StrayCity

The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it. (Robert Swan) 🦋🌎🐠Nature is my cathedral 🐠🌎🦋

[StrayCity @Onegreystray]

How is it possible that a former president who tried to overturn an election, incited an attack on the Capitol, stole classified documents & found guilty for both sexual assault & fraud was allowed to run for office?

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Quite the open from 60 Minutes on Trump's cabinet picks.

[Covie @covie_93]

Susan Collins is one of the main reasons why a girl born today will have fewer reproductive rights than her grandmother.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Hayes: Yesterday the senate majority basically staged a sham vote intentionally, like a show, like a little play where she and a couple of other Republicans also up for reelection, got to cast meaningless votes against Donald Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund for insurrectionists.

Everyone knew that it was doomed to fail from the beginning. They weren't actually going to vote it down, because Republicans don't actually want to cross the leader of their party. 

So what they do is Collins gets to pretend to be independent when it doesn’t actually matter. But this is the other part of this. When everything is on the line, well, then Collins is a reliable vote. She's demonstrated she was always stand with Trump…

[Hemant Mehta @hemantmehta]

Women suffer more because of Susan Collins’ vote for Kavanaugh than any of the allegations leveled against Graham Platner.

That fact needs to be repeated over and over.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

This is not an accident. Susan Collins thought she could get away with it — because under the criminal Trump regime, committing fraud is seen as a virtue.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

Source:https://t.co/uks9diLGP2

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Republican Susan Collins has been caught illegally hiding $395,000 in stock trades.

Some analysts say her trades show clear signs of insider trading.

[StrayCity @Onegreystray]

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[StrayCity @Onegreystray]

Trump wants to use taxpayers’ money to pay Jan 6 rioters who were indicted by grand juries, tried by courts of law, many of them pled guilty, or were convicted by juries & sentenced by judges. @TheJusticeDept @DAGToddBlanche https://t.co/bDmDSG88ya

[StrayCity @Onegreystray]

How is it possible that a former president who tried to overturn an election, incited an attack on the Capitol, stole classified documents & found guilty for both sexual assault & fraud was allowed to run for office?

[Blue Georgia @BlueGeorgia]

Quite the open from 60 Minutes on Trump's cabinet picks.

[StrayCity @Onegreystray]

Trump wants to use taxpayers’ money to pay Jan 6 rioters who were indicted by grand juries, tried by courts of law, many of them pled guilty, or were convicted by juries & sentenced by judges. @TheJusticeDept @DAGToddBlanche https://t.co/bDmDSG88ya

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Whatever you do, don’t save this picture and reply to all of Trump/White House/ Foxnews/ MAGAs tweets with this picture . Please. Trump wants it to go away:

[StrayCity @Onegreystray]

@adoptedvol @Gianl1974

[StrayCity @Onegreystray]

@adoptedvol @Gianl1974 Why former Sen. Al Franken says he regrets his resignation

https://t.co/VuZaIYX1du

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: O.M.G. The woman accusing Graham Platner of "intimidation" has been EXPOSED as a top Republican operative who has worked with his opponent, Susan Collins!

This is EXACTLY what they did to Al Franken…

On Thursday evening, the New York Times ran a story in which a woman, Lindsey Fifield, accused Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner of grabbing her by the arm, twisting her arm, and of standing in a doorway menacingly blocking her exit.

The New York Times could not corroborate any of her accusations, but ran the story anyway, along with allegations from a few other women that Graham Platner could be unsettling, had dark thoughts, and generally had spooky vibes as a boyfriend.

They also spoke to several other women who said he was a lovely boyfriend and they happily supported his candidacy.

It’s now coming out that Lindsey Fifeld is a lifelong GOP operative who has worked with Platner’s Republican opponent, Susan Collins, and successfully persuaded her to vote in favor of Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s Supreme Court justice who is an ACTUAL rapist.

In one message to a friend, Fifeld wrote “I will personally go campaign for Collins.”

Reporter Ryan Grim at Drop Site News reports that “In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.”

“In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.“

“The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was ‘a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns.’”

“Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and [Zionist extremist Bethany] Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then.”

It should be noted as well that Lindsey Fifeld has a long history of making up baseless lies about Palestinians targeted by the Trump administration like Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk.

Folks, pardon our French, but this is *bullshit.*

This is an abhorrent attempt to weaponize domestic violence and the mental trauma of dealing with PTSD in order to sink a leftist candidate who staunchly opposes the Israeli genocide of Gaza.

Oh, and if that wasn't enough, the reporter on this article is Katie Gluek, an ardent Zionist whose parents are Israeli settler-occupiers in the West Bank.

Platner’s campaign responded with “Let’s be very clear: This is a lifelong G.O.P. operative who’s dedicated her career to electing Republicans.”

What else is there to say?

Graham Platner is obviously a very imperfect person, but we are not electing him to be our boyfriend. He has been very open about his struggles with PTSD; he saw four of his squadmates killed in an IED explosion in Iraq.

This smear campaign, based on uncorroborated allegations by a woman who literally said she would work for his opponent, is part of his punishment for being a progressive who isn’t afraid to stand against Israel, to stand against the health insurance behemoths, and to demand a better life for the American people.

They managed to sink Al Franken like this. They will NOT succeed again!

[StrayCity @Onegreystray]

@MEVtoukuizhe @FBIDirectorKash @DAGToddBlanche MAGA

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

@FBIDirectorKash @DAGToddBlanche

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @DAGToddBlanche: You don’t get to decide to “move on” from the Epstein Files or from following the congressional law. That decision can only be made by the American people and Congress.

You will be disbarred. The files will eventually be released.

November is coming.

[Abraham Hoffman @PithyTruth]

@GOP__Ls How can @POTUS @realDonaldTrump's HACK AG nominee @DAGToddBlanche be confirmed when he's violating law requiring release of the Epstein files?

[𝐏𝐚𝐧𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐥 @SankaraDispatch]

@DHSgov Does that apply to the Criminal Maggots ?

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

Unless you riot for Trump, in which case you’ll be pardoned and given slush fund money stolen from U.S. tax payers.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Under Trump, the Forest Service is gutting labs that cost ONE DOLLAR in rent so they can cram scientists into a Fort Collins office that costs taxpayers a million a year.

As reported by NPR, Trump's 2027 budget zeroes out Forest Service research entirely. Three hundred and nine million dollars, gone. Fifty-seven of the agency's seventy-seven research stations are on the chopping block.

These are the forests generations of Americans have hiked, hunted, camped, and prayed in. Sacred ground for almost anyone who's ever stepped outside in this country.

And the "efficiency" pitch? A scam.

The research station in Hilo, Hawaii sits on 30,000 acres the federal government rents for a one-time fee of ONE DOLLAR, locked in until 2067. The Michigan Tech lease? One dollar paid in 1963, free ever since. Another site costs the agency $600 a month for two rooms.

The destination they want everyone shipped to in Fort Collins runs taxpayers a million a year.

Read that again. They're closing dollar leases to expand a million-dollar lease.
Scientists in Baltimore have spent years planting white oak saplings that need three decades to mature. You can't FedEx a forest to Colorado. You can't manage a Hawaiian ecosystem from a cubicle in Utah.

Researchers told NPR they'll quit before they relocate. Which is the point.

Meanwhile, Trump has openly pledged to ramp up logging on federal land. Gut the scientists who document the damage, and there's nobody left to sound the alarm when ancient forests get clear-cut for profit.

These are the people who tell us when wildfire season turns deadly. Who track invasive beetles eating through pine. Who teach cities how to recycle dead trees instead of dumping them in landfills.

You don't dismantle the world's largest forestry research network because you're worried about a maintenance bill. You dismantle it because somebody plans to take a chainsaw to what the public owns and doesn't want a paper trail.

The forests don't belong to Tom Schultz. They don't belong to Trump. They belong to every American who has ever stood quiet under a hundred-year-old tree and understood, for one second, that some things are not for sale.

Defend them now, or explain it to your grandkids later.

[She Wolf @RapierDiva]

@RpsAgainstTrump @real_steelee Because this is so much better.