DaveScouter

Husband, Father, Son, Brother, Scouter, Firecrafter

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Americans have paid $74.4 Billion more on gasoline & $47.5 Billion more on diesel since March 1 compared to a year ago.

$122 Billion of disposable income gone up in smoke because elected Republicans refuse to say "no" to Trump.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 United Nations passes resolution promoting women's equality.

Trump's UN envoy was the only opposing vote.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Here's an idea: since the press is boycotting covering Trump, they should head to all the House Republicans home states and give them all that coverage instead. Make them answer for all the inflation, diesel prices, unending war, corruption they've backed...

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

People keep saying Trump term II is the most corrupt administration ever, so I built a model to find out if it was true.

I took the UN's definition of corruption, turned it into eight criteria and 100 points, and scored the leaders history remembers for looting their countries: Marcos, Suharto, Mobutu, Abacha, Obiang, Putin.

Then I put every president since Eisenhower on the same scale, both parties, with every exoneration counted right alongside the convictions.

Nixon scored 41 and no other American President scored over a 25.

Trump's second term scored a 91, which ties him with Suharto and Mobutu and puts him above Marcos and Abacha.

So he is not only the most corrupt president in American history. At this pace he finishes his term level with the most corrupt rulers of the last hundred years.

PSA: don't come in my comments arguing about the results if you haven't read the full article, because ignorance is a choice.

Full article is up now on my Substack (link in bio) and it's free.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The Trump administration is pressuring the National Park Service to give a piece of Yosemite National Park to a private developer.

This isn't Trump's first attack on our beautiful national parks. Here's what you need to know.

[Dr. Lucky Tran @luckytran]

They are lowering US flags to half-mast for a week, but if the government really wants to pay tribute to Dolly, they should fund education, the arts, and medical research instead of trying to eradicate them.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

The AI surveillance company Flock has installed nearly 100,000 cameras across America to track your every movement.

Going to the doctor? Flock knows.

Dropping your kid off at school? Flock is tracking you.

Flock is always watching.

STOP AI MASS SURVEILLANCE. STOP FLOCK.

[Canada Calling @NickiDewar1]

@DemocraticWins @statsguy

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

TRUMP’S LIES, CLIMATE CHANGE AND THE FUTURE OF THE PLANET

The last eleven years have been the hottest eleven years on record. The last three years have been the hottest three years on record. Europe just saw its worst heat wave in recorded history that set all-time heat records in seven countries, killed more than 10,000 people, and caused the worst heat stress ever in half of the continent’s largest cities.

Much of the American west just saw its warmest winter on record, and as a country, the United States just saw its worst spring drought in recorded history. This summer alone we have seen multiple record heatwaves that have exposed hundreds of millions of Americans to dangerous levels of heat.

In both the United States and Canada, this heat and drought is driving longer and more intense wildfire seasons, including the more than 800 wildfires across Canada and northern Minnesota that are currently causing dangerous levels of air pollution for at least 115 million people across 20 states.

Let’s be clear: It is not normal for Detroit, Minneapolis, and Chicago to have some of the most dangerous air quality in the world.

NO, Mr. President: climate change is not a hoax. It is reality. And your ignorance is putting our kids and grandkids at risk in exchange for the short-term profit of your billionaire friends in Big Oil.

Our job: Reject President Trump’s lies and take on the crisis of climate change and the greed of the fossil fuel industry by transitioning our energy system to energy efficiency and sustainable forms of power. When we do that, we cut carbon emissions, reduce energy bills, and create millions of good union jobs.

And, by the way, we save the planet for our kids and grandchildren.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The greatest threat to our democracy is us not believing in it.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Lindsey Graham on Trump:

“He’s a race-baiting, xenophobic, religious bigot. He doesn’t represent my party. He doesn’t represent the values that the men and women who wear the uniform are fighting for”
(2015)

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

The red cards work!

[SKI @skiistiredasf]

4 college graduates,
3 Masters degrees
1 Doctorate,
2 law degrees
3 Ivy League educations

All in one photo.

Oh and their husbands are in the photo too

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Only thing left to say to CBS after reading that powerful Scott Pelley statement is…..with a little help from David Letterman:

"In the words of the great Edward Murrow, 'Good night and good luck, motherf*ckers!'"

[DaveScouter @DaveScouter]

@RpsAgainstTrump @ScottPelley thank you for standing up for what is right!

[DaveScouter @DaveScouter]

Excellent article!

[Matt Norlander @MattNorlander]

The most annoying part about the NCAAT expanding is also the biggest reason why it's going to happen: an ever-lurking threat that, if the P4 didn't get their way w/ more bids, they could blow it all up.

But that's BS. It was never going to happen. Column:
https://t.co/z3W1QSv9Sq

[DaveScouter @DaveScouter]

@MattNorlander Thank you for this article! I completely agree.

[DaveScouter @DaveScouter]

Yep

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: Maybe you voted for him because when he said he was going to keep us out of foreign wars, you believed him.

I can’t stop thinking about what it felt like when it was my turn to be going on one of those C-17 aircraft with a one-way ticket into a war zone, praying that the people who sent me there knew what they were doing.

And we owe our service members a lot better than what’s going on in this Pentagon and in this White House.