Bob Belcher

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I'm not that Bob Belcher. He's at @_bobbelcher

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Reuters: U.S. JUDGE BLOCKS U.S. POSTAL SERVICE FROM RESTRICTING MAIL-IN VOTING PURSUANT TO PRESIDENT TRUMP'S ORDER -DOCKET

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

The Senate should be immediately briefed on the Iranian threats against the President, the extraordinary measures taken to get him out of Turkey, any risks posed to U.S. personnel, and any threat to the homeland.

It is unacceptable that Congress was kept in the dark and instead learned about this serious threat through press reports. Trump has put America’s sons and daughters in harm’s way by getting into an unnecessary and reckless war, and this administration has repeatedly refused to provide Congress and the public with the transparency they deserve.

This is exactly why Congress must reassert its constitutional authority and bring this conflict to an end. Republicans cannot keep prioritizing Trump’s luxury and vanity over America’s security.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: A massive report exposes that Trump purchased $100,000,000 in bonds tied to companies DIRECTLY impacted by his policies. That is slam dunk insider trading and is IMPEACHABLE.

Overall, Trump has made an estimated $3.4 BILLION in just one year and 6 months.

[Acyn @Acyn]

MacFarlane: Some national park service workers are so alarmed, they leaked internal spreadsheets that show where the money is going. 

We added the numbers together and found for the white house grounds for the vanity projects, the beautification and the needed upgrades: They've set aside $323 million for this year…

$323 million compared to $7 million for the white house in 2024. That's a 5,000% increase. 

National mall has a ten fold increase from 2024 for projects that are the president's priority. 

Doesn't mean the money is directly being starved out of Yosemite, Yellowstone, Mount Zion, Grand Canyon. But we checked those parks all have significantly less funding allotted for them this year than they did two years ago, and there's a $30 billion backlog of deferred maintenance

They are going to have to shortchange important projects throughout America to marshal donated money or taxpayer money on things like a reflecting pool, a helipad, a ballroom, and other vanity projects.

[U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D. @SenBillCassidy]

I’m a doctor. This executive order is wrong. The President does not have the expertise to make these changes.

Vaccines are overwhelmingly safe. Vaccines are effective. Vaccines DO NOT cause autism.

Breaking up vaccines will mean children have to get more shots to get the same protection, not fewer shots. It will increase hesitancy and make children less safe.

Parents should listen to their child’s pediatrician about vaccines rather than listening to an inaccurate executive order. This is so wrong.

https://t.co/OBrUdakEor

[Scott Stedman @ScottMStedman]

What most Russia watchers suspected. Rosenstein’s appointment of Mueller killed the counterintelligence investigation examining whether Trump’s relationship with Russia constituted a national security threat. https://t.co/HhnBd122kx

[Pete Buttigieg @PeteButtigieg]

The U.S. economy is officially losing jobs. From lost manufacturing to higher costs, the economic failures of the Trump administration keep piling up. There’s no way to spin these dismal results, because Americans know they’re paying the price every day.

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

The racists in the Tennessee State House tried everything they could to stop this man.

They expelled him. And the voters sent him right back.

Then they redrew his district.

Now, voters have chosen him as their Democratic nominee for Congress. Congratulations Justin Pearson!

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Ogles lost his primary tonight.

[Social Security Works ❌👑 @SSWorks]

Democrats have legislation that will make Social Security solvent for as far as the actuarial eye can see without cutting benefits.

Where's the Republican proposal? It doesn't exist. - @SenWhitehouse

[The Hormuz Report @HormuzReport]

BREAKING: A source close to Iranian officials says Tehran has documented a pattern of oil market manipulation tied to Axios reports and Trump administration insiders, including evidence of a $9 billion insider trading operation linked to Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff.

Some of the documented timeline from the $9 billion insider profit:

Between April and May 2026, a series of suspiciously timed trades in oil futures markets preceded major Iran war announcements—each tied to reporting by Axios.

On March 23, approximately $500–580 million in shorts were placed 15 minutes before Trump announced he was postponing strikes on Iran. Oil dropped.

On April 7, roughly $950–960 million in shorts were placed hours before Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran. Oil fell around 15 percent.

On April 17, around $760 million in shorts were placed 20 minutes before Iran's foreign minister announced the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Oil dropped.

On April 21, approximately $430 million in shorts were placed 15 minutes before Trump extended the ceasefire. Oil dropped again.

On May 6, nearly $920 million to $1.7 billion in crude oil shorts were placed approximately 70 minutes before an Axios scoop claimed the U.S. and Iran were near a "14-point agreement." Oil dropped 12 percent. Traders made an estimated $125 million. Iran called the report "the Americans' wish list."

Previously, a senior Iranian official told investigative outlet Drop Site News that Tehran privately warned JD Vance during Switzerland talks that Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff were "abusing" negotiations—"more interested in exploiting insider knowledge to profit in financial markets than reaching a deal."

[🏴‍☠️ @calvinfroedge]

I wonder what unspeakable war crime he refused to commit

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Bash: "Do you accept some responsibility for this measles outbreak?"

RFK: "Absolutely not…Did I cause those measles outbreaks?"

Bash: "You're the most famous vaccine skeptic on the planet."

RFK: "The reason we're having a measles outbreak is because of the COVID lockdowns."

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Maggie Haberman spent an hour with him in the Oval Office in March and came away with a number. Seventy percent of his mind share, by her estimate, goes to the renovations. The ballroom. The arch. He interrupted an unrelated meeting to call Emmanuel Macron and ask what it is like to stand under the actual Arc de Triomphe, whether it has a visitor's desk, whether people jump off it. Someone had asked him what should go on top of his own version. He was deciding between that and a giant gold cast of his own fist from Butler.

Meanwhile nobody around him seems fully certain he understands how depleted American munitions are after this war he started with Iran, a live open question from a reporter who has covered him for a decade.

There is no policy agenda left, by Haberman's own account. No immigration bill in the works, no legislative program, nothing beyond retribution and construction. He is not governing a country right now so much as decorating a legacy he has already decided he deserves.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

Mike Johnson: “If we lose the midterms, the Democrats will go after the president’s family, the cabinet, his donors, friends, and the rest of you who have committed crimes.”

Sir, your terms are acceptable.

[Dr. Rob Davidson MD, MPH @DrRobDavidson]

He’s an abject failure. He’s attacking the real frontline doctors by spewing total BS about “treatments” for COVID that don’t work. I was there. People were dying and we were doing everything we could to help them. He’s failing us on Measles and explosive diarrhea. He must go.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

No. This is a bald faced lie.

You cut the agency that protects cybersecurity by $700 million and still haven’t nominated a permanent director for it.

You are grossly incompetent. You are responsible.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

BREAKING: Michigan reports cyberattacks targeting 9 water systems, joining Minnesota as federal officials blame Iran.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

BREAKING: Senate Republicans blocked Democrats' proposal to end Donald Trump's IRS sweetheart deal.

This deal gives him FULL IMMUNITY from audits on tax returns he's filed.

It's corruption on steroids.