Dennis Fiveash @fiveashd

🚨BREAKING: The Secretary of Homeland Security just admitted, on camera, that he is going to violate your First Amendment right to free speech. He said, “I have ZERO tolerance. If you verbally assault our officers… we will find you, we will arrest you.” Except… that’s not how the First Amendment works. Unless someone is making a credible threat of violence, speech… even rude, angry, or insulting speech… is still protected. That’s the whole point of a free speech clause… to protect the people from situations where those in power don’t like what’s being said. So, when a top federal official starts framing “verbal assault” as something you can be arrested for, without clearly defining it as an actual threat… It stops sounding like protecting officers, and starts sounding like a government trying to silence people who speak out against it.

🇺🇸RUBIO:“The Strait of Hormuz does not belong to Iran; they have no right to close it.” 🇮🇷IRAN: “The Strait of Hormuz is Iranian territory and will only be opened by order of our leader Khamenei, not by the tweets of an idiot.” Brilliant response🔥🔥

This is another sign of how the old categories of liberal and conservative no longer map precisely on our modern parties. Here the Democrats are more conservative as we’ve long understood the term — they’re (rightly) the Russia hawks.

Ostap Yarysh @OstapYarysh

6 hours ago

‼️Big news: the House just voted 218–204 to advance the bipartisan bill that provides assistance to Ukraine and imposes tough new sanctions on Russia. Six Republicans and one Independent joined Democrats in supporting it. The final vote will take place tomorrow.

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The most darkly funny aspect of this video is that Ivanka Trump speaks as if she went on some profound, prolonged spiritual and philosophical journey to ascertain the meaning of life, and concluded that the most elevated human state is to live on a gigantic private island in the Mediterranean, in a sprawling mansion paid for with the billions of dollars given to her husband by the Saudis and Emiratis to ensure favorable treatment by him and by her dad in their exercise of the powers of the American Presidency. Real uplifting stuff. 🙏

Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra

2 days ago

Ivanka Trump announces that she and her husband, Jared Kushner, are building a massive off-the-grid private island in the middle of the Mediterranean. The island spans 1,400 hectares and currently has no power. They will be working with some of the world's greatest living

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While Russia bombs Ukraine and kills civilians, President Trump is bizarrelysending a delegation to a conference in Russia to discuss economic development.   I challenged Secretary Rubio today to explain why we would send any U.S. official to a such an event designed to prop up Putin's war machine.

Sen. John Cornyn pushed a bill to rename a highway after Trump. Now, after losing to Ken Paxton, he says it “may not make it into my priorities the next seven months.”

On ending the $1.8 billion DOJ fund, should they put it in writing since they announced it in writing? Rep. Mike Lawler: "Sure. I think that would satisfy a number of my colleagues and probably you in the media. But again, I think the bottom line is there's not the support for it within Congress."

Nick Saban brings up the current Clemson-Ole Miss tampering situation. “We have nothing to control tampering. You know, Clemson had a player that was on campus for a whole week, and they (Ole Miss) come and got him off the campus and took him someplace else”

Sexism and misogyny all in 30 seconds, along with the usual bloviating, self-aggrandizement. Here's what I don't understand: Why isn't the next thing we hear from a WH reporter: "Mr. President, with all due respect, you owe Kaitlan an apology for your uncalled-for attacks."

Acyn @Acyn

8 hours ago

Trump attacking Kaitlan Collins: CNN's a very corrupt organization, with a corrupt reporter standing right there, never smiles. Young, beautiful woman, never smiles. I never see a smile on her face. I see her standing with such hatred in her eyes.

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Kaitlan Collins: Is the $1.8B slush fund dead or is it on hold? Trump: Uhhh I'd have to ask the lawyers, I don't know. It's a beautiful thing. It's the greatest thing. Be quiet. She used to be a conservative from Alabama Collins: I'm still from Alabama

He aged ten years in a week. Also women don’t have to smile for old creepy men or anyone for that matter.

WOW: Nick Saban say he doesn’t agree with paying college athletes. “I don’t think they need to be paid. Let’s say I pay a 5⭐️ $400k and he doesn’t perform like a top player, now I lose out on money and the fanbase is mad because the team stinks”

Just imagine if Barack Obama had been caught coloring in pictures of Republican senate candidates in 2010. Just insane times. 25th Amendment!

danny @dabbs346

8 hours ago

Just normal things happening in the Oval Office via NYT

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Republican Rep. Tom Kean Jr. of New Jersey, who has missed more than 100 votes since early March, says he will return to work in person "within a matter of weeks.” When pressed by CBS News’ @CHueyBurns how it was acceptable for a member of Congress to be absent for months without giving further explanation, House Speaker Mike Johnson said "it's not a scandalous thing at all” and that “people are entitled to get sick.” Johnson added that he spoke with Kean late last week and he was in "good spirits" and is "anxious to come back in person." cbsn.ws/4e7b1uF

Rob Gronkowski says he lived off $50,000 as an NFL rookie because he understood the NFL meant "Not For Long" "My agent gave me a $50,000 advance for what's going to come in the marketing world for myself. I just had to pay him back within the first $50,000 I made" "I was able to purchase my first car, which was a 2008 Escalade, and then to be able to pay rent once I got to New England. And then from there on out, I really didn't need any other money" "I was getting free meals at the facility. I just kind of needed gas money. You go out, the drinks are free or you pay for one, you get 10 free when you're when you're on the Patriots up in the Boston area" "So I wasn't really spending much money at all, especially when it got to the season. I mean, you're inside that building and everything's handed to you on a daily basis from breakfast all the way to dinner" "I just lived off my marketing dollars. I was living a low-level life. I had a condo with a roommate that was on the team as well. We're paying $1,500 a month in rent while in the NFL" "I was very frugal and that's how I got away with it. Not having any lavish purchases, the first couple years in the league and just banking away what I was making because I truly understood that the NFL stands for not for long"

Transfer🚨FSU Junior OF Chase Williams is entering the transfer portal. In two seasons at FSU he had 245 AB with a .303 AVG and .398 OBP. Led the team this year in SB with 17 and has consistently been elite on defense

NEW! Rubio tells Senators that Russia will NOT achieve its objectives in Ukraine, and “they may not even be able to militarily EVER achieve the objectives they're demanding now in negotiations” Says “not only are the Ukrainians bravely fighting, they're effectively fighting” 👇

The heart of our constitutional crisis in one exchange between me and Sec. Mullin. When asked a simple question - if he will obey court orders - he says he will not because some court orders are "politicized". That's not how democracy works. And that's why we are in a crisis.

"There are plenty of seats left on the bandwagon. Doesn't matter who your team was in the regular season, get behind Little Rock" @LittleRockBSB is on to Supers, and @CoachCurryLR wants everyone and anyone to join the fun

🚨🚨🚨 Bill Pulte was picked to join Blanche, Patel, Hegseth, and Mullin to be ready to help Trump stay in power no matter what. Do congressional Democrats appreciate that their #1 task is to confront this threat? open.substack.com/pub/thebulwark…