"This is no time for the friends of freedom to fold their hands and consider their work at an end. The price of liberty is eternal vigilance." Frederick Douglass https://t.co/9zCvlAeI18
The man running the agency responsible for 340 million Americans' health arrives at 10am, leaves by 4pm, skips his own division chief meetings, and when he does show up - scrolls his phone and gets described by colleagues as "checked out."
Ebola is spreading. Six Americans already exposed. He has not briefed himself with CDC scientists. His response to a reporter asking if he was worried: "Yeah, we're working on it."
The CDC is being run by a health economist with no public health experience who already has another full-time job running NIH. Half of the 27 NIH institutes have no permanent director. The top FDA drug regulator got fired in May - Kennedy found out after it happened.
When measles killed two children in Texas, the CDC official leading the response asked repeatedly to brief Kennedy. He was rebuffed every time.
The person actually running HHS operations is a longtime personal adviser whose policy spreadsheet - more than 50 items - is hidden from the department's own policy team. When Kennedy gets asked a question, his standing answer is "just run that by Stefanie."
This is not a management philosophy. This is a vacancy wearing a title.
What this makes clear is that the WH, DOJ and FBI went in total circle-the-wagons mode including strategy meetings with Vance, Wiles, Bondi, Patel and others with their sole objective on the Epstein investigation to protect Trump from allegations about him in the files.
If true, I have serious concerns about this being a war crime.
Under the laws of armed conflict:
Proportionality: the military advantage has to outweigh the anticipated civilian harm.
Hard to see what military advantage would outweigh robbing 20k people of drinking water.
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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CENTCOM said the pilots shot down were rescued at 7:33 PM ET within 2 hours after they were shot down. Trump boarded the helicopter from Bedminster to go to the Knicks game at 6:57 PM ET. So he was on his way to the game after they were shot down and before they were rescued.
Rep. Byron Donalds R-FL still has not explained how he voted on the House floor in Feb. 2025 while he was in Los Angeles for the Bill Maher show. Someone voted for Donalds twice that day - another Florida Republican perhaps used his voting card?
BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Republicans just BLOCKED Sen. Richard Blumenthal's attempt to get Veterans their retirement pay WITHOUT cutting disability benefits. Republicans will write blank checks to the military, then penny pinch when it's time to support our Vets.
Today:
Iran’s military, who we’ve ‘completely obliterated’ — or left untouched — depending on the day you ask Trump, shot down an Apache helicopter over the Strait of Hormuz.
Trump said deal possible in 2-3 days.
Now Trump says we’ll attack Iran.
Incoherent nonsense.
"Trump sought to play down the helicopter incident, saying that it 'wasn’t a big deal' and stressing that 'the pilot is fine.'
The Apache crew spent two hours in the water as darkness fell. One senior US official described the crew’s escape from the downed aircraft as a 'hand of God' moment." https://t.co/axSLYIi4lj
BELIEVE WHAT YOU HEAR WHEN ITS RECORDED BY A HIDDEN MICROPHONE
It doesn't appear that Mike Johnson knew he was being recorded today when he admitted that if they hold on to power, Republicans will cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security next year.
Vote Blue in November!
I want to be calm and clear:
This will impact every American who is not a multimillionaire.
One accident.
One bad day.
One diagnosis.
That’s all that separates most people from needing the social safety net they spent their entire lives paying into.
Republican-appointed judge: “The Court is not aware of another occasion in the history of the United States in which a federal court has had to threaten contempt — again and again and again — to force the United States government to comply with court orders.”
Florida taxpayers could be on the hook for nearly $1 billion for Uthmeier's cruel and wasteful pet project -- relying on no-bid contracts so political insiders could cash in.
The abuses and corruption surrounding 'Alligator Alcatraz' must be investigated.
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If the farmers in Wis thought Trump was going to come to your state and talk about solutions to the problems and issues you are facing right now, you were sorely mistaken.
Because Trump doesn’t give a fuck about you. Never has never will. He wants your vote and money.
Being an American now is just waking up and being told how much more money the president and his billionaire buddies are stealing, then being expected to act like it’s a normal fucking day.
Staggering levels of corruption.
They’re using every possible lever of power to enrich themselves and their friends and families.
And the “party of fiscal responsibility” simply doesn’t care.