Tim Champion

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“I don't know [why we're here]. People sometimes say to me, ‘Why don’t you admit that the humming bird, the butterfly, the Bird of Paradise are proof of the wonderful things produced by Creation?’

And I always say, well, when you say that, you’ve also got to think of a little boy sitting on a river bank, like here, in West Africa, that’s got a little worm, a living organism, in his eye and boring through the eyeball and is slowly turning him blind. The Creator God that you believe in, presumably, also made that little worm. Now I personally find that difficult to accommodate…”

— Sir David Attenborough

[Tar Heel Nation @UNC_TarHeelFan]

Here's my annual reminder for NC State fans to wish Roy Williams a Happy Father's Day

[Al Cappuccino…☕️🇮🇹 @AlCappuccinoIT]

I haven’t forgotten that the Heritage Foundation came up with the blueprint for the horror we’re now living through, and that they’re still working assiduously behind the scenes to make things even worse.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Trump is trying to shift the decision about who gets to vote from the states to his administration, using benign sounding administrative procedures, and an executive order that few people are paying attention to. There’s nothing more important to be aware of right now than this. Details here: https://t.co/8dvrOO8Zy6

[Rogue POTUS Staff @RoguePOTUSStaff]

The Reflecting Pool arrests by Park Police should terrify everyone. The federal government is fabricating accusations out of thin air simply to protect one man from his own embarrassing failure.

There is no sabotage. This is insane.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

It's working the way it was designed.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built.

Think about that.

At a time when electricity demand is rising, the Trump administration is spending billions to reduce the amount of power that could reach the grid.

Trump has spent years attacking wind turbines as ugly and inefficient. He is entitled to his opinions about how they look. He is not entitled to make taxpayers finance those opinions.

Seven states have already sued over earlier agreements. Federal courts have repeatedly found legal defects in this administration’s efforts to halt offshore wind development. The administration has cited national security concerns while providing little public evidence to support them, and judges have said they were not convinced.

Strip away the politics and what remains is hard to defend.

Billions in taxpayer money paid to private companies to cancel planned energy projects during a period of rising demand.

Governments usually spend money to build things.

This administration is spending billions to make sure some things never get built.
https://t.co/rB2naxc27j

[Governor JB Pritzker @GovPritzker]

Outrageous.

Dr. Justin Ryder, a pediatric surgeon and expert at Northwestern, was booted from a conference for sharing an article on federal cuts to biomedical research.

This is the impact of Trump's administration.
https://t.co/Gr3WRBHjOs

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

The defense for Flock Cameras, etc, is simple: “You’re in public, so you have no right to privacy.” But have you considered the endgame of that logic?

If privacy stops at your doorstep, then it is perfectly legal for a police AI drone to meet you at your driveway, follow you everywhere, and record every interaction you have all day long. Every single person, followed by a machine, every single day.

If that physical reality makes your skin crawl, then you cannot defend the digital version. An AI camera grid on the streets is just a robot cop following you that you’ve been told to ignore.

[BluByU @Udntnonutn]

So to clarify.

Qatar donated a roughly $400 million luxury “flying palace” to the US government as an unconditional gift.

We, the taxpayers then paid as much as $1 billion dollars in retrofits to strip it down, add high grade secure communications, and defense systems, so it can serve as Air Force One.

The upgraded plane flies trump for the remainder of his term.

Then it gets transferred to the Donald J. Trump Presidential Library Foundation no later than early 2029.

At what point exactly are we supposed to stop noticing that a foreign government’s expensive gift, heavily subsidized and transformed at taxpayer expense, ends up as an asset controlled by trump’s own foundation?

I’m sure it’s nothing.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The Foreign Emoluments Clause (art. I, § 9, cl. 8): No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under the United States, shall, without the Consent of the
Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind.

[Nicole Minét @mouvement33]

Everyone on the right got pissed off when I noticed the state of the art circulation and filtration system Obama had added to the Reflecting Pool 16 years ago was removed by Trump. Now we find out that Trump *did* remove it. This isn't hard to deduce. Anything Obama did will be removed and destroyed. We paid good money for that system only to be charged $14 million to have the pool painted and the filtration system removed. This was a money laundering scheme. Nothing more.

[Larry Sabato @LarrySabato]

Funny how the right-wing skips over this part of the Trump legacy.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

The oligarchs are nervous.

In our corrupt campaign finance system, billionaire-funded super PACs are paying huge amounts to beat progressives and elect establishment candidates.

The number one political issue is ending Citizens United and moving to public funding of elections.

[D-LIB @whittler_e]

Misinformation by Trump and the republicans made Covid far worse than it should have been. Now they have the nerve to demonize Anthony Fauci. But Fauci never said Covid was a hoax or told people to drink bleach.

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Found an imaginary problem, said only they could fix it, didn’t listen to experts, hired buddies who grifted millions, failed miserably, bragged how great it went.

The entire Trump presidency in a nutshell.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Jeff Bezos claiming humans are consuming too much water and not leaving enough for AI data centers is INSANE.

[Kabiran @Kabiran_]

The billioniares' vision of the world is a vision without humanity.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

If you had told me 10 years ago that a billionaire would accuse humans of drinking too much water in 2026 because data centres need it to power the AI tech that is now threatening our entire way of life, I would have told you to write a better Bond villain, because wtf?