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If you make me laugh, if you make me cry, if you make me kiss my ass goodbye (climate change), if you make me think, if you make me try, if you make me wonder why, I will follow you.

MacFarlane: There’s a lot of money being spent on reflecting pools, ballrooms, and a memorial arch. What do you make of that? AOC: I think people can’t feed themselves. They’re having a hard time affording groceries. They’re having an even harder time, in a lot of ways, affording rent and mortgages. And why should this administration—and this president, who has openly said that he doesn’t care or think about the financial situations of everyday Americans at all—then try to take a billion dollars more out of our health care and put that toward a ballroom when people are already struggling? It’s just deeply out of touch. I think it’s insulting to everyday people who are trying to get by on an honest day’s work.

Trump personally bought and sold millions of dollars worth of stock in technology companies and government contractors early this year, and many trades coincided with favorable regulatory decisions. From @samuellarreal_ & @LlanosJackie of @NOTUSreports: notus.org/money/donald-t…

@Scaramucci @skimsey The Strauss - Howe generational theory, every 80 years history repeats itself.

Pete Buttigieg is an extremely talented politician. He’s served in the military service, he’s articulate, and understands policy inside and out. He’s struggling to get African American support due to the fact that he’s gay, but otherwise I think he can turn it around. Here’s the bigger picture though, every 80 years this country gets dunked. Revolutionary War to the Civil War. Civil War to the Great Depression and World War II. We’re 80 years out again and we’ve lost the generational memory of why the institutions and processes matter. Trump is actually helping us rediscover that, not intentionally, but by doing the opposite of everything that’s right so aggressively that people instinctively know something is deeply wrong. The approval ratings, the election results, they’re all telling the same story. He’s forcing a moral and cultural reckoning on this country.

They literally 3D-printed an eyeball. And the blind guy can see again. Not a chip. Not a sensor. A full living human eye — retina, cornea, lens, optic nerve — built layer by layer in a printer. Bioengineers at KAIST in South Korea pulled it off. The whole thing took 6 hours to print. Living retinal cells stacked in precise layers with their own blood vessels. A hydrogel lens that auto-focuses. Biocompatible polymers shaping the white of the eye. And an optic nerve scaffold designed to guide fresh nerve growth straight to the brain. Then they put it inside a 31-year-old man who lost his sight 7 years ago in an industrial accident. Three weeks later, his brain started decoding the signals. He's now seeing at 20/60. Reading. Recognising faces. Naming colours. This is the first time a complex organ made of multiple tissue types has been printed AND successfully wired into the human nervous system. Science fiction quietly clocked out. Science just clocked in.

Trump clearly sold out Taiwan. When asked on Air Force One on the way back from China whether the U.S. would defend Taiwan in the event of a Chinese invasion, Trump replied: “I don’t want to say. That question was asked to me today by President Xi. I said, ‘I don’t talk about it.’” Trump also said, “On Taiwan, President Xi feels very strongly about it.” It’s clear China got the green light to move ahead, especially now that the U.S. is bogged down in the Iran war. Under Trump, our allies can’t trust us, and our adversaries don’t fear us.

Thomas Massie: “The force of the whole swamp has come down on me.” “It’s three billionaires.” “They’re hedge fund managers and gambling magnates.” “They’re upset that I’ve never voted for foreign aid.” “Particularly foreign aid to Israel.” “And they’re upset that I vote against the wars.” “These billionaires are funding a super PAC called MAGA Kentucky.” “They are not MAGA, and they have never been to Kentucky.” “There will be $6 million spent this week on TV and radio and mail.” “Fox News, they’ve got a monopoly on the screens in a lot of Republican houses, particularly people between the ages of 65 and 75.” “For the last 18 months, they’ve not invited me on a single show.” “They have blacklisted me.” “I can’t get on TVs in the living rooms of the people that vote in this election unless I can buy TV ads.” @RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY

Colin Jost says he pitched Pete Hegseth mistakenly quoting Pulp Fiction as Bible verse in the SNL writers room—then Hegseth actually did it.

@Holden_Culotta @KITTYBAYOUTSFAN I'm starting to like this guy, imagine if all Republicans actually worked for the people

Thomas Massie blocked a plan to give AI data centers immunity from local and state laws. Twice. And he blocked a plan to give pesticide companies immunity to mass poison Americans. “It’s cronyism.” “The first version of the Big Bill had a provision that would let data centers ignore state laws.” “And not just state laws, but local zoning laws.” “Marjorie Taylor Greene and I fought to get that taken out, and it was taken out, fortunately.” “That issue came up again recently in my Judiciary Committee.” “We were marking up eight bills one day in a work session, and I noticed that number six on the list was to exempt data centers from eight different environmental laws.” “They couldn’t be sued if they didn’t have the permits.” “Even though some of those environmental laws may be onerous, I don’t know why you would give an exemption to data centers, but not to the farmers or other industries.” “So I tweeted about it, in real time, blew the whistle, and they decided to take it off of the schedule that day.” “I have obstructed things like special privileges and immunities for data centers.” “And most recently in the Farm Bill, they had a provision that was gonna give special privileges and immunities … to Monsanto-Bayer, which makes glyphosate.” “They said, we’ll give every pesticide immunity from all state labeling laws.” “Myself and some other colleagues worked hard, we drafted amendments.” “We forced it to a vote on the floor of the House and took that special provision … removed from the Farm Bill.” “And I did vote for the Farm Bill because it has my signature piece of legislation in it, which is a bill to make it easier for farmers to use a local processor and sell their beef, pork, and lamb directly to consumers.” This is why the deep state is desperately trying to oust him from Congress right now. And it’s why he needs the people to rally behind him now more than ever. @RepThomasMassie @MassieforKY

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This is GLORIOUS David Letterman & Stephen Colbert on the roof of the Ed Sullivan Theatre bringing back the classic @Letterman routine one last time This is how you go out, @StephenAtHome! 😂 And may @CBS implode literally the same way without you

@ShadowofEzra @sacdamb So much for the military not getting involved in politics.

Thomas Massie says Secretary of War Pete Hegseth is personally going to visit Kentucky to make sure he loses his election due to the threat he poses against the global elites. Massie says the risk he poses is so severe that Pete Hegseth has to come during a war to make sure the AIPAC candidate wins. “This shows how serious this is to the global elite that I lose.”

“For DeSantis — now a term-limited governor searching for his next place in a GOP still dominated by President Donald Trump — the closure carries political risk far beyond the Everglades. Alligator Alcatraz was one of the clearest examples of DeSantis and his inner circle aligning themselves with the MAGA movement after the governor’s failed presidential bid: a flashy, hard-line project meant to show Trump allies that Florida could execute the aggressive immigration agenda conservatives had long demanded” But the project also exposed the limitations of governance by spectacle. It never quite lived up to DeSantis’ vision of a one-stop shop for deporting the “worst-of-the-worst” immigrants. ❌Instead, the remote facility morphed into a grim waystation for immigrants with and ❌without criminal records, some of whom spent weeks or months there or were ping-ponged between detention facilities. And for all the headlines and merchandise, 💰Florida taxpayers may ultimately be left carrying hundreds of millions of dollars in costs if federal reimbursement never arrives. The detention center’s rapid construction and equally rapid demise have also fueled criticism that the state 🎯🎯prioritized political theater over long-term policy planning@

Florida sits on the world's largest phosphate deposit. Every year, millions of tons of it leave the Port of Tampa on cargo ships bound for fertilizer markets in Brazil, India, and China. 🌍 The Port of Tampa is the single largest phosphate export terminal on Earth. The companies that run it have made billions. 💰 The communities of Polk County, Hardee County, and Manatee County have gotten something else: radioactive soil, contaminated wells, collapsed sinkholes, and a ⚠️☠️cancer rate that state regulators have declined to formally study. In 2016, a sinkhole beneath a Mosaic phosphogypsum stack swallowed 215 million gallons of ☠️radioactive process water directly into the Floridan Aquifer. ( where drinking water comes from) 🚩The company waited three weeks to notify the public. No executive faced criminal charges. The phosphate kept shipping. The mineral leaves Florida. The profit leaves Florida. The contamination stays”☠️

You won’t hear this on Fox News: California just released a balanced budget that wipes out the deficit this year AND next — while protecting health care and safety nets. Meanwhile, Trump ADDED $2.4 TRILLION to the federal deficit with his “Big Beautiful Betrayal.” Republicans ruin budgets. Democrats balance them. Adulting matters.

@bennyjohnson @elonmusk Get real dude he brought the kids to attract trump and his Epstein sickos.

Of the many profoundly positive cultural shifts that @elonmusk has made — the normalization of children in public and professional spaces is the greatest. Stop stigmatizing parenthood. Children are God’s greatest blessing. Celebrate being a father.

@WhiteHouse I could afford to live in my country and also had health care under the Biden administration, republicans took it away, again.

"When President Xi very elegantly referred to the United States as perhaps being a declining nation, he was referring to the tremendous damage we suffered during the four years of Sleepy Joe Biden... But now, the United States is the hottest Nation anywhere in the world" - President Donald J. Trump 🇺🇸

@liberalpuppy @FmrRepMTG We're on course to become bankrupt as a country thanks to tax breaks for the rich, and corporations, republicans always give tax breaks to the rich which does not help our deficit.

@FmrRepMTG And the federal debt would increase if you eliminate the gas tax…

Trump admin is considering temporarily removing the 18.4 cents federal gas tax, which requires a vote from Congress, sure get rid of it entirely. But the national price of gas would not be $4.52 today if Trump had never gone to war with Iran on behalf of Israel, and taking off 18.4 cents isn’t really going to help Americans that much! And America produces enough oil to be self sufficient, we shouldn’t be getting gouged at the pump anyway. The America LAST failures for decades from leaders in Washington DC have over regulated, blocked land leases, and prevented more refineries from being built, which all led to consistently unnecessary high gas prices. Instead of helping Americans, they pursued and continue to pursue WARS in the Middle East. Yes please do throw the peasants some more bread crumbs. But at least make it permanent!

@RealFrankFromFL @EllenFL214 Fake news. No one told me I had to reregister or confirm my voter info.... thanks. checking to make sure the lil governor didn't remove me from eligible voters.

I’m starting to think Byron Donalds may not win the Florida primary. There’s so much support on this app for the other candidates and very little for him.