own recording sessions in the late 1950s, at first exhibiting a style modeled on Clifford Brown’s trumpeting. Even then, however, idiosyncratic elements of phrasing and expression appeared in his playing, elements that were integrated into a personal style during his first tenure with Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers.

Morgan was also part of multi-instrumentalist Rahsaan Roland Kirk’s Jazz and People’s Movement where they organized protests and pickets, specifically targeting major television networks to demand better representation, fair broadcasting opportunities for Black artists, and an end to racist practices in show business. The black liberation movement of the late-60s gave the musician a new, political impulse, and he returned to the jazz scene to become a vociferous campaigner for black musicians’ rights and representation.

Here, he is performing “Angela” with Billy Harper on tenor saxophone, Harold Mabern on piano, Jymie Merritt on bass and Freddie Waits on drums live on Soul! in 1972. The tune was composed by bassist Jymie Merritt and is dedicated to Marxist feminist activist and author Angela Davis.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Deploys private police.
Seizes ballots.
Prosecutes his political enemies.
Purges watchdogs.
SUBPOENAS THE FREE PRESS.

If only there were a word for that.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

KELLOGG: Putin just wants power. He's lost 1.2 to 1.4 million soldiers. Numbers are astronomical. We as Americans would never accept that. He's doing this for power and to occupy all of Ukraine. But he can't, and he's not winning. I think he's worried about his own survival now.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

Joe Biden is not stopping thrashing Donald Trump 🔥

🇺🇸Trump at 5:00 PM: "I have not taken a single rupee as a salary as president."

🇺🇸Biden at 6:00 PM🔥: "Wow, what a sacrifice. You have made billions looting taxpayer money since returning as president. No shame. It’s the corruption. Shut up, loser."

Absolute cinema by Biden 🎥

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

A severely mentally ill man has control of the launch codes for America's nuclear arsenal, but it doesn't seem that many people care.

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

A Trump quote without his voice or face - Trump without Trump. This quote is unedited and 100% accurate. This is from the G7 Summit on June 17, 2026.

Granite is Strong

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Here’s Trump repeatedly lying to journalists on his way back from Turkey, falsely claiming there were no security concerns with his Qatar gifted plane

He’s desperately trying to bury the story because he doesn’t want people remembering that he accepted a luxury jet from Qatar, that it’ll end up at his presidential library after he leaves office, and that hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars were spent upgrading it, yet it’s still not secure enough to carry the President of the United States.

No wonder they subpoenaed the New York Times journalists who reported on it. Sick!

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump started a war with Iran and assassinated their leaders. The US government had been bombing the country for months and killing civilians. There’s no moral high ground here despite Trump’s preemptive effort to cast himself as a victim.

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

We exist in a society where the same people who believe a man built a boat big enough for two of every animal in the world don't believe in climate science because it’s “unproven.”

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is outrageous. Taxpayers are spending hundreds of millions of dollars, with some outside estimates as high as $1 billion, to retrofit Qatar Force One.

Yet when it came time to leave the NATO summit in Turkey, Trump didn’t even fly home on it.

He switched back to the existing Air Force One for the first leg of the trip.

Reports indicate the Qatari jet still lacks some of the specialized defensive systems and command capabilities built into the current presidential aircraft.

So we’re spending an enormous amount of taxpayer money to modify a foreign gift, and it still isn’t a full replacement for the aircraft we already have.

The Constitution’s Foreign Emoluments Clause was designed to guard against foreign influence over American officials. A foreign government giving a luxury aircraft to a sitting president is exactly the kind of arrangement the clause was intended to prevent.

We’re also only about two years away from receiving the new Air Force One aircraft that we already ordered from Boeing. And under the administration’s plan, this aircraft would ultimately be transferred to Trump’s presidential library in Florida.

Totally unacceptable.

It should remain the property of the United States. Personally, I’d sell it once he’s out of office and recover what taxpayers can. This has become an extraordinarily expensive vanity project.

https://t.co/LUjbovul1j

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

Greg Gutfeld seemed really concerned about the sexual assault allegations against Graham Platner. He sounded quite different a couple of years ago when a jury found Donald J. Trump liable for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll. I have receipts.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Imagine if any other president did this.

Just months before the midterms, the bipartisan federal commission that helps states administer elections has been disbanded by Trump.

Would your reaction be exactly the same?

https://t.co/RToCLoFEcP

[Andrew Coyne 🇺🇦🇮🇱🇬🇪🇲🇩 @acoyne]

You can’t actually govern from the grave. “Left instructions”? On what authority would they be followed?

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

This is Epic 🔥

🇺🇸Trump at 3:00 PM: "I have been No. 1 on Iran’s assassination list."

🇮🇷Araghchi at 4:00 PM: "Have you noticed the pattern? Whenever there is an election, Trump automatically plays the ‘assination’ script. We have seen this a number of times. This time he is blaming Iran."

Araghchi is playing 7D chess with Trump 🔥

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Your President 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Reporter: What are your plans for the housing affordability bill?

Trump: I don't know. It's so unimportant.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

Trump has nothing on schedule for the next three days except a photo op in Oval Office at 3pm. He is refusing to pass a bipartisan Bill unless Congress gives him the power to cheat in the next election. This is not democracy, it’s a heist by a deranged drug addict. He’s a coward.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Where the fuck is Congress?!?!?