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[B G @bg_1084]

@RepJimBanks @RepJasonSmith Reminder @RepJimBanks is irrelevant. He will never be relevant. Anything he says only proves his hypocrisy from 2017-2021. He’s written 1 bill in 6 years and has collected $1,044,000 in tax payer money. So please tell me about “reckless spending”.

[B G @bg_1084]

@sportshermit @MacFarlaneNews Actually more like $0.60 per gallon.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

2025: Taylor Farms donates $1M to Trump’s Super PAC — 1 week later, Trump delays the “Food Traceability Rule"

2026: Diarrhea parasite breaks out across the US, Taylor Farms lettuce tests positive — but then the FDA quickly retracts and claims the test was a "false positive"

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

$2.7 billion to kill wind power. $1.125 billion to prop up coal.

That’s $3.8 billion of your tax dollars Trump has spent this year alone, not to lower your energy bill, but to make sure the cheapest electricity in America never reaches the grid.

Yes, you heard that right. The President of the United States is literally spending your tax dollars to make your energy bills more expensive.

You’re paying for this twice: once when the government spends your tax dollars to block the cheapest energy available, and again on your electric bill when utilities have no choice but to keep running expensive coal instead.
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[Critter @asclepiasyriaca]

"If you vote for me I will cut your energy and electricity prices in half within 12 months."

"We will cut your energy prices in half, within, mark it down, and you can get very angry if at me if we don't do it, within 12 months, your energy prices will be cut in half. "

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Companies associated with Trump's sons have received $1 billion and counting in government contracts since he returned to office.

We've never seen anything like this coming out of the White House.

📸: @MSNOWNews @Morning_Joe

[B G @bg_1084]

@DKThomp Also this…

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

Consumers be damned. This will drive up prices for years to come.

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

Consumers be damned. This will drive up prices for years to come.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Democrats need to stop panicking and pointing fingers at each other and start attacking the GOP for allowing Trump to use America like one big ATM for his corrupt family and billionaire buddies. This is simple.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

I still DO NOT understand how so many of you were hoodwinked into believing the government should not use the money you pay in taxes to create a social safety net that benefits you, fund public healthcare, lower housing costs, and make daily life more affordable.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Any other FBI Director would have resigned before this story broke. The real news here is that Trump is willing to tolerate this.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

The amount of insider trading Donald Trump is participating in is staggering. It’s actually almost unfathomable.

Since 2012 Nancy Pelosi has executed 213 trades on individual stocks with a total volume of $270 million dollars.

In Q1 of 2026 Donald Trump executed 3,500+ trades on individual stocks with a total volume of $1.5 billion dollars.

Donald Trump is on pace for 14,000 trades this year.

Nancy Pelosi has averaged 15 trades per year.

[Mike Nellis @MikeNellis]

Four Supreme Court justices have argued that Donald Trump can change the Constitution with an executive action, BUT JOE BIDEN CAN’T FORGIVE YOUR STUDENT LOAN DEBT.

It’s rigged. Burn it all down.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

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[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Trump criticized Obama for “loading [a plane] with $1.7 billion in cash” for Iran – money the U.S. was legally obligated to pay.

Trump is proposing a nearly $500 billion windfall for the Iranian regime – to be fundraised by us and financed by our allies.

My @Morning_Joe Chart

[S.V. Dáte @svdate]

Um... Yeah.

He attempted a coup. He stole top secret documents and kept them at his country club. He would have absolutely gone to prison had he lost the election.

[B G @bg_1084]

This 100% and it’s sad…

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

Pretty good example of how Trump/WH lies (this time on the reflecting pool) are trotted out on Fox with no pushback. Many Fox viewers will believe the pool has been vandalized even though Trump and the WH have provided zero evidence of this.

[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.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Scientists in Atlanta were stopped from criticizing the Trump admin at a scientific conference, so let me do it here:

Trump is destroying biomedical research in America, and it will take decades to get back on track. 

Spread the word. Stand up for science.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

The Lessons I Learned from My Dad

I am not the man my father is.
I am trying. Some days closer. Some days farther.
He never sat me down and explained these lessons. He lived them. I’m still learning them.

Show up.
The kitchen table. The hospital room. The funeral. The picket line. The call from the son who won’t answer.
Show up.
Most days that’s the whole job.
My whole life I watched him do it. Not for cameras. Not for headlines. Not because there was something in it for him. He showed up because someone needed him.

I learned that grief doesn’t make you special.
My father buried a wife and daughter. He buried a son. Yet he never treated grief as a claim on other people’s sympathy. Instead, it made him notice theirs.
A mother who lost a child. A father sitting beside a hospital bed. A kid scared about what comes next. A son who lost his mother, his sister, his brother.
He always noticed.

I learned that power is not the point.
The people who chase power eventually confuse the office with themselves.
My father never did.
Whether he was a county councilman, a senator, vice president, or president, he was the same man.
The title changed.
He didn’t.

I learned that family comes first.
The train from Wilmington wasn’t symbolism.
It was every night.
He read to us. Showed up to games. Sat through hospital rooms. Waited up for children who were lost.
And when the day came that the country and the family could not both have him at full strength, he chose family. He relinquished the last chapter of how he wanted to be remembered. And he never complained about it.

Most of all, I learned that love is not soft.
Love is discipline.
Love is showing up at one in the morning when nobody is watching.
Love is answering the phone.
Love is staying.
Love is getting back up after life knocks you down and doing it all again tomorrow.
That love saved my life.
I’ve failed at many of these lessons, sometimes in very public ways.
He loved me anyway.

That’s the last lesson.
I am not trying to become my father.
I am trying to carry what he gave me.
And if I can do that, even imperfectly, that will be enough.

Happy Father’s Day, Dad. I love you.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.   

Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.  

The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.  

Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.  

The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
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