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[TO @TAOlson01]

@AzPetrich @PaulSGundlach I thought Grassley was responsible for the Scotus seats. He was senate judiciary chair and conveniently decided when the appointments would take place.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

I think it was just hate.

By Sincerely, American:

"Trump supporters say, 'We suffered 8 years under Barack Obama.'

Fair enough. Let’s take a look.

The day Obama took office, the Dow closed at 7,949 points. Eight years later, the Dow had almost tripled.

General Motors and Chrysler were on the brink of bankruptcy, with Ford not far behind, and their failure, along with their supply chains, would have meant the loss of millions of jobs. Obama pushed through a controversial, $80 billion bailout to save the car industry. The U.S. car industry survived, started making money again, and the entire $80 billion was paid back, with interest.

While we remain vulnerable to lone-wolf attacks, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully executed a mass attack here since 9/11.

Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.

He drew down the number of troops from 180,000 in Iraq and Afghanistan to just 15,000, and increased funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

He launched a program called Opening Doors which, since 2010, has led to a 47 percent decline in the number of homeless veterans. He set a record 73 straight months of private-sector job growth.

Due to Obama’s regulatory policies, greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 12%, production of renewable energy more than doubled, and our dependence on foreign oil was cut in half.

He signed The Lilly Ledbetter Act, making it easier for women to sue employers for unequal pay.

His Omnibus Public Lands Management Act designated more than 2 million acres as wilderness, creating thousands of miles of trails and protecting over 1,000 miles of rivers.

He reduced the federal deficit from 9.8 percent of GDP in 2009 to 3.2 percent in 2016.

For all the inadequacies of the Affordable Care Act, we seem to have forgotten that, before the ACA, you could be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition and kids could not stay on their parents’ policies up to age 26.

Obama approved a $14.5 billion system to rebuild the levees in New Orleans.

All this, even as our own Mitch McConnell famously asserted that his singular mission would be to block anything President Obama tried to do.

While Obama failed on his campaign pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, that prison’s population decreased from 242 to around 50.

He expanded funding for embryonic stem cell research, supporting ground breaking advancement in areas like spinal injury treatment and cancer.

Credit card companies can no longer charge hidden fees or raise interest rates without advance notice.
Most years, Obama threw a 4th of July party for military families. He held babies, played games with children, served barbecue, and led the singing of “Happy Birthday” to his daughter Malia, who was born on July 4.

Welfare spending is down: for every 100 poor families, just 24 receive cash assistance, compared with 64 in 1996.

Obama comforted families and communities following more than a dozen mass shootings. After Sandy Hook, he said, “The majority of those who died today were children, beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old.”

Yet, he never took away anyone’s guns........

He sang Amazing Grace, spontaneously, at the altar.

He was the first president since Eisenhower to serve two terms without personal or political scandal.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

President Obama was not perfect, as no man and no president is, and you can certainly disagree with his political ideologies. But to say we suffered?

If that’s the argument, if this is how we suffered for 8 years under Barack Obama, I have one wish: May we be so fortunate as to suffer 8 more."

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This looks like an abandoned theme park!

[💙🌊 Zero Dark Twenty-Nine 🌊🌊🖋️🧫 @herotimeszero]

What never happened before Trump:

-Every president who lost has conceded except Snowflake Donald.

-No President has ever sold watches, fragrance, phones, and crypto WHILE president.

-No US President has ever made $1.3 billion a year AS president.

-No President has EVER been so unhinged as to add his name to a memorial of another president.

-No President has ever destoryed a third of the white house to build a gold dance hall.

-No President has ever forced taxpayers to pay for his war on algae, then lose the war.

-No President has ever been broken by late night comedians and pop stars.

-No President has ever forced the IRS to give him an official right to never pay taxes.

-No President has ever started a war just to hide his connections with a pedophile.

-No President has ever lost a war that he started just to hide his connections with a pedophile.

[Rep. Suzan DelBene @RepDelBene]

Democrats just forced a vote to put an end to Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund.

Every House Republican rejected it & voted to support your tax dollars going to cop beaters & right wing extremists. Despicable.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.”

Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.

[Brian Cardone 🏴‍☠️🇺🇦 @cardon_brian]

Good god this is a crazy interview. Listen as Scott Pelley describes how Bari Weiss wanted journalists at CBS to cover the killing of Renee Good in Minnesota. This is why we can’t have oligarchs running our news outlets, this is absolutely devastating.

[TO @TAOlson01]

@Rep_Stansbury He is such a joke.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Most of you will never have had:
Measles
Mumps
Rubella
Tetanus
Diphtheria
Polio

And none of you will ever have had Smallpox

Why?

Because vaccines work

[TO @TAOlson01]

@maddenifico The Art of the Deal. 🤣

[Jamel Jackson @JamelJackson10]

@TheRickWilson

[Abier @abierkhatib]

Trump’s “victory timeline” claims.

Mar 3: "We won the war."
Mar 7: "We defeated Iran."
Mar 9: "We must attack Iran."
Mar 9: "The war is ending almost completely, and very beautifully."
Mar 11: “You never like to say too ⁠early you won. We won. In ​the first hour it was over.” Mar 12: "We did win, but we haven't won completely yet."
Mar 13: "We won the war."
Mar 14: "Please help us."
Mar 15: "If you don't help us, I will certainly remember it."
Mar 16: "Actually, we don't need any help at all."
Mar 16: "I was just testing to see who's listening to me."
Mar 16: "If NATO doesn't help, they will suffer something very bad."
Mar 17: "We neither need nor want NATO's help."
Mar 17: "I don't need Congressional approval to withdraw from NATO."
Mar 18: "Our allies must cooperate in reopening the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 19: "US allies need to get a grip - step up and help open the Strait of Hormuz."
Mar 20: "NATO are cowards."
Mar 21: "The Strait of Hormuz must be protected by the countries that use it. We don't use it, we don't need to open it."
Mar 22: "This is the last time. I will give Iran 48 hours. Open the strait"
Mar 22: "Iran is Dead"

Mar 23: "We had very good and productive talks with Iran."
Mar 24: "We’re making progress."
Mar 25: “They gave us a present and the present arrived today. And it was a very big present worth a tremendous amount of money. I’m not going to tell you what that present is, but it was a very significant prize.” Mar 26: "Make a deal, or we’ll just keep blowing them away."
Mar 27: "We don’t have to be there for NATO."
Mar 28: No major quote
Mar 29: Claimed talks were progressing
Mar 30: "Open the Strait of Hormuz immediately, or face devastating consequences."
Mar 31: Claimed a deal was "very close" and that Iran would "do the right thing"
Apr 1: "We’ll see what happens very soon."
Apr 2: Repeated that a deal was likely, while warning of continued strikes if not
Apr 3: "Something big is going to happen."
Apr 4: Said Iran must comply "immediately" or face further consequences.

Apr 5: "Open the fuckin' Strait, you crazy bastards, or you'll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah."
😂

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: The Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, Joseph Kent, just resigned and his letter is devastating.

He says Trump was “deceived” into war with Iran, pushed by misinformation and outside pressure, abandoning his own America First principles.

And he says Iran never posed any imminent threat to America.

Read the entire letter below.

[Ron Shillman @shillman1]

Convicted fraudsters Trump has pardoned this year:

Jason Galanis — ~$200M+
Joseph Schwartz — ~$38M
Lawrence Duran — ~$205M (Medicare fraud billed; ~$87M paid)
Carlos Watson — ~$60M investor fraud
Trevor Milton — ~$20M+ investor losses
Todd Chrisley — ~$30M bank fraud
Julie Chrisley — ~$30M bank fraud
Devon Archer — ~$60M tribal bond scheme
George Santos — ~$44K–$1M+ (multiple fraud schemes)
Michele Fiore — ~$70K charity fraud
Brian Kelsey — ~$90K campaign finance fraud
Scott Jenkins — ~$75K bribery/fraud scheme
Paul Walczak — ~$10M+ tax fraud
Adriana Camberos — ~$1M+ counterfeit/fraud

[Olaudah Equiano® @RealOlaudah]

Norway Found Oil. Then Did the One Thing Most Countries Never Do

In 1969, Norway discovered one of the largest offshore oil deposits in the world.

The Ekofisk field changed everything.

Suddenly, this small Scandinavian nation was sitting on extraordinary wealth.

They could have done what most oil-rich countries do:
* Spend it all immediately.
* Build monuments.
* Create economic bubbles.
* Enrich a few while the many suffer.

And when the oil runs out, collapse into debt and instability.

Nigeria tried that.
Venezuela tried that.
Libya tried that.

Norway looked at these cautionary tales and made a different choice.

In 1990, the Norwegian Parliament created the Government Pension Fund Global.

The rules were simple but revolutionary.

All oil profits would flow into the fund. The fund would invest globally in thousands of companies. Norway could only withdraw a small percentage each year—originally 4% - now 3%.
The rest would stay invested. Forever.

People thought they were insane.

Why hoard money for people who don't even exist yet?

Why not lower taxes, build bigger programs, and enjoy the wealth right now?

The Norwegian government had an answer...

Because future Norwegians will exist. And they deserve this wealth as much as we do.

In 1996, they deposited the first payment: $150 million.

Then they did something even more remarkable...

[IndependentVoters @IndependentVo12]

@Rothmus

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

This exchange just happened on the Senate floor.
Cornyn: “I don’t understand how the SAVE Act disenfranchises voters.”

Durbin: “Happy to explain. Driver’s licenses don’t qualify under the bill. 50% of Americans don’t have passports.”
Cornyn: “Why not just amend it?”

Durbin: “When’s the last time the Senate actually amended a bill?”

Silence.

The SAVE Act requires passport-level documentation to register to vote.

50% of Americans don’t have a passport.

The people least likely to have passports: the elderly, the poor, rural Americans, young first-time voters.

The people most likely to have passports: wealthy Americans.

This is not voter protection.

This is voter selection.

And when a senator suggested fixing it — his own colleague couldn’t name the last time the Senate amended anything.

That’s the Senate in 2026.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: DHS agents are now illegally arresting U.S. citizens at airports… and trafficking them across state lines.

A 28-year-old U.S. citizen, Sunny Naqvi, was detained by DHS, for 43 hours, after landing at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago.

She wasn’t charged with a crime, and she wasn’t accused of doing anything illegal…

Agents reportedly detained her over what they called a “curious travel history.”

Even though Sunny was born in Illinois…they still disappeared her.

After being held for about 30 hours inside the airport, agents secretly moved Sunny to an ICE detention facility in Broadview, Illinois.

While this was happening, federal agents repeatedly told her family she was NOT in custody, even though her phone location showed she was inside the facility.

Then it gets worse.

According to witnesses, agents asked for Sunny’s phone number so they could “look for her phone.”

Minutes later, the phone was opened, her messages were read, and the device was shut off, cutting off the family’s ability to track her.

After that, agents transported the U.S. citizen across state lines, to another detention facility in Dodge County, Wisconsin.

And then she was eventually released early Saturday morning… in a random state, alone.

Her phone was dead, and she had no transportation.

So, a U.S. citizen detained by the federal government had to hitchhike to a hotel, just to be able to reunite with her family.

And this is what people need to understand…

When federal agents can detain U.S. citizens without charges… lie to families about their custody, search personal phones, and secretly transport people across state lines…

That puts every single American in danger.

Because they can do it to anyone.