Cynthia Lucas

[RSM #NAFO fellas @Rod_dk]

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[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Yosemite made headlines yesterday. A few things got left out.

Yosemite belongs to every American. It is not Trump's to give away.

Jeff Pori, the CEO of the company set to gain from this deal, had zero political donations on record — ever — before October 2024. That's before Trump even won the election. Starting that month, he began giving monthly to Trump's campaign and the RNC, more than $4,000 total. He kept paying through the transition. And the moment Trump's people were in power, by spring 2025, a request that had been dead for over 20 years suddenly came roaring back to life.

They'd tried this before. In the late 1990s, a different owner of this same land sued for this same access. He lost — first in district court, then again on appeal in 2012. Dead. Over. Then in 2024, Kingsbarn Realty Capital — run by Pori — bought that same land for $4 million and asked for the same road. Told no again. Until Trump took office.

Around that same time, Kingsbarn also closed a deal with two companies tied straight to Trump's inner circle — one run by a man who personally underwrote Trump's $175 million bond in his own civil fraud case.

Political appointees pushed Park Service staff to make this deal happen. The pressure traced back to Burgum's own office. Two former officials, speaking anonymously out of fear of retaliation, confirmed it.

There's even a plan to use the Land and Water Conservation Fund — money meant to protect public land — to help pay for it. When two senators, one from each party, sent Interior their own list of projects worth funding this way, Yosemite wasn't on it. It was never even in consideration.

Former Yosemite superintendent Cicely Muldoon put it plainly: if this can happen at Yosemite, "it can really happen anywhere in the national park system." The National Park Service oversees 433 sites across the country, spanning more than 85 million acres of public land — all of it belonging to the American people.

The Sierra Club is speaking out too. Executive Director Loren Blackford says this plan is "betraying that legacy by trying to hand parts of Yosemite to a private developer."

Senator Alex Padilla didn't hold back: "This is the most corrupt administration in history."

This isn't about one road, or one developer, or one park. It's about whether anything protected in this country is actually protected — or just waiting for the right administration to give it away.

🦋HumanityUnited #DemsUnited

[Capitalism With Rules @bradgies]

Everyone needs to be aware of this.

Republican bills always try to hide the worst effects until AFTER you vote. You need to read the bill to find out how much it affects you.

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Imagine the amount of propaganda it took to convince millions of people that healthcare, food assistance, social programs, clean water, clean air, good wages, housing, equal rights, diversity and a healthy planet for all people was somehow a threat to America and to Christianity.

[Justin Brannan @JustinBrannan]

Are we seriously still debating raising the retirement age and cutting benefits for working people to keep Social Security solvent while someone earning $1 million stops paying Social Security tax after their first $184,500 in wages? C’mon, bro.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

The way that Republicans are getting away with showing no proof of life for Mitch McConnell is astounding because it’s already been 75 days since we last heard from or saw Mitch McConnell & all of this time we’re still paying him & his staff including all their benefits. 🤬

[Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley]

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[shelby @thetrueshelby]

If Sarah Huckabee Sanders won’t debate, how are Arkansans supposed to know where she stands? Data centers? Iran? Flock cameras?

Can local media start demanding answers?

How did we get to a point where a governor can stay silent on major issues and nobody holds her accountable?

[Kentucky Girl @Kentuckygirl1]

The legacy media in the US is so corrupt that the DISAPPEARANCE of a US Senator is completely ignored.

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen in person in 76 days, and not a single corporate media “investigative journalist” has even raised an eyebrow.

[Cynthia Lucas @CynthiaLuc65191]

@jeremyct Clearly his did not learn much at his university

[Owen @Owennfa]

Private Equity Firm: "We're buying your company. Nothing changes for employees."

You: "I've worked here nineteen years. Same title, same team, same clients."

Private Equity Firm: "Correct. Onboarding is seamless."

You: "There's a company-wide memo about restructuring."

Private Equity Firm: "Standard integration process."

You: "It says 40% of positions are being eliminated."

Private Equity Firm: "Efficiency optimization."

You: "Mine's one of them."

Private Equity Firm: "We appreciate your nineteen years of contribution."

You: "The company just took on $2 billion in debt to fund your own purchase."

Private Equity Firm: "That's a capital structure decision."

You: "So I lose my job to pay off the loan you used to buy the place I worked at?"

Private Equity Firm: "You're welcome to apply for the new role. It pays 30% less."

You didn't get bought by a company.

You got bought by a debt collection scheme wearing a name you used to trust.

[Cynthia Lucas @CynthiaLuc65191]

@TheStripesGirl Non consensual is not called sex

[BigDaddy @strujillo075]

A formal disbarment complaint has been filed against Chief Justice John Roberts at the DC Bar, alleging a pattern of financial disclosure violations spanning two decades. The complaint alleges that Roberts failed to recuse himself from over 500 cases argued by firms that had paid his household and repeatedly mischaracterized his wife's commission income as salary on federal financial disclosure forms.

[Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog @DougWahl1]

OKAY SOUTH CAROLINA HERE IS YOUR CHOICE

Option 1- a woman who actually graduated from med school and is a professor of pediatrics at USC

Option 2- a woman who's only qualification is that her brother once held the job

Doesn't seem like that hard of a choice

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

In July the House passed a bill banning members of Congress from trading stocks.

Someone moved to make it cover the president too.

The committee killed it, 8 to 4.

Republicans wrote the rules and left Trump out on purpose.

Remember that in November.

#TrumpsCorruptionCostsUS

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Under RFK Jr. and Dr. Oz's leadership, Medicare rolled out a pilot program that allows AI companies to profit from denying seniors their health care.

They are literally incentivized to RIP health care away from seniors.

I’m fighting to END this program.