Melanie

Tired of all this fascist shit!

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Few of us have access to full information on how Trump lost the Iran War. But we can all see the fiasco Trump has made of the 250th anniversary celebrations. Watching Trump fail at something easy helps illustrate why he was doomed to mess up anything difficult.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

"Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children."

—MLK Jr.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Thank you, Secretary Kennedy, for releasing the $700 million in behavioral health funding my father’s administration authorized.
But it should not have taken this long. The delay cost lives.
Putting people living on the streets first is right. They are the easiest to see and the easiest to ignore.

I have no problem with the mission.

I have a problem with one sentence in the guidance: STREETS grants cannot pay for harm reduction.

Harm reduction is not an ideology. It is a clean syringe, naloxone in a backpack, fentanyl test strips in a pocket. A place where someone can be kept breathing instead of being found dead.

I personally know people whose lives were saved by harm reduction. I know you do too. I know what they have done with those lives since. Not one of them would be in recovery today if they didn’t have access to harm reduction. The would be dead.

Anyone serious about recovery knows harm reduction saves lives. Ask people in the rooms. Ask the families keeping naloxone in the kitchen drawer.

If you want the Great American Recovery to mean something, fund what keeps people on this side of the grave. We do recover, but only if we make it out alive.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Pete Hegseth is removing or blocking the promotions of all military officers who he has determined would not participate in an illegal pro-Trump self-coup (auto-coup) in 2028.

You can believe me now or believe me in 2028.

Either way, stop seeing what Hegseth is doing as random.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Sen. Warren: "What's the annual wage growth right now? It's just a facts question."

Phelan: "I do not have that in front of me right now."

Warren: "It's 3.4%. So let's put this one together. Is 4.2% higher than 3.4%?"

Phelan: "I will repeat what I said, which is real wage growth in this administration is positive."

Sen. Warren: "Right now families are falling behind...You have now made clear what your position is, and that is you can't even do the basic facts...You can't bring yourself as the person who sits there and says, 'I want to be the head of the Council of Economic Advisors,' and you can't even say, 'Yeah, inflation is running higher than wages right now'...I think this person has disqualified himself in five minutes."

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: Let's be very clear about what the president is saying to the American people. The president is saying that he will not sign a bill whose purpose is to make housing affordable unless his allies in congress pass a voter suppression bill to rig the election. He is saying, I won't even sign a bill that will give economic relief to Americans unless the rules of this election are changed so that he, Donald Trump, cannot be held accountable for all of his misdeeds because that's what he really fears most of all is that when there is a change in the balance of power, and when we restore checks and balances, he knows that there will be subpoenas flying that officials from his administration will be testifying under oath about the full range of misconduct and corruption that we already know has been happening since the moment he was sworn in.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

REPUBLICAN SEN. TILLIS: “What Freakin’ parallel universe did I wake up in? You’re telling me — if it’s true — damaging the reflecting pool lining is something Pirro wants to prosecute… yet they’re releasing people who pled guilty to assaulting officers?”

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

Trump will release the video evidence of vandals cutting a 350 ft gash in the Reflecting Pool lining when he releases the Epstein files, and proof that the 2020 election was stolen, and evidence that the ICE agents who killed Americans acted in self defense, and

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Here is a list of everyone who voted against the new housing bill which aims to make homes more affordable:

Sen. Ron Johnson (R)
Sen. Mike Lee (R)
Sen. Rand Paul (R)
Sen. Rick Scott (R)
Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R)
Rep. Barry Moore (R)
Rep. David Schweikert (R)
Rep. Eli Crane (R)
Rep. Andy Biggs (R)
Rep. Tom McClintock (R)
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R)
Rep. Kat Cammack (R)
Rep. Aaron Bean (R)
Rep. Randy Fine (R)
Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R)
Rep. Greg Steube (R)
Rep. Byron Donalds (R)
Rep. Andrew Clyde (R)
Rep. Clay Fuller (R)
Rep. Mary Miller (R)
Rep. Thomas Massie (R)
Rep. Clay Higgins (R)
Rep. Andy Harris (R)
Rep. Robert Onder (R)
Rep. Eric Burlison (R)
Rep. Mark Everette Harris (R)
Rep. Warren Davidson (R)
Rep. Scott Perry (R)
Rep. Sheri Biggs (R)
Rep. Ralph Norman (R)
Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R)
Rep. Tim Burchett (R)
Rep. Keith Self (R)
Rep. Morgan Luttrell (R)
Rep. Chip Roy (R)
Rep. Brandon Gill (R)
Rep. Mike Cloud (R)

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

You’re not poor because you bought coffee and avocados. You’re poor because billionaires bought Congress and the Presidency.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

The FBI wouldn't spend $100,000 to chase a lead in the Nancy Guthrie kidnapping, per TMZ.

Kash Patel had plenty for himself — date nights with his girlfriend, golf in Scotland, a hunting lodge, all on a $60 million private jet funded by taxpayers.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Some members of the Jewish community, including Democratic Congressman Josh Gottheimer, were alarmed by the language you used at the rally last week, calling AIPAC monsters who move dark money.

Mamdani: I want to be very clear. We’re talking about a status quo where children are being killed on a daily basis. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military since the so-called ceasefire.

Even an Al Jazeera journalist, Ahmed Wishah, was killed this past Saturday by an Israeli strike. And when I am speaking about AIPAC, I’m speaking about an organization that has been supportive of the status quo, that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people not just in Palestine but, frankly, throughout much of the region.

And it is a status quo of immorality. It is one that I will not accept. And when it comes to the way in which they defend the status quo, oftentimes they defend it through direct contributions, as we are seeing right now in New York 13.

Oftentimes they also support the status quo through dark money, by funneling money that would have previously come directly from AIPAC through other organizations whose contributors’ identities are only made clear after an election.

And I think it is important that when we ask ourselves how such death and destruction is happening overseas, we also name those who allow it to take place.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Let’s check in on how Jared and Ivanka’s luxury Albanian resort is doing…

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Seen here in San Diego: “He Can’t Even Win A War Against Algae” 😂

[PBS News @NewsHour]

A recently released Justice Department memo questions decades of protections for Americans with disabilities. The DOJ says states aren’t required to provide home and community-based services that have long kept disabled Americans out of institutions, if they would benefit from these other services.

It’s the latest effort by the Trump administration to shift longstanding practices for the disability community.

@AliRogin has more.

[Melanie @mel4uofa]

@FortniteStatus Are the servers down? We can’t get a match. Just keeps saying finding server.

[Melanie @mel4uofa]

@sparkles_qt It was so much better! I only had the water gummy. Got 5 new ones and only got to play the last hour! Oh and some kid came up to me at the extraction point and I was expecting to get killed but he dropped me the gummy duck! Crazy time.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

To win a war means changing the politics of the enemy such that they must surrender. That is what Iran just did to the United States.
https://t.co/2RpMAeTl70

[Brian Stelter @brianstelter]

"A historian once told me that the presidency would distill Donald Trump to his essence.

That essence, it turns out, is trillions of microscopic organisms that suck up all the oxygen and endanger life around them." –@maureendowd https://t.co/LgYj96hjMX

[Brian Entin @BrianEntin]

Neighbors have put mattresses and plexiglass up in their windows to block the noise from this data center in Virginia.
It's a high pitched whine from the natural gas turbines that power it.
The noise never stops 24/7.