Steve ‘Food Forest’ Arthur

Groceries & Healthcare are skyrocketing 🚀 because of this GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN. Remember who controls ALL Branches of this Government. Grow your own Food.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

This doesn’t bode well for Trump’s $1.7 billion fund for convicted crooks and rioters:

Rep Brian Fitzpatrick (R-PA): “we’re gonna kill it”

[Steve ‘Food Forest’ Arthur @buccos4vr]

If you a blatant bigot and racist, you should not hold
Public Office of any kind. So leave.

[Rep. Nancy Mace @RepNancyMace]

If you were not born in America, you should not hold power in our government.

End of story.

[Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick 🇺🇸 @RepBrianFitz]

A nearly $1.8 billion DOJ-controlled fund cannot be created, defined, and distributed in the shadows.

Today, I called on Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche to provide immediate transparency on the Department’s newly announced “Anti-Weaponization Fund.”

By June 1, DOJ must answer three basic questions:

Where is the money coming from?

Who is eligible to receive it?

And under what legal authority is DOJ creating a discretionary compensation fund of this scale without explicit congressional authorization, court approval, or judicial oversight?

Taxpayer dollars will not be turned into a discretionary payout fund.

Transparency is not optional. Accountability is not negotiable.

@kaitlancollins and I discussed this tonight @TheSourceCNN ⬇️

[Steve ‘Food Forest’ Arthur @buccos4vr]

And where were you the past 1 and a half years prior to you losing your election?

Rubber stamping his government first, American citizens last, Agenda?

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

People are concerned about paying their mortgage or rent, affording groceries and paying for gas, not about putting together a $1.8 billion fund for the President and his allies to pay whomever they wish with no legal precedent or accountability. This is adding to our national debt. If there needs to be a settlement, the administration should bring it to Congress to decide.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

“This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president. Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?”

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This New York Times piece is worth your time. Here’s what is happening, as simply as I can put it.

Back in January, Trump sued the IRS, an agency he controls, demanding $10 billion over the leak of his tax returns a number of years ago.

IRS lawyers did their jobs. They wrote a memo laying out the defenses that could beat the suit, including the fact that Trump filed too late. His own lawyer was in court when the leaker pleaded guilty in October 2023, more than two years before Trump sued.

The Justice Department never showed up to court. Never argued back. Never used the defenses sitting on their desk.

The judge got suspicious and ordered both sides to explain whether they were actually opposing each other or just colluding. The day before that brief was due, Trump dropped the suit.

Same day, his Justice Department announced a $1.776 billion taxpayer-funded “anti-weaponization fund.” 

Trump gets a formal apology. The IRS agrees to drop any audits of him and his family, even though a 2024 Times report found a loss in an ongoing audit could cost him over $100 million.

The acting Attorney General, Trump’s former criminal defense attorney, picks the five commissioners who decide who gets paid. Trump can fire any of them. Proud Boys and Oath Keepers are not ruled out.

This is the most corrupt thing I’ve ever seen from an American president.

Where in the hell are my Republican colleagues?

https://t.co/La0nlLuz1r

[Steve ‘Food Forest’ Arthur @buccos4vr]

And it’s SO OBVIOUS that it’s GOP Greed over American citizens.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

GOP Vice Chair @RepBlakeMoore: "Our Republican priority will always be to put government ahead of Americans."

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

The instant he lost his seat, Cassidy began standing up for things he’s known all along were right. Profiles in cowardice, through all the ranks of the GOP.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

The decisions made by state supreme courts touch every part of our lives. And that’s especially important when voting rights and basic freedoms are being challenged.

Today, voters in Georgia can stand up for fairness and integrity by electing Miracle Rankin and Jen Jordan to Georgia’s Supreme Court.

Let’s get this one right, Georgia. Find your nearest polling station and cast your ballot before 7pm ET:  https://t.co/OHJnsHnuiB

[Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen]

Virginia is "a wakeup call to Democrats across the country - in NJ, NY, MD, IL, OR, WA, CO - this is the time to start fighting back... Republicans don't believe that Democrats have the right to exist as a party. If we don't start fighting back as a party, we're going to good government ourselves into obscurity."

h/t @Elex_Michaelson @CNNTheStoryIs

[Dr. M.F. Khan @Dr_TheHistories]

Giant Groundsels (Dendrosenecio kilimanjari) in alpine desert zone of Mount Kilimanjaro, Tanzania 🇹🇿

Despite their tree like, almost alien appearance, they are distant relatives of modern sunflowers, daisies, and asters.

Their lineage likely began with smaller herbaceous plants that gradually adapted to the harsh alpine environments of mountains like Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, and the Rwenzori Mountains.

As East Africa’s mountains rose through volcanic and tectonic activity over the last several million years, isolated plant populations were forced into extreme environments marked by freezing nights, strong UV radiation, and dramatic temperature swings.

Over time, these ancestral relatives of sunflowers evolved thick trunks, insulating dead leaves, and giant water storing rosettes, transforming into the towering groundsels seen today. This process is an extraordinary example of adaptive radiation, where members of a familiar plant family diversified into bizarre forms under environmental pressure.

Though they resemble prehistoric trees, giant groundsels are not ancient survivors from the age of dinosaurs, but rather highly specialized descendants of relatively ordinary flowering plants.

#drthehistories

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

After a landmark Supreme Court ruling that could reshape how political maps are drawn, Cecilia Vega traveled to Louisiana, where the governor has halted primary voting in order to redraw district lines. 60 Minutes also spoke with Black voters who fear the changes could erase their district from the map. Tonight.

[Art Candee 🍿🥤 @ArtCandee]

MAGA is screeching that Obama violated the Logan Act by meeting with Canadian PM Mark Carney.

Crickets from them on Donald meeting with Netanyahu multiple times under Biden, where he told Bibi to wait for a ceasefire in Gaza until he took office.

🙄

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

"When Trump learned that Conway was getting divorced from Kellyanne in 2023, he posted on Truth Social: 'Free at last, she has finally gotten rid of the disgusting albatross around her neck.' In response, Conway, who revels in trolling Trump, reminded him of the sexual abuse and defamation allegations made by writer E. Jean Carroll and how Conway, who encouraged Carroll to take legal action, couldn’t wait to see him in court: “Hugs and kisses 💕💕.” Carroll was awarded more than $88 million in damages in these cases …."
https://t.co/ui62rY20wo

[Netflix @netflix]

It's going to be a great night for everyone... except Kevin Hart. Tune in to the Roast of Kevin Hart, hosted by Shane Gillis LIVE on Netflix at 8PM ET | 5PM PT.

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

Dylan Harper couldn’t believe his eyes watching Wemby throw an elbow

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

I used to make fun of this kind of thing when reporting in North Korea.

[Steve ‘Food Forest’ Arthur @buccos4vr]

Overturn

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito leaned on an erroneous claim that Black voter turnout now tops white voter turnout, in his Callais v. Louisiana ruling that gutted the Voting Rights Act, reports The Guardian. https://t.co/bDGTZCSzDx

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Wishing all the moms out there a wonderful Mother’s Day!

To @MichelleObama, I’m grateful for all the ways you’ve shown up for our daughters and our family over the years. We love you.

[Chuck Schumer @SenSchumer]

Gas is almost $5.

Trump’s Big Oil donors are making $30 MILLION PER HOUR. And they’re laughing in our faces all the way to the bank.

Just another reason we must immediately end this war.