Krissy

Mom of 2 girls and 3 fur babies, wife, teacher & advocate for K-12 multiple language speakers. Fiercely Independent voter voting all blue until the GQP is gone!

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

Real story:

Judge was about to throw out the case bc Trump controls both parties.

Before it’s dismissed, Trump tells both parties to reach a “settlement.”

Settlement shields Trump from any future audit and creates a secret slush fund that can dole out money to anyone with no transparency.

Mind-boggling corruption.

@SpeakerJohnson - you may not know it, but your job is to conduct oversight of the admin. You can’t run away from this one.

[Aaron Fritschner @Fritschner]

This is actually fucking crazy

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

This week's Missouri Supreme Court ruling was already decided before the lawyers ever stepped foot in the courtroom.

Oral arguments in the morning. A 54-page opinion by that afternoon — unanimous, dozens of citations, upholding the GOP gerrymander.

It gets worse. The Supreme Court pulled the same move just one day prior...

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Trump wants to create lists of verified U.S. citizens eligible to vote in each state through an executive order that many election law experts say is unconstitutional.

But this week, a federal judge said there’s “no legal harm for the courts to remedy” at this point. https://t.co/lPflvpuWfB

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: “Guess where Trump’s adult son @EricTrump is right now? Well, he’s with his father in China. Now, Eric Trump does NOT have a role in the U.S. government. In fact, he’s supposed to be sort of fire-walled off from ANY U.S. government activities because he took over the family businesses when his father reentered the White House supposedly to prevent conflicts of interest, but there he is…”🙄

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 F*CKING OUTRAGEOUS ‼️

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Trump is negotiating to settle his lawsuit against his own IRS, and one of the remedies being floated (along with almost 2 billion dollars) is the IRS dropping all audits of Trump, his family, and his businesses.

Just absolutely staggering corruption.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 Trump illegally taxed working families for over a year.

The Supreme Court said it was unconstitutional. $166 billion is being refunded right now.

But here’s the part no one is talking about.
The refunds are going to the importers. Not to you. Not to the families who paid $1,751 more on groceries, on clothes, on car parts, on everything.

330,000 corporations are getting checks. 53 million shipments are being refunded with interest. You paid the tax. They’re getting the money. Trump said he’d “fight” giving any of it back to families.

His own words.

Newsom is right. Pay the people. $1,751 per household. Every dollar.

What’s the point of a court ruling something illegal if the people who actually paid never get their money back?

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

⚠️ A right-wing legal group has filed a lawsuit seeking to strike down Illinois’ Voting Rights Act.

The case appears to be the first major lawsuit challenging a state Voting Rights Act after the Supreme Court gutted the federal VRA — and the outcome could put other state-level voting protections at risk. https://t.co/dyydoX2Gs3

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Wow. This NYC pop up is 🔥

The Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room is open as a public installation displaying all 3.5 million pages of the released and partially redacted Epstein files, printed and bound into 3,437 volumes.

This shouldn’t just stay in NYC. Take it on the road.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨CORRUPTION: Trump just pardoned Joseph Schwartz, a nursing home executive who stole $38 MILLION from workers’ paychecks, healthcare funds, retirement accounts, and life savings across 11 states.

Here’s what’s make this even worse:

A working family misses a mortgage payment, they lose their home. A single mom misses healthcare payments, her kid loses coverage. But if you rob working people blind and have connections? Trump sets you free.

Schwartz served just THREE MONTHS before getting a full pardon.

That’s not law and order. That’s a crime syndicate protecting its own.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

In case anyone was wondering WHY America is still at war with Iran after declaring victory in Iran NINE WEEKS AGO, it's because Netanyahu hasn't given trump permission to end the war there yet.

NETANYAHU: "It's not over."
Americans should be LIVID.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump took $59 million from 590,000 Americans for a phone that may never exist.

Then quietly updated the terms:

“No guarantee a phone will be produced or sold.”

The crypto coin. The sneakers. The Bible. The gold card. The ballroom. The phone.

Every single time the same pattern.

Take the money. Change the terms. Walk away.

[Political Punk @actingliketommy]

I saw this video on Viola Davis' instagram this morning and everyone needs to see it.

The gutting of the VRA is the most significant attack on ALL civil rights in America in my lifetime, and after they already came for the women..

We better wake the fuck up. None of us is safe:

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

WOW "SCOTUS USED FAKE DATA AND THE MEDIA WENT CRICKETS." I don't know why more people aren't talking about this. Republicans are trying to bury it as fast as they can.

Sam Alito didn't just gut the Voting Rights Act. He built the opinion on fake data from Trump's DOJ.

The lie? Black voter turnout beat white turnout in 2 of 5 recent presidential elections in Louisiana. The media? Silent. Go figure.

Confirmed sources caught it: Alito used a rigged formula counting non-citizens and felons as "eligible voters" to juice the numbers. Real data? Black turnout only exceeded white in one election: 2012.

Expert Michael McDonald: "They had to fudge how they're calculating the turnout rate... Someone knew what they were doing."

Who else signed their name to a Supreme Court opinion built on cooked books? All six conservatives: Roberts, Thomas, Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, Barrett. Not one fact-check. Not one care.

They didn't interpret law—they fabricated facts to kill a civil rights law Black people bled for. And the media barely blinked. A Supreme Court justice using fake data to destroy voting rights should be an all-timer scandal. But it's 2026, so it's just Thursday.

THE GOP IS THE BIGGEST PONZI SCAM IN HISTORY.

Y'all wanted a colorblind society? Start by being blind to the lies your side tells.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Every fucking time.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “Recently fired and sidelined employees in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) have started sounding the alarm that the Trump administration is no longer, just bluntly, no longer enforcing a federal law known as the Fair Housing Act…another pillar of the civil rights movement and its achievements. Fair Housing Act (FHA) dates to 1968. It says you can’t refuse to rent to someone or refuse to sell a house to someone on account of their race or their color or religion or national origin or any other factor against which we are supposed to be protected from discrimination. According to current and former HUD employees under Donald Trump, they have DROPPED, they have dropped enforcement of FHA.”

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨ICE deported a U.S. born citizen.

Brian Morales is a U.S. citizen, born in a hospital in Denver, Colorado, with documentation to prove it…

And yet, after a traffic stop in Texas, he was taken into custody and deported to Mexico with no charges, no conviction, and no due process.

Morales repeatedly told officers he was a citizen and had proof, but instead of verifying that, he was threatened with fraud charges, and prison time, if he didn’t comply.

He was ultimately pressured into signing removal paperwork out of fear… which is coercion, and illegal.

There is no law in the United States that allows the government to deport a U.S. citizen.

Citizenship is not something ICE can ignore because they don’t believe you, and it’s not something that can be stripped through intimidation.

If you are born here, you belong here… period.

DHS claims he admitted to being undocumented… even though he had proof he was not… and we’re expected to accept that version without questioning how that “admission” was obtained in the first place.

This also didn’t happen at the border, it happened after a routine traffic stop in Texas, which means the standard here wasn’t immigration enforcement at the border, it was treating citizenship like it’s conditional, and revocable, on the spot.

If citizenship can be ignored, if proof can be dismissed, and if people can be threatened into signing away their rights, then due process is being bypassed entirely… and if this can happen to Brian Morales, it can happen to anyone.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE and Tennessee state police have been illegally using traffic stops as an excuse to check immigration status.

The Fourth Amendment requires probable cause. You don’t get to pull people over just because you think they might be immigrants.

But that’s exactly what happened.

Troopers used minor excuses… bent plates, window tint, temporary tags… not to enforce traffic laws, but to hand people over to ICE.

In many cases, they ignored actual violations just to keep the stop going long enough for ICE to step in.

That’s called a pretextual stop, and when it’s based on race or ethnicity, it crosses into a violation of the Fourteenth Amendment… meaning the government cannot target people differently based on race.

And the evidence…

Officers were recorded saying things like, “They’re definitely not English speakers,” while choosing who to stop, while entire neighborhoods with large Latino populations were targeted.

That’s racial profiling.

Then there’s due process…

The Fifth Amendment guarantees that people… citizens and non-citizens…cannot be deprived of liberty without fair legal procedures.

But people were detained, processed, and deported through a pipeline designed to move fast, not fairly. Even those who were legally in the U.S., like asylum seeker, were still arrested and deported.

One man was labeled a gang member, because of tattoos…

And he was deported.

But it gets worse.

ICE cannot legally conduct routine traffic stops… So. they partnered with state troopers to get around that limitation.

In other words… they used local police as a loophole.

Meanwhile, these operations didn’t just violate rights… they made communities more dangerous.

In Memphis, after similar deployments, high-speed chases increased by over 400%. One chase, which started over headlights, ended with a crash involving a woman and an infant.

AND the same federal agents tied to this operation have already led to wrongful arrests, chaos in multiple states, and even U.S. citizens being detained.

It’s bad enough for federal agents to violate the constitution, but when you add in state power…

The constitution starts becoming optional.

[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

A potential federal rescue package fell through after opposition from Spirit’s creditors and congressional Republicans. The Trump admin is now blaming Biden, and Biden’s own domestic policy director is helping Trump blame Biden to take a potshot at the antitrust movement.