Amy Miles

Reading Specialist at MPS

[Congressman Raja Krishnamoorthi @CongressmanRaja]

If the Postal Service moves forward with President Trump's plan to restrict mail ballot delivery, I'll pursue a congressional subpoena of the Postmaster General and lead efforts to remove him from office.
No administration should be able to use the Postal Service to make it harder for Americans to vote.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Speaker Mike Johnson has officially sent the housing bill to President Trump.

That starts the 10-day constitutional clock: Trump can sign it into law, veto it, or take no action. If Congress remains in session and he doesn’t sign or veto it within 10 days (excluding Sundays), the bill automatically becomes law.

For millions of Americans struggling with the cost of housing, the next 10 days could shape what help is on the way.

🏠 If you believe America needs more affordable housing, leave a comment below.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: Let's be very clear about what the president is saying to the American people. The president is saying that he will not sign a bill whose purpose is to make housing affordable unless his allies in congress pass a voter suppression bill to rig the election. He is saying, I won't even sign a bill that will give economic relief to Americans unless the rules of this election are changed so that he, Donald Trump, cannot be held accountable for all of his misdeeds because that's what he really fears most of all is that when there is a change in the balance of power, and when we restore checks and balances, he knows that there will be subpoenas flying that officials from his administration will be testifying under oath about the full range of misconduct and corruption that we already know has been happening since the moment he was sworn in.

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

All three branches of our government need massive reforms — especially the Supreme Court.

My plan is simple: Stop Supreme Court members from accepting unlimited gifts from billionaires with matters before the Court, and impose 18-year term limits so we stop people from hanging one way past their prime and restore the fairness and integrity the American people deserve.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

A Justice Department lawyer just signed a memo saying disabled Americans have no right to live in their own homes. In the same document, she admits no court in the country agrees with her.

Read that again. A government official wrote down, in black and white, that her own argument is wrong by every legal standard of the last thirty years, and she made it anyway.

Here is what it means in plain terms.

Right now, 8.4 million people get help that lets them stay in their own homes. Aides who help them dress. Care that lets them work, see friends, raise their kids, sleep in their own beds at night.

This memo tells states they can cut all of it.

And if they cut it, where do those people go? Into nursing homes. Into institutions. Into facilities where someone else decides when you wake up, what you eat, who your roommate is, whether you go outside today.

A lawyer who has visited people locked in these places said their whole world shrinks to one hallway. That is the future this memo is opening the door to.

Keeping people in their own homes is cheaper. In one case, home care cost under $7,500 a year. The nursing home would have cost close to $50,000. The cruel option is also the expensive one. They want to spend more money to make people's lives worse.

So why?

Because last summer Trump signed an order to deal with homelessness by force, by sweeping people off the streets and committing them. He said it out loud during the campaign: the mentally ill belong back in institutions.

The only thing standing in the way was the law that says people deserve to live in their own communities.

This memo is how they get around it. And it landed the same week Republicans slashed Medicaid, giving every cash-strapped state the perfect excuse to start cutting.

A think tank drew up the plan. A lawyer wrote the memo. A president signed the order. Three signatures, and millions of people could lose the right to their own front door.

We are about to spend the summer celebrating 250 years of American freedom.
Some Americans are about to find out it doesn't include them.

[🇺🇸 BLUE VANGUARD 🇨🇦 @Thomasstjames3]

@allenanalysis It’s not a position of strength if you’re the one begging for a deal.

[Charles Perreira @CharlesPerreir7]

Hegseth looked like a guy who knows the script is bullshit but can’t admit it. Brennan drops the obvious, same empty “no nukes” promises as the JCPOA Trump tore up, and instead of defending the deal on substance, Pete just mumbles “this time it’s from strength.”

Bro, your “strength”
already got us higher gas prices, dead troops, and billions burned for the exact same paper promise. That shaky, cornered look on Hegseth? That’s not confidence. That’s a man realizing the emperor has no clothes and the war was the con. Unstable vibes all around. Democrats called this chaos from day one.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 This Was The Most Revealing Exchange In Hegseth’s 60 Minutes Interview.

Pete Hegseth defended the new Iran agreement by saying the document guarantees Iran will never have a nuclear weapon, never seek one, and never obtain one.

Then came Brennan’s response:

The Obama-era JCPOA said that too.

Notice what happened next.

Hegseth didn’t argue that Brennan was wrong.

He didn’t say the provision was new.

Instead, he argued the difference was that this agreement was negotiated “from a position of strength.”

Not whether Iran promised not to build a nuclear weapon.

Both sides appear to agree similar language existed before.

The disagreement is whether military pressure and leverage make this agreement more durable than the one Trump withdrew from.

[Bruce Mallard @MallardBruce]

@allenanalysis I always assumed Trump was a major part of the files and responsible for horrible abuses of children.

[apricothdaenya @apricothdaenya]

@allenanalysis What Greene said that Trumperdink has been known for quite awhile. It is definitely time to remind everyone of what she claimed Trump voiced to her. Time for me to start using this again:

[TrumpBetrayedUS @BetrayedUSA]

@allenanalysis Yes... The America President is here to protect his friends. It is no longer for the people by the people. Trumps friends and family are doing just fine and some better than ever. Our accepting it is Trumps America First.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: This Is A Pretty Stunning Claim.

Marjorie Taylor Greene says Donald Trump once told her that some of his friends would be hurt if the Epstein files were fully released.

Greene pointed to new reporting alleging that the biggest obstacle to broader disclosure was not the Justice Department.

Not the FBI. But Trump himself.

Think about the significance.

For years, the debate centered on what was in the files.

Now the debate is shifting toward who wanted them released and who didn't.

The controversy is no longer just about Jeffrey Epstein.

It's becoming a fight over the handling of the information itself.

[Zack Smith @ZackOftheTrades]

Even more concerning, the files seem to have zero interest if the guy who has publicly slandered and harassed anyone opposing him. It’s exactly what he’d want as leverage. Which means even he isn’t willing to go there. The elites, and ruling class are so corrupt even Donald Trump can’t risk the fallout. Meanings it’s 100 times worse than we can imagine.

[Gerhardt vd Merwe @realgerhardtvdm]

🇺🇸 THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TURNS 80 YEARS OLD TODAY.

Here is his birthday gift to Americans:

- Convicted of 34 counts of falsifying business records in the first degree (New York, 2024 hush money payments disguised as legal expenses)

- Charged with willful retention of national defense information (multiple counts classified documents case)

- Charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice (classified documents case)

- Charged with withholding or concealing a document or record (classified documents case)

- Charged with false statements (classified documents case)

- Charged with altering, destroying, mutilating, or concealing an object or record (classified documents case)

- Charged with conspiracy to defraud the United States (federal January 6 / election interference case)

- Charged with obstruction of an official proceeding (federal January 6 case)

- Charged with conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding (federal January 6 case)

- Charged with conspiracy to violate rights (federal January 6 case)

- Charged with violation of the Georgia RICO Act (Georgia election interference case)

- Charged with conspiracy to commit false statements and writings (Georgia case)

- Charged with solicitation of violation of oath by public officer (Georgia case)

- Charged with false statements and writings (Georgia case)

- Charged with influencing witnesses (Georgia case elements)

- Accused of bank fraud and making false statements to financial institutions (multiple investigations)

- Accused of insurance fraud (related to asset valuations)

- Accused of tax fraud and evasion (various probes and civil findings)

- Found civilly liable for persistent and repeated business fraud by inflating asset values for loans and insurance (New York Attorney General civil case, $454+ million judgment)

- Accused of sexual assault, rape, groping, and non-consensual kissing by at least 28 women (dating back to 1970s)

- Found civilly liable for sexual abuse and defamation (E. Jean Carroll case, 2023)

- Accused of walking in on underage girls changing in beauty pageant dressing rooms

- Accused of sexual harassment and assault during business dealings and on The Apprentice

- Accused of campaign finance violations beyond the New York hush money case

- Accused of witness intimidation and pressuring officials in election-related matters

- Accused of obstruction of justice in multiple contexts (classified documents and election cases)

- Accused of misusing charitable foundation funds (Trump Foundation civil case, foundation dissolved with penalties)

- Accused of fraud in Trump University (settled civil lawsuit with payments to students)

- Accused of emoluments violations and self-dealing while in office (multiple lawsuits and ethics complaints)

- Accused of pressuring state officials and creating fake elector slates (part of Georgia and federal cases)

- Accused of inciting or encouraging the January 6 Capitol riot through public statements

- Accused of attempting to overturn the 2020 election through multiple false claims and schemes

- Accused of retaliating against or defaming accusers (multiple defamation-related claims and lawsuits)

[rayban 🌎 @rayuriarte6]

@NotAvgLiberal @onlyascing After funding a coup, he will now attemptto whitewash it as it never happened

[rayban 🌎 @rayuriarte6]

@NotAvgLiberal @onlyascing

[Joe the former Tweet @JoeTwee61865322]

@NotAvgLiberal @Christo12919382 They laughed and danced and partied while their little stoolies assaulted the capitol. Trump is an illegitimate president.

https://t.co/wFXmGVqcZ9

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: IT'S MURDER! Death of a 31-year-old woman dropped by ICE at a Pittsburgh bus stop in freezing weather with no coat ruled a homicide!

The Allegheny County Medical Examiner’s office has ruled the death by hypothermia of Haitian immigrant Daphy Michel, who spent more than 30 hours shivering at a Pittsburgh bus stop after being dumped by ICE, a homicide.

Three days earlier, Michel had been in Washington County Jail on misdemeanor charges that a judge dismissed. Her family was waiting to pick her up in Charleroi – just a 40-minute drive away.

But because ICE had placed a detainer on her, instead of releasing her to loved ones, authorities handed her over to immigration enforcement.

ICE fitted her with an ankle monitor, put her in their “Alternatives to Detention” program, and then dropped her off on the South Side of Pittsburgh, far from home, in February cold, wearing only light clothing. She never made it back.

“When you release someone like that that far from home, it’s a recipe for disaster,” Her attorney Joseph Murphy said. “She would have been in her own environment. She wouldn’t have been sitting around a bus stop [with no coat] in February, and she’d be alive now.”

The death at the hands of ICE was no accident. It was the direct result of cold, bureaucratic cruelty, with immigration officials choosing enforcement theater over basic human decency.

County Executive Sara Innamorato said the death was “a tragedy that appears that with a little humanity, it could have been completely avoidable.”

After the death, friends and family gathered at the bus stop where she died and held a vigil for her (photo, right).

This horror is part of a pattern under Trump’s ICE that hasn’t dissipated since the agency has fallen from the headlines: they still treat people as disposable, and appear to get perverse satisfaction making life as difficult as possible for the people they harass, like dropping vulnerable individuals in unfamiliar places with no support.

Michel didn’t deserve to die alone in the cold on a bench because the system cared more about optics than people. Her death should haunt every official who signed off on this cruel process. Each one should be worried about the pendulum of justice swinging in their direction now that the ruling is official.

If this preventable, heartbreaking tragedy makes you furious, like and share this post.

No one should die abandoned in brutal winter's cold because ICE decided their life didn’t matter.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Hayes: “It has been clear to anyone paying attention that Donald Trump, the guy who did January 6th, the guy who insists he won the popular vote in 2016 and created a whole commission that took over a year to confirm, no, he still lost by three million votes, the guy who insists that California, yes that California, a state which he lost his closest race by 20 points, actually voted for him in all its elections but then rigged the count, the guy who has pushed this totally unprecedented lawless effort to rig the congressional maps for the midterms, that guy was always going to use every trick he could, legal or not, to retain power in the midterm  elections, we have known that, and now this week, that is coming into very very sharp focus.” 😳