Steve Schaefer

Author, Living in the Overlap;
Managing Producer

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

Last night Ukraine could not intercept a single Russian ballistic missile. The USA deliberately starving Ukraine of Patriot missiles is now clearly understood by the Russians as American support for their terror bombing. The USA is helping Putin kill Ukrainians.

[Phillips P. OBrien @PhillipsPOBrien]

JD Vance urging the Ukrainians to be defensive is peak pro-Putin lobbying by the Trump administration. Now that Ukraine is doing better than they ever imagined, they want Ukraine to back off and take a deal Putin would go for. Nothing has changed, the US is with Russia.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

I'm gonna post this everyday so MAGA never forgets what Trump did on Jan 6

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Kaja Kallas, the Vice-President of the European Commission, just slammed Donald Trump for being a coward and having America abandon its embassy in Kyiv. This is awful.

[Angelica Shalagina🇺🇦 @angelshalagina]

As a Ukrainian, I don’t understand one thing:

Why are we told to “give up land for peace”
but russia is never told
to stop stealing land?

[Mike Pompeo @mikepompeo]

Putin's renewed attacks on Ukraine are initiating a fresh round of hand-wringing over what to do next. But the answer is pretty simple: Ukrainian victory.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Every major Western country condemned the attack, except the United States. Shameful.

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

“We don’t take an oath to a King”….

“We don't take an oath to a wannabe dictator”

“We take an oath to the Constitution.…and we're willing to die to protect it"

- General Mark Milley
#MemorialDay

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

this seemed and seems real now

[Stephanie Grisham @OMGrisham]

I resigned on Jan 6 & lost everything & live in fear. I watched these criminals get pardons, see new corruption from the WH every day, & now taxpayer $ set aside to reward them for their loyalty & maintain his own personal army. Where are you Congress? Cabinet? Anyone???

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

Q: What was it that made you break with Trump?

Trump voter: Just seeing the lies. He put us in a war. He's putting up gold statues of himself. When are people going to wake up? All those stupid rallies I went to... I got rid of my Make America Great Again hat. I can't even believe I wore that hat.

[Tom Wright @profntwright]

Paul's deep, constant, and unresolved grief is a standing rebuke to the shallowness that forbids Christians to grieve on the grounds that all shall be well. Earnest preachers have sometimes read 1 Thess 4:13 as forbidding grief of all sorts, whereas what that passage forbids is grieving of a particular kind ("after the manner of pagans who have no hope"). To hold firmly to the Christian hope is not to pass beyond grief; indeed, not to grieve is not to love, since grief is the form love takes when the beloved is taken away. Paul himself speaks elsewhere (Phil 2:27) of the grief he would have had if Epaphroditus had died ("grief upon grief," he says); no suggestion there of simply "rejoicing that his friend had gone to a better place." As long as death is real, grief is real too. If it is not acknowledged, and expressed appropriately, it can be poisonous.

At the same time, it is vital to learn the lesson that this deep and inconsolable grief can co-exist with the joy and celebration that fill the previous four chapters. The many-layered texture of Christian experience has room for both, and more besides. Learning how to live with these different layers, giving each its proper place, is part of Christian maturity; pointing to this task, and helping people to engage in it, is a vital part of Christian ministry. What happens between Romans 5-8 and Romans 9-11 at the level of literature must be facilitated at the level of prayer and Christian self-understanding.
-Romans, The New Interpreters Bible

[Mike Pence @Mike_Pence]

“This is a moment to increase support for Ukraine so it can keep the pressure on Russia. Only the prospect of greater losses and potential defeat will cause Mr. Putin to abandon his imperial ambitions in Ukraine—and in Western Europe.” Is Ukraine Turning the Russian Tide? https://t.co/eFOJkGJExj

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

🚨 BRITISH HISTORIAN GOES NUCLEAR: “Trump is Putin’s USEFUL IDIOT”

Sir Antony Beevor (Sky News):
“The Americans are being played. Putin is manipulating the White House and views Trump as a ‘useful idiot’ advancing Moscow’s goals… especially on Ukraine.”

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

MAGA should never be told that a convicted pedophile and his circle of elite friends raping girls when they are 14 or 16 years old is a Democrat hoax.

And I still can’t believe I had to fight President Trump to release the Epstein files, and to this day no one has been arrested or held accountable.

This was what killed MAGA.

I don’t have Trump Derangement Syndrome, I have Trump Disappointment Syndrome.

[Rep. Frank Pallone @FrankPallone]

America should be taking leadership in Ukraine’s fight for its independence and democracy, but Trump has pulled out because he’d rather ingratiate himself to a dictator in Moscow.

Trump’s abandonment of Ukraine will go down in history as one of the worst foreign policy decisions of his presidency. https://t.co/1nm04vExEs

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

President Zelenskyy responds to JD Vance, who called ending aid to Ukraine “one of the proudest” achievements of the Trump administration:

“If the Vice President is proud that he is not helping us, it means that he is helping Russians,” Zelensky told Newsmax.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Ukraine always expresses its gratitude and always remembers clearly who supported us and how after this war began. But it is equally important, especially for Europe, that all partners remember that Ukraine is defending not only itself in this war. Russia wants our territory so that it can capture the territories of others. If it succeeds with one country – one neighbor – it will do the same with others.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

"I don’t think Americans fully appreciate the extraordinary cost of Trump’s bluster and blunders. It should go without saying, but once you threaten to invade an allied country, you don’t just place the existence of the alliance in jeopardy; you raise the possibility of allies turning into mortal enemies. You can also trigger the kind of insecurity and scramble for power that contributed to the start of World War I.

In practical terms, it’s hard to see how alienating American allies puts America first." https://t.co/bs1q6dkrcN

[Robert Zubrin @robert_zubrin]

@FoxNews After betraying America’s European allies, Putin Republicans denounce them as bad allies.