A Salty Dog

A tiny bit of malice towards some, but I’m working on it. Tweets, typos and misspellings all my own. Politics, Golf, sports in general…. Go Cubs!

[A Salty Dog @tking2905]

Dunning-Kruger has given way to the Rogan effect.

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

APPLEBAUM: What Russians do is they put out not one lie, but million lies, or not one explanation, but one after another.

It's a propaganda technique. They just flood people with massive, contradictory stories, and sooner or later, people won't pay attention to anything at all.

And there's so much information all the time that people eventually just tune out, and they say, "I don't know what's true, I don't know what's not true, I don't believe anything, I'm not going to engage in this issue, I'm not going to get angry about it, I just don't want to know anything at all."

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

North Carolina
Indiana
Ohio
Oklahoma
West Virginia

These are some of the states with the LARGEST drops in health care coverage—all represented by Republicans who voted AGAINST lowering YOUR health care costs to pay for tax breaks for billionaires.

[Rachel Bitecofer 🗽🦆 @RachelBitecofer]

This man has no security experience. None of this is normal, but by all means, continue pretending we’re not in a crisis.

[Team Roy Cooper @TeamCooperNC]

Roy Cooper on @MeidasTouch:

It’s time to get decent, competent people back into government who respect our Constitution and believe in checks and balances. I believe our best days are ahead of us, despite the destruction we have seen.

My opponent, Michael Whatley, continues to support horrible policies like the slush fund. We don’t need those kinds of leaders.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

NEW: A number of top officials have left Michael Flynn's non profit group with no explanation why, save a cryptic post about a “drunk night between grown adults.”

via @willsommer

https://t.co/cSRd9zyJGa

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

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Pulte begins a purge of the intelligence community. Add it to what Hegseth is doing w/ the military, Blanche w/ Justice, Patel w/ FBI, and hirings at ICE, and we’re entering a very dangerous period, one that makes Watergate look like child’s play.
https://t.co/T0MxVKYyLb

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The President has often claimed that foreigners pay his tariffs.

In reality, American businesses and consumers are footing the bill — and not just for the tariffs themselves, but for higher raw import prices too, which are up 6.7% year over year.

[Team Roy Cooper @TeamCooperNC]

Michael Whatley appointed and promoted a known convicted child sex offender who served 6 years in prison and now the Republican Party is trying to sweep it under the rug. Spoiler alert: it’s not working.

https://t.co/OCi5R5wxzh

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.
Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.
Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.
Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event
Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.
Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.
Step 6: Blame someone else.

[Zaid Jilani @ZaidJilani]

A billion dollars spent on this stunt. Suicidal cruelty

[Jeff Jackson @JeffJacksonNC]

Breaking: Duke Energy Carolinas just lowered its proposed residential rate hike from 18% to 11.6%.

That happened after our office objected, along with Public Staff, other intervenors, and many North Carolinians.

It’s a step in the right direction, but it’s still too high.

We’ll keep making our case for lower rates - and for making sure families don’t get stuck paying unfair costs for data centers and other large users.

[Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @JudiciaryDems]

BREAKING: Senate Democrats file legal brief supporting appeal of Judge Aileen Cannon’s decision blocking release of full Jack Smith report on Trump’s misuse of classified documents.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

It's funny that Musk wants to sue @RoKhanna over his speech because:
1) Musk claimed to be a free speech champion and absolutist, which of course he isn't.
2) Khanna simply linked to an academic study of deaths from USAID cuts, which Musk presided over.
3) Musk just called Khanna a "robber" and an "insider trader" which is way more defamatory and actionable under US libel law as statement of (false) facts, so maybe it's time for Khanna to sue Musk.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

THERE IT IS:

Another challenge to Trump's sweetheart deal that immunizes him from I.R.S. reviews

Group of former federal tax officials (who've served in Admins. of both parties) have filed brief challenging the deal in federal court in Florida

https://t.co/6EkAWAUxK3

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[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

OOF: The plaintiffs who unsuccessfully sued trying to stop Trump from renovating the Reflecting Pool have just uncorked a scathing update to the judge

"This is the foreseeable result of defendants’ decision to bypass the consultative process required by law and which must occur before the government can alter our nation’s most sacred spaces"

"It should go without saying, Congress required agencies to consult with experts and public before making changes to historic properties for a reason. The public is now witnessing what happens when, instead, agencies barrel ahead with ill-conceived plans in a hasty manner to meet an arbitrary deadline imposed by the White House"

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Jack Smith’s report on Donald Trump’s mishandling of classified documents and obstruction of justice is still hidden, thanks to Trump’s personal lawyers taking over the DOJ.

I’m filing a brief — joined by every member of @JudiciaryDems — to make it clear to the court that the corrupt process that hid the report must not prevail. Congress and the public are entitled to the truth.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Treasury just waived oil sanctions on Iran for 60 days — citing "progress."

Iran could rake in up to ~$10 billion off that decision alone.

In contrast, the Obama admin didn't lift sanctions until a deal was signed and the IAEA independently verified Iran's nuclear compliance.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

You will see Trump’s tax returns, his healthcare plan, his medical records including his ‘bullet wound’, the unredacted Epstein files & the pilot who got shot down over Iran BEFORE you see pictures of someone attacking the Reflecting Pool with a knife. He lies for a living.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: Some members of the Jewish community, including Democratic Congressman Josh Gottheimer, were alarmed by the language you used at the rally last week, calling AIPAC monsters who move dark money.

Mamdani: I want to be very clear. We’re talking about a status quo where children are being killed on a daily basis. More than 1,000 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli military since the so-called ceasefire.

Even an Al Jazeera journalist, Ahmed Wishah, was killed this past Saturday by an Israeli strike. And when I am speaking about AIPAC, I’m speaking about an organization that has been supportive of the status quo, that has fought any attempt to actually deliver safety to people not just in Palestine but, frankly, throughout much of the region.

And it is a status quo of immorality. It is one that I will not accept. And when it comes to the way in which they defend the status quo, oftentimes they defend it through direct contributions, as we are seeing right now in New York 13.

Oftentimes they also support the status quo through dark money, by funneling money that would have previously come directly from AIPAC through other organizations whose contributors’ identities are only made clear after an election.

And I think it is important that when we ask ourselves how such death and destruction is happening overseas, we also name those who allow it to take place.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Susan Collins is lying through her teeth. Roe v. Wade was not overturned 6-3. That is a lie. It was 5-4. Roberts specifically said he did not support overturning Roe.

Brett Kavanaugh was the deciding vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.

And Susan Collins was the deciding vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court.