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[Covie @covie_93]

Happy birthday to a president who can still bank with Capital One.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“Groceries aren’t expensive. Your family doesn’t know how to cook.” is the GOP’s closing message before the November midterms.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Senator Cornyn: “There’s nothing we can do to rein in the president.”

Then find a new fucking job.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Great tweet. The “i would not give my daughter her bunny bc it required an intermediary who is not on the divorce mediators approved list” message is sure to resonate.

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Either a chinchilla landed on Trump's head or he's workshopping a toupee to see if anyone will notice 🤔

[Tom Celica™ @thetomcelica]

Racist Senator Bernie Moreno concocted the "eating the cats and dogs" lie at the same time he knew his son-in-law was beating the shit out of his daughter and her infant...and did nothing to help.

End of tweet

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

⚠️ In yet another example of ALPR mission creep...

First they told you it was for stolen cars.

Now they're using license plate readers to verify where families live so their kids can attend school.

This is how surveillance always expands:
One "justified" use at a time.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

A lot of powerful men seems to think that another powerful man assaulting and terrorizing a woman is something they both should “sort through on a family level.”

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Only ever says this shit about abusers and rapists btw

[Nick Timiraos @NickTimiraos]

A little-used Federal Reserve backstop built for the 2020 pandemic dollar shortage is being put to a use it was never designed for: bankrolling Japan’s defense of the yen.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, who has lamented Fed mission creep, wants the backstop made bigger.

[Me @ottamiwaynow]

@Owennfa Unroll @threadreaderapp

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Texas right now:
4 grams of THC = 10 years in prison.
Being a pedo = pardon from Ken Paxton

[Sam Stein @samstein]

nothing like a 3:40 am tweet announcing you're leaving office

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

It was over for Max Miller politically when he said his wife couldn’t have been abused because she offered to make him dinner 6 days later. He may not have known it when he said it, but that was the end. You have to be a sick bastard to come up with that as your defense.

[Real Kamufu @uplegend1]

Let me get this right they voted to legalize marijuana in Texas, but Texas said no ? 😆 So TEXAS is a communist state .

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

The Trump administration is EVIL.

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

Fetterman admitting that he is putting Israel ahead of the needs of Americans like it was no big deal...

John Stewart putting him in his place for it was hilarious.

[Kit Lowe @kit_lowe]

Former WSJ journo Jon Hilsenrath responds on LinkedIn

ATTENTION MR. BESSENT, 2.0: YOU ARE COMING UP SHORT ON YOUR OWN '3-3-3' GOALS

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has been attacking financial journalists on Twitter [X] this morning. It's petty, but let's judge a man not by what he says. Let's judge him on what he accomplishes.

During the 2024 presidential campaign, Bessent laid out a '3-3-3' economic agenda for his prospective administration. This was a promise to achieve annual economic growth of 3%, reduce the federal budget deficit to 3% of gross domestic product, and increase daily output of oil by 3 million barrels per day.

President Trump's economic co-pilot is failing on every count:

-- Growth in economic output as measured by real gross domestic product slowed to a 1.95% annualized rate during President Trump's first 18 months in office. That's a slower growth rate than the average 3.2% rate when Biden was in office, though the Biden rate was bolstered by a post-Covid pandemic recovery. The Bessent 1.95% growth rate is a touch slower than the 2.0% growth rate during Obama's eight year term in office.

-- The budget deficit is estimated by the Congressional Budget Office to be 5.8% in the fiscal year that ends in September, nearly double the Treasury Secretary's promised rate. In order to reach 3% of GDP, the budget deficit would need to be nearly a trillion dollars smaller. Instead, it will rise next year, in part because of the cost of funding the war in the Persian Gulf. I see little evidence that the present administration, or anyone in Washington for that matter, has a credible plan to reduce the red ink that's spilling forth like a geyser from Washington on a daily basis.

-- Domestic oil production averaged 13.71 million barrels daily in May, up 0.57 million from 13.14 million in January 2025. Again, short of the goal. Implicit in the promise on oil production was a promise that energy costs would ease. They have not.

On one count that matters to many Americans, the economy is delivering a number with a "3" in it: The inflation rate was 3.7% higher in June that it was a year earlier, as measured by the Federal Reserve's preferred personal consumption expenditure price index.

I have no desire to get political, but when a politician attacks honest people who I know and respect, that bugs me. It's petty, and meant purely as distraction.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Another GOP incumbent not seeking re-election.

They’re all panicking about the midterms.

[Norm Eisen @NormEisen]

DOJ isn't throwing the case against Davey Hearn out—it's putting it in a drawer

"Without prejudice" means they can pull it back the day Trump asks, & he attacked the decision to drop it within hours

That's why we're asking for dismissal w/ prejudice👇-TN https://t.co/joK07qJxFg