Suzanne Bernadette

Songwriter; writer/reporter/editor; major lover of making my house a home, music, cooking, birding, gardening, antiquing, my wonderful kitty-cats, Katie & Teddy

[Suzanne Bernadette @suznuz]

Enjoy your Saturday

[Suzanne Bernadette @suznuz]

@JoJoFromJerz Asinine man
😡😡😡

[Suzanne Bernadette @suznuz]

@AdamKinzinger Ugh 😑

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

To everyone who helped bring the Obama Presidential Center to life, thank you. Michelle and I are so grateful for all your dedication and hard work over the years.

I got a little teary-eyed tonight thinking about my mother-in-law, Marian Robinson.

[Michelle Obama @MichelleObama]

It means so much to Barack and me to open up the Obama Presidential Center on the South Side of Chicago. This is where I grew up, where Barack got his start, and where we raised our girls. So having a place where kids from our community can see themselves, connect with each other, and channel their hope—there’s nothing more powerful than that.

[Sid @Trending_Sid]

@CalltoActivism https://t.co/lXuzyqFLur

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: DONALD TRUMP HAS FALLEN ASLEEP AT HIS 80TH BIRTHDAY UFC FREEDOM 250 EVENT.

[Suzanne Bernadette @suznuz]

@CalltoActivism lol 😂

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Trump lies constantly and he is desperate for the Iran war to be over. So desperate that he’s giving Iran 20 times the money Obama did, and getting nothing in return, except an open strait that Iran will charge a “maintenance fee” to all ships. Well done, bozo

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Absolutely incredible

[Suzanne Bernadette @suznuz]

@mjfree 🤷‍♀️

[Suzanne Bernadette @suznuz]

Bahwahahahaha 😂😂😂 so funny

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Hahahahhaa dude @PeteHegseth

[Suzanne Bernadette @suznuz]

@AdamKinzinger @PeteHegseth Bahwahahahaha 😂😂😂

[Suzanne Bernadette @suznuz]

@JoJoFromJerz Right?!?!

[Suzanne Bernadette @suznuz]

@JoJoFromJerz I wish

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Good point by Jake. Four officers took their own lives due to the trauma of Jan 6. And Trump doesn’t say a WORD about them.

Back the blue my ass

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Trump walked off a TV interview, skipped D-Day to post AI videos of himself, and is pretending an unraveling war in Iran doesn't exist. Nobody around him will say a word. I have a theory about why — and it has to do with rumble strips.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

An online campaign led by supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump is calling on NBC News to remove journalist Kristen Welker from the network. The backlash intensified across social media after recent political coverage and interviews that many Trump supporters described as biased against the president.

Several pro-Trump commentators and political accounts have been demanding NBC take immediate action, while some reports circulating online claim that Trump himself wants Welker fired from NBC immediately. However, no official statement from the White House or NBC News has confirmed those reports.

Kristen Welker, moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” has long faced criticism from conservative circles over her handling of political interviews and election-related coverage. Supporters of Welker argue that the attacks are part of growing political pressure against mainstream media journalists in the United States.

The controversy once again highlights the deep divide between major media organizations and Trump’s political base, especially as political tensions continue to dominate American public discourse.

#DonaldTrump #KristenWelker #NBC #USPolitics #BreakingNews #Media #TrumpSupporters #Journalism

[Jake Tapper 🦅 @jaketapper]

That is some wild, unhinged stuff from the President.

Welker is a good person and honest journalist and didn’t deserve that but more importantly we have a president who constantly pushes conspiracy theories with zero evidence and can’t respond when politely challenged on that.

[Mike Drucker @MikeDrucker]

Always weird to me that conservatives act like he’s the toughest man in America when literally a follow up question is enough to make him turn completely beet red and crash out

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

Europe Wins Again. Obviously.

Armenia went to the polls yesterday. And the results are exactly what you’d expect if you’d been paying attention for the past five years, rather than wallowing in Kremlin nostalgia like a damp sock.

Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan declared victory on Monday, with his Civil Contract Party leading with 52.5% of the vote.  Armenia, a landlocked country the size of Belgium that Russia has spent decades treating as a vassal state, has looked at its options and made a decision that required roughly the same level of intellectual effort as choosing between a Michelin-starred restaurant and a skip fire.

They chose Europe.

This election was less a routine vote than a referendum on Pashinyan’s post-2020 course reducing dependence on Russia and moving toward an explicit European orientation. And Russia, naturally, did everything in its power to stop it. According to Reuters, citing Western intelligence officials, the election faced heavy Russian covert interference, including disinformation campaigns and a plan to transport Russian Armenians into Armenia to sway the vote. One analyst collective described it as one of the largest state-backed disinformation campaigns in modern European history. And Armenia still told them to get lost.

Putin had already warned Armenia it would face economic consequences for drifting westward, and introduced restrictions on Armenian agricultural exports in the weeks before the vote.  Threats, propaganda, economic blackmail. The full Russian toolkit. Result: irrelevant.

Now, Trump, Tucker Carlson and JD Vance would like you to believe that Russia represents some superior civilisational model. A proud, white, Christian fortress holding the line against the Muslim hordes supposedly swamping Europe. It is a compelling narrative, in the same way that flat earth theory is compelling if you ignore every single fact available to you.

Here is one such fact: between 10 and 15 percent of Russia’s own population is Muslim. Tatars, Bashkirs, Chechens, Ingush, Dagestanis. Millions of them. Russia is, by its own demographic reality, a multi-ethnic, multi-faith state with a larger Muslim population than most of Western Europe. But you’re not supposed to know that. It complicates the story.

Meanwhile, the Muslim share of the EU population sits at around 5 percent. But the Tucker Carlsons of the world need you frightened, so the numbers get quietly shuffled off stage.

So Armenia joins the queue. Behind Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, and every Eastern European country that isn’t currently run by a Slovak who seems to have wandered in from a Moscow focus group. The pattern is not subtle. Every country that has actually experienced Russian influence in practice is sprinting in the opposite direction. The only nation currently moving toward Russia’s orbit is the United States, which managed to elect a man whose foreign policy instincts were apparently shaped by a property developer’s admiration for strongmen with good buildings.

The world watches America and hopes it finds its way back. Most people think it will. Eventually. The damage, however, is already considerable, and democracy, like a soufflé, does not always survive rough handling.

Armenia made its choice. The right one. Obviously.

Gandalv / @Microinteracti1