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[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

Some good news for a change! A judge ruled that Trump’s freeze on processing immigration applications for 39 countries is illegal and that processing must restart immediately.

This ruling is a step in the right direction. Let’s keep up the fight.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: “The election deniers, they tell a lie so absurd, and therefore so debasing to tell, that the act of telling it proves the teller's total and humiliating submission.

And you may have seen that one of those election deniers now asks to represent Georgia in the Senate. [Mike Collins], who supports war and cutting your health care and openly associates himself with bigotry and antisemitism, who defends the violent mob that sacked the Capitol on the morning of January 6th, 2021…

To this day, this man makes excuses for those who carried out an attack to throw out your votes and install a defeated President.”

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

I think we need to start calling the Congressional Switchboard at 1-202-224-3121 on a daily basis and let the members of Congress know that we’re sick of paying them to sit around and ignore what Trump and his Administration are doing. Do your job of get voted out.

[The Last Squatch @TheLastSquatch]

So Trump can deploy the National Guard in minutes to protect the Reflecting Pool but not to the Capitol building on J6?

Interesting 🤔

[Bluedog @HereLiesBlueDog]

Look at these Antifa lunatics pouring chemicals into the water to make Trump look bad.

Oh wait, that’s the people the orange fucking idiot hired to fix his incompetent mistakes.

I hate that the media in this country is as stupid as he is.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Talarico: “People are tired of this politics as professional wrestling. You got these old guys lathered up in their fake tan throwing corny nicknames at each other. Those corny nicknames they don’t lower the price of groceries, the price of gas, the cost of housing and childcare and prescription drugs”

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

Color me shocked that the Strait of Hormuz is closed again. trump’s “peace deal” fell apart faster than the Reflecting Pool filled with algae. We are being ruled by the dumbest, most incompetent fucking morons who ever lived. Oh, and trump is still a child-raping pedophile.

[Sgt Pepper @MzSgtPepper]

🎯

#ReleasetheUnredactedEpsteinFiles

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The Foreign Emoluments Clause (art. I, § 9, cl. 8): No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under the United States, shall, without the Consent of the
Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind.

[True Blue 🇦🇺🐨 @SPBMcKenna]

Susie Wiles~ mom of 2 kids
JD Vance~ dad of 3½ kids
Todd Blanche~ dad of 2 kids
Karoline Leavitt~ mom of 2 kids
Kash Patel~ dad of 1 kid

👇 These parents turned the Situation Room into the Trump-Epstein Pedophile COVER-UP Room

They PROTECTED pedophiles over the safety of kids

[Really American 🇺🇸 @ReallyAmerican1]

“The Trump Administration awarded over $22 million in federal contracts to a firm that organized the January 6th rally Trump used to incite the insurrection,” Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) tweeted this afternoon.

“This administration is again rewarding loyalty to the president over every other consideration, including security, experience, and the proper use of taxpayers dollars,” Schiff continued. “The public deserves answers.”

As attempts to rewrite the history of the January 6th Capitol insurrection continue, lawmakers and journalists have spotted an odd pattern involving the company that organized disastrous Trump’s “March to Save America” rally, a violent event that culminated in the sacking of Capitol as Trump’s loyalists sought to overturn his decisive 2020 loss by force.

Trump’s first order of business when re-assuming office on Jan. 20, 2025, was to pardon the criminals convicted of violently attacking the seat of our democracy, erecting a gallows and chasing elected officials with zip ties. Many insurrectionists have since been re-arrested for violent new alleged crimes.

“The events company that helped plan Donald Trump’s rally on January 6, 2021, where his supporters rioted and marched on the Capitol, has been handed $13 million in no-bid contracts from the administration since he resumed office,” The Independent reported in March.

Event Strategies Inc., or ESI, which the New York Times indicated is “staffed by veterans of Mr. Trump’s campaigns and first White House” had, as of March, graduated “from a minor federal contractor into the government’s highest-paid event planner.”

USA TODAY obtained a June 17 letter sent by Sens. Schiff, Elizabeth Warren, Richard Blumenthal and Peter Welch to Trump deputy Susie Wiles, alleging that the President and his cronies had “subverted traditional procedures and used loopholes to award Event Strategies Inc. millions of dollars in contracts related to the 250th anniversary.”

According to lawmakers, ESI was awarded $7 million in contracts just for events related to America’s 250th birthday — and overall, more than $22 million in various contracts since Trump returned to the Oval Office last January.

The corruption is abundantly clear: ESI “received less than $4 million in federal contracts between 2008 and 2021,” the newspaper reported, citing “federal spending data.”

In the letter to Wiles, the senators asserted that ESI was often the sole bidder for lucrative government contracts in Trump’s nightmare of a second term.

“This raises obvious concerns that conflicts of interest and corruption within the White House are driving federal contract awards towards politically connected firms,” they wrote.

The Trump administration doesn’t hide it — scratch their backs, and they’ll generously scratch yours with taxpayer dollars, taking from critical funds like Medicare and Social Security to reward their buddies.

As the Times noted in March, no one at ESI was “charged with wrongdoing,” but in a functioning democracy, a firm so connected to one of our nation’s darkest days would be nowhere near federal contracts.

It’s easy to lose sight of minor acts of corruption when everything seems to be corrupt. We do not have to allow this to continue — you know what to do in November.

[Ann Johnson @VoteAnnJohnson]

There are two people who know Ken Paxton best: his wife and his defense lawyer.

Both have walked away from him.

That tells you everything you need to know about Ken Paxton.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: We see a faithless president, self-dealing, while he depicts himself as Christ, while he depicts the Obamas as apes, while he plunges the nation recklessly into war, plunders our health care, and sends prices soaring. 

And while the people pay more than ever for groceries and housing and health care, he builds a monument to himself. 

While a cancer patient loses health coverage, he adorns his office in gold. 

Voting rights laws are dismantled, prisons for immigrants are full of children, and all the while we see this wickedness advanced and defended by those who wrap themselves in the banner of righteous faith. 

But we ask, where in Scripture are we commanded to deny care to the sick, to take from those with the least to give to those with the most, to violate the house of worship to hunt down the refuge

[Captain Obvious™️ @TheFungi669]

What kind of shitty president would have you arrested for touching the Reflecting Pool but pardon you and give you $1.8B for destroying the Capitol Building?

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

The GOP is trying to expand the Supreme Court’s decision gutting the Voting Rights Act far beyond gerrymandering district maps.

Republicans don’t just want to make it harder for minority voters to get fair representation; they want to make it harder to cast a ballot at all. https://t.co/SulX7oRIbv

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Republicans looked the country in the eye and made a promise. When they rewrote the food stamp program last year, they said children would not be touched.

Pregnant women would not be touched.

Families with young kids would not be touched. They said it on the House floor, on the record, in front of everyone.

A year later we know the truth.

More than 776,000 children have been cut off from food assistance. In the states that track participation by age, kids make up nearly half of everyone who lost benefits.

These are kids who went to bed hungry because a politician wanted a talking point. 

We must be a country that feeds its children. We used to believe that was the bare minimum. Take care of the kid who is hungry through no fault of their own.

The people who broke that promise should have to answer for it, and in November they will.
https://t.co/yZK7shO05q

[Brian Pearson 🇺🇸🌊💙 @btrekman1]

@OccupyDemocrats @EclecticMommaZ

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HE'S LOST HIS MIND! Trump is now ARRESTING people, including an Olympic cyclist, for just TOUCHING his precious Reflecting Pool and deploying National Guard troops to guard it from imaginary antifa vandals!

This is starting to get scary…

On Truth Social, Trump declared that “The United States Park Police have arrested multiple individuals for vandalizing our nation's magnificent Reflecting Pool. Who would do such a thing? These are very serious crimes having to do with the destruction of National Monuments. Years in jail!”

While giving no details about the arrests, reporters and eyewitnesses were able to discover that citations were being issued for simply *touching* the Reflecting Pool.

David Hearn, an Olympic cyclist, was finishing a bike ride and went to check out the Pool to see what all the fuss was about. He touched his fingers to the water to see what it felt like, and found himself ARRESTED on a misdemeanor charge of destruction of government property.

“I didn’t vandalize anything,” Hearn said. “I didn’t destroy or break or peel anything. By the time I realized what was going on, I was being put in handcuffs.”
This isn’t funny anymore. This is the stupidest tyranny that the world has possibly ever seen. Arresting someone for TOUCHING A POOL and then claiming they were destroying it?

Donald Trump is losing his mind, and he’s growing more and more authoritarian by the day.

This is a colossal misuse of public resources and flagrant abuse of state power in order to accommodate the paranoid delusions of a demented pedophile (alleged) and Congress needs to take action IMMEDIATELY to put a stop to this dangerous nonsense.

[Eric Crawford @ericcrawford]

Josh Heird has told the U of L athletic association board that former sports information director Kenny Klein “had a pretty tragic event a week ago and is really battling at U of L Health right now to, quite honestly, survive.” He asked the board to keep him in their thoughts and prayers. I’d ask that of everybody. There’s no better person than Kenny.