Daniel Hylla

#NeverTrump #PedoPrez The clown show continues.

[#Anonymous @TheStripesGirl]

"UNBELIEVABLE. 🤬 Remember that luxury Boeing 737 #KristiNoem's #HomelandSecurity Department bought with taxpayer money, supposedly for deportation operations?
Well, here's where it gets outrageous.
The aircraft, reportedly purchased for $108 MILLION, is now under White House control, with #Melania Trump among the select people given access to it.
Yes, Melania. The First Lady.
And wait until you hear what's inside this so-called deportation plane.
We're talking bedrooms, marble showers, a full kitchen, massive flat-screen televisions, and even a BAR. There's reportedly a table covered in manta ray skin, too.
Because apparently, that's what the government needs to transport immigration detainees.
When Senator Sheldon Whitehouse questioned Noem about the luxurious interior, she insisted the aircraft was being refurbished and suggested the bedroom would be removed.
But the questions didn't end there.
The administration had originally justified the jet as useful for deportations and official government travel. Then the White House took control of its use, making it available to senior officials and Melania Trump's office.
And taxpayers are supposed to consider that perfectly normal?
Here's another detail that deserves attention. Democratic senators have questioned why DHS paid $108 million for an aircraft that had reportedly been advertised for less than $90 million. They're also demanding answers about the contracts and whether taxpayers received anything close to a fair deal.
Think about the priorities here. Americans are struggling with healthcare bills, grocery prices, rent, and everyday expenses. Yet an agency funded to carry out immigration enforcement ended up purchasing a luxury aircraft with accommodations most taxpayers could never dream of enjoying.
The administration says these aircraft provide secure transportation for government officials. Fine. Then show Americans exactly how the money was spent, who authorized the purchase, and why a plane with private bedrooms and a bar was considered necessary for immigration operations.
This isn't about whether the First Lady can travel on a government aircraft. It's about why taxpayers were asked to fund an extraordinarily expensive luxury jet under a deportation justification, only for its use to expand to political VIPs.
We're not stupid.
And we're certainly not asking too much by demanding receipts.
Now imagine the Republican outrage if Michelle #Obama had been given access to a $108 million luxury aircraft bought with immigration enforcement funds.
The congressional hearings would never end.
But when it's the #Trump administration?
Suddenly, everyone is supposed to look the other way.
The double standards never stop."

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Ukraine's President Volodomyr Zelenskyy just EXPOSED that someone in the Trump Administration or allied with Elon Musk is once again preventing Ukraine from using StarShield's technology. This in-kind contribution to Putin's war must be stopped.

[Surfer Dude 🏄‍♂️ @dudeonthebay]

Tim O’Hare, the Texas judge that closed 92 polling stations in Tarrant County, Texas to help give republicans an advantage is out. Voters gave him the boot and replaced him with a black woman. Gotta love that sweet justice.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: The Kennedy Family, led by Former Rep. Joe Kennedy (D-MA), is suing to block Trump’s triumphal arch, claiming it would cast a shadow over JFK’s grave.

RETWEET if you stand with @JoeKennedy against Donald Trump!

[Daniel Hylla @MiltonForPrez]

@GhannonBurton @taylorcvance You’re free to move overseas.

[Daniel Hylla @MiltonForPrez]

@lightloveyeshua @taylorcvance Start thinking critically again

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

This is truly abhorrent. Pete Hegseth doesn't know how to conduct himself, even at The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery.

His behavior is unbecoming of any visitor to the Tomb, let alone that which comes from a Secretary of Defense.

[Daniel Hylla @MiltonForPrez]

@basspankai Where were you Hakeem??????

[Daniel Hylla @MiltonForPrez]

@ridpath_linda @SPBMcKenna The best people

[Daniel Hylla @MiltonForPrez]

@DecodingFoxNews This guy lies as easy as he breathes air.

[Daniel Hylla @MiltonForPrez]

@maddenifico Surprised Trump hasn’t called asking for 2701 votes.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Racism Is Alive and Well in Mississippi: They're Trying to Steal a Senate Seat From a Black Man

This is naked voter suppression dressed up as "election integrity." Thousands of Mississippians are being screwed out of their votes right now because the state's Republican secretary of state deliberately used sloppy commercial credit data to purge the rolls — and the mess is landing hardest in a race where a Black Democrat is beating a Republican incumbent.

Scott Colom is narrowly ahead of Cindy Hyde-Smith. That lead is under attack because large numbers of voters were forced onto provisional (affidavit) ballots after their names vanished from the poll books. Both campaigns admit thousands of people were hit. CNN has the receipts.

Andrew Couch is one of the casualties. He'd voted at the same polling place in the last two elections without a problem. On Election Day he was told he was registered in a county he hadn’t lived in for six years. On Monday he was informed his ballot is dead. His reaction: "I'm very upset. If people lose faith in the process… it's going to hurt voter turnout in the future." That's the point.

Secretary of State Michael Watson signed off on using Experian credit data to flag "moved" voters. The result: more than 230,000 people — roughly 1 in 9 registered voters statewide — were dumped into inactive status and left off the poll books before Election Day (Mississippi Today). In a state where over 9 percent of residents are unbanked, this data was always going to be garbage. Experian itself has run away from the whole thing, telling CNN its product "was not designed or intended to validate voter records" and that it stopped working with the state in early 2025.

This isn’t some innocent clerical error. It's the same old Mississippi playbook: make it harder for certain people to vote when the outcome looks like it might go the wrong way. A Black man is on the verge of winning a Senate seat the state hasn't handed to a Democrat in decades, and suddenly the rolls are a disaster. This is Republican racism in action.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

IMPEACHMENT, Article III

The law requires our military to withdraw from hostilities within 60 days if Congress does not authorize the activity.

Operation Epic Fury has been underway for 256 days. Congress has not authorized it.

Hegseth is breaking the law.

Not even debatable.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

John Lewis, 2018: We are going forward. When the state of Georgia becomes blue, along with the state of Texas, they will not be able to hold us down. It’s going to happen.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: Pro-voting demonstrators protested Attorney General Todd Blanche’s appearance near Hinds County Courthouse, where some Mississippi voters must go to cure affidavit ballots cast in the midterms.

They said the police presence could intimidate voters. https://t.co/mo7U9jZTfx

[Scott Colom @scott_colom]

This is why I keep saying this isn’t something I did. The people did it. So glad the nation is getting to see Mississippi and all its fierceness. #MississippiMatters

[MxM @Mukurima]

President Donald Trump went to Corinth, Mississippi, to tell people why they should not vote for @scott_colom as their Senator. By the time Trump took the stage, some of those people had already met him. Colom, a Democrat running against incumbent Republican Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith, had come in a sweatshirt and walked down the line outside the arena, shaking hands and asking people what they were worried about.

One man, a veteran, brought up gun rights. Others talked about gas prices and the war in Iran. I saw a man ask for a selfie. A few days earlier, Colom had gone on CNN and said he thought Trump had done a good job securing the border. He also said he supported the Second Amendment. He talked about it as a father who wanted his wife, Nadia, to be able to protect their two daughters. On tariffs and the war in Iran, he was just as plain about where he disagreed. He argued that the tariffs were hurting Mississippi farmers and small businesses, and that the war was driving up the cost of diesel for the people who grow the food and the people who haul it.

If you want to understand why Colom was comfortable in that line, it helps to know who raised him.

His father, Wilbur, was a lawyer who worked for Ronald Reagan and once ran for state treasurer as a Republican. His mother, Dorothy, was the first Black person elected to her region’s chancery court. Scott grew up in Columbus, became a judge himself and, in 2015, became the first Black district attorney elected to represent a majority-white district in Mississippi. When Joe Biden nominated him to be a federal judge, Hyde-Smith blocked the nomination. Colom eventually ran for her seat.

And then there were the ads that arguably tilted the race. When Hyde-Smith answered a question about expensive beef by pointing out that people had other proteins to choose from, Colom’s campaign took the joke to the grocery store. For Halloween, his twin brother, Andrew, wrote and directed a spoof of Sinners, the Ryan Coogler film set in Mississippi. The brothers played the twins themselves. Alexis York, a 29-year-old in Jackson, told The Washington Post she recognized someone in one of Colom’s videos. He used to buy lunch from her at the gas station. That mattered to her and as it turned out, this year was the first time she voted.

Isitoshe,

For his last ad of the campaign season, Colom went to the house in Jackson where Medgar Evers was shot in his driveway in 1963. Evers had spent years organizing for civil rights and helping Black Mississippians register to vote. Colom said he wanted people to hear what it had cost Evers and his family for others to be able to cast a ballot. In that last ad, he never asked anybody to vote for him.

Once all the votes are counted, Colom will probably be announced the next Mississippi senator. He will become the state’s first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction.

May the day break

[News to Remember @allchronology]

This was Scott Colom's last political ad before the Tuesday election in Mississippi. It shows why he should win the race for Senator. No name calling. Just a rendition of history that shouldn't be forgotten and the reason to vote.
#Colom #Mississippi #senator #Evers #vote #election

[Middle Age Riot @middleageriot]

Lauren Boebert is about to go from being the stupidest person in Congress to the stupidest person not in Congress.

[Lillian@mcocph @LillianVikingDK]

This is former USN Admiral Eileen Laubacher, I say former because in his purge of senior military ( mostly female) Hegseth fired her.
Yesterday she beat Lauren Boebert in the election and is now in the congress.
She will be on the select committee to interrogate him