Kevin Lapin

Appreciate beauty in all its forms.
Get stuck in there!

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Weird how he didn’t call up the National Guard on January 6th.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

BREAKING: In shocking footage of Trump in 2020 that is now going viral, Trump says it’s against the law for a president to call in the National Guard on his own: “We can't call in the National Guard unless we're requested by a governor.” MAGA = 🤡.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

"Nobody’s going to spit on our police officers," says Trump, who four months ago pardoned people who beat police officers with pipes, flagpoles, baseball bats and 2-by-4s at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Dear @nytimes

The plane becomes Donald Trump's property when he leaves office. Why is that not in your headline?

Why does your headline feed the BS narrative that this plane was donated to our government when the deal expressly states Trump gets it in 3 years?

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Donald Trump tried to sue Paramount-owned CBS.

First, Paramount tried to dismiss the lawsuit, calling it "without basis." Now, they're settling.

Why the sudden change? Paramount needs approval from Trump for an $8 BILLION merger.

Is this bribery? I'm pushing to find out.

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

A few weeks ago, I sat on the Capitol steps from dawn to dusk to sound the alarm about the coming Republican tax bill—and how it would hurt kids, seniors, and middle-class Americans who are just trying to get by.

The bill is now here. And it's worse than many expected ⬇️

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

White supremacy is when Donald Trump bans 1600+ vetted Afghan refugees who helped the USA against the Taliban, but proudly accepts white Afrikaaner South Africans as refugees to the USA for no apparent reason except they're white.

Reminder that Trump is pro-apartheid & racist.

[Kevin Lapin @LapinKevin]

Send #DOGE to the #DoD.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Two former Wells Fargo executives were fined $8.5M by the Biden administration for covering up the bank's infamous fake account scandal.

Trump just slashed those fines to a paltry $150,000 after Wells Fargo gave $1M to his inauguration.

See how this works?

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Dear #MAGA,

1. Mexico didn't pay for the wall.
2. Trump never delivered health care
3. Trump never delivered infrastructure
4. Trump didn't end the war between Russia and Ukraine on day 1.
5. Gas+food prices are up.
6. You got suckered again.
7. You are in a cult.

[Kevin Lapin @LapinKevin]

Send DOGE to the DoD.

[George C. Shipley @georgedoc7834]

Trump's meme coin fundraising dinner violated a battery of Federal criminal statutes- he lined his pockets with the leverage of his office. This is Godfather mafia behavior. Why do Republicans tolerate this ?

[Kevin Lapin @LapinKevin]

Send DOGE to the DOD!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Democratic Senator Chris Murphy blows the lid off of Donald Trump's apocalyptic tariffs by unveiling a disturbing "theory" that exposes the corrupt real reason behind them.

This just makes too much sense to be ignored...

"These guys are the Keystone Cops. You saw it last week with SignalGate. You're seeing it now with tariffs. These guys don't know how to run a country," Murphy said on MeidasTouch. "They don't know how to run an economy."

"This is going to be an absolute disaster for consumers," he continued. "Prices are going to go sky high. The jobs are not going to show up. You know the fact of the matter is, yeah, there's a world in which tariffs can help restart American jobs but you have to pair the tariffs with domestic industrial policy, incentives for companies to locate here. They're not doing that so the only people who are going to feel pain are consumers."

"But you know, I've got a little different theory, the case on this, and then obviously then I'd love to hear [fellow guest Senator Tim Kaine] on it but this is also a political tool for Trump," said Murphy.

"You see what he’s doing with these universities, with these law firms, penalizing them and making them come to him to pledge loyalty," he continued. "I think it’s likely the same thing could happen with the tariffs..."

"...that each big company or each big industry is going to have to come to Trump, get some tariff relief in exchange for political loyalty, in exchange for a commitment to buy Trump cryptocoin, or a commitment to make sure their workers and employees don’t speak out against Trump," he went on.

"I think, you know, he’s trying to destroy democracy and the reason that these tariffs may not make any sense when you sort of look at the design is because maybe they’re not actually economic or trade policy," said Murphy.

"Maybe it's actually political policy," he continued. "So once again, just an absolute disaster for regular working people out and maybe a big threat to our democracy."

The senator hit the nail right on the head. Trump is wielding unilateral power with these tariffs so that companies and countries come to him, hat in hand, to beg for tariff relief in exchange for bribes or favors. This is all about making Trump and his family personally richer and more powerful. In the meantime, the rest of us will suffer.

MAGA has turned America into a gangster dystopia. If Congress doesn't take action immediately, we could lose our democracy forever.

Please retweet and ❤️ to demand a Congressional investigation into these tariffs — and consider joining the growing exodus to Tribel, a new pro-democracy social network that is exploding in popularity because Twitter and Facebook are trying to stop its growth — which is only making Tribel grow even faster. Please follow us on Tribel to get all of our breaking news alerts sent straight to your phone or computer by clicking the following link: https://t.co/HnJzSKjCwX

[Samuel Sinyangwe @samswey]

Nazis obtain list of all suspected Jews in Germany, begin process of “locating” them for “mass deportation.”

[Kevin Lapin @LapinKevin]

Whitehouse Shakedown : Give us your mineral rights edition.

[Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib @RepRashida]

The Pentagon budget is approaching $1,000,000,000,000. It just failed its SEVENTH audit in a row. If Musk truly wanted to root out waste and corruption, instead of just torching the programs working people rely on, they would have started with the Pentagon.

[Tristan Snell @TristanSnell]

CFPB - closed
USAID - closed
Medicaid - under attack
NIH cancer funding - frozen
Department of Education - under attack

But do you know who just got a NEW government contract for $38,858,978 literally today?

SpaceX — owned by Elon Musk

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

So when will DOGE recommend cutting the tax loopholes that allow for this?