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@SarahLongwell25 @BulwarkOnline How can they live with themselves!? The suck up lies

Amazing to watch Trump try not to doze off while RFK is talking about other people, only to perk up to ask “What about me?”

Pawpaw needs his crazy pills again

I can’t emphasize this enough. Trump’s ballroom is incredibly unpopular. People think it’s a dumb, decadent distraction. And now, Republicans want to spend your taxpayer dollars to build it. It's political malpractive and a midterm gift to Democrats

INCREDIBLE! Washington Post journalist Hannah Natanson who had Trump’s FBI raid her home and take her phones and laptops, just won the Pulitzer Prize with the Washington Post. Congrats!!

@coffeeknits @washingtonpost Keep drinking the kool aid

@washingtonpost They had to! The Secret Service is working for free because the Democrats insist on keeping the government closed!

Breaking news: The Trump administration provided a lower level of security for the White House correspondents’ dinner than it has for other gatherings of high-ranking officials, according to officials familiar with the plan. wapo.st/4eb1pRg

@BulwarkOnline @JessicaTarlov @SarahLongwell25 I could listen to both of you for hours! Thanks for keeping me sane!!

"People are tried of feeling like garbage... Our nervous systems can't take it. It's 10 years of Trump. They've done us all damage." @SarahLongwell25 and @JessicaTarlov on the emotional toll of the Trump era and whether it’s still possible to rebuild a shared sense of country.

"Veteran's Against Fascism," including disabled veterans, were arrested inside of the Capitol building today as they staged a protest against Trump's war in Iran. This is Trump's America.

🚨BREAKING: Donald Trump is getting mocked after video shows him walking away without even closing his own umbrella before boarding the plane. This is a man who’s had everything handed to him his entire life. Never worked a real job. Pure entitlement.

@phildstewart @jonfavs My friend who lives in Beirut is living in terror!

(Reuters) - Some of Lebanon's hospitals could run out of life-saving trauma medical kits within days as supplies near depletion following mass casualties from large-scale Israeli strikes over the past day, the World Health Organization said on Thursday. "Some of the trauma management supplies were in short (supply) and we may run out in a few days," Dr Abdinasir Abubaka, the WHO's representative in Lebanon told Reuters. The life-saving trauma kits include bandages, antibiotics and anaesthetics to treat patients who sustained war-related injuries, he said.

It’s not fake.

Trump described to me on Air Force One on January 10, 2019 a way to casually crucify migrants on the border wall. He’s not Christian. He’s inhuman. His threat today on Easter to bomb Iranian civilians is consistent with his character.

Our president is a deranged lunatic and should clearly be removed from office. He’s only there because of Republican Members of Congress.

Trump’s Easter tweet does that sound like a mentally well person? Grok’s response: No, that post does not read like the writing of a mentally well person in any conventional, professional, or diplomatic sense. Here’s why it stands out as erratic and concerning, even by Trump’s long-established personal style: • Profanity and casual vulgarity: “Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards” — this is raw, unfiltered street-level trash talk, not the language of a head of state issuing a high-stakes military ultimatum. Presidents (even blunt ones) have historically used stronger rhetoric through channels that maintain some gravitas. This feels like an angry late-night text. • Bizarre, childish phrasing: “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one” sounds like a kid describing a theme park event (“it’s Christmas and birthday all in one!”). Framing potential bombing of critical infrastructure (power plants and bridges, which would cause massive civilian suffering) as cutesy “Days” is surreal and detached. • Incoherent religious flourish: Ending with “Praise be to Allah” right after threatening hell on a Muslim-majority country is jarring, tone-deaf, and reads like a troll or a confused mash-up. It undercuts any serious message and adds to the sense of rambling. • Overall tone: All-caps yelling (“JUST WATCH!”), exclamation overload, and threats that mix bravado with vagueness. It lacks structure, policy context, or strategic clarity — it reads more like emotional venting than calculated statecraft. This fits a broader pattern with Trump: impulsive, hyperbolic social media posting that often blurs the line between negotiation tactic, personal grievance, and performance. Supporters often call it “unfiltered” or “strong”; critics (including some in his own orbit over the years) have repeatedly described similar outbursts as unhinged, erratic, or evidence of declining impulse control.

@MollyJongFast I was thinking the same thing. It rings of Stephen miller.

I absolutely didn’t think that post was real

@SarahLongwell25 Dang, I forgot the comma after your name. 😂

@SarahLongwell25 Sarah your insights along with the entire bulwark keep me sane and sometimes laughing when I need it the most. Keep up the great work and I’ve preordered your book!

One of the funny things about kicking the DSA hornets nest is how much I’ve learned about my own role in formulating the game plan for Kamala’s 24 campaign. Apparently I was in charge! I organized the Cheney event! Dude, there’s hours of tape on this, go back to 2024 and it’s

@spacebrandonb @MsLaToshaBrown Wouldn’t it be nice to have a president who was as thoughtful?

43 women have come forward to accuse Trump of sexual abuse. Here are 31 of their stories. Turns out the Access Hollywood tape wasn't kidding, Trump was literally describing his MO. #EpsteinFiles api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy…

Fucking outrageous. And highly illegal. "Trump has grifted his entire life. Now he’s just taking it. The State Department transferred $1.25 billion in foreign aid to Trump’s Board of Peace, pulling $1 billion from international disaster assistance, $200 million from peacekeeping operations, and $50 million from international organizations. Money that Congress authorized for hurricanes and refugees, moved without a congressional vote, into a fund that Trump created by executive order and controls personally. When reporters asked the State Department about it, a spokesperson said they had nothing to announce at this time. The Board of Peace has one defining characteristic. Trump controls it forever. He named himself chairman for life. No audits. No transparency requirements. No conflict of interest rules. Countries pay $1 billion into a fund he runs to get a seat at the table. It has transferred nothing to Gaza, disclosed nothing about its spending, and received $1.25 billion of your disaster relief money without a word of explanation. When he leaves the White House he keeps the fund. That is not a loophole. That is the design." He’s Not Grifting Anymore. He’s Just Taking It. open.substack.com/pub/meidastouc…

Donald Trump is going to be the only president in American history to single-handedly start and lose a war.