Lori Handaly-Kaye

[Nicole Minét @mouvement33]

Hydrogen peroxide alone does not dissolve or strip a polyurea or polyurethane coating, which is what was just added to the Reflecting Pool. However, applying industrial-strength peroxide can degrade the polymer structure, leading to swelling, discoloration, or delamination if the coating was improperly applied. So it's safe to assume the coating was not applied correctly to begin with. The substrate must be completely cleaned, dried, and properly primed before applying polyurea/polyurethane.

The damage is not the work of left-wing vandals. The damage was caused by the people who were paid $15 million for a job they are not qualified to do. This is a mixture of incompetence and ignorance. But hey, the pool guy was a Trump donor, so he got the no-bid government contract based on his donations, not his skill or knowledge.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HE'S LOST HIS MIND! Trump is now ARRESTING people, including an Olympic cyclist, for just TOUCHING his precious Reflecting Pool and deploying National Guard troops to guard it from imaginary antifa vandals!

This is starting to get scary…

On Truth Social, Trump declared that “The United States Park Police have arrested multiple individuals for vandalizing our nation's magnificent Reflecting Pool. Who would do such a thing? These are very serious crimes having to do with the destruction of National Monuments. Years in jail!”

While giving no details about the arrests, reporters and eyewitnesses were able to discover that citations were being issued for simply *touching* the Reflecting Pool.

David Hearn, an Olympic cyclist, was finishing a bike ride and went to check out the Pool to see what all the fuss was about. He touched his fingers to the water to see what it felt like, and found himself ARRESTED on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property.

“I didn’t vandalize anything,” Hearn said. “I didn’t destroy or break or peel anything. By the time I realized what was going on, I was being put in handcuffs.”
This isn’t funny anymore. This is the stupidest tyranny that the world has possibly ever seen. Arresting someone for TOUCHING A POOL and then claiming they were destroying it?

Donald Trump is losing his mind, and he’s growing more and more authoritarian by the day.

This is a colossal misuse of public resources and flagrant abuse of state power in order to accommodate the paranoid delusions of a demented pedophile (alleged) and Congress needs to take action IMMEDIATELY to put a stop to this dangerous nonsense.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here:

Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track. 

Spread the word. Stand up for science.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Iran walks out of peace talks after Trump idiotically threatens to “destroy their f**king country” in unhinged rant!

Who could have predicted this…

After a week of being insincerely conciliatory towards Iran, deranged Donald has once again done a complete 180 and is once again threatening the nation of Iran with annihilation.

Trump allegedly told the Iranians that 'You close the strait and you won't have a country…You won't even make it back to your f**king country ... we'll take over the rest of the country.'"

Understandably, Iran simply walked out of the peace talks with JD Vance in Switzerland in response.

What is the point of negotiating with a madman who will completely change his tune at a moment’s notice?

What is the point of trying to arrange a ceasefire with a rogue nation that has no intention of respecting it and has violated all the previous ceasefires?

There will be no peace until this insane, demented rapist is removed from office and someone with a functioning frontal lobe is put in his place.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

US-Iran Peace Talks Fail.

The US delegation, led by JD Vance, entered the meeting arena first. This was strange, because the party that claims to be the upper hand typically arrives last.

Shortly after, the Iranian delegation arrived. They greeted the mediator, Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif, but informed him that they refused to negotiate due to recent threats issued by Trump. They didn't meet Vance and then abruptly left.

A panicked Sharif frantically requested his boss, "Field Marshal" Munir, to intervene, but Munir also appeared helpless. Watching from a distance, Vance approached and asked what had happened. A shaken Sharif and Munir apologetically explained the situation to him.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Who is responsible for this masterpiece?

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

If a guy gets arrested for vandalizing government property because he touched paint peeled off from the pool, he should be pardoned just like the January 6th attackers who bashed in windows and smeared shit all over the walls.

RIGHT?

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.   

Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.  

The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.  

Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.  

The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
https://t.co/95K8zIySPz

[REPUBLICANS AGAINST MAGA @michaelt5656]

Congratulations you incompetent old fart!

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a humiliating moment, the leader of Qatar’s negotiating team just completely ignored JD Vance. These negotiations are going horribly and once again the Trump Administration is making the US the laughing stock of the world.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

I had one rule this week: no one plays on Home Court until some old friends and I get some shots up.

Who’s got next? 🏀

[Dave Thul @davethul]

Fact check- Juneteenth was passed by the US Congress.

Unanimous in the Senate.

415-14 in the House.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Senator Ron Johnson told a television audience this week that vaccines cause SIDS, then when pressed for a source said he just read it somewhere and don't quote me. He is a sitting United States senator on the Senate Finance Committee who has a vote over federal health policy.

Dr. Peter Hotez is one of the country's most published vaccine scientists. He is pointing out, patiently and for the thousandth time, that the scientific consensus runs the opposite direction. Vaccinations are associated with a reduction in SIDS incidence, partly because some vaccine preventable diseases, pertussis among them, are actual contributing factors to it.

The senator's source is something he read somewhere. The doctor's source is the accumulated peer reviewed record of controlled studies. In any functioning information environment those two things would not share a platform on equal terms.

[Devin Nunes' Cattle Dog 🇺🇦 🇪🇺🇺🇸🇨🇦 🇦🇺 @Kaos_Vs_Control]

WCGW - The Surgeon General of Florida just announced ALL VACCINE MANDATES IN FLORIDA will be ENDED; thus allowing: polio, whooping cough, influenza, etc,,

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The Foreign Emoluments Clause (art. I, § 9, cl. 8): No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under the United States, shall, without the Consent of the
Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Hey America,
Hundreds of thousands of Albanians have been in the streets for 21 FUCKING DAYS over Jared Kushner’s plan to turn an island into a billionaire resort.

You’re watching your country get hijacked in real time. Maybe get off the fucking couch?

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: @jdvance: “If you go back to WWII, if you go back to WWI, if you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation.”

Lawrence: “NO, they didn’t. WWII ended with ZERO negotiations. WWII ended the way Donald Trump claimed his war in #Iran was going to end—unconditional surrender. Japan and Germany each signed unconditional surrender documents. Adolf Hitler killed himself rather than submit Germany to the unconditional surrender that he knew was coming. Every vice president, everyone, prior to JD Vance has KNOWN that President FDR demanded the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan during WWII and when FDR died…his vice president, then elevated to the presidency, Harry Truman, accepted those unconditional surrenders without a word of negotiation with anyone about those surrenders. That kind of statement by JD Vance demonstrating a complete IGNORANCE of how WWII ended is the kind of thing that used to get you drummed out of American politics before Donald Trump’s DUMBING DOWN of the Republican Party and it tells you something about  the quality of thinking that the vice president of the United States brings to his job.” 😳

[Walter Masterson @waltermasterson]

It’s a public library, museum, playground, and public park with walking trails.

All privately funded, and for the public.

Cope harder bro.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.
George Orwell, 1984

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

Vandalism is a crime. Punish it under law.

The Reflecting Pool contains 6.5 million gallons of water.

Americans have a right to see the legal—and scientific—evidence that vandals caused the algae and peeling paint.

Produce the evidence. Show us the science.

But they won't.