Ma Tom

*views are my own

[Ma Tom @matomlins]

@RecoveryDoctor Yes!

[Ma Tom @matomlins]

@RadioFreeTom Congratulations! Love it when the author reads their own book for the audiobook. 👊🏼

[Ma Tom @matomlins]

@DGlaucomflecken Starters, salad & pizza @ Oblio’s 😀 (Welvome!)

[Brett Meiselas @BMeiselas]

Stock markets at record highs, low unemployment, wage growth exceeds inflation, the best handling of inflation of any G7 nation, energy independence, and I can go on and on and on...But no matter how this result lands, whether VP Harris ekes this out or not, it is amazing how unappreciated successful governance was in this election and how Americans are so willing to bring back into office the guy who caused all the destruction.

[Ma Tom @matomlins]

@RadioFreeTom Tom, she is growing so fast.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Powerful, moral, patriotic woman beats pro-Russian man - in Moldovan presidential election

[Ma Tom @matomlins]

@MollyJongFast Congratulations, Molly. 👊🏼

[Ma Tom @matomlins]

@RadioFreeTom Live Lily-kitten! 😀

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

I’ve been all over the country in the last month.

And I get asked the same question, over and over again:

“I disagree with Kamala’s position on the war in Gaza. How can I vote for her?”

Here is my answer:

[Squawk Box @SquawkCNBC]

.@TheEconomist is endorsing Kamala Harris for president. "We have editorials every week advising politicians around the world on what to do," says Editor in Chief Zanny Beddoes. "So it would be weird for us not to put that together and offer our assessment of a candidate."

[Ma Tom @matomlins]

@AnandWrites https://t.co/P3hAHgthOj

[Constanze 🇪🇺 Stelzenmüller @ConStelz]

Read this (as always) extraordinarily perceptive and chilling @Politico interview with my @BrookingsFP colleague Fiona, who knows an oligarch when she sees one 👇 👇 👇

[Ma Tom @matomlins]

Bye, AmazonPrime. ⁦@amazon⁩ ⁦@PrimeVideo⁩

[ProPublica @propublica]

“We want the bureaucrats to be traumatically affected,” said a key Trump adviser. “When they wake up in the morning, we want them to not want to go to work because they are increasingly viewed as the villains. We want their funding to be shut down."
https://t.co/UZLMYWy5yi

[DCPetterson.bsky.social @dcpetterson]

Heather Cox Richardson's column today discusses a pamphlet the US War Department (now, Dept of Defense) published in 1935 on the topic of fascism. Here is a sample. It sounds frighteningly familiar. It is Trumpist rhetoric, exactly.

[Liz Mair @LizMair]

Wait, Frank Donatelli is endorsing Harris?!

I know few people know who the fuck Frank Donatelli is, but I know and I think this is quite significant.

I worked with Frank at the RNC. I am not sure I would have ever foreseen this.

[piper perabo @PiperPerabo]

Having a #Montana farmer, @jontester, in the Senate matters. He fights for good schools, good health care, affordable homes.

His opponent is a wealthy outsider who wants to transfer public lands and end reproductive freedom.

Make your plan to vote → https://t.co/SLFW2R0Xp1

[Ma Tom @matomlins]

Michelle Obama gives us reasons not to sit out this vote, nor vote for TFG nor a 3rd party— the autonomy of women is at stake. #Harris_Walz2024

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

That speech Michelle Obama just gave was one of the best of this entire cycle. She is unbelievable. Here’s how she brought it home.

[Ma Tom @matomlins]

Bringing this back: Project 2025 tells us what the *exact* game plan is. Vote to secure our freedom, to protect the Constitution and secure law and order and rights for everyone. #Harris_Walz2024

[Donna Brazile @donnabrazile]

Well. From the mouth of #SteveBannon. Believe them when they tell you that it’s full on assault on the US Government. #Project25 is no lie. It’s packed with revenge, resentment and retribution.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Against Pessmism
my German Peace Prize lecture, adapted by @TheAtlantic
https://t.co/rY70Zg24G3