Built US Tough

Words are fun! First Amendment enthusiast, responsive to the quagmire of the status quo. Profane, thoughtful, rarely whimsical. Read with forewarning.

[Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney]

In appeals court fight over the White House ballroom, DOJ says the federal government could quickly bulldoze the statute of liberty and no one would have standing to sue over the changes once the demolition is done.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

This remains one of the few times a journalist stood up to the orange fascist with a simple question: “Do you regret all the lying you've done to the American people?"
~ S.V. Dáte, HuffPost correspondent

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump is passed out in the Oval Office right now. 25TH AMENDMENT NOW!

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Unearthed footage shows Elias Irizarry, who was recently appointed to a top counterterrorism job, climbing through a Capitol window on January 6th

[Glenn Thrush @GlennThrush]

This is really, actually, no-kidding the disclaimer Hannity ran after his interview with Todd Blanche

[1913 @Timecop1913]

@SenatorCollins The grift is too good, huh, Senator Collins?

[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

[Marjorie Taylor Greene 🇺🇸 @mtgreenee]

Thomas Massie’s remaining months in Congress must not be missed. 😎

[Tyler McBrien @TylerMcBrien]

NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfare's Katherine Pompilio finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Rep. Angie Craig admonishes Brooke Rollins: "Joe Biden is no longer the president. Mr. Trump is. Your party controls Congress. You own these numbers at this point. I'm sick of hearing you blame an administration from a year and half ago. You own every single bit of this."

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

50 Senate Republicans just blocked a measure that would permanently stop Trump from creating his $1.8B slush fund for J6ers

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

ALERT: Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-LA) files court brief urging judge to HALT Trump slush fund

Cassidy & Sen. Cory Booker argue the case "is a question of whether the machinery of democratic government may be turned, by design and with explicit intent, against the democratic foundations it exists to serve"

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[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

oh my goodness -- Ted Lieu played Rubio a video of Trump sleeping while Rubio tried to talk to him during a cabinet meeting. Then this exchange happened:

RUBIO: I've never seen him fall asleep

LIEU: I'm gonna show you a video that shows you just lied to Congress

*plays another video of Trump sleeping by Rubio*

[Built US Tough @BuiltUSTough]

@WhiteHouse We’ve heard Trump beg to go to prison for years. Rubio now sings the same tune.

[Built US Tough @BuiltUSTough]

@SenMikeLee Funny! White supremacists waging war againt their enemy, the SPLC. We see you, Mike Kee.

[Built US Tough @BuiltUSTough]

@RepJamesComer @Jim_Jordan ‘s , Republican led Ohio

[Built US Tough @BuiltUSTough]

@JudiciaryGOP Trust. If we could boot your criminal, thug asses out of the country we would. Firing you at midterms will have to suffice.

[Built US Tough @BuiltUSTough]

@AAGDhillon @CivilRights Go ride a bus Harmeet

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Matt Brooks bragging that the Republican Jewish Coalition spent millions to buy a congressional seat in Kentucky… but if you observe the same thing, you’re antisemitic.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Dean: You were paid $10 million to represent the president, you hang a banner of the president’s menacing face on the DOJ, you said if you were terminated, you would tell the president I love you. Is your obligation to the victims of Epstein or is your obligation to the president?

Blanche: We want to bring justice—

Dean: When?

Blanche: CAN I PLEASE FINISH?