If you see me smiling in a photo
From Ukraine, please don’t assume
That everything is fine.
Sometimes a smile is just a few seconds between two terrible moments.
I’m still living.
Still dreaming.
Still trying to be happy.
Even here. Even now.
Vance: "I think Ukrainians should stop bombing Russian energy... I don't think that Ukraine should be in NATO."
NO ONE WAS TOUCHING THEIR PRECIOUS ENERGY UNTIL THEY INVADED US!
And maybe, just maybe, Russia should stop murdering Ukrainian civilians on a daily basis, JD?
As a Ukrainian, this hurts more than I can explain.
We never expected the US to fight our war.
But we certainly never expected its president to make deals with the aggressor country trying to erase us.
Ukraine is fighting for survival. And watching this happen feels like a terrible betrayal.
and then they put me on a pickup truck and i gave a speech like you wouldnt believe and randy quaid was there and we had all the pilots and flew up and it was so amazing. i told randy, “randy, fly your plane when the thing opens” and he did and many people say i saved us from the aliens that day
Trump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."
After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇
When I tell you that Chocolate Salame is #RecipeOfTheDay, don’t be alarmed! It’s just the Italian version of a chocolate refrigerator cake, fashioned to resemble salame. I’ve upped the ante with hazelnuts, pistachios, amaretti biscuits and Amaretto. www.nigella.com/recipes/choc...
The women who were victims of Epstein should not be afraid of these "powerful men." These "powerful men," should be scared shitless..of these victims. Why? Because the victims represent ALL of us, and ALL of us...don't spend so much of 1/100th of a second...fearful. We're f*cking pissed.
The Epstein coverup will go down as one of the greatest scandals and miscarriages of justice in U.S. history.
Everyone involved with Epstein’s victims or with the coverup needs to be prosecuted and go down in shame.
It does not matter if they are GOP or Dems!
Repost if you agree.
#BlueCrew
On Tuesday, Americans sent Democrats a resounding message.
“Fight for us”
“Fight for working class Americans”
“Fight against Trump’s corruption, criminality and cruelty”
5 days later, Democrat Senators sent Americans a resounding message.
“Nah”
You're Goddamn right we do, @governor.ca.gov. Thank you for saying it. This f*cking l*mp d*ck "fight" for democracy we've been seeing out of these folks is the pinnacle of utter incompetence and lack of will to win.
Tonight’s Senate vote on the federal government shutdown should have been a time for strength.
Instead we saw capitulation and a betrayal of working Americans.
The American people need more from their leaders.
The Jan 6 insurrection should’ve been the red line resulting in the orange felon being sent to prison, yet he was given full totalitarian power over the govt. Congress died when they chose to let him and his 147 insurrectionists in Congress get away with it.
If the bill passes, it will make ICE the nation’s largest jailer, with more funding for prison camps than the entire federal Bureau of Prisons. It would give ICE enough money to have more officers than the entire FBI.
Congress died the moment they allowed 147 insurrectionists to remain in office instead of expelling them and charging them with sedition. That’s just my opinion.
I firmly believe that if President Obama hadn’t had terrorist leader Osama Bin Laden killed, the orange felon would’ve tried to cozy up to him the same way he treasonously sold out to the Saudis and Qatar.
If you think a just-fertilized ovary is entitled to life but are indifferent to what happens to a kidnapped 4-year-old with cancer, sent to a dangerous country without meds, you don’t give a fuck about the lives of children. You are just in a cult that fetishizes being against abortions.
Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely.
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
The idea that the federal government can go before a judge and say, “Yeah we arrested the wrong guy, but too bad, so sad” is not alarming nearly enough people yet.
Countries that have issued a travel advisory this year warning their citizens about visiting the United States:
Canada
Denmark
Finland
France
Germany
Ireland
Netherlands
New Zealand
United Kingdom
There is absolutely no way Greenland should let in a representative of an overtly hostile nation, in fact the wife of someone explicitly threatening to “take” it. Turn her plane back.
It's come to my attention that some people believe you can't buy a new book until you've read the books you already have. Let me assure you, as both a lawyer and a writer, that this idea is legally and morally WRONG and BAD. Buy more books.
Why did Trump repeat Russian propaganda and lie about this? Why would he claim that a Ukrainian army in Kursk could only be saved from annihilation if Putin benevolently agreed to Trump’s request not to do so? Why is the US President deceiving Americans with Russian lies?
Among the material devastation to everyday people, Senate Dems have now blown a hole in their ability to work with the House.
We had an agreed upon plan, House took immense risk, then Senate turned around midway and destroyed it w/ a fear-based, inexplicable abdication.
They own what happens next.
My YES vote is *not* an endorsement of this deeply flawed CR.
My YES vote is 💯 about refusing to shut our government down.
I refuse to punish working families and plunge millions of Americans into chaos.
I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever vote to shut our government down.
This is a vile display of corruption and crime as well as the most disgustingly egregious use of the White House. Fuck you to whoever chose this filth.
🚨 Everyone needs to call their Dem Senator right now. They are starting to cave.
Tell them:
1. Vote NO on Cloture
AND
2. Vote NO on the Republican spending bill.
Don’t let them pivot to reconciliation. GOP doesn’t need Dem votes on that and they know it.
TODAY is the showdown.
🤳🏽: (202) 224-3121