BREAKING: JB Pritzker just announced that he is aggressively going to pushback on Donald Trump’s plans to use red state National Guard troops to invade blue states and force deportations. This is how it’s done.

Nominating Tulsi Gabbard to lead our intelligence community is incredibly reckless. Putting someone with known sympathies for foreign adversaries is not putting America’s interests first - it’s putting our security at risk.

Ken Klippenstein I called you out for not taking criticism well and you blocked me, proving my point. Also, thanks for helping bring us to the brink of authoritarianism. Ken has been both-sidesing left and right for years (he’ll ask for “evidence”; it’s his entire TL)

"But Trump’s agenda is not about these good-government reforms. It revolves around punishing and purging experts and other career professionals who maintain their oaths to the Constitution instead of serving Trump’s personal interests." washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/…

"in the eight days since the election, Bluesky has added more than 1.25 million users, bringing its total to more than 15 million as it topped Apple’s App Store rankings on Wed. Of those, some 8.5 million have logged in last month.” FIND ME at newhercules. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

“Trump promised before the election to let RFK Jr. "go wild" on federal health agencies. Some people had said in an advisory role, but Trump decided to go further. Kennedy would need to be confirmed by the Senate — which could be a tough sell, but Repubs will pick their battles.”

Still the party of family values, though. That much we can say for certain.

"Fraud”, they say, would you believe. washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…

Oh so true. If I take the opportunity to abscond from the site, I can be found on Bluesky as newhercules. Cheers.

Like similar to what Kyiv will look like when these Russian bastards are finally gone, Aleppo celebrating tonight, the ousting of the Russian-backed Assad forces from the city. It took Russians 5 years to conquer the city but only 2 days to lose it.

🚨 Russia: Putin regime enforcers raided 3 largest Moscow nightclubs on Friday night — Simachev, Mutabor/ARMA and Mono. Many men taken to the military conscription offices. Women eventually released after their passports were photographed. Raids with police K9s lasted for hours.

With today’s mass arrests in Georgia, the parallels with Ukraine’s 2014 uprising are striking. In both cases, the people’s aspirations to join Europe are crushed by a pro-Russian leader who abruptly abandons negotiations for EU integration But there is a puzzle 1/

Not only Tbilisi and Batumi, anti-Russian protests have broken out in every Georgian city. Rustavi and Kutaisi, here.

Former Congressman Matt Gaetz Do it! What do you think about this? Liz Cheney help write it? x.com/bennyjohnson/s…

Happy Birthday Jeremy Renner

Exactly 20 years ago, on January 22, 2005, in Palm Beach, Florida, Slovenian model Melania Knauss married businessman Donald J. Trump, wearing a dress that weighed 66 pounds A Thread 🧵 of small curiosities And Happy Anniversary to the Presidential Couple! 🎉

BREAKING: 2 killed after Afghan asylum seekers stabs several kids from a kindergarten group visiting a park in Aschaffenburg, Germany. A 2-y-old child was killed along with a 41-y-o man who was walking past & tried to save the kids. Another child has life-threatening injuries

Happy days will return.