Dave Shamlian

Trained SKYWARN Weather Spotter, Model Railroader, Tech Geek, and Sports Fan.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE throw tear gas canisters at the feet of U.S. citizens protesting—at point blank range.

Agents shoot industrial strength pepper spray—directly into eyes of protesters.

At least 7 people injured & needed medical assistance.

1 woman had to be rushed to hospital by ambulance due to "seizure like uncontrollable shaking"—after being "completely covered" in orange dyed chemical spray.

Demonstrators were protesting the federal indictment of 15 Minnesota anti-ICE activists.

Incident occurred outside the Warren E. Burger Federal Building and U.S. Courthouse in St. Paul, Minnesota.

This video footage was not available on this platform—so posting here to help their efforts to raise awareness.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Joe Biden just called Donald Trump, the most corrupt president in the history of the United States.

This took place in deep red South Dakota.

[Jamie Raskin @jamie_raskin]

Last night my friend @MaxwellFrostFL showed me Donald Trump’s Truth Social posting urging MAGA to expel me from Congress. Apparently Trump doesn’t appreciate our fight against his $1.776 billion slush fund or his outrageous attack against the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Sorry, Mr. President, I’m not going anywhere but back to the front lines of the fight against corruption and authoritarianism.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 This Is A Pretty Stunning Conflict-Of-Interest Allegation.

A lawyer challenging Trump's planned UFC event says sponsorship packages are being sold for as much as $1.5 million.

That Trump could personally profit through his financial interest in the UFC's parent company.

First came the White House event.

Then came the corporate sponsorships.

Now comes a lawsuit arguing that public property is being used to generate private gain.

The question is who benefits when it becomes a marketing venue at the WHITE HOUSE.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Candidate Trump: "I will end inflation on Day One."

President Trump today: "I love the inflation."

You know who doesn't love inflation, Mr. President? Working families struggling to afford gas, groceries and other necessities because of your disastrous actions.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: LOL! Trump's big "renovations" to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool fall FLAT ON THEIR FACE as algae immediately blooms along the edges, destroying the entire point of his work.

This is beyond humiliating...

Just a day after the pool was filled following the completion of the renovations, CNN reported that there is already "quite a bit of algae visible" if one stands on the edge of the water. A worker was spotted attempting to clear the growth away, making it apparent that the administration is aware of the problem.

The Interior Department is desperately trying to downplay the failure of one of the President's signature initiative, with a spokesperson insisting that the algae is simply "residual." Of course, even "residual" algae can quickly multiply and spread. That's what algae does.

"It’s part of the normal startup process. We are removing the algae, and the nanobubblers will maintain the pool and keep it algae free,” claimed communications director Kate Martin.

“President Donald J. Trump is an expert builder who has fixed the Reflecting Pool for good unlike the failed and extremely costly attempt by Obama and Biden,” she pathetically added.

Invoking Obama and Biden in the context of Trump's sad obsession with renovating landmarks and building ballrooms is a self-inflicted PR wound from Martin. Obama and Biden didn't waste time or political discourse oxygen fixating on such petty things. They were too busy steering the economy, keeping us out of foreign wars, and strengthening our alliances. Trump talks incessantly about these pointless things because he realizes that he is a failure in all other domains and is hoping to carve out a physical legacy for himself in lieu of a historic one.

The wasteful project has cost the American people $14.2 million, a particularly bitter pill to swallow as inflation hits a 3-year high and grocery prices skyrocket thanks to Trump's illegal Iran War. The working class is struggling to survive under his leadership, and he's blowing our money on vanity projects.

Now it turns out, he can't even get the pool right.

Please ❤️ and share if you think that Trump is bad at everything!

[Bri Gillis @Bgilly13]

Dems have been looking for their message for years, and @AnnieAndrewsMD just did it (in under two minutes). Take note 📝

[Acyn @Acyn]

Buttigieg: We didn't know it, but we've all been trusting our lives to the restraint of whoever the president might be. And now we have a president who is completely unrestrained. And so the only answer to that is a functioning Congress.

It turns out we do not have a functioning Congress. The House of Representatives is not representative. One of the most important organs of our democracy is not democratic.

They say, "Oh, no. We're not manipulating the map to disempower black people. We're manipulating the map to disempower Democrats who happen to be black people.”

So, the time has come to make it impossible to manipulate the map for any reason and just have fair maps.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

HOLY CRAP: Trump’s $10 million renovation of the reflecting pool is already filled with algae just days after it opened.

Is this what you all voted for?

[Q The Storm Rider @Q_TheStormRider]

JUST IN: Reporter Catherine Herridge testifies that CBS News locked her out of the building and seized all her files, says she was working with sources to "expose government corruption."

Nothing at all going on here, folks.

"CBS News’ decision to seize my reporting records crossed a red line that I believe should never be crossed by any media organization."

"Multiple sources said they were concerned that by working with me to expose government corruption and misconduct they would be identified and exposed."

"CBS News locked me out of the building and seized hundreds of pages of my reporting files, including confidential source information."

FOLLOW ME, THE NEXT DROP WILL BE SHOCKING.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: @tedlieu just said what we were all thinking:

"President Trump has repeatedly fallen asleep at multiple Cabinet meetings, at multiple White House events, and most recently at a raucous basketball game last night. The White House needs to explain why Trump keeps going to the hospital and why they keep giving him cognitive tests..

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

They are forcing Donald Trump to take his name off of Kennedy’s memorial so now he’s trying to put it on Lincoln’s.

He’s a fucking sociopath.

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Not enough people are talking about this.

A Florida airport was renamed after Donald Trump. He walked away with the trademark, the licensing rights, and a deal that lets him profit off every piece of merchandise sold there.

But the story of how he got it is even worse.

County staff told commissioners that rejecting the name change would put state transportation funding at risk. DeSantis has already removed state attorneys and school board members who dared to cross him. That is the reality the Democratic commissioner who cast the deciding vote was living in when she made her choice: hand Donald Trump control of a public airport or watch Florida Republicans strip funding from the very people she was elected to represent.

That is absolutely insane.

Florida Republicans handed Trump a money machine and called it a naming rights deal, and the people of Palm Beach County never got a say in any of it.
https://t.co/M2nm9qFXc8

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

They want you to forget. They don’t want you to see this.

Keep sharing this so we can’t forget what they did to us that day.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.”
George Orwell, 1984

[The Root @TheRoot]

A Louisiana resident who identified himself as Marshawn delivered a fiery, emotional speech to lawmakers during a state Senate hearing over redistricting Monday, accusing Republicans of trying to “cheat” Black voters out of political power.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Too many people have accepted Donald Trump’s presidency as "normal." Too many believe there is nothing we can do, and that we simply need to outlast his term.

Let me be clear: We cannot endure another 32 months with this mendacious, narcissistic, rapist, want to be dictator who is selling us out to the highest bidder.

Not only can we stand up and fight back—we must.

Join our campaign so we can take this fight to Congress to impeach, convict, and remove Trump and his cabinet.
https://t.co/NiW1Ro2kZa

[Joshua Reed Eakle 🗽 @JoshEakle]

A 10-year-old wrote MAGA Congresswoman Virginia Foxx for a school project.

He chose to write about an electric vehicle tax credit. Something he thought was good for the environment.

Virginia responded by attacking him and his teacher for being propagandized.

Her words: “your teacher will not be able to give you a good education as they are too interested in indoctrinating you... How sad.”

An 80-year-old woman. Attacking a 10-year-old. For doing his homework.

These people have power over your life.