BarbaraM

Margaritas, a pluviophile, great views, relaxing, boating, animals, music

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨NEWS: Congressional probe alleges massive fraud in Trump-aligned Freedom 250, alleging Trump allies misled donors, hijacked America’s 250th, and sold access for millions https://t.co/3pmKJiVpnX

[BarbaraM @Barbara0699]

@TrueFactsStated He’s a f’n lunatic and the entire Republican Party are too weak, cowardly & corrupt to do a damn thing to stop him…they join him.

[BarbaraM @Barbara0699]

@evilmatryoshka Try one of those rotating scene lamps that project scenes onto the walls and ceiling. If the dark room with moving scene doesn’t help lull them to sleep, their eyes following the movements around the room tire their eyes and put them to sleep.

[BarbaraM @Barbara0699]

@JamieBonkiewicz You mean the one where the alleged shooter didn’t shoot, it was the cops who cross fired at each other as he ran by?

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

A prominent white-collar defense attorney told The Atlantic what the going rate is: two million dollars, you can have a pardon. Clients are being told to hire a specific person and then they will get it. The specific person collects the fee. The client gets the paperwork.

The formal process, the one that runs through the DOJ's Office of the Pardon Attorney, has been largely replaced by an informal network of intermediaries who charge for access. Liz Oyer, who held that pardon attorney role under Biden and into the early months of this term before being removed, described what replaced it as the Hunger Games.

The White House press secretary responded by saying Trump finds it detestable that anyone would profit off pardons. That statement appeared in the same article documenting a $1 to $2 million informal market for pardon access that is operating openly enough that one attorney called it general knowledge in the practice. Detestable is an interesting word for something that is currently listed at a market price.

[Diana Alastair💚🤍💜 ⚢ ❌���✡️ @sappholives83]

Six of these ten Highland Councillors voted to allow a taxi driver who raped a passenger to keep his operator’s license — even though senior police officers urged them not to.

Please note that although we’re constantly told it’s women who grease the wheels for rapists, every single councillor who voted in rapist David Brown’s favor is a man. Take a good look at them, Scottish women: these 6 men would put you, alone and unwarned, in a taxi with a man who has already raped at least one passenger.

Brown has been put on the register for life; he raped an 18 year old girl and dumped her outdoors on a sub-zero January night in the Scottish Highlands; but these 6 men - Chris Birt, John Grafton, Ruraidh Stewart, Sean Kennedy, Willy MacKay, and Duncan MacPherson - are more concerned about his finances than they are about the safety of local women.

https://t.co/Rq2jzLJ9P3

[BarbaraM @Barbara0699]

@mjfree @Suzierizzo1 ..or was Thomas being offered ‘incentives’ (ie bribes) to force retire himself before Dems take power or Trump leaves.

[BarbaraM @Barbara0699]

@lady_valor_07 Always

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Five weeks ago, I reported the Senate gutted 20 years of protection on the Boundary Waters. 🛶

Over a million acres of pristine wilderness lakes.

The most visited canoe country in America.

Here's what happened next.

A House committee just voted to force federal agencies to reissue two mining leases that were already found to be unlawfully granted once before.

Those leases are the one thing standing between Twin Metals and permission to build a mine upstream of that same wilderness.

The plan: dig the copper-nickel ore out of Minnesota, then ship it to China. The U.S. doesn't have the smelting capacity to handle copper at this scale — and China is processing it for next to nothing, so that's where the profit is.

China processes it. Sells it on the world market. Chile keeps the profit.

Minnesota keeps the pollution risk. Minnesotans don't get the jobs.

Rep. Betty McCollum: "It makes no sense to put our waters at risk for the benefit of Chilean billionaires."

Who does Congress think these waters actually belong to?

#DemsUnited

[Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 @KellyScaletta]

Donald Trump's stock trades in 2025 vs Nancy Pelosi's entire political career.

[💗 @ma1ybe]

THEN BUY A FUCKING CROCKPOT.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

There’s way more to the Polis story than we’re seeing. This guy is not governing. He’s controlled opposition who dropped the pretense when he pardoned Tina Peters. Probably a clue in the fact that he accepted an invitation to Peter Thiel’s secret society.

[Reich-Wing Watch @ReichWingWatch]

🚨A Georgia Trump supporter who accused Joe Biden of being a p*dophile and called for p*dophiles to be executed has just been arrested on child m*lestation charges.

Meet Robert Raymond Tilley, 58, of Waynesboro, GA. Burke County deputies arrested him June 23 on four counts of child molestation and three counts of aggravated child molestation. Bond was denied. According to the incident report, the victim told deputies Tilley inappropriately touched her more than 20 times over the past three years.

This is the same guy who shared a meme calling Biden a “p*dophile.” The same guy who shared “liberalism is a mental illness” content, posted a meme calling for “p*dophiles” to be shot — “2 in the chest, 1 in the head” — and insisted teachers who “indoctrinate” kids “should be terminated” from their jobs.

He even posted a joke “Wanted by the FBI” mugshot of himself. I bet he doesn’t find that so funny anymore.

He also defended Trump’s treasonous actions on January 6th, writing that Trump “is not responsible for those people being stupid.”

This is who they are. They scream “groomer” and “p*dophile” at everyone else while this is who they actually are. Always projection.

Save this. Share this. Remember it next time someone like Robert lectures you about morality.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I DO NOT think people understand that global warming doesn’t mean “no cold weather ever.” It means a warming planet destabilizes weather patterns, causing more extreme weather. This has been explained for decades and people still don’t get it.

[Meiguo☮️🇺🇲🇺🇦Stand With Ukraine 🇺🇦🇺🇲🌊 @Meiguo_nan]

@McFaul @janet_yackle I can't imagine why . . .

[BarbaraM @Barbara0699]

@McFaul Cannot imagine the amount of listening/recording devices that are hidden on that plane.

[BarbaraM @Barbara0699]

More protection of an arrested Trumper inmate prison.

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

Gov. Jared Polis passed over other deserving inmates to give clemency to Tina Peters, according to two members of his clemency board who revealed Polis overruled the unanimous recommendation of his experts. Polis has now fired both of them.

[Tony Farmer @Tonysmarkettips]

It took 5 years, but Mark Schlereth just became the first current or former NFL player in history to comment on Adam Schefter and Robert Kraft owning a sports betting company together. Remember, you can bet on Pats players and Schefter's reports move betting lines.

Anyone else brave enough to follow in Mark's footsteps and speak up on this issue?

[jezz @JezziiB]

My husband’s friend works in a Walmart distribution center. She says it can get very hot in there. But they finally have some decent AC. Why? Because the robots that are there now require cool air to function. Fuck the humans but cater to the machines. What a disgrace.

[Liz Oyer @lawyeroyer]

As Deputy Attorney General, Todd Blanche fired me for doing my job, then subjected me and my family to months of retaliation. My story is one of many reasons the Senate should not confirm Blanche again. Read and share my letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee. https://t.co/g8bFrhZ9Dg