Amy Stonoha

Seeking and sharing inspiration for quality learning with technology. Music is my passion. Pursuing Ph.D. in Education

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Trump's $1.8 billion slush fund is indefinitely shut down but the part of the settlement that bars IRS audits of Trump and his family is in place.

Lawmakers who had been critical of the fund have been notably quiet about this aspect of the settlement. 🤔https://t.co/La7qqjwPp6

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

To George and Laura, Bill and Hillary — we're grateful for your friendship, counsel, and devotion to this country. And to Joe and Jill, thank you for being on this journey with us.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

In a notice filed Thursday in federal court, the administration said the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has begun the process of creating a new records system to track mail ballots. https://t.co/QcIyyYRYn5

[Forbes @Forbes]

Government officials, public figures and billionaires have been linked to a secret society co-founded by Peter Thiel. Here's everything we know: https://t.co/OEbYzaFOT0 (Photo: AFP via Getty Images)

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Former Presidents and First Ladies attending the the Obama Presidential Center opening:

—Barack and Michelle Obama
—Joe and Jill Biden
—Bill and Hillary Clinton
—George and Laura Bush

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

The federal government’s screwworm monitoring program reportedly cost about $15 million.

DOGE cut it.

Now the Trump administration is preparing to spend roughly $1 billion to combat a screwworm outbreak.

That’s an expensive way to end up back where you started.

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

Congress never voted to bulldoze the White House or for a dollar to build Trump’s golden Ballroom for the Epstein class (or anyone else). But now we learn that Trump’s bad architecture obsession is costing us all $600 million. Turn your illegal Qatari jet over to the people and we’ll sell it for $400 million and we’ll take the rest out of other illegal emoluments and slush funds, including the $1.776 billion fund for insurrectionists, and the Board of Peace, another unauthorized Trump fund bankrolled by money misallocated from the State Department.

[Branko Marcetic @BMarchetich]

Peter Thiel, who reportedly* plans to replace US democracy with an outright aristocracy, is building a secret society of some of America's top military, political & business elite. Sitting officials incl. Trump appointees, senators, and the top US commander in NATO (!).

[Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairness]

SpaceX is public now.

That means we can see certain business documents.

One shows that SpaceX has claimed $1.9 BILLION in tax breaks they think the IRS would reject if they got audited.

Just in case you wondered why Musk and DOGE wanted the IRS defunded so badly.

[NowWhat 🏴‍☠️ @SFTravels]

This group literally had a 3 hour session on ‘how to steal an election’

Wtf

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Elon Musk donated $277 million to elect Trump.

Trump let him gut the IRS.

Elon’s SpaceX took a $1.9 billion tax break that they believed wouldn’t be allowed if the IRS audited them.

Your reminder that billionaire and corporate PAC donations are bribes.
https://t.co/FrgK2iiaqE

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

When we win, the first bill I’m filing is a comprehensive anti-corruption package:

Overturn Citizens United
Ban corporate PACs and super PACs
Ban members of Congress from trading stocks

Once we defeat the most corrupt politician in America, we can defeat this corrupt system.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

The OCC is expected to approve the Trump family's application for a national bank trust charter, which would allow their crypto firm to operate like a bank.

That could help the Trump family make even more money. It's an ethical outrage.

https://t.co/QNm5xxaG3Z

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

"238 pounds"

"excellent health, demonstrating strong cardiac, pulmonary, neurological, and overall physical function"

Blood pressure: 105/71
Total cholesterol 143

"Cardiac age approximately 14 years younger than his chronological age"

[Social Security Works ❌👑 @SSWorks]

The most common-sense solution to Social Security's solvency crisis is to scrap the cap!

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

Truest cartoon to date

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Fifty years of rules keeping off-road vehicles on designated trails — GONE.

Lifted trucks, ATVs, dirt bikes, snowmobiles.

Anywhere they want. On your public lands.

Nixon protected it. Carter protected it. Trump just erased both quietly on a Friday afternoon.

A grizzly bear will abandon its habitat when there's just one mile of road per square mile. One mile. Now there's no limit on where these vehicles can go.

In the Mojave, desert tortoises have already lost 96% of their population in some monitored areas - partly because off-road vehicles crush their burrows. A federal judge just ordered 2,200 miles of trails closed to protect what's left.

Then Trump signed this.

No designated trails. No boundaries. No framework at all. When vehicles go off trail they shatter habitat into pieces too small for wildlife to survive in. They destroy stream banks. They push predators toward humans. And when that happens, the animals always lose.

There was no vote. No public comment. Just a signature.

Now the agencies tasked with writing replacement rules are the BLM, the Forest Service, and the National Park Service - all under an administration that has spent months dismantling every protection they had.

The Interior Department, led by Doug Burgum, is in charge of most of it. The same Doug Burgum who has opened public lands to drilling, mining, and grazing at every turn.

Don't hold your breath.

When the last quiet place is gone, what do we tell the children who never got to hear it?

#DemsUnited

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency is considering granting a banking charter to the Trump family's crypto company, World Liberty Financial.

That would open up new ways to funnel money to Trump, and it would be a *huge* conflict of interest. https://t.co/QNm5xxaG3Z

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: The Justice Dept. is seeking to throw out a lawsuit against Elon Musk’s company, xAI, over the data center's air pollution, saying it has the right to run polluting gas-burning turbines in Mississippi despite not having permits for them. https://t.co/CxztBM0baD

[Reuters @Reuters]

Meta's Bowling Green data center and power plant face local opposition over environmental and transparency concerns, as off-grid power projects grow rapidly in the US https://t.co/17zTbhBy10