Patricia Payne 💙🇺🇸🪷🌻🌻🇺🇦

VOTE Early! VOTE Blue!Artist,teacher,former therapist Love my family, pup and the beach. Virginian at heart. Twitter addicted since 11/16.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

Here’s some food for thought that might help explain why we are where we are in this moment.

Thanks to the Sunday Times UK for the clip.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/39Yufpp7PZ

[Patricia Payne 💙🇺🇸🪷🌻🌻🇺🇦 @Ppayne2Payne]

@CBSNews This should read “Worldwide men murder women they are involved with, either as partner or family, every 10 minutes “

[Patricia Payne 💙🇺🇸🪷🌻🌻🇺🇦 @Ppayne2Payne]

@michaeldweiss @GLandsbergis Ct

[Patricia Payne 💙🇺🇸🪷🌻🌻🇺🇦 @Ppayne2Payne]

@Acyn Low wage “servants”. Interesting word choice

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

"Donald Trump's plan to subvert the midterms is underway"
From David Graham, on the cover of the next edition of @TheAtlantic

https://t.co/a5EXpqZgjk

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

The problem is not the poor kid who gets $6 a day in food stamps.

The problem is the Walton family, worth $469 billion, & Jeff Bezos, worth $247 billion pay wages so low that their workers need food stamps.

The real welfare queens are the billionaires who pay starvation wages.

[Max Flugrath🗳️ @MaxFlugrath]

Does this lower costs? What kind of party does this a year out from the midterms?

One that thinks it doesn’t need votes – just billionaires, rigged maps, and a fake “national emergency” to seize control of elections.

He may not be planning to leave that shiny new ballroom.

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

ICE isn’t “hiring.” It’s building an army — fast, unvetted, and unaccountable.

$50,000 signing bonuses. No oversight. Rushed training. Criminal recruits.

This isn’t law enforcement — it’s a domestic militia in the making.

America, wake up before it’s too late.

[Andrew—#IAmTheResistance @AmoneyResists]

Trump and the Republicans want Americans to die. They embrace Social Darwinism which states that only the strongest (wealthiest) deserve to survive. Lower-income families, middle class Americans, the elderly, and the disabled are dispensable to them to gain even more wealth/power

[Wendell Pierce @WendellPierce]

Are we witnessing the end of the American experiment? Justice Department Will Monitor Elections in California and New Jersey
The Trump administration said that monitors will watch polling in two states, led by Democrats, where key races or issues are on the ballot.
…Wait until he orders the National Guard to seize ballot boxes to protect “election integrity.”
It's the Stalin quote "Those who vote decide nothing. Those who count the vote decide everything" brought to life.

[Timothy Snyder @TimothyDSnyder]

Retired intelligence analysts confirm what the political scientists are telling us — and what the world outside is telling us — the goal of these people is the end of law, the end of democracy, and the end of a recognizable republic.
https://t.co/RQW7qAIjj3

[PresidentLinkin @Linkin1319]

AI (not @grok, who is compromised)
No, Barack Obama did not spend $376 million on the White House in 2010. This claim is false and is based on a mischaracterization of spending related to a multi-year utility and infrastructure project. 
Here are the facts regarding the White House construction project and Obama's 2010 renovations:
•Decades-long project: The utility work in question was part of a major, ongoing infrastructure upgrade and renewal project for the White House complex, not a renovation initiated solely by the Obama administration.
•Funding from 2008: Funding for the multi-year project was approved by Congress in 2008, before Obama took office.
•Cost and scope: The total cost of the project was estimated at $376 million, with the spending spread out over several years. The work was related to extensive, complex infrastructure replacement, including underground utility systems, not new decorations.
•Media misinformation: Misleading reports on social media and other outlets took the total multi-year project cost and presented it as a lavish, single-year expense for a redecoration under Obama.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

Someone please alert @jaketapper. Not that he will care, but please alert him.

[Max Flugrath🗳️ @MaxFlugrath]

Should be a 5-alarm fire – way bigger than part of the White House being demolished.

Trump’s team plans to use a fake “national emergency” as a cover to hijack elections.

This is **the** wake-up call. While we’re distracted by crumbling walls, they’re demolishing democracy.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Passing it on. Via Glee Violette

People. Please. Let me say this loud and clear. IT WAS NEVER ABOUT A BALLROOM.

The East Wing was built in 1942 to disguise the simultaneous construction of an underground bunker and operations center, underneath it.
And just like then, the Ballroom being built now is a ruse. A decoy. A distraction. To cover up a new and improved bunker.
SO Of COURSE Trump did not go through the National Monuments historical preservation channels. The plans for his bunker would have been exposed to too many people. There would be no way to disguise the ballroom plans to hide it. There would be too many clues for experts to see.
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Why the rush? THOSE clues are all around us, too. Fully exposed.
Trump has Congress, the DOJ, and the Supreme Court in his pocket right now, but IF elections happen next year, he WILL lose Congress.
Elections must not happen. During war-time emergencies, elections CAN BE SUSPENDED. So, there must be such an emergency.
A military coup to put down a "rebellion" would do nicely.
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Hegseth has now barred both the Press and Congress from the Pentagon. And barred ALL Pentagon staff from communicating with either the Press or Congress as well.
He has also been purging the Military of any leader with even a HINT of "disloyalty". Accusations by far-right influencers like Laura Loomer have resulted in firings. He has run multiple lie-detector tests. He even has a new excuse - his recent threat to fire "fat generals". And now he is having ANY service member discharged for postings on social media mocking Charlie Kirk or other MAGA leaders.
And he and Trump have been seeing how far they can push officers to follow illegal orders by having our ships fire on and destroy boats in international waters and kill the people on board. Now, for the first time, he has had an AIRSTRIKE take out an 8th boat, killing its two occupants.
The idea that these are terrorists taking drugs to America is laughable. They do not have enough fuel. They are headed in the wrong direction, to Trinidad and Tobago for the cocaine trade. And they are not carrying fentanyl. That comes up through Central America and enters through Mexico. EVERY EXPERT KNOWS THIS.
All international laws are being ignored. These boats are not boarded. Nothing is taken in evidence. There is no identification made of the occupants. There are no arrests or charges. There is no due process for their lawful prosecution.
Most importantly, any crimes they COULD be charged for DO NOT CARRY THE DEATH PENALTY.
They are not being "executed". They are being murdered.
Trump and Hegseth are seeing JUST how loyal their new military commanding officers are, and how far they can push them to obey their illegal orders.
Will they kill random people if Trump says they are foreign criminals and terrorists?
Will they kill the SAME foreigners in OUR country, if Trump says they are criminals and terrorists?
Will they kill ANY foreign immigrants on his orders?
Will they kill US?
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Trump said Hegseth should use our own cities as "training grounds" for the Military. He has attempted to send troops into several cities with Democratic mayors, and has even said out loud he wanted them to use full strength. That means live ammunition. On our own people.
And they are also arming Homeland Security and ICE. Federal purchasing logs show ICE spent $71,515,762 on “small arms, ordnance, and ordnance accessories,” including military supplies, weapons, and ammunition, in the nine months between Jan. 20 and Oct. 18, according to the Daily Beast.
While ICE denies a viral report that the purchases included "guided missile warheads", the codes on what WAS purchased are unclear. For instance, "chemical weapons" could refer to tear gas and pepper balls. Or...
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What IS clear is THIS. Trump keeps "floating" a declaration of the Insurrection Act almost every single day. He threatens the military invasion of American cities almost every single day.
He and his VP and his cabinet heads and the Republican leaders of the House and Senate have upped their rhetoric of ALL Democrats being the "enemy within" and "antifa terrorists" and "Hamas (as in, non-Christian foreign agents) and "radical violent lunatics" - intended to make MAGA folks in "red states" fear and hate the people in "blue states".
The whole idea of red states and blue states is nonsense - most statewide elections are pretty close - not only are our states pretty evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, so are our communities and even our own families.
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But the rhetoric becomes ever more sensationalized and unhinged, day by day. Trump has been planning on taking and KEEPING the presidency from the moment he lost the 2020 election. THAT is why January 6th happened.
The riot was a last ditch effort to STOP the certification of the election that was going on in the Capitol, after the scheme to replace official state electors with slates of FAKE electors failed, and Vice President Pence refused to go along with Trump's order to overturn the election.
Trump will use ANY means - ANY MEANS - to hold on to the office this time around. He has proven that. He has three goals that motivate him - personal power, wealth, and revenge. Nothing he does is for the MAGA folks - they are just his pawns. And he is not here to make America "great", but to PLUNDER it and OWN it.
So, there must be NO midterm elections next year. For that he needs war-time conditions. And that war will be RIGHT HERE. So he needs himself a proper bunker. Not the 60 year old WWII bunker he hid in last time. A lavish, opulent, HUGE bunker, in the style to which he has become accustomed.
Oh, and the Ballroom he is building over it will be a nice place to serve as a proper Great Hall and Throne Room, afterwards, in order to receive tributes from future supplicants, as well.
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[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

I just need to remind everyone that Donald Trump is NOT leaving office in 2028. In 10 months he has:

- disbanded the Federal Election Commission, who oversees elections
- has the Supreme Court overturning the Voting Rights Act to give him ~20 more seats in Congress
- has one of his Republican billionaire donors purchasing Dominion Voting System to rig the election in 2028
- has his minions suing for the ability to refuse to certify election results in the future

There is no voting our way out of this. Anyone who tells you differently is ignorant and delusional.

[zee🕷 @uneazyhearts]

do you know you have 30 minutes?

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

I’ve seen dozens of people post about Trump forgiving student loan debt. Maybe 5% of the posts accurately described WHY he’s doing it.

It was an existing program. Trump tried to kill it. Trump got sued. Trump lost in court. The borrowers affected made payments for several years.

[Patricia Payne 💙🇺🇸🪷🌻🌻🇺🇦 @Ppayne2Payne]

So no recourse?

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

Everyone who is posting about this is leaving out that he is doing this because HE LOST IN COURT.