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Everyone should read these threads I did about industry lobbyists and the EPA and understand them. Take the time to see the unambiguous evidence of what's happening now at this moment inside the EPA. Please retweet them. Please read them. Each one of the threads. It's happening in slow motion.

Your move Buc-ee’s.

The Fauci hearing perfectly illustrated how living through a once in a century pandemic somehow made Republicans far worse on public health. God forbid we face anything like covid again during Trump 2.0. There will be no Dr Fauci around to try to talk sense to Trump.

“If you take the dementia test and think it’s an IQ test, then you’ve failed both the dementia test and the IQ test.”🤣

Nashville Zoo Says No to Proposed Data Center c.org/Lg45fC7Q via @Change

It's like Woodstock for people who don't have custody of their kids

The positioning of Trump’s self-aggrandizing arch is so much worse than I imagined.

Colbert guest hosted a public access TV show in Monroe, Michigan a day after the Late Show ended. Guest star: Jeff Daniels Special appearance by: Eminem Musical director: Jack White Genius. youtu.be/jJTXB5uT_C4?...

Pennsylvania audited 210,905 voter registration forms tied to PennDOT. Result: 1 noncitizen was improperly sent and registered—he never voted and is no longer registered. Another real-world data point against claims of noncitizens voting en masse. https://ow.ly/jMXc50Z0l2e

UPDATE: Today Tennessee Republicans will strip representation from majority Black Memphis and dilute it with white power, stretching their districts to cherry red Williamson County, the richest in the state — making Tennessee 9-0 Republicans. While insisting it isn’t about race.

Atlanta’s a scary team to draw in the playoffs. They’re playing loose, riding momentum, and finishing the season hot. Playing w/ house money. #hawks #knicks

NEWS: Two U.S. Navy destroyers were forced to turn back while attempting to transit the Strait of Hormuz after Iran’s Revolutionary Guard threatened them and launched a drone toward the ships, per Bloomberg citing a regional intelligence official. 1/

One of the most brazenly corrupt events in history will take place tomorrow when Jared Kushner represents the U.S. in critical negotiations with Iran to end the war while he accepts millions in fees (and billions in investments) from the Saudi gov’t which has been lobbying Trump to continue the war

Between oil futures, prediction markets, and the new “joint venture” with Iran, someone needs to find out exactly how much money the Trump family might be making off of this war while American soldiers take casualties.

They should suspend Tiger Wood’s license from March 1st through Sunday at 8:00 PM ET of Masters week… really make him feel it. Then hand it back to him as a new tradition in Butler Cabin. 😂

The war in Iran has already cost $22.8 billion. For $22.8 billion, we could: • Provide Medicaid to 6.8 million kids • Build 2.6 million public housing units • Fund Head Start for 1.3 million • Hire 240,000 teachers • Cancel $20,000 in student debt for 1 million borrowers

Last month the NYT said AOC "struggled" to give an answer on Taiwan and quoted her with "uhs" and "ums" to make her look stupid Yesterday talking about Hormuz Trump claimed he's heard from "numerous countries" and said "uh" four times. The NYT deleted the "uhs" and paraphrased him to look smarter:

My sources say it was former president John Barron

It’s insane this is legal. People around Trump are profiting off war and death. I’m introducing legislation ASAP to ban this.

Trump, July 19: "All three nuclear sites in Iran were completely destroyed and/or OBLITERATED. It would take years to bring them back into service." Witkoff, Sunday: "They're probably a week away from having industrial-grade bomb-making material."

Your daily bananas Trump corruption story: It's about a bridge connecting Michigan to Canada that's due to open, until the billionaire owner of the existing clogged bridge called Trump and asked him to keep the new bridge closed. Nuclear grade corruption. All out in the open.

Closing jumbotron Super Bowl Halftime Show message from Bad Bunny: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”

ICE's budget could fund the ACA (healthcare) extension and expand Medicaid to millions. Instead, it funds home invasions, family separation, and killing protesters. Republicans made this choice for you. Remember in November... #FundHealthcareOverICE

Now: Bruce Springsteen sings “Streets of Minneapolis” in Minneapolis

nstead of sending troops to play federal police, Gov Lee could deploy the Guard right here in Nashville to clear debris & restore power. This city drives Tennessee’s economy & it’s @ a standstill. Do your job. @jeffyarbro.bsky.social @freddieoconnell.bsky.social @jrclemmons.bsky.social

The killing of Alex Pretti is a heartbreaking tragedy. It should also be a wake-up call to every American, regardless of party, that many of our core values as a nation are increasingly under assault.

A nice day to subscribe to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, even if you don't live there, or donate to one of the public radio stations in the area.

On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.

Just watched the video in Minneapolis. 6-7 masked men wrestle an unarmed man to the ground. The man struggles but is not a threat. One of the masked men beats him with a pistol. The man gets to his knees. One shoots him. He falls. They keep shooting. I counted 10-11 shots.

BREAKING: Whistleblower disclosures reveal a formal ICE policy to ignore the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution.  Every American should be terrified by this secret ICE policy authorizing its agents to kick down your door & storm into your home. 1/

"There comes a point where we have to start questioning whether or not he’s actually aware of what’s happening around him & the harm he’s doing. It’s similar to historical figures like Nero or Caligula. Their madness took over & they started doing wildly destructive things. Trump is in that place."

Thanks for a lifetime of memories, the friendships you helped spark, and the soundtrack to so many of our lives — Fare thee well. 💙

To recap: we’ve now seen two ICE goons point their guns at unarmed protesters heads— at protests about them shooting a woman in the head. These guys are so out of control.

It’s a brutally hard time to be a well-informed American — or just a human — with empathy, curiosity, and a functioning brain.

The Venn diagram is a perfect circle: • “2nd Amendment absolutist because gov. tyranny is real.” • “Charlie Kirk shouldn’t have been killed—gun violence is wrong.” • “Ashli Babbitt was a victim of government overreach on Jan 6.” • “Renee Goode should have just complied w/ federal law enforcement.”

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Question: But the president’s statements that he believed the election was rife with fraud—those are statements protected by the First Amendment, correct? Smith: Absolutely not. If they are made to target a lawful government function and are made with knowing falsity, then no, they are not.

Banks collapse economy MAGA: Bail them out! Auto & Airline Industries on brink of bankruptcy MAGA: Bail them out! Housing collapse about to wreck economy MAGA: Bail them out! Low income students suffer crushing debt MAGA: Garnish their wages! MAGAs serve 800 billionaires to destroy 45M students

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Murphy: "This isn't shocking, bc over last year, Trump has been engaged in a dizzying campaign to increase violence in this country. He's restoring gun rights to felons, eliminated the WH office of gun violence prevention & stopped funding mental health grants & community anti-gun violence grants"

Warnock: "Any nation that tolerates this kind of violence year after year, decade after decade in random places, on our college and school campuses, without doing all that we can to stop it is broken and in need of moral repair."

Words can’t express my rage. At least 2 students on lockdown at Brown University already survived mass shootings. Zoe Weissman survived Parkland in 2018. Mia Tretta was shot in the stomach in Santa Clarita in 2019 and watched her best friend be murdered. And now…again.

“All the Empty Rooms” is a powerful documentary that follows CBS News’ Steve Hartman as he memorialized the bedrooms of children killed in school shootings. @fredguttenberg.bsky.social, an EP of the film, talks about his continued fight for common sense gun legislation. youtu.be/_TbI3qnWYuo?...

In a more sensible and serious world, Mark Kelly would take Pete Hegseth’s job as secretary of defense, @radiofreetom.bsky.social argues: