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Liberal, married to long-time love, mom to 2 great grown-ups. Retired RN, 3 book clubs, agnostic, genealogy hobbyist, news junkie.

[#Anonymous @TheStripesGirl]

A rabbi's response to our President calling Jews "lacking knowledge and disloyal" if they vote Democratic:

Rabbi Danny Maseng writes:
As a Jew
Since you called me out as a Jew, Mr. President, since you thought to call me disloyal or lacking knowledge by not voting for you, I’d like to respond to you personally, even though I have no illusions you will read this.
As a Jew, Mr. President, I am commanded to love the stranger who dwells among us no less than thirty-six times in the Bible you claim to treasure. I am commanded to have one law for the stranger and the citizen. No exceptions.
As a Jew, Mr. President, I am commanded to pay my employees on time, including undocumented workers at casinos, construction sites, or golf courses.
As a Jew, I am commanded to repay bank loans and investors.
As a Jew, I am commanded to never bear false witness.
As a Jew, Mr. President, I am commanded to guard my tongue and speak no evil.
As a Jew, Mr. President, I am commanded to never embarrass my fellow human being in public, lest I be accused of spilling their blood – including Ted Cruz or the late Senator and war hero, John McCain.
As a Jew, Mr. President, I take great offense in my president attacking Denmark, a country that gallantly saved its Jews from the Nazis, while most of Europe fell asleep.
As a Jew, Mr. President, I take umbrage in my Grandfather, the sainted Dr. Rabbi Harry S. Davidowitz, who inhaled poison gas in the trenches of WWI as a US Army chaplain, being called disloyal because he voted Democrat.
As a Jew, born and raised in Israel, I take offense at you calling me disloyal to America AND to Israel because I oppose your inept, ghoulish, uncouth, deceitful, inhumane farce of leadership. How many tours of duty have you performed for Israel during wartime? Or, for that sake, the USA?
As a Jew, Mr. President, I reserve the right to oppose Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib (neither of whom called upon the help of a former KGB operative to help them in their election to office), while simultaneously condemning your divisive, racist rants and policies.
As a Jew who has proud Republican family members who I love and cherish, I am ashamed of what you have done to the Republican party; to conservative ideals – even if I do not share all of those ideals.
As a Jew whose Christian uncle fought heroically at the Battle of the Bulge for our country and for the salvation of Europe – I am ashamed by the mockery you visit upon his sacrifice.
As the son of a Christian pilot, later converted to Judaism, who led American pilots to glorious victory over Nazi Germany, I am outraged by your embrace of neo-Nazi’s and racists in America (that same pilot, who became a squadron commander in the Israeli Air Force, and fought for Israel’s independence).
As a Jew, I am disgraced by your fawning adoration of the worst dictators of our century – you violate Christian and Jewish values by doing so.
As a Jew; as a well-informed Jew who loves and cares deeply for Israel and for America, I condemn you and call you out for the divisive fool, the ogre, the ghoul that you are.
May my soul not enter your council, let me not join your assembly.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

This is one of the finest, most powerful television ads I've every seen. Do American a favor and share this everywhere.

Heart, not policy papers.
Love, not hate.
Hope, not fear.

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Trump’s ex-chief of staff John Kelly said this to me, six years ago:

“I don't know how he’s not in an institution somewhere, whether it’s jail or a nuthouse. He’s a seriously sick guy. I never heard him saying anything that wasn’t a lie.”

Trump has only gotten worse since.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Zelensky is a Genius:

Trump: "I'm buying oil from Putin, which will help fund the war against Ukraine."

Zelensky: "Ok then I'm blowing up all the Yandex Data centers in Russia, which host the bot Traffic that Putin uses to Help Trump cause chaos in the US elections. Checkmate!"

[Keith Olbermann @KeithOlbermann]

Hi I'm Donald Trump and I just wanted to remind you I'm the biggest asshole in the world

[Paul Freid @PaulFreid5]

An American hero. Please retweet if you agree

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

THE IRS JUST PERMANENTLY STOPPED LOOKING AT TRUMP'S OWN MONEY

Not paused. Not under review. PERMANENTLY ENDED. Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche ordered the IRS to shut down every current and future audit of the Trump family and the Trump business

Read that again. The man appointed by Trump just told the agency that taxes Americans to protect Trump's taxes from ever being taxed

This came out of Trump v IRS, a lawsuit and settlement so unorthodox that Democrats, Republicans, and the judge overseeing it all raised alarms at the same time. When everyone across the aisle is uneasy, that's not partisanship, that's a five-alarm fire

Meanwhile your audit letter still shows up in the mail like clockwork

Small business owners get flagged for a $400 deduction. Trump's entire empire gets a permanent hall pass signed by his own hand-picked AG

This is a sitting president using the machinery of federal law enforcement to make his own finances legally untouchable, forever, while he's still in office setting the rules for everyone else's taxes

There is no oversight committee scarier to Trump than the IRS knocking on his door, so he had his own DOJ nail that door shut

Ask yourself who else gets to write themselves out of a tax audit permanently. Nobody. Nobody but Trump

The family business gets immunity. The country gets the bill

This isn't governance. This is Trump laundering his own tax exposure through the highest law enforcement office in the land

Share this before they bury it under the next distraction

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

It would be great if the American media could report that The Kennedy Center was operating with a SURPLUS of $40.7m in 2024 before Trump was re-elected.

SURPLUS.

And that what he says below according to the numbers I've seen just ANOTHER LIE.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Closing the Kennedy Center, the official national memorial to John F. Kennedy, unless and until the name Donald J. Trump is added to it isn't the act of a president. It's the act of a petulant child.
https://t.co/CdWehPLoMH via @NYTimes

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“We should be appalled that the dignified rows of white marble headstones at Arlington could be overshadowed by this Great Triumphal Arch. We should all be appalled that our president is trying to impose such an un-American project on us.

Stop the arch.”

https://t.co/pu1Q8nrmO5

[Former Fetterman Staffers @FettermanStaff]

Hello, Twitter.

We’re a group of former campaign & Senate staffers for John Fetterman who are disgusted with what he's become.

If you were troubled by yesterday's Wall Street Journal story... trust us, that's just the tip of the iceberg.

It's even worse than you thought.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Except for losing control of the Strait, losing our bases in the region, strengthening the control of the Iranian regime over its suffering people, starving our sailors, running through our stockpiles of precision weapons, and giving Iran control of the global oil market. Big win.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

All of these Natalie Harp stories are leaking for one reason:

Someone in the West Wing is sick of Harp’s shit.

Probably just a coincidence that it’s all happening as Leavitt is leaving.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

To all the people whining about any commentary on Natalie Harp:

We’re paying her $150,000 salary. Trump isn’t. Perfectly legitimate to ask what job serving the public she’s doing.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

E. Jean Carroll has done more to hold Donald Trump accountable than the entire United States Congress.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

COPS cheer a man who PARDONED men who beat and assaulted cops on Jan 6.

If ever a photo captured how completed F-UP the world is in 2026 it's this one.

No photo shows the brain washing of America better than this one IMO.

[Carolyn Barber, MD @cbarbermd]

Steve Schmidt, who ran John McCain's 2008 campaign for president, was interviewed on MSNOW. In response to a very general question regarding the Trump presidency, Mr. Schmidt spoke for two minutes and gave the most insightful and brutally honest response of what the Trump presidency has done to our great country: "Donald Trump has been the worst president this country has ever had. And, I don't say that hyperbolically. He is.

But he is a consequential president. And, he has brought this country in three short years to a place of weakness that is simply unimaginable if you were pondering where we are today from the day where Barack Obama left office. And, there were a lot of us on that day who were deeply skeptical and very worried about what a Trump presidency would be. But this is a moment of unparalleled national humiliation, of weakness.” "When you listen to the President, these are the musings of an imbecile.

An idiot. And I don't use those words to name call. I use them because they are the precise words of the English language to describe his behavior. His comportment. His actions. We've never seen a level of incompetence, a level of ineptitude so staggering on a daily basis by anybody in the history of the country whose ever been charged with substantial responsibilities.” "It's just astonishing that this man is president of the United States. The man, the con man, from New York City.

Many bankruptcies, failed businesses, a reality show, that branded him as something that he never was. A successful businessman. Well, he's the President of the United States now, and the man who said he would make the country great again. And he's brought death, suffering, and economic collapse on truly an epic scale. And, let's be clear. This isn't happening in every country around the world. This place. Our place. Our home. Our country. The United States. We are the epicenter.

We are the place where you're the most likely to die from this disease. We're the ones with the most shattered economy. And we are, because of the fool that sits in the Oval Office behind the Resolute Desk." @SteveSchmidtSES r/t Ron Tipton