scott slomiak

Dad, husband, community organizer, citizen

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Eviction notices have been sent to farmers in northern Vietnam to make way for a $1.5 billion Trump Organization-branded luxury golf resort project.

Trump never divested from the Trump Org, so this project is one of his countless conflicts of interest. https://t.co/FdpTBl2yMc

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Hey @KenPaxtonTX that's not your wife

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

Here’s an in-depth New York Times article on how Trump, his family, and his cronies are abusing their government power to line their pockets and using billions of your tax dollars to facilitate their grifting. Note that the $8.9 billion in federal money going to the 14 Trump and Lutnick companies is equal to the entire amount of federal assistance Western North Carolina has received for Hurricane Helene recovery.

Rampant corruption in plain sight . . . and Republicans see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil.

Here’s an excerpt from the article and a free link to the entire piece:

“Ahead of the deal, the Trump administration approved preliminary applications for as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing for the American company, now called Kaz Resources, which plans to break ground on the project in rural Kazakhstan.

It was not only Mr. Trump and Mr. Lutnick who saw an opportunity.

Their sons were soon doing business with partners in a deal that their fathers were negotiating, continuing a pattern of self-enrichment in the second Trump administration that has few precedents in American history.”

. . . . .

“One or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies that are actively working with the federal government on critical mining deals, including the Kazakhstan project, according to federal filings examined by The New York Times.

All 14 of these companies have either benefited directly from offers of financial assistance from the Trump administration, or have pending permit applications before the Commerce Department, which Mr. Lutnick oversees, The Times found. The total amount of federal funding that the Trump administration has provided or is considering providing to the companies exceeds $8.9 billion, according to public statements by the companies and federal government.”

https://t.co/HvoK9qva0H

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

This is the only reason we are at war in Iran.

[aapayés @aapayes]

Mientras tanto en gringolandia

Así trató la policía estadounidense a Carolyn Folin, profesora de economía estadounidense en la Universidad Emory de Atlanta, Georgia, cuando protestó contra la guerra de exterminio y genocida en Gaza

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Shut up, bitch.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Pete Hegseth is removing or blocking the promotions of all military officers who he has determined would not participate in an illegal pro-Trump self-coup (auto-coup) in 2028.

You can believe me now or believe me in 2028.

Either way, stop seeing what Hegseth is doing as random.

[hovi 💎 #JAŸZ30 @holahovitaaa]

18 years ago today, Jaÿ-Z became the first rapper to headline Glastonbury and trolled Oasis when they said rap had no place there. He came on stage playing their song Wonderwall then flipped it into 99 Problems and destroyed the stage.

[MAGAts_Exposed @MAGAts_Exposed]

Meet MAGAt Adriana Camberos who has the honor of being pardoned by Trump not once but twice.

Originally convicted in an elaborate counterfeit energy drink conspiracy, her sentence was commuted by Trump in 2021. Shortly after her release, she and her brother embarked on a separate wholesale grocery fraud scheme, resulting in a 2024 conviction and a $48.8 million restitution order. Trump issued her a second full pardon in January 2026.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

BREAKING: Trump has released photographic proof that his American State Fair is absolutely packed. Some are calling it the largest crowd ever assembled.
#SharpieGate

[Masu Zafi 🔥🔥 @masuzafi]

Meanwhile in America…
An economics professor at Emory University is violently body-slammed to the ground and zip-tied by police for protesting the genocide in Gaza.
She keeps telling them:
“I am a professor. I am a professor of economics.”
This is what happens when you speak out in the “land of the free.”

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

New research from @nytimes finds that the US government is actively doing "critical minerals" deals with FOURTEEN different companies that have financial ties to the Trump and/or Lutnick families - deals worth around $9 billion in all:

[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

[ສະຫາຍ ສຸວິ 🇱🇦🇵🇸‧₊˚ ✮⋆˙ @Souvie]

this isn’t ok or normal and you shouldn’t go about your day pretending it is

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Absolutely 💯💯🎯

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: In the Chicago suburbs, an ICE agent assaults a teenager for filming his vehicle, and pointing out that it illegally has no license plate.

In the video, a U.S. citizen is peacefully filming an ICE vehicle, that is sitting in a parking lot. He walks to the back of the SUV to document that it has no license plate.

That’s when the ICE agent jumps out, screaming, “Get away from my vehicle!” while aggressively charging toward the teenager.

The teenager immediately backs away, but the ICE agent keeps walking at him, tries to trip the teenager , and continues yelling… even though neither of them are anywhere near the vehicle anymore.

Filming government officials performing their duties, in public, is protected by the First Amendment. That protection doesn’t disappear just because the official doesn’t like being recorded.

An officer also can’t lawfully use physical force simply because someone is filming them. Using force, to stop someone from recording, is a violation of that person’s constitutional rights.

And let’s not ignore the reason the ICE agent got out of his car in the first place...

Illinois law requires vehicles, driven on public roads, to display valid registration plates. This ICE vehicle is not following that law.

So, if your first instinct, when someone records your conduct, is to assault them… you’re proving exactly why the public is recording in the first place.

[B L A K E L E Y™℠©® LLC @_iamblakeley]

This is fucking insane and can’t stand.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Trump’s DOJ quietly removed records showing the FBI conducted multiple interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was between 13-15 years of age. 😡 #EpsteinTrumpCoverup #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles https://t.co/IOusLmG9dC

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ansari: Leon Black was arrogant, smug, he refused to answer the questions but at the same time he was emphasizing how he was being transparent. When pressed on critical questions about his own sexual abuse and the allegations against him and nondisclosure agreements, he absolutely refused to answer these questions.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Get real Doug. Veterans are treated poorly in so many places, and your draconian cuts just make things worse.