Uzo

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends — Martin Luther King Jr. Opinions mine.

[Uzo @Rexdon05]

They’re trying to chill speech against their evil—using immigration, visa restrictions, demotions, and job loss to scare people into silence. But when this clown show ends, consigned to the garbage of history, we’ll be here to mock their insecurities.

[Seung Min Kim @seungminkim]

WASHINGTON (AP) — Hegseth censures Sen. Mark Kelly after warning about illegal orders and outlines plan to demote Democrat in retirement.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

This remains one of the few times a journalist stood up to the orange fascist with a simple question: “Do you regret all the lying you've done to the American people?"
~ S.V. Dáte, HuffPost correspondent

[Uzo @Rexdon05]

This is absolutely dead on. The corruptors often assume and frequently get away with the deference and professionalism of those who would rather remain civil than call them out to their faces.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"People sometimes ask me why I’m so hung up on Bari Weiss and the answer is that it’s because her project is essentially the same as Donald Trump’s project." Scott Pelley gets it, too. Today's Triad from JVL (link in reply):

[Rep. Don Bacon 🇺🇸✈️🏍️⭐️🎖️ @RepDonBacon]

🚨 The House just passed the Ukraine Support Act by a vote of 226-195 to provide military aid to Ukraine and impose tough sanctions on Russia.

[Linda Mamoun @mamoun_linda]

Incredible. @Reuters got ratio’d into acknowledging international law.

[Douglas Farrar @DouglasLFarrar]

Main source is a self described “bitter ex” GOP operative who worked at the Heritage Foundation and said in a group chat, “I will personally go campaign for Collins.”

The piece says the NYT “could not corroborate” her claims.

NYT rarely runs things they can’t double source.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

50-49: Republicans, by one vote, chose to keep Trump’s insurrectionist slush fund dream alive.

After they fumbled around for hours, we needed just one more Republican to muster the courage to end Trump’s taxpayer handout to cop beaters and felons.

As per usual, they were spineless.
https://t.co/DNSTwTh7F3

[Uzo @Rexdon05]

She’s a clown.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ingraham: So until we have a complete end investigation into California's mail in ballot counting, vote processing, chain of custody—we the people will have serious doubts about whether the will of the voters in California is being respected

[Uzo @Rexdon05]

@Damocleansword @usamattersmedia Hehehe :)

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

Again, if you are a member of the press who covers Congress and you don't understand that Senate Rs got Cassidy to vote one way so Husted could vote the other and be able to say he voted to eliminate the slush fund, consider a different line of work.

[Uzo @Rexdon05]

@JustCallMeUche Just imagine it was Biden.

[Christopher Clarke @ChrisawClarke]

@MeghanMcCain @60Minutes You had me up until your Rachel Maddow comment
Comparing her to Bari Weiss leads you back into the dumpster w/ the rest of the stupids
You might not like her opinions but she’s a Fulbright Scholar written books & done podcasts on fascism in America & led the fight for democracy

[Uzo @Rexdon05]

You got it. Imagine comparing Maddow to Weiss.

[Courtland Cox @CourtLaland]

@MeghanMcCain @seungminkim @60Minutes Yeah, the difference is Rachel Maddow is an actual journalist and @bariweiss is a unqualified fucking hack. Hope this helps.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

The whole point is that he is unqualified and will make us less safe. This isn’t a glitch. It’s the design. The US is to bend to its rivals abroad and collapse from within. For this he is the right guy!
https://t.co/76hGh4lbnA

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Let @HunterBiden cook 🔥….just not crack

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

It's kind of wild to find out that the Republican in the NYT story that says she had a toxic relationship with Graham Platner is Lyndsey Fifield. Having been in DC for too long, I know a decent number of people who know her quite well. For a long time she was the co-host of a podcast with her best friend Bethany Mandel, called Ladybrains, though she has also worked for multiple super PACs, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Heritage Foundation.

Some background, presented without judgment: In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.

In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.

The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was "a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns."

In an interview for a news outlet called Red Alert Politics that named her to a “30 under 30” list back in 2016, she said that she wanted to “emulate the late conservative blogger Andrew Breitbart’s approach to online activism.” Breitbart, known for pushing the boundaries when it came to political combat, is perhaps best remembered for having exposed Anthony Weiner’s penchant for sending nudes to young girls, and for his work elevating James O’Keefe.

That she worked for Independent Women's Forum recently is even wilder since IWF played a critical role in Kavanaugh's confirmation and in persuading Collins to support it.

Heather Higgins, chair of IWF, laid out the group’s role in a talk several years ago. “We wrote a memo. It was used by a lot of members of the Senate and the House, Fox News, and elsewhere. Most important, Susan Collins told me that without that memo, she would not see how to support him,” Higgins said. “And if you look at the speech she gave on the Senate floor, it’s entirely the playing out and architecture of how we said to structure the argument — what to say and how to say it, which is just so gratifying. We’re watching TV and we’re like, ‘That’s ours! That’s ours!’”

Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then. Apparently this is the kind of thing the NYT thinks is important now, so I guess it requires more reporting. I'll report back.

Here is Heather Higgins celebrating IWF's role in getting Susan Collins to confirm Kavanaugh:

[Uzo @Rexdon05]

China is building both coal and renewables at scale. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is spending millions of dollars to support the coal industry.

[Reuters @Reuters]

Trump plans $700 million in new coal support, White House official says https://t.co/IQHnC8FL7t https://t.co/IQHnC8FL7t

[Natalka @littleukrainian]

@MilesTaylorUSA @IlanaGaron If this description is accurate, the question isn’t whether it’s insane. The question is how a system built on checks and balances evolved into one where this was even possible.

[Uzo @Rexdon05]

😂

[Burgess Everett @burgessev]

Collins, Cassidy and Murkowski vote for amendment that would bar Pulte from interim DNI job

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group. https://t.co/wEAqxMA7AG