David Rickabaugh 🇺🇲🇨🇺

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[David Rickabaugh 🇺🇲🇨🇺 @DRickabaugh]

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[David Rickabaugh 🇺🇲🇨🇺 @DRickabaugh]

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[David Rickabaugh 🇺🇲🇨🇺 @DRickabaugh]

@californiapost I was just there yesterday! I wish I had known this when I was there!

[David Rickabaugh 🇺🇲🇨🇺 @DRickabaugh]

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[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Hey DOGE and NEWSMAX, can we get an update here?  

Turns out preventing a flesh-eating parasite from invading U.S. livestock wasn’t government waste…

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

A Trump insider opened a $51,000,000 oil short position — hours before Trump announced a ceasefire with Iran. This guy is now 16 for 16. $170 million in profit. A perfect streak.
This is not a talented trader.
"We placed the bet." "The ceasefire dropped." "We cashed out." Sixteen times in a row.
That is not skill. That is not instinct. That is not research.
That is someone who knows what is coming before it comes.
Think about what that actually means. A private individual is placing a $51 million bet that oil prices are about to collapse — hours before a sitting president announces a ceasefire that collapses oil prices. Not once. Sixteen times. Zero losses.
There are only two explanations and both should terrify you.
Either someone inside the White House — or with direct access to it — is leaking ceasefire negotiations to traders before diplomats, before the press, before the American people hear a single word. That is insider trading. That is corruption. That is a federal crime.
Or the timing of the announcement itself is being shaped around the trade. Which is worse.
This is not a genius investor who reads the news faster than you do. The news hadn't happened yet. He wasn't reading the news. He was getting a phone call.
While Americans were watching the ceasefire announcement and feeling relieved — somebody already knew. Somebody had already bet $51 million on it. And somebody was already counting their winnings.
You are not watching a free market. You are watching a White House with a side hustle. Via~ Really American

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

More people need to be talking about this.

Remember the classified documents case Trump made disappear the second he took office? The one he was facing 40 felony counts for? The one where a judge he appointed buried the Special Counsel’s report?

Well, Washington Republicans handed Congress documents last week to clear his name, and it backfired. BADLY.

Because those documents contained evidence that Trump was showing passengers on his private plane some of the most CLASSIFIED secrets in existence — material so sensitive that only SIX people in the entire U.S. government had clearance to see it.

This isn’t over.
https://t.co/BexYFJ7gT4

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

>>@IamPoliticsGirl said it best: “In the past year, Trump has pardoned at least 14 of his friends for fraud...whose fraud adds up to around $700 million dollars.”

“You wanted them to drain the swamp? Well, DC is now the thickest, grossest, deepest, darkest swamp that has ever been.”

“You want fraud and corruption, JD, maybe you start your task force with the President's son-in-law because these people don't give a s*** about fraud. All they want is talking points against Democrats. This administration is a fraud, and the American people deserve so much better.”

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

RFK Jr saying "none of the 72 vaccines given to children have been tested against placebo "

The reality :

- Children are not given 72 vaccines
- The ones they are given have been tested against placebo

This serial liar is your HHS Secretary.

[Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @AOC]

@BigFish3000 Nice try. I took the Amtrak home.

We tried to pay TSA almost a dozen times and Republicans said no every time. Then the GOP Speaker closed session last night and sent everyone home.

Please Google what party is in charge of Congress right now. The answer may surprise you!

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

A bill passed the Senate last night 100-0 to fund TSA, the Coast Guard and FEMA. If Speaker Johnson called it for a vote it would pass easily.

But he won’t do that. Because Trump has ordered him to keep TSA shut down and keep the chaos.

Pure incompetence.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

SCHLAPP: Who wants to see impeachment hearings?

CPAC CROWD: *cheers*

SCHLAPP: No. That was the wrong answer.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is truly insane, and it should be front page news across America. 

Denmark secretly deployed soldiers to Greenland prepared to blow up airport runways to stop a U.S. invasion.

They brought blood supplies to treat the wounded. France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden quietly coordinated against us.

This was not a drill.

This was our closest allies preparing to fight Americans.

Let that sink in. NATO allies. Countries whose soldiers have fought and died alongside ours for decades. They looked at this president and decided they had to prepare for the worst.

Fewer allies does not make America great. It makes us more isolated, more vulnerable, and it hands Russia and China exactly what they have always wanted: an America abandoned by its friends.

The American people deserve to know how badly this president has damaged our standing in the world.  https://t.co/lxQD3X8jaM

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

Sen. John Kennedy admits on Fox News that the Republicans and Democrats reached a deal to fund TSA, but Trump said, “No. No deals with the Democrats.”

Kennedy says, “It would have worked. We could have had TSA paid by the end of the week.”

This is the Trump shutdown!

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Donald Trump called mail-in voting “mail-in cheating” on Monday. That same day, news broke that he just voted by mail in a Florida special election.

His polling place is a 15-minute drive from Mar-a-Lago.

He spent the last two weekends there.

He mailed it anyway.

He is now holding the entire country hostage to pass a bill making it harder for you to vote the way he just voted.

Shameless hypocrisy.
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[Bark @barkmeta]

Let me explain what just happened 👇

5 minutes before the President announced a halt to attacks on Iran… someone placed a $1.5 BILLION bet on stocks going up and dumped $192 million in oil.

5 minutes…

These trades were 4 to 6 times larger than anything else in the entire market. Whoever did this wasn’t guessing. You don’t risk $1.5 billion on a hunch.

There was zero public indication this announcement was coming. No leaks. No press. Nothing. The only people who knew were in the room when the decision was made.

Someone in that room picked up a phone.
And within minutes they made more money than most Americans will earn in a thousand lifetimes. In a single trade. On a war that cost you $4+ a gallon gas and $16 billion in tax dollars.

American citizens funded this war. Politicians are profiting from it.

This is not the first time. Every major announcement from this administration has had massive suspicious trades right before it dropped. Tariff reversals. Policy shifts. War decisions.

This is the most blatant insider trading operation in the history of American politics. It’s not even close. And it’s happening over and over in broad daylight.

You would go to federal prison for trading on a tip from your cousin. These people are front running war decisions with billion dollar bets and nobody will ever ask a single question.

Nobody will be investigated. Nobody will be charged. By tomorrow this will be buried under the next satisfying headline. Just like last time. And the time before that.

The game is rigged. And they’re not even trying to hide it anymore…

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 Epstein’s accountant just testified under oath:

The Epstein estate settled with Jane Doe 4 — for both Epstein and Trump.

Jane Doe 4 alleged to the FBI that Epstein abused her at 13. And that Trump abused her at 15.

The Jane Doe 4 files were missing. Discovered only through the Maxwell discovery when lawyers noticed Bates stamp numbers were gone.

Those files surfaced after Trump bombed Iran.

The lawyer tried to walk back the settlement testimony.

The accountant refused to confirm or deny.

Trump started a war the same week the Epstein names were supposed to drop.

Never stop connecting the dots.

[Ford News @FordJohnathan5]

🚨 #BREAKINGNEWS Its appears Speaker Mike Johnson caught on hot mic that The Save Act would result in 12% to 18% voter turnout. Saying that would be huge for the Republican Party. The Save Act is a voter suppression bill. Not elections security.🚨

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🤦🏽‍♂️ At a Kennedy Center board meeting today Trump forced Speaker Johnson to discuss Florida Congressman Neal Dunn’s illness.

Johnson: “I think it was a terminal diagnosis.”

Trump: “He would be dead by June.”

Johnson: “That wasn’t public, but yeah, okay.”

A sitting president just publicly announced a congressman’s private terminal diagnosis — information that was not public — in a room full of people.

No consent. No warning. No regard for the man’s family hearing this on the news.
This is the same president who:

— Turned a dignified transfer photo into a fundraising email

— Skipped Sergeant Pennington’s homecoming to play golf

— Said he’s “willing to live with” whatever the report shows about 175 dead schoolgirls

There is no floor.

Speaker Johnson sat there and said “yeah, okay.”

That is what submission looks like.

Never stop connecting the dots.

[Art Candee 🍿🥤 @ArtCandee]

If this isn’t one of the biggest stories of the day, then it should be.

Americans are stranded in the Middle East because of Donald Trump’s war in Iran, but the the Deputy Chief of Staff and an elected official are helping to fly out MAGA “influencers” on a private jet?

Alex Bruesewitz’s own words on his own post:

“I want to thank White House Deputy Chief of Staff @JamesBlairUSA, Congresswoman @realAnnaPaulina, and all the other U.S. government officials who helped me.”