Dwight Weiding

A fan of whatever is loving, peaceful and beautiful, What is better than kindness?

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

Some good news for a change! A judge ruled that Trump’s freeze on processing immigration applications for 39 countries is illegal and that processing must restart immediately.

This ruling is a step in the right direction. Let’s keep up the fight.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Trump wants to create a national database of every registered voter in the country.

Then, he and the GOP want to decide who gets to stay on it.

“It’s a way of essentially taking over the voter registration process,” Marc Elias says, “or, more precisely, taking over the results.”

[Ben Crump @AttorneyCrump]

A federal judge has ordered the restoration of historical materials that were removed from national parks and historical sites across this country. These are not just signs and exhibits. These are the stories of enslaved people, civil rights leaders, indigenous communities, women who fought for suffrage, and immigrants who helped build this nation. Even with this ruling, the effort to erase our history continues. We will not look away and we will not back down.

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Applebaum: What binds Russia, China, Iran and North Korea is not religion or ideology.

China is communist, Russia nationalist, Iran theocratic. What binds them is fear of liberal language: rights, rule of law, separation of powers and independent courts. 1/

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

🥹❤️‍🩹In this video, we see a moment impossible to watch without tears. Children meeting their father, a Ukrainian soldier, for the first time or after a long separation. A man who means everything to them. A man who has stood where the fate of a nation is decided every day.

And in that single moment, everything disappears — the front line, explosions, distance, time. Only one thing remains: tight childhood embraces that are stronger than any armor.

Ukrainian soldiers hold the sky and the ground every single day.
And their children hold, with their hearts, what no one can see.

Sometimes the greatest victory is simply coming home — and being embraced.

🕊️ If this video touched you, share it. So we never forget: behind every defender, there are those who are waiting.

📹 Video: yanusyakulivaraytsushena

[U.S. Rep. Brittany Pettersen @RepPettersen]

Republicans voted this week to hand ICE and CBP an additional $70 billion — and still refused to guarantee even the most basic standards of humane treatment for the people in their custody.

No child, no senior, no one should be forced to spend days in a cramped holding cell that was designed for only a few hours of temporary processing. That's why I'm introducing legislation to ban extended long-term detention in these facilities. If we fail to uphold that basic dignity and decency, then we have lost ourselves as a country.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

It’s obvious that the revoking of the legal status of 530,000 Immigrants is all about racism and not whether they came here the right way.

[UAVoyager🇺🇦 @NAFOvoyager]

Pure hell in Vasylkivka, Dnipropetrovsk region.

russians dropped 12 KAB glide bombs on a market. A fucking market.

A Saturday morning — people just coming out to sell what they have.

Just a regular, everyday market… gone in an instant.

[D.Radka, #NAFO 🇨🇿🤝🇺🇦 @DakdaR22]

- Kallas: "We have to understand that in this war, there is one aggressor and one victim.

We haven't heard of any concessions on the Russian side.

If Russia really wanted peace, it could have had agreed to unconditional ceasefire already some time ago..."

This is true...I agree absolutely!

[Rep. Dan Goldman @RepDanGoldman]

First, @SecKennedy refused to pay the legal non-profits representing unaccompanied minors for work they did per a contract.

Now, @SecMullinDHS is sending federal agents to ambush their offices and demand confidential client records without a warrant.

This is disgusting intimidation and a massive waste of time, resources, and money.

The cruelty of this administration targeting the most vulnerable along us is repulsive and un-American.

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Amsterdam has it's Anne Frank House with it's warning against fascism, Berlin has it Topography of Terror on the site Nazi, Gestapo and SS headquarters, could we convert Mar-a-Lago into a memorial museum about sexual abuse, trafficking, power, impunity, and the exploitation of women and children?

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The US can just congratulate Russia on continuing to slaughter Ukrainian civilians with advanced military weaponry every day.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

28 years and Hegseth cancels it. This isn’t anti-DEI. It’s hate designed to push them out of service. — Air Force cites DEI ban in cancellation of wreath-laying honoring women vets https://t.co/Lu6vBCVJ8R

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE tackle U.S. citizen—shoot him with taser after already pinned to ground.

4 agents hold the man face down—while 5th agent tazed him in the back.

Another agent points a weapon at a witness.

"Don't point that at me again," man says.

"I don't feel safe," agent yells back. "It's whatever I say—Get back!"

The man detained was a community volunteer with VC Defensa.

Incident occurred in an area open to the public at the Ventura County Government Center in Ventura, California.

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

"It is so fucking obvious that it was and continues to be in real time a cover-up. Because if you didn't do anything wrong, Donald Trump, if you didn't commit crimes, Donald Trump, then why are people scrambling to protect your ass?"

Katie Phang reacts to the NY Times' bombshell reporting on the Epstein files.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Carol Leonnig: “…what we were hearing last night…was that the Ohio Organizing Collaborative…one of its offices in Cleveland was targeted and raided by FBI agents yesterday. In addition to that, what we learned was that a series of FBI agents were fanning out across the state…to interview people and approach them at their homes, who had worked as volunteers registering voters, or as canvassers for the collaborative, and those interviews, if you can call them that, were conducted often WITHOUT warrants…So FBI agents were essentially just going into people’s homes and saying we’d like to ask you a few questions, which is NOT how the FBI normally investigates these kinds of matters…their great concern is that this is part of a larger Trump administration effort to basically target swing states and to target pro democracy organizations who might register Democratic voters, or help them register to vote, and question and sow distrust in those swing states in the integrity of the elections.” 😳

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: CNN Just Highlighted A Pretty Devastating Number.

84% of Americans say the Epstein files reinforce their belief that powerful people are rarely held accountable.

Think about that.

Not 84% of Democrats.

Not 84% of Republicans.

84% of Americans.

The breakdown was even more striking:

- 82% of Republicans
- 80% of Independents
- 90% of Democrats

Prediction markets have reportedly lowered the odds that Todd Blanche becomes Trump's next Attorney General.

The Epstein controversy isn't creating distrust.

It's validating distrust that was already there.

And now it's starting to affect people connected to the administration.

[Barry R McCaffrey @mccaffreyr3]

A disgrace.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The DOJ just gave approval to Paramount — owned by the billionaire Trump allies Larry and David Ellison — to buy Warner Bros Discovery.

Trump is advancing his scheme to control the media in broad daylight.

State AGs must step in and block this deal.

[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.