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Learning to live from my heart. Prof. speaker, writer, voice of the refreshingly normal. B.S. meter set on high.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Rep. Keating to Rubio: "I'm sure you're aware that Ukraine, country that at the time had third-largest nuclear arsenal, peacefully turned over their nuclear weapons in conjunction with Budapest Memorandum.

And in exchange for U.S. commitment to defend Ukraine if it ever came under threat. The U.S. gave its word to Ukraine that it would defend them.

And I find this amazing. In your opening remarks, as you took us all over the world and mentioned 15 different incidents where you have interceded — 15, the top 15 — not once did you mention Ukraine when you were prioritizing achievements that are there."

[Michael Brandmeier @Brandmeier]

@BohuslavskaKate Thank you, Rep. Keating. If we don't keep our commitments, our promises, which involve protecting innocent people, who the frig are we anymore?

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Rep. Angie Craig: "Do you know how much money farmers lost last year?"

Brooke Rollins: *doesn't answer*

Craig: "It was $28 billion. You're the Secretary of Agriculture."

[VoteVets @votevets]

BREAKING: Rep. Pat Ryan just got the House Armed Services Committee UNANIMOUSLY to force Pete Hegseth to explain every senior military firing within the next 5 days. Hegseth has fired 24+ officers without cause or explanation. Even Republicans want answers.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Why? Just WHY?!? 😡

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Trump hasn’t made a public appearance in 8 days. This after an unscheduled visit to the hospital- because he “likes getting check ups.” Thank God Jake Tapper (or as I like to call him- the Brick Tamland of his generation) is on the case hunting down clues in a book about my mom’s experience as First Lady four years ago.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: The Secretary of Homeland Security just admitted, on camera, that he is going to violate your First Amendment right to free speech.

He said, “I have ZERO tolerance. If you verbally assault our officers… we will find you, we will arrest you.”

Except… that’s not how the First Amendment works.

Unless someone is making a credible threat of violence, speech… even rude, angry, or insulting speech… is still protected.

That’s the whole point of a free speech clause… to protect the people from situations where those in power don’t like what’s being said.

So, when a top federal official starts framing “verbal assault” as something you can be arrested for, without clearly defining it as an actual threat…

It stops sounding like protecting officers, and starts sounding like a government trying to silence people who speak out against it.

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

Scott Pelley issues new statement after being fired by CBS for opposing their pro-MAGA bias:

“New management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them.

Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.”

[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

MEGYN KELLY: “What’s core MAGA now?”

SHAWN RYAN: “I have no idea. Pedophiles Supporting Israeli Lobby?”

Touché.

[James Barragán 🌟 @James_Barragan]

.@jamestalarico on having 4,000 people show up to his rally in Collin County - @KenPaxtonTX's home: "It proves that even in Ken Paxton's own backyard, Texans across the political spectrum are hungry for change."

[REPUBLICANS AGAINST MAGA @michaelt5656]

John F. Kennedy Jr. taking a walk in the beautiful, classy, welcoming rose garden. Before a clown turned it into a circus.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Isn’t it hypocritical to take a few Bible verses on sexuality and demand they be legislated over an entire country, while reducing over 2000 verses about wealth, care for the poor, the disabled, the vulnerable, and refugees to a private personal choice?

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

It has been confirmed that Melania Trump was Epstein's girlfriend before she married Donald. That means she was trafficked to Donald. He bought her.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MAJOR BREAKING: A federal judge in Washington just ruled that protesters criticizing Trump could not be forced to take down a flag reading “8647,” finding NO indication that the message could be taken as a true threat against the president’s life.

TOLD YA SO. 8647.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BLANCHE: Who the president chooses to pardon is not a problem, period

IVEY: What's the legal basis for that statement?

BLANCHE: The Constitution

IVEY: The Constitution does not give him the authority to pardon in exchange for payments. It does not permit bribery

[Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @JudiciaryDems]

Katie Lane is the first Trump 2.0 judicial nominee to receive a NOT QUALIFIED rating from the American Bar Association.

She’s never even tried a case.

There are 3,000+ licensed attorneys in Montana. Pick a different one.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

I'm a huge fan of Dolly Parton. We're the same age and height, but she can sing better.

Shame on Missouri Republicans for slashing funding to Dolly's Imagination Library, which provides free books to over 170,000 children every month.

They must reverse these cuts immediately.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Rubio: "We're getting a lot of questions about us. I don't think it's fair because ultimately the people who have closed the Strait of Hormuz are Iran."

Sen. Schatz: "Nobody's defending what Iran is doing. I think what we're saying is this was not just predictable, it was predicted…It's really shocking to me the degree to which this administration expresses shock that the thing that everybody said was going to happen ended up happening."

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

You will never hear about this from Republicans because it completely shatters their narrative.

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

Here’s Fuckface going full Hitler, calling the press the “enemy of the people” because he’s a miserable fucking failure & gets all butthurt if anyone asks a real question. But the child-raping sack of shit’s got it all wrong. HE is the enemy of the people.