I spent 24 years wearing this nations uniform.
Do you know what nobody ever told me?
That if I worked hard enough and sacrificed enough, someday my military career could be decided by the political opinion of a Fox News pundit playing Defense Secretary.
Nick Saban says the NIL era is spiraling in the wrong direction, and the seven-time national championship coach is now pushing Congress to step in before things get worse.
https://t.co/0bsjXWyQ4i
American consumer debt is at an all-time high of nearly $19 trillion overall.
If you are experiencing debt, we’d like to hear from you for an upcoming story: https://t.co/0wFtz022z0
"We're seeing President Zelensky and his team are doing not only excessive kinetic strikes and taking the fight to the enemy, but they're messaging extremely well to anyone that feels like they can team up with the Russians."
@MarkHertling on Ukraine's strike on St. Petersburg.
So the Senate just confirmed Katie Lane to a lifetime federal judgeship in Montana even tho she earned a rare and embarrassing "not qualified" rating by the American Bar Assn.
First of Trump 2.0 court picks to get this rating -- and be confirmed anyway. https://t.co/M97f7bKwup
The High Museum is showcasing Isamu Noguchi, whose sculptures, furniture, and public spaces helped define modern design.
With his iconic Playscapes in Piedmont Park, this exhibition offers another great reason to visit The High.
MCCONNELL on PULTE at DNI:
“Very few Senate-confirmable positions come with statutory eligibility requirements. There are good reasons why the Director of National Intelligence is one of them. Anyone performing this role of such immense public trust must have the extensive national security experience required by statute, and no nominee who falls short of this requirement will earn my vote.”
Posting my draft of “Discovering the Historical Anglo-American Constitution.”
I trace birthright citizenship from the 1100s to the 1770s and show that the English common-law rule of natural-born subjects was always tied to territory and jurisdiction.
https://t.co/shmXgQYZI9
My wife retired from the military during Trump’s first presidency after 22 years of service.
Trump’s letter of appreciation was signed using autopen. They had to blow the signature up, which made it look pixelated. It was garbage.
…which is where she put it as soon as we got home.
I sent @BarackObama a letter request two months before her retirement ceremony because that’s the last leader MSgt. Shead served under.
…it showed up in our mailbox the morning after she retired. It was PERFECT timing.
It’s been framed and displayed for guests to see. 🇺🇸🫡
“So anyone who comes over knows what a real President does for service members, even after leaving the White House.”
- My Wife
STANTON: Jared Kushner's firm has raised more than $6b since it was founded in 2021, including $1.2b over the last year. Are you aware of how much of that has been raised from foreign nationals?
RUBIO: I don't know anything about it
STANTON: The answer is 99%. Are you concerned about a conflict of interest
RUBIO: Jared is a private citizen who has been advising
"Muhammad Ali knew the cost of speaking out when silence was safer. He was vilified for refusing to fight in Vietnam and punished for standing up to racism and injustice at home. But he never surrendered."
— writes @AminaJMohammed for #AJOpinion ⤵️ https://t.co/gDhGIkiyVm
This is the latest Trump corruption to push back on.
He's gotten the attorney general to exempt him from the tax laws that govern everyone else—including other presidents.
Bill and I released 30+ years of tax returns and were audited a few times! https://t.co/6JiiVjIv3F
A recent analysis stated that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s war goals were now unachievable. The report appeared to be a further sign of growing dissent at the top of Russia’s political establishment.
Read more here: https://t.co/J3sth9fcuv
Here’s a fact check of some of President Trump’s claims, including a bunch of long-debunked lies, from a single softball New York Post interview released this morning.
Claim: “We're the only country in the world that has mail-in ballots.” Truth: Dozens of countries have mail-in ballots, including Canada, the UK, Australia, Germany, and Switzerland.
Claim: The 2020 election was “rigged” and has “been proven to be rigged.” Truth: Not rigged, there’s no proof for Trump’s assertion more than five years later, and he lost fair and square.
Claim: Trump won “three” presidential elections. Truth: He won in 2016 and 2024, lost in 2020.
Claim: In the 2024 election, “There were areas that were just rigged…rigged against me.” Truth: Nonsense again; he won that election fair and square but lost some areas of the country fair and square.
Claim: Democrats “could not win” “if they didn’t cheat.” Truth: Democrats, like Republicans, clearly win various elections legitimately.
Claim: California mails out “38 million ballots," and while "some people get three, four, five ballots," "Republicans get, oftentimes, none.” Truth: California mails a ballot to all active registered voters, of which there are 23 million, not the “38 million” figure Trump has used repeatedly; while there are occasional errors by county elections offices and the postal service, there's no general anti-Republican bias in ballot-mailing in the state.
Claim: “I inherited the highest inflation in the history of our country…Biden had like 9, 10% inflation. And I inherited that, and we have it way down.” Truth: The inflation rate the month Trump returned to office was 3.0%, lower than the most recent rate of 3.8%; Biden-era inflation did peak at 9.1%, but that was in mid-2022, and it wasn’t close to the all-time record of 23.7%. Regardless, it had fallen substantially before Trump’s inauguration.
Claim: “We have $18 trillion being invested in the country in just 11 months.” Truth: This is a completely fictional figure. The White House’s own website says there have been $10.6 trillion in “major investment announcements” this term, and even that’s a massive exaggeration that counts vague pledges, not-even-pledges, and pledges that are about mutual trade rather than investments in the US.
Claim: Trump had gas prices at “$1.85 in Iowa” on the day he visited there in January. Truth: The Iowa average gas price that day was $2.57 per gallon, per AAA; GasBuddy found four stations in the state out of 2,036 selling for $1.97 that day, none at $1.85; the station outside the venue where he spoke was at $2.69. (Ethanol-gas blend E85 was around $1.85, but that can only be used in a small percentage of cars, and he didn’t say that was what he was talking about.)
Claim: Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico was still wearing a mask “a couple of months ago.” Truth: I've found no evidence for this; the Talarico video many Republicans have mocked shows Talarico wearing a mask in 2022, not 2026.
Claim: Mitch McConnell was “losing by a lot” in the 2020 Senate election in Kentucky but then Trump endorsed him and got him elected. Truth: McConnell, running in a state that hasn’t elected a Democrat to the Senate since 1992, led in all but one public poll in that race, and that one exception was a poll conducted for a pro-term-limits group in which he trailed by just one point; he was always the overwhelming favorite.
Claim: The Jan. 6 attack was “nonsense” in which “the FBI said, ‘Go in. Go in.’” Truth: That was a riot perpetrated by Trump supporters, and there's no evidence the FBI ever told rioters to illegally enter the Capitol. DOJ’s inspector general found the FBI had zero undercover agents at the riot…and Trump was president at the time and had personally appointed the FBI director.
Claim: Former VP Harris “was the border czar” but “never went.” Truth: She went to the border twice as VP, and the Biden administration repeatedly emphasized she was never “border czar” but had a narrower assignment focused on the “root causes” of migration from Central America.
Claim: Under Biden, “25 million people” poured over the border. Truth: This is a further exaggeration from the wildly exaggerated “21 million” figure Trump used to use; even counting “gotaways,” it’s not even close to correct.
Claim: Democrats are so dumb that “we had 11,888 murderers, most of whom committed more than one murder, allowed into our country.” Truth: The federal data it appears Trump is referring to is about people who entered the US over the course of multiple decades, *including during Trump’s own first administration.*
Claim: Under Biden, countries emptied their jail populations into the US – “the whole jail was emptied into our country.” Trump and his team have never substantiated this claim even though he’s made it for years, and experts on global prison policy and on the countries he has previously identified as the supposed culprits have told me they’ve seen no evidence for it.
More details: https://t.co/NtFk7PUfwN
Fighting my wrongful termination by the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing.
I made posts on social media reflecting the truth about racial double standard when we discuss political violence.
We head to arbitration tomorrow.
Let’s goooooo.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: Upcoming Georgia Special Legislative Session now includes property taxes. #gapol
Governor Brian Kemp's amended proclamation includes language that could allow certain local property tax referendums to be added to the November ballot.
Learn more about SB 33 here: https://t.co/obNpl9SlXz