Steve Klein

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Here’s the short answer for your grandkids: Gaza happened because the people of Gaza chose to be ruled by evil Islamist terrorists whose mission was to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. And to achieve that mission, the terrorists were perfectly willing to have Gaza demolished and the people of Gaza slaughtered. In fact, that’s what the terrorists wanted. Because the terrorists knew all along that so many ignorant and antisemitic people in the West would enthusiastically cheer them on and become willing stooges/accomplices as they carried out their evil mission. And please tell your grandkids that in spite of all of this, Israel still did all they could to minimize how many civilians in Gaza would be killed. Israel went to greater lengths to limit civilian deaths than any military in the history of urban warfare.

[NBACentral @TheDunkCentral]

“We Know 3 of the starters and the other two will not be white guys.”

- JJ Redick on the Lakers’ starting 5

(Via @swishcultures_ )

[Rany Jazayerli @jazayerli]

The only thing I know for sure about this game is that the NFL finally has an overtime format that is perfectly balanced for both teams.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Desperate people do desperate things.

Trump will increase his insane moves and maneuvers in the days ahead...

Shit deals, fake announcements, desperate distractions.

It's all coming.

[Nate Silver @NateSilver538]

Trump running on lower gas prices and no more foreign wars and then starting a war with Iran that literallly everyone except Pete Hegseth knew was going to be a quagmire has to be on the shortlist for dumbest political blunders in American history.

[Steven Huffman @Poeslawisalive]

President Trump Explains Trade Deficits:

“If we buy 2 billion dollars worth of Bananas from Brazil, we’re actually losing 2 billion dollars. So if we stop eating bananas, we actually save 2 billion dollars”.

It’s just simple Economics.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

Trump: "I ended 8 wars, and the one that's the toughest is Russia-Ukraine. The two leaders hate each other so much. Hatred is very interesting, war is very interesting, but it's too bad."

He repeats this passage about hatred like a mantra, and a lot has been said about it, but I would like to emphasize that this is a manipulative substitution of concepts.

I don't know what the aggressor’s reasons for killing Ukrainians are, maybe it is hatred.

But you cannot reduce our desire to live, live free in our own country, speak our language, and cherish our culture (instead of being occupied, repressed, re-educated, and in a lot of cases killed) to simple hatred. Ukraine isn't fighting out of hatred, we fight for each other and everything in this world that is dear to us.

(Also, "war is very interesting"??)

[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

“It is all Biden's fault”

🔸Gas was $3.12 per gallon when Biden left office. It is $4.33 today.

🔸Diesel was $3.63 a gallon when Biden left office. It is $6.27 today.

🔸America was not at war when Biden left office. We are at war with Iran today.

🔸Inflation for 2024 was 2.9%. It is 3.4% today.

🔸Wage gains for 2024 were 3.9%. Today, 3.1%.

🔸Real Wage Gains were +1.0% in 2024. Today, they are -0.3%.

🔸GDP growth was 2.8% in 2024. In the second quarter of 2026, it was 1.5%.

🔸The number of uninsured Americans decreased by almost 1 million over Biden's term. It has increased by 3 million since he left office.

🔸Home electricity prices have risen 12% since Biden left office.

🔸The native-born employment rate has decreased by ~1.7% since December 2024—the opposite of what a big deportation effort was supposed to do.

You can't blame the last administration for everything bad happening 20 months into a new administration that enacted tariffs, started a war, and kicked people off their healthcare to give more tax breaks to corporations and billionaires.

[Andrew Weinstein @Weinsteinlaw]

There’s obviously a lot going on right now, but a Russian oligarch bankrolling the wedding of the president’s son is the kind of story that should dominate headlines in any functioning political culture.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Donald Trump stood on the fairway of his own golf course in Ireland on Sunday and informed the world that the diesel crisis "isn't done by the Middle East." It is, he says, Zelenskyy's fault for hitting Russian refineries. This will come as news to the tankers idling outside the Strait of Hormuz, which was open for business before February, was briefly reopened in June, and has been effectively shut again since July, with traffic down to a trickle under naval escort.

That is the shortage. A fifth of the world's seaborne oil, a tenth of its diesel and a fifth of its jet fuel used to pass through that strait. American diesel hit a record above six dollars a gallon on Friday, and it did so because a war Trump started ended with Tehran holding the key to the Gulf, not because a Ukrainian drone found a tank farm in Krasnodar.

The whole world watched the United States go into Iran and come out with a ceasefire, a broken memorandum and a closed strait, the most humiliating result in the history of American power. Rather than admit it, the president asks the country being bombed every night to stop fighting back, so that Russia can sell more diesel and he can survive November.

[Steve Klein @smklein74]

@bomani_jones I teach US History and spend a full week on Popular Sovereignty & Bleeding Kansas

[Kansas Football @KU_Football]

It is that deep.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Ingraham: Why not just give the $5,000 to people now? If you have it, why not just give it now?

Trump: Because the Democrats can’t do it. Because with them, it’s negative growth. We’re taking in $21 trillion because of tariffs.

Huh??

[Steve Klein @smklein74]

@DirkSchwenk @theNFLchick And the tariffs

[Aaron @PhoggyThoughts]

Hate week.

[Doug Gottlieb @GottliebShow]

Americas leading exports
Oil
Conspiracy Theories

[Maria Drutska 🇺🇦 @maria_drutska]

OK, I'm just going to come out and say what's on everybody's mind.

The US is being run by self-obsessed high school bullies right now who hate smart people and facts.

And the damage done to US standing internationally may no longer be repairable.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

They can't figure out how to end a war they started.

They don’t know how to lower prices that they raised.

They won’t fire the drunks and incompetents they’ve hired.

But by God, they’ll build that ballroom!

Corruption for the ages.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

🎯 America's allies and enemies are not Trump's. As with Putin and Russia, if you work from the assumption that Trump's interests are usually not America's interests, it becomes much easier to understand and predict his actions.

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

So there’s no confusion:

Trump kidnapped the dictator he doesn’t like, installed a dictator who does as she is told, and stole the country’s oil.

Yes, America is doing naked imperialism again.

We have become the bad guys.