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‘I wanna live, I wanna give' - Neil Young; Choose Love

[Adrian Norman @AdrianNormanDC]

It's unacceptable that a sitting U.S. senator can be hospitalized with a reported heart attack, vanish from public view for weeks or months, possibly be on life support, and no official update is provided on their condition.

Stalling for a race would be a new low, even for D.C.

[Political Polls @PpollingNumbers]

New - average age of first time home buyers

1991 - 27
2008 - 30
2019 - 33

2026 - 41

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

Imagine if the Make America Great Again administration had stuck to its campaign promises of no more foreign wars and DOGE agenda.

They wouldn’t have wasted taxpayer’s hard earned dollars, drained our oil reserves, and wouldn’t be demanding $1.5 TRILLION more dollars for war!

[Kentucky Girl @Notwokenow]

There are 23 current members of Congress age 80 and older.

Unbelievably, 9 of those are seeking reelection in November.

Here are the octogenarians seeking reelection, yet again:

-Jim Risch (D), 83, 17 years in Congress;
-Maxine Waters (D), 87, 35 years in Congress;
-Hal Rogers (R), 88, 45 years in Congress;
-Jim Clyburn (D), 85, 33 years in Congress;
-John Carter (R), 84, 23 years in Congress;
-Virginia Foxx (R), 83, 21 years in Congress;
-Doris Matsui (D), 82, 21 years in Congress;
-Rosa DeLauro (D), 83, 35 years in Congress;
-Jim Baird (R), 80, 7 years in Congress;

Why are taxpayers footing the bill for an elite nursing home?

We need term limits NOW.

[Jane Forda (PARODY) @AngelaLark66613]

Mitch McConnell is reportedly brain dead. The journalist who broke his cardiac arrest is at the hospital waiting for them to move his body. Her name is Desirée Townsend.
She's the independent reporter who obtained the EMS scanner audio confirming paramedics performed CPR at McConnell's D.C. home on June 14. NBC and CBS spent a week catching up to her.
Yesterday she tweeted that she's physically at the hospital, that multiple sources have told her the 84-year-old senator has been declared brain dead, and that his Capitol Police detail was still there as of 3:39pm ET.
Laura Loomer posted the same claim, citing a White House source. McConnell's office will not confirm or deny. They insist he is "continuing to improve."
The brain-death claim is not yet verified. Here's what is.
McConnell has been hospitalized for three straight weeks with no public explanation.
His office has never said why he was admitted. His last vote was June 11.
His wife Elaine Chao was photographed in Beijing meeting the Chinese vice president three days after her husband collapsed. She has not come home.
His daughter deactivated her X account.
Neighbors of his D.C. townhouse say no one has come or gone since the ambulance took him away. Not family. Not staff.
Kentucky's Democratic Governor Andy Beshear says McConnell's office is not returning his calls.
Now the politics.
Kentucky Republicans quietly rewrote the state's succession law in 2024. If McConnell's seat opens, Beshear cannot appoint a replacement. A special election gets triggered instead.
And the timing matters. If he can't finish his term after August 3, the special election just rolls into November. Before August 3, the GOP has to hold a standalone race.
They’re watching the calendar.
The election they're trying to avoid is the GOP's nightmare. Thomas Massie, the Republican congressman who has become one of Trump's loudest critics, would be a heavy favorite to run and split the red vote wide open.
Every day they hide McConnell's condition is a day they don't have to hold that race.
Whatever is actually happening in that hospital room, this is the picture from outside it: a senator who has not been seen in three weeks, a wife who left the country, a family that has gone dark, a governor being frozen out, and a party racing the clock on a succession law they wrote themselves.
Townsend is still at the hospital.

[Grant Certiorari @GrantCertiorari]

A congressman can disappear for months with depression.

A senator can have a heart attack and be hospitalized for a month with no proof of life.

But if you don’t show up to your job for a couple days without documentation, you’re out on the street.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

New research indicates that state voter registration lists — a common administration target — are actually accurate and up to date. And both blue and red states are largely doing a good job maintaining their lists. https://t.co/D3JsF2II7d

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

It seems relevant that the 84-year-old senior senator from Kentucky is missing and rumored to be brain-dead, while the 80-year-old current president of the United States can’t remember the name of the nation he’s been waging war against for almost five months.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is just dumb. We run a trade surplus with Spain. They buy more from us than we buy from them. Cutting off trade with Spain means selling less to one of our customers. That hurts American exporters, American workers, and the communities that depend on those exports.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Might as well call it Trumpcare now.

Our party has made no serious effort to repeal Obamacare and legalize affordable health insurance after taking control of the House, Senate & White House.

Why? Because the current system enriches insurance and hospital companies.

[Kenneth @mlbmoreplease]

@iamjohnbaiano @hsym786 Yesterdays volume was massive! Today seeing the same 👊🙏❤️

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

As a Christian, I am deeply offended by JD Vance’s proclamation of the United States as “a Christian nation.” Our country was founded on religious freedom. Read the First Amendment— no establishment of religion.
https://t.co/NwJDKzh3wl

[POLITICO @politico]

Trump denied disaster aid to four Democratic-led states. Yet two days earlier, he approved FEMA disaster aid for six Republican-led states.

The move is raising questions on whether he’s injecting political motivations into emergency management decisions.
https://t.co/YZ9Y7aPHOD

[Kenneth @mlbmoreplease]

Market leaders for many reasons- every organization should be talking with @Shopify @ShopifyDevs 👊🙏❤️

[Kenneth @mlbmoreplease]

$SHOP The value proposition that Shopify offers to all its merchants makes me wonder why Starbucks is not looking at adding the Shopify platform to their business. @tobi @harleyf

[Kenneth @mlbmoreplease]

Why is inflation not being addressed in Washington? 👊🙏❤️

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration has released a 162-page report berating the Smithsonian as "radical" and demanding museums revise their coverage of:

—Systemic racism
—The gender pay gap
—Women's suffrage
—The overturning of Roe v. Wade
—DACA
—LGBT rights
—The Founding Fathers owning slaves
—Christopher Columbus and colonization
—Anti-gun violence protests
—Police brutality
—Racial discrimination in schools

[JB Pritzker @JBPritzker]

Only 5 of the 9 Supreme Court justices found that the Constitution protects birthright citizenship in this country.

Despite the fact that it's clearly laid out in the 14th Amendment.

[Bill Walsh @wwalsh]

Balogun was in on goal. He beat the defender and was about to score.
No red card. No penalty. No yellow card. No foul. No review.
The bizarre thing is that Fox Sports showed a replay that began just AFTER the defender let go of the arm. So weird. How could the officials miss this? And how could the TV crew miss it as well? @USMNT

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

JD Vance: I would love it if Democrats were willing to work with us on lowering housing prices. We could have some real bipartisan compromise.

(Trump is currently refusing to sign the bipartisan housing affordability bill)