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[Builder Biz @BuilderBiz]

Mar-a-Lago #bully remains in power? The US #fool #dictator #cheats, #lies, breaks laws. We don’t need this #evil #conman and his pirates to continue destroying our home. #2026: #EvictTrump #Fascism #Treason - https://t.co/oMFAOhUdDX…https://t.co/oFyrH6SjQs

[Builder Biz @BuilderBiz]

Mar-a-Lago #bully remains in power? The US #fool #dictator #cheats, #lies, breaks laws. We don’t need this #evil #conman and his pirates to continue destroying our home. #2026: #EvictTrump #Fascism #Treason - https://t.co/oMFAOhUdDX…https://t.co/oFyrH6SjQs

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

🚨 BREAKING: Close Trump advisors have been informing him the likeliest cause of any “rip” in the Reflecting Pool surface came from him insisting the full motorcade drive on the fresh surface to “inspect” it before it was refilled, which he immediately denies to blame liberals.

[Eh, what’s up Doc  @rabbitSZN2]

Who saw this a while back and just KNEW this was not gonna end well?

Trump made his motorcade drive down the reflecting pool before it was sealed.

The contractor didn’t clean up the motor oil and tire dust, they just painted right over it.

The paint failed exactly as predicted.

By June, massive gashes of blue lining were peeling off in the exact shape of the motorcade’s path. The oil trapped underneath stopped the paint from sticking.

Surface prep 101.

Six innocent people arrested.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

The U.S. government just handed sacred Apache land to a copper mine.

When they're done, the ancient oaks where generations have prayed and come of age will be gone - replaced by a crater two miles wide.

Chi'chil Biłdagoteel, known as Oak Flat, sits in Arizona's Tonto National Forest outside Superior. Its 2,422 acres of old-growth oaks, springs, and sacred sites have held San Carlos Apache prayers and coming-of-age ceremonies since time immemorial.

The endangered Arizona hedgehog cactus grows here. An endangered ocelot was struck and killed on a nearby highway - a reminder of what else calls this place home.

President Eisenhower protected this land from mining in 1955. That lasted 60 years, until the late Sen. John McCain slipped a last-minute provision into a must-pass defense bill in 2014, authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to Resolution Copper.

Below Oak Flat, the Sonoran Desert rises to meet you in thousands of saguaro cacti lining the drive up from Phoenix. Environmentalists warn that block-cave mining at this scale threatens the fragile water systems that sustain this entire ecosystem.

Apache Stronghold fought it in court for over a decade.

They took it all the way to the Supreme Court. The Court declined to hear it - no explanation, no ruling on the merits, just a closed door. Even Justice Neil Gorsuch, one of the Court's most conservative voices, wrote a dissent calling it a grievous mistake. This past March, the transfer was finalized anyway.

The crater the mine leaves behind will be two miles wide and 1,100 feet deep. Permanent.

The American people will receive zero in royalties.

That's not an oversight - it's the 1872 Mining Law, a statute signed by Ulysses S. Grant that lets mining companies extract minerals from public land and pay nothing. It hasn't been updated in over 150 years. 150 years — can you believe it?

Twenty-one of Arizona's 22 federally recognized tribes oppose this. Seventy-one percent of Americans support protecting Oak Flat.

"We will never stop fighting," said Wendsler Nosie Sr. of Apache Stronghold. "This is a struggle for the soul of our people."

What kind of country lets a 150-year-old law give away sacred land and call it legal?

#DemsUnited

[James Henry @Jameshenry1970]

As a DC9 union painter with 30+ years in coatings, I’m looking at the failure not a conspiracy theory.
When a coating is lifting off in large sheets like this, that points to an adhesion failure: improper surface preparation, contamination left behind, the wrong coating system, poor recoat timing, or water introduced before the system fully cured.

A quality two-part epoxy system can perform well but the product is only as good as the prep and application. The substrate has to be properly profiled/cleaned, the specified primer or first coat applied correctly, recoat windows followed, and the full system allowed to cure before being put back into service.

That is not “vandals.” That is a coating failure that deserves a real independent inspection and an explanation of exactly what system was specified and how it was applied.

#Coatings #Epoxy #SurfacePreparation #PaintFailure #UnionPainter #QualityControl #Accountability #ReflectingPool
#Properpreperation #Elonmusk
#DonaldTrump #Donaldtrumpjr
@krassenstein @EdKrassen @eddsmitty @LucasSa56947288 @adammocklerr @harryjsisson @acnewsitics @Acyn @Bakari_Sellers

[Builder Biz @BuilderBiz]

#Criminals “smarter” than #WeThePeople are making our lives less safe and are #stealing from us. This group of #fools must be rounded up and corralled, to face their #crimes, like other #destructive regimes in history.

[Nick Anderson/Political Cartoonist @Nick_Anderson_]

Reflections
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[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

18 months after the LA fires, Congress has yet to pass a single dollar of relief for the families who lost everything.

Hundreds of people were killed, tens of thousands of homes were burned, and 20,000 people were forced to evacuate. It was the worst disaster on American soil that I have ever seen.

18 months and not a dime of relief. It’s disgraceful.

[Builder Biz @BuilderBiz]

🇺🇸The House of the #People has a squatter who #bullied, #cheated, #lied his way in to break laws, a #criminal. We don’t need this conman, bad actor and his pirates ruining our home. Do something: #EvictTrump #Fascism #Treason - https://t.co/rO6rNU3MOZ

[Builder Biz @BuilderBiz]

#PlayboyPresident of the US (POTUS) can’t be prosecuted for what he does in office? This #murderer destroys business, lives, after lying #Nazi buys him, uses tech to get him #free, elected to make executive orders, create distractions so Mar-a-Lago #Pirates can run destruction.

[Builder Biz @BuilderBiz]

“You must judge a man’s #greatness by how much he will be missed.” What a strange year 2025 has been, starting with avoiding of a Bible, then the “homeless” burning of Pacific Palisades and executive orders to exhaust #WeThePeople. Will you miss this guy and his #circus…ever?

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

You have to read this. 

Trump demolished the East Wing of the White House and replaced it with a private ballroom funded by corporate donors. Now we know what they got for it. 

More than half of the publicly identified donors to that $400 million project won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion in the 6 months after they gave. Most of those same companies also had federal enforcement actions against them suspended by the Trump Administration during the same period. 

There is no honest word for that other than corruption. 
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[Nick Anderson/Political Cartoonist @Nick_Anderson_]

The Situation
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#IranWar‌

[Builder Biz @BuilderBiz]

🤮This evil man must be the most #expensive president the US and world have ever seen. The cost is so, so high in #cruelty, in legal costs, in #destruction of freedom, in disrespect, in money lost, in lawlessness, in arrogance, in distractions to promote division, chaos.

[Jon Spangler #VoteBlue #SlavaUkrainii! DumpTr$mp! @jonmspangler]

"The whole episode neatly captures [Tr$mp's] governing philosophy: if you can’t brand it, break it. If you can’t control it, sabotage it. And if a court stops you, declare everything ruined and storm off." - @Nick_Anderson_
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[Safety+Health @SafetyHealthMag]

This Memorial Day, we pause to remember and honor those who gave everything in service.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This is the question worth asking every time a story like this comes out: if there’s no money for your health care, your kids’ schools, or the programs your family depends on, where is it going?  

The Trump Administration just paid $17.4 million to fix two decorative fountains outside the White House. Three years ago, the same job was estimated at $3.3 million.   

And guess what? The construction company that got the contract is the same one building Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom, and they got it without any competitive bidding whatsoever. The contract wasn’t even posted publicly, as required by federal law.  

So how do you get from $3.3 million to $17.4 million? They added 27% for inflation. Then they added another 24% for inflation again. Then they tacked on additional charges that federal contracting experts said they had never seen before in their careers.  

And the justification for bypassing the normal bidding process entirely? The fountains needed to be ready for America’s 250th anniversary. It’s worth noting that these fountains haven’t worked for nearly a decade. If the repairs were truly that urgent, why are they only fixing them now, and why are taxpayers footing a surcharge for the rush?  

You are paying for this.  
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[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Nos hemos apoderado de barcos petroleros y de su carga, es un negocio muy rentable, somos como piratas. En el Golfo de México tenemos el 92% del frente marítimo, pensé en cambiarle el nombre a Golfo de Trump".

El ladrón de Trump admitió que EEUU está robando barcos petroleros y comportándose como piratas saqueadores que son, además intentó ridiculizar a México diciendo que el Golfo le pertenece a EEUU y le quiso poner su nombre personal a modo de humillación.

Esta es la cara real del imperio, en su estado de descomposición, se acabaron ya las caretas de ir de "demócratas", son piratas saqueadores y lo dicen en la cara de todo el mundo.

[Ahmet Duran Hergün @AhmetDuranHergn]

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[Utah Democratic Party @UtahDemocrats]

Democrats offered a clean bill to fund TSA. Republicans shut it down.

Deploying ICE agents to airports helps no one - this move is nothing more than a recipe for discrimination and abuse. Families ripped apart, citizens questioned without cause, travelers terrorized. We’ve seen this before. We know what they're capable of.