Jennifer Tammaro

@mkraju @DanaBashCNN @CNNSotu "The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command." --George Orwell, "1984"

“The next president must say on day one: We’re tearing down this arch; we’re razing Trump’s ballroom…Washington ceremonial architecture must be returned to the purpose for which it exists—to promote democracy, not the demented ego of one sick man.” newrepublic.com/post/209211/tr…

Donald Trump just wrapped up a disastrous speech in Phoenix, Arizona, at a Turning Point USA event. He started by lying about a supposed deal with Iran, claiming, “We have now secured the Strait of Hormuz. It is ours.” He also said that the United States and Iran would be excavating nuclear sites together to collect “nuclear dust.” Iran has denied all of these claims. Trump also falsely claimed that Iran had announced the Strait of Hormuz is “fully open and ready for business.” That is not what Iran said. Iranian officials have stated the strait will remain open under their control—specifically under the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps—using coordinated, predetermined routes. They plan to charge tolls and assert full control and sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz.

Just got off the phone with the president. He told me a bunch of obvious lies but I’m going to post them anyway because I want everyone to know I just got off the phone with the president.

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So Trump got 13 Americans killed, spent billions of dollars, and gave Iran 20 billion dollars to get a worse deal than Obama? ART OF THE DEAL!

.@JamesTalarico: It doesn’t matter who wins the Republican runoff, because we already know who we’re running against. We’re running against the billionaire megadonors who have taken over our state and our country, and their corrupt political system. We are building a movement here in Texas across all these divides to take power back from those at the very top who have corrupted our politics. And I think we’re gonna see the fruits of that movement in November.

Not so sure starting a war against a country and then surrendering counts as "ending" a war

Republicans are creating a national school voucher program that will leave public schools with less funding and abandon students with disabilities. Arizona already has school vouchers and we've seen the consequences. I'm fighting to give every kid a fair shot.

The Iranians are playing this brainsick dullard like a yo-yo.

Florida doesn’t need more noise. It needs a little honesty, courage, and leaders willing to sit down with anyone to talk about real solutions. Thank you to the Tiger Bay Club of Central Florida and everyone who showed up.

Hundreds of Fake Pro-Trump Avatars Emerge on Social Media nytimes.com/2026/04/17/bus… via @NYTimes

BREAKING: Justice Samuel Alito NOT retiring. Sources close to Justice Alito confirm the Fox News report that he has decided not to step down this year. In addition, sources close to Justice Thomas tell me he’s not retiring. That indicates that this year, with the midterms on the horizon, Trump will not be making his 4th nomination to SCOTUS.

@RonFilipkowski @MeidasTouch He had to have practiced the biting the lip thing in the mirror before Kirk’s memorial while he smeared the shoe polish on his face.

Yikes he went for a wet one on the ear this time.

Marshall: We have 168 school girls that died, 13 in the military, and God knows how many in various countries, since this started, for what? To have a strait open that was open before all of this started?

I’m really shocked that 10 hours after Trump declared total victory nothing has changed from yesterday.

It has been over 299 weeks since Donald Trump said his healthcare plan would be released in “two weeks.”

FDR should’ve just declared victory in 1942 and told everyone we won. Would’ve been much easier.

Is there a German word for "a recklessly foolish enterprise from which you're so desperate to extricate yourself that you give in to the other side but still insist on pretending it's all been a great victory"?

a visibly unwell Rep. Paul Gosar: "We've got a president who reminds me of Atlas. He carries this country on his back."