Kofi Beene

I'm a caffeine-loving foodie in Puget Sound, what else is to know?

[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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[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

When I called out Trump years ago for being a danger to democracy, a free press, and truth itself, I was accused of making myself the story and showboating. How did things turn out? Trump is all of those things. Tonight, the free press is very much in danger in America. Wake up!

[Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog @DougWahl1]

WHERE DID THE MONEY GO?

According to several published reports Trump's Board of Peace is broke. Just four months after it was created, and after a number of countries pledged a billion plus dollars- the organization has no money?

Where did it go?

Your Thoughts?

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

President Trump was convicted of fraud, and has pardoned over 70 people convicted of fraud.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Holy shit, trump and Republicans have been lying to our faces about gas prices coming down quickly...

They're going to take SIX YEARS just to get back to where it was when Joe Biden left office, $3.10.

How is this not a bigger story?

[Kayla @KaylaDavis2000]

Adam Hoffman raped his son’s best friend for 3 years

First-degree felony. Life without parole.

Ken Paxton’s office gutted it to 60 days. He walked free after 30.

No sex offender registration. His record scrubbed clean.
Texas protects predators with power!

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

WORKING HARD OR HARDLY WORKING ⁉️

Aaron Parnas reported the folks at the White House are pretty mad at reporters for sharing photos of Donald Trump snoozing. Share, share, share. 😅

Sleepy Donatelli

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.

Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...

[GBX @GBX_Press]

🚨 JUST IN:

​Trump’s sons became partners in a Kazakh mining company.

​Right after the company received a $1.6 billion government contract in the US!

​Are we having fun yet, America?

[Kofi Beene @IMcaffein8d]

@OG_Wick0 1

[Kofi Beene @IMcaffein8d]

@mdalkldi1918 @krassenstein Nah, that would be in Cancun. He's never in Texas other than to jinx sports games.

[Olena Rohoza @OlenaRohoza]

🇺🇸😭Lord… what a great country we fucked away.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Donald Trump is a loser, and America is paying the price.

[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.

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

Here’s the part no one is saying:

The next president won’t get a real first term.
They’ll inherit a repair job.

Rebuilding alliances.
Restoring credibility.
Undoing damage.

An entire presidency spent fixing what Trump broke.

[Acyn @Acyn]

PabloReports: What do you make of this $1.7 billion slush fund that Trump is proposing for Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and pardoned fraudsters?

Raskin: It’s illegal, unconstitutional, and outrageous. Congress controls the spending of money from the federal government, and we never voted to establish a $1.7 billion fund to pay off insurrectionists and his extremist private militias, and we would never spend money on that. So it needs to be blocked. It’s an absolute corruption and prostitution of the Judgment Fund.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

"President Xi couldn't believe the amount of damage I'd done to my own country in only 15 months."

trump AGREED that America is in decline.
Traitorous bastard.

[JackTheRippler ©️ @RippleXrpie]

🇺🇸🇨🇳🚨CHINA CONFIRMS THAT PRESIDENT TRUMP LEFT BEIJING EMPTY-HANDED:

- NO agreement on Iran.
- NO concessions on Taiwan.
- NO H200 deal.
- NO decision on rare earth trucks.
- NO release of Jimmy Lai, and fewer Boeing aircraft orders than expected.

It was just a holiday trip…

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 🇺🇸JUST IN: Pete Hegseth canceled a troop deployment to Poland that was already happening.

The unit had cased their colors. The advance team was already on the ground.

The equipment was already there.

Then he pulled the plug. And he didn’t tell Congress. He didn’t tell Poland. The four-star general in charge of Europe pushed back. Hegseth did it anyway.

This came out Friday at a House hearing. The Republican chairman, Mike Rogers, told the Army Secretary to his face:

“We’re not happy. There’s been no statutory consultation with us.”

Rep. Don Bacon — also a Republican, a retired Air Force general — went sharper:
“Reprehensible. An embarrassment to our country.”

The Pentagon’s spokesman called the cancellation “not a last-minute decision.” The Army Secretary, under oath that same morning, said it happened “a couple days ago.”

Both can’t be true.

This is the third time in seven months Hegseth has pulled US troops from a NATO ally without telling Congress. Romania last fall. Germany two weeks ago. Poland this week.

Russia is watching. Poland got a phone call.