Waffelo Bill

Independent. Nickname given after being too passionate about new breakfast cereal one 1980's high school morning. #PleaseStayBlockTheCray

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: A massive report exposes that Trump purchased $100,000,000 in bonds tied to companies DIRECTLY impacted by his policies. That is slam dunk insider trading and is IMPEACHABLE.

Overall, Trump has made an estimated $3.4 BILLION in just one year and 6 months.

[Neil Stone @DrNeilStone]

Risk of blood clot after Covid vaccine : 2 per million

Risk of blood clot after Covid infection : 1700 per million

[Justin Wolfers @JustinWolfers]

No tax on tips. No tax on overtime. No tax on Social Security. Except: all taxed with narrow carve-outs, and all of it expires end of 2028.⁣
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The one part of the tax bill that doesn't expire? Tax cuts for the wealthy. Those are permanent.⁣
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Populism with an asterisk.⁣
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https://t.co/WlA2C9GQBm

[GBC @GBC_Press]

2:00 PM: 🇺🇸 A US judge ordered the Department of Justice to unredact Jeffrey Epstein's files alleging co-conspirators.

5:00 PM: 🇺🇸 Trump rejected the court order to hand over unredacted Epstein files.

8:00 PM: 🇺🇸 Trump started bombing Iran. War resumed.

You connect the dots 🇺🇸

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

My kids have measles, I lost my job, and a parasite that the CDC no longer monitors has given me explosive diarrhea. But at least now there’s no plaques honoring Black scientists at the Smithsonian.

[Aaron Parnas @AaronParnas]

Epstein survivor Lara Blume McGee urges Senators to vote against Todd Blanche's nomination.

"He is unfit to be Attorney General."

She confirmed his office has refused to meet with survivors.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Holy shit, this sick old man can't even keep himself upright, seated in the Oval Office.

He's practically sideways. How TF is this not a bigger story?

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

Let me get this *ahem* straight: trump wears makeup, a wig, a girdle, and high heels, and he’s attacking James Talarico’s masculinity? Just wanted to make sure I understood the situation. It would be funny if it wasn’t so fucking pathetic.

[Governor Newsom Press Office (parody) @AwesomeNewsom]

American soldiers die in Trump's war, not a word from Donald. Gas and food prices skyrocket, not a word from Donald. People demand the Epstein files, not a word from Donald. But the minute you take his fat name off a building, Donald writes Mein Kampf for Morons.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Talarico VS Paxton.

[tern @1goodtern]

Good.
I'm glad WHO are warning that Andes Hantavirus may be spread person to person by airborne particles.
In other words: particles that are breathed out, that float in the air for a while, then are breathed in.

They should have done this in Feb 2020 for Covid.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 WOW.

Trump’s financial disclosure forms reportedly show he bought between $1 MILLION and $5 MILLION in Dell stock earlier this year.

Then THIS WEEK…

the Pentagon awarded Dell a contract worth MORE THAN $9 BILLION.

Read that again slowly.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“This abysmal settlement is also apparently freeing him and his family from any IRS audits going forward, which, if the worst case scenario is realized, will have essentially allowed the biggest family of grifters in the our nation’s history to live tax free and above the law for the rest of their lives.” https://t.co/7iMzRjI2Eq

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“Do not lose sight of the fact that Trump spent decades sexually assaulting with impunity and was rewarded for his crimes with television contracts and a supplicant press, while a coterie of billionaires lined up to put money into his greasy little hands.

Do you believe for a minute that the concept of due diligence was a foreign one to the lawyers at NBC when they drew up a multimillion dollar contract for a man who had been in the tabloids for literally decades - and who the New South Wales government had refused to allow to open a casino in Sydney’s Darling Harbor in 1987 due to his extensive Mob ties?

The Australian police cited Trump’s Atlantic City casinos as evidence of organized crime associations and advised the government it would be dangerous to do business with the consortium Donald had formed.

Or do you think the chance to make some Mark Burnett bucks with the bankrupt pretend-billionaire married to the former adult escort and his odious unqualified children was enough to make them look the other way? There was certainly ample evidence of Trump’s misdeeds and malfeasance by 2003 when ‘Apprentice’ was green lit.

Do you think Jeff Zucker, then president of NBC Entertainment and the folks in the C-Suite at 30 Rock were unaware of Jeffrey Epstein and his ties to Donald Trump? How about when Zucker left to run CNN where he completely ignored Trump’s ignoble past in the 2016 election, choosing instead to focus on the ‘ratings gold’ he has always known Trump to deliver.

It was a business to these folks, and it still is, while our democracy crumbles before our very eyes.
On top of this - witnessing our backsliding into a cesspool of division and the cult-like embrace of POTUS’s solipsistic dogma, a small but very powerful handful of people entrusted to serve our nation are giving into their pecuniary desires, instead of living up to their responsibilities.

What we have seen over the last year and a half is the apex of America’s greed, an orgy of overindulgence consummated by a chosen few.” https://t.co/NbxPp4Yd2m

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Marjorie Taylor Greene: 'Trump texted me that if my son gets killed, I deserve it because I was a traitor to him. I'd probably get put in jail if I released the texts. That's our president'

MAGA was never about America. It was about one man's ego - and everyone who crosses him learns the hard way

[Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅 @1zzyzyx1]

This conversation with .@TimothyDSnyder and .@katiecouric from her podcast is disturbing, but as usual, Snyder is calling it as it happens around us. If this doesn’t make you think about what is happening, I’m not sure what would. #DemsUnited

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Trump just fired all 24 members of the National Science Board. Every single one. By email. No warning. No reason given. The board has existed since 1950.

The National Science Board is the independent body that oversees the National Science Foundation, the agency that distributes $9 billion in research grants every year.

Its members are scientists and engineers from universities and industry. They serve six-year staggered terms specifically so they cross presidential administrations and stay independent of whoever is in power.

On Friday, every single one of them got the same boilerplate email from Mary Sprowls of the Presidential Personnel Office: "On behalf of President Donald J Trump, I am writing to inform you that your position as a member of the National Science Board is terminated, effective immediately. Thank you for your service."

That's it. That's the whole letter. For 76 years of institutional independence.

The NSF funds the basic science behind MRIs. Cellphones. LASIK eye surgery. GPS. The internet itself. The Antarctic research stations. The deep-space telescopes. The research vessels mapping the ocean floor. Every breakthrough that made America the world's leader in science for the better part of a century traces back through grants this agency made and this board approved.

The board chair, Victor McCrary, was actively advising Congress on Trump's proposed 55% cut to NSF's budget. The board was helping fight back. So Trump fired the board.

Marvi Matos Rodriguez, one of the fired members, told reporters she had been reviewing an 80-page report as part of her board duties just days before being terminated.

Keivan Stassun, a physicist at Vanderbilt, said NSF's leadership had already stopped responding to board oversight requests months ago. "We would ask them, 'Are you following board governance directives?' And their answer would be, in effect, 'We don't listen to you anymore.'"

Now there's no board to answer to.

Rep. Zoe Lofgren of California, the top Democrat on the House Science Committee, called it "the latest stupid move made by a president who continues to harm science and American innovation. Will the president fill the NSB with MAGA loyalists who won't stand up to him as he hands over our leadership in science to our adversaries?"

That's the actual question.

Because while Trump is firing American scientists, China is building research universities at a rate we cannot match. The CDC just buried a study showing vaccines work.

RFK Jr. runs HHS. The EPA is gutted. The Forest Service is being broken. Half of American children are breathing dangerous air. And now the people who decide what gets researched in the United States have all been fired by email on a Friday afternoon.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

To get into the building, all you needed to show was a picture of a ticket. There were no metal detectors. I cannot stress how crazy this is. The security for an event like this was pathetic. Also, after shots were fired, not one SS agent jumped on the president to protect him. This is not normal. He'll, nothing in this fucked-up administration is normal.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Sooo, the Secret Service and FBI just happened to release this footage to the President during an active investigation?

And he felt the need to post it… because….?