Sandy Collins

Hell is empty and all the devils are here - The Tempest: Act 1, Scene 2 William Shakespeare. #NAFO

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Does Donald Trump hate nurses? Sure feels like it since he made sure nursing is no longer categorized as a “professional degree.”

That makes it so nurses have LESS access to federal student aid.

I'm voting to OVERTURN this asinine policy.

[Spiro’s Ghost @AntiToxicPeople]

53 years ago today, June 25th, 1973

John Dean reads his long & explosive opening statement to the Senate Watergate Committee for 7 hours, with 50+ million watching on TV.

He admits his own mistakes bluntly & implicates Nixon & others—taking on the most powerful man in the world. 3 weeks later the existence of the taping system is revealed & further shocks the country—the tapes eventually confirm much of John’s testimony. Nixon resigns in August, 1974.

Coming clean & telling the truth matters.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

This is Bryan. Once a week, he takes a shelter pup on a New York City adventure in his ‘Adopt Me’ backpack, hoping someone will fall in love. He films their big day out, and almost every dog he’s featured has found a forever home.

[📹 madmax_fluffyroad]

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

Went looking for the 300 foot “slit” or “slits” in the reflecting pool Trump keeps lying about. Didn’t find any of that. But did find plenty of signs the paint on the bottom of the pool has simply disintegrated. My latest pool report.

[Barry R McCaffrey @mccaffreyr3]

Sec Hegseth fires four star US Army General CD Donahue commanding US Army Europe. Donahue clearly the most extraordinary combat leader in a generation. Brilliant. Fearless. Bold. Integrity. Incredible leader.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Something very late Roman about the triumphal arches growing bigger and gaudier as the triumphs themselves grow scarcer and more dubious.

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

Trump was warned this would happen. He did it anyway.

Now, over 10,000 Veterans lost their homes. 90,000 more are on track for foreclosure. On top of cutting jobs, slashing benefits and throwing our heroes into an unnecessary war.

The most anti-Veteran President in history.

[Chris Martenson @chrismartenson]

There's a lot of confusion out there, including with Trump, that the US has lots of oil to sell to the world.

We do not. We're a net importer of crude (~+3 Mb/d). The EIA reports that fact in great detail every week.

The confusion stems from using the term "petroleum exports" which includes the bodacious amounts of natural gas liquids (NGL) that come from our wet gas plays. That stuff isn't "oil" and it is exported because it's wildly overproduced compared to our needs.

Yes, the US is a net exporter of "petroleum," but it's also a net IMPORTER of crude oil. In other words, the US has none to sell.

There's more complexity to why we export 3M b/d of crude (it's the wrong kind for our refineries) and also import 6.4 M b/d of crude (which is the right kind).

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Those who write the script are not surprised by the story...

[Joni Askola @joni_askola]

It is crazy how few people know this:

Russia now occupies less Ukrainian land than it did one month into the full-scale invasion four years ago

[Joyce Karam @Joyce_Karam]

“While we were engaged in negotiations, they struck us,” #Iran’s Kamal Kharazi told CNN on Mar. 9. Today his home was struck, wife killed, he sustained serious injuries. NYT reports Kharazi was discussing w Pakistan possible US-Iran negotiations w VP Vance

[Catherine Rampell @crampell]

Quite the midterm message: we can afford wars and ballrooms, but not your “daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things”

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

We are governed by complete morons.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

ICYMI: Republicans BLOCKED my bill to fund TSA.

Republicans are punishing travelers and forcing TSA agents to work without pay because they want to cut another blank check for ICE & Border Patrol.

It's shameful.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Welp, Davos tanked his approval rating even more.

Time to roll out the Iran strikes while the US is in the middle of a massive ice storm?

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: lCE agents have now detained a 2-year-old girl in south Minneapolis and put her on a commercial flight out of Minnesota DESPITE a judge ordering the toddler’s release.

Lawyers say they were asylum-seekers, stopped without a warrant, with no final removal order.

Agents allegedly used chemical irritants and flash-bangs as they detained her.

The court order was signed at 8:10 p.m.
By 8:30 p.m., they were already airborne to Texas.

This is a stunning abuse of power and a direct defiance of the courts.

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

A judge has unsealed the memo ordering the detention & deportation of Rümeysa Öztürk. It confirms the sole evidence against her was that she co-wrote an op-ed the government disliked.

Here she is being arrested by men in plainclothes. Over an op-ed.

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Presidents Bush and Obama should make a joint visit to military cemeteries in the UK, Canada, France, Poland, Denmark, etc to say "the America you remember remembers your friendship and sacrifice."