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Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

main economic message from the president is that you will be poorer and you will like it

1/ THREAD: This year ICE has sent a record 600 immigrant kids into federal shelters, more than in the previous four years combined. Data suggests some are being separated from their families. For one 15-year-old, it began with a cracked windshield 👇

This is not a peace plan. It's complete capitulation to the war criminal in the Kremlin, orchestrated exclusively by Trump and his apparent master there without any input from Europe or Ukraine. It is obscene that the White House even saw fit to advance this proposal, let alone issue an ultimatum.

Goodnight 🌙 Fuck a 50 year mortgage

The only way to undo the damage Trump did to the economy and middle/working classes—all to enrich lobbyists/billionaires—is play hardball. Just like negotiating with a career fraudster, you must leave him with no options but to negotiate honestly. Media *must* supply this context and moral clarity.

Adrian Klenz, who works with deafblind adults in Wisconsin, said he was told the grant was apparently flagged bc of the words "transition" (as in, transitioning from childhood to adulthood) and "privilege" (one parent said it was a privilege to work with the program's staff). ...

Months before igniting Texas’ redistricting fight, the Trump administration began testing a strategy of using the courts to force favorable political outcomes. The new voting map, signed into law today by Gov. Greg Abbott, is its latest win. With @texastribune.org

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

"Americans have long glorified their constitution and the rule of law. But Donald Trump’s volatile and vindictive presidency has increasingly replaced that philosophy with something very different – call it “governing by shakedown”. - @greenhousenyt.bsky.social

Trump struggled to walk in a straight line as he went to greet Putin

In agency after agency, the U.S. government is losing its capacity to measure how American society is functioning, making it much harder to gauge the nature and scale of the problems we are facing and the effectiveness of policies. (Published April)

Economic genius Donald Trump explains how he comes up with tariff rates

Trump will soon speak to the nation about the unprovoked war crime of unilateral war that he just illegally ordered. Every word out of his mouth will be a lie. He will lie about history, about intel, about Israel, and about his own interests. He will lie to ALL our faces. 🤬

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

that’s right

He is completely clueless about what he is doing.

this guy hates this country, its laws and its traditions

How did Trump make 200 deals...when there are only 180 countries?

This is so true

This headline is utter garbage. I will fix it. (🚨) WASHINGTON POST: In Historic Attack on States' Rights, Onetime Party of States Rights—Now the Party of Big Government—Seeks to Invalidate Key Provision of Centuries-Old Maine Constitution By Washington Fiat The article is garbage too, by the way.

This past week, the Chinese learned 1) exactly where Trump's pain points are; 2) how much to squeeze them before he flinches; and 3) how little America's partners and allies want to help this president. Highly useful information.

All right I got fed up and had to write this. And I’m sure after reading it carefully, Trump will stop saying this www.propublica.org/article/hist...

Leading scientists at the US National Institutes of Health were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration’s latest firing blitz. Among them is Dr. Richard Youle, known for his groundbreaking research identifying mechanisms behind Parkinson’s disease.

So let me get this straight: as he was framing Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic as lowlife scum for accurately reporting on him, Mike Waltz was frantically checking his _19_ other secret, national security-threatening Signal chats to make sure he hadn't accidentally invited any journalists to those?

Elon Musk is _ten_ George Soroses. Consistently. Every election, now. And MAGAs screeched—in every space, online and off, they could access—that _one_ George Soros was a destroyer of democracy. So what is Elon Musk?

"Experts say people will die"

(1/2) Are you willing to hear an optimistic statement for a change? Per major-media reports, Trump didn't pull back the Stefanik nomination simply because he worried the GOP could lose her seat. He and his advisors were worried about a series of events that could lead to them losing the _House_.

Oh cool a repeat episode

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.

This is a critical point everybody in the media should be amplifying:

In case you’ve forgotten how we used to treat this sort of thing… There would be bipartisan calls for investigations Impeachment would be a foregone conclusion Several people would’ve resigned or been fired by end of day Back when responsible adults were in charge, not this insane clown posse

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

#EconSky

@jimmykimmel.com and @jimmykimmellive.bsky.social Jimmy Kimmel and his show have officially left X/Twitter and joined BlueSky, leaving behind a combined 13 million followers. You can follow him with the two handles above. Jimmy has been an avid supporter of individual rights and fighting Trump

Jawdropping. You would expect this in a dictatorship, not the United States. This country is unrecognizable.

Epic idea

In a world of Matts, be a Derek.

STOCK MARKETS CRASHING. I TOLD YOU SO!!! TRUMP DOESN’T HAVE A CLUE. JD IS ON THE COUCH. ALL CAUSED BY INEPT U.S. LEADERSHIP!

One day he’s telling us that tariffs are amazing because they will bring lots of new jobs to the US and raise so much money we won’t have to pay income tax, then the next day he’s telling us we aren’t doing them because people were nice to him on the phone.

Trump just repeated the Kremlin lie about what the U.S. has spent in Ukraine, literally a figure that comes from Russian intelligence He has been told over and over and over and over and over again that $350 billion is an insane lie and he will not stop telling it

If you are watching this speech and find it inspiring or well thought out you should probably throw yourself off the nearest bridge.

The Democrats are cowards. We are all alone. There should be one Democrat getting thrown out of this ridiculous charade every 10 minutes or more