Deborah Small

Mom, Gege, Oriole fan, Raven fan, blue all the way thru. Please no dm unless invited 🌊

[Deborah Small @smallkidzz]

@magickworkings @MuellerSheWrote @natsechobbyist @greggutfeld I am not young or single, but I am angry. I fought through the years to gain rights. I am old enough to remember how it was before and I will fight for my daughters and granddaughters.

[C-Bo the Eggman @CBoTheEggman]

This is a picture of the reflecting pool when the dark blue paint was being applied.

Notice that slit in the middle? It's the drainage system.

Is that what Trump thinks was cut by vandals?

[I’mthatgirl🇭🇹 ♋️ 🐝🔮 @classy_sassyme]

@Acyn I think it’s time when you start understanding these terms because they are being tossed around and I don’t think we’re using them correctly

[seanmack @seanmack1025]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Amy Siskind 🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸 @Amy_Siskind]

Trump‘s and Lutnick‘s sons have been involved in 14 rare mineral deals that were collectively financed or will be financed by $8.9 billion US taxpayer money, as Trump seeks to find partnerships to get at these minerals. It’s one of the most disgusting displays of kleptocracy so far!
I gifted this article so you can read it.

https://t.co/uo4WXepQzj

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

Neither is Christian white nationalism. Here’s what is:

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.”

And: “no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States.”

Got it now?

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

📬 USPS is rushing to carry out Trump’s wishes on restricting mail voting, which could disrupt mail voting and hand the Trump administration private voter information.

Here’s how we can fight back: https://t.co/tfAfBy04cT

[Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @NotHoodlum]

So, do I have this right? We’re removing artificial colors from M&Ms but giving immunity to companies that poison us?

[Deborah Small @smallkidzz]

@CDesign @jason_kint Yeah, that's a seam

[Acyn @Acyn]

Talarico: Every bar has that one guy. He’s loud, he’s obnoxious, he makes all the women in the bar feel uncomfortable. He hears you say your name to the bartender and then adds his drink to your tab when you’re not looking.

That’s Ken Paxton.

And I don’t know about y’all, but I’m done picking up his tab.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

This is the most corrupt words to come out of a Speaker's mouth imaginable. The job of Congress isn't to protect the President and his family. It's to provide checks and balances on the Executive Branch. You're damn right we will investigate crimes and corruption. Who moved $180 million in oil futures 15 minutes before Iran announcements? Who has gotten sole source contracts because of their connections to the Trump family? Where did our social security data go when DOGE downloaded it into portable hard drives? Where are the rest of the Epstein files? On and on this Congress has chosen covering up crimes instead of stopping them. That ends in November. @WellmanForMO

[Chuck Pfarrer | Indications & Warnings | @ChuckPfarrer]

THIS JUST IN: Pete Hegseth has decided to take away the rank from all military Chaplins- because they're not ‘warfighters’. Since WW One, US Chaplins have won 5 Medals of Honor, 26 Distinguished Service Crosses, 1 Navy Cross, 45 Silver Stars and 719 Bronze Stars for valor.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Orwellian

[Ron Tough @ShoeHornOPlenty]

@Angry_Staffer Dear lord, this idiot actually thinks American passports are for people coming to America doesn't he?

[Jill Tucker @jilltucker]

If you ever doubt how magical this world is, one day you will decide to go to a World Cup watch party in Oakland that you found online to root for a country where you spent two years trying to coax English out of the mouths of Cape Verdean teenagers. 1/7

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Trump claimed that he was going to personally pay for the new polished African granite walkway carved in Italy he had installed at the WH. But in fact taxpayers paid all $689,232 for Trump’s vanity project.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

I think it was just hate.

By Sincerely, American:

"Trump supporters say, 'We suffered 8 years under Barack Obama.'

Fair enough. Let’s take a look.

The day Obama took office, the Dow closed at 7,949 points. Eight years later, the Dow had almost tripled.

General Motors and Chrysler were on the brink of bankruptcy, with Ford not far behind, and their failure, along with their supply chains, would have meant the loss of millions of jobs. Obama pushed through a controversial, $80 billion bailout to save the car industry. The U.S. car industry survived, started making money again, and the entire $80 billion was paid back, with interest.

While we remain vulnerable to lone-wolf attacks, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully executed a mass attack here since 9/11.

Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.

He drew down the number of troops from 180,000 in Iraq and Afghanistan to just 15,000, and increased funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

He launched a program called Opening Doors which, since 2010, has led to a 47 percent decline in the number of homeless veterans. He set a record 73 straight months of private-sector job growth.

Due to Obama’s regulatory policies, greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 12%, production of renewable energy more than doubled, and our dependence on foreign oil was cut in half.

He signed The Lilly Ledbetter Act, making it easier for women to sue employers for unequal pay.

His Omnibus Public Lands Management Act designated more than 2 million acres as wilderness, creating thousands of miles of trails and protecting over 1,000 miles of rivers.

He reduced the federal deficit from 9.8 percent of GDP in 2009 to 3.2 percent in 2016.

For all the inadequacies of the Affordable Care Act, we seem to have forgotten that, before the ACA, you could be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition and kids could not stay on their parents’ policies up to age 26.

Obama approved a $14.5 billion system to rebuild the levees in New Orleans.

All this, even as our own Mitch McConnell famously asserted that his singular mission would be to block anything President Obama tried to do.

While Obama failed on his campaign pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, that prison’s population decreased from 242 to around 50.

He expanded funding for embryonic stem cell research, supporting ground breaking advancement in areas like spinal injury treatment and cancer.

Credit card companies can no longer charge hidden fees or raise interest rates without advance notice.
Most years, Obama threw a 4th of July party for military families. He held babies, played games with children, served barbecue, and led the singing of “Happy Birthday” to his daughter Malia, who was born on July 4.

Welfare spending is down: for every 100 poor families, just 24 receive cash assistance, compared with 64 in 1996.

Obama comforted families and communities following more than a dozen mass shootings. After Sandy Hook, he said, “The majority of those who died today were children, beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old.”

Yet, he never took away anyone’s guns........

He sang Amazing Grace, spontaneously, at the altar.

He was the first president since Eisenhower to serve two terms without personal or political scandal.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

President Obama was not perfect, as no man and no president is, and you can certainly disagree with his political ideologies. But to say we suffered?

If that’s the argument, if this is how we suffered for 8 years under Barack Obama, I have one wish: May we be so fortunate as to suffer 8 more."

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Judge Sullivan officially granted @KatiePhang's motion for a preliminary injunction after she sued the Trump admin for violating @RepThomasMassie's and my Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Thanks to her tireless work, we're one step closer to the full release of the Epstein files and getting survivors the justice they've long deserved.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

The GRU operative—a member of Unit 29155, no less—who invented the Ukraine biolabs nonsense celebrated the day Gabbard pushed it. (Receipts in the link.) The IC was aware of the origin of this conspiracy theory, which makes Gabbard’s promotion of it as one of her valedictory moves upon leaving the IC all the more scandalous. Finally, people casually conflate recruited agent with agent of influence. The Russians do not. The latter category is more encompassing for a reason. And being in a batshit cult does not foreclose on the possibility of being manipulated by foreign intelligence; if anything, it makes one more susceptible. https://t.co/KDx13LkDw6

[Jennifer Griffin @JenGriffinFNC]

Here are some of the facts about Gen CD Donahue’s storied Army career. Hegseth is forcing him to retire with no explanation, sending shockwaves through the Army and Special Ops community where Gen Donahue is widely respected.

* Commander of Delta Force in Iraq and Syria during the ISIS fight

* Led the mission to capture the Benghazi planner in Libya

* Ordered to secure the Kabul Airport after a chaotic withdrawal; returned order to the airport; arranged for hundreds of evacuation flights saving tens of thousands of lives; was NOT in charge of security at Abbey Gate where Marines were in charge of securing that entrance to the airport where 13 Americans were killed by a suicide bomber

* coordinated military aid to Ukraine after the Russian invasion and knows more about lessons learned on the Ukraine battlefield and advances in drone warfare than any senior officer in the US military

* led humanitarian aid efforts as head of 82nd Airborne from post at Ft Bragg during NC floods two years ago

* stint as head of US Army Europe cut short and will require presidential waiver not to lose 4th Star and retirement benefits after Secretary Hegseth forced him to retire early, having not had his 4th Star for the requisite 3 years. He was 18 months into current assignment.

[Backpirch Weather @BackpirchCrew]

The Earth just experienced FOUR significant earthquakes in a single day.

First, it was a Magnitude 5.6 in California’s Redwood Valley.

Then, 7 hours later, a devastating “double” quake inflicted massive destruction in northern Venezuela. The first one at Magnitude 7.2, followed by an even larger Magnitude 7.5 only 39 SECONDS later.

Finally, a mere 25 minutes after the Venezuela twins, a Magnitude 6.9 marine earthquake struck offshore of Kuji, Japan.

Very rare to see this much seismic activity across the globe in such a short period of time.