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Wife. Mom. Grandma x3 wonderful boys. Democrat. Love outdoors - camping, hiking, gardening.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Ronald Reagan: “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman…But Anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American…This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America's greatness.”🇺🇸

[Jeff Jackson @JeffJacksonNC]

We just got three million eggs donated to North Carolina food banks.

Why?

Because three major producers coordinated to inflate egg prices, we caught them, and part of the settlement requires directly helping people with this donation.

They can't rig the market anymore, and thousands of families who need eggs will get them.

[Season @campwatcher11]

@mrmikeMTL Yes. It was actually in junior high school for me.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Theodore Roosevelt said the national parks were the greatest gift this country ever gave itself, and the greatest idea we ever gave the world.

More than 100 nations copied it.

Donald Trump looks at that gift and sees a piggy bank for his own pet projects.

This week we learned where our national park money has been going. Not to Yellowstone. Not to Yosemite. To the walkway outside his office, where Trump ripped out American flagstone and laid down Italian granite at a cost of $689,000 to taxpayers. He said he paid for it himself.

That was a lie.

To cover his vanity projects, they are robbing the parks. Spending on parks outside Washington is down $854 million. More than 900 projects went unfunded. They even pulled money from a guardrail on a Colorado cliff that the Park Service flagged as a safety hazard.

I serve on Appropriations.

The power to spend belongs to Congress, not to a king redecorating his palace. These parks are not Trump’s to loot.

They belong to all of us, and I will fight for every dollar.

[Season @campwatcher11]

@Martina Listening to you right now in an interview with Terri Gross. 💙

[Season @campwatcher11]

@aintscarylarry The US Special Olympics are being held in Minnesota right now. There were some good interviews on @MPRnews

[Season @campwatcher11]

@BMeiselas Thank you and your brothers for telling it like it is.

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

Mike Rogers 9 days ago: "Send me to Washington. I'll get this bridge open."

Mike Rogers today: "It's no money out of our pocket having that bridge closed for another six months."

Huh! Who'd you talk to between then and now, Mike? Why the change of heart?

https://t.co/f9JoyJXRr1

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

One billionaire family controls the bridge that carries 25% of all U.S.–Canada trade.

The good news? There's a brand new public bridge right next door (and Canada paid for the whole thing).

The bad news? Donald Trump won't let it open.

Here's the story:

For more than a decade, Michigan and Canada worked together to build a new public crossing right next to it — six lanes over the Detroit River, named for a Canadian-born Red Wings legend, built by thousands of union workers. Canada paid the entire bill. Michigan co-owns it. It's finished. It’s a shining example of international cooperation and collaboration, with a tremendous return for both sides: more jobs, faster trade, and lower costs.

So why isn't it open?

Because the Moroun family, who own the rival Ambassador Bridge just up the river, doesn’t want the competition. They spent years and tens of millions of dollars trying to stop any competing international crossing from being built or opening. They lost. So they went to the White House instead.

In January, Matthew Moroun gave $1 million to a pro-Trump super PAC. Then the billionaire called Trump's Commerce Secretary and, just hours later, Trump suddenly attacked the same publicly owned bridge he praised in his own first term and threatened to block it.
Then, the day before the June 12th ribbon-cutting, the opening was called off indefinitely.

It's corruption so flagrant it would be laughable if it weren't so damaging.

Trump is screwing over Michiganders for the interests of billionaires — holding a finished, publicly owned project hostage to protect one donor's toll booth.

So a finished bridge sits closed, Michiganders keep paying the higher tolls, cars and trucks cost more, and a billionaire family keeps its monopoly.

Mr. President: stop playing games. Open the damn bridge.

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

Yesterday Trump falsely claimed that Obama and Biden spent a total of $147 million on renovations for the reflecting pool. Obama spent $35 million. Biden spent nothing. I provide receipts via AP and USASpending gov. In late April Trump said his renovations would cost $1.5 million

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

I don’t know man, who is “the Democratic Party” if it’s not the voters?Democratic voters choose candidates, not party leaders. And party leaders need to listen to what voters are telling us - and right now they are demanding our party be bolder.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

This is what Karoline Leavitt said about the Housing bill yesterday — the one that Trump refused to sign today.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Unbelievable.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

It’s hard to believe, but here we are.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A brand new bridge between Detroit and Canada is finished and ready to open. It would speed up traffic for millions of trucks, cut delays for American businesses, and help the auto industry that employs people in every state. There is just one problem.

Donald Trump won’t let it open.

Here is why.

The family that owns the old bridge stands to lose business when the new one opens. So in January, they gave one million dollars to a pro-Trump super PAC.

Weeks later they met with Trump’s Commerce Secretary.

He called Trump.

Hours after that, Trump announced he would block the new bridge. The opening was set for June 12. It got canceled the day before. The bridge sits there finished and empty.

Now here is the part that should make every taxpayer angry.

Canada paid for the entire bridge.

Every dollar. And the United States already owns half of it for free. Trump is holding up a bridge we got for nothing, to protect a donor who wrote him a check, while picking a fight with our closest ally and biggest trading partner.

This is corruption in plain sight.

A billionaire pays, and the President delivers. American workers and businesses pay the price.

Open the bridge. A government should work for the people, not for whoever writes the biggest check.
https://t.co/9o9Gz9UrBo

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

Taxpayers didn't pay for Obama's library.

[Season @campwatcher11]

@ProjectLincoln Don't it.

[Season @campwatcher11]

@GabbyGiffords @1zzyzyx1 ❤️ 💙

[Dr. Annie Andrews @AnnieAndrewsMD]

I took care of sick kids at the hospital today.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich.