Al Wasser

Cranky since birth ... I won't change now.

[Al Wasser @AlWasser1]

@vinceg55 The Belmont. That means it's time for an annual viewing of the greatest ever. "He is moving like a tremendous machine..."

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Juan Orlando Hernández was convicted of smuggling more than 400 tons of cocaine into the U.S.

Trump gave him a full pardon.

[FFRF @FFRF]

Politicians discovering they can score points by demonizing a religious minority?

What a groundbreaking new strategy.

Truly nobody has ever tried that before, and it has definitely never ended badly.

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

From someone who accepted millions in improper gifts, dodged his reporting requirements, won’t allow proper fact-finding, and may have failed to pay taxes, his “law-abiding” schtick is a bit ripe.
https://t.co/WNPyVO3RtS

[FFRF @FFRF]

In a functioning government, a church openly serving as a campaign outpost would trigger an immediate IRS investigation.

Instead, Christian nationalist politicians and pastors act as though the law simply doesn't apply to them.

[Greg @GregGrandin]

For perspective, the East Germans over the course of nearly 3 decades, killed 140 trying to cross over the Berlin Wall.

[Reich-Wing Watch @ReichWingWatch]

🚨A 40-year-old Florida Trump supporter who posted racist cotton-picking memes and meme’s calling America’s first black First Lady a man on social media, Trent Plather, has been arrested for the second time on child s*xual abuse materials charges.

Police found 42,000 explicit images of children on his devices and he illegally possessed firearms as a convicted felon.

Prather also posted images of George Floyd’s face printed on pillows calling them “knee pads.” Floyd is a black man who died in Minneapolis after police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on his neck for almost 10 minutes.

More of his disgusting Facebook posts are in the thread👇

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Republican Lawrence Duran defrauded Medicare of $205 million.

Trump has commuted his sentence, allowing him to keep $87.5 million in stolen funds.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: A video is now going viral showing ICE agents punching and swinging against protestors. One protestors foot looks driven over.

These ICE agents have one mission. To provoke the crowd. It’s shameful.

#ShutDownDelaneyHall

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

Pete Hegseth—who never ranked higher than Major—is once again ignoring Generals' recommendations and denying merit-based promotions.

For all his bluster about bringing meritocracy back to our military, this unqualified SecDef keeps doing the opposite.

An insult to our troops.

[Daniel Long @The_Red_Hat]

@JamesTate121 It wasn't even a couple of months. It was 29 days. The man raped a grade-school boy for three years. He got 29 days and was allowed to keep his law license.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"We should be clear: Bari Weiss is murdering 60 Minutes. She is doing so not out of incompetence or foolishness, but with malice aforethought. She is doing it at the behest of her corporate patron."
https://t.co/ptjRbzqB0k

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

Billionaire Trump Donor Closing U.S. Plant and Moving Work to China https://t.co/4eZ4ycpaGN

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Bondi's Epstein handling exposed the personal information of nearly 100 survivors. A court found Blanche personally directed a vindictive prosecution. His response to the ethics complaints was to declare "war" on bar associations. Bondi proposed a rule to let the AG block bar probes by investigating itself.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

If we give the Ukrainians Patriots and sanction Russian energy the war is over. In other words, US policy at present is to keep the war going.
https://t.co/0KRZKRAVJA

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

🚨 Ken Paxton was indicted on 3 felony securities-fraud charges.

He wasn't acquitted.

The case dragged on for nearly 9 years before ending in a deal requiring community service, ethics training, and restitution.

Then:

• 8 of his own top deputies reported him to the FBI
• The Texas House impeached him 121-23
• Whistleblowers accused him of using his office to help a political donor tied to his affair
• He sought a taxpayer-funded settlement after those whistleblowers were fired

At some point, it stops being "one allegation."

It becomes a pattern.

A pattern documented by grand juries, whistleblowers, impeachment proceedings, court filings, and his own negotiated settlements.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Sen. Andy Kim: "It's a choice. Delaney Hall is run by GEO Group. GEO Group is getting a nearly $1 billion contract to run Delaney Hall. They tell me there is one full-time doctor for 800 detainees. They could have more doctors if they wanted to, but that's cutting into their profits."

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Judge Cannon has been sitting on the Jack Smith report for over a year. But the 11th Circuit looks like it's running out of patience. Here's what's happening and why it matters. https://t.co/k9eDX8Lg76

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

There is no world in which this is okay.  

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 

His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated. 

If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself. 

This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it. 

The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial. A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next. 

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW. 

Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do. 
 https://t.co/FV2Tkpz7Dk

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 WOW.

Trump’s financial disclosure forms reportedly show he bought between $1 MILLION and $5 MILLION in Dell stock earlier this year.

Then THIS WEEK…

the Pentagon awarded Dell a contract worth MORE THAN $9 BILLION.

Read that again slowly.