Edward Norton: “Trump is worse than Nixon and McNamara by far, Trump and Hegseth. We’re in a level of incompetency and grift and corruption that is unprecedented in the history of this country”
Trump claimed a saboteur armed with a box cutter caused a 350-foot gash in the newly renovated Reflecting Pool. But the manufacturer behind the project says the issue was simply "finish coat separation" and makes no mention of vandalism, sabotage, or criminal activity. https://t.co/9KVsw7MOe4
The officiating in the WNBA is if anything worse than it was last year, which was horrific. That Alyssa Thomas was not given a foul for assault and battery on Caitlin Clark, and then finally suspended for just one game? No. The second attack just as bad. Outrageous
I think it's very important that we remember that it wasn’t the CEOs and billionaires who saved us during COVID-19. It was the janitors, nurses, cleaning crews, grocery and food workers with their hard, often invisible labor.
@MAGAVoice Except you can’t sue someone for stating the truth.
Truth is tRump is a liar who paid a subpar contractor friend to do a half ass shitty job.
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A Justice Department lawyer just signed a memo saying disabled Americans have no right to live in their own homes. In the same document, she admits no court in the country agrees with her.
Read that again. A government official wrote down, in black and white, that her own argument is wrong by every legal standard of the last thirty years, and she made it anyway.
Here is what it means in plain terms.
Right now, 8.4 million people get help that lets them stay in their own homes. Aides who help them dress. Care that lets them work, see friends, raise their kids, sleep in their own beds at night.
This memo tells states they can cut all of it.
And if they cut it, where do those people go? Into nursing homes. Into institutions. Into facilities where someone else decides when you wake up, what you eat, who your roommate is, whether you go outside today.
A lawyer who has visited people locked in these places said their whole world shrinks to one hallway. That is the future this memo is opening the door to.
Keeping people in their own homes is cheaper. In one case, home care cost under $7,500 a year. The nursing home would have cost close to $50,000. The cruel option is also the expensive one. They want to spend more money to make people's lives worse.
So why?
Because last summer Trump signed an order to deal with homelessness by force, by sweeping people off the streets and committing them. He said it out loud during the campaign: the mentally ill belong back in institutions.
The only thing standing in the way was the law that says people deserve to live in their own communities.
This memo is how they get around it. And it landed the same week Republicans slashed Medicaid, giving every cash-strapped state the perfect excuse to start cutting.
A think tank drew up the plan. A lawyer wrote the memo. A president signed the order. Three signatures, and millions of people could lose the right to their own front door.
We are about to spend the summer celebrating 250 years of American freedom.
Some Americans are about to find out it doesn't include them.
—🇺🇸😭 How Trump Is Killing America:
Take a minute to look carefully at this photo. This is the White House lawn—the people’s house, sacred ground that has stood for 226 years. It survived wars and natural disasters. But, according to the author, it has been damaged by one man for his own gratification.
With only 12 days remaining until our nation's 250th anniversary, the “Orange One” allegedly spent $14 million to remove the Reflecting Pool and create what critics call a swamp. Another $600 million reportedly went into turning the East Wing into a construction site. The Rose Garden has been torn up. And another $60 million was spent on a birthday celebration that left the lawn damaged.
For 226 years, it stood strong. This man, the author argues, has managed to ruin it in just a year and a half.
One photograph that, in the author's view, says everything about what he has done to this great nation.
So let me get this straight: Pulling a chunk of paint out of the Reflecting Pool gets you arrested for vandalism, but trump’s terrorists who attacked the Capitol, killed cops, broke windows, stole shit, and smeared their feces on the walls get to go free?