Beachcomber

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool had aging pipes, cracked concrete and filtration problems. Trump’s administration spent over $14 million but didn't fix the infrastructure. Now it’s covered in algae and they're dumping 12% hydrogen peroxide in it.

That’s the most perfect metaphor for modern Republican governance we've seen all year. Paint the surface. Ignore the problem. Try to fix the fuckup and blame somebody else.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

FOX: “We learned why the Iranians are eager to sign on to this deal — Iran will be able to start selling oil again on the global marketplace… and nobody is disputing they’ll have access to a $300 BILLION fund.”

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

We. Told. You. It. Wouldn't. Work.
HAHAHAH. It only affected the edges - and now there is a nice wide neon strip of algae in the center of the Reflecting Pool. Fucking idiots. Complete morons. 🤣😂😭

[Congressman Robert Garcia @RepRobertGarcia]

Oversight and Judiciary Dems visited Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison today, it is essentially a pristine park with fountains and ample green space. She’s the only convicted sex offender there. Why did @DAGToddBlanche move her here? This isn’t justice.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

TRUMP: You know what the Iranians did? They laughed at Obama and they said he's a stupid son of a bitch.

Sorry, Donald. Iran is laughing at YOU, as is the rest of the world.

Who agrees?

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Truest cartoon to date

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Trump is the same guy who negotiated the Afghanistan pullout too don’t forget

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

🇺🇸 No friends left.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran.
Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Fires at the center of the Moscow refinery continue hours after Ukraine's strikes, likely to completely destroy the functional capabilities of the means by which the city and its regions obtain 40% of their fuel supplies.

Witch the backdrop of nationwide shortages, no one's coming to save them.

[Michael O’Brien @DrOBrienMD]

Y’all, not to be a huge nerd but for the reflecting pool you would need a minimum of about 8,000 liters of 12% hydrogen peroxide to reach the 50 parts per million concentration to kill algae…

Is this what happens when you have 0 scientists in your administration?

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

He started it.
He fucked it all up.
He lied & lied & lied & lied about it.
He made them stronger.
He made us weaker.
He surrendered.
He lost.
And then he gave them billions & billions & billions.

MAGA, MAGA.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.
It was their final, most essential command.
George Orwell, 1984

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Fifty years of rules keeping off-road vehicles on designated trails — GONE.

Lifted trucks, ATVs, dirt bikes, snowmobiles.

Anywhere they want. On your public lands.

Nixon protected it. Carter protected it. Trump just erased both quietly on a Friday afternoon.

A grizzly bear will abandon its habitat when there's just one mile of road per square mile. One mile. Now there's no limit on where these vehicles can go.

In the Mojave, desert tortoises have already lost 96% of their population in some monitored areas - partly because off-road vehicles crush their burrows. A federal judge just ordered 2,200 miles of trails closed to protect what's left.

Then Trump signed this.

No designated trails. No boundaries. No framework at all. When vehicles go off trail they shatter habitat into pieces too small for wildlife to survive in. They destroy stream banks. They push predators toward humans. And when that happens, the animals always lose.

There was no vote. No public comment. Just a signature.

Now the agencies tasked with writing replacement rules are the BLM, the Forest Service, and the National Park Service - all under an administration that has spent months dismantling every protection they had.

The Interior Department, led by Doug Burgum, is in charge of most of it. The same Doug Burgum who has opened public lands to drilling, mining, and grazing at every turn.

Don't hold your breath.

When the last quiet place is gone, what do we tell the children who never got to hear it?

#DemsUnited

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

84% of Americans, Bernie Sanders, and Thomas Massie agree. Don’t arm Israel unconditionally.

Also, don’t merge our military technology and supply chains with Israel’s… or any other country’s. I’ve submitted an amendment to strip section 224 (retitled section 219) from the NDAA.

[Martina Navratilova @Martina]

This is embarrassing… and this is on trump

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Dear Chris,

I can start by telling you who my audience is not.

It is NOT you.

It is NOT the pundit class that rarely leaves the safety of its Georgetown cocktail parties.

It is NOT the chattering class who gets paid to pretend it knows the mind of the American people.

It is NOT for anyone who looks at everything through the lens of politics.

The people I am talking to are tired of the bullshit.

The people I want to speak with are the 50 million Americans still sick and suffering. The families fighting for the lives of the those they love.

Whether they are people living in the shame and fear of being canceled, or consumed by grief after the loss of someone they love, they are just looking for a slight glimmer of hope that they too can get back up again.

My audience is the people who feel unheard, unseen, and uninvited, just like me.

My audience also includes my perceived enemies, those pitted against me by you and your colleagues in the media. I want to meet them where they are and help build a bridge. A bridge built of that which connects all of us. That’s where we begin to actually heal.

And it’s not as if my intent is difficult to understand or discern. Just read and listen to what I have said on this platform, and the 18+ hours of unscripted pod casts I have done.

I think your shock as to why anyone would care says far more about you than it does about me. Take a look at the comments to your post.

And I also know this: people are tired of the bullshit. They’re tired of you and the chattering classes’ obsession with my family as Rome burns.

So instead of wondering why people care about what I have to say, Chris, maybe you should concern yourself with why no one cares anymore about what you and everyone you represent has to say.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

SEN. KELLY: Ukraine is not asking us to fight with them with U.S. troops on the ground in Ukraine. They’re asking for help with equipment.

We want Russia to lose. I want Russia to lose badly. I want Ukraine to win. Best way to achieve that is to give them assistance they need.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

He sent 13 service members to their deaths over “not very valuable stuff”?
168 Iranian school girls.
Thousands of civilians killed.
Our bases badly damaged.
Stockpiles depleted.
$80 billion price tag.
$6 gas.

For “not very valuable stuff”?

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

His name is no longer on the Kennedy Center, but there's a tarp over it so he can avoid humiliation. The ballroom, always an excuse for a bunker, is an endless eyesore, and not privately funded as claimed - but they want to fund it from taxpayers, so he can avoid humiliation. The blue reflecting pool isn't blue anymore - the algae are growing, as algae does, but they're dumping hydrogen peroxide into it so he can avoid humiliation. His attempt to get artists to play for his birthday, failed - which was a massive embarrassment, forcing him to say he was the one who cancelled it, said to avoid humiliation. The Iran war is a whopping defeat, a surrender, and a global disaster, and they're trying to figure out how to help him spin it so he can avoid humiliation.
This is the Trump 2.0 presidency. Thin bluster and fake bravado designed to disguise humiliations.
How humiliating.