1/x Alright here goes: My live fact check thread of the State of the Union, where I’ll fact check (and share any important announcements) until I crash out with rage… God help me! My soul feels like Kavanaugh’s face…

29/ Trump claims that “importing other cultures” has led to the largest fraud in US history. Which is inaccurate, because Trump suing the US government, giving his own Board of Peace funding, taking a Qatari gift plane, and having his son invest in companies getting US

Donald Trump partied with Epstein for years while girls were trafficked out of his own spa. He moved the only convicted co-conspirator to a Club Fed, handed her a puppy, fought the file release, had to be dragged into it by Congress, slow-walked it for months, dumped less than

“In his speech tonight, the president did what he always does. He lied, he scapegoated, and he distracted,” Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger said in the Democratic response to President Trump’s State of the Union address. “He offered no real solutions to our nation's pressing

Labeling people who quietly monitor ICE operations as potential terrorists is how you lose the consent of the governed. Facial scans, plate tracking, then “keep showing up and you’ll land on a watchlist, maybe get a late visit at home” is not law enforcement. It is intimidation.

At high stakes Pentagon meeting today Sec Hegseth gave Anthropic head Dario Amodei ultimatum to allow the Pentagon to use Anthropic’s AI model for mass domestic surveillance and kinetic autonomous operations without human oversight or face censure and be labeled “supply chain

“The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds.”

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe destroys Kash Patel's LIES of why he was in Italy: “The excuse that he had to go for security meetings the day before the games are over is patently ridiculous. [Former FBI] Director Mueller once traveled to Greece to consult with partners

Mike Johnson is scolding democrats for not attending the SOTU coz “their constituents need them there”. Yes, the same Mike Johnson who kept the House out of session for around 266 days last year.

NEW: President Trump’s first year of his second term was reportedly “the most lucrative year of his life.” His profiteering during his first term already made him the most corrupt president in history—but last year it got even worse. 🧵 https://t.co/lPK2cRDpYk

Speaker Johnson: It’s shameful that they would boycott an address. We don’t do that. Republicans don’t do that. It doesn’t matter if the president is from the opposing party — we don’t skip out. Our constituents want and need us to be here. Every member of this House represents

Dear Anna Paulina Luna, The Enumeration Beyond Entry program, which issues SSNs to LEGAL noncitizens, was launched in 2017 UNDER DONALD TRUMP to streamline work authorization for eligible immigrants. The Social Security cards for noncitizens have the restriction "Valid for Work

@RonFilipkowski They made the right choice.

I realize that most people here haven't read the article (or won't), but no one's actually denying what's in it. So here's a helpful summary and a gift link. https://t.co/0zu3E2U23T

NYT: FBI agents equipped with a signed warrant prepared to document blood spatter and bullet holes in Renee Good's SUV received orders to stop, including from Kash Patel. The fear? "a civil rights investigation would contradict Trump’s claim that Good “violently, willfully, and

I’m on my apartment balcony to illustrate how Donald Trump’s corruption and contempt for the rule both threatens our democracy *and* affects our everyday lives. Behind me is the Gateway project, a $16 billion effort to build a new rail tunnel across the Hudson. It's the most

I'm so torn right now. Despite its problems, I still love America, my country of birth, the only country I have ever lived in. I'm torn because of the glee I feel as our Vice President, JD Vance, is drenched in thunderous boos at the Olympics. I really can't stand that lying

🚨 BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani has signed an executive order barring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement from entering New York City property, including schools, hospitals, shelters, and parking lots, without a judicial warrant. Mayor Mamdani says the order strengthens

“The reason Trump didn’t apologize is because he is a small, petty, fragile man who cannot take responsibility for his own actions. And the second reason, frankly, is because he is a racist... He took out a full page ad in the NYT calling for the execution of 5 Black kids for

We are deciding right now whether we want to be a country with ethnic cleansing and concentration camps.