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Too informed to be useful. Too feral to be trusted. Former diplomat to nowhere. Cigars, coups, and commentary. All leaks are coincidental.

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StatecraftScav
StatecraftScav@StatecraftScav·
Just a scavenger in a tux, smoking in the dark, watching states fail and alliances fray. Perfecto lit. Scotch poured. The leaks write themselves. Welcome to the trash can of global order. Where the rules only exist in writing. 🐀🌍
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Sara McGee for Texas HD 132
Sara McGee for Texas HD 132@SaraForTexLege·
If there is ever a social phenomenon that needs to be studied, it is how the GOP has been able to hoodwink people for decades into thinking that they the party of “fiscal responsibility” when there is absolutely ZERO evidence to support that claim. And I mean ZERO.
Jake Sherman@JakeSherman

CBO says the Senate Republicans' new reconciliation bill will increase deficits by $71.7B over the next 10 years. That's what the bill costs, so that makes sense. cbo.gov/system/files/2…

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Shadow of Ezra
Shadow of Ezra@ShadowofEzra·
Lindsey Graham says Americans deserve higher gas prices because many doubted Iran was going to get a nuclear weapon. Graham says you either pay now or you pay later. “They tried to get a nuclear weapon. If you don’t believe that, you shouldn’t be allowed to drive.”
Shadow of Ezra@ShadowofEzra

Ted Cruz says one of the biggest issues in America right now is the rise of antisemitism, which he calls an “existential threat” to him and his party. Cruz says he is terrified of influencers who have turned against Israel. Cruz believes the fight against antisemitism is about the soul of the United States and the soul of the Republican Party.

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Power to the People ☭🕊
Power to the People ☭🕊@ProudSocialist·
Mike Huckabee says younger Americans oppose Israel because they haven’t been programmed correctly: “We haven’t put the true data into the minds of younger people.” The truth is younger Americans don’t consume corporate media so they couldn’t brainwash them to support genocide.
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☀️👀@zei_squirrel·
former senior CIA agent John Stockwell: "We pumped dozens of stories about Cuban atrocities, rapists. We ran fake photographs that made every paper in the country. It was pure raw false propaganda to create the illusion of Communists eating babies for breakfast." Sound familiar?
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scary lawyerguy
scary lawyerguy@scarylawyerguy·
Remember folks, Democrats must possess PhD level knowledge of public policy and have think tank quality campaign platforms while Trump couldn't care less about two programs that <checks notes> make up a quarter of our budget and cover 140 million people & it's crickets.🙄
Aaron Rupar@atrupar

Trump on flying with Dr Oz: "It was the most boring trip I've ever made. He's telling me about Medicare, Medicaid. I said, 'You work out the details.'"

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Mike Young
Mike Young@micyoung75·
The New York Times recently published leaked Supreme Court memos from 2016, when a majority of justices voted to block the Obama administration's Clean Power Plan before any lower court had ruled on it. Chief Justice Roberts argued the EPA regulations would cause "irreparable harm" through a "substantial and irreversible reordering of the domestic power sector." It was the wrong standard - the lower court hadn't been given a chance to rule. And it was applied with no consideration of the harm the Obama administration would suffer from having its major policy blocked. Now read that against the second Trump administration's record on the same emergency docket. The Trump administration has filed a record number of shadow docket applications and has won 80 percent of the time. The Court has allowed, through this process with little or no written reasoning, mass layoffs at the Education Department, racial profiling in immigration sweeps, and the termination of legal immigration status for hundreds of thousands of people. The "irreparable harm" standard Roberts applied in 2016 - that delay in implementing a desired policy causes sufficient harm to justify emergency intervention - is precisely what he applied to the Obama climate rule. The same standard has since been applied to Trump administration policies that, by any measure, have produced a far greater reordering of American institutions than anything the Clean Power Plan envisioned. The memos reveal something simple: the standard was not principled in 2016. The record since then confirms it still isn't.
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Brennan Center@BrennanCenter

Leaked memos show that the Supreme Court’s emergency docket is rife with double standards. bit.ly/4sZ1wCR

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StatecraftScav@StatecraftScav·
@alpaysh Every female with those stud earrings is a certified freak. Like will suck you from the back type of freaky.
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Alps
Alps@alpaysh·
Day 1 at JP Morgan and I’m excited for this new chapter, grateful for everything and everyone who helped me get here
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JB@TheRunAmoker·
For me it was the Geroge Orwell novel Animal Farm. That book led me to 1984. I read it for the first of many times at age 13. To quote Churchill, at their best, "The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
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Drop Site
Drop Site@DropSiteNews·
DNC Chair Ken Martin went on Pod Save America this week to justify burying his party’s 200-page autopsy on 2024 — the report some on his team say shows that Biden’s Gaza policy cost Harris the election. Meanwhile, Graham Platner — the Maine Senate candidate polling 40 points ahead of his primary opponents, outraising Susan Collins, and running on small-dollar donations — told Jon Stewart that DNC leadership hasn’t reached out to ask why he’s winning. The Democratic Party leadership won’t examine why it lost in 2024, and isn’t curious why a candidate is winning by 40 points in 2026. “It’s the lack of curiosity… that bothers me,” Platner said.
The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart@weeklyshowpod

Despite a 40-point lead, Maine Senate candidate @grahamformaine says he hasn’t heard from DNC leadership. #theweeklyshow #jonstewart #politics

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Justin Amash
Justin Amash@justinamash·
FISA 702 just passed the House. This bill lets the government search Americans’ private communications without a warrant—in direct violation of the Fourth Amendment. But don’t blame the GOP alone. Forty-two Democrats betrayed the American people to help Mike Johnson pass it.
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☀️👀@zei_squirrel·
@VanJones68 Norman Finkelstein described you perfectly: "Van Jones wears the yellow/blue Zionist pin to advertise he's their slave. When Van Jones goes on Bill Maher and says dead Gazan babies, he knows his masters are not laughing with him, they're laughing at him: He's our slave."
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Brian Allen
Brian Allen@allenanalysis·
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.🧵
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Tuki
Tuki@TukiFromKL·
the CATO Institute.. a libertarian think tank funded by the Koch brothers.. just published a study showing immigrants paid more in taxes than they received in benefits every single year from 1994 to 2023.. not a left-wing university.. not a Democratic PAC.. the Koch brothers' own research institute.. they reduced the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 30 years.. they earn less per hour but work at higher rates.. which means higher per capita income.. which means higher taxes paid.. the country spent 30 years being told immigrants were draining the system.. turns out they were funding it.. and the people who told you that knew the numbers the whole time
Leading Report@LeadingReport

Immigrants generate more income and taxes than the average person, per CATO Institute.

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John Ʌ Konrad V
John Ʌ Konrad V@johnkonrad·
Ship captain who traveled with Pete Hegseth here. When we toured the nation’s next supercarrier together and sat down to lunch with the crew, every eye in the room tracked Pete. It wasn’t electric. It wasn’t rhetoric. It was reciprocity. Everyone from the seaman recruits to the three-star admiral was locked in, because he wasn’t self-conscious, wasn’t buried in his notes, wasn’t reading off a script. Every person in the room felt seen and heard, even the ones who never said a word. Most journalists take copious notes. I soak in details and run simulations. Or maybe that’s not the journalist in me. It’s the ship captain. We were standing in a cavernous hangar bay and I was already running a flooding scenario. What if the ship heeled hard and water poured into the compartment? I was working it fast: watertight integrity, tie-down points, where the water would pool, where the escape routes were. Then a hand landed on my shoulder. Pete. He pulled me back into the room, and we talked briefly. The guy is watching everything. And not just inside his inner sanctum of four-star GOFOs and PhD advisors like Elbridge Colby. He has rare situational awareness for what the warfighter actually needs. And he’s reading X too. I can’t tell you how often something posted on X with real consequence gets clocked by Pete and processed inside his office. The guy has his head on a swivel.
Dakota Meyer@Dakota_Meyer

This is what it looks like to have a warfighter in a room full of politicians…. Never get them confused. Proud to call @SecWar a friend and even more proud to serve under him.

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MeidasTouch@MeidasTouch·
MAGA accounts tweet in unison about the need for a White House ballroom following WHCD incident
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