Steve Bullock

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

A message to all sane Republicans:

He pardoned 1,600 violent criminals.
You said nothing.

He bulldozed the East Wing.
You said nothing.

He interfered with the release of the Epstein files. You said nothing.

He took over the Kennedy Center and renamed it after himself. You said nothing.

He accepted a $400 million airplane as a personal gift. You said nothing.

He threatened Canada, Cuba, Denmark, Greenland, Venezuela, Colombia, and Brazil. You said nothing.

He tariffed just about everyone but Russia, causing inflation and instability worldwide. You said nothing.

He attacked a nation during mediated negotiations. You said nothing.

His ill-conceived war killed 175 children on day one. You said nothing.

He alienated and insulted our allies. You said nothing.

His ICE Army terrorized and murdered U.S. citizens. You said nothing.

He committed murder on the high seas. You said nothing.

He co-opted the Justice Department and directed it to prosecute his political enemies. You said nothing.

It’s time to start talking.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.

Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.

IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.

The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.

The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.

Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.” 

Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.

The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.

This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.

Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?

https://t.co/La0nlLuz1r

[Steve Bullock @SteveBullock17]

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[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

My Message to Republican Lawmakers

You built this.
Not the voters.
Not the media.
YOU.

You saw the instability. You saw the narcissism. You saw the appetite for chaos. And...instead of containing it, you harnessed it. You fed it. You rode it. You told yourselves you could control it.

You created a political Frankenstein...and...now you’re shocked that the monster doesn’t take orders.

For a decade, you have watched as he scorched institutions...smeared allies...embraced authoritarians... and turned the presidency...into a grievance machine with nuclear codes.

You knew better. Many of you said so privately. Yet publicly? Silence. Applause. Fundraising emails.

You traded constitutional principle for short-term power. You surrendered oversight for party unity. You let fear of primaries outweigh fear for the republic.

And now?

Now you watch death overseas...instability abroad... corrosion at home...and...you still hesitate. You still calculate. You still ask what the base will tolerate.

Leadership...is not about surviving the next news cycle. It is about protecting the system...when it is inconvenient to do so.

You cannot claim surprise. You cannot claim helplessness. You had votes. You had hearings. You had leverage. You had moments...countless moments...to draw a line.

Instead...you normalized what should have disqualified.

History will not remember your press releases. It will remember whether you defended the guardrails or dismantled them.

YOU built this.

The question...now...is whether you finally dare to contain it...or...whether you will stand there again...hands clasped...pretending the fire wasn’t lit by you in the first place.

Clearly, I jest.
You’re all cowards.
You’re all gutless punks.

You are walking, talking examples of a corrupt political system...one that protects itself...and only itself.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: CBS refused to air this Colbert interview with Democrat James Talarico, who is running for Senate in Texas, after being intimidated by Trump’s FCC rules.

Trump is worried that democrats are about to flip Texas.

SHARE EVERYWHERE!!

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

Let me say this as clearly as possible, because people keep getting it wrong.

Republican lawmakers didn’t stick with Trump because they were hypnotized...terrified...or somehow helpless.

They stuck with him because he’s one of them.

Trump didn’t corrupt a moral party. He exposed a corrupt one.

If Trump were merely embarrassing...reckless...or rude... they would have dumped him years ago. Politicians abandon liabilities fast. What they don’t abandon...are mutual liabilities.

Trump normalized behavior that many of them were already guilty of: ethical shortcuts...financial murkiness... abuse of power...contempt for oversight... lying as policy.

He didn’t invent the rot...he gave it cover.

And here’s the part people don’t like to hear:

For a lot of Republicans in Congress, Trump isn’t the risk.

Accountability is.

Trump absorbs attention like a sponge. While everyone is watching his circus...others operate quietly in the shadows. He’s not a distraction...he’s a shield. A very useful one.

Once they crossed certain lines together...election lies, January 6th...obstruction...weaponization of government ...there was no clean exit.

Loyalty became self-preservation. Defection meant subpoenas...investigations...and career death.

That’s why the so-called “good Republicans” vanished.

They weren’t persuaded. They were purged. Retired. Primaried. Marginalized. What you’re seeing now isn’t universal agreement...it’s selection pressure.

Only those comfortable with ethical decay remain.

This is how systems rot. Not with villains twirling mustaches...but with people who decide, one compromise at a time, that survival matters more than principle.

Trump didn’t take over the GOP.
The GOP recognized itself in Trump.

And that’s why expecting them to “come to their senses” is a fantasy.

You can’t ask people to enforce standards that would incriminate them.

The alliance holds...because it has to.

That’s not psychology.
That’s incentive structure.

And until people stop confusing fear...with complicity... they’ll keep being shocked by behavior that was always predictable.

[@Ima 🇺🇸💙🔬🔭 @imatweet25]

Here’s the full 60 Minutes segment on CECOT that Bari Weiss and CBS censored.
#BoycottCBS

[Steve Bullock @SteveBullock17]

@MaximTruexa @anders_aslund This already the case ... What are you talking about

[Steve Bullock @SteveBullock17]

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[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism.

Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy.

But that's not what's interesting about Miller.

It's not brains. It's bile.

Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He's a world-class hater.

You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.

Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred is only a means to an end, and that end is his own glorification. That's his spiritual nourishment.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Everyone should say it:

The thing about Stephen Miller is not that he is the brains behind Trumpism.

Yes, he is one of the people who conceptualizes the impulses of the Trumpist movement and translates them into policy.

But that's not what's interesting about Miller.

It's not brains. It's bile.

Miller is a man who is richly endowed with the capacity for hatred. He's a world-class hater.

You can see this just by looking at him because you can see that his hatreds are his spiritual nourishment. He eats his hate.

Trump is a world-class hater. But his hatred is only a means to an end, and that end is his own glorification. That's his spiritual nourishment.

[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

Share this. It’s why the White House demanding ABC get rid of Terry Moran. Moran has been suspended. What Moran said is accurate and true. Make sure his post makes the rounds.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Please share this deleted tweet far and wide.

ABC News just suspended senior national correspondent Terry Moran for making it.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Here it is. A timetable of 100 days of corruption.

Breathtaking. Heartbreaking.

We cannot let this stand.

[Steve Bullock @SteveBullock17]

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[Mike (not a) Rothschild @rothschildmd]

Entire books are going to be written about this exchange in Trump's Time Magazine interview.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Trump made a HISTORIC blunder during his speech while bragging he canceled $8 million in funding to turn Mice “transgender.”

The funding was for TRANSGENIC studies, where scientists introduce human disease cells like Alzheimer’s to study a cure. Unreal.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Trump’s White House is now elevating J.D. Vance as a fearless truth-teller, but in reality, his prominence in today’s Oval Office confrontation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to have been a premeditated ambush.

This was not a diplomatic meeting—it was a performance, carefully staged to send a message: under Trump’s administration, Ukraine is no longer an ally of the United States.

By orchestrating this spectacle, Trump and his team are not just undermining Ukraine; they are actively escalating tensions, ensuring that the smoke blinds rather than illuminates.

This is not about ideology. It is about character.

J.D. Vance once likened Trump to Hitler. Now, he kneels before him.

Zelensky was given the chance to flee Kyiv. He said: “I need ammunition, not a ride.”

One man serves power. The other serves his people.

And yet, the Trump White House is now attempting a deliberate inversion of reality, manufacturing an image of Vance as the brave truth-teller while casting Zelensky as the ungrateful opportunist.

This is not just revisionism. It is something more insidious—a calculated reprogramming of the public mind, where virtue is punished, loyalty is submission, and the greatest sin is defying the leader’s chosen reality.

Trump does not treat Ukraine as an ally because, in his mind, it is not one. He has never hidden who he admires, nor who he believes his real allies are. Whether through reflex, compromise, or something more sinister, his foreign policy always bends toward one man—Vladimir Putin.

The same man who once warned that Trump would destroy democracy now lectures a wartime leader on gratitude.

History does not ask whether we saw the warning signs. It only asks what we did when they appeared.

And history is watching.

[Draft Jon Stewart 2028 @Stewart_2028]

Jon Stewart GOES OFF on Republicans for claiming "patriotism" as theirs, for some reason, despite voting against the American peoples' interests every single day! THIS IS THE KIND OF MESSAGING WE NEED IN 2028!

[Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick 🇺🇸 @RepBrianFitz]

Today, we unequivocally and unapologetically reaffirm, to the United States of America and to the World, the following undeniable and indisputable facts. We ask all Americans, including all elected officials from all Parties and all levels of Government, to join us by sharing and reposting this message for the World to see:

🇺🇸 Three years ago today, Vladimir Putin illegally invaded Ukraine without justification and without provocation.  

🇺🇸 The United States of America stands for the Rule of Law, and respects and defends the borders and territorial sovereignty of all Freedom-Loving Nations.  

🇺🇸 Ukraine is an independent, sovereign, and freedom-loving nation, and is an ally of the United States of America and the Free World.  

🇺🇸 Vladimir Putin, through his illegal invasions, genocide, kidnapping, rape, torture and murder of innocent civilians, including women and children, is an enemy of the United States of America and the Free World.  

🇺🇸 The United States of America stands with Democracies and opposes Dictatorships.

🇺🇸 Volodymyr Zelenskyy is the Legitimately Elected President of Ukraine through a free and fair election.  

🇺🇸 Vladimir Putin is an Unelected Dictator who imprisons his political opponents and who has never held a free and fair election.  

🇺🇸 The Ukrainian election has been delayed because Ukraine is under daily relentlessly bombings, over 200 per day, by Vladimir Putin, and Ukraine is in a State of 24/7 Martial Law.  

🇺🇸 Ukraine will hold their elections as soon as Vladimir Putin stops his unprovoked, unjustified daily bombings inside Ukraine.

🇺🇸 If Putin is rewarded for his illegal invasion and genocide, this will serve as a green-light incentive to other Dictators, such as CCP Chairman Xi Jinping, to pursue their own conquests (i.e. Taiwan), which will lead to more instability across the Globe.

🇺🇸 Dictators like Vladimir Putin are the Adult Versions of the School Yard Bullies that we all confronted in Grade School. And they must be dealt with in the same exact way. There is Peace through Strength, and there is War through Weakness. There is no magical third option.  

#PeaceThroughStrength