Max Lee

[Max Lee @maximusalee]

@atrupar Point out in a loud way that the ANNUAL cost of the bill is 350bn or half what we spend on defense currently. Otherwise we should be equally facetious about the 7+tn defense spending over the next decade (with projected increases). It’s a priorities problem. #BuildBackBetter

[Max Lee @maximusalee]

@SpeakerJohnson @Republicans You work for a felon, philanderer, charity fraud, failure of a businessman who needlessly started a war and made the whole world worse off as a result.

[Max Lee @maximusalee]

I mean, @POTUS usually hires people he knows personally that have done work for or with him in the past. Given everything we heard from Stormy Daniels, this shouldn’t surprise anyone too much. #kakistocracy

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Oh we’re so fucked.

[Errol Louis (@errollouis.bsky.social) @errollouis]

This is the best news you will see today.

[Gary Marcus @GaryMarcus]

So true. “Being right too soon is socially unacceptable”

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

JUST IN: John Eastman, the conservative attorney who helped devise President Trump's last ditch strategy to overturn the 2020 presidential election, has officially been disbarred, per the California Supreme Court.:

[Max Lee @maximusalee]

@WhiteHouse Just waiting for his golden statue next as his followers bow down before it in worship

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

To everyone celebrating Easter, Michelle and I wish you a joyful holiday filled with reminders of the enduring power of faith and hope.

[JDubb @DankJesusMemesX]

@WalshFreedom

[Unlimited L's @unlimited_ls]

NEW: Musician Murphy Campbell says she isn’t making money on YouTube because an AI company is cloning her music and filing copyright claims against her own videos

“An entity called Timeless Sounds IR uploaded AI-generated versions of my songs to all major streaming platforms...

They used a distributor, which I just discovered, and that distributor’s name is Vydia. They used Vydia to upload all these AI-generated songs.

Vydia has since decided to make copyright claims on all of the videos that were used to feed that AI engine to sound like me.

So Vydia has come forward and made copyright claims on my YouTube page.

Because YouTube does not personally review these things, I am no longer making money on YouTube.

Vydia is making money on YouTube off of my own videos of me playing my own banjo in my own backyard with traditional folk songs, some for my own family, over AI-generated music.”

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

@IngrahamAngle Can you give us a list of the Democratic elected officials or other prominent Democrats who have expressed their disappointment in his rescue? The only one trying to turn the rescue into a partisan political issue on Easter morning is you.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Have you ever seen a more unbalanced, unhinged, emotionally UNSTABLE person leading the Pentagon, especially during war times? I haven't.

Yelling at the press for using trump's OWN words.

Hegseth is in over his head. Impeach him, before he costs more American lives.

[Kamala Harris @KamalaHarris]

Donald Trump votes by mail. But this week, he signed an Executive Order so you can’t.

Why? Because he is scared of your power, and he is scared of losing the midterms.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

TRUMP STARTED A DAMN WAR WITH IRAN SO HIS KIDS, ERIC AND DON JR, COULD GET RICH SELLING DRONES IN THE MIDDLE EAST!!!

On top of that, he wants $1.5 trillion MORE taxpayer funds for his war, but nothing for American families.

Y'all were mad about Hunter Biden selling a painting.

[Lorraine E-Van-Off @LorraineEvanoff]

Fucking outrageous. And highly illegal.

"Trump has grifted his entire life. Now he’s just taking it.

The State Department transferred $1.25 billion in foreign aid to Trump’s Board of Peace, pulling $1 billion from international disaster assistance, $200 million from peacekeeping operations, and $50 million from international organizations.

Money that Congress authorized for hurricanes and refugees, moved without a congressional vote, into a fund that Trump created by executive order and controls personally. When reporters asked the State Department about it, a spokesperson said they had nothing to announce at this time.

The Board of Peace has one defining characteristic. Trump controls it forever. He named himself chairman for life. No audits. No transparency requirements. No conflict of interest rules.

Countries pay $1 billion into a fund he runs to get a seat at the table. It has transferred nothing to Gaza, disclosed nothing about its spending, and received $1.25 billion of your disaster relief money without a word of explanation.

When he leaves the White House he keeps the fund. That is not a loophole. That is the design."

He’s Not Grifting Anymore. He’s Just Taking It. https://t.co/eYb5g4g9bR

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

The Army Chief of Staff, a combat veteran with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, asked Pete Hegseth why he was blocking the promotions of two Black officers and two female officers who had earned them.

Hegseth refused to answer. Then he fired him.

Nine U.S. officials told NBC News that Hegseth has blocked or delayed promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military.

Hegseth has now fired or sidelined more than a dozen generals and admirals.

He is an out-of-control, unqualified former TV host and nobody in the Republican Party will say a word about it because they don’t want to make Trump angry.

https://t.co/WgdehtOAC3

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Stephen Miller praised Trump for several minutes. Then Trump turned to Kash Patel and said, “Kash, see if you can top that.”

Patel: “Mr. President, thank you for delivering the safest country on God’s green Earth.”

Straight up North Korea vibes

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: Trump claims Obama “gave Iran the right to a nuclear weapon.”

That’s not what happened.

Under Obama’s deal:

Iran’s enrichment capped at 3.67%.

After Trump tore it up:

Iran escalated to 60%+ — just short of weapons-grade.

Deal in place → program contained.
Deal gone → program accelerates.

Facts matter.

[Max Lee @maximusalee]

This summary is spot on. Whoever wins next has one of the heaviest uphill battles just to get back to neutrally functioning federal government domestically.

International relations? I’m fairly certain that many of those bridges have been solidly destroyed.

[The Dread duck Pirate Mark Brooks 𓅊 @MarkBrooksArt]

Here’s the thing. We are going to HATE the next democratic president. Because they’re going to have to spend 4 years fixing our incredibly broken govt while figuring out how to restore our economy while mending nearly all our international relationships. All while addressing a country that’s basically insolvent. We got pilfered by the current administration so there’s entire systems that got wiped out while contractors and corporations got bloated off our tax dollars via special favors for and from Trump. This is going to mean higher taxes across the board and massive sacrifices just to get us back to neutral. Trump stole and gave away billions while wrecking every institution he could get his hands on. It’s going to hurt to fix them all and regain what we lost. This will all be while a restored justice dept prosecutes dozens of people in the Trump administration for massive corruption. It’s going to get very messy. I honestly don’t know how they’ll be able to do it and be able to win a second term. The majority of the country won’t understand why it’s necessary for their/our future.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

FOX NEWS: Why isn't Trump involved in trying to end the government shutdown?

MIKE JOHNSON: I think he is involved

FOX NEWS: He shot down the plan yesterday

JOHNSON: Well, that's what's been reported

FOX NEWS: He said it in the Oval Office

[Brad Lander @bradlander]

According to documents filed this morning by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of NY, ICE has been lying for a year — not only to the public, but to the courts and to prosecutors — about being authorized to make arrests at 26 Federal Plaza and other immigration courts.

This is genuinely a bombshell. All courthouse arrests should cease immediately. There should be a Congressional investigation & civil rights actions for every illegal abduction of immigrants trying to follow the rules and appear in court.