IowaGrandma

fifty-sum year-old-Grandma.Loves Music but no Lawrence Welk stuff, gotta grove; i'm trying to learn more everyday. I use my Ears more than my mouth.

[IowaGrandma @IowaGrandma2012]

SMH with SHAME that Our Country would not keep their / Our word to our compadres

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

Mohammad Paktiawal died in ICE custody. He fought with our troops in Afghanistan. He was not here illegally or a criminal. He worked & had a family. There was no reason for his detention. This ongoing inhumanity is a national shame. Powerful @BillKristol:
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[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Did you hear this? After throwing millions off their health care insurance, Trump is now going to let insurers make loans to patients - possibly with sky high interest rates - so they can afford the Trump premiums. Just a total scam.

[IowaGrandma @IowaGrandma2012]

Looking for a chuckle…. Here’s your sign;

[DianneW @diannew314159]

The Trump administration claims to be tough on fraud, yet Donald Trump keeps pardoning people convicted of serious fraud. Pardoning people in exchange for buckets of cash seems like a criminal enterprise in action. 🤔https://t.co/iqeLp7rHTf

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

On this day 250 years ago, the first public readings of the Declaration of Independence took place in Philadelphia.

Listen closely to the list of grievances the Founding Fathers penned about King George III.

Remind you of anyone?

[IowaGrandma @IowaGrandma2012]

Trade agreement, they buy more from US then what we buy from them, to any other administration they would know this. But not Cucu for orange Goul administration

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is just dumb. We run a trade surplus with Spain. They buy more from us than we buy from them. Cutting off trade with Spain means selling less to one of our customers. That hurts American exporters, American workers, and the communities that depend on those exports.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The emoluments clause is supposed to prevent the President from receiving foreign bribes.

That hasn’t stopped Trump’s family from receiving about $13 billion in “investments” from foreign governments, especially in the Middle East.

My @Morning_Joe Chart

[IowaGrandma @IowaGrandma2012]

There is No DOUBT about it, they’re not even trying to hide it & yet Republican Government representatives are STILL claiming IGNORANCE while lining up to lick the boots & other nasties of the GOAT Orange Goblin Rapist Besties for ever Epstein party pal !!!

[IowaGrandma @IowaGrandma2012]

@KymDusek Shhh….. DUH 🙄

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Insane levels of corruption

[IowaGrandma @IowaGrandma2012]

Can’t imagine a Republican being a HYPOCRITE Tell me again about illegal VOTING!!

[IowaGrandma @IowaGrandma2012]

HaHaHaHa

[Victor Shi @Victorshi2020]

Worth watching this chilling account from Amb. Samantha Power about Elon Musk & Trump ignoring evidence in plain sight that destroying USAID would lead to deaths around the world: “There was no regard for human lives at stake.”

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

Because Trump says everything is back to normal on the oil front does not make it so.

Mr Global hits the nail on the head here. Behind the false narrative to cover up Trump’s illegal market manipulation there is an economic structural cost when institutional investors walk away.

Trump’s market persistent manipulation of the markets cost YOU and he and his friends were the beneficiaries at YOUR expense.

My thanks to Mr Global for the clip

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/TpCrf62Ozf

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Last week, the Trump administration spent $1.5 billion of your taxpayer money to buy two immigration detention centers in California from a private prison company called CoreCivic. The deal closed on July 2.

The government now owns the Otay Mesa facility in San Diego County and the California City facility in Kern County. CoreCivic still runs both places under its existing ICE contracts. This sale demands many questions about what it means for immigration enforcement in Southern California, and I’ll be asking them.

As part of the deal, CoreCivic walks away with an estimated $1.1 billion in profit.

Here’s the corrupt part.

President Trump’s own 2025 financial disclosure lists CoreCivic among the stocks he holds. His administration decides how many billions of dollars flow to CoreCivic. When CoreCivic’s stock rises on a government decision, the president personally benefits.

A president should never be able to enrich himself through a choice his own government makes. That is the entire reason conflict of interest rules exist in the first place. Every modern president before this one either sold off their holdings or used a real blind trust to put a wall between the Oval Office and their portfolio. Trump did neither, and holds stakes in dozens of companies that carry federal contracts, from defense firms to detention operators, and his administration keeps directing public money toward them.

Republicans in Congress need to wake up and open a full and public investigation. Not into one company, but into the entire web. Who across this administration holds a financial stake in the contractors their own agencies pay? Who profited, and by how much, from decisions they had the power to shape?

The American people funded these deals.

They have every right to know who else was cashing in.

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[IowaGrandma @IowaGrandma2012]

These are Good People 💕✨🫶🏼🥰👏🏻They understand how blessed they are and share with others who aren’t as blessed

[Variety @Variety]

Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce have donated $26M to more than 20 charities this week ahead of their reported New York wedding. The recipients include:

• City Harvest (New York City)

• Food Bank for NYC

• New York Cares

• Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

• Harvesters – The Community Food Network (Kansas City, MO)

• The Store (Nashville, TN)

• Helping Harvest (Reading, PA)

• Rhode Island Community Food Bank

• Feeding America (National)

• ASPCA (National)

• Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library (National)

• Grammy in the Schools (National)

• Education Through Music (New York, NY)

• Answer the Call (New York, NY)

• Musical Mentors (New York, NY)

• After-School All-Stars (New York, NY)

• After-School All-Stars (Cleveland, OH)

• MSK Kids, the pediatric cancer program at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (Children & Teen and Adolescents & Young Adult programs)

• Hassenfeld Children’s Hospital at NYU Langone

• Children’s Mercy Hospital (Kansas City, MO)

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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

To my Republican colleagues:

The President of the United States made $2.2 billion in one year while sitting in the Oval Office, most of it from industries he regulates. Experts now compare his self-enrichment to Putin and other authoritarians, not to any leader of a democracy.

You know this is blatant corruption.

You say it privately.

So when will you say it publicly?

Is holding your seat really worth your silence?

I’ve heard the argument. If you speak out, you lose your primary, and someone worse takes your place. But look around. What has your silence actually prevented? The corruption grows bolder every day you stay quiet. The country needs your courage more than it needs your incumbency.

One day your kids and grandkids will ask what you did when the President of the United States sold the office for billions. They will read the record. They will know whether you stood up or stayed quiet to protect a title.

Ask yourself how you want to be remembered, because history will remember either way.
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[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

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

Trump’s DOJ shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by one of his closest Senate allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping toxic chemicals into our waterways. 

Welcome to Episode 20 of The Corruption Chronicles.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: You’ve reviewed many presidential financial disclosures. What did you make of this monstrosity of 900 pages from Trump? 

Norm Eisen: “We’ve NEVER seen corruption like this in American history…Donald Trump is MONETIZING the presidency for himself, for his family, his cronies in and outside of the government, and the American people are the losers because these massive crypto deals, people have lost hundreds of millions of dollars when the value of these Trump-associated crypto currencies bottom out. Some of these companies have cratered, like ALT5 Sigma, associated with Trump’s family, with Witkoff’s family, massive losses in the value of that. You shouldn’t have a president who is regulating, or in Donald Trump’s case, failing to regulate crypto companies, or any other industry, while doing enormous profit taking…”

[Mitch Jackson, Esq. @mitchjackson]

America Turns 250. Her President Is a Sexual Abuser, a Felon, and the Man Who Freed the Capitol Rioters.

https://t.co/GswSQE7zp7

[Mitch Jackson, Esq. @mitchjackson]

Update: Nearly a Million Investors Lost a Total of $3.8 Billion on Trump Crypto Coin

See this new report in the New York Times (free access)

https://t.co/zALnRhexl2