Jeff Mulligan 🇺🇸 🇺🇦

Skeptical. Sometimes cynical. Always hopeful. I support democracy for all people.

[Jeff Mulligan 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @MulliganJeff]

#trumpcare must trend for the duration of this administration and congress. It must not only mean ruination of healthcare, but also the ruination of democracy. #trumpcare reflects a careless stewardship of America and its people.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Maryland couple: Our premiums went from $400 to $1,975 for the same policy. I've cut off subscriptions we don't need. I've tried to figure out how to move money around. We just don't make enough. My business is small. We're going to have to give up our health care. The increase in the premiums would be half of my income.

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

This is grotesque and un-American. 11 stars represents the Confederate States of America, not the United States of America.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Indeed.

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

Dear Washington Post. Once a guilty verdict has been rendered, it’s no longer an allegation. It’s a fact. The jury did not find that the disgraceful president allegedly sexually assaulted & then defamed Jean Carroll. The jury found that he did sexually assault & defame her. Duh

[Tymofiy Mylovanov @Mylovanov]

Q: What happened at the Trump-Kim Singapore summit?

Bolton: Trump told Kim he'd cancel the annual US-South Korea military exercise — "I think it's a waste of money anyway and I know it upsets you." Kim Jong-un broke out laughing.

He'd gotten something they wanted for 40 years that nobody had ever thought to give him. Then Trump said "Kim and I fell in love" and offered him a ride back to Pyongyang on Air Force One — which shocked everyone, especially Kim, because he didn't like airplanes. Particularly ones he didn't control.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[Defense of Ukraine @DefenceU]

Today our long-range sanctions reached the Dubna space communications center in the Moscow region — 500+ km from our border.

A satellite facility used for reconnaissance and coordinating Russia's occupation forces in Ukraine.

Recently we've hit 4 such centers across the Moscow and Vladimir regions. More are being prepared.

Thank you to our warriors for their accuracy.

📹: @ZelenskyyUa

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

‼️ The GOP wants to require election officials to throw out ballots that were cast on time but have missing or mistaken dates on the envelope.

Now, the Supreme Court has signaled that it will hear a Republican bid on the issue that risks disenfranchising large numbers of voters. https://t.co/1vxzGOGRJP

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Sen Tammy Duckworth: “If you have a different name on your birth certificate than is on your drivers license, you CANNOT vote, and so for the 69 MILLION American WOMEN who took their husband’s names, you cannot vote. That birth certificate is not valid. By the way, military IDs will not be valid for you to be able to vote, neither will your REAL ID…So you have to go in with a passport that matches your current ID, and you know how hard it is to get a passport? Number one, it’s expensive and number two, theres such a backlog in the State Department, some people are waiting 3-6 months to get a passport. And so, think about the 69 million American women who married and took their husband’s name, you can no longer vote under the #SAVEAct…and in order to have housing for young people who…don’t see home ownership as being something that they can achieve, he’s going to hold women who are married and took their husband’s name hostage.” 🤦‍♀️

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Today, our long-range sanctions against Russia for this war once again reached the Dubna space communications center in the Moscow region. This is a special satellite communications facility used, in particular, for reconnaissance and for coordinating the activity of Russia’s occupation contingent in Ukraine.

The distance from our state border to this facility is more than 500 kilometers. Recently, our Defense Forces of Ukraine already reached four such Russian centers, not only in the Moscow region but also in the Vladimir region. Step by step, we are implementing our plan of long-range sanctions and making it as difficult as possible for the aggressor state to carry out its invasion operations against Ukraine and the occupation of our territories. Relevant actions are also being prepared against other similar enemy facilities.

I thank our warriors for their accuracy! Glory to Ukraine!

[Kate from Kharkiv @BohuslavskaKate]

APPLEBAUM: Clearly, Trump is somebody who was cultivated by Russians for many years. Clearly, when they talk to him, they spend lot of time thinking about how he can be manipulated, and he seems to respond. Trump is easy to manipulate if you know which buttons to push and so on.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Bringing this back:
Rep. Ted Lieu says the full Epstein files contain information that Donald Trump RAPED minors.

Never stop speaking about Epstein.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Oops, he got caught cheating once again! Ken Paxton is a serial liar, cheater and scumbag that has zero values, morals, integrity or respect! Wake up Texas! He doesn’t represent his constituents, he represents padding his own back pockets and lying ass! Vote James Talarico! 🇺🇸

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

What this means is that the jury verdict that determined that @realDonaldTrump had sexually abused my friend E. Jean Carroll by penetrating her vagina with his fingers, and therefore had defamed her by denying that he had done so, will stand as a final and conclusive judgment.

The highly respected district judge who tried the case, the Hon. Lewis A. Kaplan, correctly stated multiple times that the jury's finding of sexual abuse under New York law meant that, in common parlance and under the law of most jurisdictions, Donald Trump was found to have raped E. Jean.

So henceforth and forever more, it will be completely accurate—and utterly inactionable under the common and constitutional law of defamation—to state the following fact:

DONALD J. TRUMP IS AN ADJUDICATED RAPIST.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

It makes the world a worse place (to them) because it makes them look bad.
She's given away $26.3B to help others and her lifestyle hasn't changed one bit. Other billionaires hate that she's lifting the veil and making them look bad.

[Wajahat Ali @WajahatAli]

The Supreme Court must be reformed or dismantled at this point. It's a rogue body filled with 6 right wing extremists who want to replace democracy with a white Christian King. If a politician doesn't support Court reform then they arent the leaders for this moment. Step aside.

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

The Slaughter case, overturning precedent, returns us to a spoils system where a president can “clean house” every four years, destroying our professional, independent civil service.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

CORRUPTION in plain view! 🤬 https://t.co/2FBOOXK56J

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Here, we have a president who, by his own account, personally called a federal prosecutor to intervene in an ongoing election — and the story has barely registered. https://t.co/6zrUxYKSK3

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Has anyone in the White House press corps asked Trump about this?

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Why does Trump want to create a national voter registration list before the midterms?

“This effort to create a national voter file that Donald Trump controls is an effort to mass disenfranchise people through paperwork.”

Don’t let him get away with it. Join our fight for free and fair elections: https://t.co/a0iV8tKNe9