Randa Wanis

Free thinker focused on humanity, kindness, & peaceful coexistence. Love NYC, outdoors, museums, exploring the news, and a keen interest for politics.

[Acyn @Acyn]

CNN Montage of Trump praising Fauci:

I told Tony Fauci, I said, why don't you move to New York, run against AOC, you will win easily

[Jeff Storobinsky @JeffStorobinsky]

.@jaketapper Anchor of @TheLeadCNN with his daughter, Alice Tapper and Chairman, Department of Emergency medicine, University of Michigan, Dr. Prashant Mahajan @mahajanpemdoc

This segment is really a PSA on Sepsis, which Jake's daughter had but was not originally diagnosed with.

5.26.26 545 pm ET 5 Minutes

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Fact checking fraud claims: Heritage Foundation documented 1,620 cases of voter fraud from 1982-2025, including 100 cases of noncitizens voting. That's about 0.000008% of more than 1.3 billion votes cast in presidential elections in that time. @YLindaQiu https://t.co/c07MmyhyZm

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

After President Trump claimed to reporters twice today that he had recently spoken to a former president who praised his actions in Iran, saying: “I wish I did what you did.” Aides to all four living presidents, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and Joe Biden, have issued statements to CNN, saying there is no record of any communications between them and President Trump.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

I used to wonder how it was possible that Trump could have won in 2016, and then again in 2024, given how emotionally toxic and depraved he is.
I don’t wonder anymore. I think he won for that exact reason. Because he carried at least one broken shard to reflect the broken shards in millions of others.
If you’re a racist, you found your guy. If you’re a misogynist, you found your guy. If money is your only religion, you found your guy. If your heart is armored shut, you found your guy. If you mock the disabled, you found your guy. If intelligence makes you insecure, you found your guy. If you’re a sexual predator, you found your guy. If you trade in humiliation and conspiracy and filth, you found your guy.
If you’ve never done a single hour of emotional inventory, you found your guy. If you cheat, stiff contractors, bankrupt your obligations, and call it savvy, you found your guy. If you lie as easily as you breathe, you found your guy. If cruelty feels like strength, you found your guy. If white grievance is your comfort food, you found your guy. If your ego is a black hole no title can fill, you found your guy. If warmongering fuels your ego, you found your guy, If empathy feels like weakness and dominance feels like oxygen, you found your guy.
If he’d only carried one or two of these pathologies, he might have been dismissed as just another loud, damaged man. But he carried a buffet of them. That was the appeal. Millions could locate themselves somewhere in the wreckage. They didn’t have to agree with all of it. They just had to recognize a piece of themselves in it.
It was never really about him. It was about the validation. The absolution. The permission. He didn’t invent the resentment; he amplified it. He didn’t create the cruelty; he normalized it. He gave millions the intoxicating relief of hearing their ugliest impulses echoed back at rally volume.
Trump is a symptom. The deeper illness is collective. If there’s one sentence that defines his power, it’s this: “He says the things I’m thinking.”
And that’s the part that should chill us.
Because what does it say about us that so many were thinking those things? That tens of millions of Americans harbored resentments so deep, so seething, that they were simply waiting for a demagogue to baptize them as virtue? That after decades of supposed progress on race, gender, and equality, so many white men felt so threatened, so displaced, so furious, that cruelty became a political platform?
Maybe we were living in a fool’s paradise, mistaking silence for healing, politeness for progress.
Now the mask is off. Now we know.
And knowing is a far more dangerous place to stand.
– Michael Jochum, Not Just a Drummer: Reflections on Art, Politics, Dogs, and the Human Condition.

[Randa Wanis @rfwanis]

@FanElonMuskrut Hope.

[Bill Clinton @BillClinton]

Over the course of a lifetime, we face only a few moments where the decisions we make and the actions we take will shape our history for years to come.  This is one of them.

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Does the DHS description match the video?

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

This is a lie. And he knows it’s a lie, and I can’t understand why any politician would vote to continue to fund this kind of un-American inhumane targeting of people based on what they look like. We have become a “papers, please” society and it is appalling.

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

J.D. Vance says I’m wrong about ICE.

Here’s my response.

[Randa Wanis @rfwanis]

@MeghanMcCain Really sad how you’ve completely submitted to Trump after he disgraced your dad even after his passing!

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

Americans are a decent people, by and large. The president is not.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Holy Crap!

Mark Epstein (Jeffrey’s brother) just said Republicans are scrubbing the Epstein files!

“The reason they’re gonna be releasing these things, the reason for the flip is that they’re sanitizing these files. There’s a facility in Winchester, Virginia where they’re scrubbing the files to take Republican names out”

[Devin Duke @sirDukeDevin]

Exactly, they were silent.

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

Well, this is awkward 😬

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

🚨BREAKING: Trump’s spiritual adviser just got arrested for molesting a 12 year old.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

It may be repeating the obvious, but @marykbruce is a first-rate reporter. In the face of a presidential tirade aimed at silencing her, she calmly and professionally showed why a free, independent media remains essential, asking questions that powerful people don't want to answer

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

After a woman reporter asked about President Trump’s name being raised in emails sent by convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Trump snaps at her: “Quiet, piggy!”

Disgusting and completely unacceptable.

https://t.co/5NNaF86aEJ

[Kal - Fear that party that fears your vote. @TruthJustis4USA]

@MeghanMcCain Biden released 200 hostages during the ceasefire he negotiated. You know what Republicans did? They criticized him for giving up too much when he gave up less for his ceasefire than Trump gave up for his.