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A week ago, Trump lifted sanctions on Russian oil, rewarding Russia for helping Iran locate & kill American service members, and tonight Trump lifts sanctions on Iranian oil, rewarding Iran for actually killing American service members. Once again, Trump is a traitor to America.

Cover of The Economist. 😂🤣👇

Good news: The John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award going to the people of the Twin Cities is a recognition of how our state persevered and led the way in defending freedom and democracy.

BREAKING: I’m suing the Trump Administration over their dangerous assault on environmental protections. The science is clear: pollution is bad for our health, makes severe weather worse, and threatens farmers' crops — yet the Trump Administration is once again throwing that science out the window. In Pennsylvania, we trust the science. And as long as I'm your Governor, I’ll continue to stand up against this President's lawless disregard for your health and safety.

By lifting sanctions on Russia and Belarus President Trump and the Republican Party are choosing dictatorships over the democratic country of Ukraine. What has happened to the United States of America.

JUST IN: Trump’s handpicked Commission of Fine Arts approved a general design for a 24k gold commemorative coin for the U.S. 250th anniversary featuring Trump’s image. “I motion to approve this as presented, and with the strong encouragement that you make it as large as possible, all the way to three inches in diameter,” the commission’s vice chair, James McCrery, said. Separately, the Treasury has said it plans to issue a $1 Trump coin that the Commission of Fine Arts approved in January. Straight-up banana republic stuff.

While the US delegation is in Belarus trying to save Putin by taking sanctions off Belarus, Trump is sending JD Vance to help save Putin's puppet regime in Hungary. Serving Putin 24/7.

Bill Barr was AG at the time, with oversight of the FBI. Haul his fat ass in and get him under oath!

Hegseth: "We're still dealing with the environment Joe Biden created—depleting our stockpiles and sending them to Ukraine instead of our own military. Every time we face a challenge, it traces back to 'Well, sent it to Ukraine.'" It looks like they’re just going to blame Ukraine whenever anything goes wrong now, doesn’t it? It’s depressing to watch because while this administration will eventually leave office, a segment of Americans will keep hating Ukraine without even remembering why.

Threatening journalists with treason charges because you dislike their reporting is the kind of rhetoric you expect from authoritarian governments, not from a country that claims to defend a free press. If the attack happened and multiple outlets confirm it, trying to silence coverage does not protect national security. It just undermines public trust and makes the situation look even worse.

1/x Alright here goes: My live fact check thread of the State of the Union, where I’ll fact check (and share any important announcements) until I crash out with rage… God help me! My soul feels like Kavanaugh’s face…

29/ Trump claims that “importing other cultures” has led to the largest fraud in US history. Which is inaccurate, because Trump suing the US government, giving his own Board of Peace funding, taking a Qatari gift plane, and having his son invest in companies getting US contracts is the largest fraud in US history.

Donald Trump partied with Epstein for years while girls were trafficked out of his own spa. He moved the only convicted co-conspirator to a Club Fed, handed her a puppy, fought the file release, had to be dragged into it by Congress, slow-walked it for months, dumped less than half, redacted 96% of his own mentions, and then very quietly, and very deliberately scrubbed out the most damning child rape allegations against him. But sure. “Case closed.” Nothing to see here. Let’s do a state of the union.

“In his speech tonight, the president did what he always does. He lied, he scapegoated, and he distracted,” Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger said in the Democratic response to President Trump’s State of the Union address. “He offered no real solutions to our nation's pressing challenges, so many of which he is actively making worse,” she continued. “He tries to divide us. He tries to enrage us, to pit us against one another, neighbor against neighbor.”

Labeling people who quietly monitor ICE operations as potential terrorists is how you lose the consent of the governed. Facial scans, plate tracking, then “keep showing up and you’ll land on a watchlist, maybe get a late visit at home” is not law enforcement. It is intimidation. We can have firm borders and still honor the basic American rule: the public gets to see what government does in its name. Scaring observers off the sidewalk is what insecure regimes do, not confident ones.

At high stakes Pentagon meeting today Sec Hegseth gave Anthropic head Dario Amodei ultimatum to allow the Pentagon to use Anthropic’s AI model for mass domestic surveillance and kinetic autonomous operations without human oversight or face censure and be labeled “supply chain threat.” According to a source familiar: The meeting was cordial, not a dressing down, not a screaming match, all business. Hegseth praised the Anthropic product but then said if by Friday Anthropic does not agree to the Pentagon’s use of the model without restrictions, then Hegseth would terminate the contract and use the Defense Production Act to force Anthropic to comply AND/OR designate Anthropic a supply chain threat and national security risk. (EDIT: Both are mutually exclusive. You can’t be a supply chain risk but also invoke the DPA to say that the country needs this product so much for national security that it will override any restrictions put in place by the company that limits govt access to the product. Both cannot be true.) At issue is Anthropic’s two stipulations that its advanced AI model currently used in the Pentagon’s classified systems is NOT used for autonomous kinetic operations (Anthropic currently requires human oversight of autonomous operations when used to kill things for safety reasons because they don’t know how the autonomous system will react and could even endanger soldiers using the model; soldiers and others could lose control of the model and automatically start killing large groups without humans in the “kill chain.”) Second Anthropic bars its models from being used for mass domestic surveillance. Hegseth wants these restrictions lifted. According to a source familiar with the talks, Anthropic has never objected to the use of its models for “legitimate military operations.” It also told the Hegseth it never complained to the Pentagon or Palantir about the use of its models in the Maduro raid.