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Mississippian/fishouttawater; doer/relaxer. No incongruity whatsoever about this: #Resist #VoteBlue #NoDMs.

[Reggie B. @reggiebblue]

Michelle Obama talking about Barack Obama.

"He is showing young men that it's okay to love your wife forever. It's okay not to cheat and lie."

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

SNYDER: Ukraine is not member of NATO, but Ukraine is doing all of the work of NATO right now only with its own armed forces.

Ukraine is basically fulfilling the entire mission of NATO, with help of course, but not with anybody else's soldiers.

We've essentially gotten used to the idea, all the countries in the region have now gotten used to Ukraine defending them.

And if Ukraine loses the war, then Russian aggression towards not just Baltic states but Poland and Romania becomes quite possible.

And if we take that for granted, if we let Ukraine down, if Ukraine were actually to lose this war, then Russia would digest important economic gains, territorial gains, technological gains, and sadly also demographic gains, which would make it qualitatively greater threat to Romania.

And Russian victory in Ukraine would also be, if not a death blow, then certainly a very heavy blow to NATO itself, leaving Romania much more likely to be isolated when it's facing Russia, which, I don't have to tell you, has historically not been a great situation for Romania.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Who agrees?

[Anonymous TV 🇺🇦 @YourAnonTV]

🚨🇦🇱 BREAKING: Day 21 of mass protests in Tirana, Albania

✊️🇦🇱Over 350,000 people have taken to the streets, no longer asking, demanding Edi Rama’s resignation for selling Albanian land and Sazan Island to oligarchs and Kushner.

✊️The people have crossed the point of no return.
⚡️The old Albania is dying in these streets.

✊️🇦🇱NEW ALBANIA is rising.

#Albania #FlamingoRevolution

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.   

Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.  

The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.  

Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.  

The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
https://t.co/95K8zIySPz

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Kash Patel may be running a personal loyalty program inside the FBI, paid for with your tax dollars. 

Agents on Patel’s inner circle and security detail have reportedly been getting secret cash bonuses, almost $8,000 every two weeks. Some agents have reportedly collected close to $40,000 each.  

The price of that money, according to the allegations: total loyalty to Patel, and silence about whatever they’ve seen along the way. 

The FBI does not exist to reward loyalty to one man. It exists to enforce the law, and I will not stop pushing until we get real answers about where this money went and why. 

I’ve been saying it for months: Patel needs to go. He should resign, and if he won’t, Trump needs to fire him. 
https://t.co/uiqpvOWsPN

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Facts matter. Trump is trying to restrict mail in voting by giving the federal government control to decide who is eligible to vote. That’s supposed to be up to the states, but Trump has decided the states can’t mail ballots to anyone who isn’t on his list. Read here to understand the EO & the lawsuits challenging it.
https://t.co/o8me4AG0n5

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Since the start of the Iran War, our costs at home have gone higher and higher.

Yet the President offers nothing to mitigate the pain American families are feeling.

Instead, he is offering Iran a $300 billion dollar reconstruction fund.

This is hardly what people were expecting from a president promising “America first.”

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

Angus: This is not simply about Trump being just a really dark, evil, corrupt narcissist. There's a method in his madness. It's about the politics of complicity.

I think what you see with Trump again and again and again is how he forces his supporters and his opponents to go along with his depravity.

He is using the politics of debauchery and degradation to force those who should be speaking up to remain silenced. He makes them complicit in the debauchery and the debasement of American public life.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

You are here

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

In new court filing, plaintiffs accuse Team Trump of "petty defiance" and "inexcliable" conduct in its handling of the removal of Trump's name from Kennedy Center

They argue the tarp and scaffolding are a "transparent effort" to frustrate a return of the rightful name

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Michelle and I had fun surprising the first group of visitors to the Obama Presidential Center on Juneteenth. Come check it out!

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Kind of amazing that Todd Blanche enjoyed spending two days with Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell, while refusing to meet with survivors.

[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

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Trump: "G7 used to be G8. They should have kept the G8. You probably wouldn't have the war with Russia and Ukraine if they did."

FACT CHECK: Russia was excluded from the G8 in March 2014 as a direct response to its illegal invasion and annexation of Ukraine's Crimean peninsula.

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

Outrageous.

Dr. Justin Ryder, a pediatric surgeon and expert at Northwestern, was booted from a conference for sharing an article on federal cuts to biomedical research.

This is the impact of Trump's administration.
https://t.co/Gr3WRBHjOs

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Abdul El-Sayed: “We shouldn’t be weaponizing ICE on our streets to shoot people in the face or the back of the head. Instead of giving them $250B of your tax dollars to terrorize our communities, maybe instead we ought to be investing in our people. ICE can’t be reformed, it can’t be re-trained, it has to he abolished”

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Michelle and I loved reading to this bright group of kids today!

We hope this new Chicago Public Library branch at the Obama Presidential Center will be a place where folks come to read, check out books, and connect with one another for years to come.

[5+5+6 @persistentpui]

@SenatorWicker @tatereeves

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

The Trump DOJ is now arguing in federal court that Elon Musk’s AI company should be allowed to run dozens of unpermitted gas turbines polluting a Black community in Mississippi. They also argued the federal government should have the power to shut down citizen lawsuits like this one entirely. 

This is the Justice Department intervening on behalf of a polluter, against the people breathing the air it’s polluting. 

That’s not protecting national security. That’s protecting Elon Musk. 

Elon Musk just became a trillionaire. The community next to his data center is breathing smog-forming nitrogen oxide and formaldehyde. 
 https://t.co/WUnVaV6yfX