Ashley Parish

Proud parent, now retired but still learning. want to see fair play and a plan for Climate change.

[Ashley Parish @AshleyParish14]

https://t.co/Y6zHiRmMrR
more grift...

[Ashley Parish @AshleyParish14]

@CuriousAussieX @Top100Rick Virtually all US courses, public included, have a posted dress code that expects a collared shirt and no "cut-offs". Scheffler would know this, even on a casual round. Wouldn't dream of wearing a T shirt on any course, let alone a world top 100.

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

Trump asking whether he (President Zelenskyy) would go to Moscow, who then responds:

„It is difficult to go to Moscow thanks to the many Ukrainian drones. (…) It is too dangerous.“

I almost fell from my chair laughing.

[Ashley Parish @AshleyParish14]

@Stew_Pac13 @gtconway3d Yeah that was in the last few months iirc.?

[Ashley Parish @AshleyParish14]

@realrailroad1 @JoJoFromJerz um, the judge was DJT nominated. Likely reluctantly followed the law, as the statute of limitations was past. Wondering if the grand jury involved was informed of that.

[Ashley Parish @AshleyParish14]

@JohnCleese "going down that dangerous road" seems way less dangerous than his way.

[Ashley Parish @AshleyParish14]

@WalshFreedom The "but whatabout-ism" is insanely tilted. If Hunter Biden even did get a million from a corporate/board job, it would be a tiny thousandth fraction of what the current pres (or family) have grifted in the first year+ in office. And that's official reported income.

[Ashley Parish @AshleyParish14]

@Angry_Staffer I believe she has filed a motion to demand payment, now that all appeals are out of the way.

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

One billionaire family controls the bridge that carries 25% of all U.S.–Canada trade.

The good news? There's a brand new public bridge right next door (and Canada paid for the whole thing).

The bad news? Donald Trump won't let it open.

Here's the story:

For more than a decade, Michigan and Canada worked together to build a new public crossing right next to it — six lanes over the Detroit River, named for a Canadian-born Red Wings legend, built by thousands of union workers. Canada paid the entire bill. Michigan co-owns it. It's finished. It’s a shining example of international cooperation and collaboration, with a tremendous return for both sides: more jobs, faster trade, and lower costs.

So why isn't it open?

Because the Moroun family, who own the rival Ambassador Bridge just up the river, doesn’t want the competition. They spent years and tens of millions of dollars trying to stop any competing international crossing from being built or opening. They lost. So they went to the White House instead.

In January, Matthew Moroun gave $1 million to a pro-Trump super PAC. Then the billionaire called Trump's Commerce Secretary and, just hours later, Trump suddenly attacked the same publicly owned bridge he praised in his own first term and threatened to block it.
Then, the day before the June 12th ribbon-cutting, the opening was called off indefinitely.

It's corruption so flagrant it would be laughable if it weren't so damaging.

Trump is screwing over Michiganders for the interests of billionaires — holding a finished, publicly owned project hostage to protect one donor's toll booth.

So a finished bridge sits closed, Michiganders keep paying the higher tolls, cars and trucks cost more, and a billionaire family keeps its monopoly.

Mr. President: stop playing games. Open the damn bridge.

[Ashley Parish @AshleyParish14]

@Kaos_Vs_Control If the announcement wasn't awful enough, who are the morons that are applauding and cheering this nonsense? I don't get it. We just had 200+ at Lackland air base come down with flu right after Hegseth stopped the flu shot mandate.

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

Name a better take than this on the Iran war, I’ll wait.

[Ashley Parish @AshleyParish14]

@TruthViking @JoJoFromJerz Total bs. Try reading the constitution... Or provide verifiable facts. If the Heritage foundation investigated for years and concluded effectively zero fraud, gotta believe em.

[Ashley Parish @AshleyParish14]

@Gerashchenko_en Slovakia needs to go too.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Megyn Kelly, who endorsed and campaigned for Trump in the 2024 election:

“I didn’t expect the corruption to be quite as widespread as it has been. The self-dealing, the lining of his and his family’s pockets. It’s shocking… You look across the board at the Trump family, I’ve never seen a family get so rich off the presidency.”

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Lifting sanctions means helping Russian soldiers by helping the Russian defense industry.

After some sanctions were eased, we did not see any surprises like lower global prices for oil, gas, or diesel. Because the share of Russian oil accounts for only 5% of global supply. How could it make a difference?

So lifting sanctions is not about that. I think it’s about building dialogue with the Russians. But it's not the right approach, because they don’t understand words or empathy and see it as a sign of weakness.

We need to be strong and impose more sanctions on them.

From an interview with Face the Nation. (4/5)

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump is now reportedly responsible for roughly 27.7% of the entire U.S. national debt accumulated under all presidents combined.

That is an astonishing figure historically.

The national debt just crossed $39 trillion.

President Trump has added roughly $12–13 trillion to the debt across his two terms in office.

That’s approximately 30% of ALL U.S. national debt accumulated since 1789.

In 2016, Trump said he would pay down the national debt “over a period of eight years.”

Instead:

- First term: +$7.8 trillion
- Second term: roughly +$4–5 trillion already

And yes, COVID affected first-term spending.

It does not explain adding another trillion dollars every five months without a pandemic.

A political movement built on:
“fiscal conservatism”
“small government”
“balanced budgets”

has now overseen the largest debt expansion tied to any single presidency in American history.

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

The recent Supreme Court decision in Louisiana v. Callais effectively killed the last remaining provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

And it represents the life's work of Chief Justice John Roberts.

Here's how Roberts has been steadily working for more than 40 years to destroy the country's most important civil rights law:

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Today’s Supreme Court decision effectively guts a key pillar of the Voting Rights Act, freeing state legislatures to gerrymander legislative districts to systematically dilute and weaken the voting power of racial minorities - so long as they do it under the guise of “partisanship” rather than explicit “racial bias.” And it serves as just one more example of how a majority of the current Court seems intent on abandoning its vital role in ensuring equal participation in our democracy and protecting the rights of minority groups against majority overreach.

The good news is that such setbacks can be overcome. But that will only happen if citizens across the country who cherish our democratic ideals continue to mobilize and vote in record numbers - not just in the upcoming midterms or in high profile races, but in every election and every level.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

This exchange between @SenBlumenthal and Trump’s judicial nominees is utterly astounding.

If you can watch this and still think this country isn’t falling into authoritarianism and fascism under Donald Trump, then you are not being honest with yourself.

[Kaja Kallas @kajakallas]

Deadlock over. The EU just cleared the way for the €90-billion-loan for Ukraine and the 20th sanctions package.

Russia’s war economy is under growing strain, while Ukraine is getting a major boost.

We will provide Ukraine what it needs to hold its ground, until Putin understands his war leads nowhere.