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@GTeaman @allenanalysis

What is the reason for the love affair with the Dems and Iran? Are you all OK with these crazies having a nuclear bomb? Is there any doubt that they will send that bomb our way when it’s done? They don’t care if the result kills all their own people. Put your Trump hate aside and think

🚨BREAKING: The Senate just failed to end the Iran war. 49-50. The one vote that blocked it: John Fetterman. A Democrat.

@priusport @JamesTate121 % wise… that’s like me contributing 5 bucks…

@JamesTate121 The Kochs are far right libertarians. They do bad things politically and good things philanthropically. MIT grads, the late David Koch funded the Koch Institute for Cancer Research at MIT, contributing over $100 million.

In August 2010, Jane Mayer published a long article in The New Yorker called "Covert Operations." It introduced most Americans, for the first time, to two brothers — Charles and David Koch — and the quiet network of foundations, think tanks, and political organizations they had spent decades building to reshape American politics from behind the scenes. The article was meticulously sourced. It named names. It followed the money. A few months later, Mayer started getting strange messages. A blogger asked her how she felt about the private investigator who was looking into her. She thought it was a joke. Then a former reporter told her, at a Christmas party, that he'd been approached and asked to help dig up damaging information on a journalist who had written something two billionaires didn't like. Then, in January 2011, her editor at The New Yorker, David Remnick, forwarded her a query from the New York Post. The Post had been handed material claiming Mayer was a serial plagiarist. The "evidence" was being shopped to multiple outlets at once. It wasn't true. The reporters she had supposedly stolen from confirmed she had cited them properly or asked permission. The Post dropped the story. But the campaign had been real — and Mayer eventually traced it to a firm called Vigilant Resources International, run by Howard Safir, the former NYPD commissioner. The firm had been hired, she would later document, by people connected to Koch business interests. The dirt didn't exist. So someone had tried to manufacture it. That moment told Mayer something about her own work that she has never forgotten. She wasn't being attacked because her reporting was sloppy. She was being attacked because it was accurate. Mayer has spent more than three decades doing this. Before Dark Money, she wrote The Dark Side, the definitive account of how the United States adopted torture as policy after September 11. After Dark Money, she investigated dark money behind Supreme Court confirmations, the network funding election-denial campaigns, and the secret political work of a Supreme Court justice's spouse. Each story has followed the same arc. Reporting comes out. Power responds — not by disputing the facts, but by going after the reporter. Lawyers get involved. Personal information gets leaked. Old colleagues get phone calls. The accusation is always the same in spirit, even when the words change: she went too far. But "too far" has never meant inaccurate. It has meant inconvenient. That's the quiet education buried in Jane Mayer's career: powerful institutions rarely correct the record. They reach for the messenger. They make the cost of telling the truth so high that the next person thinks twice. It only works if it works. Mayer is still reporting. The stories are still landing. The lines, it turns out, were never where we were told they were. Someone just had to be willing to walk past them, and write down what was on the other side.

@JamesTate121 We got Trump was because of Ronald Reagan and the KOCH agenda. It started in 1980 and will end with Trump. These Republicans are destroying America. Many have died and many more will die before it is over. It is the story of billionaires eating America. It is a story of greed.

Republicans always say America can't afford child care or affordable housing. But they always find the cash for whatever Trump wants — like the Iran war or a vanity ballroom. Let's call this Republican spending package what it is: the Billion Dollar Ballroom Act.

@MiMiLooLooTx @FfriendlyBear @HQNewsNow So that makes it ok?

@FfriendlyBear @HQNewsNow It was a Democrat that actually started gerrymandering, because Democrats couldn’t win without cheating. His name was Gerry.

Voter at a town hall on Republican gerrymandering: "These maps are the wet dream of soft men who won't even look up from their phones to face their voters. These are men who lust for a world where the powerful do what they can and the rest of us suffer what we must. Jesus wept."

@ChrisCoolyard @factpostnews Says the (Republican) party of NO that stunted the growth of this country for years…

@factpostnews Democrats have appointed judges , held shadow hearings , shut down our government and fought mercilessly to stop this administration from doing anything at all.

Sen. Gillibrand: You've had this job for well over a year. Did you get homelessness down? Turner: During the Biden administration... Sen. Gillibrand: Stop talking about Biden. Talk about your record. This is so inaccurate, unhelpful, and doesn't let this committee do our job.

@WhiplashsUSA @atrupar Yo Mark… take a peek at Trumps “oil deals” from his first administration… the cause of high gas prices at the beginning of Bidens term…

@atrupar And when Biden was in office they said "The President Doesn't Control Gas Prices"... STFU!

COLLINS: But if someone was paying $2.98 a gallon before the war, and now they're paying $4.53, saying 'that's life' might not make them feel better JIM JORDAN: Those are your words, not mine COLLINS: You said that just now. I quoted you.

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

@PrinceMarv13 why do I think you & Dan are watching this… Paulie is having a home brew… Dylan probably has a bet on it… & Fritsy is @ a deli in Brooklyn..

@spaceheater20 @ksorbs It was not put out to bid he gave it to his pool guy

@Stenogabue @Acyn

Doesn’t any Dem understand short term pain for long time gainn? I guess they prefer to promise Utopia, which they can’t deliver. We have nations who want to crush us and if we don’t stop them we’ll have short term gains and long term pain. I prefer Trump’s way and trust his judgment.

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

@atrupar Yo Jim… how’s that Super Duper Health Care Bill doing?

Jim Jordan: "Thank goodness President Trump is our president doing these negotiations and frankly not Kamala Harris, because lord knows what she'd be up to if she were there"

@TalkinYanks Doing away with the launch angle…

What should we talk to Aaron Boone about today?

@HiMyNameIsSeton snipminds.com/seton-o-connor/ You might find this amusing…

@PoliticalFAFO @luna_am96 @ksorbs Yo Chuck… check out Trumps “oil deals” during his first administration… we inherited a shit show for the next year or so…

@luna_am96 @ksorbs Yall are so fucking stupid. Of course it was biden’s fault then, and of course it’s trump’s fault now. this was is pointless and didnt ever need to happen. trump is doing israel’s fighting for them and exploding out debt while he’s at it. this is not america first.

The next time the Dems scream that the price of gas is Trump's fault, show them this video of Joe Biden's Energy Sec. Jennifer Granholm saying, “The president does not control the price of gasoline.”

@Julesro42 @ksorbs Yo Julie… when are you invading China?

@ksorbs Again, I’m totally fine paying more at the pump if it prevent me getting my face melted off by a nuclear weapon.

@ksorbs Yo Kevin… check out Trumps “oil deals” from his first administration… a President doesn’t control the price of gas but he sure can make deals that screw us over…

@GinoPetrosini @Yankees Stop with friggin launch angle & just hit the ball somewhere… anywhere…

@Yankees Do not let it fool you that this team has been carried by rice, judge, bellinger and the best starting pitching staff in the league. This team can not hang with good teams and it shows up in the playoffs every year. They need a ton of trades at the deadline!

FINAL/10: Brewers 4, Yankees 3.

@WallStreetApes No we shop local…

This is what it’s like shopping at Costco in Frisco, Texas After watching multiple times I’ve only been able to find 2 people in the entire store shown that weren’t Indian The American People are being completely replaced in their own country