Amy Grooters

DVM. Taught @ LSU Vet School for 25 yrs and retired to CO mtns. Forever LSU FB, WBB, MBB, SB, BB fan. Recently LSU gym fan, and this sport may be the best 💜

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

You’ve literally controlled Congress for the past two years. And apparently, there’s always been money for vanity projects. But none to fix our air traffic control system?

Perhaps Trump should prioritize aviation safety over his pathetic Arch.

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

Seems timely to follow the money and FAA contracts. https://t.co/qfbVZWCKnq

[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

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Um… Joe Biden’s infrastructure law set aside $25 BILLION for airports and air traffic control.

Now we have a former REALITY TV STAR running the Department of Transportation, begging for another $30 BILLION while planes sit grounded.

Here's a crazy idea: Before demanding another $30 BILLION, how about explaining where the hell the original $25 BILLION went?

And considering this administration's obsession with declaring everything Biden did a failure, I'd especially like to know what's been spent, what's left, and whether any projects were sidelined.

Where the HELL is the press? Why isn't anyone demanding answers? 🤷‍♂️🙄

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

Cutting millions of people off food assistance right before Christmas and then heading to church to celebrate the birth of a man who told you to feed the hungry is certainly a choice.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Raskin: Well, AOC and I have a $50 gift ban bill, which has been on the back burner for years under the Republicans.

In Congress, we are all governed by a $50 gift ban. And we can’t accept anything much more than a baseball cap. And most people are scared to do that. We just don’t take gifts.

Meantime, at the Supreme Court, they’re collecting hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in so-called gifts from people who have a tremendous interest in the work of the Supreme Court. They take trips around the world. They take luxury vacations. They get, in Justice Thomas’s case, a $400,000 recreational vehicle, a motor coach.

I think Justice Thomas also picked up private school tuition for a great-nephew. I mean, just outrageous things. Members of Congress would go to jail for any of those things, and they’re just doing it.

So the $50 gift ban applies to Congress. It theoretically applies also to people in the executive branch, and it must apply to people in the judiciary, in the Supreme Court

[Eddie Smith @eddsmitty]

He stood alone on the steps of the Capitol with a sign in protest of Trump.

He is in solitary confinement.

MAGAs violently stormed the Capitol in protest of the 2020 election—resulting in injuries and deaths.

They are all free.

Make it make sense.

https://t.co/mne5zvzk4S

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

This is Gestapo behavior. Inhuman, disgusting beyond belief. Impeach Mullin and Homan as soon as humanly possible.

[Congresswoman Maxine Dexter @RepDexterOR]

This is absurd and dangerous. These lands belong to us all, not just the rich and powerful. I’m working on legislation right now to put a stop to this.

Hands off our public lands.

Secretary Doug Burgum, I’m looking at you.
https://t.co/gFMuMrBxpt

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

NEW: Republican Texas Land Commissioner "reaffirms commitment to Texas Sovereignty" amid SCOTUS decision allowing bulldozing of Big Bend:

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

Breaking: Senator Cornyn urges Trump administration to abandon plans to bulldoze Big Bend for border barriers in recent op ed:

"Texans should not have to bear another unnecessary financial burden caused by building a 30-foot wall atop a 1,000-foot riverbank cliff."

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

BREAKING: Supreme Court allows border wall construction to resume through Big Bend National Park and across region.

This clears the way for contractors to bulldoze pristine desert, dynamite canyon walls and lock away a great American river from us all. And for what? All just to further enrich a few billionaire contractors while they permanently destroy Texas' crown-jewel national park. Because nobody else wants this.

[查百万 @chakmillion]

NFL华盛顿指挥官队前老板丹·斯奈德，花4800万美元在马里兰州买下一座紧挨着波托马克河的豪华庄园，唯一让他看着不顺眼的，是庄园与河岸之间隔着一片受联邦法律保护的国家公园原始林地，挡住了他在阳台上看河的视线。

2004年斯奈德动用人脉绕过环保听证，直接雇了一支伐木队开进国家公园领地，操起电锯一口气砍光了130棵百年原生大树，给自家后院清出了一片无遮挡的河景视野。

国家公园首席巡逻员罗伯特·丹诺发现整片山坡被砍秃后依法上报追查，没想到斯奈德靠着高层关系，最后只交了一笔微不足道的小额罚款就轻松过关了；

反倒是坚持追查到底的巡逻员丹诺遭到了内部疯狂报复，不仅被无故收缴警徽和配枪，还被发配去管郊区小卖部，甚至连家里都被联邦法警持枪破门搜查。

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

Maj. Jason Watson has been in 24-hour solitary confinement for 80+ days & has reportedly lost 20 pounds, all before any trial. UN experts consider solitary beyond 15 days to be torture. He offered to resign, give up all his benefits, & the Air Force said no. Because he protested.

[Senator Cortez Masto @SenCortezMasto]

Our public lands aren't a piggy bank for Trump's powerful friends.

[Susan Rice @AmbassadorRice]

This is insane. Huge national security threat. WTAF?

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who has tens of millions invested in the AI industry, is leading the charge to allow data centers on the public lands he oversees.

Yes, that sure looks like a huge conflict of interest.
https://t.co/bZdlKtzELB

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s use of government employees and taxpayer-funded resources to create a self-promoting video attacking Democrats and other political opponents probably violated federal law, government watchdogs said. https://t.co/3RWCyRdilY

[ProPublica @propublica]

A recent federal report found 91.3 million acres of public lands — an area nearly the size of Montana — could be used for data centers.

The Trump official overseeing most federal lands has tens of millions invested in the AI industry.
https://t.co/W1qzpBWP87

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

The Attorney General of the United States thinks he's the Trump administration's defense lawyer. Impeach him.