NickiKam

Retired HS teacher, Biology/Chem. Live in Washington state in the desert! Democrat. Absolutely HATE Trump. find me where the skies are blue @kaminic.bsky.social

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: This Could Become Trump’s Biggest Political Problem Yet.

According to reporting, the Epstein fallout became such a crisis inside the White House that top officials reportedly treated it like a national security emergency.

Then came reports that the Vice President, Chief of Staff, Pam Bondi, Todd Blanche, Kash Patel, and other senior officials were strategizing inside the Situation Room.

Why was the White House treating the Epstein files like a top-level crisis?

[The Intercept @theintercept]

One top military officer provided a plausible explanation, behind closed doors on Capitol Hill, The Intercept has learned. In the briefing, a high-ranking officer on the Pentagon’s Joint Staff stated that some of the people killed by the U.S. military may have been the victims of human trafficking.

[Disappointed Donna @dddonnnaaa]

We cannot stop talking about the epstein files. We need all of the files. They still have so many we haven’t seen. And they are the worst ones, that show the other men involved. They also need to be unredacted. The victims deserve justice.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Trump is releasing a variation of coins this Sunday that feature his face and name and range from $250 to $12,000.

It's yet another way Trump is profiting off his presidency. The grift must stop.
https://t.co/UsJZS0Evql

[Acyn @Acyn]

AOC on Medicare Advantage: In theory, agents and brokers work with everyday people enrolling in a plan and are there to help them pick the best plan for their health, right?

That’s how it’s supposed to be set up.

What gets complicated is that agents and brokers are paid by health insurers for enrolling individuals in specific plans.

And so you’re supposed to have agents and brokers talking to your mom or your grandparent, saying, “We’d like to enroll you. We think this plan is what’s best for you.”

But what that person doesn’t know is that UnitedHealthcare is saying, “We’ll give you a vacation if you enroll people in our plan,” or, “We’ll give you a couple of extra hundred dollars if you enroll someone in a Blue Cross Blue Shield plan, a United plan, or any number of other plans.”

And in your testimony, you stated that agents and brokers received $10 billion in this kind of compensation in 2022 alone, right?

That’s $10 billion in taxpayer money. A lot of it is being funneled through these corporations. And so that is money that is not going to care. It’s going to perks, trips to Boca, and financial incentives for brokers to enroll people out of traditional Medicare and into for-profit Medicare Advantage plans.

[James E. Clyburn @RepJamesClyburn]

According to a new report, the Social Security trust fund—which helps pay Social Security benefits—will now run out of money in 2032, a year earlier than expected.

Why? Because Trump’s “big beautiful bill” is depleting the fund faster. Recipients will see their benefits slashed by 22% if Congress doesn’t act.

Sounds like a cut to Social Security to me.
https://t.co/dmoRB2mjP8

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Mike Johnson admits Republicans will cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security next year

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Someone check Polymarket and see if this was a bet again. 🙄

[OSINTdefender @sentdefender]

Iranian officials in the Hormozgan Province of Southern Iran have told the Financial Times that U.S. strikes early Wednesday targeted and destroyed two fresh water storage reservoirs with a combined capacity of 2,500 cubic metre, which supply water to 20,000 residents in the city of Kuhestak and 10 surrounding villages in the Bemani District. Though asked for comment, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) refused to confirm or deny whether strikes were carried out on reservoirs in Southern Iran.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Under the proposed merger, nearly 50% of Paramount-Warner Brothers would be foreign-owned, including by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Abu Dhabi.

This deal could pose a national security threat.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This Country needs to be doing the same thing because billionaires are destroying this Country!

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING MS NOW:

ICE has detained over 500 babies and toddlers under Trump.

On an average day, ICE has 25 children aged 3 or younger in custody, according to joint research by MS NOW and The Marshall Project. https://t.co/JNZlfb7afy

[Kelly E. Washington @kelly_E]

@SecRollins @USDA @VP @WHFraudTF Trump pardoned people who totaled more than a billion in fraud

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trump:
- eliminated the team that investigated crypto fraud
- fired the ethics watchdog who investigated corruption in the executive branch
- has been accepting crypto from oligarchs in exchange for political favors

Trump used crypto to turn the White House into a crime syndicate

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Try again. California pays the bills for failed red states.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson treated Biden’s health like Watergate, milked it for books, TV hits, headlines, and endless “cover-up” chatter.

But Trump? Slurring, rambling, falling asleep in public, hiding records, and looking weaker by the day?

Suddenly they’re blind.

That isn’t journalism.

It’s selective scrutiny. Shameful.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

It is being reported that when the Paramount deal goes through, Bari Weiss will oversee CNN's editorial direction.

If you value independent media that cannot be bought, help Democracy Docket grow by subscribing now. https://t.co/0StGlWz45f

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

CNN = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
CBS = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
FOX = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
WaPo = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.
WSJ = Owned by a right-wing billionaire.

Ah yes, tell me more about how the mainstream media is “far left.”

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Imagine an underwater Grand Canyon where corals have been growing since before the United States was founded. 🐠

Plunged in total darkness. Untouched. Protected.

Until one signature changed everything.

On February 6, 2026, that's exactly what happened.

The Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument is bigger than Yellowstone.

Its submarine canyons drop into depths we're still mapping. There are sea creatures here science hasn't even named yet.

It’s underwater mountains — millions of years old, rise from the ocean floor, drawing sperm whales and endangered right whales from miles away.

The cold-water corals living here? Some have been growing for over a thousand years. A trawl net destroys them in seconds. They don't grow back in our lifetimes.

The monument was created in 2016 for one reason — to keep this ecosystem off limits from exactly this kind of destruction.

It worked. Until February.

One person. One signature. Zero public input. No congressional vote. No comment period. Just a proclamation — and a thousand-year-old ecosystem lost its protection overnight.

Proclamation 11009 — "Unleashing American Commercial Fishing in the Atlantic"— erased the ban overnight. Trawl gear, dredges, otter nets. Now permitted inside monument boundaries.

And here's the part that should make you angry — this administration tried this exact move in 2020. Conservation groups sued. They won. Biden restored protections.

Now we're back here.

How many more monuments have to lose their protections before Congress does something? 🐠

#DemsUnited

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 WTF?! A USS Liberty survivor confirms President LBJ intentionally set them up to be sunk by Israel as a false flag.

He reveals Washington maliciously denied escorts and called back rescue planes twice, leaving them to die for 17 hours to appease the Zionist regime.