SA Sommer

Educator, MN Dem, book pusher, she/her

[SA Sommer @sasommer]

@ScottJenningsKY @CNN @CurtisHouck Voting for a candidate does not allow the president to engage in illegal depositions. No matter how much you want to believe it.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

President Musk

https://t.co/AwO2yXIan0

[Demetri @AsiaLens]

Trump seeks pledge that his Treasury secretary will enact tough tariffs https://t.co/kP1qxyvRaC via @ft

[The Philadelphia Inquirer @PhillyInquirer]

The real reason Trump picked a sex fiend, dog killer, and anti-vaxxer for his Cabinet https://t.co/lrQc66WnyX

[Ari Drennen @AriDrennen]

This is the through-line linking abortion bans, transition care bans, hatred of gay people, and the dismantling of public education. Instead of making our economy more generous to try and increase the birthrate, they want to take away the alternatives to parenthood.

[SA Sommer @sasommer]

@JohnAvlon Go to Bluesky

[John Avlon @JohnAvlon]

Thirty-five years after the Velvet Revolution, this quote by Vaclav Havel, retains its power:

“There is only one thing I will not concede: that it might be meaningless to strive in a good cause.”

[Andrew A. Michta @andrewmichta]

For “realists” in Western Europe, isn’t it simply that Ukrainians are East Europeans, and that Russia is somehow entitled to own them? For “realists” in the US, isn’t it ultimately the “we provoked Russia by talking about Ukraine in @NATO” argument, so it is on us, not Russia?4/9

[Andrew A. Michta @andrewmichta]

If Ukraine is defeated, “realists” will discover that their brand of realism is actually appeasement by another name. The regional balance of power in Europe will dissolve in short order, China, Iran and North Korea will be emboldened, and the West will become yet more timid. 8/9

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

TAPPER: Does it matter anymore for Republicans to think of leaders as people who are moral in their personal lives? Is that still important in the GOP?

MIKE JOHNSON: Ah, sure. What I'll say about the nominees the president has put forward is they will shake up the status quo.

[Matthew D. Taylor @TaylorMatthewD]

.@mmfa here has a good breakdown of Hegseth's 2020 book, literally titled "American Crusade."

He echoes many far-right talking points about the threat of Muslims to Western Civ, the need for modern Crusades vs. Islam, & rampant Islamophobic lies. 15/

https://t.co/E6VqkQrdLC

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

X Corp's new CFO, Mahmoud Reza Banki, received pardon from Donald Trump along with Steve Bannon and others on January 20, 2021.
https://t.co/lp5ZmSWaoS

[Ronald Brownstein @RonBrownstein]

In Wright, Trump has chosen a skeptic of mainstream science on global warming who argues the “climate crisis” is a myth. https://t.co/hcAb7JQhDh

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“If Trump gets his way, we will have a defender of war criminals as Secretary of Defense, a Russian lackey as Director of National Intelligence, a criminal running the Department of Justice, and a crank promoter of quack remedies in charge of HHS.” https://t.co/v3SBSxcx2I

[adrienneelrod 🐗 @adrienneelrod]

I ran the surrogate vertical for the Harris-Walz campaign. And as I point out in this piece, we NEVER have or would pay a surrogate to endorse @VP . This is disinfo perpetuated by the right.

FEC law mandates we have to pay some ancillary costs, especially around performers. That’s the law, and we followed it.

[SA Sommer @sasommer]

@_waleedshahid @CultrHack Corruption 0

[Tom Colicchio @tomcolicchio]

Bankrupted a casino but never wrong.

[Richard Blumenthal @SenBlumenthal]

I deeply oppose any organization—public or private—secretly harvesting gun owners’ personal information. That’s why I’m so troubled by the National Shooting Sports Foundation compiling a secret national database—containing reams of such private information.https://t.co/qLaBJSNAEi

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

FOSSIL FUEL EXECUTIVE FOR ENERGY SECRETARY! The idea that Trump is anti-establishment is the absolute dumbest narrative of all time and countless people fell for it

[SA Sommer @sasommer]

@jmart @BrianaRoseLee Through propaganda