Bill Springer

25 years in the health insurance industry, 15 years on the University of Rhode Island faculty - it's been quite an interesting journey!

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Some thoughts on the new Epstein Files revelations:

I’ve now read everything that’s come out from the new Haberman and Swan book, and the thing I keep coming back to is the Situation Room. They held multiple meetings in the Situation Room about the Epstein files. That room is for war. It’s for national security emergencies. It is not for figuring out how to spin a scandal you’re telling the country is a hoax.

While the President was deflecting or calling this old news, his own Vice President and Chief of Staff were huddled in the most leak-proof room in America because they knew how bad it really was.

You don’t take a nothingburger to the Situation Room.

And I have to be honest, reading all this brings back a lot of frustration about what happened in the House of Representatives. I sat there and watched Mike Johnson send the House home early to dodge a vote on releasing these files. I watched him refuse to swear in a duly elected colleague for months just to stall the discharge petition. Month after month of excuses, arm twisting, and procedural games, all to keep this information from the public. We only got the files because survivors, families, and a handful of members in both parties simply refused to let it go.

So when people ask me why I talk so much about transparency and accountability, this is why. The truth eventually comes out. It always does.

The only question is whether your leaders helped reveal it or helped bury it.

Everyone who voted to keep these files hidden should have to answer for that.

Finally, notice what’s missing from all of this is any sign that Trump’s DOJ will actually investigate the powerful men named in these files.

Draw your own conclusions about why a Justice Department run by the President’s former defense lawyers might not be eager to pull that thread.

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

Exactly

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

Chuck Schumer doesn’t pick Michigan’s nominee. We do.

I flipped a seat no one thought we could win, helped flip the State Senate, and delivered for our rights, our families, our kids, and our state.

Let’s show Washington what it looks like to fight like Michigan and win.

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

How bout it, @MikeRogersForMI ? Do you love inflation?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

here's the full clip of Rep. Emilia Sykes's brilliant line of questioning that made Chris Wright squirm by confronting him with the completely unhinged comments Trump just made in the Oval Office about inflation and the war in Iran

[Sheryl Gay Stolberg @SherylNYT]

NEW: Major posts are vacant. Waves of scientists are gone. Ebola looms. How RFK Jr. manages HHS:

“If the C.E.O. lacked deep expertise in the company’s business and the leaders of its most important divisions were missing, investors would revolt."

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[Jack Hopkins @thejackhopkins]

The story isn’t just who got promoted. It’s who didn’t. Reports say Pete Hegseth halted the advancement of multiple Navy officers, with women and minority candidates reportedly among those targeted.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Khanna on Massie: They ousted him because he was leading on the Epstein files, because he was leading the push against the war in Iran, and because he was leading the push saying we shouldn’t give another dollar to Israel while it’s violating human rights.

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

The same white evangelical movement that condemns Black churches for preaching liberation, affirming Black humanity, teaching Black history, or celebrating Black culture as so-called racial idolatry just stood around a literal golden idol of Donald Trump while a Black preacher prayed over it.

You cannot make this hypocrisy up.

Mark Burns is the same Trump surrogate who was publicly exposed by CNN’s Victor Blackwell for lying about multiple parts of his biography. He falsely claimed military service in the Army Reserve when records showed he did not. He falsely claimed to have earned a degree from North Greenville University that he never completed. He falsely claimed membership in Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., then stumbled through excuses when confronted on national television. Burns later admitted he lied about his background. (Hip-Hop Wired)

Yet this same man now stands before a golden statue of Trump conducting a dedication ceremony alongside MAGA evangelicals who claim to defend Christianity while openly practicing political idolatry.

This is Exodus 32 in real time.

MAGA is a racist movement that wraps itself in the cross while bowing at the feet of a demagogue. It calls Black liberation theology idolatrous while literally praying over a golden image. It condemns Black pastors for speaking against racism, voter suppression, police violence, and white supremacy but has no problem exalting Trump like a messianic figure.

This is not Christianity. This is white evangelical nationalism dressed up in religion. And Black preachers who participate in it are not prophets, they are puppets.

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

Trump just sent a letter to Congress saying the war in Iran is “terminated” because today marks 60 days and in order for the President to have the authority to continue, the Constitution requires a vote from Congress.

But the war is not really terminated.

Trump is just restarting the clock to avoid a vote from Congress that may limit his power to wage a war on Iran, and the war is absolutely not over just because there has been a ceasefire.

Also, Trump is about to start military actions again very soon.

It never ended.

This is unconstitutional and Congress should reclaim it’s constitutional authority.

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

The same crowd clutching pearls over Jimmy Kimmel today had no problem quoting Psalm 109 when Barack Obama was in office. they made T-shirts, bumper, stickers, and social media memes that said “Pray for Obama Psalm 109:8.”

The passage says this:

“Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek their bread also out of their desolate places. Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.” - Psalm 109:8-12

They invoked scripture to cloak what was, at its core, a prayer for death, destruction, and generational suffering. Now those same voices want to act morally outraged because a comedian made a joke about Melania Trump being a widow.

Melania was silent about them praying for Michelle Obama to be a widow. She was also pushing her husband‘s racist birther conspiracy. Now she wants to clutch her pearls when the heat comes her way.

You cannot spend years weaponizing the Bible to wish death on a Black president and his family, then suddenly discover “decency” when the target changes.

MAGA are unrepentant racists and counterfeit Christians, who use the Bible as a prop while living in direct contradiction to the Christ they claim to follow.

[Bishop Talbert Swan @TalbertSwan]

Back when comedy had courage, truth wasn’t hidden behind politeness, it was delivered with a punchline. @JimmyKimmelLive did exactly that, calling out Stephen Miller with a joke that landed because it wasn’t just funny, it was rooted in reality. The best comedians don’t just make you laugh, they make you confront what you’d rather ignore.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Exactly. White House isn’t gonna allow a private event with journalists and families into the freakin’ White House complex for a banquet

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

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

A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts.

In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention.

Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, the Trump family’s deals are expanding, and not a single Washington Republican is willing to say a word about any of it.

This is a corruption of everything the office of the presidency is supposed to stand for, and the American people deserve to know about it.
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[Victoria @vic_toriot]

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[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

Trump has been accused of countless rapes and sexual assaults by little boys, little girls, women from all parts of the US, for decades. He paid off hookers and hush money to countless other victims. Some victims were threatened, some disappeared and some committed suicide. Heck, he even raped his own wife, according to Ivana’s divorce court documents. He cheated on his wives. He is found to be an adjudicated rapist by a civil court. He hang out with a known pedophile for 15 years as his best friend, partying with little girls. He bought a teen beauty pageant just so he can hangout with little girls. America, and MAGA in particular, how low your moral standards can be to say, that dude is the best among us. Let’s make him president. A man’s reputation is killed with one rape accusation when that happens. Americans who voted for him ignored a parade of trump victims. Now MAGA is disillusioned because trump has taken the country to war to hide the files. This is the crime coverup of the century. Trump voters, you must carry the burden. You are responsible for this carnage.

[Lorraine E-Van-Off @LorraineEvanoff]

Fucking outrageous. And highly illegal.

"Trump has grifted his entire life. Now he’s just taking it.

The State Department transferred $1.25 billion in foreign aid to Trump’s Board of Peace, pulling $1 billion from international disaster assistance, $200 million from peacekeeping operations, and $50 million from international organizations.

Money that Congress authorized for hurricanes and refugees, moved without a congressional vote, into a fund that Trump created by executive order and controls personally. When reporters asked the State Department about it, a spokesperson said they had nothing to announce at this time.

The Board of Peace has one defining characteristic. Trump controls it forever. He named himself chairman for life. No audits. No transparency requirements. No conflict of interest rules.

Countries pay $1 billion into a fund he runs to get a seat at the table. It has transferred nothing to Gaza, disclosed nothing about its spending, and received $1.25 billion of your disaster relief money without a word of explanation.

When he leaves the White House he keeps the fund. That is not a loophole. That is the design."

He’s Not Grifting Anymore. He’s Just Taking It. https://t.co/eYb5g4g9bR

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

This is the part that keeps getting buried under the raw numbers.

Hegseth spent months pressuring Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to remove four decorated colonels from the one-star promotion list. Two Black men. Two women. Driscoll refused, because their records demanded it. So Hegseth pulled their names himself… which legal experts say he likely had no authority to do. The defense secretary is supposed to approve or reject the entire list, precisely to prevent this kind of targeted discrimination.

Then Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George - the Army’s top officer - asked to meet with Hegseth to discuss the blocked promotions. Hegseth refused to meet. Refused to discuss his decisions at all.

Then he fired George. Whose term wasn’t supposed to end until September 2027.

Nine U.S. officials across all four branches confirmed the NBC reporting. “There is not a single service that has been immune,” one said. The officers’ attributes being cited for removal include past support for Covid vaccine mandates… and association with Mark Milley.

The Pentagon’s response to every outlet that asked: “fake news.”

They didn’t dispute a single name.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

The Army Chief of Staff, a combat veteran with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, asked Pete Hegseth why he was blocking the promotions of two Black officers and two female officers who had earned them.

Hegseth refused to answer. Then he fired him.

Nine U.S. officials told NBC News that Hegseth has blocked or delayed promotions for more than a dozen Black and female senior officers across all four branches of the military.

Hegseth has now fired or sidelined more than a dozen generals and admirals.

He is an out-of-control, unqualified former TV host and nobody in the Republican Party will say a word about it because they don’t want to make Trump angry.

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