Kate Wilson

[Jessica Riedl 🧀 🇺🇦 @JessicaBRiedl]

NEW from me. A short blog post walking through how the CBO's (already scary) budget baseline likely under-estimates the 30-year debt projection by 68% of GDP.

That means the federal debt outlook is $62 trillion(!) worse than is commonly-reported. 🧵

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Yes - this is our constitutional crisis in a nutshell. Mullin says he will pick and choose which court orders to follow based on whether he likes them or not.

That's a reciple for the total destruction of our democracy. That's totalitarianism.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BLANCHE: Who the president chooses to pardon is not a problem, period

IVEY: What's the legal basis for that statement?

BLANCHE: The Constitution

IVEY: The Constitution does not give him the authority to pardon in exchange for payments. It does not permit bribery

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

DOGE was just a cover for the largest robbery of the American people in history.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Massie almost connected the dots.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨WTF! Trump bought $1M of Nvidia stock and then ONE WEEK LATER Trump loosened rules so Nvidia could sell chips to China — which sent the stock through the roof.

Bessent tries to blame Congress!!! Is he stupid or just evil??

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

By firing Scott Pelley, editor-in-chief of CBS News Bari Weiss has single-handedly destroyed the most brilliant investigative newsmagazine in network history, 60 Minutes. Weiss exemplifies everything MAGA is about: ego, incompetence, and blithering idiocy.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Trump’s Truth Social posting over the last hour or so is completely batshit insane. Get a load of this nonstop nuttery.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

I'm sorry, am I reading this right?

Nearly half the workforce at the office responsible for cleaning up the federal government’s nuclear sites is gone. The Trump Administration offered rounds of buyouts and 312 people walked out the door in a single year from an office that was already hundreds of employees short.

These are MISSION CRITICAL positions handling contaminated soil, poisoned groundwater, and radioactive waste across the country.

Nuclear engineering positions are now 55 percent vacant.

The Department of Energy plans to hire 174 people next year. They lost more than twice that.

They gutted the workforce keeping radioactive contamination in check and called it efficiency.

The Department of Energy needs to address this. It is unacceptable.
https://t.co/NZRNpGSnIZ

[Damon Linker @DamonLinker]

Unlike Obama unfreezing $1.7 billion in Iranian funds held since the 1979 revolution, Trump is offering Iran a $300 billion outright bribe to let him get out of the mess of the war he started so he can claim a victory and move on.

[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...

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Trump is now reportedly responsible for roughly 27.7% of the entire U.S. national debt accumulated under all presidents combined.

That is an astonishing figure historically.

The national debt just crossed $39 trillion.

President Trump has added roughly $12–13 trillion to the debt across his two terms in office.

That’s approximately 30% of ALL U.S. national debt accumulated since 1789.

In 2016, Trump said he would pay down the national debt “over a period of eight years.”

Instead:

- First term: +$7.8 trillion
- Second term: roughly +$4–5 trillion already

And yes, COVID affected first-term spending.

It does not explain adding another trillion dollars every five months without a pandemic.

A political movement built on:
“fiscal conservatism”
“small government”
“balanced budgets”

has now overseen the largest debt expansion tied to any single presidency in American history.

[Richard Hanania @RichardHanania]

This is amazing.

The New York Times put together a graphic of how much time cabinet members spend kissing up to Trump in meetings.

"On average, at least one of every six sentences either flattered Mr. Trump, gave him credit or criticized his political opponents."

North Korea.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Megyn Kelly, who endorsed and campaigned for Trump in the 2024 election:

“I didn’t expect the corruption to be quite as widespread as it has been. The self-dealing, the lining of his and his family’s pockets. It’s shocking… You look across the board at the Trump family, I’ve never seen a family get so rich off the presidency.”

[Gene Trevino @GenoVeno73]

NEVER FORGET

The same party that wanted to bring federal assault charges against a man for throwing a sandwich at a federal agent — now want to reward insurrectionist for beating Capitol police officers with deadly objects.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

Literal definition of Orwellian

[DannyKPolitics @DannyKPolitics]

EXCLUSIVE: Randy Fine claims he’s president of a Florida company that doesn’t exist

On his sworn 2024 personal financial disclosure to the U.S. House, filed December 29, 2024, Randy Fine certified he is “president” of Jayvid Holdings and that three assets valued in the aggregate between $10,500,003 and $51,000,000 are held by or through Jayvid Holdings.

The Florida Department of State shows Jayvid Holdings, LLC was administratively dissolved on September 22, 2017 for failure to file an annual report. The entity’s current status is “Inactive.” It has not been reinstated.

The disclosed Jayvid assets are the bulk of Fine’s reported net worth. They include “Jayvid Money Market Holdings” at $5,000,001–$25,000,000, an investment in Waterloo, Ontario software startup RideCo at $5,000,001–$25,000,000, and an investment in Tangam Systems at $500,001–$1,000,000. Jayvid Money Market generated interest income of $100,001–$1,000,000 in both the filing year and the year prior.

The Florida record is unambiguous. Jayvid Holdings, LLC, Document Number L16000089227, principal address 490 Spoonbill Lane, Melbourne Beach, registered agent Bradley F. White, sole manager Fine, Randall A. In a 2018 candidate profile, Fine described himself as “manager” of Jayvid Holdings, LLC. On the 2024 House filing, he is “President.” An administratively dissolved Florida LLC has no officers and no offices to be held.

A material attestation about the largest asset on a sworn House filing can’t be reconciled with the public record of the entity it names. The disclosure is governed by the Ethics in Government Act. Falsified PFDs carry criminal exposure under 18 U.S.C. § 1001 and § 1621, and ethics review jurisdiction at the OCC.

I have filed a supplemental submission to the Office of Congressional Conduct.

Fine’s office did not respond to a request for comment on whether Jayvid Holdings has been reinstated, whether a separately registered Jayvid Holdings exists in another jurisdiction, or how the entity is “President”-able while administratively dissolved.

[Daniel Goldman @danielsgoldman]

It’s actually much worse.

There are Epstein victims who want to provide evidence to DOJ but are not being allowed to.

But Ghislaine Maxwell gets two days with Blanche personally and then moves to a camp.

The cover up is massive.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Slimy Rick Scott was involved in the largest Medicare fraud in U.S. history and NEVER spent a day in jail. 😡