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We work daily to improve the physical, mental & financial health of seniors who have been victims of crime. RT=food for thought, NOT endorsement!

[Texas Monthly @TexasMonthly]

Paul Pressler helped ordain the marriage between white evangelicals and the Republican Party, all while accusations of sexual abuse piled up.

Right-wing groups are still using his political playbook. https://t.co/bcK4q3y2NW

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Tillis: "To call Paxton 'ethically challenged' is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder. He's gonna be an anchor on our caucus"

[Scott Braddock @scottbraddock]

“…it might serve to remind the 21st century pundits to resist the urge to report as fact any event that has yet to unfold.” https://t.co/Ms9Qv9z5UZ

[Mary Jordan @marycjordan]

Any journalists looking for a new job? The Martha Vineyard Gazette is looking for a reporter to write about big issues on the small island. The job comes with a furnished two bedroom home. Details here: https://t.co/3yueOf32gT

[Texas Hospital Association 🏥 @texashospitals]

Due to tremendous interest, @TexasHHSC extended several grant deadlines for the ##RuralHealthTransformationProgram, also known as Rural Texas Strong. Notably, initiatives 1, 4 and 6 have updated deadlines, with applications now due in June.

For more information, visit the grant portal: https://t.co/FyqGNrXXOr

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Tillis: "To call Paxton 'ethically challenged' is to call Jeffrey Dahmer suffering from an eating disorder. He's gonna be an anchor on our caucus"

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

COMMENTARY: Let’s say it plainly: There has never been a president as corrupt as Donald Trump.

There is no close second in our history.
https://t.co/RRV6gbiZi1

[Staff Sergeant Gonell, Aquilino @SergeantAqGo]

They didn't want to award the Capitol Police a medal or a plaque but want to reward the people who orchestrated and took part in the violence that injured me and ended my career. In the name of national reconciliation, they pardoned the same rioters who attacked us and now being rewarded for the violence they inflicted on us the officers.

They are trying to make the lives of the rioters whole or better than before they assaulted us. Yet to the officers, no apology, no compensation, no acknowledgment of the bravery and sacrifice we made to protect “each of your representatives” regardless of what party they belong.

Why did we risk our lives for then?
What a betrayal this is to us and to the rule of law days after “police week”.

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The fact that Trump made so sure to silence Marjorie Taylor Greene and Thomas Massie makes me more convinced than ever that there's something really incriminating in the Epstein files.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Morning everyone.

Do you know that your President just exempted himself, his family, and all his family's companies from our tax laws?

You are subject to the law. Now he is not.

No one should not pretend this is okay or normal. It's an ongoing constitutional crisis.

[ProPublica @propublica]

The IRS has agreed to not audit Trump's taxes.

In 2024, we found the IRS concluded in a long-running audit that Trump effectively claimed the same massive write-off twice on a failed Chicago tower.

That audit could have cost him more than $100 million.
https://t.co/Ydj6qFjM0E

[Matthew Segal @segalmr]

CLIENT: These federal charges seem serious. What kind of sentence could I get?

LAWYER: Depending on the next presidential election, you're looking at somewhere between life imprisonment and becoming a millionaire.

[BT Blue Wave '24 #KamalaCrew🌊🌊 @BBtwas1]

Yesterday's Exchange of the Day!

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche took questions from Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI):

REED: How many taxpayers’ returns were leaked by the IRS in the 2020 breach?

BLANCHE: Excuse me?

REED: 405,427. One of them was Donald Trump, correct?

BLANCHE: Donald Trump and his family.

REED: And Donald Trump was president at the time. So it was his IRS that allowed this breach of privacy.

@BaddCompani @TheMaineWonk @TimInHonolulu
So the other 405,426 can sue trunt and that IRS Director for the breach of their privacy??

[Rep. Zoe Lofgren @RepZoeLofgren]

My Republican colleagues called a hearing on threats to the Supreme Court’s legitimacy, so I decided to read just a few examples of the $2.4 million in gifts Justice Clarence Thomas has accepted from his ultra wealthy allies:

[Previn Witana @lordpet8]

@pkcapitol @Jose_Pagliery feels like we need to start implementing city council rules where if you miss a consecutive number of votes the seat is automatically made vacant

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.

Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.

IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.

The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.

The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.

Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.” 

Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.

The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.

This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.

Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?

https://t.co/La0nlLuz1r

[AssCat @theasscat]

Massie needs to go on the floor tomorrow and read the Epstein names.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 THOMAS MASSIE: "Today is the 6 month anniversary of the Epstein Files Transparency Act

We've taken out:

- TWO DOZEN CEOs
- An ambassador
- A prince
- A prime minister
- A Minister of Culture

And that was just 6 months.

I got 7 MONTHS left in Congress."

[Lyndon Baines Johnson @lyndonbajohnson]

I'm not going to praise Massie. He was for a long time a royal pain in the ass. What I will l say for him is he does actually have a line he'll draw and most his colleagues don't. And that line is covering up a kiddie rape island.

[Patrick Svitek @PatrickSvitek]

Bill Cassidy in concession speech: "Let me just set the record straight: Our country is not about one individual. It is about the welfare of all Americans and it is about our Constitution. And it is the welfare of my people and my state and my country and my Constitution to which I am loyal. And if someone doesn’t understand that and attempts to control others through using the levers of power, they’re about serving themselves. They’re not about serving us. And that person is not qualified to be a leader." #LASEN