Dennis Kavanaugh

Chair Industrial Commission of Arizona, former City of Mesa Vice Mayor, retired attorney and community volunteer. Proud SLU and ASU graduate.🏳️‍🌈

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

This is the type of shit that needs no words to troll itself.

This is actually real… he’s really posting infomercials plugging this…

Using America’s 250th Anniversary too…

More like… “As my dad tanks the economy as fast as he can, nothing is more patriotic than getting your hands on some Don Jr Gold to celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary in case it’s our last”

This is SNL material or even better #smokefleet material

[Dennis Kavanaugh @dkavanaugh]

Of course not.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Still no mention of D-Day from Trump

[Rep. Greg Stanton @RepGregStanton]

Pete Hegseth just reversed a Pentagon policy that guts the military’s religious affiliation codes, slashing them from more than 200 down to just 31.

21 of those categories are labeled Christian. Yet the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (@Ch_JesusChrist) was not one of them.

Hegseth owes an honest explantation.

[Dennis Kavanaugh @dkavanaugh]

Sheer stupidity.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Under Trump, the Forest Service is gutting labs that cost ONE DOLLAR in rent so they can cram scientists into a Fort Collins office that costs taxpayers a million a year.

As reported by NPR, Trump's 2027 budget zeroes out Forest Service research entirely. Three hundred and nine million dollars, gone. Fifty-seven of the agency's seventy-seven research stations are on the chopping block.

These are the forests generations of Americans have hiked, hunted, camped, and prayed in. Sacred ground for almost anyone who's ever stepped outside in this country.

And the "efficiency" pitch? A scam.

The research station in Hilo, Hawaii sits on 30,000 acres the federal government rents for a one-time fee of ONE DOLLAR, locked in until 2067. The Michigan Tech lease? One dollar paid in 1963, free ever since. Another site costs the agency $600 a month for two rooms.

The destination they want everyone shipped to in Fort Collins runs taxpayers a million a year.

Read that again. They're closing dollar leases to expand a million-dollar lease.
Scientists in Baltimore have spent years planting white oak saplings that need three decades to mature. You can't FedEx a forest to Colorado. You can't manage a Hawaiian ecosystem from a cubicle in Utah.

Researchers told NPR they'll quit before they relocate. Which is the point.

Meanwhile, Trump has openly pledged to ramp up logging on federal land. Gut the scientists who document the damage, and there's nobody left to sound the alarm when ancient forests get clear-cut for profit.

These are the people who tell us when wildfire season turns deadly. Who track invasive beetles eating through pine. Who teach cities how to recycle dead trees instead of dumping them in landfills.

You don't dismantle the world's largest forestry research network because you're worried about a maintenance bill. You dismantle it because somebody plans to take a chainsaw to what the public owns and doesn't want a paper trail.

The forests don't belong to Tom Schultz. They don't belong to Trump. They belong to every American who has ever stood quiet under a hundred-year-old tree and understood, for one second, that some things are not for sale.

Defend them now, or explain it to your grandkids later.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Greg Bagwell @gregbagwell]

The commemoration of the bravery, tragedy and importance of D-Day is not ever the place to try and score cheap political points. What an ignorant and disrespectful dumbass.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Trump has just destroyed the US beef industry. No country in their right mind is going to import US beef.

After Trump cut funding for Screwworm monitoring programs, the dangerous flesh-eating parasite has been found in US cattle for the first time since 1966.

[Dennis Kavanaugh @dkavanaugh]

Cover-up. Not good.

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 ICE announces it will no longer report deaths of recently released detainees.

This comes after the deaths of recently released detainees surge to a two-decade high.

[Dennis Kavanaugh @dkavanaugh]

Embarrassment. Unfair to those teams.

[Alex Tiffin @RespectIsVital]

The United States has denied a visa for Iran's national team manager Mehdi Mohammadnabi.

He will be barred entering the U.S. for their the Fifa #WorldCup 2026 matches.

He & others also denied visas will travel to the team camp in Mexico whilst efforts to obtain visas continue.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

It’s D-Day. Trump’s first post on Truth Social is a bizarre AI video about how much people love Donald Trump. Not a word about the heroes who stormed the beaches of Normandy.

That tells you everything you need to know about Trump.

[Dennis Kavanaugh @dkavanaugh]

More corruption

[Ken Dilanian @KDilanianMSNOW]

Trump Pardons Former Congressman Convicted of Insider Trading https://t.co/tdCwRpyEBy via @NYTimes

[Nick Bryant @NickBryantNY]

“Totalitarianism demands … the continuous alteration of the past, and in the long run probably demands a disbelief in the very existence of objective truth,” said George Orwell. So, too, does Trumpism, which has tried to re-write US history.

[Dennis Kavanaugh @dkavanaugh]

Facts matter

[Robert Graham @robertgraham]

The picture on the left is from 2012 when the filter was broken.

The picture on the right is AI generated.

That's the issue in this Presidency, everything is based on lies, even the most trivial of things.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Bari Weiss built her entire public identity on the proposition that cancel culture was destroying American discourse. She wrote about it. She founded a publication around it. She championed the Intellectual Dark Web as brave thinkers being silenced for saying forbidden things.

Scott Pelley said factually true things, without yelling, without cursing, without threatening anyone, in a staff meeting. He said Bilton had slender qualifications. He said Weiss was murdering 60 Minutes. He said these things because they are true and because saying true things in rooms where powerful people prefer comfortable silence is - per Weiss's own stated philosophy - exactly what journalists are supposed to do.

She fired him.

JVL names what this exposes precisely. They never wanted to end cancel culture. They wanted to control it. Some forbidden ideas - the ones MAGA likes - must be protected and platformed. Other ideas - the ones Bari Weiss dislikes - are genuinely verboten. Say them out loud and you lose your job.

The Pentagon press office is now classified. Tim Miller was threatened with FARA for sharing a public news report. Comey is being prosecuted for seashells on a beach. The federal workforce faces proposed NDAs. Pelley was fired for refusing instructions to broadcast unverified assertions and then saying so in a meeting.

The through line is not chaos. It is a consistent, documented project to determine who gets to speak, about what, to whom, and under whose authority. Cancel culture was never the target. It was always the tactic. Weiss just proved it by doing the thing she built her career opposing, the moment she had the power to do it.

[Dem Saints @LDS_Dems]

Under new military guidance from Pete Hegseth, the LDS Church is officially classified as a non-Christian religion.

My fellow Saints, you can love these Christian nationalists all you want, but they will not love you back.

https://t.co/AWm3fRPEst

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Kimmel: "You'd think Trump would be rooting for the Spurs. It's what got him out of Vietnam."

[Mark S. Zaid @MarkSZaidEsq]

This is why DOJ and Todd Blanche are trying to prevent state bar licensing authorities from disciplining their lawyers.

Because they keep crossing the wrong ethical line.

https://t.co/vtGIIdOh1a

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

The veteran correspondents staying at 60 Minutes are making the same mistake WaPo reporters did. 60 Minutes fate lies with viewers, not Bari Weiss or any internal deal she cut with them.

Viewers will abandon 60 Minutes like they did WaPo because they no longer trust the owner.

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Dear @WhiteHouse: The inability of trump to stay awake on the job has made him a laughing stock and an embarrassment to the United States of America.

But I really did this tweet to show you that @GovPressOffice has much better social media content than you do.

Cheers!

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Pete Hegseth arrived in France for official D-Day commemoration events, bringing along his wife and six children on what appears to be a taxpayer-funded family trip.