CHERYL BUTLER

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Trump's D.C. Chainsaw Massacre: Over 500 Historic Trees Gutted to Build a Millionaire's Golf Course

Donald Trump has begun actively destroying hundreds of trees in Washington, D.C., and the lack of mainstream coverage is absolutely criminal.

Please scream this from the rooftops and spread the word immediately! These aren't dead, dying, or invasive trees — these are perfectly healthy, decades-old oak and maple trees that are being brutally clear-cut. This disturbing footage from Rick Maese at The Washington Post exposes the truth: the Trump administration is massacring upwards of 500 healthy, historic trees at the East Potomac Golf Course.

But honestly, why are we surprised? This is just the latest chapter in Trump's complete and utter disregard for our nation's historic capital. It follows the exact same playbook as his shocking demolition of the White House East Wing, and the disastrous, botched "renovations" of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool that left an iconic American landmark falling apart and peeling. To make matters even more sickening, they've even been dumping toxic debris from the demolished East Wing right onto this very public parkland!

The National Park Service is trying to gaslight the public by claiming this ecological disaster is just routine maintenance, but we know the truth: they are gutting public land to build a glitzy, exclusive championship golf course. Residents across the city are rightfully furious and disgusted. Witnessing 500+ majestic trees being ripped out of the ground is an absolute horror show for the people living in this city.

Do not let them slide on this. Share this everywhere, expose this environmental atrocity, and follow for updates.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

😱😱😱 And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media.

A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children.

Lets make this viral again 👇

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: “I WILL NEVER STOP!” Activist "JoJo from Jerz" reveals how Trump and Melania tried to SILENCE her with legal threats – and the single mother REFUSED to surrender!
Joanne Carducci, the firebrand progressive blogger known to more than a million followers as JoJo from Jerz, has revealed a months-long legal ordeal that she says left her crying every day, terrified of losing her home, and desperately trying to protect her two children.

Her account begins with threatening letters from attorneys representing Donald and Melania Trump, demanding that she retract statements, apologize, and pay money over things she'd posted online. According to Carducci, the demands eventually became entirely about Melania.

According to Carducci, the Trumps' attorney initially demanded that she retract statements she'd made online, including her claim that Trump incited the deadly January 6 insurrection. She was also ordered to issue a full apology, admit that she had knowingly lied, and agree to a financial payment, with just days to respond and the threat of punitive damages hanging over her.

And the price of refusing? Carducci says the lawyers eventually demanded a staggering $1 MILLION from a single mother who had once earned $16 an hour as a school paraprofessional.

“They would take my home,” she wrote in a deeply personal and powerful Substack essay.

Carducci says she kept the ordeal secret from her children, even as she struggled with the possibility that the house she'd worked so hard to provide for them could be taken away.
“She was swinging a fucking wrecking ball at a mosquito, and my children lived in the building,” Carducci wrote of Melania.

But Carducci refused to retract her criticism or issue an apology.

Former New Jersey Attorney General Matt Platkin stepped in to help her without charge, providing legal advice and support while she faced demands she says she could never have afforded to fight alone.

Eventually, according to Carducci, the letters stopped. She never apologized, never retracted her statements, and never agreed to the demands.

What finally persuaded her to tell the world was watching Melania Trump promote women's empowerment on television.

“She’s for women’s empowerment, and I’m a fucking natural blonde,” Carducci wrote.

The contrast is striking: a first lady publicly encouraging women to find their voices, while a woman who had used hers says she spent months fearing the consequences of refusing to be silent.

Carducci acknowledges that she's still frightened. She also insists that her work as a satirist, mocking powerful public figures, is an exercise of her right to free expression.

And after months of keeping the ordeal from even her own children, she has a message for the people she says tried to intimidate her:

“Because I am never, EVER going to stop.”

[CHERYL BUTLER @BECKYB1023]

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[4Yourinformation411 @4Yourinformati3]

So True!

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

NEVER FORGET
On January 6,
2021, six men dragged this officer down the Capitol steps.
He heard one scream, "I got one!" before the others ripped off his badge, stripped him of his radio, and seized his ammunition that was secured to my body.
They beat him with their fists and what felt like hard metal objects.
He heard chanting from some in the crowd - "Get his gun!" and "Kill him with his own gun!"
This officer suffered a heart attack and a traumatic brain injury.
Trump pardoned those six men.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

California could become the first state to permanently bar former ice agents who served under Trump from state and local jobs.

Do you agree with California's decision?

[Chief of Cafe Balls @Cafeballs_blog]

The real story isn’t that 75% of Americans want Trump impeached, prosecuted and imprisoned…

The real story may actually be more disturbing…

• Trump’s approval has fallen to 32%
• 1 in 6 Trump voters now say they wouldn’t vote for him again, while around 15% say they might vote differently or not vote at all if they could redo 2024
• Identification with MAGA among Republicans has fallen 9 points since March 2026
• Institutional confidence remains near a historic low… just 27% across 14 major American institutions
• And 89% of Americans now say corruption in the US Govt is widespread… the highest level Gallup has recorded

And something deeper is happening…
Americans are increasingly divided not merely over who should govern… but over whether the people and institutions governing them can be trusted at all… even America’s foreign-policy consensus is showing cracks…

83% of Americans say their country interferes in the affairs of other countries… while the share saying America contributes to global peace and stability has fallen from 69% in 2023 to 57% in 2026…

So this may be bigger than Trump vs Democrats… bigger than MAGA vs liberals… the deeper problem is becoming America vs its own political system…

When citizens lose confidence in their politicians… lose confidence in institutions… lose confidence in the media… and increasingly question whether their Govt’s actions are making their country or the world safer…
you have a crisis of political trust… and that is where things become more dangerous...

Not necessarily because America is already heading toward a civil war… but because a democracy becomes vulnerable when its citizens stop believing that its institutions can peacefully resolve their deepest political conflicts…

America isn’t there yet… but the warning lights are on…!!!

[PROTECT KAMALA HARRIS ✊️ @DisavooWTrump2]

🚨NEW: Cindy McCain, the wife of the late Senator John McCain, has endorsed Arizona Democratic Governor Katie Hobbs and will campaign for her this fall.

RETWEET to thank McCain for putting country over party!

[BigDaddy @strujillo075]

JUST IN: Special Counsel Jack Smith has publicly released every piece of material in his possession linked to Trump, revealing exactly where the files are being uploaded. The move is a bold push for full transparency and institutional credibility—Jim Jordan and Trump are panicking.
Read More: https://t.co/txtlGod83Z

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Someone wrote a Trump poem in the style of Dr. Seuss. One word: BRILLIANT
Especially that last line
Pinocchio had nothing on you, But the Epstein files most certainly do

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Mike Rogers gets a reality check.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

See below.

[Damaan, AKA 'Philly's Finest!' @Damaan4u33]

Who agrees? ✋

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

TRUMP SAYS HE'S TRANSFERRING 10 BILLION DOLLARS FROM THE GOVERNMENT TO HIS BOARD OF PEACE 🙄 WHERE IS THE 13 BILLION DOLLARS HE TOOK FROM VENEZUELA 🤔 THIS AIN'T A PRESIDENCY, IT'S AN OUT OF CONTROL CRIMINAL ORGANIZATION 🙄