Mark LaFlaur

Writer, editor. Author of “Elysian Fields” and “What Fresh Hell? The Best of Levees Not War, 2005–2015.” Founder of

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Gloria Steinem believed women's equality wasn't a side issue—it was everything. She fought for the right to abortion access, credit, and careers. Because of her, women can occupy spaces we were never supposed to. Thank you, Gloria.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Ships traveling between the upper Great Lakes and the Atlantic must pass through Canada’s Welland Canal. The 27-mile canal and all 8 of its locks are entirely in Ontario, meaning a significant portion of US Great Lakes maritime trade depends on Canadian-controlled infrastructure.

[👑 ♤ Lake Ontario  @LakeOntario16]

I was given my name by the Iroquois Nation many hundreds of years ago. By 1660 my name was printed on maps by the Europeans as they accepted the Native name which means Beautiful waters.
In 1867 the Canadian government decided to use my name for their providence.

[Tomlin and Wagner @LilyTomlin]

Friend. Songwriter. The Great Harmonizer of Humanity. Dolly. Dolly. Dolly. Forever Dolly.

[Tom Malinowski @Malinowski]

I helped pass this law in 2020. It's purpose is to prevent drug traffickers, Russian & Chinese kleptocrats, and other international criminals from setting up anonymously owned companies to hide their money in the US. Trump's Treasury Dept. is doing this to help criminals. 1/

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Thanks to Trump's war of choice in Iran, the Pentagon has used 1,500+ Patriot interceptor missiles in the war and has fewer than 1,700 interceptors left. The United States produced about 600 interceptors in all of 2025. https://t.co/8zkXHBAaWW

[Acyn @Acyn]

MacFarlane: Some national park service workers are so alarmed, they leaked internal spreadsheets that show where the money is going. 

We added the numbers together and found for the white house grounds for the vanity projects, the beautification and the needed upgrades: They've set aside $323 million for this year…

$323 million compared to $7 million for the white house in 2024. That's a 5,000% increase. 

National mall has a ten fold increase from 2024 for projects that are the president's priority. 

Doesn't mean the money is directly being starved out of Yosemite, Yellowstone, Mount Zion, Grand Canyon. But we checked those parks all have significantly less funding allotted for them this year than they did two years ago, and there's a $30 billion backlog of deferred maintenance

They are going to have to shortchange important projects throughout America to marshal donated money or taxpayer money on things like a reflecting pool, a helipad, a ballroom, and other vanity projects.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Today the Islamic Republic of Iran essentially declared that Donald Trump is too mentally deranged and pathologically deceitful to negotiate with... so they won't.

And you know what? They're right. That's a normal, rational, adult position.

So why don't we see it inside the US?

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

This photo of Cassidy was taken just after he announced his intention to vote for Blanche. REUTERS/Nathan Howard

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Trump wants his lawyer running the DOJ.

Todd Blanche represented Trump personally.

He helped create Trump's "Anti-Weaponization Fund."

He helped negotiate IRS protections for Trump.

And he wants Dobbs to be permanent nationwide.

That's not an independent AG. That's a fixer.

[Nancy Pelosi @TeamPelosi]

Four pillars protect Americans' health and financial security: Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, ACA. Republicans are gutting them ALL to enrich their MAGA donors.

#RepublicanMedicareCuts will take away vital medications from millions of seniors.

Enough. Vote them OUT.

[Richard Campanella @nolacampanella]

Bayou Manchac is a serene and obscure waterway today.

Not so in the 1700s.

"What Might Have Happened at Manchac,"
by yours truly:

https://t.co/t4ej1rysng

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

A reminder: when Zelenskyy offered to share Ukraine’s anti-drone expertise with the US back in March, Trump said he was “the last person we need help from”.

Trumps assessment was arrogant and naïve.

Ukrainian companies are world leaders in drone production and innovation.

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

Your mom's Medicare Advantage dental coverage? Republicans just voted to cut it. Her hearing aids? Gone. Her vision benefits? Slashed. The Big Ugly Bill hits January 1st. We must vote Republicans out of Congress in November. #RepublicanMedicareCuts

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

TWEEPS: 25 million seniors will open their Medicare Part D renewal letters this fall and find out Republicans raised their drug costs.

Less than 100 days before the midterms.

They should ALL remember who did this. #RepublicanMedicareCuts

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

I know a lot of people have already posted about it. But it's really just... I don't know. The president is selling 6-figure access to his social media feed so Wall Street algorithms can beat you to the punch and fleece you before news even hits your phone. He's making millions on a system designed to give a massive advantage to major corporate traders who can afford a feed that gives them information first. It's the single most corrupt thing I've ever seen a politician do with their office. Literally.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “You know, you live long enough, you realize that there are some days, there are some times, when the bill comes due. You know, you’ve done things in the past, perhaps ill advised, things you kinda knew at the time weren’t a good idea, and sometimes you are able to skate by for a little while, you get away with that stuff for a little while, but eventually you learn in this life, that the bill comes due. We’re having one of those times in the news right now. So for example, when we as a country elected this president, he decided in his infinite wisdom, that he would immediately allow his top campaign donor @elonmusk, to cut whole swaths of US government capacity based on nothing but Elon Musk’s own say so, and his gut feelings. So things that took decades if not generations to build up, some of these things the gold standard government capacity for the whole world, President Donald Trump just said hey, you’re my top campaign donor, as far as I’m concerned, that gives you the right to sledgehammer the US government to your heart’s content. I don’t care, you enjoy yourself. And that is how thousands of subject matter experts, and forest rangers and specialist lawyers, and prosecutors, and scientists, and and and, it’s how all these people lost their jobs and their careers in the US government. But it’s also how we as a country lost things like say a project that had been funded, that was shovel ready, expertly planned, much needed, ready to go, a project to build FIRE BREAKS in the Superior National Forest in Minnesota. Elon Musk and Donald Trump did not care enough or were not bright enough to understand what a project like that might conceivably be for, and so they [killed] it…Trump in his wisdom literally stopped funding last year for the shovel ready project to build fire breaks in the Superior National Forest in Minnesota, so there would be less to burn, so it would be EASIER to fight any fire that did break out…He and Elon Musk stopped the funding of that project and so now, the bill has come due. The Superior National Forest in Minnesota, as we speak, is on fire. Thank you DOGE. Thank you Donald Trump…”🙄🤦‍♀️

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

You should also give quite a bit of grace to Ossoff here, if you're disappointed by these answers.

This interview is from 2020, when he was running to unseat a GOP incumbent in a state that hadn't voted for a Dem at the federal level this century.

[Michael Fischer @MikeFischerWx]

We will officially have #TD2 in the Gulf here shortly. Model guidance has been trending a bit more aggressive with the system, but there still exists a large amount of uncertainty. A forecast track paralleling the coast makes this forecast especially challenging.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Sen. Mark Warner: "The only election that Trump is concerned about is 2020. That was the election that his administration was in charge of. As a matter of fact, Mr. Ratcliffe was DNI then. He's CIA director now. If there were mistakes made, why is he CIA director?"