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[TheRealThelmaJohnson @TheRealThelmaJ1]

Donald Trump isn't remotely close to the greatness of the man that Barrack Obama is. I miss the way Obama talked to the American people. I miss having a President with intelligence, empathy and moral values.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

This is not The Onion. This is not AI. This is not even Idiocracy.
This...is John Cafaro, the guy who got the no-bid contract to re-do the defecting pool's circulation and filtering system.
He's Trump's Florida neighbor, he's a Trump donor, and he's been linked to bribery scandals.
The name of his company? Greenwater Services.
You cannot make this stuff up

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

If Kamala Harris had become president of the United States, Trump would be in prison, the strait of Hormuz would be open, Ukraine would be victorious, gas would be under $3 a gallon, and the U.S. would STILL be respected and supported around the world.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

Corruption is so normal in the Trump Administration that officials don’t even get fired after being exposed for it.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇺🇸🧐Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Secretary of Defense, commented on the shortage of Tomahawk missiles in the U.S., claiming that “weapon stockpiles were depleted back under Biden due to shipments to Ukraine.”
In reality, the U.S. has never supplied Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine — Hegseth is simply lying.
They started a war without having the cards, and now they’re blaming Ukraine.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: President Obama breaks his silence after Trump signed the MOU surrender with Iran.

Obama says that under the JCPOA he negotiated, "Iran had agreed not to develop nuclear weapons," and Trump pulling out of it "caused Iran to develop more nuclear capacity."

Obama questioned Trump's rationale for his war, saying we're likely worse off now:

"We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, put an enormous strain on our military; a lot of people have died, and it feels like we are back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little worse off."

This MIC DROP from Obama is guaranteed to drive Trump NUTS.

[Antonello Guerrera @antoguerrera]

BREAKING. All hell breaks loose between Donald Trump and Giorgia Meloni. 🇮🇹 🇺🇸

Trump told La7 tv that apparently “Meloni begged to have a picture with me at the G7, I felt sorry for her”.

Meloni’s scathing response: “I am shocked by Trump’s utterly fabricated words. I am sorry he doesn’t show the same determination against the enemies of the West. And bear in mind: me and Italy never beg”.

What a time to be alive.

[Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx]

After Secretary Hegseth scrapped the military’s flu vaccine mandate, it was only a matter of time before an outbreak occurred. It was a reckless decision that put troops in harm’s way and undermined our military readiness. At the Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, nearly 160 servicemembers are now ill. I am especially concerned by the tragic death of a trainee this past week. My office has requested the Department of Defense provide a full accounting of the outbreak and investigate the circumstances of the trainee’s death. For the wellbeing of our servicemembers and community, public health policies must be guided by science, not politics.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

The official WH account just got community noted for lying about the MOU giving $300 Billion to Iran. Brutal.

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

This is huge.

For months, I have been working to stop the construction of a massive 10,000-person ICE facility in Social Circle, Georgia.

We just learned DHS is cancelling it.

The power of the people is always more powerful than the people in power.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

This only becomes more evident with each passing day

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

President Obama shouts out "those ordinary people in the Twin Cities, who braved frigid temperatures, risked their own safety, standing shoulder to shoulder to look out for their neighbors and, sometimes, look out for strangers because they knew that was the right thing to do."

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Dear Joe,
I wish I could sit down with you face to face and explain why so many of us were offended by the UFC fight on the South Lawn of the White House.
For me, it had nothing to do with the UFC or who showed up for the fights. The brand you and Dana have built is a bona fide American success story. More power to you. As for the fighters, in my book, anyone brave enough to put it all on the line in the arena is remarkable to witness. Their dedication and discipline inspire me. I don’t understand anyone who can’t admire that.
And as for the people who attended, I, for one, love Shane Gillis. I think he’s hilarious and brilliant. It was a show. A once-in-a-lifetime spectacle. I can’t blame anyone for wanting to witness it firsthand.
My problem is that I believe some of our public spaces are sacred. And unlike many of the great powers that came before us, these American monuments belong to all of us. Not to whoever happens to hold power at the moment.
The White House does not belong to Donald Trump. It does not belong to any President. It belongs to the people. To treat it as Caesar treated the Colosseum is antithetical to everything our founding fathers fought for.
This is not Rome. Presidents are not emperors doling out bread and circuses for the peasants. The White House is the People’s House. This “celebration” could have happened in any stadium within a stone’s throw of the South Lawn. No one would have had an issue with it.
But that was obviously Donald Trump’s whole point. By holding the event on the South Lawn, what he was saying to the rest of us is:
“This is my house. I own it. I will do with it what I please. I’ll build a colosseum and have the gladiators fight under my gaze. I’ll tear down the East Wing. I’ll pave over the Rose Garden. I’ll cover everything in gold and marble. I’ll erase the names of all the men who came before me.”
The fights were an exhibition of imperial domination, not a celebration of our 250th anniversary as a democracy.
The White House is not Buckingham Palace. It is not the Palace of Versailles. It is not the Forbidden City of Beijing. It does not belong to an emperor, or a king, or a commissar.
The White House belongs to us. All of us. The person who sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office is nothing more than an honored guest. A temporary caretaker.
The President is our servant. Not our Caesar.
Respectfully, Hunter

P.S. Cage match between me and Don Jr.? Your call on the venue. Anywhere but the South Lawn.

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

Barack: You told me all those years ago that you couldn’t promise me the world, but you could promise me an interesting life. Of course, you outdid yourself and managed to give me both.

Eight years in the crucible, and not once did you melt from the heat. Not once did you let it harden you. Instead, you used it to reveal your truest essence: your stubborn optimism and unflinching courage, your dazzling brilliance and unpretentious decency, your ferocious work ethic and absolutely unshakable moral fiber.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I know very little about basketball but I do know a bit about public speaking and I can say without any hyperbole that @ZohranKMamdani is one of the greatest public speakers alive on planet earth right now.

Chills.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Land bordering Yosemite, Sequoia, and Pinnacles National Parks — now cleared for oil rigs and fracking. YES fracking!

Two hundred thousand people said NO. The federal government did it anyway.

Over 1 million acres of California public land just got opened up - land that touches ancient sequoia groves older than the country itself and sits right in Yosemite’s backyard.

Patagonia's CEO came out swinging, accusing the administration of putting oil profits over the planet's health and saying public land was never meant to be sold off to drilling companies.

And the man who'll make the final call? He was recently confirmed to run BLM after his own state party called him "an outright enemy of public lands."

Who's going to tell a tree older than the country that its time is up?

#DemsUnited

[Jennifer Get In Good Trouble @TheJenniWren]

A TRILLIONAIRE pays the same Social Security tax as someone making $184K. Let that marinate. Trump’s party has known this for decades and done exactly nothing because those trillionaires are their donors. Bernie’s bill fixes it.

Corrupt Republicans won’t touch it. Ask them why. #HandsOffSocialSecurity

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

The condemnation is universal. Republicans, Democrats, independents, world leaders... With the lasting ramifications being likely worse than Vietnam, everyone is accurately stating that this is the biggest geopolitical fuck-up in US history.

Not only did Trump LOSE his war of choice against Iran, but he has made billionaires of Iranian regime officials. What Iran now knows that they did not know before is that they can shut down the Strait of Hormuz whenever they feel like it — and there's not a fucking thing Trump can do about it.

Everything Trump did was ass-backwards. From being conned by Netanyahu, to not even bothering to consult with America's allies, this was a catastrophe and exercise in dumbfuckery from the very beginning.

Billions of tax dollars wasted, over a dozen American soldiers dead, hundreds of soldiers maimed and mutilated — and for what? So a pedophile president could change the divert attention away from the Epstein files? Un-fucking-believable!

Trump's incompetence is no longer debatable, nor is his place in history. The sick fuck is America's worst president.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Elon Musk purchased Twitter, purchased Donald Trump, and purchased the election, netting him over a trillion dollars in additional wealth. It is the greatest con in the history of mankind.

[Ahmed Baba @AhmedBaba_]

Michelle Obama just delivered one of the best speeches I’ve ever heard. She upheld her husband’s legacy, defended the dignity of all people, appealed to our better angels, & reminded us of the America that we could be.

What a contrast to the depravity occupying the White House.