Rodney Proctor 🇺🇸🇺🇦🪖🖋️

Retired newspaper editor. Veteran of both U.S. Air Force and Army. Father WWII vet. Big bro Viet vet. Twin bro Iraq vet. Politically sane. Boomer Sooner!

[Rodney Proctor 🇺🇸🇺🇦🪖🖋️ @rpwpb]

On this 81st anniversary of VE Day, we must honor the sacrifices made to rid Europe of the scourge of fascism; and redouble our efforts to now do the same here at home.

[Rodney Proctor 🇺🇸🇺🇦🪖🖋️ @rpwpb]

Bari Weiss’s head on block as as senior CBS execs push for ouster over ’60 Minutes’ chaos https://t.co/Y7ORfXi0pd

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

Chip Franklin: “Ten years ago one person had $100B. Today 18 Americans have more than $100B. You shouldn’t have that much money. You should have a tax system. A trillion dollars, you could spend a million dollars a day for a thousand years”

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

DOGE cut 15K USDA jobs that included monitoring of screwworms in Mexico.

They also cut funding for a project, that released sterile flies, that helped maintain a buffer between Latin American cattle and our domestic cattle.

Make sure to thank a Republican.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Translation: "Lewandowski is going to prison."

[Chris Meloni @Chris_Meloni]

I make up numbers and “facts”
I lie more often than I breathe
I like underage girls
I’m stealing BILLIONS of ur $ right in front of you

Can you name that person?

[Robin ❤️🇺🇸👈✡ @rob0349]

So he has completely DESTROYED the South lawn of the White House and has KILLED old growth trees.

TRUMP DOESN'T OWN THE WHITE HOUSE he should not be ALLOWED to do this or else he should USE HIS OWN MONEY TO RESTORE IT !

[Christine Villaverde @Villaverde4NC]

When 8,000 senior federal officials can be fired for "subversion of Presidential directives" — the White House's OWN words — they stop telling the truth and start telling the boss what he wants to hear.

We built the merit system because patronage-based government FAILED. Catastrophically.

We are voluntarily dismantling 140 years of hard-won institutional guardrails. That should alarm everyone.

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Orban exiting the Russian embassy in Budapest before his planned move to the US.

Having looted Hungary to the bone, it's time to double down on service to Putin, but from the safety of the US.

[Europe Defender 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @oroborous]

This is a noteworthy development. I want to remark two things:

1) After Trump was elected, the US came in fast and hard trying to force Ukraine into a surrender. Based on the erroneous perception that the US was the only party that could ensure Ukraine's survival, they immediately cut their support to near zero with the expectation that this would make the Ukrainian war effort unsustainable, allowing the US to dictate the terms of Ukraine's surrender. That would serve to reaffirm American power abroad and have the neat side effect of greatly enriching Trump and his cronies in the process. This course of action was widely supported by the US political sphere and a set of business elites. It was, however, badly mistaken. The US cutting back its support did not force Ukraine to surrender. Instead, Europe picked up the tab, Ukraine kept on fighting and the US was increasingly side lined as a major player in this war.

2) However, not only did US support prove not nearly as pivotal as we were made believe; it turns out to have been counterproductive. All that three years of American support resulted in was a Russia that was slowly grinding it's way through Ukraine. That was, according to the US commentariat, a result of Ukrainian incompetence, European complacency and generally just sheer inevitability. If the US can't fix the situation, nobody can. But now, 1.5 years after the US cut it's support, Ukraine is killing more Russians than ever, striking the Russian war machine deep in the rear and even driving Russian forces back in places. Ukraine fared better when it was opposed by the US than when it was supported by the US. This is bad not only for US influence in Ukraine but also in the wider world, heavily undermining one of the core narratives that underpin American global influence. After all, why should anyone accept the strings that usually come attached with US meddling if it will only make things worse for you?

The US now trying to get behind a winning horse after having miscalculated so dearly is not a result of newly found resolve and rediscovered moral integrity but a panicked attempt to salvage what is left to be salvaged. Should Ukraine bring this war to a charitable end while the US continues to stand on the sides, the damage to American global reputation and influence would be immense. The smarter Americans have understood this and that is how this situation must be interpreted.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

The administration saved pennies with its Doge lunacy and other public health cuts. Now we will lose lives and billions fighting Ebola, measles and screwworm, and consumers will pay more for beef. #SelfInflictedWounds

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“Trump’s power grab over the executive branch is intensifying. Trump seems no longer to care much about electoral consequences. It’s almost as if he doesn’t expect elections to matter because he’s going to do everything he can to make them not matter.”

https://t.co/g3usu8pl5x

[Rodney Proctor 🇺🇸🇺🇦🪖🖋️ @rpwpb]

Am I misreading things, or is Ukraine really taking back Crimea?

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇺🇸 THE UNITED STATES HAS UNBLOCKED $400 MILLION IN MILITARY AID FOR UKRAINE — THE PENTAGON HAD BEEN HOLDING THE FUNDS FOR MONTHS!

The Pentagon has released a $400 million military aid package for Ukraine.

The funds, approved by Congress last year, will be used to purchase new weapons and equipment from American companies. Priority items include ammunition, anti-tank systems, air defense equipment, drones, and other frontline supplies.

Will these systems arrive in time to make a difference on the battlefield, or will the process be delayed once again?

[Igor Sushko @igorsushko]

💥 Ukraine is denazifying occupied Crimea from the Russians.
Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of military equipment destroyed in one day in the sea and on the ground.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

I guess you could have someone read this to you:

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Rep.Ted Lieu talking about how other Countries are mocking Trump for falling asleep all the time.Then he shows a French news report about Trump falling asleep during on Memorial Day at Arlington Cemetery while they were honoring the fallen Service members.The World saw it.

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

Maybe Trump is one of the finest intellects in American history. I mean Einstein may have discovered the theory of relativity, but Trump discovered the missing “b” in dumb and that the Lincoln Memorial’s now non-reflective pool is longer than the Empire State Building is tall.

Stable Genius!

[Marlene Robertson🇨🇦 @marlene4719]

The same people who voted for a corrupt, pathological lying, serial conman who was unfaithful to all three wives and was banging a porn star while his third wife was nursing their newborn son, and who is also an adjudicated rapist and accused paedophile are condemning Hunter Biden, a man who did the hard work to clean up his life.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

A message for CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and new owner David Ellison.

[NSTRIKE @NSTRIKE1231]

❗🇺🇦👊 Zelenskyy delivers a strong and direct message to Putin:
🗣️ “If you personally, in your own thoughts, have not yet reached the conclusion that the time has come to end this war, Ukraine will continue to fight for its existence. We will have those who will support us.
But you too will have to fight much harder for your own existence — not for Russia’s, but for your personal one. And this is not a threat from me or from Ukraine. These are the facts of Russian history, which you know very well:
When Russia gets tired, changes happen.”

This is one of Zelenskyy’s sharpest and most psychologically pointed messages to Putin. He places full personal responsibility for the war on the Russian leader and subtly reminds him of the historical fate of Russian rulers who exhaust their country in prolonged conflicts. The tone is confident, calm, and uncompromising.

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