Mark Brown

Love being a husband, father, fan of finding my limits & curious nerd. Will never quit and always remember those who sacrificed. Race my bike any chance I get

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

Oh…Must be awful to be stigmatized by the government….again, the only time he has awareness of injustice is if he thinks it’s happening to him. Anti-empathy. Like a spoiled angry child. Always.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Shawn Ryan on Trump: “I just don’t see any positivity coming out of this administration. It seems very self-serving. He had Todd Blanche do the dirty work so him or anybody in his family could never be audited by the IRS? What the fuck is that shit? The drone company, the $400M jet from Qatar, the Executives Club. Does this shit look like he’s serving the fucking people? No.”

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

This is amazing.

The New York Times put together a graphic of how much time cabinet members spend kissing up to Trump in meetings.

"On average, at least one of every six sentences either flattered Mr. Trump, gave him credit or criticized his political opponents."

North Korea.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

SNYDER: Our entire diplomatic process has been reduced to only two negotiators: president’s son-in-law and president’s friend. They are not diplomats.

You would probably say, “That looks incredibly corrupt,” and you would also say, “That looks like it could never work.”

And it can never work. It won’t work with Ukraine, it won’t work with Iran. In fact, it has already failed with both Ukraine and Iran.

But the deeper problem is that United States cannot help anyone negotiate an end to a war unless United States has clear sense of its own interests.

And Trump administration does not operate on the basis of American interests. It operates on the basis of what is convenient for few people around Trump.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

ZELENSKYY: We attack military targets in Russia, or their energy, which they sell to fund war. Russians deliberately target civilian objects: museums, schools, apartments. They destroyed this Chornobyl museum that we built for 40th anniversary just one month ago. Crazy assholes.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

SEE HOW EASILY HE LIES

The reflecting pool sounds like a disaster: holes, bubbling paint, the whole thing a mess.

Trump first bragged that he sent in a contractor he personally used before, a guy who “does pools.” Now suddenly it’s: “I did not know the contractor,” and the folks at Interior made the pick.

I don’t know what stage of dementia this is, but this man should not have the nuclear codes.

[INDYCAR on FOX @IndyCarOnFOX]

🏁🧱🥛We've got you covered from Indy.

[INDYCAR on FOX @IndyCarOnFOX]

She's the first woman to attempt the Indy/Charlotte Double. @katherinelegge talks with @Ghenneberry47 about the challenge.

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

Perfect encapsulation of what passes for religion for so many Americans.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🇺🇸🔥MAJOR BREAKING: Here’s why Project Freedom really collapsed.

Saudi Arabia blocked US military access to Prince Sultan Airbase and Saudi airspace.

Trump announced the operation on social media without telling his Gulf allies first.

The Saudis were furious.

A direct call between Trump and MBS didn’t fix it.

The Pentagon was lining up ships to transit when the whole thing got shut down.

The White House said it paused because of “great progress” toward a deal.

The actual reason: the US couldn’t fly the mission without Saudi airspace.

And Saudi Arabia said no.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute bombshell. FCC Commissioner Anna Gomez explicitly confirms the Trump administration has officially declared the FCC is no longer an independent agency.

The White House is actively seizing total control of media regulators to crush dissenting voices.

Terrifying!

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

It was great talking to Stephen and the inspiring young people we’ve worked with at the @ObamaFoundation on the @ColbertLateShow.

When the Obama Presidential Center opens this June 19, my hope is that this will be a place where people can come together to meet, learn, and work with each other to create change in their communities. Learn more at https://t.co/ahkDMKalIn.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Once in power, Putin cut taxes for wealthy elites, consolidated media & sought to shape the electoral process. Sound familiar? Some parallels are hard to ignore. The difference? The US has strong checks, an active civil society & deep democratic traditions. That gives me hope.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

INCREDIBLE!

Washington Post journalist Hannah Natanson who had Trump’s FBI raid her home and take her phones and laptops, just won the Pulitzer Prize with the Washington Post.

Congrats!!

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement. https://t.co/ehhCCzys1D

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Enemy from within." "Communists, Marxists, fascists, radical left thugs, vermin." "Garbage" Somalis, "low IQ people." "She's an evil, sick, crazy, b..."

Republicans want the left to tone down the rhetoric. Erm, have they listened to Donald Trump??

Zeteo put together a montage:

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank.

It just published a 30-year study showing immigrants paid 14.5 trillion dollars more in taxes than they received in government benefits.

Every single year. For thirty years. Without exception.

The country was lied to.

Here is what the study found.🧵

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

CNN confirms the harsh reality of the tariff fallout. Expert David Goldman explains that while corporations will receive billions in refunds, everyday consumers who suffered through skyrocketing inflation caused by the Trump administration's policies will receive nothing.