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Progressively Liberal. Working campaigns & battling the forces of darkness one tweet at a time. #TeamPramila #FBR #Resist

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump has made more stock trades in his second term than all 535 members of Congress combined.

[evan loves worf @esjesjesj]

Guy who has complained about George Soros for years has given 4x more than George Soros ever gave in a single cycle, the largest amount spent on a single election by an individual in history

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Billionaires buying elections will always be a greater threat to democracy than the 0.0001% of votes that are cast by undocumented immigrants.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Almost like there’s a pattern

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

When first reported, 2025’s jobs reports added up to 1.2 million new jobs.

After revisions, the economy added just 116,000 — 90% less.

[Left Out Loud 🌊 @LeftOutLoud]

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[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

JD Vance: "There is no person who hates the idea of people enriching themselves fraudulently over access to the government than Donald J Trump"

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

The Trump tax is real ⛽️

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

The donor list for Trump's ballroom is finally public, and it blows the lid off a huge can of worms.

There’s a LOT here, so let’s break it down:

1) Surprise, surprise...a ton of the donors conveniently got things they wanted after donating, and several of them asked to remain anonymous. Makes you wonder why.

2) Roughly HALF of the money for the ballroom came from companies or executives whose firms have had federal contracts under Trump.

3) Julio Herrera Velutini, an international banker indicted on bribery charges, was pardoned after his daughter gave $3.5 million to Trump’s PAC and pledged another $2.5 million for the ballroom. Trump pardoned him after the first check for the ballroom hit.

4) Charles Ergen, a telecoms exec whose company was being investigated by the FCC, had a closed-door meeting with Trump and the Chair of the FCC. That meeting reportedly involved talks about his political donations. The Administration dropped the investigation, and Ergen donated a total of $25 million.

5) Rocket, a housing fintech company, needed federal approval of a major acquisition. The deal raised a ton of questions from lawmakers about potential anticompetitive business practices. The Trump Administration gave the company the green light, and three weeks later, a Rocket subsidiary donated $10 million to the ballroom.

6) Salesforce committed a total of $3 million in three installments. Between those payments, the Army awarded the company a $5.6 billion contract, the largest public government contract in the company's history.

7) ServiceNow committed $5 million just one month after the federal government announced a deal to make their AI software available across federal agencies.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg.

Trump has created a system where the people who need something from his government know exactly how to get his attention.

These companies and executives are foaming at the mouth to shower him with money, because he’s made it clear that he’ll help them in exchange.

There is no honest word for that other than corruption.
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[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

JD - I've got 15 free minutes before my son's hockey practice ends, so let me see how many of Trump's enrichment schemes you didn't see that I can remind you of.

1/ First one is easy: Trump has executed over 30,000 stock trades, many on inside information, netting him millions.

[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

Republicans have passed just one major defining piece of legislation in the past two years.

Yet, not one Republican wants to utter its name during the midterm campaigns.

Why? Because it was such a failure.

The bill was the "One Big Beautiful Bill".

It cut over $130 billion in Medicaid funding for rural areas. Rural hospitals are struggling so much that they're shutting down.

It caused millions of Americans to lose their healthcare. Medical debt and illnesses are leading causes of bankruptcy in the US.

It kicked over 1 million hungry children off of food assistance.

It did all of this to shift a greater burden onto the poorest Americans while giving huge tax breaks to the wealthiest. The top 1% now hold as much wealth as the bottom 90%.

It is exploding the deficit. The deficit was $2 trillion this year, and the OBBB will add trillions more to the deficit in the coming years.

So instead of calling it the OBBB, they're calling it the "Working Family Tax Cuts" to make it sound like a good thing.

Those tax cuts for working families are small. The average tax refund increased by $350. But the average household paid $1,500 in tariffs last year. You weren't taxed less. You were taxed more.

The no-tax-on-tips and overtime weren't as advertised and expire in December 2028. The corporate and billionaire tax breaks are permanent. That shows who Republicans are really working for.

Why would anyone want two more years of that?

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Fact Check: President Trump waived most of the new economic sanctions, along with tariffs, targeting Russia.

They constantly lie to you because they think you’re stupid enough to believe everything they say.

[Left Out Loud 🌊 @LeftOutLoud]

@atrupar 🤣🤣🤣

[Krystal Ball @krystalball]

Trump's net worth has skyrocketed by billions of dollars since he retook the White House mostly driven by his crypto scams. Trump is the most corrupt president in the history of America and it's not close. JD Vance's comments here are utterly preposterous and embarrassing.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

This is what billionaire ownership of the media means:

Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta shut down the No Kings account for hours during the height of their protests.

Meta suppressed accounts supporting Brazil President Lula da Silva in the recent election.

Larry Ellison’s TikTok blocked advertising for a documentary criticizing Elon Musk.

Fight back. Defeat oligarchy. Preserve democracy.

[Disappointed Donna @dddonnnaaa]

Let’s see if the russian musk bots are back online.

I just watched the Musk Movie. It was 4 hours long. (@alexgibneyfilm) TY for putting in an intermission.) There was so much information. Its genre is documentary, but it could easily be put under horror also. It was a very good movie, but also psychologically terrifying.

I have to say the first hour of the movie, brought back memories of the old Elon. The one that my husband and I really liked. He was quirky, funny, smart, the first spacex successful launches were awesome, when Tesla was new, and everyone was excited about the electric cars, him working with Obama and him saying that AI was an existential risk. It was like he truly cared about the human race.

But then, he flips and turns into a villain. 😩 The last 3 hours he morphs into a psychotic megalomaniac. It was like an evil storm. The Tesla auto pilot starts crashing cars, killing people and then he lies about it & says how safe it is. He lost his shit during Covid with the lockdowns. His son transitioned into Vivian, and he said the woke mind virus needed to be destroyed. He went from AI being an existential threat & said it was summoning demons, to wanting to put an AI robot in every home. The government was regulating his businesses due to environmental concerns and he does not like being told what he can and cannot do.

I really believe part of the reason he went after our govt, to control it, was because of regulations they were putting on him and his companies. He realized to remove these regulations he needed to control politics. This is why our govt should not be able to be bought by the richest man in the world. The Ashley St. Clair part of the story is crazy! I’m glad she is exposing all these details. It was brave of her to tell her story. She could have easily signed the NDA and been rich, she decided to do the right thing. We need more people like this.

The doge part of the movie is devastating. Gutting really important humanitarian efforts, so many people, including children, around the world have died because of this. Halting scientific research projects, such as cancer research, that some have been working on for years. The purge of a lot of brightest and best from our govt departments, leaving dept frozen. Putting all our personal info in the hands of young kids who had idea what they were doing, who knows what will happen in the future now that all of info has been exposed. Cutting back at the EPA, surely helped his companies, but at what cost to our environment?

Watching the first quarter, he really could have been an amazing part of America’s history, but then he threw it all away and chose to be a villain. Why risk the future well being of America, especially when you have so many children? He says children are the future, yet the administration HE installed is dangerous and threatens our future. It makes no sense.

It’s like he has lost all empathy for others. Maybe he’s high all the time, which means we have a drugged up psychopath, who doesn’t care about anything but his own personal endeavors, no matter the consequences, and that same person is in charge of our government. What could go wrong? We left the movie scared about the future of the whole world.

[Disappointed Donna @dddonnnaaa]

I don’t usually ask for retweets, but I really think any musk movie posts are being suppressed. I think everyone should see this movie. There needs to be hype. People need to be talking about it. It’s important. We are in a scary place in America and it is because of the actions of this man. Please retweet this 👇🏻

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump’s billionaire allies control TikTok, X, Twitch, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and YouTube.

They control the algorithms, what you see, and what gets suppressed — and they protect each other.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

Nobody hates free speech more than the fascist tech oligarchs who claimed to care about it more than anyone. What an absolute joke.

P.S. they also hate democracy.
As we hand them control of the country.

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[Chris Brennan @ByChrisBrennan]

Please view and retweet this trailer for this documentary about Elon Musk that can’t purchase advertising on this website.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

The richest man on earth dropped nearly $300 million to buy himself a Congress.

That’s not democracy. That’s a purchase order.

On November 3, remind him the government isn’t for sale.

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