Eric Veigel

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

The Trump administration just paid Invenergy $765 million to cancel four wind projects. That brings the running total to roughly $2.5 billion in taxpayer money spent to stop energy from being built.

Think about that.

At a time when electricity demand is rising, the Trump administration is spending billions to reduce the amount of power that could reach the grid.

Trump has spent years attacking wind turbines as ugly and inefficient.

He is entitled to his opinions about how they look.

He is not entitled to make taxpayers finance those opinions.

Seven states have already sued over earlier agreements. Federal courts have repeatedly found legal defects in this administration’s efforts to halt offshore wind development. The administration has cited national security concerns while providing little public evidence to support them, and judges have said they were not convinced.

Strip away the politics and what remains is hard to defend.

Billions in taxpayer money paid to private companies to cancel planned energy projects during a period of rising demand.

Governments usually spend money to build things. This administration is spending billions to make sure some things never get built.
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[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Step 1: Remove filters in Reflecting Pool because Obama put them in.
Step 2: Give your criminal neighbor who runs "Greenwater Services" a $20 million no-bid contract to paint the pool.
Step 3: Fill the pool with water from the Potomac River, the phosphates from which cause algae blooms.
Step 4: Freshly sealed pool and extreme heat result in a super scum event
Step 5: Direct National Park Service to dump hydrogen peroxide into the pool which causes the paint to peel.
Step 5: Deploy US National Guard to stop people from taking photos of the swamp as a perfect metaphor for the administration.
Step 6: Blame someone else.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here:

Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track. 

Spread the word. Stand up for science.

[Memes and Markets @Memesandmkts]

The reason the gap between the rich and the poor feels so impossible to close is not an accident.

Freddie Smith (@freddiemsmith) traced it back to a policy decision made in the 1980s.

Since then America generated $140 trillion in new wealth. Two trillion went to the bottom half of the population. The other 138 trillion stayed at the top.

It was called trickle down economics. It never trickled down. 👇

[Maggie Reed @mermaidmamamags]

Becerra is the guy for the job! #BecerraForGovernor
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[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Where you at MAHA?

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’

@JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist, after one of Ken Paxton’s wealthy lawyer friends got involved in the case.

Ken Paxton even kept him off the sex offender registry. Adam Hoffman was supposed to serve 25 years to life, but instead he served less than a month. As of this week, he’s now back on our streets because of Ken Paxton’s corruption.

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America, and it is costing Texans, it’s endangering our children, and it must end. The Epstein class has no place in Texas.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Now show the front

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

New polling from @Groundwork finds three quarters of Americans support banning surveillance pricing.

Watch former FTC Chair Lina Khan explain how this predatory and deceptive tactic works.

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

.@neiltyson: "The relationship of the executive branch and science has never been as devastating as it has been under the current administration... We will sink lower economically, in our health, in our wealth, and our security, until everyone wakes up and is reminded how important science is... When China starts eating our lunch, I think we'll wake up."

[BTC Clips @BTC_clips]

.@jamestalarico: "Ken Paxton embodies this broken, corrupt political system that we were just talking about. He was impeached three years ago by his own party for using his public office, his position of public trust, to enrich himself and his donors at our expense. And that kind of corruption is the rot at the core of our broken political system.”

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

Absolute disaster for the White House. Gallup data confirms Donald Trump's disapproval rating has collapsed to a staggering 63 percent.

He officially tied Richard Nixon's Watergate era for the highest disapproval in history. The Trump administration faces total rejection.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Sen. @brianschatz: Gas is at $4.55 nationally. Food prices are rising at the fastest rate in years. Electricity is through the roof. Millions of people are losing healthcare. Hospitals are closing. Housing is unaffordable for many people, and everything costs more because of tariffs. But there is apparently enough money for a ballroom, to quadruple the size of ICE, and to spend a billion dollars a day on a war of choice.

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

NEW: Multiple ICE warehouses were sold by people in Trump's circle who were sitting on the properties and losing money.

We dug into it, and found that some properties were bought by the feds for 10x their list price.

It's a new level of corruption — and you're paying for it.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Watching GOP influencers turn against their MAGA heroes (because their MAGA heroes are realizing that Trump is a fraud) will never not be hilarious to me.

Zero actual positions on anything. Just whatever Trump wants.

[Ansley Brown @Ansleysgarden]

Meeting Cynthia, her passion absolutely blew me away! I was left nearly SPEECHLESS after hearing about what Georgia Power is doing to her property. This is effecting 330 properties, we do not want to sell Coweta. We want to FIGHT!

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

The mainstream media is now confirming we are being robbed at grocery stores and Walmart

Product after product they take off the shelves and weigh is always short

They test Walmart shrimp, bring it to the studio and every bag is half a pound short

This has to be an intentionally large scale scam to defraud Americans at the grocery store

One or two items is a mistake. Every item they pull off the shelves being underweight at specific locations is fraud

And the amount products are underweight isn’t a small amount, it’s a huge amount

We are being robbed blind

[Noodles @criptopaul]

Axios reported an Iran deal as “imminent” five times in 19 days. Five times, no deal. Why does the same story keep coming from the same reporter?

His name is Barak Ravid. Deep sources in the White House and Israeli intelligence. Every time the administration needs to pressure Iran or move oil, Ravid gets the call. Is he reporting news or delivering a message?

$760 million in oil shorts placed 21 minutes before the April 20 Iran announcement. Who knew?

Yesterday Trump paused the naval operation in Hormuz. Markets rallied.
But zero US ships crossed the Strait on Tuesday. Iran says they “have not even begun yet.” Does this sound like a deal?

Iran wants 5 years on enrichment. The US demands 20. Is that a negotiation or a performance?

Every time the leak drops, oil sells off and futures rally. Every time, nothing gets signed. Ask yourself who benefits from the market believing a deal is close right now.

Now they say a response is expected within 48 hours. Again. This after Iran resumed attacks on shipping. I remain deeply skeptical.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​..

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Had enough yet?

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Americans voted for this and now they're getting burned. Sometimes people have to learn the hard way before they understand the importance of their vote.