Steve Caruso

Trying to make a small difference in Sactown; lover of books & thoughtful TV shows; proud papa of 3 bright & self-assured adult kids & 4 perfect grandkids

[Tea Pain @TeaPainUSA]

This is a devastating leak.

[Luke Beasley @lukepbeasley]

I can’t stop laughing https://t.co/brEAakqokv

[Receipt Maven @receiptmaven]

Speaker Mike Johnson has gone to great lengths to scrub his social media. So here with his "Teacher/Wife" Kelly is the sermon he doesn't want you to hear: "Answer for Our Times."

Thread:

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

A Trump supporter was seated next to an older woman on an airplane and he turned to her and said, “Do you want to talk? Flights go quicker if you strike up a conversation with your fellow passenger.”

The old woman, who had just started to read her book, replied to the total stranger,

“What would you want to talk about?”

“Oh, I don’t know,” said the man. “How about how they stole the election in 2020 and Donald Trump should be president.”

“Okay,” she said. “Those could be interesting topics but let me ask you a question first. A horse, a cow, and a deer all eat the same stuff – grass. Yet a deer excretes little pellets, while a cow turns out a flat patty, but a horse produces clumps. Why do you suppose that is?”

The man, visibly surprised by the old woman’s, thinks about it and says, “Hmmm, I have no idea.”

To which the old woman replies, “Do you really feel qualified to discuss politics, when you don’t know shit?”

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Here is George Clooney response after Trump accused him of being a "Hollywood elite."

"Here’s the thing: I grew up in Kentucky. I sold insurance door-to-door. I sold ladies’ shoes. I worked at an all-night liquor store. I would buy suits that were too big and too long and cut the bottom of the pants off to make ties so I’d have a tie to go on job interviews. I grew up understanding what it was like to not have health insurance for eight years.

So this idea that I’m somehow the “Hollywood elite” and this guy who takes a shit in a gold toilet is somehow the man of the people is laughable.

People in Hollywood, for the most part, are people from the Midwest who moved to Hollywood to have a career. So this idea of “coastal elites” living in a bubble is ridiculous. Who lives in a bigger bubble?

He lives in a gold tower and has twelve people in his company. He doesn’t run a corporation of hundreds of thousands of people he employs and takes care of. He ran a company of twelve people!

When you direct a film you have seven different unions all wanting different things, you have to find consensus with all of them, and you have to get them moving in the same direction.

He’s never had to do any of that kind of stuff. I just look at it and I laugh when I see him say “Hollywood elite.” Hollywood elite? I don’t have a star on Hollywood Boulevard, Donald Trump has a star on Hollywood Boulevard! Fuck you!"

- George Clooney

actor, philanthropist, humanitarian & activist

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Tucker Carlson will get really mad if you RT this email showing how he begged Hunter Biden to use his connections to help get his son into an elite Washington university

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

Breaking: It turns out that Hunter Biden was secretly running a business for Joe while Joe Biden was in office. The business made $160 million in deals during his time in office, and Joe Biden is set to get the entirety of the business when he leaves office.

Whoops never-mind. That was the Trump Organization which Donald Trump put in a trust that he essentially had complete control over and that Don Jr. and Eric officially ran during his presidency. The business brought in millions of dollars including via hotel rentals from foreign governments that likely looked to get favors from Trump. Trump Organization was then convicted of fraud and forced to shut down.

Additionally Ivanka and Jared Kushner got a $1.2 billion lease on a NY City property from a company that was majority owned by Qatar, just as Trump was supporting a middle east blockade against Qatar. Suddenly after the lease went through, Trump stopped supporting the blockade.

Then while in office, Ivanka Trump got trademarks granted to her while Donald supported a ZTE deal that benefitted China. On the very date Trump and Ivanka dined at Mar-a-Lago with the Chinese President, China awarded her 3 preliminary trademark approvals, all while Trump was President and Ivanka worked in the White House.

Then after 4 years of pro-Saudi policies, and a surprising arms deal, Trump and Kushner both signed business deals worth billions of dollars with the Saudis after leaving office.

Then, during Trump's presidency Don Jr.'s personal business parter Gentry Beach, who was doing business overseas, got access to meet with top national security officials in the Trump administration during Trump's presidency. The NSC officials were directed by the Trump White House to take the meeting because Beach and the businessman were friends of Trump Jr.

But tell me again how Joe Biden had friendly personal phone calls with Hunter Biden's business partners.

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

A majority of Democratic and Republican voters don't want Joe Biden and Donald Trump to run again in 2024.

And yet, both are currently the presumed 2024 nominees for their parties.

I tried explaining to @AndersonCooper why this was the case: https://t.co/d4CIUTGNWH

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

This is a real ad running right now in Ohio.

Is it effective or offensive?

[Sacramento Regional Family Justice Center @SacramentoFJC]

What a wonderful evening celebrating our 7th Anniversary and the Grand Opening of the Thomas P. Raley Foundation HOPE Wing with friends, supporters, family and colleagues. Couldn't ask for much more!

[Leslie Jones 🦋 @Lesdoggg]

It’s a damn shame! When they start realize it. It will be too late. What is wrong with us?! Do we actively want to go backwards?! 🤦🏾‍♀️

[Paul Rieckhoff🇺🇸🇺🇦 @PaulRieckhoff]

This is brilliant. And I had my boys watch it today as we celebrated their last day of school.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

The Trump audio:

"See as president I could have declassified it. Now I can't, you know, but this is still a secret."

"Now we have a problem," a staffer responds.

[mariana Z @mariana057]

My kids asked me what it was like for me growing up...

...so I took their phones, shut off their internet, gave them a popsicle and told them to go outside till the streetlights came on…

[Ricky Davila @TheRickyDavila]

A reminder that Reality Winner spent 5 years in prison for leaking one doc to warn about MAGA-Russia treason.

[Mikel Jollett @Mikel_Jollett]

Remember when Trump stole National Security secrets and refused to return them?

At this same time, Saudi Arabia gave the Trump family 2 billion dollars and a bunch of American spies were killed.

I’m not saying these things are related, but shouldn’t we at least find out?

[Awful Announcing @awfulannouncing]

In an interview on Golf Channel, Jay Monahan stumbles though an attempt to defend his hypocrisy regarding the use of 9/11 families as a talking point against LIV Golf.