I didn’t always agree with #DickCheney (especially re torture) but he always stood by his principles & did what he believed would keep America safe, in Congress, DoD & White House. And that’s why—despite being a lifelong Republican—he denounced Trump and supported & voted for Kamala Harris in 2024.

Dictators and monarchs have always put themselves on coins while alive, going back to the Roman Empire. This is literally and figuratively Un-American. #NoKings

Regardless of your position on the government shutdown, can we all agree that members of Congress should NOT get paid so long as the government is shutdown—along with other federal workers on furlough? They caused this mess and they are the ones getting paid without interruption? #shutdown #Congress

The (unambiguous) 22nd Amendment to the United States Constitution: “No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice…” #thirdterm #Constitution #RuleofLaw #TwentySecondAmendment

#Tariffs are NOT paid by exporting countries but by importers: US companies, from the largest multinationals to smallest mom-and-pop businesses. Every dollar of revenue added via tariffs is a dollar spent by a US employer or consumer. My ibj.com column, online & print: www.ibj.com/articles/pie...

To all those people who, all of a sudden, have discovered “hate speech,” and want to ban, persecute, or prosecute those who say things they don’t like or find offensive: in addition to re-reading the First Amendment, you should re-read Charlie Kirk. #CharlieKirk #freespeech #censorship #hatespeech

#CharlieKirk #politicalviolence #radicalization

The assassination of Charlie Kirk is sadly the latest in a long line of recent acts of political violence across the political spectrum. Political violence has become a pathology of the American polity. #CharlieKirk #politicalviolence

Remembering and thinking of the victims and survivors on this 24th anniversary of 9/11. #September11

I was not a fan of #CharlieKirk or many of the ideas he stood for, but unlike many, he was always willing to engage in civil debate. Political violence should NEVER be a response to disagreement in a democracy. Americans across the political spectrum should denounce his assassination, as do I.

Sen. John Kennedy wants the National Guard in New Orleans because there aren't enough cops. "He's not a commentator on Fox. He's a senator. What they could do is pass a bill that gives funding to local jurisdictions to hire more police." @timmiller.bsky.social joined by @markhertling.bsky.social

“…I am infuriated that the Air Force plans to grant military funeral honors to Ashli Babbitt. She did not die defending the Constitution. She died trying to overturn it.” My latest in @thebulwark.com www.thebulwark.com/p/honoring-a...

As an American, and as a comparative political scientist, I NEVER thought I would see this in my own country. #CultofPersonality #totalitarian #authoritarian

President Harry S. Truman, Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950: #Authoritarianism #dictatorship #freespeech #dissent #democracy

Larry Summers: "This is way beyond anything Nixon ever did ... this is the stuff of democracies giving way to authoritarianism. Firing statisticians goes with threatening the heads of newspapers, launching assaults on universities, launching assaults on law firms. This is really scary stuff."

Shooting the messenger so he can then create “alternative facts.” #ErikaMcEntarfer #jobsnumbers #BLS #statistics #alternativefacts

Look at all the fake pictures made up by Obama, Hillary and Biden as part of the “Epstein Hoax.” #EpsteinFiles

many trump supporters blame the “deep state” for covering up for jeffrey epstein. trump got elected on being the deep-state killer. so what now?

Wonder why we're not getting that list... www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzwE...

Stay on Epstein. Trump wants to distract you any way he can, because he knows the Epstein files can bury him. Don’t get off topic. Epstein is the story.

federal agents in a show of force near macarthur park in the heart of los angeles’ immigrant community

Happy Canada Day to my friends and family who celebrate it! Canada is a free, independent, and sovereign nation and it will ALWAYS be so. #CanadaDay

If you’re zip-tying grandmas protesting losing health care maybe you’re not the good guys in the story?

So “America First” now includes going to war with Iran for regime change? Is that what Trump’s voters voted for? Will this be the new US policy, announced in a “truth,” and without any congressional input and approval? #Iran #warpowers #Trump #Separationofpowers #Constitution

Trump has just brought the US into war with Iran without even bothering to consult Congress, let alone get a supporting/authorizing resolution as with the Gulf War and the Afghanistan and Iraq wars. #Iran #war

When you’re just grabbing brown people

Note that the crisis we are now in began after Trump gratuitously and recklessly withdrew from the seven-party Iran nuclear deal (JCPOA) in 2018. #Iran #JCPOA #Irannucleardeal #enricheduranium #centrifuges #Trump

Today is the 160th anniversary of the freeing of the last slaves in the Civil War—Juneteenth. Five days ago we celebrated the 250th birthday of the US Army. The two events are intimately linked. Here is my IBJ.com column, published on June 13, explaining why: www.ibj.com/articles/pie... #Juneteenth

Duckworth to Hegseth: "You are blowing through money like my fellow cadets and I did in our first liberty after basic camp. Luckily I didn't end up with a questionable tattoo ... you're just an unqualified yes man who can't tell the president how to keep Americans safe."

trump on the possibility of american involvement in iran: “i may do it, i may not do it. nobody knows what I want to do.” (including trump himself)

I agree. #Iran #Israel #Trump

I think Trump is using the Middle East crisis as an excuse for leaving the G-7. Really, he wanted to avoid be confronted by the pissed-off leaders of 6 major democracies. #G7summit #G6 #MiddleEast #Israel #Iran #Trump.

Many former military on the social media today swear that this must have been intentional...

This is an egregiously shameful tweet from a US senator

#NoKingsDay #FlagDay #Army250

The US Army, 250 years old today, was literally born fighting for freedom—against the tyranny of King George III. The greatest moments of Army history were campaigns fought in the name of freedom and liberation: against British tyranny, slavery, fascism. How appropriate that today is #NoKingsDay.

How ironic that today’s King of England is more committed to democracy than is today’s President of the United States. #NoKingsDay

i’m surprised iran took so little care with their military leadership after the americans withdrew all non-essential personnel from neighboring embassies. can’t be clearer that an imminent attack is likely. staggering iranian operational incompetence.

#Noem #Padilla #politicaltheater

June 14: the US Army’s 250th birthday. June 19th: the 160th anniversary of the freeing of the last slaves. The greatest moments of Army history were campaigns fought in the name of freedom and liberation: against British tyranny, slavery, fascism. www.ibj.com/articles/pie... #Army250 #Juneteenth

Too bad President Trump didn’t call out the National Guard when thousands of rioters and members of Domestic Violent Extremist groups stormed the US Capitol, theatened to kill his own Vice President, and physically assaulted and wounded hundreds of law enforcement officers. #NationalGuard

Fact check: Department of Justice memo from 2005 (when Republican George W. Bush was president): #autopen #conspiracytheories

D-Day + 81 years. #DDay #veterans #fascism #democracy

Remembering the fight against fascism and honoring those who fell in the liberation of Europe on this 81st anniversary of D-Day. Photos: Omaha Beach and the US Military Cemetery at Normandy, 2023. #DDay #Veterans

#Trump #ElonMusk

What other ships will be renamed as part of Hegseth’s mission to erase history? How about ships named for African Americans? I’m sure Trump would love to see the USS McCain renamed too. #HarveyMilk #LGBTQ #homophobia #erasinghistory #Hegseth www-military-com.cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/www.mili...

I guess the bromance is over. 🤣 www.cbsnews.com/news/elon-mu... #Trump #Musk

Harvard president receives standing ovation during commencement.