Matt Stripte

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

What?!?! Why???

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Trump: "I didn't guarantee no war."

Trump guaranteeing no more wars:

[Matt Stripte @mattstripte]

@RichardHanania Probably many of your ancestors, leading to your existence, such that you’d not exist if at least transient empathy was not attained instead that the world was pure aggressive competition. Consequent higher mortality attrition would likely lower probability of you existing today

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Think about all the column inches and headlines devoted to Graham Platner over the past week versus Ken Paxton and then tell me again we have a ‘liberal’ media.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

It is time to end this war. But Russia’s ruler wants to keep fighting. That is why Ukrainian sanctions against this aggression are working. Last night, our drones covered a distance of about 1,000 kilometers to the St. Petersburg region – to the enemy navy’s arsenals and a base in Kronstadt. Our long-range sanctions also reached about 500 kilometers into the Krasnodar region – and hit an oil depot. These are important results of the joint efforts by warriors from the Armed Forces of Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine, and the Defense Intelligence of Ukraine. Russia must end its war and stop its attacks on life. Any manifestation of injustice against Ukraine will receive a just response. I thank our warriors for their precision.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

The intense media focus on Graham Platner is understandable. He is an unknown in a crucial Senate race with a lot of baggage. Less understandable is the lack of coverage of Ken Paxton, whose sins are far worse. That it is “old news” is no excuse. Most voters have no clue.

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

One year ago today

(Musk later deleted this post.)

[Matt Stripte @mattstripte]

@ExtraTH61688879 @AgentCoopr702 @Indistinct__ @NateSilver538 Who said the democrats are my party?

[Matt Stripte @mattstripte]

@ExtraTH61688879 @AgentCoopr702 @Indistinct__ @NateSilver538 Here’s the difference between you and I: any Democrat in the files with close ties to epstein should be in prison. Easy. And no-conspiracy mongering / “dems being in the files is fake news” from me. Release all the unscrubbed files and let’s do this. Alright, your turn, DARVO

[Matt Stripte @mattstripte]

@AgentCoopr702 @Indistinct__ @NateSilver538 What would you do if you found out Trump was referenced more times in the Epstein files than Jesus was referenced in the Bible? I mean aside from obfuscating and calling it fake news, the whole DARVO bit. Aside from that, what would you do?

[Matt Stripte @mattstripte]

@cyates1978 @NicholesCage @denise_patriot @jamestalarico @LePapillonBlu2 Trump is referenced in the files more times than Jesus is referenced in the Bible. If it walks like a duck….
MAGA eagerly conducts spurious dot connecting with their foes without troves & troves of files to back the claims, but turn skeptic when it comes to T and his boy Epstein

[Matt Stripte @mattstripte]

@WesleyFromFL @cremieuxrecueil I wonder if people were ever happy before the advent of the office. Thank the heavens the office was invented, the human race is saved because one can collect 80K sitting behind a screen downtown instead of in a suburb.

[John Hudson @John_Hudson]

A new Post analysis finds the video showing the Trump administration’s recent Pentagon appointee clambering into the Capitol on Jan. 6

[Christo Grozev @christogrozev]

AfD is holding direct talks with a "company" that is running four private military companies, a direct participant - not just a funder - in the war in Ukraine. https://t.co/yBIocR7JfD

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

India has sent 96 people to America who started billion dollar companies. No one else is even close.

There's only about 5 million Indians in America. Almost one in 50,000 of them is a unicorn founder!

What a holy, special, beautiful people.

I will always fight for them.

[Moy Miz @moymiz]

Russia doesn’t do tourist visas for Americans right now. The State Dept has a Level 4 advisory - Do not travel. So when @RealCandaceO shows up in Moscow calling it a “family vacation,” ask yourself: how does that happen?

Remember Brittney Griner? Russia held her like a chess piece until we traded a literal arms dealer to get her back. Americans aren’t tourists to the Kremlin; they’re assets.

Candace didn’t sneak in. She was invited to speak at Putin’s own economic forum, alongside sanctioned Russian state figures. The only way an American walks into Russia in 2026 is if Russia opens the door.

Call it what you want. But nothing about that trip was a vacation.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Trump hasn’t made a public appearance in 8 days. This after an unscheduled visit to the hospital- because he “likes getting check ups.” Thank God Jake Tapper (or as I like to call him- the Brick Tamland of his generation) is on the case hunting down clues in a book about my mom’s experience as First Lady four years ago.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.