Melissa Preddy

Gardener. Upcycler. Pollinator friend. Film noir fan.TCMFF. Science believer. KWF '05. Stand with Ukraine.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Rep. Norman: January 6th was an issue that was made up in the first place.

Reporter: Made up?

Norman: That was a staged thing from day one.

Reporter: The riot was staged? Your Republican colleagues barricaded themselves in their chamber. You think they were acting?

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Here's how the corruption works:

Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump

Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it

Friday: FDA changes the policy
https://t.co/Udu1RhYtKI

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy’s cross country road trip may have violated multiple federal ethics statutes, including the federal gift ban and the Standards of Ethical Conduct.

We've filed a complaint.
https://t.co/XHJtpAcHcY

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

WOW! The US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent was blocked by Chinese security in Beijing for not wearing his ID.

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

You could start by walking down the hall. See why your boss keeps pardoning people convicted of money laundering, wire fraud, tax evasion, and securities fraud.

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

🚨 JUST IN:

Donald Trump’s sons are now tied to a Kazakh mining company shortly after it landed a massive $1.6 billion U.S. government contract.

And somehow we’re supposed to believe this is normal?

America, are you paying attention?

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🇺🇸NEWS: FBI Director Kash Patel used a government Gulfstream V to fly his country singer girlfriend to a George Strait concert.
He watched the show from a luxury suite reported at $35,000 to $50,000.

Then he flew her home on the same FBI jet.
Same week: a “VIP snorkel” at the underwater tomb of 900 sailors and Marines at Pearl Harbor.

The pattern from the same NYT investigation is now public.

Four SWAT agents and two SUVs guarding his girlfriend in Nashville. The detail estimated at $1 million a year. SWAT escorts to a hair appointment.

An FBI official suggested a threat assessment to determine if any of it was justified. Patel berated him.

A New York Times reporter wrote about the SWAT detail. The FBI opened an investigation into the reporter. The DOJ shut it down and called it retaliation.

What is the FBI for when the FBI Director uses it as a personal concierge service and turns it on the people who notice?

[chiky handler @chiky_handlr]

Reporter: The DOJ has this new fund — $1.7 billion. Why should taxpayers pay for the January 6ers?

Trump: Because in my world, loyalty outranks law. They broke the rules for me, so you pay the bill for them. That’s the transaction.

[Bad Fox Graphics @BadFoxGraphics]

Remember — Transportation Sec. Sean Duffy was so obsessed with seeing his pretty face on reality television he partnered with @RoyalCaribbean to donate a free cruise to his entire family so he could hold a selfie stick while hurtling backwards down a water slide.

[Sam Stein @samstein]

So, in other words, if you paid enough to sponsor Sec. Duffy's reality show, you could get coveted access to Duffy. This used to be the stuff of scandal

https://t.co/wubWRuqQtK

[Covie @covie_93]

So providing life saving medicine and food to poor people around the world is waste, fraud and abuse but giving trump $13 million to paint a pool blue isn't???

[chyea ok @chyeaok]

Because I’ve gone down this rabbit hole I was looking into the head of Sean Duffy’s vacation nonprofit, and found a letter she wrote criticizing Buttigieg’s consumer protection airline fee transparency rule in 2023

[chyea ok @chyeaok]

You know I tried to look into the 501(c)4 running the Sean Duffy vacation, but there’s almost 0 information about it available. No EIN number, no public information. Nada. Given they’re “partnering” with USDOT and funneling money into gifts for the secretary, this is concerning

[David Fahrenthold @Fahrenthold]

NEW: The cost of President Trump's plan to repair the Reflecting Pool has jumped by 88 percent, to $13.1M, gov't records show.

The price appears to include a 20 percent profit margin for Trump's handpicked contractor, who got the job in a no-bid contract.

https://t.co/r17oy8J5eX

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Melania Trump on her husband: "He would like to have a country where all of the people can walk down the street and not be harassed or murdered or women raped…”

FC: Trump was found civilly liable for sexual abusing E. Jean Carroll. @atrupar (2026)

[💙🌊 Zero Dark Twenty-Nine 🌊🌊🖋️🧫 @herotimeszero]

What Donald Trump sold since running for president: Trading cards, coins, pieces of his suit, Bibles, shoes, fragrance, watches, crypto, non-existent phones.

What all the other presidents sold, combined: Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

[John Bourscheid 🇺🇸 🚀 @bourscheid]

Happy Sunday. The President of the Utah Senate has an 18-year old grandson charged with molesting a child.

He just passed a bill reducing child molestation sentences, specifically for 18-year olds.

They walk among us with red hats.

[Jess Margera @jessmargera]

I’m old enough to remember back when if the president sold a phone to 600,000 people and then fucked them all with no phone and no refund, that would have made the news. It would have been a top story actually

[Melissa Preddy @MelissaPreddy]

@SecDuffy What’s “radical” about expecting you to report to the office and do the job we are paying you to do?

You incompetent, mindless grifter.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

I think American taxpayers are upset because you took a 7 month family reality show road trip subsidized by the American taxpayer and paid for by corporations you regulate, while not doing your actual job—which incidentally is also paid for by taxpayers who are paying an enormous amount for gas because of a war your boss launched and can’t get out of.