Carmen Peterson

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Three years ago today, Ken Paxton was impeached by his own party for using his public office to enrich himself and his donors.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Not only are we getting squeezed at the gas pump and grocery store, but trump just set up a $1.8 BILLION slush fund using OUR TAXPAYER FUNDS to pay off scumbags like the January 6th attackers and his rich buddies.

CONGRESS: ARE YOU GOING TO DO SOMETHING?

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump had one of his worst mental health episodes yet last night, posting over 55 times in 3 hours. Here is the list:

10:15 PM - Accuses Obama of attempting a coup in 2016
10:15 PM - Says Obama worked with CIA to overthrow Trump
10:15 PM - Reposts tweet saying Obama is a “traitor” and that he should be arrested
10:22 PM - Attacks dominion voting systems for 2020 election saying they switched votes
10:22 PM - Says Fulton County, GA had their 2020 fraud exposed (there was none)
10:23 PM - Accuses Obama of personally making $120 million from Obamacare (wtf?)
10:23 PM - Cites quack lawyer Sidney Powell on the 2020 election
10:24 PM - Posts fake JFK Jr account that says Obama wiretapped Trump Tower
10:27 PM - Demands Senator Mark Kelly resign
10:29 PM - Claims neither Biden nor Harris were in charge of the Biden admin
10:29 PM - Attacks Fulton County, GA again
10:29 PM - Posts Fox News clip of Rep Ro Khanna
10:30 PM - Demands Jack Smith be arrested
10:30 PM - Accuses Obama, Clinton, and Comey of treason
10:39 PM - Reposts a tweet from a MAGA account saying they have secret intel proving Clinton and Obama committed crimes
10:39 PM - Reposts a MAGA tweet saying Hillary Clinton should be sent to Haiti
10:40 PM - Says the DOJ is “working hard” to arrest his enemies for treason
10:40 PM - Reposts a tweet attacking his own DOJ and Todd Blanche for no arrests of political enemies
10:40 PM - Posts a TikTok video of people stealing from a convenience store
10:41 PM - Posts a TikTok of someone taking a Door Dash order
10:41 PM - accuses Obama, John Brennan, and Clinton of sedition and treason again
10:42 PM - Posts a video of a man on CCTV footage knocking over food a waiter was carrying
10:47 PM - Calls Obama the “most DEMONIC FORCE” in American politics
10:47 PM - Posts a tweet from Mike Flynn saying 2020 election wasn’t fair
10:49 PM - Attacks Dominion again claiming they stole the 2020 election (it wasn’t)
10:51 PM - Reposts a fake Charlie Kirk account that claimed Obama blocked Hillary Clinton from being prosecuted
10:53 PM - Claims Obama was part of Hillary Clinton’s emails in some way
11:28 PM - Claims a senior Democrat just testified under oath that Senator Adam Schiff leaked classified information
1:13 AM - Attacks the New York Times for reporting on the reflecting pool

This man is clearly not well.

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

With summer vacations looming and monthly budgets straining, Republicans in Congress just unveiled their latest budget.

Their grand plan?

$70 billion for ICE and Border Patrol

$1 billion for Trump's gold-plated ballroom

And $0 for your bottom line.

I wish I was kidding.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

RFK Jr has cut Alzheimers research.

Alzheimers.

One of the most devastating, urgent and increasing health problems we face today.

He's not interested.

He's a nasty piece of work.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

ICE has violated almost 100 court orders.

Let me say that another way. 100 times ICE was caught brazenly ignoring the law. 100 times a court told them to immediately stop. And 100 times they ignored the order.

That's an out of control agency that shouldn't get another dime.

[Andy Kim @AndyKimNJ]

I’m leaving the Capitol at 4am after Republicans rammed through a vote paving a path for $70B to fund ICE for years without any reforms/accountability. They rejected all Dem proposals to lower your healthcare costs, housing, and gas prices. Spread the word. We need to stop this.

[Martin Heinrich @SenatorHeinrich]

Every time I think that this administration can’t get any more hostile to public lands, they outdo themselves. Now they want to shut down regional offices for the U.S. Forest Service and reorganize how we fight fires – just as we’re heading into fire season.

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

Trump was warned this would happen. He did it anyway.

Now, over 10,000 Veterans lost their homes. 90,000 more are on track for foreclosure. On top of cutting jobs, slashing benefits and throwing our heroes into an unnecessary war.

The most anti-Veteran President in history.

[Carmen Peterson @Scrapartist]

@UnrealBluegrass @dog_rates Elvis says hello

[Carmen Peterson @Scrapartist]

@donwinslow Just got back from watching Crime 101. Great movie and love the cast.

[Carmen Peterson @Scrapartist]

@GovTimWalz

[Carmen Peterson @Scrapartist]

@RubenGallego @mehdirhasan And killing US citizens.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Some of us never forgot.

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

So let’s stop the games.

If you want this fight, @RepJamesComer, let’s have it—in public.

You love to talk about transparency. There’s nothing more transparent than a public hearing, cameras on.

We will be there.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

I don't want MY taxpayer dollars funding shit like this: ICE agent pistol whipping a 16-year old kid with his hands up. I don't want my tax money funding MURDERS of U.S. citizens either.

Where are the arrests of all those ICE thugs?

[Carmen Peterson @Scrapartist]

@allenanalysis Super impressed with the people of Minneapolis! 👏🏼

[Jon Cooper 🇺🇸 @joncoopertweets]

"What the fuck did you just do? What the fuck did you just do? What the fuck? What the fuck? Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!"
#Minneapolis #ICE

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

I've had threats for years but the type of threats I am receiving - both publicly and privately - are changing and I will be changing how I deal with them.