XX RRLL 

Scientist, birder, aspiring horse whisperer. Mostly retweets, because I lean toward long form. I don’t blindly follow back; I’m getting a stream of fakers.

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

So let me get this straight RFK jr wants to ban antidepressants, make it easier for children to get access to tanning beds and is about to put flavored vapes back on the market. Also, he’s anti-VAX and he did nothing about roundup?

[John Wick @JohnWick23lev]

@QasimRashid Basically….

[scha·den·freu·de  @BlisterPearl]

They're poorly educated, sick and in debt, but not for long.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Abdul El-Sayed: “If you’re out of a job, it’s probably because a corporation figured out how to automate your job. If you’re out of a home, it’s probably because a corporation is speculating on the home that you should have been able to afford. If you’re out of healthcare, it’s probably because a corporation has figured out how to monetize you because you get sick”

[Dice 🎲 🌻 @jdice03]

Here’s how much Americans are “winning”

When Biden left office:
👉Gas was $3.12
👉GDP was 3.2%
👉Inflation was 3.0%
👉New jobs: 2.2 million in 2024
👉Trump Net Worth: $4.3B

Now
👉Gas is $4.17
👉GDP is 0.5%
👉Inflation is 3.3%
👉New jobs: 181,000 in 2025
👉Trump Net Worth: $7.3B

[Democrats Deliver @DemzDeliver]

🚨 HUGE: Janet Mills just signed a law making community college permanently free in Maine.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Don't say, "The most corrupt administration in American history." There is no comparison between Trump, on the one hand, and eg Grant, Harding, or Nixon on the other. Nixon's worst day in office was 100x better than Trump's best day. The relevant comparisons are to non-American presidents in authoritarian societies with unfree media. Trump's scale of stealing and bribe-taking has never been remotely paralleled in any democratic country ever before.

[XX RRLL  @xxrrll]

@Dexter__Wright His fans think that shows he’s smart. 🙄

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

People who look up to billionaires have never met billionaires.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

A direct quote of the pedophile führer. 😳👇

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

It was probably difficult to foresee that Trump would put the Kennedy Center out of business.

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

"Washington Not Alarmed As Hitler Rises to Power," today 1933:

[Michael Beschloss @BeschlossDC]

Installed in power as German Chancellor, today 1933, Hitler pledges "to rule sanely…to govern constitutionally…to steer clear of anti-Semitism":

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

I see we’re now at the “arresting journalists”phase of our new autocracy

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

MAGA went from “teachers should be required to carry guns” to “carrying a gun makes you a criminal” in record time

[Marc Caputo @MarcACaputo]

No one would believe this plot twist for a heist movie:

A suspect in a $100 million theft ring gets mistakenly deported south of the border by the feds before he goes to trial —& before all the gold, diamonds, rubies, emeralds & luxury watches are found

https://t.co/5aEZNrNy75

[David Frum @davidfrum]

Not everybody who supported Trump and MAGA was a bad person at the start. But MAGA is a jealous god. It demands its supporters descend a path of degeneration to utter moral ruin. Police death squads today; who knows what tomorrow.

[Matt Lewis @mattklewis]

Not original to me, but it certainly rings true

[Morgan Godvin @MorganGodvin]

Schrödinger’s Second Amendment:

- Guns are a mandatory prerequisite for the government to respect your rights.

- Guns immediately invalidate your rights and the government can execute you on the spot if you have one.