Elan Schnitzer

Communications guy and wordsmith. Bleeding-heart lib, with a healthy dose of righteous indignation.

[Elan Schnitzer @Schnitzer]

"... if by liberal they mean one who looks ahead, not backward, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of ppl — their health, housing, schools, jobs, civil rights, civil liberties — then I am proud to be a liberal." JFK, 1960

[Covie @covie_93]

Shouldn't a requirement of being energy secretary is knowing how energy works????

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[JB Pritzker @JBPritzker]

Trump and Elon's DOGE axed a program dedicated to preventing this.

Now, a flesh-eating parasite we eradicated is back and hard-working Americans could pay the price.

[Turnbull @cturnbull1968]

DOGE cut 15K USDA jobs that included monitoring of screwworms in Mexico.

They also cut funding for a project, that released sterile flies, that helped maintain a buffer between Latin American cattle and our domestic cattle.

Make sure to thank a Republican.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

The New World Screwworm, a grave parasitic threat, has just been detected in US cattle for the first time since it was eradicated in 1966.

The parasite's revival comes after Trump and DOGE slashed funding for Screwworm monitoring programs.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

DOGE was just a cover for the largest robbery of the American people in history.

[Larry Sabato @LarrySabato]

Under any other president, this would be Scandal of the Year. Under Trump, it is merely the Scandal of the Hour.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Probably the dumbest thing one could say about insurance:

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Dr. Oz saying Trump keeps going back for medical checkups because he "likes the results" is one of the laziest fucking lies I've ever heard from this administration.

The contempt they must have for the American people to think anyone would believe that is staggering.

[Tim Walz @Tim_Walz]

Commits insider trading, refuses a $100 million penalty, gets immunity from future tax fraud, now Fyre Fest 250.

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

This is a front page story and weeks long scandal for anyone other than Trump.

[David Pakman @dpakman]

HE'S BLINKING REALLY STRONGLY

[Tim Kaine @timkaine]

They tackle Alex Padilla, they tear gas Andy Kim . . . and they ask Congress to cough up another 70 billion dollars without reforms to stop thug behavior? Yeah . . . right . . .

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

Says it all.

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

I don't want to ever hear a conservative mention the term wasteful spending again. Ever.

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

You can’t spend two months telling America you destroyed Iran’s military and then call new strikes “self-defense.”

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Donald Trump Jr is a paid strategic advisor for Kalshi, and a major investor and advisor for Polymarket.

The Trump administration is using taxpayer money to sue to protect their family’s investments.

This is what corruption looks like.

[Micah Erfan @micah_erfan]

Never forget that one of Trump’s first actions as President was to tear apart America’s largest consumer protection agency.

[Tara Setmayer 🌻 🇺🇸 @TaraSetmayer]

Republicans in Congress did WHAT???

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

“If we erase January 6th, it didn’t happen”

“If we don’t release certain inflation data, there’s no inflation”

“If we don’t measure food insecurity, no one’s hungry”

“If we delete research on right-wing violence, there’s no right-wing violence”

“If we stop Covid testing, we’ll have fewer cases”

The Trump administration wants you to believe their propaganda is fact, and control the majority of mainstream media and social platforms to reinforce their lies.

This is what authoritarianism looks like.