McConnell, who’s been publicly pressuring Speaker Johnson for weeks to take up the Senate-passed Ukraine/Israel aid bill, calls for its passage once again in light of Iran’s attacks on Israel.

“The consequences of failure are clear, devastating, and avoidable.”

Congressional Republicans intend to travel to Normandy to honor the D-Day dead. But that gesture will be hollow—and worse than hollow—if they have failed to act to help the people of Ukraine in their life-and-death struggle.

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'We will quickly rebuild the greatest economy in the history of the world like we had it just four years ago' -- the unemployment rate in April 2020 was nearly 15 percent

“Lee said, ‘Wow. That was a big mistake.’”

This freaking moron. Hilarious.

During WWII, two officers were trying to pull rank to cut in line for ice cream when someone barked at them to wait their turn. As the officers looked to see who had dared to rebuke them, they spotted ADM Bull Halsey waiting in line with the rest of the sailors. #SeaStorySaturday

Orange tabby demonstrates why cats make excellent New Yorkers.

Given what we know of Russian intentions and European investigations, the presumption has to be that some US legislators are on the Russian payroll. Nice analysis here. newrepublic.com/article/180630…

Great thread for us Berkeleytonians.

This!!! 👇👇👇 #VoteBiden

If we don’t act on Ukraine soon, Putin's ambitions could grow to invade Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania next – NATO nations that we would have an obligation to protect.

We need to renew our aid so an emboldened Putin doesn’t continue his blatant aggression across Europe.

Please read Rachel Bitecofer’s second tweet, which spells out how citizenship is required and how it is policed in elections. More than that, Johnson spreads the lie that there is an “open border” to attract illegal voters. If it were true, why not pass the border security bill?

Read through this exchange. Asked tough, good, *necessary* questions, Trump can only fire back insults. As Jennifer Mercieca writes, he was a “calamitous” president, uninterested in the work, responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. By far the worst president in history.

“As president, Donald Trump ‘made it very clear that he thought Ukraine ‘must be part of Russia,’’ his former adviser Fiona Hill says in a new book about US national security under threat from Russia & China.”

👉 Trump is a threat to national security.
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I am in shock that the United States is being forced to abandon an ally, a free people, to a murderous Russian invasion. And all because a faction in one house of Congress obeys the whims of an old man who has held no office since he was kicked out by the people.

Drought free California from space.

What a sight.

While Trump Republicans embargo US aid to Ukraine

Every day that Speaker Mike Johnson blocks us from giving Ukraine the bullets and equipment it needs to defend itself is a crime. And it makes the United States steadily more vulnerable.

‘Tis like the Twitter I hear of in legends of old, when folk came nigh to be funny. And were.