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Paul DeOrd retweeted
TRUMP on HIGH GAS PRICES: We’re making money like we’ve never made before. They’ll say: President Trump is bragging about all the money they're making while people are suffering at the pump. I don’t give a damn. We’re making a freaking fortune.
Paul DeOrd retweeted
Five months ago, I published a piece on all the self-enrichment, self-dealing, and corruption of the first 15 months of the Trump administration.
The final product astounded me.
What’s happened in the five months is hard to fathom. readtangle.com/the-corruptio…
Paul DeOrd retweeted
A young Jimi Hendrix playing guitar behind rock and roll pioneer Little Richard at the Regal Theater in Chicago, March 1965. Known then as Maurice James, Hendrix was touring the Chitlin' Circuit with Little Richard's backing band, The Upsetters, just two years before launching the Jimi Hendrix Experience.
🎸 Before his global breakthrough in 1967, Jimi Hendrix honed his craft backing legends like Little Richard, the Isley Brothers, and King Curtis. Did you know Hendrix played in Little Richard's band? 🎸 👇️
Paul DeOrd retweeted
Reagan launched his 1979 primary bid for the GOP nomination with an extended call for free immigration, free trade, and political integration with Mexico and Canada, where "peoples and commerce of its three strong countries flow freely across their present borders."
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Colombia earthquake: @WFP’s #UNHRD hub in Panama dispatched 17 MT of tents, tarpaulins and medical equipment for partners.
With support from @StateDept and @UPS, timely assistance is reaching affected communities through strong partnerships.
ALT Relief items from Catholic Relief, PAHO UNICEF, UNHCR are sent to Colombia with support from the Bureau of Disaster and Humanitarian Response at the @StateDept, @UPS's logistics expertise, and in-kind transport from the UPS Foundation.
Paul DeOrd retweeted
THERE IT IS: I told you this was a Coordinated Campaign to use Immigrant Warfare by Trump to reward Morocco for the Abraham accords and to punish Spain for not joining the Iran war.
The truth is going to come out on exactly who encouraged 60,000 men to storm Ceuta and why 77 of them had to die for a campaign video for Trump.
🇺🇸🇪🇸🇲🇦 Massie says the House "greenlighted the transfer" of Spanish territory to Morocco 2 weeks before the Ceuta crisis
The vote is real. H.R. 8595 passed 217-209, Republicans 215-1, Massie the lone no.
But the actual text he's citing is committee report language, not the bill itself: the House Appropriations Committee "notes" Ceuta and Melilla sit in Moroccan territory and "supports" diplomatic talks between Morocco and Spain on their status.
That's not a transfer. It's non-binding guidance. No legal force, no change in sovereignty, and the U.S. has no authority to hand over land it doesn't own in the first place.
The real hypocrisy point survives without the exaggeration: Republicans voted for language acknowledging Morocco's claim, then acted blindsided when migrants used that exact claim to storm the border.
Why inflate a real story when the honest version already lands?
Source: congress .gov / Writer: Oliver
Paul DeOrd retweeted
Who remembers Republicans blocking election security measures due to “fed overreach”?
Paul DeOrd retweeted
The documents are so damning in refuting Trump's own case that I wonder if anyone in the White House actually read them (or understood what they were looking at)
Paul DeOrd retweeted
PERFECT ANALOGY FOR GREG ABBOTT’s catastrophic, reckless, expensive WASTE of Texas Taxpayer Funds. $10 Billion Texas hard-earned tax dollars to protect us from farmworkers, landscapers, roofers, construction workers, nannies, line cooks and hotel maids. #txlege @GinaHinojosaTX
Drone footage of buoys getting washed away by flooding waters of the Rio Grande
On the left is Eagle Pass, Texas and on the right is Piedras Negras, México.
The international bridges have been reopened.
Some buoys ended up on the Mexican side. Authorities pushed them back into the river.
Video: Daniel Gomez
Paul DeOrd retweeted
We need an @NFL version of this immediately
Paul DeOrd retweeted
Man, Xi must have scared the hell out of him
Trump on Taiwan: When you look at the odds, China is very, very powerful, big country. That's a very small island. Think of it, it's 59 miles away. We're 9500 miles away. That's a little bit of a difficult problem. Taiwan was developed because we had presidents that didn't know what the hell they were doing. They stole our chip industry.
Paul DeOrd retweeted
On March 23, more than $800 million was staked on the chance of oil prices dropping. Fifteen minutes later, an announcement from the president sent the price of oil plummeting by more than 10%.
It has not been determined if the trade was made with inside information or if the trader was in the U.S. cbsn.ws/3PIBGFM
Paul DeOrd retweeted
This graphic from @FT shows trump has suddenly gotten very interested in trading stocks
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Jim Crow's system of legalized segregation was real. It was real that Rosa Parks was ordered to move to the back of the bus because she was black. It was real that she was arrested, tried, and convicted of a crime for refusing to sit in the back of the bus. What's fake is Curtis Yarvin's mindless nattering.
Paul DeOrd retweeted
Footnote: Tillis’ vote to confirm Hegseth as defense secretary brought the tally to a 50–50 deadlock after R senators Collins, McConnell and Murkowski joined Dems in opposing him. His vote allowed VP Vance to cast the tie-breaking vote, confirming Hegseth.
The careless decision to reduce our force posture in Europe, along with moves by Pete Hegseth and his political henchmen to force out some of our finest general officers is amateur hour at best and deadly at worst.
Hegseth continues to surprise and disrespect our greatest allies and some of our best military professionals with impulsive decisions not grounded in reality or good judgment. If the rumors are true that Hegseth is trying to sideline General Chris Donahue, one of our nation’s finest warfighters, by downgrading U.S. Army Europe-Africa to a 3-star command, he is taking another step down a dangerous path. A step that is not in the best interests of our nation or our servicemembers.
General Donahue has dedicated his entire career to upholding the high standards and warrior ethos that Hegseth claims he is restoring to our ranks. Gen. Donahue has led Soldiers at all levels in Airborne (including Ft. Bragg’s 82nd) and Mechanized units, the 75th Ranger Regiment, and our most prestigious special operation units. He deployed over 20 times in support of Iraqi Freedom, Enduring Freedom, New Dawn, Inherent Resolve, Atlantic Resolve, Freedom’s Sentinel, European Assure, Deter and Reinforce, and in support of the Sudan crisis.
Hegseth would do well to surround himself with more patriots like General Donahue and to get his henchmen, who are not qualified to carry Donahue's bag, out of the Pentagon. Keep your word, Mr. Secretary: choose meritocracy over your mediocre yes-men.
notus.org/defense/pentagon-e…
Paul DeOrd retweeted
No American president has ever sought to benefit so directly, and so immediately, from his own political decisions. Unprecedented
George H.W. Bush kept his assets in a blind trust, as did Bill Clinton. Neither Obama nor Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office. 3,700 trades is probably more than all the trades of all the presidents until now. And he is trading stocks that are affected by his decisions. A walking conflict of interest, at the least, and perhaps insider trading. Just as members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks, so too the president. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Paul DeOrd retweeted
JUST IN: A Trump judicial nominee was asked point blank: is Trump eligible to run for a third term?
Their answer: “I would have to review the actual wording…”
Sen. Chris Coons then asked every nominee in the room to confirm the Constitution bars a third term.
Silence.
Every single one of them refused to say it.
Trump is appointing judges who won’t affirm the 22nd Amendment to his face.
Never stop connecting the dots.