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[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

Update from the reflecting pool! The pool has been drained, and there are no signs of the giant gash that Donald Trump has been lying about. No indications of major vandalism. Just a bad paint job. The only thing that’s been exposed is that Trump has been lying about this.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🇺🇸Trump has stated 106 times that he defeated Iran.

🇺🇸Trump has stated 95 times that Iran is destroyed.

🇺🇸Trump has stated 88 times that a deal is imminent.

🇺🇸Trump has stated 75 times that the Strait of Hormuz is open.

Fact: This serial liar has achieved nothing yet. He is just playing with the stock market.

Elect a clown, expect a circus.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🇺🇸Marco Rubio in MARCH: "Goal of the war is to change the regime."

🇺🇸Marco Rubio in APRIL: "Goal of the war is to stop 🇮🇷 Iran from making nukes."

🇺🇸Marco Rubio in JULY: "Goal of the war is to return everything 'back to the way it was,' including the Strait of Hormuz." 🤣

Americans have elected a bunch of clowns

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: Trump says Greenland “should be controlled by the United States, not by Denmark,” before warning Europe: “We could remove all our soldiers out of Europe. They better be careful.”

Trump is a threat to the free world.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

👏DO👏NOT👏LET👏THIS👏STORY👏DIE👏

Texas Attorney General, and now Republican nominee for the Texas Senate Ken Paxton gave his friend 28 days in jail after he repeatedly raped a young boy.

He does not have to register as a sex offender.

He didn’t even lose his license to practice law.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Sen. @brianschatz: If this deal is so good, why can't the public see it? Donald Trump hasn't made anything materially better. 13 service members dead. 3,000 Iranians killed, billions of dollars, maybe hundreds of billions of dollars in 3 months, and prices spiked everywhere. There is a reason they are not publishing this deal and it's because it makes plain that this is one of the biggest foreign policy blunders in many generations.

[Josh Reynolds @JoshReynolds24]

I still am struggling to wrap my head around the fact this is actually happening…

Don’t care what your political views are, EVERYONE should be absolutely embarrassed & ashamed that this is happening at the Lincoln Memorial & White House. What a joke.

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

🚨 Ken Paxton was indicted on 3 felony securities-fraud charges.

He wasn't acquitted.

The case dragged on for nearly 9 years before ending in a deal requiring community service, ethics training, and restitution.

Then:

• 8 of his own top deputies reported him to the FBI
• The Texas House impeached him 121-23
• Whistleblowers accused him of using his office to help a political donor tied to his affair
• He sought a taxpayer-funded settlement after those whistleblowers were fired

At some point, it stops being "one allegation."

It becomes a pattern.

A pattern documented by grand juries, whistleblowers, impeachment proceedings, court filings, and his own negotiated settlements.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

Epic moment 🔥

🇺🇸Trump at 5:00 PM — “No President has done this. We got Iran to talk nukes. Maybe even give them up. This is First time ever.”

🇺🇸Obama at 6:00 PM — “Did it already. No missiles fired. Moved 97% of their enriched uranium out. We didn't have to kill a whole bunch of people or shut down the Strait of Hormuz like you.”🔥👏

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

Mitch McConnell blocked Merrick Garland for 422 days. Then turned around and confirmed Amy Coney Barrett weeks before an election. The Republicans packed the Court then, but call the idea radical now.

The result: an illegitimate 6-3 Court dismantling voting rights, workers' rights, and reproductive freedom. We need reform now.

[Alex Veremeyenko @alex_verem]

Let me trace the timeline here because nobody's connecting it.

Step 1: Scrape the entire internet. Every book, every article, every conversation, every piece of art, every forum post. Do it without asking. Do it without paying.

Step 2: Train a model on all of it. Call it "artificial intelligence."

Step 3: Go to BlackRock's Infrastructure Summit and announce: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility, like electricity or water, and people buy it from us on a meter."

Step 3 is where you sell people's own knowledge back to them. On a meter.

They took the collective output of human thought, compressed it into a model, and now they want to charge you by the token to access a version of what you and everyone you know already created.

One Reddit user put it perfectly: "They stole all this data from us, the people, our life's work, creativity, art, by devouring the internet and blowing through all copyright laws. Now they want to sell it back to us in the form of a utility."

Imagine if someone photocopied every book in the public library, burned the library down, and then opened a subscription service for the copies.

That's the metered intelligence business model.

And they're pitching it to infrastructure investors as though they invented water.

[Power to the People ☭🕊 @ProudSocialist]

This is outrageous.

A small town in Michigan did everything right to stop OpenAI & Oracle from building a $16 billion data center in their town.

The people of Saline Township flooded their council meeting, put up signs all over town, and convinced their officials to reject it.

The officials voted against the data center 4-1, and that should have been the end. But two days later the developers sued, and the town couldn’t afford to fight back in court.

We are not a free nation when billion-dollar corporations can take over the land of our communities and towns. We are a captive nation ruled by corporations and billionaires.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

🚨🚨🚨 It keeps getting worse
@lawyeroyer “The 1.8 billion Trump – Blanche slush fund is even more corrupt than we knew. Todd Blanche is offering to cut Republican senators IN on the PAYOUT to WIN their support. Please share widely and call your SENATORS to shut this down“‼️

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

🚨 Every Republican present in the House Appropriations Committee last night voted to make THEMSELVES eligible to collect from Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund. I am not making this up.

I introduced an amendment to stop Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President from collecting a single dollar from Trump’s slush fund unless a court actually orders it.

Every single Republican who cast a vote was AGAINST my amendment, making themselves eligible for settlement funds.

Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President, have no business lining their own pockets by claiming they were victims of government weaponization. Trump set up this fund, now MAGA Republicans in Congress are ensuring they all can collect from it.

That is exactly the kind of self-dealing corruption the American people are sick of.

[MNet @NethertonMike]

@Acyn F*** U

[Acyn @Acyn]

McGovern: It took us forever to compensate the victims of 9/11, and here you have this $1.8 billion slush fund that doesn’t go through any committees or hearings. All of a sudden, they have the money to compensate convicted felons—people who attacked our democracy and tried to overthrow a free and fair election.

This is the most corrupt administration in our history.

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so people don’t forget how truly bad this event was.

Don’t let people gaslight you into thinking it was peaceful and worthy of 1500+ pardons and slush fund payoffs.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

🚨BREAKING: Republicans just voted AGAINST my amendment to stop Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund from bailing out the convicted felons who assaulted cops on January 6th.

You read that right. They blocked us from even debating the issue on the House floor.

Beyond shameful.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Congress put $858 million in last year's budget for ICE signing bonuses; up to $50,000 per new agent.

ICE got nearly $30 billion total. Tripled its budget. Hit its 10,000 new-hire target in four months.

A separate program pays local police tens of thousands per officer to help ICE with arrests. The ACLU estimates that could hit $2 billion in 2026.

Meanwhile, beef just hit $7 a pound; a record.

Three out of four Americans say their pay isn't keeping up with inflation.

$250 million went to demolish the White House East Wing for a private ballroom.

$13.1 million went to painting the bottom of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool blue.

The government found $50,000 for every ICE recruit and $2 billion for police bounties.

The same government says there's no money for healthcare. No money for housing. No money for disaster relief.

[Vince Mpls @vincempls]

June 1, 1933: The "Fund of German Trade and Industry" is created, a huge slush fund administered by Martin Bormann in the Führer's name. The regime used the funds to compensate SA Stormtroopers who committed street violence, subsize the SS, and enrich Nazi party officials.