Meg

Just trying to make sense of a nonsensical world.

[Yoni Appelbaum @YAppelbaum]

"A presidential moment that could have been celebratory and grand became, like the character of the man himself, very small." @RadioFreeTom on tonight:
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[Acyn @Acyn]

PabloReports: What do you make of Trump refusing to sign the housing bill and canceling the ceremony?

Casten: He’s a chaos monkey.

[Ben Hodges @general_ben]

The continued unwillingness of Secretary Hegseth to explain why these Officers are being removed “without cause” leads to speculation about his motives and undermines trust among the Officer Corps and in the Ranks. Is the Secretary of the Army ok with this? SASC? Retired 4 stars?

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Video shows people leaving in the middle of Trump’s speech on the National Mall tonight

Sorry Donnie. You’re BORING.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

You can hear Trump with his usual rant about how he reduced drug prices by 600%. He still has no idea how math works. SAD!

[Roddy 🇨🇦 @RodKahx]

This is why I haven't left Twitter.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

Elizabeth Warren on the president torching the housing bill she cosponsored: "Donald Trump is making it clear that Republicans are not committed to lowering costs for families. Democrats are. I think I've just seen the big issue open up. Thank you, Donald Trump. Here we go for the midterms."

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

NOTUS: Republican Senator Thom Tillis says he regrets being the deciding vote to confirm Pete Hegseth, citing what he called a “sophomoric sort of execution” at the Pentagon.

“He’s just had so many misstarts,” Tillis said, criticizing Hegseth’s handling of the press, his “bravado” at NATO meetings, and his push to rename the Pentagon the “Department of War.”

“He just doesn’t have the experience,” Tillis added.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Kerry on Iran: The agreement that we had was exhaustive. It was the strongest, most intrusive nuclear agreement ever negotiated. And all we have now is an agreement to negotiate something in the future. Iran clearly has a newfound sense of power by virtue of having withstood the military assault.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

WATCH: Trump’s Postmaster General David Steiner confirms under a new rule the U.S. Postal Service will refuse to deliver mail-in ballots in states that don’t hand over their voter lists to Trump 🤔

We are very far off the cliff, folks 🇺🇸

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

Trump, last month: "If you had a knife, you can't even cut the Reflecting Pool. So strong."

[Shashank Joshi @shashj]

Donahue, a highly respected officer, was targeted by Tata, who called Obama a "terrorist leader" and told John Brennan, a former CIA director, to face "firing squad, public hanging, life sentence as prison b*tch, or just suck on your pistol". Tata is now undersecretary of defence

[Dan Lamothe @DanLamothe]

NEW: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth stonewalled a behind-the-scenes effort within the Army and on Capitol Hill to extend the career of Gen. Chris Donahue people familiar with the matter said, leading to that officer submitting retirement paperwork and preparing to step down.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Stanage: This is the only president in any of our lifetimes who has sought to overturn a democratic election by inciting a mob to do so. That is the person that we are now to believe is so exercised by protecting the integrity of the voting system that everything else has to stop to create it. That just doesn't seem plausible to me.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Worth asking yet again, Are these the actions of an administration that believes it will ever leave power?

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Trump is a man with a severely broken brain who millions of Americans insanely decided to elect president twice.

[Hemant Mehta @hemantmehta]

A reminder that Democrats can nominate the most straight-laced, non-controversial, Christian seminarian and conservatives will STILL treat him like he’s a radical Commie.

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

The reflecting pool debacle is the perfect visual metaphor for the Trump Administration - superficial approaches to complex problems leading to worse outcomes than if he had done nothing.

[Matt Angle @LSPmatt]

Here's the hard truth. @KenPaxtonTX has lied and cheated in every office he's ever held and every relationship he's been in - personal or business. His wife couldn't trust him, his business partners couldn't trust him, and his colleagues don't trust him now. NO ONE can trust him.

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

John Thune is 6’4”. The White House released the results of Trump’s physical stating he is 6’3”. That’s a pretty big inch.
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