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‼️ZELENSKYY: We have obtained specific documents from the Russian General Staff confirming that the occupiers themselves acknowledge their inability to fulfill the tasks set by their political leadership. Irrecoverable losses among the occupiers already approaching 60% of total losses.

Here's the #1 reason Trump will never give up posing figments of his imagination. This man: Barack Obama! He cannot stand to be bested by a black man. Thus, he depicts himself as being more athletic, more heroic, and more well-liked. But in reality, it's all a facade, pipe dreams of an old, delusional man, trying to be more than he ever was. In the end, it's a sad commentary on a man who was never great and never will be.

1. On 60 Minutes, Trump said No Kings protests were responsible for the latest assassination attempt against him. FACT: No Kings is one of the most peaceful large-scale protest movements in history. 15 million participants and a handful of violent incidents — many by counter-protesters

The Cato Institute is a libertarian think tank. It just published a 30-year study showing immigrants paid 14.5 trillion dollars more in taxes than they received in government benefits. Every single year. For thirty years. Without exception. The country was lied to. Here is what the study found.🧵

ICE brutally detain U.S. citizen mother—leave 2 little kids in backseat. Agents grab her by hair and tackle her face first to street—handcuff her behind back. "I was shouting: I'm a citizen! I have my children in the car—9 year old girl and 1 year old boy!" She was held hours before being released—despite proving she was a U.S. citizen. ICE claims that she assaulted an agent first. "I never assaulted anyone—my intention was to exercise my constitutional rights and request the arrest warrant." Her husband was released a week later after an emergency habeas corpus petition was filed. Incident occurred in Asbury Park, New Jersey. #DemsUnited

THIS IS CRAZY: Weeks ago we started tracking a whale. 11 oil trades. 11 wins. Perfect timing. Every time. BBC validated it. White House denied it. Then a reporter asked Trump directly. "Are you concerned about insider trading?" Trump: "The world is a casino. It is what it is." Trade on a tip from your friend. Federal prison. Front-run a war decision with $17,000,000. No consequences. The President just told you the rules don't apply to everyone. The blockchain recorded every trade. The BBC published the receipts. And the most powerful man in the world just shrugged. The game is rigged. He just confirmed it.

@DanielLDavis1 The entire world knows who's running the show .

This is why the United States has almost no credibility internationally in the current era. Our ambassador to the United Nations has the audacity to lecture the world about what Iran doesn’t have the right to do – utterly oblivious to the fact that the ONLY reason they have exercised such control is because of the immoral and illegal war of choice we launched. This is another humiliating, condescending example of the absurd behavior of a declining world power…

Trump has fired over 100 immigration judges since entering office, installing loyalists in their place. These new hires include: — A lawyer who claimed there are just two kinds of women, "real women" and a "warm wet hole" — A judge who denied a Serbian man asylum because he didn't look "overtly gay" — A lawyer repeatedly posted online about Pizzagate and the "Haitian invasion of Ohio"

BREAKING: YES! A Virginia court REJECTS a desperate Republican attempt to stop the recently victorious Democratic redistricting referendum. We didn't ask for this war, but we're sure as hell going to win it! “This Court knows its role is clear. It is not to assess the wisdom of public policy nor to engage in policy making from the bench,” wrote Richmond Circuit Court Judge Tracy Thorne-Beglan. “Instead, it is to decide if those with whom we have entrusted power have exercised that power in conformance with their constitutional mandate. On this question, the Court’s answer is in the affirmative.” The newly passed House map will shift the state's congressional balance from a 6-5 Democratic majority to a 10-1 balance in our favor. Trump has only himself to thank for this crushing setback for Republicans. He kicked this entire redistricting arms race off when he pushed Texas to gerrymander its districts. Judge Thorne-Beglan rejected the lawsuit by Republicans after they tried to argue that the new map violated the state Constitution and was "adopted without legal authority when enacted." As usual, we see conservatives resorting to anti-democratic methods to try to shore up their own power. The voters have spoken. They want this new map. “In short, reasonable and objective persons reached different conclusions on the effects of the 2026 maps. The issue of compactness is fairly debatable,” wrote the judge. He stated that Republicans are “unlikely to succeed on the merits of compactness.” Redistricting "compactness" is the principle that voting districts must be draw in tight, regular shapes, a principle that Republicans regularly violate to their own advantage when possible. Ultimately, this new House map will go before the Virginia Supreme court, but every legal defeat for Republicans before then is worth celebrating. The law is on our side! Please ❤️ and share to thank the court!

AOC: “People are tired of the idea of a Democratic Party’s only position being anti-Trump. We need to have our own vision. For me, that means Medicare for All, unionization rights, antitrust and breaking up monopolies, and taking on big health insurers.”

AOC says the Republican agenda is to gut healthcare, make everything more expensive, and give ICE $170 billion so they can track Americans who protest them: The main Republican agenda is to gut your healthcare, tariff everything you want to buy, make everything more expensive, and give ICE $170 billion so that they can wear Meta glasses and create a database of anyone who protests their murdering of American citizens. At the end of the day, Republicans seek to demolish the public good—whether it’s demolishing the East Wing of the White House, demolishing the Affordable Care Act, or demolishing Medicare. The work of building is more visionary and inherently harder than the work of destruction. We know what side we’re on.

BREAKING: WE LOVE IT! Preservation group REFUSES a White House request to drop its lawsuit against Trump's ballroom in the wake of the alleged assassination attempt over the weekend. Trump tried to exploit the incident and it went over like a lead balloon... “I write to acknowledge receipt of your letter requesting that the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States (‘National Trust’) dismiss the above-captioned lawsuit,” Gregory B. Craig, a lawyer for the National Trust for Historic Preservation, wrote in a letter to the Justice Department. “That lawsuit seeks to require the President to secure authorization from Congress—as mandated by the Constitution and federal law—before undertaking further construction on the proposed ballroom. The National Trust respectfully declines the invitation to dismiss,” he added. Trump's DOJ asked the group to abandon its lawsuit on Sunday, citing the "extraordinary events" at the White House Correspondents' Dinner during which a gunman allegedly attempted to gain entry to the event to target Trump officials. Immediately after the incident, social media was flooded by prominent MAGA influencers and Republicans like Meghan McCain screeching that the alleged attack proves that Trump needs his ballroom. The digital push was so uniform, sudden, and widespread that it seems likely that the messaging was pushed by the administration through secure group chats. Trump himself rushed to hold a press conference after the dinner was aborted. Rather than using the opportunity to apologize for his own inflammatory rhetoric or attempting to turn down the national temperature, he launched into a rant about why he needs his ballroom. Of course, the Correspondents' Dinner has absolutely nothing to do with Trump's wasteful $400 million ballroom. The event was hosted by the White House Correspondents’ Association, not the White House itself, so even if the ballroom were already built it would not have been hosted there. Furthermore, the only thing that this incident proves is that Trump's security was lax. This is an administration characterized by incompetence from top to bottom. This is just another example of that trend. Earlier today, Senator Lindsey Graham suggested that taxpayers might actually end up footing the bill for the ballroom rather than the corrupt corporate donors that Trump originally touted. That must be a complete nonstarter. It's bad enough that Trump has torn down a historic section of the People's House. We aren't paying for his hideous vanity project. We commend the National Trust for Historic Preservation for refusing to cave to this craven pressure campaign. Don't back dowm! Please ❤️ and share if you support this continued lawsuit!

Epstein survivors will have a public forum midday on Capitol Hill led by Rep Ro Khanna (D-CA)… after not being permitted an audience with King Charles tomorrow

🚨⚡️ PROTOCOL SHATTERED: Trump broke the ultimate Royal rule: "Never touch the Monarch first." After the handshake war, he patted King Charles on the shoulder! 🇺🇸🇬🇧

Trump tried to do the "tug-of-war" handshake with King Charles III, but the King showed him who's the boss.

🚨 NOW: King Charles has a PRESIDENTIAL-level motorcade rolling through DC right now We now have an ACTUAL king on our soil, but there are NO SIGNS of any "No Kings" protests anywhere in the nation right now. Interesting how that works!

“Putin wants war. I have a feeling that if he does what he said, he will destroy the entire population.” The New York Post reports that Donald Trump made this statement during a conversation with King Charles III. The words were reconstructed through lip reading. ——— According to some studies, the same desire is openly and directly supported by about 65% of Russia’s population. Ukrainians have been telling the world about this since 2014 — though not everyone listens, and some are still trying to negotiate… Meanwhile, JD Vance even calls it one of his main achievements after a year in office under Trump — that he personally halted financial and military aid to a people whom Putin came to kill, and he takes pride in it.

AOC says we shouldn’t be using taxpayer money to build Trump’s ornate castle/ballroom while people are struggling to pay for healthcare and rent. Raju: Would you support authorizing the new ballroom? AOC: No. The president demolished the East Wing of the White House, a historic jewel of the American people, and he started to build this ballroom long before any incident. He also promised the American people that this was going to be built with private dollars, so the idea that they are trying to change the rationale for this doesn’t add up. The White House long had facilities for hosting, which also included the East Wing of the White House prior to them bulldozing the crown jewel of the American people. I don’t believe, in an era when they are jacking up costs, when they’re gutting everyone’s healthcare, and when people cannot afford their rent and their mortgages, that we should be using our treasure to build an ornate castle on a scale that is unprecedented and unbelievable. I’m sure that anybody who is against waste, fraud, and abuse would agree with me on that.