Doug Barnes

@elonmusk Is this a rhetorical question?

What’s wrong with Germany?

@earthman1 @BehizyTweets @MarshaBlackburn. We want @SenRickScott for senate majority leader.

@TalkMullins @VivekGRamaswamy Proofread.

@VivekGRamaswamy If the “system” allows you in the White House it’s because you’re part of it. If you were America First the “system” would be go after you just as much as Trump. To insinuate the solution to the them going after Trump, is to vote you instead, proves how stupid you think MAGA is.

Yes, I saw President Trump’s Truth Social post. It’s an unfortunate move by his campaign advisors, I don’t think friendly fire is helpful. Donald Trump was the greatest President of the 21st century, and I’m not going to criticize him in response to this late attack. I’ve met tens of thousands of Iowans across 390+ events here, and they are deeply worried - and so am I - that this “system” won’t allow Donald J. Trump anywhere near the White House again. It seems they will stop at *nothing* to keep him away from power. I’m worried for Trump. I’m worried for our country. I’ve stood up against the persecutions against Trump, and I’ve defended him at every step. I showed up at the Miami courthouse in solidarity following his first federal indictment. I filed a FOIA demand to the Biden DOJ. I submitted an amicus brief this week with the U.S. Supreme Court calling on them to overturn Colorado’s ruling. I pledged to remove myself from Maine’s & Colorado’s primary ballots if they remove Trump, calling on DeSantis and Haley to do the same. But we have to open our eyes. Last time it was a man-made pandemic & Big Tech election interference. Now, the same billionaires funding the lawsuits against Trump are the ones trying to prop up Nikki Haley. The same MSM blasting Trump is lavishing praise on Nikki. They want to narrow this to a two-horse race between Trump & Haley, eliminate Trump (one way or other), & trot their puppet into the White House. We can’t fall for that trap. 1 year from now, we won’t look back and say we were shocked that it happened. We’ll kick ourselves for not stopping it. Our movement must live on. America-First didn’t start in 2016. It started in 1776. We owe it to our Founding Fathers to do the right thing for our country. I want to save Trump & to save this country. Let’s do it together. You won’t hear any friendly fire from me.

@AsraNomani @EdWhelanEPPC @SusanSarandon Great observations. Well written! Truth.

Hi there @SusanSarandon, this is my mom, my dad and me on the rail trail in Morgantown, West by God Virginia. Let me tell you what it means to be Muslim in America. First, your backstory: At an anti-Israel protest in NYC, you just said, "There are a lot of people that are afraid, that are afraid of being Jewish at this time, and are getting a taste of what it feels like to be a Muslim in this country.” Let me give you “a taste” of what it “feels like” to be a Muslim in America: ✅🇺🇸 My dad didn’t have to become a second-class indentured servant to one of the many tyrants of Muslim countries that use immigrants from India, like my family, as essential slaves. In 1975, after getting his PhD at Rutgers, he was about to go to Libya — a Muslim country — led by a Muslim, Moammar Qhadafi, to work like a servant with a PhD for a wealthy dictator…but then the phone rang one day and I picked it up… ✅🇺🇸 It was West Virginia University calling, and my dad got a job as an assistant professor of nutrition. He got rejected first for tenure but being Muslim in America meant he got a right like everybody got — his right to appeal and guess what? He won and he became a full professor. That’s what it means to be Muslim in America. You get your full rights, like @DrZuhdiJasser has wished for his family in the Muslim nation of Syria, where a Muslim dictator destroys the lives of Muslims. ✅🇺🇸 My mom? Being Muslim in America meant she got to live FREE with the wind in her hair, like @AlinejadMasih fights for women in the Muslim nation of Iran to be able to enjoy. ✅🇺🇸 And what did living free mean for my mom as a Muslim in America? It meant in 1981 she got to start a business on High Street in downtown Morgantown, called Ain’s International. That is something that @miss9afi wished women could have had the right to do in the Muslim nation of Saudi Arabia. But guess what? That entrepreneurship and financial independence is denied Muslim women in so many Muslim countries. ✅🇺🇸 That summer my mom started her business, I got on a plane at Pittsburgh airport for Tahlequah, Oklahama, and I went away from home at 16 for a National Science Foundation camp — without a male chaperone, a right denied Muslim women and girls in Saudi for so long. ✅🇺🇸 In another “taste” of being Muslim in America? My family got a pathway to citizenship. You think the Muslim dictatorship of Qatar allows a pathway to citizenship for Muslim slaves, servants or Palestinian Muslims? Hell no. The Muslim Al-Thani family just buys citizenship for Muslim soccer stars from countries in Africa to steal World Cup wins. But otherwise it treats non-Qatari Muslims like slaves. America? My family waited, took the test, studied the constitution and we are citizens — hallelujah! ✅🇺🇸 I’m going to fast forward because this is just a “taste” of what it means to be Muslim in America. In 2002, I fled Pakistan with a souvenir that could have gotten me imprisoned or killed: a baby growing inside of me, a wedding ring not upon my hand. Sharia law makes sex out of marriage a crime in Muslim countries like Pakistan. My body? The mullah’s tyranny. And even dare to be atheist like @YasMohammedxx? It’s also a crime punishable by death — in Muslim countries but not in America! ✅🇺🇸 Where do you think I came to give birth to my baby in safety and security, without shame? West by God Virginia in the United States of America — where we enjoy equal rights as Muslim AmeriCANs, not AmeriCANTs. This is a “taste” of life for a Muslim family in America. Please don’t minimize the experience of Jewish Americans by sanitizing the hell that it is for Muslims living in Muslim countries and vilifying America for the life — and freedoms — she offers Muslims like my family. Go, live like a Muslim woman in a Muslim country. You will come back to America and kiss the land beneath your feet. 🇺🇸

@foxnewspolitics Who are the dumbasses sitting behind Shapley mugging for the camera? Disrespectful.

30 minute or less sand sculpture contest with the grand girls. @drewholcomb

@j_lloyd It felt like all of them. But I got out basically debt free.

Working through college has come up in a lot of conversations lately. How many hours a week did you work while you were in college?

@mtaibbi Thanks to you!

Good night, everyone. Thanks to all those who picked up the phone in the last few days.

1. Thread: THE TWITTER FILES

@SauloLondono @DavidAFrench I’d like like this ten times. I watch Frenchy now just see what the left leaning of the Christ followers has to say. Fair and balanced. Lol

White Evangelicals are outliers on support for Trump, opposition to vaccines, support for punitive and restrictive immigration policies, and multiple issues related to race. A distinct political culture? Yes. Distinctly Christian? No. frenchpress.thedispatch.com/p/deconstructi…

@sonicdrivein My battery died in a Sonic stall, I was traveling. Eugene the manager handed me the keys to his car and told me to use it to pick up a new battery. 👍💪

@DavidAFrench Publisher vs platform.

These are remarkably frivolous complaints. Social Media companies aren't bound by the First Amendment. They enjoy First Amendment protection. This is the kind of "fighting" that's typical to Trumpism, a temper tantrum that makes your opponent stronger.

Southern sking at its best. Get your skis, name your run southern DU skiers. Ours is DU Downhill. #skidu #dudownhill.

@DavidAFrench Pro football? Do they still play?

I fell down, banged my head on the corner of a table, and hallucinated that Green Bay kicked a field goal rather than go for it on 4th and goal with one of the greatest quarterbacks in the history of the universe behind center. Unpausing the game now to see what really happened.

@DavidAFrench Not on any side but the gloating is unbecoming. Just be correct and move on.

This is one of the most abject, groveling admissions of guilt I’ve ever read. I suspect it won’t be the last. Could Dominion trigger a necessary reckoning in right-wing media?

@Muaddin19 @justanurse25 @SethDillon I had something else in mind . . .

@justanurse25 @SethDillon He should teach his kids to say: "lol go away soy boy"

A grown man in his twenties said this to my four year old son the other day: “Hey buddy, would you mind fixing your mask to keep me safe?”

This . . .

@MattWalshBlog Yep. All he has to do to look marginally smarter in this debate is shut up.

I don't think this is working for Trump. He's coming off like an absolute ass. Sorry guys. Awful stuff tonight.

@caraglowacki @KyleKashuv I’m also sorry to hear about your uncle. Prayers for you and family.

You are not allowed to go to Church. You are not allowed to see your dying relative. You are not allowed to attened funerals.

@tracesoffaith Of course

Can we pray with people of other faiths?