MAClem

Who cares.

[Sarah Ironside 💙 @SarahIronside6]

For anyone who is confused, the United States was founded on religious freedom, not Christianity.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Google’s founders, Sergey Brin & Larry Page, paid $0 in California income taxes in 2019, 2020 & 2023.

Since 2019, Brin & Page got $400 billion richer & are worth $573 billion.

Today, Brin is spending $57 million to defeat a tax on billionaires to save healthcare for 3 million.

[Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairness]

Don't worry, I'm sure the tax breaks we gave billionaires and corporations last year will start trickling down any minute now.

[Editorial & Political Cartoons @EandPCartoons]

Michael de Adder @deAdder

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Now, would be a great moment to have in place a disaster relief organization to help the people of Venezuela. We once had one -- USAID -- but Trump destroyed it.

[Charlie Warzel @cwarzel]

Every Trump debacle follows the same 13 steps. The reflecting pool fiasco is just one of the lower stakes versions of it.
1. Devise unnecessary spectacle
2. Disregard expertise
3. Bypass normal procedures
4. Declare victory too early (bonus if done by AI-slop post)
5. Spend way more than estimated
6. Ignore the haters
7. Realize it is not going well
8. Bypass normal procedures once again
9. Allege conspiracy and sabotage
10. Redeclare victory
11. More blaming
12. Losing interest
13. Pretend it never happened, and move on to the next thing

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

We could have built over a million new affordable homes and apartments with this money. What a disastrous waste.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Facts matter…..

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Compensation Last Year
CEO of Tesla & SpaceX: $158 billion
CEO of Warner Brothers: $165 million
CEO of Blackstone: $126 million

They pay the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

Let's end that absurdity, scrap the cap and raise Social Security benefits.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

If California voters approve the 5% wealth tax on billionaires:

Sergey Brin, Google’s founder, would pay $13.65 billion more in taxes.

He’d still be worth $259 billion and healthcare would be saved for 3 million people.

Instead, he’s spending $57 million to defeat it. Obscene.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

The politicization of the military leadership and shift of emphasis from competence and fidelity to the Constitution to blind loyalty to a president will be one of the most dangerous and pernicious legacies of these years. https://t.co/JFtpPvOQqK

[MAClem @amicuss]

“Trump lost the country. The U.S. lost a half-hearted war. Israel lost an ally. The Middle East lost the illusion of security. Asia lost growth. Global trade lost a dependable artery.”

The Iran War Is Ending and Everybody Lost https://t.co/clSJ4Na3On via @politicalwire

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

“I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation at all.” – Donald Trump

“Affordability is a hoax.” – Donald Trump

“Nobody gives a shit about housing.” – Donald Trump

“I love the inflation.” – Donald Trump

When people tell you who they are, believe them. Vote every Republican off the ballot. Every. Single. One.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

It's no longer left versus right or even Democrat versus Republican.

It’s now democracy versus oligarchy. Freedom versus dictatorship. Right versus wrong.

Millions are awakening to this new reality — and they're speaking up.

The sleeping giant of America is roaring.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Is it really any surprise that Trump is nominating an attorney from a firm that worked on his company's taxes to a top position at the IRS?

His entire presidency has been about installing loyalists so he can bend the government to his will.

https://t.co/4U4w9fMY0s

[Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairness]

Everyone wants Social Security to keep going.

Everyone thinks the wealthy should pay into the program all year long like the rest of us.

No one wants to see Social Security benefits cut.

The only people stopping us from scrapping the cap are the wealthy and their lobbyists.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Corporate greed is Tim Cook, the billionaire Apple CEO, claiming that hiking prices on Apple products by over $200 is "unavoidable" after it made $112 billion in profits last year & spent $310 billion on stock buybacks.

These price hikes aren't unavoidable. They're unacceptable.