dhickman

Lover of Life. Making the Best of What I Encounter Every Day.
Facts. Matter.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

At minimum, she should be sanctioned by the bar for misusing her office for political purposes. But she ought to be disbarred.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Just a reminder that President Trump's corrupt settlement with the IRS frees him from a potential adverse ruling that could have cost him more than $100 million.

That's the kind of deal you get when you sue your own government...
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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

To my Republican colleagues:

The President of the United States made $2.2 billion in one year while sitting in the Oval Office, most of it from industries he regulates. Experts now compare his self-enrichment to Putin and other authoritarians, not to any leader of a democracy.

You know this is blatant corruption.

You say it privately.

So when will you say it publicly?

Is holding your seat really worth your silence?

I’ve heard the argument. If you speak out, you lose your primary, and someone worse takes your place. But look around. What has your silence actually prevented? The corruption grows bolder every day you stay quiet. The country needs your courage more than it needs your incumbency.

One day your kids and grandkids will ask what you did when the President of the United States sold the office for billions. They will read the record. They will know whether you stood up or stayed quiet to protect a title.

Ask yourself how you want to be remembered, because history will remember either way.
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[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Ukraine needs more air defense interceptors. I hope this issue will be on the top of the agenda at the NATO summit in Ankara.

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

Very excited to watch the guy who's taken significant and unprecedented US government equity stakes in 20-plus private companies (so far) pretend for the next 4 months that he's the last great bulwark against creeping American communism
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[CBS Evening News with Tony Dokoupil @CBSEveningNews]

About 400 sites managed by the National Park Service are facing a maintenance backlog estimated at more than $24 billion, but the money aimed for repairs is being diverted. The Trump administration has reportedly used at least $90 million from national park entry fees to help pay for beautification efforts in the nation's capital ahead of the America 250 celebration.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Ironic since Trump is the American leader right now most ambitiously pushing the government to own more and more of the means of production, just as Marx recommended.

[Shannon Watts @shannonrwatts]

Donald Trump Jr. helped take an online retailer known as the “Amazon of guns” public last year. Now, GrabAGun, where Trump Jr is a shareholder and board member, could reap a windfall from lax gun laws.

[Nicholas Kristof @NickKristof]

This will appear to the world as favoritism and as FIFA bowing to political influence. If the U.S. wins, I fear that much of the world will see it as a win with an asterisk and as Trump’s America making its own rules even in the sports world.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Ukraine desperately needs more PAC3 interceptors. @LockheedMartin can you do something?

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Americans' Social Security benefits will have to be cut by roughly a quarter in six years due to depleted funds, according to a June 9 report from the Social Security Board of Trustees. That's months sooner than the group had estimated in 2025. https://t.co/8WRwxJkhwt

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

This is how we lose to the Chinese in the 21st century.

[Peter Morley @morethanmySLE]

I'm going to KEEP talking about how Florida Senator Rick Scott, the RICHEST man in all of Congress DEFRAUDED Medicare & is trying to CUT Social Security.

Will you join me?🤚

[ABC News @ABC]

The U.S. is facing an "attack on the rule of law that is different in kind and scope to anything I've seen in my lifetime," the special counsel who brought charges against Donald Trump after his first term said. https://t.co/ORqQzSgLuR

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

[Michael Steele @MichaelSteele]

We question Mr. Secretary because we know that ish did not happen. You know there are cameras on the Pool 24hrs, right?You do not have photographs of anyone submerging in the Reflecting Pool to cut a gash longer than a football field. But we do have video and photos of the liner peeling from the floor of the pool. Stop it. As soon as you are asked to prove vandalism, you whine about why are you being questioned about it.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Donald Trump Jr became an owner and advisor to a company that wants to ship guns through the mail

…but that’s been illegal for nearly a century

…so his father just rescinded that rule

…to help his company.

It’s not a coincidence.
It’s corruption.
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[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

We filed a complaint with the Interior Department inspector general last week about some eyebrow-raising government contracts, including for the Reflecting Pool "renovation."

Let's just say there's *a lot* that should be investigated: https://t.co/LtbtyJw7mf

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

If Trump were innocent, Acting AG Todd Blanche wouldn't be violating federal law to hide the unredacted Epstein files from Katie Phang’s lawsuit.

Defying a court order is a blatant admission of guilt.

[Interesting things @awkwardgoogle]

The guy who created Fortnite (Tim Sweeney) has been quietly buying up U.S. forests to save them from developers.

He has spent over $200M to buy 50,000+ acres of wilderness in North Carolina, using permanent legal protections to block any future logging or building.