Eric Balken

Skier, river lover

[MC Squared @mcsquared34]

Gestapo assaulting unarmed clergymen Chicago October 2025

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

Why haven't we heard more about South Carolina Judge Diane Goodstein's house being set on fire, after ruling against Trump. Arson is suspected. Her husband and family is hospitalized. MEDIA: Do your f**king job.

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

U.S. manufacturing shrank this past September for the 7th consecutive month.

https://t.co/zRKFPMn2zS

[Nate Blouin @NateForUtah]

TLDR: Republicans passed biased test to favor their own maps, then passed maps the GOP lobbied for, then threatened to impeach judges and the lieutenant governor if they don't get their way. Just another day on the hill.

[Nate Blouin @NateForUtah]

Can we all including those in the media please call out trump’s proclamation that he would cut energy costs in half what it was: a lie.

[KUTV2news @KUTV2News]

Sign seen on the 900 East overpass above I-215 in Murray on Pioneer Day.

[Eric Balken @EricBalken]

@chelseautah @jandmplus6 Balanced budget?!?! 🤣🤣🤣 he just voted to increase the deficit by 4 trillion dollars

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Yeah not fishy at all…

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

It costs taxpayers $89,425 to incarcerate one person at Trump’s “Alligator Alcatraz” per year.

That’s more than what 95% of Americans spend on housing and food.

Republican priorities: Waste tax dollars torturing immigrants, while cutting support for working class families.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

McGovern: "A family making less than $50,000 a year? They get less than $1 a day in tax cuts. You can't buy a damn cup of coffee with that. But those making a million dollars or more? They'll get more than $250 a day in tax breaks ... that's how rigged this bill is to benefit the wealthy."

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

Our $450,000,000 Alligator Alcatraz in Florida Everglades is already flooding. Wonder what’s going to happen in a hurricane.

Don’t worry! 17,000,000 are set to lose their health care to help pay for it.

We are not a serious country.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

Weird.

Did something change in January 2025?

[🇨🇦CoffeyTimeNews🇨🇦 @CoffeyTimeNews]

#AlligatorAuschwitz

[Governor Andy Beshear @GovAndyBeshear]

With the passage of the "big, ugly bill,” the U.S. Senate said it was okay to fire 20,000 Kentucky health-care workers, close 35 rural hospitals in our state and throw over 200,000 of our people off insurance. 1/2

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 FACT: ICE now has a $160 billion budget.

That’s more than the entire United States Marine Corps.

We’re not funding immigration enforcement; we’re funding a domestic military to hunt busboys and break up families.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

McGovern: "So I say to my Republican colleagues -- what's wrong with you people? In this bill you provide a $2 billion tax break for gun silencers, but you cut SNAP benefits for vulnerable families. Jesus Christ!"

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Laughing in front of cages designed to hold migrants and refugees, many of whom came to this country fleeing extreme violence and poverty, and hoping to raise their children in a more compassionate country. And many of whom followed all the legal procedures to enter the country. And remember, 93% have no record of any violent crimes. This facility, then, is comparable to the internment camps for Japanese Americans during the Second World War. But let's call it what it is: a concentration camp. Jesus wept.

[Billy Baldwin @BillyBaldwin]

How come when you give a subsidy to the working class... it's socialism.

But when you give it to an oligarch... it's capitalism?

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: Trump now openly calling for the deportation of U.S. citizens.

“We have a lot of bad people … many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here too.”

That’s not immigration policy.
That’s fascism with a passport scanner.

He’s not talking about “illegals” anymore.
He’s talking about you. About anyone who disagrees. About journalists. Activists. Protesters. Citizens.

[Jeremiah Johnson 🌐 @JeremiahDJohns]

We're exploding the national debt, but at least your energy bill will go up and ten million people will lose their healthcare, so who can really say if it's bad or not