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Look I’m not that pleased with the state of the Virginia budget but…not sure that Congressional Republicans have a leg to stand on when it comes to budgets and government shutdowns. How many Continuing Resolutions are we on again? 🥴

We’re almost 2 weeks away from our nation’s 250th anniversary and while the Vice President could be using this press tour as an opportunity to the unite the country on behalf of this admin, he has spent the whole time whining and airing grievances against half of its people.

Virginia is two weeks from its first-ever shutdown, and the whole fight is one $1.6 billion tax break for Amazon, Google and Microsoft. Why is that going to Big Tech instead of schools and health care? The plan is to keep it and study it. It's already been studied. What are we doing here, y'all?

For a decade they called Obama returning $400 million of Iran’s own money “treason.” It was Iran’s, prepaid in the ’70s for weapons we never delivered. Now they’re saying we “won the war” so definitively that we have a deal that dangles a $300 billion fund in front of Iran.

The Trump administration has shuttered the Northeast Climate Adaptation Science Center, which studies harmful invasive species such as the Spotted Lanternfly. And the Spotted Lanternfly’s top area to invade and kill all plantlife? Vineyards. Suburban women boutta go crazy in November.

To paraphrase JFK: This is perhaps the most extraordinary collection of idiocy, and lack of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered together at the White House, with the possible exception of when Donald Trump dined alone.

Fox just agreed to buy Roku for $22B. not a channel, the home screen, the OS in over half of US broadband homes. a Murdoch company that owns Fox News and Tubi is buying the rails, not riding them. first Ellison took Paramount and CBS. now the pipes. that’s not a market.

Turns out that when they meant they were making the blue field of the flag for the Reflecting pool, they meant this one. Very progressive of this admin to use the Afro American flag for Juneteenth.

The tax exemptions we keep handing Big Tech for projects like data centers will mint more trillionaires like Musk, at the expense of the average working American. He took $38B in government contracts, loans, and credits across his companies and became the first trillionaire in history this week.

I brought Lincoln back to life with one wish to show him this moment and he asked to me to take him back to Ford’s Theater immediately.

Elon Musk became the first trillionaire in history today as SpaceX went public. The Washington Post has tallied at least $38 billion in government contracts, loans, subsidies, and tax credits behind his companies. He didn’t beat the government to space. He billed it.

It’s illegal to have corporate sponsors advertise on National Parks. The White House Lawn is one. The selective outrage is breathtaking.

Per the NYT: Trump called Murdoch to kill the Epstein birthday card story. His DOJ asked courts to unseal files expecting the answer to be no. He called it all a hoax. Then he signed the forced release: 38,000+ mentions of him, his family, Mar-a-Lago. Trump, February: “Nothing on me.”

Spencer Pratt was never winning the LA mayor's race. Every number saying he was had been bought. Kalshi: 75% of $78M on him, hyped by paid influencers. His $3.75M: 83% from outside LA. The Free Press printed his "second-place finish." He finished third. The vote was the only number nobody could buy.

May 1: the administration told Congress the Iran war was "terminated." Today: "We're going to be attacking them very hard." Tim Kaine has forced eight votes to end this war. Four Republicans crossed. The House passed it. Declared over in writing. Restarted on television.

Imagine going from a moderate Republican who won tough races, to selling out to the far right so hard, calling yourself “Trump in high heels” only to: -still not get his endorsement - give up a safe House seat - finish fifth overall Though placing fifth is what transphobes do best.

Well it sure did cost you a living, amirite? 🥁🥁

Wittman is just an embarrassment to Virginians everywhere. This phone call was about as serious as he takes the needs of his constituents in VA-1. Is it any wonder this race is now a tossup?We have the opportunity to wipe Wittman out of office in November. Let’s do it.

Pelley, Sunday: “CBS News is on fire.” Paramount, Tuesday: “Give her CNN too.”

I’m not sure if y’all got the memo, but it’s true: during Woke 2.0 we are requiring everyone disclose their political affiliation, where they went to college, and where they live in every text conversation. I don’t make the rules but we must abide by them blindly.

They wanna make him Platner so bad but it’s just not landing.

Let me guess…everywhere outside of LA counted correctly and those late mail-in ballots in other localities were NOT fraudulent because the entire state of California was “too big to rig.” Is that where this one is gonna go?

Electricity in the air!

Lmao. I’d be so pissed that my 13 game winning streak came to an end by 4 points because the President wanted to fall asleep in a box.

Just been non-stop since he got in spitting distance of MSG

Todd Gilbert, the former Republican Speaker of the Virginia House, took a U.S. Attorney job from Trump and quit 37 days later. His only public comment was meme. Today, we learned why. He wouldn't manufacture the charges. Genuine courage, and rarer in his party than it should be.

Actually yes exactly like that. Glad that’s settled.

Who could’ve seen it coming that the guy with the Deus Vult and Crusader Cross tattoos would be so prejudiced against other sects of Christianity that he deemed “not Christian enough?” Bad case of Face Leopards you got there, Mike.

Nothing sucks the energy out of an arena quite like having to stand in a Secret Service checkpoint line for over 4 hours and having nothing on your person. Can attest that it is a definite buzzkill. Condolences to the New York Knickerbockers.

This is why Twitter and our politics are so unbelievably cooked. You have accounts posting AI videos claiming that the “fresh smell is amazing” getting 10’s of thousands of likes while people defend how they saw it and think it’s amazing in the replies when it isn’t done. Cult like bots

Where’s the lie?

Because it took $13 million to make the reflecting pool do something it already did. Glad we could clear that up.

This may be the most frustrating part of the whole Platner saga, and why it’s hard for many on the Left to hang it up: While what’s been reported has been damning and should be enough to drop him, the sensational stuff keeps coming from sources like this and ending with caveats like this.

We can’t go two god damn seconds without a Platner related scandal story dropping and old girl is over casting her 10,000th god damn vote in congress just Harlem shaking her way into a 6th term. I hate it here.

Saying this after getting elected by one of those elections is certainly a choice.

You know what? After giving it more thought, my only position on the Maine Senate race is that I want it to be over. This is exhausting.

So does the Right watch this and understand why their anti-trans rhetoric scares the trans community to death? You get why Strickland thought this was okay? Because of what you say? Do you get why it’s necessary for people to be loud about supporting the trans people so they feel safe?

Virginia’s only legislator ever convicted of selling his office is running for mayor of Newport News. Former GOP Delegate Phillip Hamilton did 8 years in federal prison for taking $40,000 a year from Old Dominion University in exchange for budget amendments funding his own job.

I owe you an apology, Hunter. I wasn’t really familiar with your game, sir.

He laid a pool on its side to beat the Freedom Tower. A pool from 1922. That he painted. “Our pool.” It’s always length with this guy.

The DOJ set up a $1.8B fund to pay "victims of weaponization." Meaning Trump's allies. It got killed this week. Not by Dems. Ted Cruz says half the GOP caucus was in a room “yelling at the attorney general, saying this feels like self-dealing.” When you’ve lost even Ted Cruz, it’s self-dealing.

Every time the shadow docket has touched a contested map, the outcome favors Republicans. Texas gerrymander: allowed. New York Democratic flip: blocked. Louisiana: VRA gutted. Virginia Democratic map: refused to save it. Alabama: a Black district erased. Same direction every time.

Scott Pelley said CBS’s new ownership was killing 60 Minutes to please Trump. Today, hours after he said it, they fired him for “antipathy to the future of the show.” When the guy warning you about the capture gets fired for warning you, that’s not a denial. That’s a confirmation.

A man who stormed the Capitol with a metal pole now holds a top-secret clearance in the Pentagon office that runs hostage rescue and embassy security. Two years ago 30 Senate Republicans tried to pull a woman's clearance over who she emailed. The standard was never security. It was loyalty.

Tina Peters, newly freed by Colorado Gov Jared Polis (D), begins her MAGA media tour on Steve Bannon’s show.

How is this not seen as treasonous for these Far Right, "America First" influencers to be in Moscow this week? Not even my framing. Ben Shapiro called it ideological subversion.

Peter Thiel spent $15 million making JD Vance a senator and tens of millions more reshaping our politics. Vance is now Vice President. Now Thiel’s moving his family to Argentina citing that he can’t live under our same politics. You don’t get to order for the table and leave.

The VA GOP voted this weekend to stay neutral on the 3 amendments on your November ballot: rights to bodily autonomy, to marry who you love, to vote after serving your time. You don’t go neutral on a fight you’re winning. They can count. They just don’t want it on the record.

The “Shut Up and Dribble” crowd sure has a way of shoehorning politics into sports every chance they get