Lea Peterson

New England born...worked for the government in Washington years ago...settled back in New England. Firmly Democratic.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.   

Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.  

The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.  

Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.  

The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
https://t.co/95K8zIySPz

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

It was actually the multiple Nazi salutes, constant use of Nazi rhetoric, and vocal support for Germany’s far-Right political party which includes Nazis.

[ProPublica @propublica]

Among the first agencies President Donald Trump gutted after taking office for his second term was a Department of Homeland Security team that had repeatedly disproved his stolen election claims.
https://t.co/QwHUod4Ffy

[Leslie Marshall @LeslieMarshall]

Ladies and gentlemen, the president of the United States of America. This is why everybody who came to the World Cup was so shocked at how we in our nation is because our leader act acts like a five-year-old.

[James F. Love IV @JamesFLoveIV]

‘Trying to hide’: Kennedy Center refuses to take tarps off where Trump’s name was removed https://t.co/8CbvjjNtlC

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

JD Vance: “My understanding talking to Steve and Jared this morning is that things are going well…The US has all the cards. The straits are now open.”

(Fact check: Iran announced just hours ago that it had closed the Strait of Hormuz.)

[Sophia Bush @SophiaBush]

Anyway. THIS feels like what we should be focusing on. Today and every damn day until he’s in jail.

[Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila]

It still breaks my heart that Joe Biden gets absolutely no credit for how magnificent of a President he was with the shitstorm he was deliberately given only to be relentlessly attacked, mocked and criticized and then discarded like nothing. We didn’t deserve him.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Perryman: This is yet another example of Todd Blanche not being willing to give sworn testimony in a courtroom, even if it means the DOJ loses.

Well, it’s quite remarkable that you have a DOJ that is willing to make statements to a court in its briefing that it’s not willing to swear to.

If you’re making these representations as an officer of the court, then why is it too much to ask that you make them under penalty of perjury?

And this is something the DOJ has not been willing to do.

[WTFGOP @doggintrump]

There are no such things as gifts from countries like that. We just will never know what was actually exchanged.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

Fixed it for you: @SenateGOP passed the largest billionaire tax giveaway in American history. Every Senate Democrat voted against making working families pay for it. 

Republicans raised your costs because they think billionaires deserve your money more than you do.

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

Just a reminder -

This asshole was never shot.

He started a war to deflect from the fact he raped children.

His wife is a former prostitute who fucked Jeffrey Epstein.

Happy Friday.

[Peter Morley @morethanmySLE]

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Florida Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security.

Will you join me?🤚

[PBS News @NewsHour]

New concerns are emerging about President Trump’s sweeping pardon of Jan. 6 defendants after a report found that nearly 100 of them have been arrested, charged or convicted of additional crimes since the attack in 2021.

It comes as continuing efforts by Trump and his allies to recast the events of that day have reignited debate over accountability and the rule of law.

@ElizLanders has more.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Nearly 5,000 measles cases have been recorded under Trump, more than the last four years combined.

94% of patients were unvaccinated.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

The latest debacle of the reflecting pool, with the algae and peeling paint, proves that in the modern proverb "everything Trump touches, dies" --- the operative word is EVERYTHING.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

A church received a $1.7 million PPP loan during the pandemic, purchased a $12.7 million hunting ranch months later, and then had the federal loan forgiven.

Critics argue it's difficult to reconcile claims of financial hardship with the purchase of a luxury property while taxpayers ultimately absorbed the debt.

That's a timeline that raises questions.

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: A top GOP official said today, "We f*cked ourselves sticking with Trump for another term. The world's a mess, we've burned our allies, the economy is inflating wildly, my kids won't talk to me, my wife wants a divorce, and my legacy is helping Trump do all this damage."

[Fr33D0mftr58 @Standup4whatsrt]

Seems to me that if trump spent a fraction of the time focused on his war with Iran, that he does on his vanity projects, he wouldn't have had to sign such a humiliating surrender to Iran.
#Priorities

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Respect to Mr. Harrison Ford for using his voice to speak out instead of staying silent.

RETWEET if you agree with Harrison