David M.

Retired VP International Sales for a major supplier of large power station generating equipment & a Professional Engineer. Former GOP supporter. No longer.

[David M. @DMates]

@JamieBonkiewicz

[Nicole Minét @mouvement33]

On August 30, 2015, @MotherJones published an article about Trump Modeling Management, which was Trump's modeling agency for underage girls that was active from 1999-2017.

Trump Model Management built a systematic machine of exploitation: luring aspiring models from around the world with false promises of stardom, then trapping them in a web of abuse. Girls as young as 14 were placed on tourist visas and told to lie to customs, packed into overpriced bunk-bed apartments, buried under fees that stole up to 80% of their earnings, and left broke despite promised six-figure contracts. This wasn't a few bad deals — it was the business model. One model described it as modern-day slavery.

I would say this business is a blueprint for the Tate Brothers' business of owning and exploiting underage girls by trafficking them in the porn industry. Both Trump and the Tates are basically doing the same thing, luring women, trapping them in a foreign country, and sexually exploiting them mercilessly under false pretenses while robbing them for all they're worth.
https://t.co/WDCYit3o1s.

[Roshan Rinaldi @Roshan_Rinaldi]

BREAKING: A beer was thrown at President Trump during a press conference this morning in Washington. Trump was unharmed. Since the beer was a draft,... he was able to dodge it.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

America went from Barack Obama to Donald Trump.

From dignity, empathy, and competence.
To grievance, cruelty, and chaos.

It wasn’t an accident. It was backlash.

Backlash to having a smart, principled, wildly popular Black president who proved this country could be better.

And some people couldn’t stand it.

[Viral Reel Addict @ViralReelAddict]

Trump flew to Beijing with a planeload of billionaires and came home with table scraps. While Elon Musk spun in circles filming the Great Hall of the People like a tourist on a school trip and pulled goofy faces in photos with Tim Cook, Xi Jinping was quietly eating Trump's lunch.

Trump vowed to make China "open up." Instead, analysts say Xi handed him symbolic gestures while keeping every strategic lever locked in Beijing's grip.

Who pays for the humiliation? You do.

The average US tariff on Chinese imports now sits at 47.5 percent, up from 3.1 percent before Trump's first term. That's a hidden tax landing on every checkout receipt, every appliance, every replacement part in your garage.

Farmers, dumped when Beijing stopped buying their soybeans, just got an $11 billion taxpayer bailout. "A Band-Aid on a deep wound," one farm group president called it. Meanwhile Trump quietly handed $20 billion to Argentina, a major export competitor to American farmers.

Two-way US-China trade has collapsed from a 2022 peak of around $690 billion to roughly $415 billion last year. Markets gone. Contracts shattered. Supply chains in pieces.

Xi nodded vaguely toward buying some oil and Boeing jets. Same script he ran last decade. Same humiliation.

The "art of the deal" looks an awful lot like working Americans footing the bill while billionaires spin in circles for the photo op.

[ML Smith @maria48308]

This guy is on point with every damn word. Vote these republicans out. I’m so sick of these ppl cuddling Trump and I know many of you are as well. Your November vote is needed.

[Roshan Rinaldi @Roshan_Rinaldi]

Trump canceled most federal cancer research funding,...

... and now demands taxpayers pay for his $400 million ballroom at the White House.

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

RETWEET if you stand with Jimmy Kimmel against Donald Trump!

[TPBlue 🇺🇸🦅 @TPBlue4]

@mark_slapinski It’s the same ol playbook.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

The Trump family has made $4 billion off the presidency.

Crypto: $3.02B
Persian Gulf deals: $425.8M
Qatari jet: $150M
Legal fees/merch: $127.7M
Mar-a-Lago: $125M
Corporate deals: $91M
Hanoi hotel: $40M
Truth Social: $25M
Don Jr: $19.6M

Unprecedented kleptocracy.

[American Oversight @weareoversight]

At least 181 people have died in the Trump admin’s boat strikes in the Eastern Pacific and Caribbean.

Last year, we sued to get the legal justifications for these strikes.

The administration still hasn’t provided them — and the death toll keeps climbing. https://t.co/JF9CiF6sJ8

[🇲🇽POVMEXICO @POVMexico]

In 2006, Trump sold 188 luxury condos in Baja in a single day. Not a single one was ever built.

The project was called Trump Ocean Resort Baja Mexico. Three towers, 526 units, oceanfront cliffs in Punta Bandera, 20 minutes south of Tijuana. Buyers put down deposits up to $900,000 USD.

What they didn't know is that Trump wasn't the developer. He had licensed his name for $500,000 and had no stake in the project. The 2008 financial crisis hit before construction began, and every deposit was lost.

Years later, Trump would say "don't do business with Mexico." Nearly 200 buyers in Baja had already sued him for fraud.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

The BBC published a forensic investigation this week. Five Trump announcements. Every time, someone was trading in the minutes before he spoke.

Why did a British broadcaster raise these questions instead of U.S. regulators?

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Marie-Thérèse is 86 years old.

Handcuffed. Wrists and ankles.

Sitting in an ICE detention facility in Louisiana with roughly 70 other detainees.

She has heart problems. She has a bad back.

Her children in France didn’t know where she was for a week.

Here’s why:

Sixty years ago she fell in love with an American soldier. They lost each other. They found each other again.
They got married. Billy was a retired U.S. Army colonel.

Billy died in January.

Marie-Thérèse had a green card application pending.

Then there was an inheritance dispute with Billy’s son.

Billy’s son reportedly called ICE.

DHS called her “an illegal alien from France.”

This is what we’re doing to the 86-year-old widow of an American veteran.

What exactly are we protecting?

#DemsUnited #Veterans

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than:

Tesla
Southwest
Disney
Live Nation
HP
United
PayPal
CVS Health
Palantir
Citigroup
PG&E
3M

That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax.

It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.

[David M. @DMates]

@hallen_a @20committee He is definitely that insane.

[David M. @DMates]

@PhilGre55160253 @Damaan4u33 Trump is a poster child for dementia.

[curt @casbeataol]

I’m an old white dude and because of that I can walk by ICE agents without any fear, but I won’t support one dime going to ICE until everyone can do the same as me without fear no matter their skin color or accent. If you disagree you’re just racist. There’s no other explanation.

[Justin Amash @justinamash]

That’s like the fifth time Iran has been defeated this week alone.