Judith Bennett

Married more than 30 years, retired, respect for Mother Earth 🌎, a bit of a stargazer, respect for others. No DM's please.

[Mia @MiaForTrump]

🚨 JUST IN: Reports say 75% of Americans believe President Donald Trump should be impeached, tried, and imprisoned.

Thumbs up 👍 if you are one of them.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Doug Ford FIRES BACK at Trump’s Canada tariffs by cutting U.S. companies out of Ontario contracts — and ripping up its Starlink deal.

A petulant Donald Trump wants a trade war with Canada. Now, Ontario Premier Doug Ford just showed him exactly what that actually costs.

Responding to Trump's new 50% tariffs on Canadian goods, Ford announced Ontario is banning all U.S.-based companies from participating in the province's government procurement contracts, effective immediately.

This isn't small change: Ontario and its agencies spend approximately $30 billion annually on procurement, layered on top of a massive $200 billion infrastructure plan. American businesses just lost access to tens of billions of dollars in potential revenue.

"They only have President Trump to blame," Ford said bluntly.

But Ford didn't stop there. In a move dripping with well-deserved symbolism, Ontario is completely tearing up its contract with Starlink — Elon Musk's satellite internet company. "It's done, it's gone," Ford declared.

The message is unmistakable: Ontario isn't interested in enriching companies tied to an administration actively waging economic war against Canadian workers and families.

"We won't award contracts to people who enable and encourage economic attacks on our province and our country," Ford said.

And Ford isn't going it alone. He's calling on all 444 municipalities across Ontario to adopt the same procurement ban, with cities like Brampton, led by Mayor Patrick Brown, already stepping up to join the fight.

This is shaping up as a coordinated, province-wide — and potentially nationwide — economic response, with Ford explicitly framing it as part of "Team Canada's" opening salvo against Trump's tariffs.

Let's be clear about what's happening here.

Trump picked this fight, hitting Canadian goods with punishing tariffs over shifting, often contradictory justifications, from wildfire smoke to retaliatory grievances over alcohol sales.

Ontario isn't backing down or begging for mercy. It's hitting back, strategically and forcefully, by cutting American companies out of tens of billions in Canadian taxpayer dollars.

Trump wanted Canada to come "running back," as he put it. Instead, he's getting a united, defiant response that's going to cost American businesses dearly.

And meanwhile, who is going to ultimately pay that 50% tariff on imported Canadian goods? American consumers, that’s who.

There goes Trump, driving up inflation once again

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[Acyn @Acyn]

Nichols: It’s almost like we have a relative in the room, and there’s something deeply wrong with him. And we’ve all agreed not to talk about it. But there is something deeply wrong with him.

His friends know it, his critics know it. His staff, I’m sure, knows it. The world knows it. World leaders know it. And most importantly, our enemies know it, which is why they don’t take him seriously.

Nobody hangs on his words. They kind of do, but mostly out of freakish curiosity to see what kind of wild thing he’s going to say next, not because his words have any inherent meaning or reflect policy.

You know, I spent years teaching students that when the president speaks, it’s policy, and you must pay attention when the president speaks because nobody can contradict him.

Now, you know, are we really cutting off all trade with Spain? Who knows? Maybe. Maybe not. It might have just been a stray electron, you know, careening around inside his brainpan. Who knows?

But this is really dangerous because in the middle of all this stuff—and we can laugh about, you know, the Islamic Republic of Japan and all of that—but he made several statements about an ongoing war that the United States is losing. And no one’s even trying to pretend that they can make any sense of it.

And I’ll just add one last thing that you just brought up.

If this were any other president, this would be a national crisis. I mean, Joe Biden got somebody’s name wrong, and it was headlines. The president gets all kinds of things wrong, completely, you know, is out to lunch at an important NATO summit, and, you know, it’s Wednesday.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Murray: The Supreme Court has never been more unpopular. The public has kind of had it with this Court. And that’s kind of the Court’s fault. The Chief Justice is going on like, “People are just mad about our decisions, but our decisions aren’t political.”

But they look political, right? The fact that you got to overturn Roe v. Wade only after you got a 6-3 conservative supermajority. The fact that you rolled back affirmative action only after you got a 6-3 conservative supermajority. The fact that you are literally looking at Section 1 of the 14th Amendment, which is very straightforward, and asking, “Hmm, I wonder if the children of undocumented persons who were born in the United States are citizens.”

Like, the people get it. They’re not dumb. We are not stupid. We know what this looks like. And they’re mad. They’re really, really mad.

Anything we do at the legislative level ultimately goes back to this Court. So none of it matters if you’re not also talking about court reform.

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

“I run the protection program, I’ll protect you,” House Speaker Mike Johnson tells a room packed with members of the Epstein Class.

To say this on camera reflects way too much sense of impunity.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Trump: "If you don't respect the President, you're gonna have a problem."

No I won’t. You don’t scare me you clown.

You are the one who will have a problem. Mark it.

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

This is the most corrupt words to come out of a Speaker's mouth imaginable. The job of Congress isn't to protect the President and his family. It's to provide checks and balances on the Executive Branch. You're damn right we will investigate crimes and corruption. Who moved $180 million in oil futures 15 minutes before Iran announcements? Who has gotten sole source contracts because of their connections to the Trump family? Where did our social security data go when DOGE downloaded it into portable hard drives? Where are the rest of the Epstein files? On and on this Congress has chosen covering up crimes instead of stopping them. That ends in November. @WellmanForMO

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: “…today has also been a very good day for Donald Trump’s billionaire buddies. Tonight we got the news that the Trump DOJ has approved Paramounts $111 billion deal to acquire Warner Brothers Discovery. That means two major movie studios, two major streaming services, CNN and CBS News will now all be under one roof, and all of it will be controlled by David Ellison, the son of course of MAGA billionaire Larry Ellison. Now, did paying $16 million to settle a completely BOGUS lawsuit over Kamala Harris’ interview, installing Bari Weiss at CBS News, gutting 60 Minutes and firing Stephen Colbert help grease the wheels a little bit? Who knows? I think you know. But what we do know for sure, is that it was a big day for the the Ellison boys.” 😂😳

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HORRIFYING! Epstein bombshell reveals that Trump allegedly had a "predilection for nipples" and abused one of the victims by "aggressively" flicking and sucking on them.

And it gets so much worse...

“They looked incredibly painful as they were red and swollen and I remember wincing when I looked at them,” Epstein victim Sarah Ransome wrote in an email to a journalist, referring to a victim named Jen who Trump allegedly preyed on.

Ransome claimed that Jen — who was a girl in Epstein’s sex-trafficking ring — had sex with Trump and he brutally abused her nipples. Ransome claimed to have seen the evidence firsthand on Jen's body.

The stomach-churning revelation was reported by Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan of the New York Times in reporting excerpted from their forthcoming book, “Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump.”

The reporters expose details of the private emergency meetings that Trump's inner circle held inside the White House to discuss damage control for their boss's worsening Epstein scandal. Some of them had "never heard of the nipple claim" when it was brought up, but others had a "passing familiarity with it."

One official said that it was "surreal" to be discussing nipples inside the White House Situation Room — the very same place where Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and Hillary Clinton oversaw the operation that killed Osama Bin Laden. Under Democrats, the room is used to keep Americans safe. Under Trump, it's used to keep us in the dark.

Ransome further claimed that she "possessed video footage of prominent men having sex with young girls in Epstein’s entourage." She later retracted the claims out of fear that she or her family might be harmed. Given the fact that there's a mountain of evidence suggesting that Epstein did not kill himself, she can hardly be blamed for her caution.

Try as they might, Republicans will not succeed at sweeping this scandal under the rug. The Epstein child-trafficking operation is the defining element of Trump's life. He can delay and obfuscate, but eventually Democrats will retake power and the floodgates will be opened wide. One of the first orders of business must be for the FBI to find Jen and interview her extensively. Then, the prosecutions can begin.

Please ❤️ and share to demand a full investigation when Democrats return to power!

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

💔💔💔 I'm gonna post this everyday so MAGA never forgets what Trump did on Jan 6 🇺🇸 🇺🇸#TrumpMakesUsSick

[Just saying @kangaroos991]

GREAT nomination & well deserved too!
The 'draft dodger' currently in the Oval
Office probably won't be pleased with
Zelensky's @NobelPrize nomination? 🤷‍♀️
So, please do NOT share, got it? 😉

Wave a 🇺🇦 flag if you stand with Ukraine
and Zelensky! 🙏 🇺🇦 #SlavaUkraine 🇺🇦

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.

Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Piggy is gonna lose his fucking mind isn’t he? 🍿🍿🍿

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

For the first time in United States history, a Chief Justice is facing six articles of impeachment. Rep. Steve Cohen slammed John Roberts for weaponizing the Court and placing Trump above the law. Read the full charges:
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https://t.co/HFS895kWmv

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: James Talarico just torched Ken Paxton in a way we didn’t think was possible. Retweet this to make sure every Texan knows how corrupt Paxton really is.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Newsmax: Why are college kids booing AI during graduation ceremonies?

Me: Because they did everything society told them to do — took on debt, got the degree, worked their asses off — and now they’re graduating into a brutal job market while billionaires openly brag about replacing human labor with AI and robotics. Honestly, I don’t blame them for being angry.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

Humanity, created by God in all its grandeur, is today facing a pivotal choice: either to construct a new Tower of Babel or to build the city in which God and humanity dwell together. In Jesus Christ, this humanity in its grandeur becomes the Way, the Truth and the Life, opening the path for each of us to grow toward fullness. #MagnificaHumanitas
https://t.co/6i9MWs6LJl

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: UNPRECEDENTED! Trump’s new federal NDA policy is setting off alarms across Washington.

Donald Trump has used nondisclosure agreements his entire adult life to silence people who know things he doesn't want the public to know. His ex-wives. Contestants on The Apprentice. Campaign staffers. Porn stars. Now he wants to use them on the entire federal workforce.

The Trump administration is planning to require all federal employees to sign NDAs barring them from sharing "non-public, confidential, or proprietary information" or any "sensitive, pre-decisional or deliberative material." The draft notice goes beyond existing classified and unclassified designations — creating a new, broader category of things federal workers simply cannot talk about.

The administration's justification? They claim leaked information about the raid that captured Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro put American troops at risk by tipping off the New York Times, which they say held the story at their request.

There's just one problem. The New York Times says that's completely false. Executive editor Joe Kahn stated directly: "The Times did not have verified details about the pending operation to capture Maduro or a story prepared, nor did we withhold publication at the request of the Trump administration."

The entire premise for this policy is a lie. And they're using that lie to silence 2 million federal workers.

OPM Director Scott Kupor compared it to standard private sector practice. But the federal government isn't a private company — and federal employees aren't Trump's personal staff. Federal law specifically protects whistleblowers because the public has a right to know when their government breaks the law.

Pete Hegseth already forced Pentagon officials to sign NDAs before reading classified briefings. Now that model is going federal government-wide.

This comes after the administration fired approximately 300,000 federal workers — tens of thousands of whom were later rehired with back pay after courts ruled the firings were unlawful. It comes after federal employees have been polygraphed, retaliated against for talking to Congress, and fired for telling the truth in court.

The pattern is unmistakable. Trump is methodically converting the federal government — your government, paid for by your taxes — into a personal loyalty operation where employees serve one man and stay quiet about what they see.

That's not how a democracy works. That's how a cover-up works.

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[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

Almost one million views "Tr*mp hit her when she bit his p*nis" RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES

[MM  @adgirlMM]

This is the most traitorous unAmerican thing to happen in my lifetime, and the fact that it happened at the behest of a US president is unforgivable.

Never forget what our military sacrificed for American freedom. It wasn't for this.