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@Acyn It's fascinating how this Administration surrounds itself with men who are so insecure about. Wonder why these small people all have so much to prove.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

Sen. Jon Ossoff accused what he called the "Mar-a-Lago mafia" of profiting from Middle East tensions, citing reports involving Pete Hegseth's broker, Jared Kushner's Saudi-backed fund, and suspicious oil trades before a Trump post moved markets.

He's calling for investigations and promising subpoenas if Democrats win back Congress.

The SEC just got mentioned in a campaign speech for a reason. 👀

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

Dear younger voters who went for Trump in ‘24, watch the speeches of Prez & Michelle Obama & Mamdani today then compare it to Trump speaking at the White House this afternoon. Ask yourself what kinda world you wanna live in & what real leadership looks like. Then get involved.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

🚨 If you believe Social Security should be 100% off-limits for Trump and Republicans, smash LIKE and RETWEET right now!

Protect our seniors! #HandsOffSocialSecurity

[Katie @KazooKatherine]

Wow! Raskin just sent Kash Patel this letter. It’s umm… interesting. Read it twice. 👀

The House Judiciary minority says Patel has handed out more than $1 million in “bonus” payments to agents on his Director’s Advisory Team and his security detail. The letter calls it a personal slush fund.

Here’s the mechanism. Federal pay is capped by statute. The letter alleges Patel routed money around that cap. Nearly $8,000 per agent, every two-week pay period. Some collected five in a row. Roughly $40,000 each.

Then the accounts ran dry. Raskin says some of the payments bounced.

Who got paid? The letter points to the unit NOTUS reported as the “Payback Squad.” And it ties the cash to silence, alleging agents were polygraphed over whether they helped cover up Patel’s drinking.

Now the other column. The agents he fired include an FBI Medal of Valor recipient, the official who led the Jan 6 law enforcement response, a Marine combat veteran cut weeks after his wife died of cancer, and a counterintelligence unit that tracked Iranian threats.

Reward the loyal. Purge the rest.

Raskin wants every bonus, every authorization, and every legal memo on whether this broke federal law. Deadline June 29.

[Congressman Robert Garcia @RepRobertGarcia]

Oversight and Judiciary Dems visited Ghislaine Maxwell’s prison today, it is essentially a pristine park with fountains and ample green space. She’s the only convicted sex offender there. Why did @DAGToddBlanche move her here? This isn’t justice.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “It was supposed to open Friday, it is not open because Trump says he does not want it open. When this bridge does open some day, if Trump ever lets it open, you should know that there is a competing bridge a little way down the river, a privately-owned very old very congested toll bridge that will likely LOSE some of its traffic…because of competition. It will lose some of its traffic to this pretty, brand new bridge that has just been built. The family that operates the competing old bridge, earlier this year, made a $1 million donation to Donald Trump’s super pac. In short order, a member of that family then got an in person meeting with Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The White House and the pac say that was just a coincidence…but after the million dollar donation, he gets this meeting, and then the SAME day of the meeting, Howard Lutnick calls President Donald Trump and then Trump suddenly discovers new supposedly trade-related reasons why he’s now suddenly against this bridge, even though previously he has been for it.” 🤦‍♀️

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@DemocraticWins Hope she knows how to enforce it. Apparently our governor in New Jersey does not.

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@ShadowofEzra NOW can we stop funding israel?!

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

The White House was built to serve the American people.

Tonight it was used to promote a company the President owns stock in, sell subscriptions, promote corporate sponsors, push Trump crypto, and enrich the President and his family.

The founders warned us about kings enriching themselves from public office.

They did not fight a revolution for this.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING:

New from Haberman and Swan:

Secret memos show that the Trump White House debated last year, to a greater degree than previously known, whether to limit a constitutional right — suspending habeas corpus rights for undocumented immigrants to accelerate mass deportation efforts.

[Rep. Dan Goldman @RepDanGoldman]

Trump’s @ICEgov is actively breaking children’s intellectual development with isolation, denying infants clean drinking water, and threatening parents who speak up to demand basic medical care for their kids.

In what world are infants “the worst of the worst,” @SecMullinDHS?

This inhumane treatment of our babies is beyond the pale. Yet @HouseGOP just decided to give ICE $70 BILLION more.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Elias: Why does California have signature matching? They have it to satisfy the same right-wing zealots who claim there’s fraud, right?

So they do this whole kabuki theater that takes all of this time in order to contend with the fact that people say that if you don’t do signature matching, there’s going to be fraud. And then they get attacked for taking the time to do that very thing.

The fact that the New York Times thinks there’s a middle ground here… Here’s my message: I don’t compromise with Republicans because there is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist, and they are trying to burn down democracy.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Are you fucking kidding me?

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 DISGUSTING: Top journalist Carol Leonnig exposes a massive DOJ scandal.

She confirms the Trump administration literally ordered FBI agents to raid a pro-democracy voter registration group in Ohio.

The White House is actively using federal forces to rig the midterms!

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

The Acting AG, @DAGToddBlanche, is a national disgrace.

His actions in covering up the Epstein Files to protect trump are unethical and likely illegal.

He will be disbarred. He will be investigated. And if the facts warrant it, he will be prosecuted.

November is coming.

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@OversightDems @JDVance They passed a law that said release the files. It didn't say release the files that give the president good PR. Everyone in the Sit room for these meetings should be indicted.

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@adgirlMM A law was passed to release the files. EVERYONE in that room was breaking the law & should be indicted. Interesting how the authors of the article don't mention this.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Susan Collins 30 years ago: “I’ve pledged that if I’m elected I will only serve two terms. 12 years is long enough to be in public service.”

[VoteVets @votevets]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Republicans just BLOCKED Sen. Richard Blumenthal's attempt to get Veterans their retirement pay WITHOUT cutting disability benefits. Republicans will write blank checks to the military, then penny pinch when it's time to support our Vets.