Marco Antonio #ProChoice

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[Marco Antonio #ProChoice @Marchisimo]

@RobAnderson2018 @realDonaldTrump I want to know what’s in Ivanka’s private email server because she and Jared were using personal email accounts to conduct government business. What is it that they do anyhow? 🤷‍♂️

[Marco Antonio #ProChoice @Marchisimo]

False prophets for profit! 🚨

[Marco Antonio #ProChoice @Marchisimo]

@TuckerCarlson False prophets for profit!!!!

[Ricardo @Ric_RTP]

Trump is about to lock 157 million Americans out of their own bank accounts.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed an executive order forcing every US bank to collect proof of citizenship is "in process."

And he just doubled down: "If Treasury and the banking regulators say it's their job, it's their job."

This sounds irrelevant but here's what this really means:

Per the Congressional Research Service, only 48% of Americans hold a US passport.

That leaves over 170 million Americans without one.

REAL IDs don't count. Driver's licenses don't count. Social Security cards don't count.

Per Wall Street Journal reporting, banks will need a passport or birth certificate.

The Brennan Center found 21.3 million voting-age US citizens don't have documents proving their citizenship easily available.

These are Americans who are about to lose access to their own bank accounts.

And here's the thing:

The order applies to new AND existing customers. Banks could be forced to close accounts of people who can't produce documents.

Your 78-year-old grandmother born at home in 1948. Your naturalized dad who lost his papers 30 years ago. Your cousin mid-passport renewal.

The official story is that this stops illegal immigrants from accessing banking.

But the actual reality:

Illegal immigrants can't open US bank accounts anyway. Know Your Customer rules already require SSNs or ITINs. The existing system ALREADY blocks what this order claims to block.

So who does this actually target?

The half of Americans without a passport. Rural Americans. Elderly Americans born before centralized record-keeping. Black Americans in Southern states where birth records were historically unreliable. Low-income Americans who can't afford $225 for an expedited passport.

The American Action Forum, a center-right think tank, estimates this adds 33 to 73 million paperwork hours and $2.6 to $5.6 billion in compliance costs.

Guess who pays those costs?

You do. Through fees. Through closed accounts. Through denied loans.

Bessent's defense quote: "I have a place in the UK, they want to know who lives in every apartment."

Bessent's net worth: $600 million.

He has a "place in the UK."

He will not be affected by this.

So this isn't really about immigration.

For the first time in American history, access to the banking system would be conditioned on proving citizenship to the federal government. That creates a permanent database linking every American's finances to their citizenship status.

Once that database exists, it gets used by ICE, voting enforcement, tax enforcement, Social Security, and future administrations for purposes nobody has announced yet.

Every future government gets the keys to decide who has a bank account based on paperwork.

And Wall Street's reaction tells you everything:

Bank execs privately called it "unworkable" and "a complete nightmare." One researcher called it "a way to weaponize the banking system to achieve political ends."

They're not pushing back because they love immigrants. They just KNOW the compliance costs are catastrophic and half their customers will walk.

Tom Cotton also introduced a companion bill in March making it a federal crime for any unauthorized person to "open or maintain a US bank account." Maintain. Meaning existing accounts.

These things are literally being drafted right now.

I'm surprised that all of this went under the radar.

[TheFrenchie @ML3democrats]

Happy Saturday everyone ☀️

This is so true 👇

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

They’ve arrested more people for touching the peeling paint at the Reflecting Pool than they’ve arrested from the Epstein files.

[Marco Antonio #ProChoice @Marchisimo]

@JoJoFromJerz 🤣🤣🤣

Dickens would have emphatically concurred.

[DUA LIPA @DUALIPA]

Mr & Mrs

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

ICE paid $123 million for a Texas warehouse valued at $11 million. It never detained a single person.

Now it doesn't want it anymore.

That warehouse isn't an outlier. ICE spent close to a $billion dollars buying 11 of these buildings under Kristi Noem, betting that empty industrial space could become a nationwide deportation pipeline.

Congress backed the plan with a budget that jumped from $8 billion to $28 billion.

Border czar Tom Homan promised 100,000 detention beds by the end of 2025.
Now the agency is reversing course on 7 of those warehouses, worth more than $700 million combined — either selling them outright or handing them off to other federal agencies.

The agency isn't backing off mass detention. It's just shifting the money.

ICE now plans to buy detention space directly from the private prison companies it already contracts with — likely GEO Group and CoreCivic, its two largest private detention contractors.

The same Inspector General investigating where the first $billion went hasn't said a word about where the next one's headed.

Who's getting fired for a $123 million mistake?

#DemsUnited

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

Trump blames the pool algae on vandalism. Yes, vandalism in DC is rampant. Last year vandals destroyed half the White House. Last week a gang of criminals ripped up the South Lawn and staged a fight club. A few months ago some cretin graffitied the Kennedy Center with his name!

[Marco Antonio #ProChoice @Marchisimo]

@jared_shult 👀

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

If visible neglect is appearing even in the capital, the decline may be more advanced than people realize.

[gino.eth 💽 @GinoTheGhost]

The Reflecting Pool is a perfect metaphor for the Trump administration:

- Ignore experts and science
- Overspend
- Declare early, historic victory
- "THE LEFT HATE THIS"
- Ends in total failure
- Unfounded conspiracies about sabotage
- MAGA pretends it doesn't actually matter

[Marco Antonio #ProChoice @Marchisimo]

@marlene4719 👀

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The US has released the full text of its 14-point "Memorandum of Understanding" with Iran.

Key terms include:

1. The US, Iran, and their allies agree to immediately and permanently end military operations on all fronts, including in Lebanon

2. The US and Iran agree to respect each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity and not interfere in each other's internal affairs

3. The US and Iran commit to negotiating and reaching a final deal within 60 days, unless mutually extended

4. The US will begin removing its naval blockade immediately and fully end the blockade within 30 days

5. Iran will use its best efforts to ensure safe passage for commercial vessels through the Strait of Hormuz for 60 days with no charge

6. The US and regional partners will develop a mutually agreed plan of at least $300 billion for Iran's reconstruction and economic development

7. The US will work toward terminating all types of sanctions against Iran, including UN, IAEA, primary, and secondary sanctions

8. Iran reaffirms that it will not procure or develop nuclear weapons and agrees to address its enriched material stockpile under IAEA supervision

9. Until a final deal is reached, Iran will maintain the current status quo of its nuclear program, while the US will impose no new sanctions and deploy no additional forces

10. The US Treasury will issue waivers for Iranian crude oil, petroleum products, derivatives, and associated banking, insurance, and transportation services

11. The US will make frozen or restricted Iranian funds and assets fully available for use

12. The US and Iran will establish an executive mechanism to monitor implementation of the MOU and future compliance with the final deal

13. After signing the MOU and implementing key ceasefire, blockade, shipping, oil waiver, and asset-release provisions, the US and Iran will begin final deal negotiations

14. The final deal will be endorsed by a binding UN Security Council resolution

The memorandum will trigger a 60-day window to negotiate a final deal.

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

In an insane moment, Trump ADMITS that he will unfreeze Iran's money, the exact same thing he criticized President Obama for, but Trump's will be unfreezing way more of Iran's money.

Why was it wrong when Obama did it, but not for Trump?

[Jon Ossoff @ossoff]

Donald Trump’s handpicked candidate Mike Collins is a notorious bigot, antisemite, and extremist currently under federal investigation for the illegal misuse of tax dollars. Collins, who is only a congressman because his daddy was a congressman, voted to double health insurance premiums for more than a million Georgians, for the Iran War, and for the Trump tariffs.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

We’re about to spend $300,000,000,000 rebuilding Iran after spending $80,000,000,000 destroying it, while telling Americans on Medicaid to take a hike.

America First.

[ProPublica @propublica]

Investigators found that leaders of a prison gang in Puerto Rico were selling inmates drugs in exchange for voting for Gov. Jenniffer González-Colón, a longtime Republican.

After Trump’s election, prosecutors were told not to pursue charges.
https://t.co/G29lph1tnE

[Katie @KazooKatherine]

Wow! Raskin just sent Kash Patel this letter. It’s umm… interesting. Read it twice. 👀

The House Judiciary minority says Patel has handed out more than $1 million in “bonus” payments to agents on his Director’s Advisory Team and his security detail. The letter calls it a personal slush fund.

Here’s the mechanism. Federal pay is capped by statute. The letter alleges Patel routed money around that cap. Nearly $8,000 per agent, every two-week pay period. Some collected five in a row. Roughly $40,000 each.

Then the accounts ran dry. Raskin says some of the payments bounced.

Who got paid? The letter points to the unit NOTUS reported as the “Payback Squad.” And it ties the cash to silence, alleging agents were polygraphed over whether they helped cover up Patel’s drinking.

Now the other column. The agents he fired include an FBI Medal of Valor recipient, the official who led the Jan 6 law enforcement response, a Marine combat veteran cut weeks after his wife died of cancer, and a counterintelligence unit that tracked Iranian threats.

Reward the loyal. Purge the rest.

Raskin wants every bonus, every authorization, and every legal memo on whether this broke federal law. Deadline June 29.

[The Hormuz Letter @HormuzLetter]

BREAKING: US officials have now confirmed in a briefing that Iran will get full access to a total of $100 billion in frozen funds and the $300 billion reconstruction fund, both included in the deal with implementation now underway, per WSJ.

More than $150 billion of the fund has already been committed, directly contradicting Trump's claims that the US would not contribute to the $300 billion fund, per Reuters.