Elsa 🟧

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

DOGE was just a cover for the largest robbery of the American people in history.

[Gina Hinojosa @GinaHinojosaTX]

Let's be clear: this is not just a city issue, this is a crisis that requires a governor who shows up as a partner with local communities – bringing together state and federal resources to get this right – not someone who threatens to cut off funding unless a city does exactly what his insiders want.

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

Every voter should ask themselves why this ok.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HOLY SH*T! Trump's Pentagon hires a convicted Jan. 6th insurrectionist to work in a top position with access to highly classified military information.

And it gets so much worse...

According to bombshell reporting from The Washington Post, Elias Irizarry has been given a powerful job inside the Defense Department’s Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict office.

Irizarry took part in the deadly Capitol riot when he was 19 years old and rather than reassess his life after he was convicted for his crimes, he chose to double down on MAGA fascism. He ran unsuccessfully for a South Carolina state House seat as a Republican and now he's bringing his noxious politics to the halls of the Pentagon.

And Irizarry was not a minor insurrectionist. He was part of the hardcore band of Trumpers who entered into the actual Capitol building through a broken window. He was wielding a metal pole as a weapon, but didn't strike anyone that we know of.

When the FBI searched his phone, they discovered “a gap of data between January 1, 2021 and January 8, 2021, which suggests that Irizarry deleted information from his cell phone pertaining to his involvement on January 6, 2021." He was sentenced to two weeks in jail and was eventually pardoned by Trump.

The Post reports that DoD staff have "raised alarm" about Irizarry's appointment and "question how anyone convicted in the assault on American democracy could be trusted for such a sensitive role in the U.S. government." They were forced to voice these concerns anonymously, because the administration has a reputation for vindictive retribution against anyone who speaks out against regime decisions.

Irizarry will be working inside the office's irregular warfare and counterterrorism section despite having zero experience for the role. His only "qualification" is that he's a MAGA loyalist who sought to destroy our sacred tradition of a peaceful transfer of power. For the Trump administration, that's good enough.

The section that he'll be working in deals with embassy security and hostage rescue among other duties. According to two people familiar with the work speaking to the Post, it's some of the "most delicate that the Pentagon perform." When a crisis strikes, he will be totally unprepared.

“In the case of rescue/extraction missions, it can place our special operators in some of the most complex and dangerous environments we ask of them,” said one source. “To put someone so junior and new to DOD, and with such a checkered background, into such a sensitive portfolio raises serious questions for leadership.”

This hiring represents a convergence between two destructive Trumpian trends: hiring utter incompetents and politicizing nonpartisan institutions. This administration routinely hires people who are completely incapable of doing their jobs because they only care about MAGA loyalty. The result is a weakened, ideologically poisoned government.

When Democrat retake power, we must sweep every last one of these cretins out of our bureaucracies.

Please ❤️ and share to demand that this traitor be fired!

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

I am not making this up: Secretary Rubio actually sat before Congress today and said “the war is over.”

It’s a bizarre lie to tell when Americans know there’s obviously a war underway - not just from seeing it on screens, but from paying its costs every day at home.

Leaders with this little respect for the American people have no business in office.

[Joaquin Castro @JoaquinCastrotx]

The Trump Administration doesn’t want people to know about the brutality that takes place at the Dilley trailer prison—the only place in America where we imprison young children who have done nothing wrong.

The food and the water make them sick. Medical care is often delayed or denied outright. The education offered is inadequate. Families are separated from one another.

As a country, we cannot allow children to be treated like this. Dilley should be shut down.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 REPORT: Investigation reveals Trump officials have likely stolen over $220 million by giving government contracts to fake shell companies.

[Gina Hinojosa @GinaHinojosaTX]

The people of Corpus Christi need to know the water will be there when they turn on the tap.

But Abbott's answer was to strong-arm their elected leaders into a billion-dollar deal that would have enriched his donors and handed the bill to families.

The people of Corpus Christi deserve leadership. As governor, I’ll deliver it.

[Elsa 🟧 @Elsamia]

@JoyceWhiteVance

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Family wealth generated while holding office.

We are not angry enough about this.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

A message to all sane Republicans:

He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals.
You said nothing.

He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.

He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing.

He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing.

He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing.

He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing.

He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing.

He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.

His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing.

He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing.

His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing.

He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing.

He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing.

It’s time to start talking.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

NEW: Rep. Jamie Raskin is calling on Todd Blanche to resign.

"[W]e must demand that Todd Blanche resign. An Attorney General who has disgraced himself by settling a bogus lawsuit with a $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded bonanza payout to convicted cop beaters and a Super Pardon wiping away any violations of federal law for an entire family and all their businesses has no place being America's top law enforcement officer. If he is going to work for Donald Trump rather than the American people, Donald Trump should pay him along with his favored criminal convicts."

[Alex Vindman 🇺🇸 @AVindman]

My opponent Ashley Moody voted to block key funding for FEMA — she’s part of the problem.

She’s a rubber-stamp on this administration’s agenda, even when it puts Floridians in danger.

[Gina Hinojosa @GinaHinojosaTX]

We are working every vote across the state to win.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING:Psaki: “Tonight the judge who initially oversaw Trump’s lawsuit against the IRS, REOPENED the case, and this is a very significant development because remember, as part of his ‘settlement’, Trump voluntarily [withdrew] his case, he [withdrew] it just days before his personal lawyers and DOJ were going to be forced to explain to the judge how the heck they were actually oppositional parties, how Trump and the IRS that worked for HIS Treasury Department were on different sides…and if the judge didn’t buy their story, it could have been grounds for the judge to toss Trump’s case altogether. So instead of actually working through the court system, Trump settled out of court, again, with HIS OWN Justice Department.”🤦‍♀️

[Alex Vindman 🇺🇸 @AVindman]

I’m not taking a dime of corporate PAC money — our campaign is fueled by grassroots supporters who are fed up and ready for change, and I couldn’t be prouder.

[Joe @electionsjoe]

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK. This is insane. Republicans are voiding elections that have already happened to change the maps to get the results they want. They're dismantling democracy.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 HOLY SHIT.

A U.S. citizen just testified before the Senate that ICE agents ignored his passport, detained him, placed him on suicide watch, and released him WITHOUT charges or explanation.

Read that again.

An AMERICAN CITIZEN says he showed agents his passport multiple times…

and still ended up locked in a cell under 24/7 lights, stripped naked, wearing a hospital gown while guards watched him constantly.

His family reportedly had no idea where he was.

Then after all of that?

No charges.
No explanation.
Just released.

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

110,000. Let’s get this up to 1.7 million views.