Dean Baker

Senior economist at the Center for Economic &Policy Research (@ceprdc). Blog-- Beat the Press (@beat_the_press) Tweets are my own views. @deanbaker13.bsky.socia

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

ICE detain father at traffic stop—leave 5-year-old abandoned alone in back seat.

Agent drove car from where dad was arrested—to an empty parking lot.

Left 5-year-old son locked in car.

"I couldn’t get out of car," boy said. "Police didn't want me to."

Mom was far away at work — she eventually managed to contact his babysitter to come get her son.

But their car was also stopped by agents who demanded proof of citizenship.

Incident occurred in Robertsdale, Alabama—about 25 miles east of Mobile.

[aWokeFox @aWokeFox]

@Acyn "My friends lived and played in those trees that you destroyed for an Epstein ballroom.

Let him know it's me."

[Ted @teddunne]

@Acyn If we only had a sign big projects don’t end well

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

What a pile of nonsense. The White House has 24/7 Secret Service surveillance on every inch of its grounds.

Did the "mystery knife criminal" who destroyed the grass, turned the reflecting pool into a swamp, also tore down the East Wing, and celebrated his 80th birthday on the People's lawn?

Because that guy IS on camera, right now.
https://t.co/QUAsb1FG4X

[JeSuisCH🏒BleuBlancRouge @HabsHappy]

@Acyn Reporter: "You don't believe sending your Motorcade crew on a freshly resurfaced Reflecting Pool had anything to do with it?"
Trump: "No, absolutely not Piggy"

[forestfromtrees @SandraB82981565]

@Acyn https://t.co/QxN2KO7Xh8

[Frank C @FrankCMYK]

Just like the Trump casinos, including the Plaza, Trump has a habit of creating disasters and then pretending to be the victim of them.

His motorcade drove across protected areas, his administration rushed to repaint the reflecting pool to satisfy his vanity project, and now we’re supposed to believe mysterious grass-cutting saboteurs are the real story?

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

@Acyn Found the culprit

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: You mentioned yesterday that the Interior Department has video and photos. We reached out to them and they haven't shared it with us.

Trump: Somebody went in with a knife and cut it. They cut it up good and then they cut a 200-350 ft slips in the form of lots of little slips. And they destroyed the grass.

[Dean Baker @DeanBaker13]

He's going after Trump!

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

RFK Jr: If you treat taxpayer dollars as your personal bank account, we will investigate you, build a case, and bring you to justice.

[Chris Davis @neddyalleyn]

@DeanBaker13

[Fred Wellman @FPWellman]

It’s always taken water from river! That’s the design. It’s not a swimming pool! For God’s sake.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Ladies and gentlemen, we present to you the man defunding scientific research and public education:

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BERMAN: Do you believe there's evidence of a 300-foot cut at the bottom of the reflecting pool?

REP. PETE SESSIONS: I don't know. I would say the president evidently has got it.

[Jennifer Erin Valent 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @JenniferEValent]

Trump is a terrible person. I knew that a long time ago. What has shocked me most is that so many people would willingly sacrifice all dignity and self respect to fete one of the most profanely ignorant men to ever walk the earth. That may be the most disturbing thing of all.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Hayes: “Acting AG Todd Blanche told Congress not to worry about the $1.8 billion slush fund for insurrectionists…The DOJ then told the court the same thing—don’t worry, it’s moot, it’s dropped, and then last week, the judge said okay, fine, put it in writing. She ordered Blanche and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and an associate AG to all sign ‘a declaration under the penalty of perjury, they will not take any action to create or operate the anti-weaponization fund and that the anti-weaponization fund will not proceed in any manner or under any name.’ Well, today was the deadline for that and guess what? They came back to the court and they said no, we’re NOT doing it. We’re NOT filing any declaration to officially kill the fund, which probably means the slush fund is NOT dead.”🙄🤦‍♀️

[Dean Baker @DeanBaker13]

Don't you feel safer now with this guy off the streets?

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

David Hearn is a three-time Olympian. He touched a loose flap of coating peeling off the Reflecting Pool, said he was curious as a concerned citizen, and was arrested, held for five hours, and charged with destroying federal property. Court date July 9. Ten days to the Fourth.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

David Hearn is a three-time Olympian. He touched a loose flap of coating peeling off the Reflecting Pool, said he was curious as a concerned citizen, and was arrested, held for five hours, and charged with destroying federal property. Court date July 9. Ten days to the Fourth.

[John Rocha @TheRochaSays]

OBAMA NOW??? HE’S FUCKING BLAMING OBAMA NOW???? 🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[Henry Winkler @hwinkler4real]

Or the contractor did not do a professional job.. there IS that possibility