I hate the fact that due to the insanity and increasingly unhinged nature of the Trump Administration, I’m starting to buy into the Epstein conspiracy theories.
Rufus Gifford
@rufusgifford.bsky.social
Six Presidential Campaigns. Ambassador. Husband. Dog Dad. Twitter Refugee. 🇺🇸🏳️🌈
Absolutely terrible for the country. Absolutely fantastic for the Democrats’ political future. The midterms will be a bloodbath.
MeidasTouch@meidastouch.com · last yr.NEW: The U.S. Senate has passed the GOP budget bill by a vote of 51-50 following a tie-breaking vote by JD Vance. Tillis, Collins, and Paul voted No.
Hungary banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which means Pride. However, today over 500,000 people in Budapest told the government to fuck off. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
In an attempt to find a bit of hope and peace and joy today in an increasingly unsettled and dangerous world, I’m focusing on what I love more than anything on earth…. Still trying to make sense of it all. ❤️
Remember people: If Trump hadn’t pulled out of the original Iran nuclear deal which he was desperately trying to renegotiate in recent weeks, the world wouldn’t be on the brink of war. And he did it out of spite - to erase Obama era accomplishments - not to keep the US or Israel safer.
"Donald Trump has wrecked America’s brand. He’s made crossing over from Canada a betrayal, bordering on treason, while turning the U.S. into a laughingstock around the globe." @rollingstone.com www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
Trump Has Completely Wrecked America's Brand
In Canada, crossing over to America is not just taboo now — it’s a kind of betrayal, even borderline treasonous.
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The MN assassin was a homegrown political terrorist.
God evidently has feelings about Kim Jong Trump’s birthday military parade.
Americans should take some solace in the fact that exponentially more people will be participating in Anti-Trump rallies today than watching his North Korean military parade.
It is truly astonishing how little respect our traditional allies have for Donald Trump and his band of incompetent cronies. While we will never be militarily or economically irrelevant, we are increasingly becoming politically irrelevant.
The United States has never been weaker or more isolated on the world stage. Full stop.
Drag queens booing Trump at his signature event is something I’m going to need a lot more of.
My current predictions for midterms: Chances Dems take back the house: 85% Chances Dems take back the Senate: 55%
Nothing to see here other than the richest man in the world admitting that he at least bought and maybe even stole the election for Trump.
Clearly there will need to be photos of tacos lining the streets everywhere Trump goes for the next four years right?
Trump once again ambushing a foreign leader in the Oval Office. Shameful. American diplomacy which has been a great force for good in the world is officially dead.
So in a two hour call he got a commitment from Putin to begin negotiations to negotiate a ceasefire to lead to a negotiation to end the war. Translation: Putin gave him nothing and continues to play Trump like a fiddle.
Unhinged middle of the night tweet from the most powerful man in the world? Of course. Equally important is that not a word of it is true.
I forced myself to listen to Mark Halpern & Ben Smith just to hear his Rufus would respond. I hope he gets back into the game with Kamala and the sooner, the better. #BidenHarris was the best administration in my lifetime. 🦋 bsky.app/profile/plai...
Nancy@plaintanjane.bsky.social · last yr.I’m so glad Rufus Gifford spoke the truth.
Among many other things, I used to oversee Presidential gift giving. Which has a long, historic and often times ridiculous history. But none quite like this. Time to weigh in on the insane story of the gifted Qatari “palace in the sky” due to serve as the new Air Force One.
I used to oversee the exchange of Presidential Gifts. There is a long (and occasionally scandalous) history of gift exchange between leaders. But nothing - I repeat NOTHING - in US history comes close to the absurdity of this. www.npr.org/2025/05/11/g...
Qatar is said to be giving Trump a new plane
The offer, which comes on the eve of Trump's visit to the Middle East, raises major ethical and legal questions.
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I’m hopeful. Pope Leo XIV may be exactly what the world needs when the wounds and divisions run deep. Especially in the Pope’s home country which he seems to be well aware of. And I say this as a non-Catholic gay man who has never felt at home in a church. But I’m happy today. 🕊️
Remember: perhaps the biggest risk from rhetoric like this is that we lose our moral authority to negotiate deescalation around the world. We’re now seeing this w Trump’s failure in Russia/Ukraine, Israel/Gaza & potentially India/Pakistan Why would they listen to us? www.wsj.com/world/greenl...
Exclusive | U.S. Orders Intelligence Agencies to Step Up Spying on Greenland
The push underscores the seriousness of President Trump’s intent to acquire the island from Denmark.
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