Cityscraped

Long-time New Yorker, native Ohioan. Mighty lover of philosophy, books, beauty, & the arts. Tortured observer of the courts & politics.

[Cityscraped @JWilNYC]

@RDavejshea @CharlieWalsham_ @lara_korte @ZaidJilani Boggling how Trump —a Park Ave con-man with a fucking gold toilet— & his cabinet stocked exclusively with billionaires, kleptocrats, washed-up Fox News hosts, blind sycophants, straight-up Nazis, & Christian Nationalists never seem to be viewed as “increasingly out of touch”…

[Cityscraped @JWilNYC]

@BarbMcQuade @JoyceWhiteVance @BarbMcQuade @JoyceWhiteVance #SistersinLaw: if the DOJ does try to prosecute in this case, would it open up discovery that might allow Jack Smith’s report to finally come to public light?

[Cityscraped @JWilNYC]

@davidsirota FFS. Dems once again doing everything possible to shoot themselves in both feet. Right before an election.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Dubai-based DAMAC Properties paid Trump $12.5 million during his first year back in office.

As those deals were apparently being planned, another arm of the company, DAMAC Digital, was planning to build US data centers with support from the Trump admin.
https://t.co/8WeFhxSmcn

[Cityscraped @JWilNYC]

@DemzDeliver We owe @marceelias an incalculable debt of gratitude for blocking this bullshit at every turn.

If you don’t follow Democracy Docket already, please check out all that he’s doing:

https://t.co/OQ2OKGGFv7

[Cityscraped @JWilNYC]

@ClimateAngelSOS @thejackhopkins @LabRatMtBiker Seyb v. Members of the Idaho Board of Medicine

[Cityscraped @JWilNYC]

@thejackhopkins The case is Seyb v. Members of the Idaho Board of Medicine (Idaho) (1:24-cv-00244-BLW (D. Idaho)).

Link to the decision, for those who are interested:

https://t.co/dyUWNnWCpf

[GBX @GBX_Global]

🚨 BREAKING:

One hour after announcing his resignation, U.S. Joint Chiefs Chairman General Randy George reportedly said:

"Donald Trump should be hospitalized immediately; I doubt his mental fitness. He is leading the U.S. military toward disaster."

[Tina Smith @SenTinaSmith]

The White House normally gets $2.5 million a year for maintenance. Trump’s team has allocated $875 million.

That’s 350 years’ worth of the usual budget spent by a single administration.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Trump’s decided to keep the National Guard deployed in DC until January 2029.

Guess how much it’ll cost? $200 million? $500 million?

Not even close, it’ll cost roughly $1.4 BILLION.

And that’s all taxpayer money being spent.

https://t.co/YrKvGk0MW2

[The Daily Beast @thedailybeast]

The Supreme Court Justice has reportedly made up to $2.9 million from fossil fuel interests as he prepares to vote on whether oil companies should pay for the impacts of climate change.
https://t.co/Jq7yYy1OXm

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

When the banks needed help, they called it “stabilizing the economy.”
When airlines needed help, they called it “protecting jobs.”
When corporations got tax breaks, they called it “pro-growth.”
When working people need health care? “SOCIALISM.”

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

The Treasury Dept is illegally withholding information about who is receiving settlement money from its Judgment Fund, obscuring whether January 6th insurrectionists and Trump allies are receiving massive payouts from the government.

We sued this week.
https://t.co/c58iubQO99

[Cityscraped @JWilNYC]

@RonFilipkowski I think the error here is assuming any of this guarantees Max Miller WON’T be reelected.

[pokey pup @Whatapityonyou]

The dystopia is too dystopian

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

Just a reminder that the president of the United States recently had to pay almost $6 million to the woman he sexually abused and defamed, and not one reporter has asked him about it.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: BlackRock, Goldman Sachs, and other big financial firms are pushing a bill that would let banks invest your retirement savings in crypto.

The Clarity Act would merge the crypto economy with the real one, except crypto would barely be regulated. And it would enable the Trump family to keep raking in billions.

[Covie @covie_93]

Republicans endorsed trump getting immunity from IRS audits in the same week Capitol One revealed they closed trump's accounts due to suspected money laundering.

[Isaac Saul @Ike_Saul]

I know a lot of people have already posted about it. But it's really just... I don't know. The president is selling 6-figure access to his social media feed so Wall Street algorithms can beat you to the punch and fleece you before news even hits your phone. He's making millions on a system designed to give a massive advantage to major corporate traders who can afford a feed that gives them information first. It's the single most corrupt thing I've ever seen a politician do with their office. Literally.