Robert Bryant

Deny Ukraine membership in NATO, cut aid to Ukraine, promise Putin Donbas, praise Putin after he helps Iran, and now consider pulling troops out of Germany. How many gifts can Trump give Putin?

Warnock on SCOTUS: First of all, no one elected this Court—to decide what kind of remedies we need in this moment. It’s really not up to the Supreme Court to say, “Well, we have reached the threshold where this issue around race and inclusion is no longer necessary.” That is not the job of the Court. And I’m struck, quite frankly, by the very easy and nonchalant way in which this extreme, activist Court knocks down precedent after precedent. The bar for doing that ought to be high, but we’re seeing with this Court—whether we’re talking about voting rights or a woman’s bodily autonomy, the right to decide with respect to her own body—they just strike down things they don’t like. They don’t have any respect, in the ways that we expect courts traditionally to, for precedent. And when precedents are torn down, you need a darn good reason to do it—and they are an activist court.

Gas prices in Berea and Middleburg Heights, Ohio tonight. Thanks, Trump.

Welp, we ain’t getting real scientific guidelines for a while. Committees in medicine, public health, energy, science, and space are being completely decimated by the Trump administration. And the committees remaining are more closed off from the public. nature.com/articles/d4158…

Fucking legend.

Josh Williams’s district.

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.

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach. The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

President Zelenskyy responds to JD Vance, who called ending aid to Ukraine “one of the proudest” achievements of the Trump administration: “If the Vice President is proud that he is not helping us, it means that he is helping Russians,” Zelensky told Newsmax.

Trump, after having a 90 min phone call with Putin, puts out a truth social that he is considering withdrawing all troops from Germany. Something sinister is going on between them. It’s time for “concerned” Republicans to speak out

As I wrote in @TheAtlantic this week: "The second Trump administration has revealed American Caesarism in nearly full bloom. Despite ambitions to fundamentally change the course of the country, this administration has no real legislative agenda. Instead, the president governs by executive orders, emergency decrees, and extortionate transactions, using his power to reward his friends and punish his enemies."

🚨BREAKING: Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement. democracydocket.com/news-alerts/ex…

Trump’s FCC chair, Brendan Carr, says he plans to punish and potentially revoke broadcast licenses for TV networks critical of the Trump administration: “I’d be surprised if we don’t go down the path of license revocation for some. It will be up to them and their conduct.” This is fascism. This is what they do in authoritarian countries. This is cancel culture on steroids. Where’s the outrage?

You cannot buy a new gas turbine until 2030. Order books at GE, Siemens, and Mitsubishi stretch to 2029. Turbine prices have nearly tripled since 2019. Every AI data center needs power and every gas plant needs a turbine. And every turbine has one part that bottlenecks the entire industry: The blade. It has to survive in gas 500°C above the melting point of the metal it's made from and spin at up to 20,000 RPM under 10,000 g of centrifugal force. Each blade is grown as a single crystal of nickel superalloy, pulled through a vacuum furnace at 3 mm per minute. A set of blades costs $600,000 and takes 90 weeks to grow. The same metallurgy powers modern jet engines. Only 3 companies on Earth can build one. China spent $42 billion trying to catch up. They bought a Russian fighter engine, took it apart, and copied every part. Their copy ran 30 hours between overhauls versus 400 for the original. Modern Western engines run 4,000. You can reverse engineer the shape of a turbine blade. You cannot reverse engineer 60 years of metallurgy.

Foreign automakers warned Trump they may pull their cheapest models from the US due to tariffs. Nissan, Honda, Hyundai, and Toyota are among the few offering affordable cars. The Civic and Corolla are built in the US but use parts facing 25% tariffs. wsj.com/business/autos…

When you graduate from the U.S. Army, you can't leave your post until a family member touches you. This girl went with her daughter so she could touch her father.🥺

Of course the comments are exactly what you’d think….mostly just dumb MAGAs being like but why are Americans singing the Canadian anthem in Buffalo….ummm because Buffalo is practically in Canada and both Bills and Sabers have a ton of Canadian fans that come over the border for games you dumb bastards and it’s tradition for the Sabers to do the Canadian anthem as a sign of respect for all their Canadian fans

After a microphone issue in Buffalo, the entire crowd helps with the singing of O Canada ahead of Game 5 👏

"MEXICO WILL PAY FOR THE WALL" — U.S. taxpayers paid $15B+ "FOREIGN COUNTRIES WILL PAY FOR THE TARIFFS" — U.S. consumers & businesses paid (90%+ burden) "DONORS WILL PAY FOR THE BALLROOM" — Taxpayers will pay (again) I'm seeing a clear pattern here. How about you?

Private prison corporation ---> $2.5 BILLION IN 2025 revenue.