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[Senator Ben Ray Luján @SenatorLujan]

Secretary Bessent and the White House haven’t been honest with the American people. They said they wouldn’t touch Medicaid, Medicare, or nutrition programs – but their actions tell a different story. Watch:

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Reality check: A "warrant" is a democratic concept, born of the idea that the authorities do not have unchecked power (as state security force in regimes certainly do). Asking for a warrant, for the authoritarian mindset, is a hostile act worthy of arrest.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Donald Trump's secret meltdown over his failed birthday parade is revealed and he's "reaming out" Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth and blaming the soldiers themselves.

And it gets so much more pathetic...

"He’s pissed off at the soldiers," Trump biographer Michael Wolff told The Daily Beast Podcast. "He’s accusing them of hamming it up, and by that, he seems to mean that they were having a good time, that they were waving, that they were enjoying themselves and showing a convivial face rather than a military face."

Apparently, the so-called president was hoping for a "menacing" display but instead got a "festive" parade for the Army's 250th anniversary and his 79th birthday. Meanwhile, the "No Kings" protests swept the country as millions took to the streets to protest his brutal ICE crackdowns and authoritarian policies.

The military parade was deeply underwhelming and the consensus outside of the Fox News bubble was that the soldiers were marching out of step, the audience turnout was low, and the entire affair had a depressing air about it.

Rolling Stone ran an article entitled "Trump’s Military Birthday Parade Was a Gross Failure."

"He kind of reamed out Hegseth for this," said Wolff. "Apparently, there was a phone call, and he said to Hegseth, the tone was all wrong. Why was the tone wrong? Who staged this? There was the tone problem. Trump, he keeps repeating himself."

"It didn’t send the message that he apparently wanted, which is that he was the commander in chief of this menacing enterprise," Wolff explained.

The administration reacted as they always do whenever Wolff strikes a nerve, accusing him of being a "lying sack of sh*t" with a "sick and warped imagination" and a "case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain."

While we have yet to receive a final cost analysis of the incredibly wasteful parade, Army estimates in the lead-up to the North Korea-style pageant pegged the cost at $16 million. Imagine if that money had instead been spent on providing healthcare for veterans.

Please retweet and ❤️ if you're glad Trump's parade was a total flop!

[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

The family of Minnesota state Rep. Melissa and Mark Hortman sat down with CBS News’ @LiliaLuciano, sharing hopes that their loss might lead to change. “We can’t let hatred and division rule the actions that are happening now,” Melissa’s mother said.

[Pod Save America @PodSaveAmerica]

“The truth is the president of the United States could fix the immigration problem right now if he chose to... He has the House, he has the Senate, he has the White House and he’s not doing it.” —@iamwesmoore

[Rep. Linda Sánchez @RepLindaSanchez]

Today @RepJudyChu, @RepMarkTakano, @RepKamlagerDove, @RepLuzRivas & I demanded access to the notorious Adelanto ICE facility to conduct congressional oversight. The conditions we saw inside and heard about from the immigrants were as disturbing as the raids in our communities.

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

This might be the real reason why Trump left the G7 early.

Today was Stand with Ukraine Day, and he knew everybody would be badmouthing his pal and benefactor Vladimir Putin.

[Senator Mazie Hirono @maziehirono]

ICE is wreaking havoc on immigrant communities, separating families and stoking fear.

Make no mistake, these ICE raids were never about the safety of our country, but furthering a cruel, racist agenda.

This is Trump's America.

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Donald Trump has effectively already selected his next Supreme Court Justice.

And he's just about as bad as it gets. Let's talk about Emil Bove.

[Santiago Muñez @mozkid8]

WATCH OUT FOR THIS LATINO 🐷 KIDNAPPING PEOPLE IN PICO RIVERA, SANTA FE SPRINGS & DOWNEY AREA

#fuckice
#fuckborderpatrol

[Sen. Tammy Baldwin @SenatorBaldwin]

🚨Attention! This is a Public Service Announcement. 🚨

[Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairness]

BREAKING: Every single Democratic senator just signed a letter urging their Republican colleagues to abandon their plan to fund billionaire tax breaks by gutting Medicaid and SNAP.

Instead, the senators propose working together to cut taxes for working people, not billionaires.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

“Democracy ... advances the idea that every single person matters, and we all rise together. The opposite … a dictatorial system ... that’s what we’ve got now. It's a gangster state.” Dem Rep. Jamie Raskin

More here: https://t.co/j9EnVb0Uso

[James Olmsted #Democracy4All! @jl_olmsted]

#DemsUnited #DemVoice1 #NoKings
🎥 Rachel Maddow lays it bare. As Trump flails, Americans rise. Not a few. Not in a few places. But millions—from Joplin to High Point to McHenry—marching, chanting:

No kings. No dictators. Not here.

“It is literally everywhere in this country…
Americans in surprising numbers, in surprising places,
turning out again and again to say:
‘You are not taking over our country.’”

This isn’t protest. This is opposition.
This isn’t chaos. It’s clarity.

“Trump… can’t contend with the breadth of feeling against him.
So he calls them paid. Or violent. Or foreign.
But this is just us.
It’s who we are.
And this is how we feel about you.”

Trump, abandoned on the world stage.
Mocked at the G7.
A strongman with no strength, no allies, no plan.
Just paranoia, coins with his face on them—and a military he’s trying to turn on his own people.

“He has rushed to the end—because he doesn’t know
how to fight an opposition this big,
this sustained,
this correct.”

📺 Watch this. Then share it. Because this moment matters. History is watching. The world is watching. And we are the other side. And we are marching!

[Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @JudiciaryDems]

This Administration is conducting a cruel, un-American mass deportation agenda.

And Kristi Noem must answer for it under oath.

[Ken Coleman @HistoryLivesDet]

On this day in 2008:
Former U.S. Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize winner @algore endorses Democratic Party U.S. presidential hopeful @BarackObama during a spirited 20,000-person rally in Joe Louis Arena.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Looks like Stephen Miller is the boss, after all.

Trump got big footed by his own staff. Pathetic.

[Senator Roland Gutierrez @RolandForTexas]

The Trump admin doesn’t give a damn about deporting criminals. They just want to harass brown people.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Bartiromo: "The Senate Finance Committee unveiling the text of President Trump's bill ... it includes even steeper Medicaid cuts than the House called for." (Trump has repeatedly claimed that the bill doesn't cut Medicaid. Oops.)

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

There's not a day that ends in Y where Republicans aren’t trying to ban abortion.

This time, they want to effectively ban ACA insurers from covering abortion care, AND they want to defund & shutter Planned Parenthood clinics.

We need to speak up NOW to stop this bill.