Sam Weiss

Foreign Policy Wonk, Coffee Addict, SoCal 🌴 | @FP4America NextGen | @Kennedy_School | Views are my own

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

Disgusting. Also cowardly. Attacking Jewish journalists for actions taken by world leaders one doesn’t approve of allows these bigots to let the powerful off the hook while running toward a prejudice that is in vogue.

[Jim Sciutto @jimsciutto]

Don’t miss the significance of this: the administration is announcing the end of the war in effect without having achieved regime change, ending Iran’s nuclear program or eliminating its missile program. And its focus is now on solving a problem which didn’t exist prior to the war: a closed or nearly-closed Strait of Hormuz. The president could of course order new military strikes but the current state of play has not met his sometimes outsized expectations.

[Nicholas Burns @RNicholasBurns]

The State Department fired 200 experienced U.S. Foreign Service Officers today. No Administration has been more dismissive of our nonpartisan career diplomats. Shameful.

[Sam Weiss @SamWeiss0]

I’ve been hacked. Please disregard recent posts.

[Ezra Klein @ezraklein]

In the last few years we've seen:

- The plot to kidnap Gretchen Whitmer
- The Storming of the Capitol and pipe bombs left at the RNC and DNC
- The break-in to kidnap Nancy Pelosi and the brutal on Paul Pelosi
- Multiple assassination attempts against Trump
- The assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman and her husband and the shooting of on State Senator John Hoffman and his wife
- Luigi Mangione's assassination of Brian Thompson
- The assassination of Charlie Kirk

Political violence is contagious. It is spreading. It is not confined to one side or belief system. It should terrify us all.

The foundation of a free society is the ability to participate in it without fear of violence. Political violence is always an attack against us all. You have to be so blind not to see that.

[chyea ok @chyeaok]

“Cut that. That’s fire.”

[Haley Britzky @halbritz]

AFRICOM commander Gen. Langley tells senators that China is "trying to replicate" USAID programs in Africa as the US scales back USAID.

"They’re trying to use that as an extension of the Belt and Road Initiative to gain favor by the African countries," Langley said.

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

Interesting how Trump is slapping tariffs on countless allies but gives a completely free pass to Russia. Yet another sign of this administration’s endless fealty to Putin… and this time, it’s raising your prices in the process.

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

In today's press briefing @statedeptspox bizarrely "rejected the premise" that a meaningful US response requires USAID staff "to be physically there."

As the guy who used to deploy those teams - this is total nonsense.

You can't conduct search-and-rescue virtually. Come on.

[Ned Price @nedprice]

It's right to focus on the economic headwinds of Trump's tariffs & how they'll make life more expensive--from eggs to cars. But we should also look closely at the flip-side: his exemptions, a source of pay-for-play corruption & another control lever for an aspiring authoritarian.

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

A massive & deadly earthquake hit Myanmar today.

Meanwhile Rubio and Elon are firing - today! - the last remnants of the team that would have mobilized a USAID disaster response.

A total abdication of decades of US leadership in the world.

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

The global humanitarian response capacity of the United States has been broken tonight.

If there is an earthquake or hurricane somewhere in the world next week, the US will be conspicuously absent.

This evening the staff that do that work are being purged from USAID.

[Brett Bruen @BrettBruen]

Terrorist groups are a main beneficiary of Trump's foreign aid freeze.

USAID works in a lot of places where they recruit, look for support.

Their task just got a whole lot easier.

[Atul Gawande @Atul_Gawande]

I ran @USAID health programs for the last 3 years. Trump’s 90 day Stop Work Order on foreign assistance does serious damage to the world and the US. Examples:🧵

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Young people are freaking fired up.

[Sam Weiss @SamWeiss0]

Time to win this thing

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

My fellow Democrats, I have decided not to accept the nomination and to focus all my energies on my duties as President for the remainder of my term. My very first decision as the party nominee in 2020 was to pick Kamala Harris as my Vice President. And it’s been the best decision I’ve made. Today I want to offer my full support and endorsement for Kamala to be the nominee of our party this year. Democrats — it’s time to come together and beat Trump. Let’s do this.

[Matt Staab @mattstaab_]

BREAKING: President Biden has endorsed Kamala Harris to succeed him. Let’s go.