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Immigrant from dictatorship. Fiercely pro-democracy.Traveler.

[Facts first! 💙💛. 🚩 Laws & backgrd checks @CuriousAbout2]

@craigaroo @jaypoltwit @BarbMcQuade Unless you’ve experienced dictatorship first hand it’s hard to see it until you give up hope that the people screaming WOLF! are wrong. We immigrants KNEW who he was when he came down his gilt elevator to announce. #TrumpCoupAttempt

[Katie @KazooKatherine]

Wow! Raskin just sent Kash Patel this letter. It’s umm… interesting. Read it twice. 👀

The House Judiciary minority says Patel has handed out more than $1 million in “bonus” payments to agents on his Director’s Advisory Team and his security detail. The letter calls it a personal slush fund.

Here’s the mechanism. Federal pay is capped by statute. The letter alleges Patel routed money around that cap. Nearly $8,000 per agent, every two-week pay period. Some collected five in a row. Roughly $40,000 each.

Then the accounts ran dry. Raskin says some of the payments bounced.

Who got paid? The letter points to the unit NOTUS reported as the “Payback Squad.” And it ties the cash to silence, alleging agents were polygraphed over whether they helped cover up Patel’s drinking.

Now the other column. The agents he fired include an FBI Medal of Valor recipient, the official who led the Jan 6 law enforcement response, a Marine combat veteran cut weeks after his wife died of cancer, and a counterintelligence unit that tracked Iranian threats.

Reward the loyal. Purge the rest.

Raskin wants every bonus, every authorization, and every legal memo on whether this broke federal law. Deadline June 29.

[Facts first! 💙💛. 🚩 Laws & backgrd checks @CuriousAbout2]

🔥🔥🔥Every word of this! 🔥🔥🔥

[Facts first! 💙💛. 🚩 Laws & backgrd checks @CuriousAbout2]

Let’s hope JD Vance hanged himself here.

[Facts first! 💙💛. 🚩 Laws & backgrd checks @CuriousAbout2]

#EpsteinReadingRoom I’ll be booking my flight…

[Lesley Abravanel 🪩 @lesleyabravanel]

Trump called the Epstein files a hoax. Meanwhile, his White House held Situation Room meetings over what might come out. JD Vance was in the room. Blanche was in the room. Put them under oath. On camera. Now.

[Facts first! 💙💛. 🚩 Laws & backgrd checks @CuriousAbout2]

@RepDonBeyer This is the view the arch would block. #Arch

[Rep. John Larson @RepJohnLarson]

Trump policies have pushed Social Security's insolvency closer than ever.

Republicans have no plan. The administration cut staff and closed offices in their push to privatize the system.

We need to protect Social Security and enhance benefits to keep pace with rising costs!

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Tucker Carlson confirms Donald Trump personally shut down the investigation into his own assassination attempt. He reveals Dan Bongino was completely terrified when confronted with hidden FBI evidence.

The White House is covering up the Butler shooting!

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Carol Leonnig: “…what we were hearing last night…was that the Ohio Organizing Collaborative…one of its offices in Cleveland was targeted and raided by FBI agents yesterday. In addition to that, what we learned was that a series of FBI agents were fanning out across the state…to interview people and approach them at their homes, who had worked as volunteers registering voters, or as canvassers for the collaborative, and those interviews, if you can call them that, were conducted often WITHOUT warrants…So FBI agents were essentially just going into people’s homes and saying we’d like to ask you a few questions, which is NOT how the FBI normally investigates these kinds of matters…their great concern is that this is part of a larger Trump administration effort to basically target swing states and to target pro democracy organizations who might register Democratic voters, or help them register to vote, and question and sow distrust in those swing states in the integrity of the elections.” 😳

[BTC Clips @BTC_clips]

.@RobertGarcia: “We're also hearing there's more to come about JD Vance now being centered in this obscene [Epstein] scandal and cover-up… This is very significant; it's the first time Vance is now at the center of this cover-up, directing, giving ideas, making suggestions.”

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Tonight, Marc Elias breaks down an ominous sign of the times: the DOJ is bringing anti-voting litigation against its own citizens.

As he tells @NicolleDWallace, we need more informed people in this fight than ever before. We're tracking every single case.

Support us and stand with the pro-democracy movement: https://t.co/a0iV8tKNe9

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

I'm blown away by this EXCELLENT piece of @CNN reporting. This journalist @katie_polglase demonstrates how to conduct interviews with Epstein associates. She had this guy sweating, because she did her homework. Bravo. (Worth getting through the ad to watch.)...https://t.co/qbzVqDcPbs

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries
https://t.co/8kY171r5w1

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Republicans are in charge because we promised:

to Make America Healthy Again.
to start No New Wars,
to put people above corporations,
to put America above foreign countries,
to release the Epstein files,
to not spy on citizens,
to eliminate fraud,

what the hell happened?!

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Friends— If you haven’t read the @nytimes 🚨‼️Bombshell Report🚨‼️on the Epstein Cover Up in the White House, it’s a MUST READ for your weekend reading list!

Article Below—https://t.co/ptmQQCzwqP

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

If you care about the Epstein Files, you need to watch this reporting from the New York Times.

The Trump Administration has done everything possible to avoid releasing them. The survivors deserve real justice, and this Administration is doing everything it can to stand in the way of that. It needs to stop.

The survivors and the American people deserve the truth.