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[Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 @cmclymer]

The disgusting remark about Mrs. Obama last night was not an aberration.

For many years, the rightwing has been pushing a deeply racist conspiracy theory that she’s a trans woman, which is, of course, drawn from a dehumanizing and thoroughly absurd-on-its-face trope that Black women can’t be feminine.

This particular slander against Mrs. Obama has been going on for many years, and watching some quarters of conservative media pretend to be offended by the same remark that they’ve enabled in online spaces all this time strikes me as pretty goddamn pathetic and dishonorable.

But it’s not surprising. I would expect nothing different from Trump and his most ardent supporters.

Any woman they don’t like—let alone hate—particularly Black women, aren’t “real women.”

This is what they do. It’s not accidental.

Don’t let them claim otherwise.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

JFK once invited to dinner 49 Nobel laureates, Robert Frost, William Styron, Ernest Hemingway, James Baldwin, Katherine Anne Porter, John Dos Passos, James Farrell and Lionel and Diana Trilling, and others. His line on the occasion became famous: “I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."

Some of you were alive when that happened.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Alabama women have to take a monthly pregnancy test to get a cannabis rx filled. Where it begins is never where it ends https://t.co/tYUcvw3sw3

[Covie @covie_93]

The evil Democrats invented photosynthesis to screw with trump's pool.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

The White House was built to serve the American people.

Tonight it was used to promote a company the President owns stock in, sell subscriptions, promote corporate sponsors, push Trump crypto, and enrich the President and his family.

The founders warned us about kings enriching themselves from public office.

They did not fight a revolution for this.

[Congresswoman Chellie Pingree @chelliepingree]

Hi, Donald. Midcoast Mainer here.

You did not, in fact, “have to go to Japan” to get a Maine lobster before you. We sold millions. Our lobster fishery is one of the most valuable in the U.S.

It’s a big reason why people come here, in case you didn’t know!

If anything is hurting our lobstermen, it’s inflation (which you apparently “love”).

Also, exactly *zero* Maine fishermen run their boats at three knots. More like 30 knots—and some go even faster. You should check out a lobster boat race sometime!

I think it might be time for one of your famous Oval Office naps, because you have ZERO idea what you’re talking about.

[Christopher Hale @ChristopherHale]

“Dear migrants, before I say any other word to you, I want to bow before your dignity.

“You are not numbers or case files.

“You are people — with a family and a home left behind, with dreams that no one has the right to scorn.” — Pope Leo XIV

[Jon Thomas @TiburonJon]

@RepDonBeyer Get the GOLD STAR MOTHERS and the ARLINGTON LADIES groups to make statements on TV & visit Capitol Hill to protest that the eye-sore Trump Arch will block the view of Arlington Cemetery which is disrespectful to our fallen soldiers!

[jshore @jshoreboston]

@RepDonBeyer Thank you. The very thought of "Trump's Triumphal Arch," blighting out the Arlington National Cemetery, is a PTSD moment for me.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

One my favorite things is when the appeals court tells this administration to fuck off.

[Congressman Robert Garcia @RepRobertGarcia]

BOMBSHELL: For the first time, we now know that Vice President Vance has been deeply involved in Epstein strategy and this White House cover-up.

He and top Admin officials have been using the situation room to meet. It’s time to talk to the VP.

[BoehlertMediaBusters @MediaBusters6]

I did & I knew just what a slimy racist bastard he was
I will never understand how anyone saw anything redeemable in this malignant narcissist & pathological liar

[BoehlertMediaBusters @MediaBusters6]

Please tell me that the Sec. of Energy Chris Wright isn't this fucking STUPID?
Is there even one member of the #TrumpRegime the is not an unqualified, incompetent, psychophantic HACK?
This is not your average MAGA/GOP stupid, he has an advanced degree in Stupidity

[Sharise Parviz - Legacy Igniter 🇺🇸 ✞ @ShariseParviz]

@Khaledhzakariah Unlikely those revolting are the Irish that called to "Free Palestine" So maybe stop generalizing

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This is Sad!

For almost 30 years, leaders from both parties have set politics aside to honor the women veterans who gave their lives for this country at Arlington National Cemetery.

Then Trump and Hegseth shut it down.

Why? Because the ceremony recognized women.

This is an insult to every woman who wore the uniform, served with courage, and sacrificed for this nation.

Yesterday, @demwomencaucus stood with the women veterans Trump and Hegseth tried to erase and held an event anyway.

We see you. We honor you. We thank you. 🇺🇸

[Congressman Robert Garcia @RepRobertGarcia]

If you think California is taking a while to count votes, wait until you hear how long the Trump Administration is taking to release the Epstein files…

[Olivia of Troye @OliviaTroye]

As someone who has worked on national security vetting, the Trump Admin barring Somali referee Omar Artan entry to the US for the World Cup leads to more questions than answers.
Omar was vetted, approved, and issued a visa.
Then he landed in the United States and was suddenly deemed a national security threat.
So which is it?
Either the system failed, or someone changed the rules after the fact.
That's not how serious national security decisions should be made.
The public deserves to know what changed.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

As a World Cup host, the U.S. shouldn't be flippantly barring officials from entering the country to do their jobs.

It's terribly backward.

It's also counterproductive.

Global sports competitions should improve international exchange and relations, not the reverse.

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

This one hits hard.