JudySteen

Be kind to animals 🐾 ; I’m a Proud Democrat 🇱🇷. Keep the faith; America will heal with Kamala ! 🙏

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

White House, East Wing, Rose Garden, Jacqueline Kennedy Garden and South Lawn as they used to look (Encyclopedia Britannica):

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Rachel Maddow Says The Fight Over Scott Pelley Is Bigger Than One Journalist.

Reacting to Pelley's firing, Maddow said she hopes he lands back on television immediately.

"I hope he's on TV tomorrow." 🔥

But her larger point was about the press itself.

She argued that journalists and news organizations now face a coordinated effort to weaken independent media and must find ways to fight back.

The story is no longer just about Scott Pelley.

It's about whether one of America's most influential news institutions can survive a leadership shakeup that many inside the industry see as an existential threat.

[𝔻𝕖𝕓𝕠𝕣𝕒𝕙 🥃🖊️ @DADiClementi]

They’ve been fighting for many decades, Jane Fonda and Joan Baez.

[Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @JenniferEValent]

“What I most worry about, though, is how the type of person that Robert Mueller was… represents a literally disappearing breed in Washington and American government.”

A fitting tribute here of a man being smeared by people unworthy to tie his shoelaces.
https://t.co/HQbeglmrIn

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral and former Navy SEAL William McRaven on Donald Trump: "Through your actions, you have embarrassed us in the eyes of our children, humiliated us on the world stage and, worst of all, divided us as a nation."

RETWEET if you stand with Admiral McRaven!

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Robert Mueller is war hero who once recovered the body of a dead American soldier behind enemy lines. He was shot by an enemy soldier & went back to war 3 months later. A Marine and is in Army Ranger HoF. Awarded Purple Heart/Bronze Star.

Trump should be removed from office.

[Sen. Michael Garrett @MichaelKGarrett]

The President of the United States learned that Robert Mueller had died.

And he picked up his phone and typed:

“Good. I’m glad he’s dead.”

I need you to stop.

Put down whatever you’re doing and feel the full weight of those words.

Good. I’m glad he’s dead.

Said by the man who holds the most powerful office in the history of human civilization. The office of Washington. Of Lincoln. Of Roosevelt standing in the rubble of Pearl Harbor promising a nation trembling in the dark that we would rise.

That office.

Those words.

Now let me tell you who Robert Mueller was.

He did not have to go to Vietnam.

He had every reason not to. A Princeton degree. A blown-out knee. A future waiting for him in the comfort of civilian life.

He waited a full year for that knee to heal, just so he could serve.

Let that sink in.

He walked into hell when other men were running from it. He came home with a Bronze Star for heroism and a Purple Heart soaked in the blood of his sacrifice. He spent the next four decades standing in the breach, as a prosecutor, as FBI Director, as the man who held this nation together in the smoldering ash of September 12th, 2001, when we were all afraid and we needed someone steady, someone serious, someone who loved this country more than he loved himself.

He was all of those things.

He was a Republican.

He was, by every honest measure, an American hero.

And the President danced on his grave.

[Sen. Michael Garrett @MichaelKGarrett]

I think about my kids.

I think about the car rides where Jack or Charlotte asks me out of nowhere, the way kids do, when the radio’s low and you think they’re not paying attention, “Dad, what does the President do?”

And I’d tell them. Proudly. That the President is someone who carries the weight of all of us. That the job calls out the very best in a person. That it’s the highest honor this country can give.

I believed that when I said it.

I will not have that conversation today.

Not because I don’t have the words. Because I will not let my children believe for a single second that what they saw this morning is acceptable. That cruelty is strength. That power means you never have to be decent. That you can dance on a hero’s grave and call it justice.

I will not raise children who think that is normal.

I will not raise children who think that is America.

And I know I am not alone.

Because we have been here before.

Men waded through freezing water at Valley Forge for a country that hadn’t fully been born yet. They bled on the beaches of Normandy for children they would never meet. They crossed the Edmund Pettus Bridge into swinging batons because they believed, despite every reason not to, that America’s promise was worth the pain.

They did not do that for us to surrender it in silence.

The rot is deep. Scrubbing this stain from the soul of our nation will not happen in a single election, a single speech, a single post on a Saturday afternoon. It will take years. It will demand more from us than comfort allows.

But we do not get to use that as an excuse to look away.

So, it falls to each of us, Democrat, Republican, Independent, who has ever looked at their child and felt the terrifying beauty of knowing you are responsible for shaping who they become.

Stand up.

Not for a party. Not for a politician. For the country you are trying to hand to children who had no say in the world we’re making for them.

Robert Mueller walked into fire, again and again, because he believed America was worth it.

The least we can do, the absolute least, is honor that sacrifice by refusing to let cruelty become normal. By refusing to let the gutter become the standard. By refusing to sit down, scroll past, and let history record that we saw this moment clearly, and did nothing.

Our children are watching.

Generations not yet born are counting on decisions we make right now, in this hour, in this darkness.

We do not get to look away.

Rise. Fight. Restore.

Push.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

HRC is a boss and doesn't take crap from anyone.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Rachel Maddow, letting America's woefully incompetent pedophile psychopath know exactly how pathetic he is as leader of our country. Not only did they blowhard buffoon not have a plan beyond assassinating Khomeini, he didn't even know he needed a plan. The motherfucker's a moron.

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

I wonder how a human being finds themselves sitting in that chair in front of the watching world in a moment of such gravity, so completely bereft of empathy, so seemingly unencumbered by other people’s suffering, and so strident in the face of simple accountability.

But as the father of a daughter, I want you to know that I fully detest what you are doing to so many other people’s children right now.

I abhor your callous disregard for the daughters who stood courageously before you today, whose eyes you did not have the dignity to look into; women whose cavernous hell you know full well, because you’ve pored over it countless times in words, photos, and videos.

It sickens me to my core to know that thousands of survivors, girls and young women not unlike my daughter, have experienced unspeakable horrors and are finding in you, not a fierce and willing advocate, not a steadfast warrior who will deliver them justice, but an unexpected, shame-throwing avatar of the men who brutalized them.

https://t.co/sKn8QLIzss

[Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule]

Judge Richard Leon issued an order on Thursday that grants Senator Kelly, a former US Navy captain, the injunction he was seeking and blocks Pete Hegseth’s censure while litigation moves forward.

This legal conclusion says it all: https://t.co/obTQGFF9BP

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

I’m old enough to remember when CBS News would never have surrendered to a demagogic president or any other politician. Remember Edward R. Murrow?

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

When I was 22 years old, I commissioned as an Ensign in the United States Navy and swore an oath to the Constitution. I upheld that oath through flight school, multiple deployments on the USS Midway, 39 combat missions in Operation Desert Storm, test pilot school, four space shuttle flights at NASA, and every day since I retired – which I did after my wife Gabby was shot in the head while serving her constituents.

In combat, I had a missile blow up next to my jet and flew through anti-aircraft fire to drop bombs on enemy targets. At NASA, I launched on a rocket, commanded the space shuttle, and was part of the recovery mission that brought home the bodies of my astronaut classmates who died on Columbia. I did all of this in service to this country that I love and has given me so much.

Secretary Hegseth’s tweet is the first I heard of this. I also saw the President’s posts saying I should be arrested, hanged, and put to death.

If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to this country to be silenced by bullies who care more about their own power than protecting the Constitution.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

If you can only read one thing today, please make take the time for this extraordinary piece of writing by my cousin Caroline's extraordinary daughter Tatiana. Tatiana is a beautiful writer, journalist, wife, mother, daughter, sister, and friend. This piece is about what she has been going through for the last year and a half. It's an ode to all the doctors and nurses who toil on the frontlines of humanity. It's so many things, but best to read it yourself, and be blown away by one woman's life story. And let it be a reminder to be grateful for the life you are living today, right now, this very minute.

[Sibylle @AHaschi]

This was the Biden christmas decoration
Including the East Wing
We had it all 💔

[We call it pop @babapaul2_paul]

This is what Trump destroyed.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

When I took these images of the East Wing, I knew it would be some time before I ever got to see them in person again. I never imagined no one would ever be able to see them in person again.

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

Leaders like Trump and Pete Hegseth should listen to and learn from those they have the honor of commanding, instead of giving them meandering nonsensical lectures.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Russia murdered an entire family in Kharkiv yesterday: a grandmother, both parents, a 15-year-old boy, and a 1.5-year-old baby girl.