Brian Cassidy

In-house attorney; amateur musician; burgeoning bibliophile.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Because of the Big, Beautiful Bill: A family making $50K will get less than $2 a day from this bill's tax cuts—while a household in the top 0.1% will receive more than $300K

This is legalized theft from working people to reward the ultra-rich.

We must not forget that.

[InfoGram @_InfoGram_]

🇺🇸Trump at 3:00 PM — Bought $1 million of Dell stock.

🇺🇸Trump at 4:00 PM — Americans Go out and buy a Dell computer. I have a son that loves their laptop.

In any functioning democracy, this would be called massive corruption and He would have faced at least 2 years in jail.

[FFRF @FFRF]

This is exactly what Christian nationalism looks like: claiming some Americans deserve more religious freedom than others.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

No, George Washington didn’t have a personal-business desk beside his official desk. No, 38,000 Americans didn’t die building the Panama Canal. No, it’s not true no pre-Trump president donated his salary.

Lots of fake history from Trump this past week: https://t.co/kYZHpl60b2

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

1 year ago today, Trump signed his One Big Beautiful Bill Act into law.

It includes $1,000,000,000,000 in tax cuts for the top 1%, while slashing SNAP and Medicaid budget by $1,100,000,000,000.

[nxthompson @nxthompson]

"Trump is cultural heroin. He makes some feel better for a bit. But he cannot fix what ails them, and one day they’ll realize it." - JD Vance, ten years ago today. https://t.co/VO0oVhyHXj

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

New reports reveal Trump has quietly awarded a $500,000,000 no-bid contract for his ballroom.

This comes after Trump awarded a no-bid contract for his Reflecting Pool renovations.

[Eric Lee @EricLeeAtty]

SCOTUS came within 2 votes of allowing the president to effectively overturn the 14th Amendment. Anything less than 9-0 on birthright citizenship would have been a scandal in earlier period. A significant decision today, but far, far too close a vote.

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

Ordering that his sons get a piece of the U.S.-funded $1B tungsten mine project in Kazakhstan is the corruption bridge too far for the @nypost editorial board. "It stinks to high heaven. The Trump boys have been sloshing around in the muck since their dad came to power."

[caro @bagelaureate]

5-4 decision for something written and enumerated plainly by the Constitution of the United States

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump, who voted by mail 3 months ago:

Ideally no mail-in ballots, because it's so corrupt.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The number of financial side deals the Trump family is running is so shocking it can sometimes be hard to track.

According to @Reuters, their crypto ventures alone have delivered $2.3 billion to Trump & co. while creating a similar-sized loss for investors.

[FFRF @FFRF]

The fact that you can’t tell the difference between a private MLB team and a taxpayer-funded public university explains why you’re confused about the First Amendment.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ansari: I didn’t think I could be shocked by anything he does, but he was literally handed a bipartisan housing bill that would lower costs on a silver platter. It was such an easy win for him at a time when he’s so unpopular because of his cover-up of the Epstein files and this illegal war he screwed up. He could’ve said, “I did this big housing bill,” and because he is so committed to rigging the election, he chose to blow it all up. Their party is a mess. Trump is a joke.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A note to my friends who still back Trump:

I am not here to dunk on you. I am writing because you have a working brain, and this story insults it.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool got a $14 million paint job. Shortly thereafter the water turned green and the new “American flag blue” coating started peeling off the bottom in sheets. Trump says vandals did it. He claims, without evidence, that someone took a knife and cut a 300-foot slit, a number that grew to 350 feet while he was still talking.

Back on May 4, Trump bragged about that same coating and said, if you had a knife, you could not even cut it, so strong, like powerful rubber. He cannot have it both ways.

And the green water?

A George Mason scientist tested it and found ordinary, non-toxic algae, the kind that blooms in any shallow sunny pool. To fight it, crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water.

Hydrogen peroxide is also a paint stripper.

That, not sabotage or vandalism, is the obvious reason the paint came off. They wrecked their own paint job, then blamed phantom vandals for it.

The lone "vandal" they paraded is a 67-year-old Olympian who touched a flap of paint already peeling on its own.

Here is the thing. If they will look you in the eye and lie about something this small, something you can see with your own eyes, ask yourself what else they are lying to you about.

Again, you have a working brain. People like Karoline Leavitt are counting on you to stay loyal instead of exercising independent thought.

Prove them wrong.

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

Fascism where the trains not only don’t run on time but constantly crash and derail.

[mark normand @marknorm]

This looks like a Disney movie where a 12 year old becomes president

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

This is enough money to cover universal free college for every US student for nearly a decade btw

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

This should be a career-ending scandal. But life under Trump is so hellish, it's not even front-page news.