Alexis Dix

A Loner who wanders

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

With Trump already meddling in the midterms, @AdamKinzinger says the Dems must win in a blowout this fall or else congressional republicans could try to block the seating of a new House and Senate. More on Substack and YouTube. https://t.co/g0mlPXLuPY

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Our healthcare system is collapsing.

Gas prices have gone up 60% this year.

We're in a deadly war with Iran.

Yet Trump is worried he won't get a billion dollars for his ballroom.

Do you think he's a little bit out of touch with the needs of the American people?

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

For Trump and his friends:

- A $1.8 billion slush fund, paid for by you.
- A $1 billion ballroom, paid for by you.

For you and other American taxpayers:

- Millions kicked off health care.
- Highest gas prices in 5 years.
- Soaring costs for groceries.
https://t.co/sHG6L1Cdlq

[Richard W. Painter @RWPUSA]

A judge should not have to recuse from cases after becoming a political independent and refusing to be part of either political party. It is the partisan judges who should recuse.
We need more judges (and U.S. Supreme Court justices) like Justice Wecht.
https://t.co/RhXIG1JgGF

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

The DOJ has created a $1.776 billion slush fund as part of the settlement in Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS—and did it quickly to avoid the scrutiny of the judicial process.

This is the most brazen act of self-dealing in the history of the presidency. https://t.co/EVCSLZG76Q

[The Blue Torch @_TheBlueTorch]

correct 💯

[Consumer Brands @consumerbrands]

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[Wes Moore @iamwesmoore]

The level of corruption we’re seeing coming from this White House – including the President making over 3,700 trades in the first quarter alone – is disastrous for the public trust and it needs to be called out.

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

There would be literally millions of Americans dancing in the streets. 🎉

#ResistTrump

[Alexis Dix @Alex_Dix]

@CREWcrew Can anything be done to challenge this? Do we have to wait til 2028 for a Democratic president?

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Trump's corruption just got *a lot* worse.

The DOJ just expanded the absurd settlement giving him a $1.7 billion slush fund to ALSO bar the IRS from pursuing investigations into him, his family and his businesses.

That's a huge, unconstitutional giveaway to Trump.🧵

[Alexis Dix @Alex_Dix]

@judgeluttig There have been strange things since @realDonaldTrump came back into office but this slush fund and everything in this so-called settlement is the craziest I have ever seen. I have been watching shows on @MSNOWNews and they say it's nuts. You're a judge. What say you

[Alexis Dix @Alex_Dix]

@RWPUSA @nytimes So @realDonaldTrump wants to follow in Hitler's footsteps??? Looks likes Trump's first knew what she was talking about.

[Richard W. Painter @RWPUSA]

In 1933, the Chancellor of Germany set up a government slush fund for his political cronies.
As reported in the @nytimes:
https://t.co/Kw5YbglF9c

[Alexis Dix @Alex_Dix]

@sueispissed @OccupyDemocrats @LePapillonBlu2 I understand what you're getting at but there's a big problem. If Congress couldn't impeach and convict a President who ignited January 6 then how could that Congress take down a corrupt Supreme Court Justice?

[Dawn-Marie 💫 @SnarkAvenue]

💯 The 6 Trump-appointed/beholden SCOTUS Justices are bereft of integrity & have tarnished the reputation of a once vaunted judiciary.

I thought SCOTUS had given itself rules & ethical guidelines 2 years ago.

I guess in 2026 you write-up the morality others should live within — and then skirt it yourself at whim.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: New evidence shows that Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito LIED in his ruling to gut the Voting Rights Act, using fake evidence from the Trump administration claiming that racism was over!

An analysis by the Guardian reveals that MAGA Justice Alito, whose wife flew January 6th flags outside their home, copied “almost verbatim” a filing from the Trump administration that claimed that “the kind of discrimination that once made the Voting Rights Act necessary no longer exists.”

Anyone who has ever set foot in the South can tell you that is 100% not true, and there is actual data to back that up. But that didn’t stop Alito from
“Vast social change has occurred throughout the country and particularly in the South, where many Section 2 suits arise,” Alito wrote in a majority opinion in the case, which concerned Louisiana’s congressional map, joined by the five other conservative justices on the court. “Black voters now participate in elections at similar rates as the rest of the electorate, even turning out at higher rates than white voters in two of the five most recent Presidential elections nationwide and in Louisiana.”

But the Trump DOJ study that “produced” this “evidence” “relied on a statistical methodology that is not preferred by experts in determining statewide voter turnout,” meaning they cooked the numbers to get what they wanted: data that could be used to justify stripping political power away from Black communities and instituting Jim Crow 2.0.

Republicans began doing so immediately, redrawing districts in Tennessee, Alabama, and Louisiana to dilute the power of Black votes and enact one-party Republican rule, and of course it is all based on fake numbers because nothing matters except the pursuit of power and the punishment of nonwhite minorities.

The Supreme Court is a fundamentally broken institution. Our democracy should not be held hostage by six unelected right-wing bigots who never face any consequence or accountability for their actions.

“Lying in a legal briefing would get you disbarred as a regular lawyer. But when you’re an unelected, lifetime appointee with powers to write decisions that completely undo & remake the Constitution, the decision gets to stand & you get to keep your lifetime position. Outrageous!” raged civil rights lawyer Scott Hechinger on Twitter.

Once we take back Congress and the Senate, we need to abolish the filibuster, pack the court, and go scorched earth on the Republican Party. Because if we don’t, they’ll do it to us – and then we’ll be subjected to one party-rule forever.

[greg cantwell @gregmcantwell]

@MichaelSteele Trump failed to end the war in Ukraine or to bring energy costs down, like he promised. So, what has he done? Tore down the East Wing. Painted the reflecting pool. Scheduled a UFC fight on the White House lawn.

Does any of this help the American people? Nope. Not one bit.

[Michael Steele @MichaelSteele]

Looks like the White House put more effort into promoting this than ending their war with Iran. #Priorities

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Not long ago, reauthorizations of the Voting Rights Act were bipartisan votes that Democratic and Republican presidents signed without controversy.

Now the right-wing Supreme Court majority has gutted the VRA, and GOP-led legislatures are erasing Black voters from the map. https://t.co/R8TzQu8zXw