Sergio Dávila

Second Ward native in Houston's East End. Son of Mexican immigrants from Monterrey, Nuevo León, 🇲🇽. Texas A&M Petroleum Eng.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A note to my friends who still back Trump:

I am not here to dunk on you. I am writing because you have a working brain, and this story insults it.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool got a $14 million paint job. Shortly thereafter the water turned green and the new “American flag blue” coating started peeling off the bottom in sheets. Trump says vandals did it. He claims, without evidence, that someone took a knife and cut a 300-foot slit, a number that grew to 350 feet while he was still talking.

Back on May 4, Trump bragged about that same coating and said, if you had a knife, you could not even cut it, so strong, like powerful rubber. He cannot have it both ways.

And the green water?

A George Mason scientist tested it and found ordinary, non-toxic algae, the kind that blooms in any shallow sunny pool. To fight it, crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water.

Hydrogen peroxide is also a paint stripper.

That, not sabotage or vandalism, is the obvious reason the paint came off. They wrecked their own paint job, then blamed phantom vandals for it.

The lone "vandal" they paraded is a 67-year-old Olympian who touched a flap of paint already peeling on its own.

Here is the thing. If they will look you in the eye and lie about something this small, something you can see with your own eyes, ask yourself what else they are lying to you about.

Again, you have a working brain. People like Karoline Leavitt are counting on you to stay loyal instead of exercising independent thought.

Prove them wrong.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built.

Think about that.

At a time when electricity demand is rising, the Trump administration is spending billions to reduce the amount of power that could reach the grid.

Trump has spent years attacking wind turbines as ugly and inefficient. He is entitled to his opinions about how they look. He is not entitled to make taxpayers finance those opinions.

Seven states have already sued over earlier agreements. Federal courts have repeatedly found legal defects in this administration’s efforts to halt offshore wind development. The administration has cited national security concerns while providing little public evidence to support them, and judges have said they were not convinced.

Strip away the politics and what remains is hard to defend.

Billions in taxpayer money paid to private companies to cancel planned energy projects during a period of rising demand.

Governments usually spend money to build things.

This administration is spending billions to make sure some things never get built.
https://t.co/rB2naxc27j

[PaulleyTicks @PaulleyTicks]

BREAKING: Donald Trump sends Secretary of State Marco Rubio out to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool to prove that the water is "perfectly safe and beautiful and clean. Unlike what the fake news and Dumocrats are saying."

[RT @RT_com]

Two countries, two very different World Cup welcomes

Mexico greets arriving teams with music and dancing

The US hits them with strict security and thorough inspections under blazing sun the moment they step off the plane

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Claudia Sheinbaum has approval ratings of between 70 and 80%, thanks to her progressive policies which have lifted over 8 million people out of poverty.

So of course the @NYTimes finds some reason to attack her.

They hate her because she shows what can be done.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

This paint job—if you can call it that—is costing you $7 million, America, because Trump gave a no-bid contract to a pal

This would have been Exhibit A of the sort of shit DOGE was actually *supposed* to be looking for when it was instead cutting lifesaving scientific research

[Sergio Dávila @2ndWardAggie]

#Astros catcher César Salazar
wondering why umps not checking after pitching the 9th inning @astros⚾️

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

Criminals are profiting from Trump pardons with a simple formula: commit massive fraud, go to jail, pay Trump 3% of what you stole, get a pardon, and then voila! like magic, you keep 97% of the $ because restitution is wiped out and the civil statute of limitations has expired.

[Jeremy @Jeremybtc]

A man with no working truck convinced Wall Street he had built the next Tesla. His company hit $30 BILLION. All he did was push it down a hill with no engine.

> Trevor Milton founded Nikola in 2014, named after the same inventor as Tesla.

> The goal was to build hydrogen powered trucks that would make diesel obsolete. He had no trucks.

> In 2018 he released a promotional video called Nikola One In Motion. It showed a sleek semi truck accelerating smoothly down an open highway.
Investors went wild.

> What nobody knew was that the truck had no engine, no fuel cell, and no propulsion system of any kind.

> Milton's team towed it to the top of a hill, tilted the camera to hide the slope, and let it roll.

> He spent the next four years doing the same thing with words. On podcasts, television and social media.

> Investors were told Nikola could produce its own hydrogen. It could not. They were told the trucks were ready for production. They were not. They were told orders were flooding in. They weren't.

> In June 2020 Nikola went public. Within days the company was worth $30 BILLION, more than Ford.

> Milton's personal stake hit $7.3 BILLION overnight.

> A $32.5 MILLION ranch in Utah followed. A record for the state at the time.

> In September 2020 Hindenburg Research published a report calling Nikola "an intricate fraud" built on "an ocean of lies." Milton resigned within ten days.

> A federal jury convicted him of securities fraud and wire fraud in 2022. Sentenced to four years in prison the following year.

> He never went. He was free on $100 MILLION bail pending appeal.

> He and his wife donated $3.2 MILLION to Donald Trump's 2024 campaign.

> In March 2025 Trump gave him a full pardon. The pardon erased $168 MILLION in restitution to defrauded shareholders.

> Nikola filed for bankruptcy the following month, leaving thousands of investors with nothing.

The company never had a product. The only thing that was real was the $30 BILLION valuation, the $7 BILLION that landed in his pocket and the pardon that made sure none of it had to be returned.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Trump promised no tax dollars would fund his ballroom. He lied.

Senate Republicans just slipped ONE BILLION DOLLARS of your money into a reconciliation package for “security upgrades” tied to Trump’s vanity ballroom project at the White House.

One billion dollars.

Let that sink in while:

Gas is soaring.

Families are getting kicked off their healthcare.

Groceries cost more every week.

Seniors are choosing between prescriptions and rent.

And Senate Republicans think the urgent priority is a billion dollars so Trump can host fancier parties for billionaire donors.

This is what misplaced priorities look like.

Tax breaks for the wealthy. Cuts to Medicaid. Closed hospitals in towns that can’t afford to lose them. And a gold-plated ballroom funded by the people who can least afford it.

They told you no tax dollars would be used. What else are they lying about?

Every Republican who votes for this owes their constituents an answer: why does Trump’s ballroom come before your family’s healthcare?

https://t.co/JneIO1Sanw

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

Cinco de Mayo ….. MAGA It’s May 5th for you‼️

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Fire this asshole and charge him

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

🚨WHAT A SCAM "but hes not taking his presidential salary"

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

There are rare moments of just total honesty from Trump. He has said this many times before. It's the ultimate proof of what a narcissist he is but also how amoral: he "couldn't care less" if you're a bad person as long as you are "nice" to him.

This is the evangelicals' hero.

[Tahra Hoops @TahraHoops]

Choosing to believe this is an April Fools joke for my own sanity

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

If Trump and Stephen Miller’s immigration crackdown was really about law and order, why did Trump’s DOJ drop 23,000 criminal investigations this year?

Embezzlement.

Elder abuse.

Investment fraud.

All declined before a judge could hear a single case.

Meanwhile, DOGE claimed to be rooting out waste, fraud, and abuse. But more than 900 cases of federal program and procurement fraud went ignored, more than triple the rate of any recent president.

This is not law and order. It is selective enforcement in service of a political agenda.

Watch what they do, not what they say.
https://t.co/kLRUsnOrld

[African @ali_naka]

Trump trying to get out of Iran

[Xochitl Hinojosa @XochitlHinojosa]

Go ahead, GOP. Keep alienating Latino voters in Texas and see what happens.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

I served on the staff of Third U.S. Army as an operations officer, Chief of Future Ops, and Special Assistant to the Commanding General from 1998-2000. It’s the Army headquarters for Central Command. We planned and trained constantly for various scenarios that could occur in the Gulf region. The Strait of Hormuz is the single most vulnerable stretch of water in the entire region and nearly the world. Iran has spent decades fortifying their coast and preparing to close it. The idea that Trump and his sweaty bro idiot Hegseth launched this war seemingly unprepared for it to be shut down and the barrage of missiles and drones that would rain on the region is the most irresponsible and idiotic military mistake imaginable. Hegseth spent the last year working out and fighting wokeness instead of preparing for war. He must go. Now.