C*

Southern Belle,high heel wearing,roller skating,motorcycle riding bad ass. #RESIST 💙 always a fighter for DEMOCRACY. 💙💙💙

[C* @bikerchixC]

Today I changed my pinned tweet dated 1/29/2017. That tweet held true as to my fear of what 45 eventually did- instilling fear and division 4 long years we fought. But today, 01/20/2021, the light broke thru the dark as WE THE PEOPLE elected @JoeBiden and @VP.
God bless 🇺🇸

[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.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

The Constitution barely survived today.

By a 5-4 vote, Trump’s Supreme Court declined to let him rewrite the Constitution and end birthright citizenship.

We’re hanging on by a thread. The fight to defend our democracy is far from over.

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

Everyone should be extremely concerned that birthright citizenship was 5-4 and not unanimous.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

Ken Paxton was impeached for taking bribes from donors.

He became a multi-millionaire on a government salary.

He takes lavish vacations in Iceland while Texans can’t afford the basics.

Ken Paxton doesn’t serve us — he serves himself.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

Another one of @MirandaDevine’s favorite sources is going to jail.

Miles Guo got 30 years yesterday for a billion-dollar fraud.

He was Steve Bannon’s business partner. Together they built GTV. GTV pushed the doctored photos and smears about me. They built the Laptop from Hell narrative. Devine made it famous. Guo even had a Mar-a-Lago membership.

He joins Alexander Smirnov. Six years for fabricating the Burisma bribery story that drove the impeachment inquiry against my father. Smirnov admitted he made it up.

And Gal Luft. Still a fugitive. Indicted for acting as an unregistered Chinese agent after paying a Trump adviser to push Beijing’s line in public.

All three came after me and my father. All three are liars and frauds. All three served the interests of Donald Trump. And they are just the tip of the iceberg.

Follow me on Substack where I’ll be sharing the whole story soon.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MAJOR BREAKING: Thomas Massie will be giving a Notice of Intent to bring forth a Privileged Resolution to release of ALL names of U.S. Representatives who have used tax dollars to settle sexual misconduct claims.

I support this. Do you?

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

You really have to admire Antifa’s artistic skill.

With nothing but box cutters, they somehow managed to perfectly recreate the intricate look of poorly applied paint peeling off concrete that had concentrated peroxide dumped all over it.

Incredible craftsmanship.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Ken Paxton says he often doesn’t want to be in Texas and prefers spending time in California, where he grew up, instead:

“I like places in California, even though I don’t like to admit that I go to California, but it’s beautiful.”

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

The most important democracy story of the day. https://t.co/WA59TUHa59

[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.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

Trump may as well have called the rest of us peasants.

According to him, it wasn’t workers who built America. It was rich guys like him and his cabinet:

“These people built the country, not the complainers. The complainers didn’t build the country…. Whether it’s fishermen or farmers or anything else. Me. Guys like me, they built the country. And you know, I watch all these ingrates, they’re always complaining, complaining. They didn’t build anything, they couldn’t build anything.”

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[LIZZO @lizzo]

BABY BACK RIBS ARE BACK! And im singing the jingle ! AHHHHHHHHHHHH

@Chilis 🌶️

[Paulina Mangubat 🫏 @paulinaVEVO]

Well, now seems like a good time to share that I’m getting married! We just put down the deposit on the venue and bought my dress lol

I didn’t end up picking this one but I thought it looked nice

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

BREAKING: Adam Hoffman has been released from jail for "good behavior."

Hoffman is the 49-year-old Waco, TX attorney who faced life without parole for repeatedly raping a young boy, until Texas AG Ken Paxton offered him 1 day in jail and no need to register as a sex offender. A judge increased his sentence to a whopping 60 days. He got out in 30 days.

This is MAGA's vision for the USA. Full story: https://t.co/cU1WnZKAfr

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Not enough people are talking about this.

A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there.

But the story of how he got it is even worse.

County staff told commissioners that rejecting the name change would put state transportation funding at risk. DeSantis has already removed state attorneys and school board members who dared to cross him. That is the reality the Democratic commissioner who cast the deciding vote was living in when she made her choice: hand Donald Trump control of a public airport or watch Florida Republicans strip funding from the very people she was elected to��represent.

That is absolutely insane.

Florida Republicans handed Trump a money machine and called it a naming rights deal, and the people of Palm Beach County never got a say in any of it.
https://t.co/M2nm9qFXc8

[Paola Poot @PootDibou]

U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia

Two Pennsylvania man were sentenced today to 41 months each in prison for assaulting law enforcement officers and conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Their actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election.

Marshall Neefe, 26, of Newville, Pennsylvania, and Charles Bradford Smith, 25, of Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, were sentenced in the District of Columbia.

According to court documents, Neefe and Smith communicated with each other and others on Facebook in the weeks preceding Jan. 6, 2021. For example, on Nov. 4, 2020, a day after Election Day, Neefe wrote to Smith, “Im getting ready to storm D.C.”

The two subsequently shared their intentions and plans to travel to Washington on Jan. 6. In one message to Neefe, Smith wrote, “I can’t wait for DC!,” adding, “If it’s big enough we should all just storm the buildings … Seriously … I was talking to my Dad about how easy that would be with enough people.”

In another such communication, Neefe wrote, “We goin? ...Cause hot damn son I really wanna crack some commie skulls.”

The two discussed bringing “batons” with them, and Neefe sent a photograph of a wooden club he had made to Smith and others, with a caption that called it “The Commie Knocker.”

On Jan. 6, both illegally entered the Capitol grounds. Neefe carried the wooden club.

They both participated in pushing a large metal sign frame – at least eight feet tall and 10 feet wide -- into a defensive line of officers attempting to prevent the mob from further advancing on the west front plaza of the Capitol.

Smith also encouraged people in the mob to keep forcing a door to the Capitol closed to keep law enforcement officers inside the building so that they could not respond to the riot unfolding outside.

Both men were arrested on Sept. 13, 2021. Neefe pleaded guilty on May 3, 2022, to charges of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers. Smith pleaded guilty on June 23, 2022, to the same two charges.

Following their prison terms, Neefe and Smith will be placed on three years of supervised release. They each also must pay $2,000 in restitution.

[Paola Poot @PootDibou]

What Pat left out in his “I’m the victim” essay:

U.S. Attorney's Office, District of Columbia

Stedman used his substantial online presence to encourage and organize other men to come to Washington, D.C., on January 6, telling his followers the night before, "Now we FIGHT!"

In his own words, recorded on video later that day, Stedman said he was in the "first wave" that "climbed up the back part of the Capitol building" and "broke down the doors."

Along with two of his followers, Stedman illegally entered the U.S. Capitol shouting, "Storming the Capitol!" and "Let's f****** go!" as he advanced forward.

While inside the Capitol for over 40 minutes, Stedman was part of a disorderly mob that overran police lines in the Crypt. Stedman entered the chambers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and roamed the halls and offices in the Speaker's Suite. He also took selfie photos of himself on the Speaker's Balcony. 

Stedman proceeded to the main door to the House Chamber, where he yelled, "Let us in!" and "Break it down!" as other rioters banged on the door, the window of which had already been broken.

When Stedman learned that a rioter had been shot, he shouted threats at officers of the U.S. Capitol Police, including, "You killed one of us? You're done!

After he was expelled from the Capitol building by police, Stedman recorded a video for his followers, explaining that he had "taken action" to prevent Congress from certifying the results of the presidential election and that the "rats" – as he referred to members of Congress – had "scurried into the tunnels" to escape. 

He posted on social media that "patriots" had stolen the hard drives from the Capitol and, “The Storm is Here.”

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Never forget

[Damin Toell @damintoell]

You can read about a lot of things in the Statement of Offense that Ryan signed as being true when he took his plea deal. You can read about how he showed up on January 6th armed with a crowbar, how he said he would drag politicians through the streets, how he sprayed multiple cops with pepper spray. You can also read about the video he posted to Facebook that night calling for violence.

So if you want to know where Ryan Nichols stands, Ryan Nichols stands with violence.