David Phillips

Character is the Only Thing That Matters !

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

America isn’t left vs. right. It’s top vs. bottom.

There is too much money and power concentrated in too few hands.

This is the fight that unites people — and the Democratic Party.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump overrules his own Coast Guard and orders 11 giant Arctic icebreakers just because Russia has more – leaving taxpayers holding the multi-billion dollar bag!

Donald Trump reportedly ignored his own Coast Guard experts and ordered the purchase of 11 massive Arctic icebreakers after getting obsessed with the fact that Russia has a bigger fleet, according to a new New York Times investigation.

The Coast Guard’s most recent assessment said the country only needs four or five heavy icebreakers.

Admiral Kevin Lunday, the Coast Guard commandant, told the Times straight up: “The number 11 came directly from the president. This was the president’s number and the president’s decision.”

The Times notes the deal was born as much out of Trump's personal enthusiasm as military planning. After a round of golf with Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Trump reportedly called him late one night and announced he no longer wanted one used icebreaker.

He wanted an entire fleet of brand-new ones instead.
The ships alone are expected to cost nearly $7 billion. The administration also bypassed normal competitive bidding by invoking a rarely used “public interest” exemption so the contracts could move forward without competing bids.

And here’s the kicker: while they found billions to buy the ships, there is no plan yet to pay for the crews, ports, maintenance, and infrastructure needed to actually operate them – costs that could run into billions more.

Where did the money come from? The administration redirected billions from the Republican spending law’s border security funding after Trump decided he wanted more ships than Congress had originally approved.Trump has never hidden his reasoning:

“We only have one,” he complained during his first term. “Russia has 40.”

Experts note that comparison is nonsense. Russia has a far larger Arctic population and relies on icebreakers to keep northern ports open year-round. The United States has completely different needs.

Even the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office is sounding the alarm likening the Coast Guard to “a lottery winner who spends all their money buying the mansion, and then goes broke once they realize they don’t have the money to maintain it.”

This is a perfect example of Trump’s government-by-fiat: decide he wants the biggest, the most, or more than the other guy – then leave everyone else to figure out how to pay for it, staff it, and make it work.

The man is treating the national budget like his personal toy store. If Trump’s ego-driven $7 billion icebreaker shopping spree has you seething, like and share this post.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Fox News PANICS and abruptly ends a segment after the guest bluntly called Trump a "pedophile president" in front of millions of MAGA viewers.

You just know that Trump was seething in front of his TV...

"Fox News wrapped this segment REAL quick," wrote progressive star Krystal Ball of "Breaking Points," highlighting the segment.

And the clip itself is absolutely brutal.

"What, what is the number that is fine with you? Is there, is there a benchmark? Is it fine? How many children can be raped and it's fine if you're in relation to the immigration community?" said Fox's Trace Gallagher, pushing that same reheated Republican lie that the people targeted by Trump's immigration crackdowns are all rapists.

In reality, ICE is tearing apart innocent families and prioritizing noncriminals at the expense of pursuing actual predators. Not only that, but ICE itself is riddled with rapists and sexual abuse is exploding inside detention facilities. By any honest metric, this is the most pro-rape administration in modern American history.

"If we're going to talk about children being raped, then we need to hold this pedophile president Donald Trump accountable," said Oliver Larkin, a Democrat running for Congress in Florida. "And all those that have been implicated by the Epstein files that the Department of Justice is still not leaking."

"Right, we see," said Gallagher, trying to interrupt him while shaking his head.

"And they've sent AIPAC after Thomas Massie for having the temerity to hold accountable the pedophiles that are in control of our government," said Larkin, undeterred.

"Got it. Mr. Larkin, thank you. We appreciate your time, very much," said Gallagher, quickly ending the segment.

This is what happens when you hold these cowards' feet to the fire. They squirm and flee. Fox News can't admit that Trump is a pedophile because their viewers would simply switch to a different right-wing channel willing to flatter their delusions.

We don't have to listen to these freaks lecture us about imagined Mexican rapists. We can point to the actual rapist in the White House and shame them into silence every time.

Please ❤️ and share to thank Larkin for popping their bubble!

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

NEW: Donald Trump’s own DHS agents admitted it UNDER OATH!

The president deliberately sent masked, heavily armed ICE agents to target our campaign kickoff on democracy.

They terrorized a community. A man selling strawberries was arrested for this disgusting political theater.

Absolutely disgraceful.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

Are we all supposed to just sit around and watch an American president literally try to cheat and steal an election in plain sight, AGAIN?

Congress, we see you.
You too SCOTUS.

History is watching.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
George Orwell, 1984

[David Phillips @MusicPsycho]

Are you kidding? WTH

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING:

Trump just ordered warning signs and exhibits to be installed outside the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to alert the public that the museum does not, in his view, accurately reflect American history.

For the record: It does. https://t.co/5b5UIkMZdu

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: A group of 25 states is suing the Trump administration, accusing federal officials of leveraging billions of dollars in federal disaster grant funding in an attempt to coerce states into implementing the president’s anti-voting agenda. https://t.co/LecXFoG08F

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: Congress has been asked to investigate how Elon Musk Knew Trump won 4 hours before the 2024 election was called

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: In a stunning and deeply alarming move, the Postmaster General has announced that the USPS will REFUSE to deliver mail-in ballots for the 2026 midterm elections to any state that does not comply with Donald Trump’s so-called “election integrity” executive order.

Let that sink in.

This is a direct attack on voting rights and a blatant attempt to strong-arm states into submission by threatening Americans’ access to the ballot box.

The Postal Service….an institution meant to serve EVERYONE—is now being weaponized to influence elections.
Democracy is not optional. Voting is not conditional. And no president gets to decide who can and cannot participate in our elections.

This should outrage every American, regardless of party.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Vultures, ALLL OF THEM!

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: Shocking new reporting from CNBC reveals Donald Trump purchased MILLIONS of dollars in Axon stock just two weeks before ICE agreed to purchase $220 MILLION in tasers from Axon. Trump is corruptly profiting off the violence he perpetuates. Americans deserve answers.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MAJOR BREAKING: Florida officials have told contractors to begin dismantling “Alligator Alcatraz.”

All detainees have been transferred to other immigration detention facilities, reportedly in part because the Everglades site was so expensive to operate.

The facility lasted just one year. Estimated cost to taxpayers: $1.2 billion.

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Trump told Leslie Stahl something years ago that everyone should hear.

She asked Trump he kept calling the media fake news.

He said, I do it because I need to discredit you, so that when you say negative things about me, nobody believes you.

That is EXACTLY what he’s done.

The problem everyone has with him is that most of us grew up with values, ethics, and integrity.

That is not Donald Trump.

He figured out a long time ago that he can bully his way through any rule and if he keeps pushing harder and harder, people will relent.

For most of his life they did, but we must stand up against it.

[E…Breezy @RodneyEcho]

@Patrickwebb @Mudukwon

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Congress Just Learned Something Pretty Stunning About Jeffrey Epstein’s Operation.

According to Rep. Melanie Stansbury, Epstein’s longtime executive assistant admitted her legal fees are being paid by a fund established through Epstein’s estate.

Read that again.

Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019.

Yet his money is still paying the attorneys of a key witness connected to his network.

Then came another admission.

She acknowledged helping arrange calls between Epstein and Trump, Prince Andrew, and other powerful figures.

Even now, Epstein’s money appears to be shaping who can afford legal representation and who can’t.

That’s a remarkable revelation.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HORRIFYING! Epstein bombshell reveals that Trump allegedly had a "predilection for nipples" and abused one of the victims by "aggressively" flicking and sucking on them.

And it gets so much worse...

“They looked incredibly painful as they were red and swollen and I remember wincing when I looked at them,” Epstein victim Sarah Ransome wrote in an email to a journalist, referring to a victim named Jen who Trump allegedly preyed on.

Ransome claimed that Jen — who was a girl in Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring — had sex with Trump and he brutally abused her nipples. Ransome claimed to have seen the evidence firsthand on Jen's body.

The stomach-churning revelation was reported by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan of the New York Times in reporting excerpted from their forthcoming book, “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.”

The reporters expose details of the private emergency meetings that Trump's inner circle held inside the White House to discuss damage control for their boss's worsening Epstein scandal. Some of them had "never heard of the nipple claim" when it was brought up, but others had a "passing familiarity with it."

One official said that it was "surreal" to be discussing nipples inside the White House Situation Room — the very same place where Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton oversaw the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden. Under Democrats, the room is used to keep Americans safe. Under Trump, it's used to keep us in the dark.

Ransome further claimed that she "possessed video footage of prominent men having sex with young girls in Epstein’s entourage." She later retracted the claims out of fear that she or her family might be harmed. Given the fact that there's a mountain of evidence suggesting that Epstein did not kill himself, she can hardly be blamed for her caution.

Try as they might, Republicans will not succeed at sweeping this scandal under the rug. The Epstein child-trafficking operation is the defining element of Trump's life. He can delay and obfuscate, but eventually Democrats will retake power and the floodgates will be opened wide. One of the first orders of business must be for the FBI to find Jen and interview her extensively. Then, the prosecutions can begin.

Please ❤️ and share to demand a full investigation when Democrats return to power!

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump is passed out in the Oval Office right now. 25TH AMENDMENT NOW!

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: NOT SO FAST! Federal judge reopens Trump’s IRS case and demands to know if her court was defrauded.

Judge Kathleen Williams has had enough.

In a brief but devastating order Friday, the federal judge in Miami reopened Donald Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS — a case Trump had voluntarily dismissed last week specifically to avoid her scrutiny — and ordered Trump's lawyers to explain by June 12th why she shouldn't find that the entire scheme was a fraud perpetrated against her court.

The judge's language was pointed and precise. She said she wanted to investigate "grievous allegations" that the deal to resolve the case was "premised on deception." She asserted that she was "empowered to investigate serious misconduct" and demanded answers to two devastating questions: was "the court the victim of a fraud," and did Trump collude with his own government to settle the case specifically "to avoid judicial scrutiny"?

The answer to both questions, based on everything that has already been reported, appears to be yes.

Judge Williams had been circling this case for weeks before Trump pulled it. She had openly questioned how Trump could sue an agency he controls, with government lawyers who answer to him, producing a settlement negotiated with officials he appointed. She ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually adversaries or secretly colluding. Trump dismissed the case the day before those briefs were due.

Then, after she closed it, the Justice Department released not one but two extraordinary agreements — a $1.776 billion fund to compensate Trump's allies, and a separate one-page document permanently barring the IRS from ever auditing Trump, his family, or his businesses. Agreements that had apparently been negotiated while the case was supposedly active before her court.

Judge Williams cited the New York Times report revealing that the IRS had prepared a 25-page memo outlining strong defenses against Trump's suit — defenses the Justice Department never raised in court, never filed, never mentioned.

Her order came directly in response to the filing by 35 former federal judges — appointed by presidents of both parties — who called the scheme a fraud and urged her to reopen the case.

She listened.

"We stand ready to work with the court as it investigates this matter," said Norman Eisen, who represented the former judges.

Trump tried to flip the table before she could see the cards. She just put them back on the table.

If you can’t wait to see the Justice Department try to explain itself, please like and share this post everywhere.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: A federal judge is now signaling the Trump administration’s so-called “weaponization fund” may have emerged from collusive litigation and could potentially amount to fraud on the court.

That is nuclear-level language from a judge.

“Fraud on the court” is not normal criticism.
It is reserved for situations where a court believes it may have been manipulated, misled, or used as part of a coordinated scheme.

And the judge reportedly pointed to two giant red flags:
- the massive $1.8 billion settlement amount
- and concerns the opposing sides may not have actually been acting as true adversaries

Translation?

The court is openly questioning whether this lawsuit was partially engineered to create a taxpayer-funded political compensation machine.

That is an absolutely extraordinary development.