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[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board tears apart Trump’s tariffs in a blistering editorial:

“The President is right that his tariffs are at work—in destroying U.S. jobs and raising prices. The U.S. has lost some 75,000 manufacturing jobs since January 2025, including 25,900 in motor vehicle and parts production...

there’s no question his tariffs are raising costs for U.S. manufacturers.…Mr. Trump and his advisers claim that foreigners pay his border taxes, but the evidence shows that U.S. companies, workers and consumers are picking up most of the tab.

The Anderson Economic Group estimates that auto tariffs on Canada and Mexico alone added about $1,600 to the cost of each car made in the U.S. last year. While auto makers absorbed some of the Trump tariff costs, they also passed on a large share to customers…Call it the Trump tax.”

[Greg Bluestein @bluestein]

An audit of all 1.11 million ballots cast in Georgia’s runoff elections found just 23 “discrepancies.” Every one of them involved hand-marked paper ballots. #gapol
https://t.co/EsJ7fSNzzb

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

​Iran is now publishing cartoons that Trump can understand.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

This is what leaders do when they don’t want free and fair elections. I’ve studied these activities in other countries moving towards autocracy.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

NEWS: Republican U.S. Senate candidate in Iowa Ashley Hinson says her family can barely afford groceries. Her disclosures say she’s worth up to $7M richer since taking office. And the “all my stocks are sold” claim? Also false. The receipts 👇 https://t.co/ViK64xghxh

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Trump just dropped the charges against another crypto scammer behind a $722 MILLION Ponzi scheme.

This guy was guilty as fuck, and the case was about to go to trial. But I guess he put enough money in Trump’s pocket to stay out of jail.

Not surprising. Still infuriating.

[jezz @JezziiB]

So RFK comes into town, torches research and disease prevention programs, and now we have outbreaks of measles, screwworm, and cyclospora.

It’s almost like doctors should be in charge of health services.

[Go Utes @williary8617]

Trumps greatest accomplishment will be turning over global leadership to China, on nearly every front.

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

BREAKING: For 10 years the world believed there was one way to reuse a rocket: land it upright on its engines, the way SpaceX does. Today China refused to copy it, and pulled off something SpaceX never managed on a first flight. It caught the rocket instead.

The Long March 10B lifted off from Hainan, China this morning, and about 6 minutes later its first stage came back down toward a 25,000-ton ship at sea. It did not land.

Hooks on the falling booster snagged a net of tensioned steel wires strung across the deck, the wires riding robotic rails that slid into place to meet it. No landing legs. No touchdown. A rocket plucked out of its own descent by a moving net, on the maiden flight of a brand-new vehicle.

No one handed China this. SpaceX guards its rocket tech as “trade secrets”, not “patents”, precisely so it cannot be read and copied.

China watched a decade of public flights and then built an entirely different machine to reach the same prize, catching instead of landing, which sheds the heavy legs and spares the fuel a soft touchdown burns to hover.

And this was never about cheaper satellites, though it delivers those too, feeding the thousands of birds in China's Starlink rival.

Its deeper purpose is the Moon. That booster shares its core with the rocket meant to land Chinese astronauts on the lunar surface by 2030. In the same season, America's own Moon rocket, Starship, has flown 12 times and still has not shown the single maneuver its lunar plan depends on.

One flight does not dethrone SpaceX. It has landed hundreds. What ended today is not SpaceX's lead. It is Uncle Sam’s belief that it owns the only road to the Moon.

The piece works out which way of coming home actually wins.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem is divorcing her cross-dressing husband Bryon, the ex-South Dakota governor’s mother claimed in a new interview—NYP

[Karthik @KarthikForTexas]

They interviewed all the three witnesses separately, and they all say the same thing.

They did not ram the car; ICE agents fired at them, and then mocked Mr. Salgado as he lay there dying.

[Shane Harris @shaneharris]

Scoop: In an internal survey, CIA analysts reported rising concerns that political interference by the Trump administration is affecting the objectivity of analysis. They singled out now-former DNI Tulsi Gabbard as a prime example.

The annual survey shows a significant increase in the perception of politicization since Trump returned to office.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

They actually said this on Fox news today. It's like another dimension 😵‍💫

[Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule]

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent.

There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's @JRogalskiKHOU found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off.

Renee Good all over again.

[Books Behind Borders @MHTruthUltra]

I honestly hate that we've normalized the idea that all opinions are valid. I think we should get back to telling people that they are ill informed & ignorant

[Mike Pence @Mike_Pence]

“The President is right that his tariffs are at work—in destroying U.S. jobs and raising prices. The U.S. has lost some 75,000 manufacturing jobs since January 2025, including 25,900 in motor vehicle and parts production.”@WSJ https://t.co/QVLG6tlJkV

[Go Utes @williary8617]

@Joshua_Newman Mtn Dew

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

Reports that the White House has dismissed the remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission — all of whom were unanimously confirmed by the Senate, including a commissioner appointed by President Trump himself — should concern every American, regardless of party, because the EAC was established by Congress as an independent, bipartisan body to help states administer secure and credible elections.

If these reports are accurate, removing every remaining commissioner just months before the 2026 midterm elections is an extraordinary step that demands an immediate explanation from the administration and raises profound concerns about political interference in the institutions that support our elections.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Cyclosporiasis, the parasite causing the current explosive diarrhea outbreak, is at a level 20x higher than its yearly average.

This comes just 1 year after the Trump admin removed a cyclospora tracking mandate from the 'Foodborne Disease Active Surveillance Network.'

[Fav ⛧ @Favwontmiss]

Vaccines are so effective they created an entire generation of people who think the diseases they prevented weren’t a big deal.