Craig "Senior for a Democratic Society" Hattersley

Author, Wisdom of the Aged (free, below, & on Facebook) and Style & Substance (available on Amazon), editor/writer/typesetting & design, unrepentant protester

[Craig "Senior for a Democratic Society" Hattersley @Chattersley18]

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[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

Trump uses the pardon power to normalize fraud and corruption. He wants us to believe that if everyone is corrupt, then who cares if he is corrupt, too. It’s just politics. It doesn’t have to be this way.
https://t.co/JpA5X7UPUu

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

Phang: Blanche maintains that FOIA was my only and remains my only option. And then he has the balls to say the following. He says that my lawsuit "threatens the interdependence and the reciprocity between Congress and the executive branch." You know, folks, last I checked, I don't see a lot of interdependence or reciprocity between Congress and the executive branch.

What I have seen, I've seen people like Todd Blanche, Pammy Jo with the bad hair, Kash Patel, Susie Wiles, JD Vance, and others, assembling repeatedly in the Situation Room at the White House with Todd Blanche quarterbacking strategy on how to avoid turning over the Epstein files to the American people.

Does that sound like interdependence or reciprocity?

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

On April 8, 2025, the day before Trump announced a 90-day tariff pause, he apparently made 327 individual stock purchases worth as much as $12.8 million.

That's one of the largest stock buying sprees disclosed in Trump's latest financial disclosure. https://t.co/jXrfNVJATL

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Trump and his sons ripped off nearly one million of their supporters and made a fortune producing nothing of value for anyone. Blood sucking leeches, using the US presidency to do it. And they couldn’t care less and their cult doesn’t seem to mind. Strange times in America.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

To understand R’s narrative capabilities versus D’s narrative capabilities, look no further than R’s ability to make Hunter Biden into a full blown “Biden crime family” scandal vs D’s inability to focus relentlessly on Trump & Co’s mind-bending corruption. Everyone should post their favorite insane Trump grift to celebrate the 4th.

[Anonymous @YourAnonCentral]

"Justice Thomas has, for more than two decades, accepted luxury travel from the Texas billionaire and Republican donor Harlan Crow that he did not report, the gifts he received included yacht cruises, private jet flights and annual stays at Crow's Adirondacks resort. Crow also bought the house where Thomas's mother lived, paid private-school tuition for a relative Thomas was raising and, roughly 15 years ago, funded much of the budget of a political group founded by Thomas's wife that paid her a salary. Seven ethics-law experts told ProPublica the failures to disclose appeared to violate a post-Watergate gifts law. Thomas later amended filings, writing that he had "inadvertently omitted" some of the trips, and Crow said he had extended hospitality to old friends and never discussed a case. Thomas's wife, Virginia Thomas, took part in efforts to overturn the 2020 election result, and Thomas declined to recuse from related cases."

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Trump’s profiteering in office was once unimaginable in a democracy, particularly by a sitting American president. The Trump family’s earnings move him into an echelon of enrichment more associated with strongmen in Russia and Turkey. @jasondhorowitz https://t.co/GXUa2Bx797

[Editorial & Political Cartoons @EandPCartoons]

Lee Judge @leejudge8

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: “Do you remember last year when Trump announced his massive across the board tariffs…He called it liberation day, it actually led to a stock market crash. That liberation day announcement was made on April 2nd of last year, and Trump’s financial disclosures show that he made 327 stock purchases six days later, on April 8th, while the market was down…So he makes those purchases on April 8th. The next morning, just after the market opened, he told his followers on Truth social: ‘THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY.’ Hours later, he paused his tariffs and the stock market had a historic rally, so historic in fact, it represented the biggest single day gain in the history of the Bloomberg billionaires index. To put it simply, it appears an official act by Trump cratered the stock market. Trump then bought the dip and then used another official act to bring the price of the market back up. Trump of course insists that all his stock transactions are handled by his two adult sons [@EricTrump & @DonaldJTrumpJr] without his involvement or knowledge of the individual trades carried out on his behalf. When asked about the timing of these specific trades, the White House told us tonight that President Trump only acts in the best interests of the American public, saying there was no conflict of interest. The White House also directed us to the Trump Organization. We’ve reached out to them, but we haven’t heard [anything] back.”🤦‍♀️

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

You may have wondered which companies have dumped money into the most of Trumps pet projects.

So we put together a report, and a handy chart. https://t.co/yDjCAbDiq0

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Any other FBI Director would have resigned before this story broke. The real news here is that Trump is willing to tolerate this.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The number of financial side deals the Trump family is running is so shocking it can sometimes be hard to track.

According to @Reuters, their crypto ventures alone have delivered $2.3 billion to Trump & co. while creating a similar-sized loss for investors.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

Wow.

Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) floor speech on Trump Admin. corruption has now received 1 million views

He opens the remarks by arguing that Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation

https://t.co/0GEyvQd51z

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Sen. Ossoff: "They worked harder burying the Epstein files than they ever worked to lower your grocery bill. And while you pay more for everything, the Trumps are raking in billions from all over the world."

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

A foreign oil giant was under fire from the Trump White House for buying Russian oil. Then it poured nine figures into a troubled refinery startup tied to Donald Trump Jr. Not long after, the pressure from the Trump Administration vanished.

Donald Trump sold it as a win for America. But the real winner was his family.

This is pay to play at the highest levels of government. Welcome to Episode 19 of the Corruption Chronicles.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: In Oklahoma City, ICE agents are seen chasing a young man through a parking lot, tasing him, then repeatedly smashing his head, and dragging his face across the concrete… while he isn’t resisting.

In the video, after he falls to the ground, agents pile on top of him, as the agents smash his head into the concrete multiple times.

While he’s lying on the ground… not fighting back, and making no visible attempt to get away… the agents drag his face across the pavement as they go to handcuff him.

Then, with both agents already on top of him, and his arms being pulled behind his back, one agent slams his head into the concrete, again.

Even after both agents have him pinned, and are kneeling on him, one agent continues forcing his head into the pavement.

By the time they finally pull him to his feet, you can clearly see his face is injured.

Law enforcement are allowed to use force, that’s objectively reasonable, under the circumstances. But, once someone is effectively under control, any additional force has to be justified by a legitimate safety need… not punishment, anger, or retaliation.

If someone is no longer actively resisting, repeatedly driving their head into concrete… is difficult to justify as necessary force.

This is exactly what happens when the government refuses to hold ICE agents accountable.

The more ICE agents get away with excessive force, the more excessive force becomes their normal.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

New research from @nytimes finds that the US government is actively doing "critical minerals" deals with FOURTEEN different companies that have financial ties to the Trump and/or Lutnick families - deals worth around $9 billion in all:

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Trump ripped up the walkway between the West Wing and the mansion to replace it with polished African granite carved in Italy. "Paid for by me," he claimed. Except that's not true. Taxpayers paid $689,232, per documents obtained by @michaelscherer https://t.co/7l2bkD0MIH