Norman Ornstein

Political scientist, contributing editor for the Atlantic, contributor to The Contrarian, cohost of the podcast Words Matter.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

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[Dean Baker @DeanBaker13]

Not to get technical, but this is unambiguously illegal, but as they say, there is no law in Donald Trump's America.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

lol. They took down this page

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Cult

[Luis Moreno @LuisMorenolg]

I just don't get how Paxton and Talarico are running neck in neck. Make it make sense.

[Matt Royer @royermattw]

Also is it any wonder why this woman got 5th in her Gubernatorial race after making stuff like this her entire personality?

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Alex Pretti was an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA who spent his days keeping veterans alive. On January 24, he stood on a public street with a phone in hand, watching federal agents work an immigration operation, when an agent shoved a woman down. Pretti moved to help her. He was pepper sprayed, tackled, and shot while pinned under multiple agents. He held a legal carry permit. No video shows him reaching for that weapon.

Within hours, Stephen Miller called him a domestic terrorist and would be assassin. Kristi Noem said he wanted to massacre law enforcement. Gregory Bovino said he wanted to inflict maximum damage. None of them had seen the footage that would later surface and get verified by Reuters, the Times, and every major network covering it.

The administration's account has since collapsed under that footage. Miller now says agents may not have followed protocol. That is the closest anyone in Washington has come to admitting what the video already showed: a man reaching to help a stranger, killed, then slandered by his own government before the truth caught up.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

The idea that this idiot could possibly have been the mayor of a big city is chilling

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

Republicans want to feel like victims so badly. You live in California dude, there’s no heat wave here and no one is telling you how to set your thermometer.

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

I had to double-check that this was a real Truth Social post by Donald Trump

It was.

He’s completely unhinged.

#TrumpIsUnhinged

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

What is the cost per death for the lives lost because of these monsters?

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

DOGE deletes itself on July 4th. It will be remembered as a hugely destructive failure.

Musk promised $2 trillion in savings.

What we got, by DOGE’s own unverified math, was $215 billion. Even that number was never proven.

The costs were atrocious. Nearly 140,000 federal workers pushed out. Veterans waiting longer for care. USAID dismantled while people died overseas as a direct result. 20-year-olds with Red Bulls and no college degrees rummaging through Americans’ most sensitive data.

Musk, the world’s richest man, a federal contractor with billions in government business, auditing the government that pays him, accountable to no voter anywhere. 

Even Musk now says he wouldn’t do it again. The guy who ran it calls it a mistake.

Government reform was there for the taking. Both parties know federal technology is outdated. Both parties know waste exists. Fixing it required serious people working with career civil servants who know where the problems actually are. Instead we got a chainsaw, a photo op, and years of lost expertise we now have to rebuild.

Now Trump’s budget director says there will be no final accounting or receipts. They promised transparency and they’re closing up shop in the dark.
They’re counting on us all to forget.
https://t.co/LhgbGUY2Ca

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

A bribe, a payoff

[CBS News @CBSNews]

A watch-sized gold ring was gifted to President Trump this week from a Belgian diamond group, months after it won tariff relief.

Isidore Mörsel, president of the Antwerp World Diamond Center, presented the ring to Bill White, the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium, to give to Trump. Mörsel said the piece was gifted on behalf of the centuries-old diamond community in the Belgian port city.

"A very special thank you to my friends from Antwerp for the magnificent Freedom 250 ring," Trump said in a prerecorded video message during an event marking America's 250th birthday in Brussels

Some U.S. ethics experts say the president has broken with the decades-old custom in the White House to avoid accepting such gifts. The fate of the ring is not currently clear.

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[David J. Bier @David_J_Bier]

“An immigrant can sit on a jury in judgment of me!?” We can certainly pray for the day, given the man is in charge of the conspiracy against the Constitution

[Matt Binder @MattBinder]

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

While undermining America simultaneously!

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Imagine being thrilled about speeding the destruction of the planet

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Leader of the band of thieves, radicals and lunatics speaks.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: Our American ancestors did not shed their blood just so that a band of thieves, radicals, and lunatics could come in and loot pillage our nation

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Good sportswriters are a precious commodity. I just read the farewell column of one of the very best, @SouhanStrib. As an ardent fan of Minnesota sports teams, and someone who cares about social justice, I am really going to miss reading Jim Souhan.

[Jared Moskowitz @JaredEMoskowitz]

We did. You didn’t show up

[Covie @covie_93]

They want to mail handguns but not ballots?????

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

American Gestapo

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE detain mother holding U.S. citizen daughter—force her to decide about family separation.

Agents refuse to allow her to call the father to come and get the young girl.

Force her to either abandon daughter and leave her alone on sidewalk—or be detained by ICE along with her.

Mother and daughter are then ordered into an unmarked truck and taken away.

The incident occurred in Houston, Texas.

Man filming promised to try and contact the father—to tell him where his family disappeared to.

He doesn't have an account on this platform—so posting first full length and credited video here to help raise awareness.

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

"I'm thrilled that, because i work for the dumbest administration in American history, i can record myself for social media as the dumbest Energy Secretary."

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

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