Amy Miner 🐀

Idealist. Peripatetic. Good deed do-er. Taker of naps.

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

Seems problematic to say the least. Your thoughts, Senators? @LeaderJohnThune @SenatorRounds

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING: The Trump White House just ousted all three sitting members of the U.S. Election Assistance Commission — hamstringing the bipartisan agency ahead of the midterms.

The EAC helps state and local officials run elections, including by certifying election equipment. https://t.co/DBaRuFaWJB

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

I think the outrage is that you feel NO outrage, Senators. @LeaderJohnThune @SenatorRounds

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

The geniuses at ICE just arrested a Catholic nun, who practices as a nurse, as she was walking to church.

Our Republican colleagues think they need even more money.

Had enough?
https://t.co/TWTxaDpnuk

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

What an absolute circus, Senators. Look what you’ve enabled. @LeaderJohnThune @SenatorRounds

[David Frum @davidfrum]

In the old USSR, people could be arrested for photographing bridges, tunnels, etc. A repressive and paranoid regime assumed the photographers must be spies and saboteurs. Americans laughed at such petty tyranny. Nothing like that could happen in their free country! Until now.

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

Your Republican colleague wants to save Social Security. You should work with him to do that. @SenatorRounds @LeaderJohnThune

[U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. @SenBillCassidy]

Yesterday’s Social Security Trustees Report confirmed that millions of retirees are facing a twenty to twenty-five percent cut in benefits which can throw them into poverty and put a greater strain on their families.

Congress must step up now to protect Social Security before it’s too late. It’s only going to cost more and be more difficult to solve the longer we wait.

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

If you'd peek out of your bubble for a minute, you might glimpse the daily reality for 99% of Americans, Senators. Any plans to work on this, or is it just full steam ahead for the billionaires? @LeaderJohnThune @SenatorRounds

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Inflation hit 4.2% year-over-year in May, erasing all wage growth.

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

Interesting that your picture is associated with this quote, isn’t it? @LeaderJohnThune

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

“The danger doesn’t arrive when tanks appear in the streets. It arrives when leaders lose the ability to say no. It arrives when loyalty replaces judgment. It arrives when public officials preserve powers they would never tolerate in the hands of their opponents.”

https://t.co/TTZtkwyWMs

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

So it turns out you are a big fan of the slush fund. Senator. Full support of the Golden Age of Corruption. Great legacy you’ve got there! @LeaderJohnThune

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

GOP Senators dunked on the Trump slush fund all week

But they didn’t vote to support the overnight amendments that would’ve killed the fund

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

Congress authorized and funded this twice, and Trump is ignoring it. Know anyone in Congress who might fight this or nah? Imagine if we had any real leadership in the Senate! @LeaderJohnThune @SenatorRounds

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Yesterday I told you the government is pulling 900 ocean monitoring instruments out of the water.

Here is the part that should make every American angry, regardless of where you stand on climate.

Congress voted to fund this network. Not once. Twice. The Trump administration proposed cutting it by 80 percent in 2025. Congress restored the money. Proposed the same cut in 2026. Congress restored the money again.

So the administration labeled it a "descope" and ordered the instruments pulled anyway.

That is not a budget disagreement. That is an executive branch telling the legislative branch that its votes do not matter. The public paid for this infrastructure. Congress protected it. One office in Washington decided the public should not have it.

This is the pattern I document in 𝑾𝒆 𝑨𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑩𝒂𝒅 𝑮𝒖𝒚𝒔. It is not about left or right. It is about who decides what Americans are allowed to know about their own planet.

Who should make that call?

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

Here’s a great question for you, Senators. What on earth are you doing? @LeaderJohnThune @SenatorRounds

[Yinka Ogunnubi @yinkanubi]

Let me get this straight, you want people who are on H-1B visas who are working and contributing to your economy (not to mention paying their taxes) to quit work and return back to their home countries for an unspecified period to apply for Green Card?

Wonderful!

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

Cyanide bombs again? Wish we had a Congress that could step in. @LeaderJohnThune @SenatorRounds

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

What kind of government brings back cyanide bombs onto public land after years of documented deaths and outrage?

The devices are called M-44s. They’re baited with scented lures designed to attract coyotes and other animals. But they don’t know the difference between wildlife, pets, or children.

One tug releases sodium cyanide into the victim’s face. Moisture turns it into deadly hydrogen cyanide gas. The result is often convulsions, paralysis, and a horrifying death.

These are the same devices that killed a 14-year-old Idaho boy’s dog in front of him in 2017 and sent him to the hospital.

The Biden administration banned them from Bureau of Land Management lands in 2023. But in 2026, Trump’s agencies quietly reversed course, reopening roughly 245 million acres of public land to their use. Then House Republicans pushed language to fully restore the program through the USDA.

Wildlife Services’ own records show thousands of animals killed with M-44s in a single year, including accidental deaths of protected species and non-target animals. Family dogs, wolves, grizzlies, even condors have been caught in these traps.

This isn’t conservation. It’s poison hidden across public lands for the benefit of livestock interests.

Americans should not have to worry about cyanide devices near hiking trails, campsites, or places where children and pets roam.

They brought them back quietly because they knew the public would be horrified.

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

Some helpful advice from your Senate colleague. @LeaderJohnThune @SenatorRounds

[Senator Chris Coons @ChrisCoons]

If Majority Leader Thune wants to shut down this $2 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund, he and his Republican colleagues could do so in a heartbeat. After all, Congress does have the power of the purse.

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

Just go home at this point, Senators. Your presence in DC is barely ornamental at this point. Your inescapable legacy will be enabling the greatest presidential corruption in American history. Congratulations. @LeaderJohnThune @SenatorRounds

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

This is a THEFT far worse than Watergate. There is no other word for it. They are stealing $1.78 BILLION dollars to pay Trump‘s allies, despite knowing that these people are not legally entitled to any money and be laughed out of court if they filed a lawsuit for money damages.

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

Seems like a big deal, right? Any commentary on the corruption, Senators? @LeaderJohnThune @SenatorRounds

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Trump just got exposed for running the biggest insider trading operation in American history.

Nancy Pelosi traded $5 million in stocks and Congress lost its mind.

Trump literally executed $750 MILLION worth of stock trades in ONE quarter while being President.

His ethics filing just dropped and the numbers are genuinely unprecedented in history:

Between January and March 2026, Donald Trump personally executed 3,700 individual stock transactions worth between $220 million and $750 million.

That's roughly 60 trades PER DAY.

While signing executive orders, meeting foreign leaders, and making policy decisions that directly impact the companies he's buying and selling.

Now here's where it gets really insane:

On February 10, Trump bought between $1 million and $5 million worth of Dell stock.

Three months later, on May 8, he stood at a Mother's Day event at the White House, thanked Michael Dell by name, and told Americans to "go out and buy a Dell."

Dell stock surged 14.6% that day to an all-time high of $263.99.

Since Trump's February purchase, Dell is up 96%.

And 5 months BEFORE Trump bought Dell stock, Michael and Susan Dell donated $6.25 billion to Trump Accounts, one of the largest philanthropic commitments to a sitting president's signature program in modern history.

So the timeline goes: Dell donates $6.25 billion to Trump's program -> Trump buys Dell stock ->Trump tells America to buy Dell from the White House podium -> Stock hits all-time high

And that's just ONE stock...

The same filing shows Trump bought Nvidia stock on February 10. One week later, Nvidia announced a massive chip deal with Meta.

He bought more Nvidia stock one week BEFORE his own Commerce Department approved the sale of Nvidia chips to Saudi Arabia.

He bought Intel stock starting in March 2026. The US government already owned a 9.9% stake in Intel worth over $41 billion. On April 30, Trump posted on Truth Social praising Intel, writing that "Intel Stock continues to rise."

Intel jumped 3% in after-hours and is now up 140% year-to-date.

He bought Palantir stock while his administration was actively handing them billion-dollar government contracts for immigration enforcement and defense.

He bought Robinhood stock while his own Trump Accounts program uses Robinhood as the broker.

He's currently sitting on over 100% profit on AMD, Intel, Bloom Energy, Marvell Technology, and at least 10 other positions.

Every single president since Lyndon B. Johnson has used a blind trust to avoid exactly this situation. But Trump didn't.

His assets sit in a trust controlled by his own children, and the filings show a broker acted as agent on several trades.

The White House says the portfolio is "independently managed."

But here's what independently managed looks like:

Buy Dell stock. Three months later, publicly endorse Dell from the White House. Stock hits all-time high.

Buy Nvidia stock. One week later, your own government approves their chip sales. Stock rips.

Buy Intel stock. Post about Intel on Truth Social. Stock jumps. The government you run already owns a 10% stake.

Buy Palantir. Hand them contracts. Buy Robinhood. Route a federal program through their platform.

Nancy Pelosi got absolutely destroyed for her husband's stock trades.

Her husband's total disclosed trades in his most controversial year were worth roughly $5 million.

Trump just disclosed up to $750 MILLION in a single quarter.

While making the actual policy decisions that move these stocks.

This isn't a left or right issue.

We're talking about the President of the United States averaging 60 stock trades per day in companies his own administration regulates, contracts with, and publicly endorses.

What do you think?

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

Where’s the lie? @LeaderJohnThune @SenatorRounds

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

@lanabeesfw Thank you for seeing her and caring. The tiniest creatures can teach some of the biggest lessons. We have to do better for them and us. ♥️

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

Interesting. Is there something going on with gas prices that affects Americans, Senators? Something you should have a say in beyond an 18 cent gas tax? Something Constitutional that rhymes with War Powers? @LeaderJohnThune @senatorrounds

[Josh Hawley @HawleyMO]

I’m introducing legislation today to suspend the gas tax

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

Don't all Americans deserve clean air? Any pushback here, Senators? @LeaderJohnThune @SenatorRounds

[ProPublica @propublica]

New: In an unprecedented move, the Trump administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from rules under the Clean Air Act. The president is considering exempting even more. https://t.co/gbM0gxj2Vh

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

You know you should be stopping this, right? Waste, fraud, abuse ring a bell? Come on, Senators. Why are we even pretending Congress matters anymore? @LeaderJohnThune @SenatorRounds

[Max Flugrath🗳️ @MaxFlugrath]

JD Vance is right. More people need to know that the president is trying to take $10 billion in taxpayer money for himself.

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

Any concerns or nah? @LeaderJohnThune @SenatorRounds

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

[Amy Miner 🐀 @AmyAlligator]

Great comment on your spending priorities, Senators. It's not like anyone uses National Parks, right? @LeaderJohnThune @SenatorRounds

[brandon s. @b_cuse_]

We don’t have $736 million for our National Parks but we have $500 million to bail out Spirit Airlines?