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[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

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Trump didn’t just pardon his followers who stormed the U.S. Capitol.

He’s now set them up for payments through a slush fund he created to reward his allies—out of your tax dollars.

You could not make this up.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Putin feels the same way. Funny how that keeps happening.

[Financial Times @FT]

Pete Hegseth’s broker looked to buy defence fund before Iran attack https://t.co/bfuqIuJwIy

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Remember when we learned that our wealthiest and most powerful people were connected to a guy who ran a literal child sex trafficking ring? And then that guy died mysteriously in a jail? And now we just don't talk about it.

[Jeff Passan @JeffPassan]

The Washington Post has the best sports section in the country, and I don’t think it’s particularly close. Only a soulless corporate goon would think the paper is better without it. A short-sighted, cowardly decision. Shame is your legacy.

[Trill Clinton @aStatesman]

They will look you dead in the face and say J6 rioters with guns, poles, bats, etc were patriots, but an ER Nurse with a camera and a registered firearm was a domestic terrorist.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 CONFIRMED: Norway’s Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre has acknowledged Trump’s letter is real.

The letter reportedly ties Norway’s Nobel Peace Prize decision to Greenland, questions Denmark’s “right of ownership,” and declares the world isn’t secure unless the U.S. has “Complete and Total Control of Greenland.”

PBS’s Nick Schifrin reported the text was obtained from multiple officials and circulated by NSC staff to European ambassadors.

It reads like a meme.

It’s not.

[Tim @trouble_man90]

If a Democrat was president right now and was in the Epstein files to the extent that Trump is, there would be a special live broadcast on every station, right this very second on Christmas Eve, combing through every single word and sentence and picture. There would be a 24 hour live camera feed in front of the White House and at the President’s personal home in their home state. Several members of the cabinet would have already resigned; newspapers and magazines from around the country would be calling for them to resign.

This is not normal; the coverage now isn’t a tenth of what it should be.

[Michael Carpenter @mikercarpenter]

Perfectly Orwellian. The US is now sanctioning those who monitor — not censor, mind you, just monitor — hate speech and disinformation, all in the name of “free speech.”

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

After trumps tweet today, to still support him is nothing short of insane

[Cincinnatus🏗️🚊🏙️🇺🇦 @Cincinnatus56]

This is really emblematic of how the media treated Biden. He gives an emotional speech with a great message but because he stutters on one word that’s the story - meanwhile Trump falls asleep in meetings and goes on unhinged, unintelligible rants every day and there isn’t a peep

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

This is a must read. The most in depth understanding of how corrupt our foreign policy has become. Trump and Witkoff (Rubio totally sidelined) are proposing to sell out Ukraine in exchange for Russian deals for their billionaire crowd.

Not about peace. Just about profit.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

For the umpteeth time, Trump says something that would normally cause a national scandal, and provoke worried discussions about his stability. But years of firehosing Americans with this kind of nuttery has worn down even sensible people into "well, it's him, what can you do"

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

I’m still shocked that stories like this which come out daily still get largely ignored. The most corrupt person to ever hold any public office in US history. I will keep posting them every day and try to amplify them, even when most media doesn’t care. https://t.co/R9YUs3C4H4

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

The most astonishing part of the MAGA cult is that even when Trump says something totally mad and demonstrably false (it was his FBI on Jan 6th, not Biden’s, etc) his followers still share his statements as they’re something amazing, instead of being embarrassed or hiding them.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

It’s been 10 days since we learned Tom Homan was caught on tape taking a $50,000 cash bribe from an undercover FBI agent.

Is anyone in Washington going to do a damn thing about it, or are we just accepting this level of corruption in our government?

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

It’s outrageous that Sec. Kennedy is trying to fire the CDC Director — after only a few weeks on the job — for her commitment to public health & vaccines. The Sen. HELP Committee must hold a hearing with Kennedy & the CDC Director as soon as possible. Vaccines save lives. Period.

[Mark D. Levine @MarkLevineNYC]

Americans need to understand what’s happening tonight at the CDC.

This was an agency held together over the last 7 months by scientists with decades of experience in public health, who hung on despite a relentless assault on science-based policy by RFK and Trump.

There is a purge underway tonight because those professionals have refused to roll over as RFK ramps up his war on the covid vaccine.

We are entering uncharted territory. The foundations of public health in the country are cracking.

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

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