Sad Days in America

We've finally become the divided states
A nation built on freedoms, fears, and hates The denotation of Irony
#blueforever 🇺🇲 ✡ 💙🏴‍☠️ 🇺🇲

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

Well, at least they're getting some fresh air. A lot of moms thinking "it's awful quiet down in the basement today."

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

You can be MAGA or you can be a patriot. You cannot be both.

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

People don’t hate Trump because they hate their country; they hate Trump because they love their country.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

If a nurse gives a Senator $50 to vote for Medicare for All, it's illegal.

But Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, spent $45 million to get Trump elected. So Trump is helping his family control:

CBS
CNN
TikTok
HBO
TNT
MTV
BET
And more

That’s a corrupt campaign finance system.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Donald Trump is the most corrupt president in American history.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

CONGRATULATIONS TO DONALD ON HAVING THE SMALLEST CROWD IN RECORDED HISTORY. PEOPLE CALL ME EVERY DAY BEGGING TO KNOW HOW DOES HE GET SUCH PUNY CROWDS? IS IT BECAUSE HE'S BORING, OLD, STUPID, WHAT IS IT?!! I SAY IT'S ALL OF THE ABOVE BUT THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE. YOU MUST BE CONSISTENT. DONALD GETS SMALL CROWDS EVERY SINGLE DAY. RALLIES, SPEECHES, STATE FAIRS. HE NEVER RESTS. IT WOULD BE EASY TO SAY, OK TODAY I'LL HAVE A BIG CROWD. BUT NOT TRUMP. AND THAT'S WHAT MAKES HIM A TINY CROWD CHAMPION.

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

This is alarming. Vandals have infiltrated Trump's State Fair and used an unknown substance to turn thousands of people waiting in line invisible.

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

Went looking for the 300 foot “slit” or “slits” in the reflecting pool Trump keeps lying about. Didn’t find any of that. But did find plenty of signs the paint on the bottom of the pool has simply disintegrated. My latest pool report.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

Once again, it appears MAGA needs a refresher on who oversees the Medicare program: The Trump Administration.

California oversees Medicaid, where the state has fought fraud for years! Take a look: https://t.co/nx5AkOi24E

P.S. The federal announcement today included cases filed by THE STATE as well as cases filed by the federal government.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

We have a new message for Democrats: attack attack attack.

Trump is corrupt, he’s butchered the economy, and his DOJ operates like mob lawyers. And every voter knows it.

So stop looking backward. Stop with the endless focus groups. This isn't complicated.

He’s weak. Finish him.

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

DONALD TRUMP IS WEAK ON ALGAE. THANKS TO ME, CALIFORNIA HAS BEEN ALGAE-FREE FOR 2000 YEARS. PEOPLE CALL ME CRYING, "THANK YOU FOR WINNING THE WAR ON ALGAE!" MANY SAY TRUMP FEARS ALGAE BECAUSE IT SOUNDS LIKE ALGEBRA. HE HAS SURRENDERED AND WILL TURN US INTO UNITED STATES OF ALGAE!

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A brand new bridge between Detroit and Canada is finished and ready to open. It would speed up traffic for millions of trucks, cut delays for American businesses, and help the auto industry that employs people in every state. There is just one problem.

Donald Trump won’t let it open.

Here is why.

The family that owns the old bridge stands to lose business when the new one opens. So in January, they gave one million dollars to a pro-Trump super PAC.

Weeks later they met with Trump’s Commerce Secretary.

He called Trump.

Hours after that, Trump announced he would block the new bridge. The opening was set for June 12. It got canceled the day before. The bridge sits there finished and empty.

Now here is the part that should make every taxpayer angry.

Canada paid for the entire bridge.

Every dollar. And the United States already owns half of it for free. Trump is holding up a bridge we got for nothing, to protect a donor who wrote him a check, while picking a fight with our closest ally and biggest trading partner.

This is corruption in plain sight.

A billionaire pays, and the President delivers. American workers and businesses pay the price.

Open the bridge. A government should work for the people, not for whoever writes the biggest check.
https://t.co/9o9Gz9UrBo

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

Truest cartoon to date

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 BREAKING: Gavin Newsom Just Escalated His Fight With Trump’s Justice Department.

Newsom’s office has formally requested emails, texts, memoranda, and Signal messages involving top DOJ officials that reference either Gavin Newsom or Jennifer Siebel Newsom.

The request specifically names senior Trump Justice Department figures, including Pam Bondi, Emil Bove, and Todd Blanche.

And it covers every communication from January 20, 2025, to the present.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Trump didn’t turn on you.
He’s been the same piece of shit his entire life. You just ignored who he was.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Tell us about the time you stole billions from Medicare, Rick.

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

It appears that stopping a flesh eating parasite from spreading across the continent was, in fact, NOT waste, fraud, and abuse.
https://t.co/NZuFGFdFhy

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @SecRollins: You keep getting fact checked for your lies. It’s your Administration that cut the Screwworm programs.

Also, the life cycle of a Screwworm is 14 to 54 days. The trump Administration has been in office over 500 days.

If you can’t stop lying, you need to resign.