Troy Kafer

Ex HR Professional Retired . #Tennessee Vols fan. The future is not certain and the past is not that clear. Supporting moderates in life.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🚨MARSHA STAFFER: “IT’S GONNA BE HELL. YOU’RE GONNA BE ASKED TO BREAK THE LAW.”

@PhilNvestigates got tapes from INSIDE @MarshaBlackburn’s office showing Marsha + “bald-headed psychopath” Ward Baker illegally make taxpayer-funded staffers do campaign work - and Marsha is lying about the ethics probe.

Full: https://t.co/AHWs7H8dFT

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Navarro forcefully pushed back after being told the U.S. should deport "potentially unvetted illegal criminals," accusing his opponent of falsely describing an immigrant with lawful status.

"He was not a criminal. Be careful with your words on TV. You're lying," Navarro said. "The man had legal status. He was not unvetted. Do you understand how immigration works?"

[Acyn @Acyn]

CNN split screen of what Blanche said today about the J6 pardons and what he said at CPAC.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Haberman: "Last year the administration signed a critical minerals mining deal with Kazakhstan for a U.S. company. It was agreement that President Trump and Howard Lutnick got tentative approval for with Kazakhstan's president in September. Six days before the deal was signed, which was in November, the president's older sons with other partners took a 20% investment in a company related to the deal. What did the president know about his son's involvement in this arrangement and when did he find out about it?"

Leavitt: "Nothing. I've spoken to the president and his family about this. They would absolutely never do anything that would put the president in a place of a conflict of interest."

Haberman: "So the president did not learn about this until it was in the media?"

Leavitt: "That's my understanding of the matter, yes."

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

wow -- Tillis eviscerates Vought about DOGE's fake budget cuts, accusing him of "word salad answers" and tells him, "My understanding is the last time you worked in the business world was at B. Dalton's books when you were putting yourself through law school ... I don't love the idea of DOGE shit we're picking up because people did it wrong"

[Maine @TheMaineWonk]

This is why Trump HATES @ossoff: He’s too good at this.

OSSOFF: Did the President pardon a man who worked with the Sinaloa Cartel to facilitate massive narco trafficking into the US?

CLAYTON: Word Salad… He was a convicted narco trafficker.

OSSOFF: Did the President of the United States pardon a convicted narco trafficker?

CLAYTON: Yes.

[Phil Williams @PhilNvestigates]

Did you catch this? Last week, U.S. Sen. Marsha Blackburn told a Memphis reporter that the $30 million state incentives package for Starbucks would be recouped in six months through payroll taxes.
FACT CHECK: Tennessee does NOT have payroll/income taxes.

[Staff Sergeant Gonell, Aquilino @SergeantAqGo]

As with many elected officials I protected for nearly two decades as a police officer, my interactions with him were limited, I do remember when he and I were alone in a elevator and he pretended he didn’t know who I was after my congregational testimony. I will never forget his betrayal to me and my colleagues.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

$2.5 million. That’s what a convicted fraudster told fellow inmates he’d arranged to pay to get out of prison early. Not through an appeal, not through a judge, but through a phone call to the president. 

David Gentile defrauded 10,000 investors out of $1.6 billion and was sentenced to seven years. Less than two weeks later, Trump commuted his entire sentence. When federal prosecutors started investigating how that happened, a DOJ official called the U.S. Attorney running the case, and the investigation was shut down within months. 

Not because they ran out of evidence. Because someone in Washington decided they shouldn’t keep looking. 

Welcome to Episode 9 of The Pardon Papers.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Jack Smith: One of the problems is that the justice department can't do its job. If you go to court and the judges don't trust you, you can't do the basic things that you need to do to represent the American people in court. And we have seen judges across the country say they can't trust prosecutors anymore. And that has such a cascading effect… They're just not effective at doing their job anymore. They've jettisoned expertise.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

By David Abbruzzes:

This Australian's reply to Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect.
"Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth."

Very well stated.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

WOW, this is one of the most creative videos shredding trump and his cabal, with a song that slaps and hilarious visuals.

ENJOY!

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Wow! This unearthed video of Trump from 2008 will absolutely make your head spin.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

This is Trump’s Watergate.

Today, the @nytimes released a truly stunning report on the Epstein cover-up by the White House. 

Collusion, breaking the law, evading subpoenas—it’s all in there:
- Trump quashing the files
- The VP, COS, DOJ, FBI, and others colluding in the Situation Room to stop their release and compliance
- Officials lying to the public 
- Admin in-fighting and exits
- Officials who appeared in front of Congress during this time

Read the report here: https://t.co/prgyF2Isfg

[Nancy Lacore @nancylacore]

After decades of service to our country, a career that started as a Navy pilot and finished as a three star admiral, I was removed from my position without cause.

I still have more to give, more to fight for, more work to do — and I am not done serving.

Join my team at https://t.co/U4ETPpLACG

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

RETWEET if you support Scott Pelley after CBS News has just fired him.

[Dylan Byers @DylanByers]

New statement from Scott Pelley:

There has never been anything in America like 60 Minutes.

The Sunday tradition is the most successful program of any kind in history. For more than a decade, its innovative growth on every major online platform has extended its reach to countless millions around the world. This spring, at the end of our 58thseason, 60 Minutes grew rapidly with an unheard-of 9% jump in viewers on CBS.

“60” has been the number-one program in America for decades because our beloved audience finds integrity, quality, and humanity in our stories. When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

The waste is heartbreaking.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias; they stood for professionalism against chaos.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story. I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 Minutes interviews is not how this is done. Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.

At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.

I depart after 37 years at CBS with one emotion—a heart brimming with gratitude for the men and women of CBS News who encouraged and enriched my work, very often at the risk of their own lives. I pray for a day when those people and their ideals are honored again—a day when sanity, competence, and courage return.

Scott Pelley

[The Other 98% @TheOther_9]

This video was deleted from Facebook yesterday.

You know what to do ‼️

[Pastors for Children @pastors4txkids]

The story.

The whole story.

How @KenPaxtonTX became "Crooked Ken Paxton."

Watch it.

All of it.

Weep.

Pray.

Vote.

Vote this degenerate out of public office.

Forever.

#2026Elections #txlege

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

This is a 6-minute Republican video outlining Ken Paxton’s corruption.

This now “unlisted” YouTube video was repeatedly sent out by the NRSC. It’s devastating.