~ Valerie ~

#MedicareForAll #BanLobbyists #EndCitizensUnited

[~ Valerie ~ @MysVZ]

Summer dog 🐶

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

The Trump administration just made it legal to kill 400,000 wild animals a year in secret. No public notice. No comment period. Just done.

The USDA finalized rules this April gutting decades of public participation requirements on 193 million acres of national forest. Logging, drilling, mining, road building — all can now be approved before the public ever hears about it.

That includes Wildlife Services — the federal program that kills more than 400,000 native animals every year. Coyotes. Bears. Wolves. Beavers. Mountain lions. Killed on behalf of ranching interests, with your tax dollars, on your public land. Now completely out of public view.

150,000 public comments opposing these rules were thrown out. Attorneys general from 17 states objected. Tribal governments objected. The administration didn't care.

"Information is power. Our voices are power. And the Trump administration is trying to strip both away so corporations can make a quick buck off our public lands." — Wendy Park, Center for Biological Diversity.

Who gave the government permission to kill 400,000 wild animals a year and hide it from the rest of us?

#DemsUnited

[KGW News @KGWNews]

Deadline to apply for free air conditioner through Cooling Portland program is June 30 https://t.co/elEPoZqMrH

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

The richest 1% now have as much wealth as the bottom 90% of America combined.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis.

Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention.

So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption.

1/ Here it is - in one🧵

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Congress finally did what should have been done months ago: voted to demand Trump end his war with Iran.

The Constitution is clear: Presidents cannot unilaterally take us to war. That’s the responsibility of Congress.

About time Congress finally accepted its responsibility.

[ABC News @ABC]

JUST IN: The Senate has adopted a House-passed Iran war powers resolution by a 50-48 vote in a symbolic, yet rare, rebuke of President Trump. https://t.co/Ds7XP7ulHV

[CHARLIE COTTON @hicharliecotton]

Fencing going up around Reflecting Pool

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Maybe it’s breaking because he drove over it with a 10 ton limo?

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Kids are spending up to 15 hours a day on digital platforms. Many are losing sleep and withdrawing from family, friends and community life.

According to experts, this has the same impact on the brain as drug addiction.

Our kids’ well-being must come before Big Tech's profits.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Never before in American history have so few people held so much wealth and power.

Never before has there been so much income and wealth inequality.

This is THE issue of our time.

It cannot be ignored and the progressive working-class movement we are building WILL confront it.

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

With today's passing of Alan Greenspan, the one thing you are obligated to do is watch this C-Span clip of Greenspan being utterly destroyed by Bernie Sanders, at a time when every other lawmaker was praising Greenspan as a hero as he created conditions for the financial crisis.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Then why did your boss commute the 20 year prison sentence of Philip Esformes, the Florida health care executive convicted of a $1.3 billion Medicare and Medicaid fraud scheme, after just 14 months served?

Why had he pardoned more than 70 fraudsters?

[Donie O'Sullivan @donie]

The White House is posting fake QAnon posts (to promote executive orders on quantum computing).

[Sophia A. Nelson @IAmSophiaNelson]

Why is he allowed just to do this--he literally had the East Wing torn down. The Oval Office looks like a whorehouse, and he has ruined the colonnade to the west wing and more. The south lawn was destroyed. America, what are we doing here?

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) has issued memo to US Secret Service announcing a probe of "waste, fraud and abuse" in the Trump White House ballroom project

Blumenthal asks agency to turn over records on the reported $352 million in Secret Service funds "redirected" to Ballroom

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Resolved: Doge’s USAID cuts threaten a staggering number of avoidable deaths.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

This is not a normal statement from a normal cabinet member of a major nation. 

This statement from Israeli National Security Minister Ben-Gvir is the statement of a war criminal. 

The racist, extremist Israeli government does not deserve one nickel of U.S. support.

[WTAF, America?! @FightingForDem7]

Historians are sounding the alarm that if these 200-year-old limestone pillars (rebuilt by James Hoban in 1830 after the British burned the building) are physically carved up or removed, the loss of authentic historic material is completely irreversible.

[Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine]

Susan Collins is lying through her teeth. Roe v. Wade was not overturned 6-3. That is a lie. It was 5-4. Roberts specifically said he did not support overturning Roe.

Brett Kavanaugh was the deciding vote to overturn Roe v. Wade.

And Susan Collins was the deciding vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh to a lifetime appointment on the Supreme Court.

[Ron Wyden @RonWyden]

Saddened to hear @Oregonian reporter Zane Sparling has passed. Zane always came well-prepared with questions & a wonderfully quirky style that made him unique. My condolences to his colleagues & loved ones.
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