Sophia A. Nelson (@IAmSophiaNelson) posted at 8:35 AM on Fri, May 02, 2025:
He’s destroying public education. He’s destroying public broadcasting. He’s destroyed USAID. He’s imposed regressive tariffs on our trading partners. He’s attacked the @smithsonian and deported citizens for no crimes, with no process. He’s destroyed our NSA/Defense credibility.
(https://x.com/IAmSophiaNelson/status/1918298364963078369?t=GMyKn9uKW1-mPq7-tD0dYA&s=03)
Jeff Stein (@JStein_WaPo) posted at 9:53 AM on Fri, May 02, 2025:
Among key elements of White House budget:INCREASES ->
– $1 trillion in military spending, 13% jump
– $43 billion increase to DHS
– More charter school moneyCUTS –>
– $4 billion to Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program
– $3.5 billion to CDC
– $18 billion to NIH
– $670 million to “program management” at Centers for Medicare & Medicaid
– $2.5 billion cut to EPA’s clean and drinking water loan fund
– $646 million cut to FEMA (admin says “non-disaster” programs) $650 million cut to shelter and services programAll numbers one year, so would be X10 over 10 year budget window
(https://x.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1918317872255799659?t=nRXGT8MZx8WUtsHXaT76cQ&s=03)
LanaQuest aka RosaSparks (@LqLana) posted at 3:59 PM on Fri, May 02, 2025:
The orange nazi regime is cutting off funding for:
Cancer research.
Anti-violence programs for children.
Mental health programs for children and adults.
PBS.
NPR.
Education.
Disease Centers.
Rental assistance.
Climate programs.
Environmental Protections.
Hey MAGA how does cutting these programs and sending the money to the defense department help Americans?
Your racism and bigotry are ravaging America. #DemsUnited
(https://x.com/LqLana/status/1918409923450331490?t=3FErGAWDyumAcF44V3zS4Q&s=03)
This is what Republicans think of ‘ the least of us’
Last Day With You (@Last_DayWithYou) posted at 3:02 PM on Tue, Mar 25, 2025:
Rest of conversation –
FINNERTY: We’re hearing reports that 20 million people could lose Medicaid. Do people need to be concerned?
REP. GREG MURPHY: If we don’t act, this nation’s finances will spiral out of control.
FINNERTY: Spiral out of control? Yet there’s $240,000 a day for Trump’s golf security, but no money for healthcare?
MURPHY: We have to make tough choices to ensure long-term stability.
FINNERTY: Medicaid has faced these “tough choices” before—and every time, the people fought back.
MURPHY: Past reforms have strengthened the program, but spending can’t be unlimited.
FINNERTY: 1997 Balanced Budget Act—they tried cutting Medicaid, but public pressure forced expansion instead.
MURPHY: That was a different time, with different fiscal challenges.
FINNERTY: 2017 AHCA—they tried slashing $880 billion, but backlash killed it in Congress.
MURPHY: We need a responsible approach to keep the program sustainable.
FINNERTY: 2023-24 budget fights—even some Republicans pushed back because they knew cuts would be political suicide.
MURPHY: Our goal is not to take coverage away but to make it more efficient.
FINNERTY: If they can find $45 million to fund Trump’s golf trips, they can find money to keep seniors and low-income families covered.
MURPHY: We need to prioritize economic stability for future generations.
FINNERTY: The only thing being prioritized here is tax cuts for the rich and luxury weekends for Trump—while working Americans get left behind.
(https://x.com/Last_DayWithYou/status/1904625009059848316?t=__E_xeRzPFZUR_gdfvn4BA&s=03)
White smoke
There is a new Pope
100 Americans vs 100 Brits
who would win🤣🤣🤣🤣
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP86BdQe5/
Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) posted at 6:47 PM on Tue, May 06, 2025:
NEW: The U.S. is ramping up its intelligence-gathering efforts in Greenland, deploying its spy apparatus to support Donald Trump’s campaign to take control of the island.
-WSJ
This. Is. Insane. https://t.co/M5dk7T8KCH
(https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1919901975052763406?t=SVUUkAKTdXy5B6cKRCxtyA&s=03)
Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 10:22 PM on Tue, May 06, 2025:
Malinowski: I grew up in a communist country. What they’re saying reminds me of sort of the early true believer communists in Eastern Europe who would say it’s worth being hungry today because in the distant, glorious future, we’re going to build this perfect system. And your parents and your grandparents will thank you for your suffering today.
And to hear an American president say, you know, it’s fine that your kids won’t have as many toys for Christmas. Have we ever heard that before from an American president?
And, you know, going back to the Canada meeting, the tactics of this, I actually think the most revealing moment was when Trump was asked, what concessions do you want from Canada? And he didn’t know. He said, oh, I just want to be friends. What concessions are we asking for from? We have a trade deal with Canada. We have a trade deal with Mexico. We have good trade relationships with Europe.
What kind of trade deal do you want from Australia or South Korea that have 0% tariffs on the U.S. right now? Trump doesn’t know. All he knows is that he loves he loves tariffs
https://t.co/q0sdqmwMgV
(https://x.com/Acyn/status/1919955928151163100?t=mDia_LydQQAJvq3VVQawbA&s=03)
Jasmine Crockett (@JasmineForUS) posted at 0:17 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
No low is too low for MAGA… now explain to me why an institution would be receiving threats because of the commencement speech that I GAVE.
This type of behavior is why I’m constantly having to be protected & I understand that truth telling in this country; sadly, is a dangerous business, but college students don’t deserve this.
As a side note: you consistently prove me right & just as this was the only campus that MLK could speak at in Mississippi in the 1960s… it’s 2025, and this country is still stuck on hate… I’m proud to say Tougaloo is tough & so am I.
https://t.co/SopOsPxdZB
(https://x.com/JasmineForUS/status/1919984916210635137?t=jg8Buj37vhIZy9u2GSjv1w&s=03)
Pablo Manríquez (@PabloReports) posted at 1:32 PM on Tue, May 06, 2025:
🚨SCOOP: @MigrantInsider has confirmed that about an hour ago, two ICE agents entered Chang Chang, a restaurant in Dupont, claiming to be serving an I-9 inspection notice.
The agents, both 40-ish men wearing plain clothes and carried a manilla folder and a walkie talkie, were told by the manager they needed a warrant.
Upon hearing this, the agents said they didn’t need a warrant and tried to push past the staff to get at the kitchen workers, but staff didn’t budge and the manager ran the agents off, insisting they needed a warrant until the agents finally left.
No one was detained.
(https://x.com/PabloReports/status/1919822694477947003?t=CYTJclaRWPv1bvtrbZ2Gbw&s=03)
Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) posted at 6:39 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
A 25-year-old DOGE bro at the CFPB held $715,000 in stocks that ethics lawyers told him he wasn’t allowed to own while working there — then DOGE fired those ethics lawyers.
This is corruption.
Always call it out.
https://t.co/KrtaloHlKc
(https://x.com/DarrigoMelanie/status/1920080923829104821?t=gtdGnhOfyUffyNVlwRHhpg&s=03)
Norman Ornstein (@NormOrnstein) posted at 8:06 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
Additional note to everyone: Sean Duffy voted against every effort to modernize. The complicated communication system was on the road to modernization with Verizon. Musk intervened and now we are back to even more chaos.
(https://x.com/NormOrnstein/status/1920103048245838222?t=jnpi3oscr83R4p0f20Eb5A&s=03)
Suzie rizzio (@Suzierizzo1) posted at 0:26 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
Representative Jason Powell says ICE and The Highway Patrol coordinated a raid lastnight to arrest migrants! Nobody in charge was informed of this raid including the Mayor of Nashville! He says the community is scared and they want answers.These aren’t really ICE agents! 😡 https://t.co/S3QOq9XPe2
(https://x.com/Suzierizzo1/status/1919987257626313211?s=03)
Boston Smalls (@smalls2672) posted at 5:46 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
The ppl screaming NO NEW WARS when Biden was in office dont have too much to say about two nuclear powers attacking each other.
(https://x.com/smalls2672/status/1920067808445989167?s=03)
Kenny BooYah! 🖖🏾 (@KwikWarren) posted at 11:19 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
And Shitler has not a clue what to do or say about it…and neither does his weak-kneed Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
(https://x.com/KwikWarren/status/1920151492272562523?s=03)
Chris Towler (@blkprofcct) posted at 8:12 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
Had the opportunity (w/@rolandsmartin) to dispel Trump’s claim that Black voters voted for him in BIG NUMBERS…it’s sad that #StephenASmith & the rest of the mainstream media won’t challenge his bogus claims! We have to continue to speak truth. #blackmedia #RolandMartinUnfiltered https://t.co/S7WspGD0Qs
(https://x.com/blkprofcct/status/1920104351386960217?t=mIaVriE-0zytTi7ixLxGXA&s=03)
Republicans against Trump (@RpsAgainstTrump) posted at 1:01 PM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
Trump: Russia is having a big day tomorrow. They lost millions of people. They were absolutely a major factor [in defeating the Nazis in WWII].
Is Donald Trump the President of the United States or a Russian propagandist
https://t.co/hi99xav0ik
(https://x.com/RpsAgainstTrump/status/1920177160368619919?s=03)
Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) posted at 1:59 PM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
NEW: Data reveals @elonmusk has delivered 0.25% of promised federal spending cuts
Musk initially promised $2 TRILLION in annual spending cuts.
He’s on track to deliver $5 billion. And that’s being generous.
(https://x.com/JuddLegum/status/1920191866474987548?s=03)
Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) posted at 10:05 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
NEW: Rep Ritchie Torres (D-NY) and other House Democrats ask internal homeland security watchdog to investigate conditions at Louisiana immigration detention centers:
“The reports emerging from ICE detention centers in Louisiana suggest the possible existence of a shadow so-called justice system in America where due process is disregarded, human rights are violated, and accountability is nowhere to be found”
(https://x.com/MacFarlaneNews/status/1920132971069047049?s=03)
Scott Hechinger (@ScottHech) posted at 2:18 PM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
🚨 Information coming to me: Today & yesterday, ICE has been seen in Washington, D.C. **playgrounds approaching nannies & caregivers.** Including: Lafayette, Forest Hills, Chevy Chase, Turtle Park.
A new vile low if true.
(https://x.com/ScottHech/status/1920196483028029635?s=03)
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick (@ReichlinMelnick) posted at 9:48 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
IMPORTANT THREAD on the reports late last night that the Trump administration is planning on deporting some migrants to Libya, a country where there are credible reports that migrants are sold into slavery and subjected to horrific physical and sexual abuse on a regular basis.
(https://x.com/ReichlinMelnick/status/1920128705159979035?s=03)
Carol Leonnig (@CarolLeonnig) posted at 9:58 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
🚨🚨Here’s DOGE’s real aim: vacuum up all federal data — on your medical condition, taxes, household, Soc Sec
-into one easy-to-tap resource. This DOGE project puts your private info and gov secrets at risk of getting hacked – or weaponized, experts warn.
@hannah_natanson
(https://x.com/CarolLeonnig/status/1920131098597625994?s=03)
The United States versus Elon R. Musk (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 10:50 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
again, for the people in the back row:
DEI was meant to save us all from mediocre white men who can’t even tie their own shoes
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1920144193005260997?t=KW3qwFR28etdpgdCQLpijA&s=03)
Dr. Allison Wiltz (@queenie4rmnola) posted at 11:25 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
A deputy killed a Black teenager. It’s business as usual. But a grieving Black father killed a deputy, and now you want to preach about injustice. Only one of these men is behind bars. I wonder why that is, why the officer isn’t held responsible
(https://x.com/queenie4rmnola/status/1920152998484795470?s=03)
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻 (@LongTimeHistory) posted at 0:36 PM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
Male security guard barges into women’s bathroom—bangs on stall door demanding proof of gender.
Ansley Baker was born a woman & identifies as a woman—yet was still kicked out of bathroom & ordered to leave hotel.
“He demands my ID, which I gave him. Things still got heated. We kept repeating that I’m a woman,” she said.
The Liberty Hotel in Boston put out a statement claiming that Ansley Baker and her girlfriend, Liz Victor, were using the same stall.
The couple say they are still waiting for an apology for the false accusation.
#DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE #DemsUnited
https://t.co/BGL4bFy4o7
(https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1920170976005787723?s=03)
LongTime🤓FirstTime👨💻 (@LongTimeHistory) posted at 0:36 PM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
Male security guard barges into women’s bathroom—bangs on stall door demanding proof of gender.
Ansley Baker was born a woman & identifies as a woman—yet was still kicked out of bathroom & ordered to leave hotel.
“He demands my ID, which I gave him. Things still got heated. We kept repeating that I’m a woman,” she said.
The Liberty Hotel in Boston put out a statement claiming that Ansley Baker and her girlfriend, Liz Victor, were using the same stall.
The couple say they are still waiting for an apology for the false accusation.
#DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE #DemsUnitedhttps://t.co/BGL4bFy4o7
(https://x.com/LongTimeHistory/status/1920170976005787723?s=03)
Alex Cole (@acnewsitics) posted at 7:41 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
$80M planes falling were not falling off of carriers when we had DEI.
Just saying
(https://x.com/acnewsitics/status/1920096539705258329?s=03)
Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) posted at 1:05 PM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
1. CNN has an admin official confirming this and flight trackers that show an Air Force C-17 has filed a plan to fly from TX to Libya
2. Per NYT, both Libyan govt’s deny this (one is ruled by a warlord who’s son met with Trump admin officials last week)
3. State Dept cites “harsh and life-threatening” conditions in Libyan detention centers; travel warning cites “terrorism” “kidnapping” and “armed conflict”
Who are we sending to this hellhole?
How do we know they’re even eligible for deportation?
How do we know they aren’t legal residents or even citizens?
What evidence is there that they’ve committed a crime, let alone crimes that warrant sending them to a torture chamber controlled by an African war lord?
It is absolutely insane that our government refuses to answer these questions
(https://x.com/jonfavs/status/1920178236488888751?t=itBhd_evLlifZDeHBxbsog&s=03)
Olivia Beavers (@Olivia_Beavers) posted at 8:58 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
New: Rep. Don Bacon, one of the most vulnerable House members, is warning that some Republican leaders have privately tried to get him and others on board with the reconciliation bill by claiming any steep Medicaid cuts passed by the House would be blocked by the Senate anyway.
“Here’s the tactic they’ve been using: ‘Don’t worry about the Senate. They’ll fix it.’ And now we’re getting ready to take our third vote on this,” Bacon said in a recent interview. “We feel like we’re being pushed up to the edge of the cliff here.”
wsj.com/politics/polic…
(https://x.com/Olivia_Beavers/status/1920116124164755588?t=kz0PylRY-RXAl-Ll86A5qg&s=03)
FED CHAIR
Acyn (@Acyn) posted at 1:37 PM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
Powell: If the large increases in tariffs that have been announced are sustained, they’re likely to generate a rise in inflation, a slowdown in economic growth and an increase in unemployment https://t.co/uwkIegZzgz
(https://x.com/Acyn/status/1920186154105909636?t=mXMMO1vONckGLSbu6fFBCw&s=03)
Peter Schiff (@PeterSchiff) posted at 5:37 PM on Tue, May 06, 2025:
Our Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is a very smart man. He’s not the blubbering idiot shown in this clip. The reason he can’t answer the simple question “who pays tariffs” is because he knows the answer. He is stammering because he is struggling to formulate a BS explanation. https://t.co/5lN3zxRtCY
(https://x.com/PeterSchiff/status/1919884142730154311?t=NtQaAPBjQFsx_z9bHEw8ng&s=03)
The United States versus Elon R. Musk (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 5:19 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
what’s being executed at the federal level is less “conservatism” than it is “the inferior ideas of mediocre minds, empowered by the vast, awesome infrastructure of white supremacy”
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1920060940089000432?t=i24YNiLfUfgg_US5otyYBw&s=03)
Natasha Bertrand (@NatashaBertrand) posted at 0:15 PM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
The Trump admin is moving forward with plans to transport a group of undocumented immigrants to Libya on a US military plane, an admin official says
Flight trackers show that a US Air Force C-17 has filed a plan to fly on Wednesday from Kelly Field in San Antonio to Misrata
(https://x.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1920165600908718187?t=XuSkNy1a3rEApSsCssRY7w&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 10:33 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
MEEKS: Does trade deficits constitute a national emergency?
BESSENT: Yes
MEEKS: Do you know that for the last four decades we have trade deficits and nobody said it was a national emergency? https://t.co/MyMBeGT8me
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1920139910423445507?t=4NIG49ssPolWv6Wdz7mk_Q&s=03)
Oriana González (@OrianaBeLike) posted at 9:21 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
SCOOP: In a private meeting with Speaker Mike Johnson, Reps. Mike Lawler, Jen Kiggans and Brian Fitzpatrick were among moderates who told House GOP leadership they oppose cutting federal funding to Planned Parenthood via reconciliation
w/@reesejgorman
https://t.co/8rtLLI88l6
(https://x.com/OrianaBeLike/status/1920121760386535511?t=xslCWeJqpJsoM81uOVsxIg&s=03)
Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) posted at 1:10 PM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
BREAKING: In a bizarre moment, amidst tariff turmoil and chaos that he caused himself, Trump launches into a deranged riff over whether the United States has gotten enough credit from World War II, which ended 80 years ago, because priorities.
https://t.co/gSeuEBTz3u
(https://x.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1920179402182152232?t=qQ2N-c58L-bbOmnPbeFk0w&s=03)
The United States versus Elon R. Musk (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 1:18 PM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
DSA propaganda: Democrats are a center-right Republican-Lite™️ party
Reality: Democrats lost 2024 in part because moderates & independents thought they’d already gone too far left
also reality: the party in the House is ~45% urban & suburban non-Bernie progressives, mostly POC
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1920181517881651643?t=z4LjFp0nXVkkqmsA0FM45Q&s=03)
Rep. Pramila Jayapal (@RepJayapal) posted at 10:40 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
Whether it’s to Libya, El Salvador, or anywhere else in the world — you cannot deport people without giving them due process. Period.
That includes U.S. citizens. https://t.co/UIEAs6TbZH
(https://x.com/RepJayapal/status/1920141649331548629?t=WKxoh6WK7xpTf4ZmICPEGQ&s=03)
HUH??
The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) posted at 11:10 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
The federal judge presiding over Diddy’s sex-trafficking trial lost his cool after the disgraced mogul’s lawyer described prosecutors as “a six-pack of white women.”
https://t.co/W6VXNbQQV2
(https://x.com/thedailybeast/status/1920149144716415246?t=o-p0fg5GBX4Y1E0litkC7Q&s=03)
what is the GOP about?
The United States versus Elon R. Musk (@Needle_of_Arya) posted at 1:34 PM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
literally nothing
2025 has been all about tearing down post-1933 America and taking us all back to the Gilded Age of Jim Crow & complete lack of business regulations
Trumper Republicans don’t build sh-t and definitely don’t plan for the future
(https://x.com/Needle_of_Arya/status/1920185388771258802?t=cc1BDu74mgr8SJlklCDeqQ&s=03)
Uppity Negro (@BnG82) posted at 0:11 PM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
Black folk deserve to get tired. The entire Nation looks upon us every four years to save them from White voters who absolutely refuse to vote like they have sense.
(https://x.com/BnG82/status/1920164525132951937?t=sUIhPmEwMbys2vrMCZb9Ww&s=03)
Candidly Tiff (@tify330) posted at 11:54 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
It should be even more concerning for white people men running who have no relationship with Black or Latino voters. Biden had an existing relationship which helped him win. Look at polls no one is polling near Kamala with voters of color.
(https://x.com/tify330/status/1920160249702465724?t=oLnxE9ne2L3XRcFEFNemvg&s=03)
Cornell Belcher (@cornellbelcher) posted at 11:52 AM on Wed, Nov 27, 2024:
Many of the hot quick takes about the 2024 election prescribes remedies for Dems that don’t actually match up with what happened – they don’t address the composition of the electorate which is determinative https://t.co/tB12CoOBx0
(https://x.com/cornellbelcher/status/1861830546684338593?t=cKGEwNpv8LYye5Q0UcvgEA&s=03)
Candidly Tiff (@tify330) posted at 11:35 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
Now sure what Kamala Harris will do in the future but the conversations folks are having about 2028 keep missing these major points:
-Non-white turn out was down from 2020
-VP got more white vote than Biden
-2026 comes before 2028 https://t.co/hTSG2r7A52
(https://x.com/tify330/status/1920155539176337747?t=5tyQnE5SodXcqjk8ikqqAA&s=03)
Cook Political Report (@CookPolitical) posted at 5:23 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
The CPR PollTracker finds Trump’s net job approval rating has dropped seven points since April 15, going from -3.9% to -10.7%. The biggest drop-off in approval ratings came from younger voters, Latinos and independents.
Read our latest: https://t.co/0SoBERlDmM
(https://x.com/CookPolitical/status/1920061897631559803?t=FbA-_2nuAKIyAc00OkcxkQ&s=03)
Candidly Tiff (@tify330) posted at 7:46 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
Andy Beshear is laying groundwork for a 2028 campaign: ‘He’s an intriguing dark horse’
If he is smart he doesn’t listen to any DC insiders or consultants and does the exact opposite of what everyone else is doing who wants to run. https://t.co/DLNgGWliXT
(https://x.com/tify330/status/1920097920524702085?t=AJ33JNmNdgmfVTj79toA-g&s=03)
Suzie rizzio (@Suzierizzo1) posted at 11:13 PM on Tue, May 06, 2025:
In Washington ICE tried to raid a restaurant in the DuPont Circle area called Chang Chang,but the employees of the restaurant barricaded the doors and ICE gave up and left.I’m hearing most of these are not real ICE agents just Proud boys,Oath Keepers and J6ers with no experience https://t.co/7ftro2kSxc
(https://x.com/Suzierizzo1/status/1919968893482717553?t=C7Fr1-y0G77eu3XbRH3fXw&s=03)
Greg Sargent (@GregTSargent) posted at 8:37 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
“What makes manufacturing jobs good is unions and regulations that protect worker safety. Without those things, any jobs created by somehow bringing toy manufacturing back are not going to be good or safe jobs.”
-Josh Bivens of the Economic Policy Institute, quoted in here:
(https://x.com/GregTSargent/status/1920110855640805676?t=CUwDX4wf8FzMEnpBAuD3NQ&s=03)
Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) posted at 10:40 AM on Tue, May 06, 2025:
Trump’s Truth Social just launched a streaming service, Truth+, for MAGAs and pro-family Christians. Current Top Ten offerings include a “documentary” about how alien lizard people secretly rule the earth and another abt how Jesus and Buddha were aliens. https://t.co/0qogBBRBJ8
(https://x.com/joshtpm/status/1919779223234904466?t=nBGJrGm_bAMrcqjMbUJefA&s=03)
Ron Smith (@Ronxyz00) posted at 6:46 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
President Biden: “The way he talks about Gulf of America, maybe we’re gonna have to take back Panama, maybe we need to acquire Greenland, maybe Canada should be a 51st state… What the hell is going on here? What president ever talks like that?”🔥 https://t.co/Uhj0DL2kKa
(https://x.com/Ronxyz00/status/1920082859202576794?t=T0Sg-3uif9O3VbbgR8AWCg&s=03)
CBS News (@CBSNews) posted at 4:30 PM on Tue, May 06, 2025:
In a new CBS News poll, many U.S. Catholics say they would like to see the next pope continue Francis’ teachings, and others would move toward still more progressive ones. https://t.co/3JLccNozox
(https://x.com/CBSNews/status/1919867268701237587?t=BwU9gaunlxFD11dSLkGMDA&s=03)
Suzie rizzio (@Suzierizzo1) posted at 11:38 PM on Tue, May 06, 2025:
Rep. Veronica Escobar questioning Kristi Noem about the children that were deported and asking her whether ICE gave the parents a form called the caregiver designation form to fill out! Kristi Noem wouldn’t answer because she knew nothing about that form! 😡😡😡😡 https://t.co/RqFs4IvY3p
(https://x.com/Suzierizzo1/status/1919975018621981117?t=TgA-1-3MUeytt3KHyzqCdA&s=03)
Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) posted at 3:34 PM on Tue, May 06, 2025:
Trump said thousands of times that Russia never would have attacked Ukraine if he was president.
He said Hamas would’ve never attacked Israel if he was president.
Said he would end both in 24 hours.
Wars continue in both places, and India & Pakistan are now at war.
(https://x.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1919853196375114028?t=ZGvjTN4EqGQZCR8RyLZJFw&s=03)
Robert Reich (@RBReich) posted at 4:45 PM on Tue, May 06, 2025:
When Trump…
-Holds a private dinner for his crypto coin buyers
-Promotes Teslas on the White House driveway on behalf of a multibillionaire who spent $277M backing him
-Uses state visits to advance his hotel business
It’s corruption, plain and simple.
(https://x.com/RBReich/status/1919871069202039037?t=N2cdNEQJRogNs12SQ_0Pcw&s=03)
Stefan Smith (@TheStefanSmith) posted at 7:42 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
The male worker class was promised cultural primacy in exchange for labor. Now, in a service economy where care, communication, and creativity rule, their utility—and masculinity—are questioned. This isn’t just post-industrial. It’s post-mythic. They feel exiled from their story.
(https://x.com/TheStefanSmith/status/1920096868693860413?t=CLg3QwGXupe65NfGKvUqOg&s=03)
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 (@JeremiahDJohns) posted at 7:07 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
Lots of regular people voted for Trump for boring reasons. But MAGA’s most fervent online warriors are weak men with little going for them, losers bitter that a changing world has passed them by, lashing out at women, immigrants, and anyone who’s stolen what’s ‘rightfully theirs’ https://t.co/w2hWtIhNwV
(https://x.com/JeremiahDJohns/status/1920088104402031005?t=0GLi_wFRT7c7ZH3fcbGF-A&s=03)
Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 (@JeremiahDJohns) posted at 7:07 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
I’m in back in @thedispatch writing on why weak men love strong men and MAGA’s popularity amongst people who are, to be blunt, losers: https://t.co/OiayUCY6sq
(https://x.com/JeremiahDJohns/status/1920088102082580771?t=7n32mX6Dq8Ru5buhh2eyZQ&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 4:19 PM on Tue, May 06, 2025:
Trump: “I could announce 50 to 100 deals right now because I’m the shopkeeper and I keep the store. I know what countries are looking for and I know what we’re looking for and I can just set those terms and they can go shopping or they don’t have to go shopping, because everybody https://t.co/l6qXSH92dD
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1919864722431574323?t=6ePniVs6NrFSYsFYMJGCFg&s=03)
Rep. Dan Goldman (@RepDanGoldman) posted at 4:53 PM on Tue, May 06, 2025:
Congressional Republicans are living in fantasy land, acting as if everything is business as usual while they join Trump in slashing much needed funding for the BOP.
My GOP colleagues need to stop pretending they care while they are destroying the federal government. https://t.co/sMHbeeoGjj
(https://x.com/RepDanGoldman/status/1919873195634475457?t=WOMJvLekF8ACvR-ZNMITMg&s=03)
Chris D. Jackson (@ChrisDJackson) posted at 8:36 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
🚨 NEW: President Biden’s first interview since leaving office is out now—and it’s thoughtful, sharp, and insightful.
Never forget the folks who swore he wasn’t up to the job. They lied to you—and it cost America dearly.
Stream it now! 👇
https://t.co/Cu35PWZVic
(https://x.com/ChrisDJackson/status/1920110396855173468?t=MWXVrZaazAvaGGWS7KGQcA&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 9:08 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
New in PN: Maine fought the law, and Maine won
“After weeks of fulminating, the administration folded & quit trying to steal kids’ lunch money for the sin of letting a couple trans girls play sports. It’s a reminder that bullies can be fought & beaten.” https://t.co/SfCjG2SZA2
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1920118421015969861?t=d2ZFFtQCfbAY_B_meUFVlA&s=03)
Melanie D’Arrigo (@DarrigoMelanie) posted at 6:39 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
A 25-year-old DOGE bro at the CFPB held $715,000 in stocks that ethics lawyers told him he wasn’t allowed to own while working there — then DOGE fired those ethics lawyers.
This is corruption.
Always call it out.
https://t.co/KrtaloHlKc
(https://x.com/DarrigoMelanie/status/1920080923829104821?t=GYSq2l-Cu5rWkDs-mOhmuw&s=03)
scary lawyerguy (@scarylawyerguy) posted at 9:09 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
I know I’m a broken record on this stuff, but the fact these stories are not “-gate” level scandals is an indictment on the media.
(https://x.com/scarylawyerguy/status/1920118777456234954?t=z-iAfWN2mBbhpkPqN_z8Lw&s=03)
Adam Schiff (@SenAdamSchiff) posted at 9:08 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
Foreign nationals are prohibited from contributing to Donald Trump’s campaign.
But Trump’s memecoin scam allows foreigners to influence U.S. policy by putting money directly in his pocket.
This unlawful graft must be stopped.
(https://x.com/SenAdamSchiff/status/1920118462506033463?t=klnVvMc7bw9KwnzGFchmxw&s=03)
Greg Bluestein (@bluestein) posted at 9:09 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
U.S. Sen. Jon Ossoff is investigating corporate landlords and out-of-state companies buying up single-family homes in bulk, with inquiries to four major players to gauge their impact on the affordability and availability of housing in the state. #gapol
https://t.co/Qu8RmQS7l1
(https://x.com/bluestein/status/1920118757420060884?t=5WeXwTa8qmLEzY9xkdUooQ&s=03)
Democracy Docket (@DemocracyDocket) posted at 9:27 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
BREAKING: Republican challenger Jefferson Griffin concedes the North Carolina Supreme Court race to Democratic incumbent Allison Riggs, ending his six-month legal battle to overturn the election. https://t.co/qzt7KLJ0Jg
(https://x.com/DemocracyDocket/status/1920123357506286005?t=oj_ybnxAuDAXun3j8DK5dA&s=03)
Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) posted at 9:42 AM on Tue, May 06, 2025:
a stammering Bessent refuses to answer Mark Pocan’s question about who pays tariffs https://t.co/ah1uaiW6gg
(https://x.com/atrupar/status/1919764721449808358?t=FbI-Ma-32dnpdAHMcxLWKQ&s=03)
William Melvin (@willmelvin) posted at 8:21 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
This is very revealing. Trump’s tariffs are promoted explicitly on the falsehood that others pay them. The Secretary is trying very hard to avoid stating that tariffs are a tax paid by Americans not foreigners.
(https://x.com/willmelvin/status/1920106813539631608?t=g-RPNlt9rkjohB5uzppS-A&s=03)
Jake Sherman (@JakeSherman) posted at 9:03 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
🚨🚨BREAKING — A new CBO analysis shows that several policies Republicans are considering for slashing Medicaid spending would lead to millions of people losing health insurance coverage.
The analysis, requested by Democrats, says that per capita caps for the Medicaid expansion population would save $225 billion in federal spending and result in 1.5 million more uninsured people by 2034. Blocking provider taxes could save $668 billion and lead 3.9 million to lose coverage, per CBO.
Read CBO’s letter to Democrats here: pbwl.news/yhw
(https://x.com/JakeSherman/status/1920117404232761837?t=JTbN9N5B8u6dVIYUR-dZxA&s=03)
Jane Fleming Kleeb👢🪧🗳️ (@janekleeb) posted at 7:12 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
Republicans did not win a SINGLE seat in Lincoln last night. Democrats won City Council, School Board and Airport Authority. It didn’t happen out of thin air. A 🧵…Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird raises critical resources, provides vision and worked with partners on a coordinated
(https://x.com/janekleeb/status/1920089343596597732?s=03)
FactPost (@factpostnews) posted at 8:35 AM on Wed, May 07, 2025:
Q: The FAA halted the work of an outside panel of experts that were scrutinizing its management of air traffic control operations. Why was that paused?
Transportation Secretary: I am not aware of the pausing of the oversight board https://t.co/ylOvf4DH7g
(https://x.com/factpostnews/status/1920110165572923547?t=Ryir2hogkboLqAcecLem2Q&s=03)
Piyush Mittal 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇬🇪🇨🇦🟧🌊🌈 (@piyushmittal) posted at 11:03 AM on Tue, May 06, 2025:
Trump, Elon Musk and Republicans are wrecking the reputation of Social Security so they can plunder it and give tax cuts to their buddies https://t.co/ELnIc6XifK
(https://x.com/piyushmittal/status/1919785108027981941?s=03)
The Trump Voters Who Like What They See
“Even if they don’t agree with everything he’s doing, he’s doing something.”
By Elaine Godfrey
Earlier this month, after it became clear that the Trump administration would not be facilitating the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia from a Salvadoran megaprison, I texted a close childhood friend. He’d voted for Donald Trump in each of the past three presidential elections, and I asked for his evaluation. “Trump might be taking it too far,” my friend replied. “But then again,” he added, “he’s a man of action and we wanted change.”
Someday in the future, historians might well point to April 2025 as the first sign of an enduring erosion in Trump’s popular support. In just the first week of this month, America witnessed another mass expulsion of federal workers, in this case from several health agencies, followed by a tariff rollout that sent 401(k)s plunging like a Six Flags log flume. Even with stocks partially rebounding, feedback from riders has not been great for the president: Poll after poll has registered a drop in overall support for Trump, with many voters citing economic uncertainty. Trump’s numbers on immigration, long a strength of his, are also beginning to slip. Another recent survey suggests that Trump has the lowest approval rating of any newly elected president in at least 70 years.
But even as Trump’s critics cheer the apparent change of heart among some of his supporters, they face an inconvenient reality: Many of his voters are jubilant. For these happy millions, the first 100 days of Trump’s second presidency have been a procession of fulfilled campaign promises—and have brought the country not to the precipice of economic ruin or democratic collapse, but to a golden age of greatness. They see Trump as ushering in a new era of action, according to my conversations with several Trump supporters and pollsters in recent days. “Even if they don’t agree with everything he’s doing, he’s doing something, and something is better than nothing,” Rich Thau, the president of the nonpartisan qualitative-research firm Engagious, told me.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/04/satisfied-trump-voters/682645/
This Conclave Will Be Different
The media have never had so much influence on the men who pick the pope.
By Francis X. Rocca
Correctly predicting the outcome of the papal conclave that starts tomorrow would take intuition, access, and—most important—dumb luck. Think of a U.S. presidential election but with 133 candidates, an international electorate, and no polling. Still, news outlets publish innumerable lists of papabili, or potential popes, often based on blind speculation. The exercise can get tedious, but it will matter more than you might think: The media have never had so much influence on a conclave.
To understand why, consider that the late Pope Francis picked the most far-flung group of cardinals in history. Two dozen hail from countries that had never produced a cardinal, such as Tonga, Myanmar, and East Timor. Distance has made an unusual number of them strangers. Francis added to their unfamiliarity by convening the college of cardinals less often than his predecessors. Under his tenure, they gathered for an open discussion just once, in 2014, when only a minority of the current electors belonged to the body. (A group of cardinals used the occasion to object to the pope’s leniency on divorce—an experience Francis evidently didn’t want to repeat.)
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/05/conclave-pope-francis-parolin/682709/
Justin Wolfers
@JustinWolfers
Trump now says he doesn’t need other countries to agree to anything. He’ll just write down numbers and call it a deal.
That’s a guy with a sharpie, not a trade agreement. And it’s not an enduring foundation for business
https://x.com/JustinWolfers/status/1920094943634223539
Trump Finally Drops the Anti-Semitism Pretext
The latest letter to Harvard makes clear that the administration’s goal is to punish liberal institutions for the crime of being liberal.
By Rose Horowitch
The intensely hostile letter that Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent to the leadership of Harvard yesterday has a lot going on. But the most notable thing about it is what it leaves out.
To hear McMahon tell it, Harvard is a university on the verge of ruin. (I say McMahon because her signature is at the bottom of the letter, but portions of the document are written in such a distinctive idiolect—“Why is there so much HATE?” the letter asks; it signs off with “Thank you for your attention to this matter!”—that one detects the spirit of a certain uncredited co-author.) She accuses it of admitting students who are contemptuous of America, chastises it for hiring the former blue-city mayors Bill de Blasio and Lori Lightfoot to teach leadership (“like hiring the captain of the Titanic to teach navigation”), questions the necessity of its remedial-math program (“Why is it, we ask, that Harvard has to teach simple and basic mathematics?”), and accuses its board chair, Penny Pritzker (“a Democrat operative”), of driving the university to financial ruin, among many other complaints. The upshot is that Harvard should not bother to apply for any new federal funding, because, McMahon declares, “today’s letter marks the end of new grants for the University.”
What you will not find in the McMahon letter is any mention of the original justification for the Trump administration’s ongoing assault on elite universities: anti-Semitism. As a legal pretext for trying to financially hobble the Ivy League, anti-Semitism had some strategic merit.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/05/mcmahon-harvard-letter/682717/
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