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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
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[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

Hunter Biden is going to be a big, big problem for the GOP. Listen to what he’s saying here. He literally has receipts.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Netanyahu knows Americans are sick of funding Israel’s wars. So now he’s working with Congress to hide military aid inside Pentagon co-production deals.

That means MORE U.S. tax dollars for Israel, with even LESS oversight.

Not gonna happen!

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) says it is “deeply alarmed” about the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) new rule created to carry out President Donald Trump’s plans for restricting mail-in voting. https://t.co/ZHYGFbkSCC

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

FBI records obtained through a Judicial Watch lawsuit reveal that a Butler County Sheriff’s deputy exchanged two emails with Trump shooter Thomas Crooks before the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt. The records remain heavily redacted, concealing the nature of the communications. The documents also reveal a SWAT officer recovered a cell phone and a remote device with an antenna from Crooks after he was killed.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

This week, my amendment to ban billionaire-funded super PACs received unanimous support from my Democratic colleagues.

The momentum is growing. It’s time to repeal Citizens United, ban super PACs and move to the public funding of elections NOW.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

The Pentagon has raised its assessment of an Israeli espionage threat against the United States to its highest level, according to US media reports citing sources.

🔴 More on https://t.co/OCIH7J4Zwl

[Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove @RepKamlagerDove]

Sore loser doing sore loser things. CA allows up to a week after election day for mail-in ballots arrive—and every voter receives a mail-in ballot so they can vote by mail like Donald Trump. There's no conspiracy.

Stop complaining about things you're too dumb to understand.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

This is remarkable. Trump is giving Pulte, who lacks the statutory qualification (national security expertise) for the DNI job the position so they can manufacture another stolen election charge, or perhaps try to justify halting them altogether. It’s out in the open.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Trump promised not to “touch” Medicaid.

Now he is cutting it by $1 trillion and taking health care away from patients with cancer, AIDS and other life-threatening diseases to pay for tax breaks to the top 1% and his wealthy campaign contributors.

Unimaginable cruelty.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

California just held an election with paper ballots, signature verification, audits, bipartisan oversight, and public vote counting procedures.

You don’t get to yell “fraud” every time voters make a choice you don’t like.

Take the whiny little b*tch act somewhere else. We’re not buying that bullshit in this state!

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Californian here. You stupid MAGA dipshits. Blue represents POPULATION DENSITY.

The red represents VIRTUAL NOTHINGNESS.

Hope this helps you dumb fucks out.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

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[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

Elon deserves to be in prison for life

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: One day after Trump baselessly accused California Democrats of trying to "steal" the state's gubernatorial primary, the DOJ said its pursuing election fraud probes in the state.

The development comes amid the state's delayed primary count, which are a normal part of the verification process. https://t.co/Yj4YIzMcjx

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Why do Republicans hate that California counts every vote?

[Kairos.MP5 @KAIROSMMA2]

OH MY GOODNESS. I never thought I would ever say this . BRYCE MITCHELL IS FUCKING SPITTING

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

The newly operational Trump Presidential Library, the entity responsible for preserving White House records, says it cannot find a single Twitter direct message sent by a president who tweeted more than 25,000 times during his first term — raising questions about compliance with the Presidential Records Act. https://t.co/NRmfSuCTfM

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

That time Laura Trump told Eric to ease up on the Masonic hand sign

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Judge J. Michael Luttig tells MeidasTouch:

"The tectonic plates of American politics have at last shifted — seemingly suddenly and overnight. But these plates of America’s politics have actually been shifting inexorably and indectable every single day for the past 18 months.

There is no mistaking that the Federal Judiciary — the federal courts of the United States — have brought about this inevitable end to this president’s war on the Federal Judiciary, the Constitution, and the Rule of Law in America — and with it the effective end to this presidency."