Kay Nelson

Retired financial systems consultant. Researcher #StandWithUkraine
#EndGerrymandering #PeopleFirst #MoneyOut

[Kay Nelson @Kay4BlueTexas]

The Mercers and Dark-Money Architecture
Citizens United Series, Part 3 of 5

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[Kay Nelson @Kay4BlueTexas]

These policies are about who gets to count as American. Every one of those fights, in every venue, costs women, costs people of color, and costs queer and trans Americans something concrete - a vote, a clinic, a job, a passport marker, a bathroom, a life.

[Dave Troy @davetroy]

It’s election season again, which means everybody needs to brush up on “political technology.” (And I’m not talking about AI or social media; this is about “managed democracy.”)

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[The International Spy Museum @IntlSpyMuseum]

Why would the military blow up its own tanks in WWII? Because they were inflatable!

As we celebrate the anniversary of D‑Day (June 6, 1944), this unusual tactic reminds us that victory was won not only with weapons, but also with deception.

From the air, these phony tanks looked like the real deal to Luftwaffe pilots. This masterful deception, supported by wooden planes, sound effects, and fake radio communication, created the illusion of large, well-equipped forces. Activated in early 1944, the United States' "Ghost Army" helped mislead Axis forces and camouflage the true location and date of the D-Day invasion of France.

#DDay #Deception #InflatableTank

[The International Spy Museum @IntlSpyMuseum]

Join International Spy Museum Executive Director Chris Costa for a live Spy Chat with retired Gen. Bryan P. Fenton (@Bryanfenton001), former commander of U.S. Special Operations Command.

📅 Thursday, June 11, 2026
🕡 6:30 PM ET
📍 Hybrid: International Spy Museum & Online

🎟️ Register: https://t.co/1jgf5MZ1vf

Costa, a former intelligence officer with 34 years of service, including assignments in Panama, Bosnia, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and a past Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council, will lead a timely discussion on intelligence, national security, and terrorism with Gen. Fenton.

Gen. Fenton served as the 13th commander of U.S. Special Operations Command. He oversaw all Special Operations for the US Department of Defense with 70,000 special operations personnel across the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps. A career Special Forces officer, he has commanded at every level and deployed across multiple theaters, including Afghanistan, Iraq, Bosnia, and the Philippines.

The program will include a Q&A session open to both in-person and virtual attendees.

#BreakingNews #NationalSecurity #SpyChat

[Dem Saints @LDS_Dems]

Under new military guidance from Pete Hegseth, the LDS Church is officially classified as a non-Christian religion.

My fellow Saints, you can love these Christian nationalists all you want, but they will not love you back.

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[Tyler Wilson @Mr_Wilson900]

Trump’s USDA boss, Brooke Rollins, is gutting the Roadless Rule to sell off 58M acres of our national forests to logging companies. They fired +20k workers to push this through

We fought for this since2001. Selling out our public lands for logging profits is flat-out disgraceful

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Under Trump, the Forest Service is gutting labs that cost ONE DOLLAR in rent so they can cram scientists into a Fort Collins office that costs taxpayers a million a year.

As reported by NPR, Trump's 2027 budget zeroes out Forest Service research entirely. Three hundred and nine million dollars, gone. Fifty-seven of the agency's seventy-seven research stations are on the chopping block.

These are the forests generations of Americans have hiked, hunted, camped, and prayed in. Sacred ground for almost anyone who's ever stepped outside in this country.

And the "efficiency" pitch? A scam.

The research station in Hilo, Hawaii sits on 30,000 acres the federal government rents for a one-time fee of ONE DOLLAR, locked in until 2067. The Michigan Tech lease? One dollar paid in 1963, free ever since. Another site costs the agency $600 a month for two rooms.

The destination they want everyone shipped to in Fort Collins runs taxpayers a million a year.

Read that again. They're closing dollar leases to expand a million-dollar lease.
Scientists in Baltimore have spent years planting white oak saplings that need three decades to mature. You can't FedEx a forest to Colorado. You can't manage a Hawaiian ecosystem from a cubicle in Utah.

Researchers told NPR they'll quit before they relocate. Which is the point.

Meanwhile, Trump has openly pledged to ramp up logging on federal land. Gut the scientists who document the damage, and there's nobody left to sound the alarm when ancient forests get clear-cut for profit.

These are the people who tell us when wildfire season turns deadly. Who track invasive beetles eating through pine. Who teach cities how to recycle dead trees instead of dumping them in landfills.

You don't dismantle the world's largest forestry research network because you're worried about a maintenance bill. You dismantle it because somebody plans to take a chainsaw to what the public owns and doesn't want a paper trail.

The forests don't belong to Tom Schultz. They don't belong to Trump. They belong to every American who has ever stood quiet under a hundred-year-old tree and understood, for one second, that some things are not for sale.

Defend them now, or explain it to your grandkids later.

[Joel Montfort @jmontforttx]

4 large new data centers coming online in Texas this month failed their voltage test, which ensures that when they disconnect from the grid, they don't unbalance the power and cause more disruptions and outages. https://t.co/ubdxI53FLh

[Sulaiman Ahmed @ShaykhSulaiman]

JUST IN: ALBANIAN PM EDI RAMA SAYS NOTHING CAN STOP HIS DEAL TO SELL PROTECTED COASTLINE TO TRUMP SON-IN-LAW JARED KUSHNER

"Not 5,000 protesters in the streets, not even 500,000 protesters can stop me."

[David Aaronovitch @DAaronovitch]

Vance vigorously supported the mass pardoning of the January 6 rioters - nearly 100 of whom have already been arrested for other crimes. And he lectures Britain - a country with a fraction of his nation's per capita homicides.

[Nick Dearden @nickdearden75]

Digging into the Palantir contracts is like peeling an onion with a rotten core. The corruption at the heart of the British state stinks to high heaven.

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[Byline Times @BylineTimes]

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[Lisa Rubin @lawofruby]

NEW: In opposing efforts to block the Anti-Weaponization Fund in not just one, but two courts, DOJ claims the case is now moot because acting AG Todd Blanche says they've dropped the fund. 1/

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

Being a congressperson is the only job where showing up to work gets you fawning praise

[Outbreak Updates @outbreakupdates]

Wake up bae

H5N1 bird flu just rolled out another surprise.

A highly divergent B3.13 virus has been detected in Idaho cattle.

It’s carrying a new receptor-binding domain mutation.

[SEIU @SEIU]

This is a microcosm of why there isn't a single U.S. state where a two-bedroom apartment is affordable by working 40 hours/week at minimum wage. But when we unite in a union and don’t work for less, #GreedyCEOs show they will pay!

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

This is why we can't have nice things.

[Public Citizen @Public_Citizen]

Trump turned America's 250th birthday celebration into his own personal rally after several of the artists dropped out.

This event should be a non-partisan celebration of our nation.

Instead, it's a trashy, vanity festival to boost Trump's already inflated ego.

[Joel Montfort @jmontforttx]

🤣🤣🤣 @Ramos4Texas wrote " Hijos de puta" on her check memo to pay the bullshit fine imposed by #txlege for breaking quorum. It means son of a bitch, not mother fucker like these dolts below claim. Give em hell! Si Se Puede!

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

One belief that cuts through Democrats, Republicans, and everyone in between? They think politicians are corrupt and the system is rigged against them.

The only way out is to clean up the corrupt mess that got us here in the first place. I’ve got a plan to do just that.

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

🚨 FACT CHECK: No, paying a celebrity to appear at a campaign event is not automatically illegal.

Trump's latest post skips several steps between allegation and prosecution.

He claims Democrats "broke the law" because money was allegedly paid to Beyoncé, Oprah, Al Sharpton, and others. Then he declares they should all be prosecuted.

There's a problem:

Federal campaign-finance law does not contain a blanket ban on paying public figures, surrogates, entertainers, influencers, or speakers for campaign-related appearances. The legal questions are typically:

• Who paid?
• What funds were used?
• How was it reported?
• Was it properly disclosed?
• Was anything concealed or falsified?

Those are investigation questions, not Twitter conclusions.

Even within Trump's own post, the standard shifts from:

➡️ "probably illegally"

to

➡️ "broke the law"

to

➡️ "they should all be prosecuted"

without identifying a specific statute, evidence, contract, FEC finding, DOJ investigation, or charging document.

That's not legal analysis.

That’s a political accusation, not evidence of a crime.

The post also relies heavily on insults and emotional language:

• "low-rated"
• "lightweight"
• "booing and angry audience"
• "all hell would break out"

None of those establish criminal conduct.

Most importantly, this continues a troubling pattern:

A sitting president publicly declaring that named political opponents should be prosecuted before any formal investigative findings are presented.

In a functioning rule-of-law system, prosecutors gather evidence first and announce charges later.

Not the other way around.

Media literacy rule: Whenever someone says "TOTALLY ILLEGAL," ask three questions:

1. What law?
2. What evidence?
3. What investigation found that?

If those answers are missing, you're usually looking at political messaging, not a criminal case.

#FactsMatter #RuleOfLaw #CampaignFinance #MediaLiteracy