Paula

“Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” - Voltaire

[Paula @TrueBluePaula]

“If you stir up the madness of the world, then that madness will eventually come back to bite you.” -The Madness on Netflix

[Reich-Wing Watch @ReichWingWatch]

🚨Matt Saunders, a 43-year-old MAGA man from Blair, Nebraska who suggested Joe Biden a was a p*dophile, has been arrested for allegedly s*xually abusing a child.

Saunders was arrested on 14 counts, including 10 counts of s*xual assault of a child, producing s*xual abuse material, solicitation via electronic communication, intentional child abuse, and terroristic threats.

The victim was between 12 and 16 years old at the time.

Authorities said they believe there may be additional victims.

On his Facebook page, Saunders shared racist anti-immigrant memes, COVID conspiracy theories, and posts calling Biden “Creepy Joe” — all while allegedly doing the unthinkable to a child in his own community.

The projection from MAGA never stops.

#EveryAccusationIsAConfession

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

The maximum amount a person can donate to a candidate is $3500.

Miriam Adelson just donated another $25 million.

Citizens United didn’t give corporations “free speech.”

It let billionaires buy elections and legally bribe politicians.

End Citizens United.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: Maryland Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to gain access to state voter data. A big victory for our clients Maryland/DC Alliance for Retired Americans and democracy.

DOJ is now 0-9 in these cases. We are undefeated.🗳️💪⚖️ https://t.co/ksCZx1rudO

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Wanting a college education shouldn’t force you into a lifetime of crippling debt.

Getting necessary healthcare shouldn’t force you into a lifetime of crippling debt.

Having housing shouldn’t force you into a lifetime of crippling debt.

Acquiring basic necessities shouldn’t force you into a lifetime of crippling debt.

There are a wealthy-few profiting from the survival and exploitation of Americans, wanting us to blame each other so we never have the chance to blame them.

[Being J Wood @BeingJWood]

I was wondering:

Does the guy who fucked up the reflecting pool get to keep all $14 million?

[MM  @adgirlMM]

We've been forced to pay into social security our whole damn working lives, but this little weasel and the Republicans think we don't deserve OUR MONEY back in full when we retire? They say we're not "entitled" to it.

Fuck that.
See you in November, GOP. 🔥

[Wiley Nickel 🇺🇸 @WileyNickel]

Trump’s reflecting pool is the perfect metaphor for his presidency: a vanity project built on favors and shortcuts, handed to people who had no business doing it, hyped endlessly, falls apart almost immediately, cost taxpayers millions, and somehow it’s everyone else’s fault…

[Steve Martin @UnrealBluegrass]

Aggressively arresting people who put their hands in a reflecting pool.
Not arresting anyone in the Epstein files for sexually abusing children.
https://t.co/EUsP5R1yl2

[DulceBiatch @BiatchDulce]

The average rent in the U.S. just hit $2,000 a month.

The federal minimum wage net pay is $1,256 a month.

Let that math sink in.

Someone working full time still comes up $744 short of just paying rent.

Before food. Before utilities. Before gas. Before anything.

This isn’t laziness. This isn’t poor budgeting.

You cannot budget your way out of earning less than your rent costs.

The federal minimum wage hasn’t changed since 2009. Rent has nearly doubled in that same time.

The system isn’t broken by accident.

And until wages catch up, which could take decades, generating income outside of one hourly job isn’t optional anymore.

It’s survival.

~Casper Capital~

[Tom Santos @tommysantos14]

An administration willing to arrest its citizens to cover up their incompetence in renovating a national monument needs to be dismantled and voted out of power.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Trump wants to create a national database of every registered voter in the country.

Then, he and the GOP want to decide who gets to stay on it.

“It’s a way of essentially taking over the voter registration process,” Marc Elias says, “or, more precisely, taking over the results.”

[Sgt Pepper @MzSgtPepper]

🎯

#ReleasetheUnredactedEpsteinFiles

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

People struggling to pay bills are cheering on the president and his allies become richer at their expense.

All because he claims to hate the same people they do.

Culture war is powerful, and awful.

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

Let me guess... vandals?🤣

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

Breaking news: U.S. Park Police officers arrested former Olympian David Hearn on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property.

Hearn said he touched the Reflecting Pool’s detached liner but “didn’t destroy or break or peel anything.” https://t.co/EkLvCHvbKR

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.   

Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.  

The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.  

Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.  

The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
https://t.co/95K8zIySPz

[Conor Rogers @conorjrogers]

Trump: look at the pool, I fixed it. Everyone look at the pool, I did a great job. Obama never fixed the pool. I did. Look at the pool.

Media: the pool looks broken

Karoline: why are you guys talking about the pool, you’re deranged

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

all you need to know about Charles Kushner:

"The NJ developer went to prison after pleading guilty to tax evasion and witness tampering, having hired a prostitute to seduce his brother-in-law and then sending a videotape of the encounter to his sister."

https://t.co/FDymoE1Nay

[David Frum @davidfrum]

If destruction of government property is a crime, I wonder what they'll do to the man who tore down the East Wing without a permit.

[Lawfare @lawfare]

The Justice Department quietly deleted thousands of press releases about the Jan. 6 insurrection
So Lawfare restored them: more than 5,700 pages recovered and publicly archived.

@TylerMcBrien, Michael Feinberg, and Benjamin Wittes explain how. https://t.co/qtcxOnOmfa