Bailey Sam (She/Her)

Still With Her #BLM #GunReform #ProChoice #ClimateAction #LGBTQIA+ ally. #ImmigrationReform We get the world we fight for. We’re not done. HarrisWalz

[Senator Jeff Merkley @SenJeffMerkley]

Republicans want to hand ICE and Border Patrol another $70 BILLION.

The kicker? The agencies are already sitting on nearly $100 billion in unobligated funds—enough to fund them for the next four years.

Completely wrong.

[National Center for Missing & Exploited Children @NCMEC]

MISSING CHILD
13-year-old Evangieline was last seen on May 2, 2026 in Ewa Beach, Hawaii.
Poster: https://t.co/TKCGo6msCM

[Congresswoman Ayanna Pressley @RepPressley]

Accountability for fraud must also include restorative justice to make the lives of victims whole again.

But Trump used his clemency power on Lawrence Duran and wiped away $87 million in restitution for victims of healthcare fraud.

We should be having a hearing about that.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

ICE should have to report every death or injury that occurs in proximity to its custody. Full stop. https://t.co/cD0N3Whw2E

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

While ballots are still being counted in some California primary races, one thing is for sure: Chad Bianco will not be the next governor.

The sheriff seized hundreds of thousands of ballots in the state’s redistricting referendum earlier this year, acting on claims from an anti-voting group. https://t.co/6mo7wVDIOJ

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Trump blatantly lies about China's windmills, saying they built 2 windmills last year.

Fact is China added a record 120.5 GW of new wind power capacity in 2025, accounting for roughly 73% of all new wind power installed worldwide. That’s not 2 windmills. That’s likely tens of thousands of new turbines.

China now has the world’s largest wind power fleet by a massive margin. Either Trump has no idea what he’s talking about, or he expects his supporters not to fact-check him.

"China, by the way, last year built 52 coal plants. They built about two windmills. You know, the only time they build a windmill is when they're trying to sell them to stupid people from the United States, the suckers. And by the way, and all over Europe, they sell the windmills, but they don't use them. I wonder why?"

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

GEO Group reported roughly $254 million in profit after major ICE-related contract growth.

Now a former GEO Group executive is slated to lead ICE.

The company profits from detention.

The agency buys detention.

The executive moves from one to the other.

Washington calls this a "personnel announcement."

Everyone else calls it a revolving door.

[National Center for Missing & Exploited Children @NCMEC]

MISSING
Le'Airia was last seen on May 16, 2026 in Wichita, Kansas.
https://t.co/w4J1fw3bii

[Joel Montfort @jmontforttx]

The 1972 screwworm epidemic killed 90,000 cattle in Texas after the fly was supposedly contained. It was devastating to Texas Ranchers. Here's a video put out by the USDA about it in 1972.

[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.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Trump's Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins: "If we have a big screwworm infestation—which we will not, we're on top of it..."

The screwworm has returned to the US after 60 years after Trump and DOGE eliminated a program to contain the flesh-eating parasite.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Trump administration has been telling you they had screwworm under control for months. Now, it's here.

What happened? Trump and DOGE slashed funding for screwworm monitoring programs.

And the entire GOP let them. Thank them for today's new hell they unleashed on you.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Popok: I am troubled by how many people are willing to endanger their law licenses in the service of Tump. Is it the proximity to power?

Luttig: It’s proximity to Trump. Those lawyers watch Trump every single day calling the judges and the federal courts corrupt.

If the president is calling the judges corrupt and you represent the president, then that’s your mindset, and that’s what’s going on.

[VoteVets @votevets]

Pete Hegseth just removed 7 Navy officers from the service's one-star promotion list. One was reportedly singled out after her name appeared on a website identifying "woke" service members, for serving as a "diversity liaison" two decades earlier. That's not merit. It's a purge.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

New reporting reveals Trump's ballroom donors have collectively been awarded over $50 billion in government contracts.

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

Ben Meiselas absolutely roasts Ivanka Trump over luxury Albanian island deal: We were on a yacht with the Rothschilds and we discovered this island and we're like, "Oh, that should be ours. Daddy, can I have this island, daddy? It's going to be my island."

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

In March 2025, Trump's USDA cancelled $300 million in land-access grants for American farmers — many of them farmers of color — and justified it with a list of "wasteful" purchases: a barbecue smoker, a gazebo, massages, and a $20,000 budget for ink pens.

The 49 terminated grantees say those line items never existed.

Meanwhile, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins cancelled roughly $1 billion more in local-food money the same month, leaving Pennsylvania farmer Dan Hunter and the food banks he supplied with crops already in the ground. Here's who actually paid for it — and why the USDA's own appeals office may have given the game away.

Watch: https://t.co/ojd6eMe6ds

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a powerful moment usurping the Republican majority, Democrats, led by Congressman Greg Meeks, just led a discharge petition and passed legislation continuing funding for aid to Ukraine and new sanctions for Russia. This is amazing.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed.

Here's what happened:

He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all.

These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees.

Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him.

A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it).

The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth.

But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress.

With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not.

And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her.

The threat does all the work.

By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress.

Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch.

If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place.

Here's the full story: https://t.co/mJzrvzhxGR