Diane Martin

Proud nana, wife and mom - retired Office Administrator, Estate Manager, pet sitter, ❤️ 🐶. Democrat originally from Massachusetts.

[Fara Kaufman @justfara]

BREAKING: French Senator Claude Malhuret TORCHES Trump and his alcoholic, drug-addicted administration on the floor of the Luxembourg Palace: "Every time the Epstein affair resurfaces, bombs explode somewhere in the world and cause a distraction!"

This might be the greatest MAGA takedown of all time. Nobody was spared...

"A year ago, here in France, I compared Trump's presidency to Nero's Court. I was wrong. It's the miracle court. An anti-vaxxer, former heroin addict as Minister of Health," he said, referring to RFK Jr.

Malhuret's comparison to the mad Emperor Nero is fitting. It's said that he fiddled while Rome burned. In Trump's case, he's building a ballroom while the entire world goes up in flames.

"A climate-skeptic Minister of Economy. An alcoholic TV host, Minister of the Armed Forces," Malhuret continued, referring to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.

"An old Qatar agent, Minister of Justice. A groupie of Putin, Minister of National Security," Malhuret went on, referring to Attorney General Pam Bondi and Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Bondi previously worked for the Ballard Partners firm which raked in $115,000 a month by lobbying on behalf of Qatar.

"A Turkish proverb says 'When a clown settles in a palace, he does not become king, it is the palace that becomes a circus," said Malhuret. "His fine team has decided to create a competitor to the UN. Since the creation of the Board of Peace, Trump has triggered more military strikes than Biden during his entire term."

"Every time the Epstein affair resurfaces, bombs explode somewhere in the world and cause a distraction," he continued. "Bomb more to win more."

This is how the world now sees the American president: as a pedophile desperately exploiting his role as commander-in-chief to obscure the fact that he preyed on children with his long-time pal Jeffrey Epstein.

"There isn't a single country where Trump did not take advantage of the situation to enrich himself without ever forgetting his family. A Boeing plane offered by Qatar," he said, referring to the $400 million jet that Qatar "gifted" to Trump. "Investment in all Gulf projects or elsewhere. Stock market manipulation that only a few insiders benefit from."

"Any one of these conflicts of interest would have caused an immediate procedure of impeachment here," Malhuret. "But we are not here. We are in MAGA's America where public business is conducted in favor of private interests."

Rarely have we heard such an exhaustive yet succinct distillation of the Trump administration's rampant criminality and incompetence. By focusing on individual Cabinet members and what makes them uniquely unfit for office and then expanding the aperture to the broader patterns of corruption and malignancy, Malhuret delivered a master class in political messaging.

Every mainstream outlet in the U.S. should be running this speech to show Americans what the world thinks of our leaders.

Since they won't, please make sure to like and share to spread this far and wide!

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

"A republic, if you can keep it."
— Benjamin Franklin, after being asked by a passerby what kind of government the delegates had created

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Question for Republican Congress members: How is it that we have money to guild horses in gold leaf, but not enough for fruits & veggies for children?

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Answer these questions: Are you allowed to insider trade in Congress? Can the president do his so-called businessman’s deals? Is any of this actually legal?

My opinion is: It smells terrible and it should be stopped.

But we’ve lost our sense of shame.

Trump said 2 things: 1. It’s peanuts and not that much money. 2. Nobody cares.

That second one is the one that should keep you up at night.

Hopefully people actually do care. Hopefully they show up in November and send these guys a message.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Lawrence: “Donald Trump’s anti immigration madness landed on David Streever, who publicly shared the opinion that Donald Trump’s acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement is a monstrous human being. Those are his words, monstrous human being, after the killing of two US citizens by Donald Trump’s immigration invasion forces in Minneapolis. But in Donald Trump’s America, if you call the acting director of ICE a monstrous human being, ICE agents show up at your house. Here they are at David Streever’s front door when he wasn’t home. They showed up there trying to intimidate him for sending an email, trying to get him to sign a document saying that calling the acting director of ICE in that email, a monstrous human being, could be a crime.”🙄

[Sue Barker @SueLordBarker]

Worth watching 10 or 20 times. Please pass it on.
@realDonaldTrump

[GOP Ls @GOP__Ls]

🚨 Republican Party Chairman Matthew Reilly was found passed out in his car with a crack pipe in his hand.

Police recovered crack cocaine. He has now resigned.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

That is a fact.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

There's some very weird, strange and dangerous sh*t going on in America. A majority of our elected representatives have failed to protect the American people from the abuses of an unfit president.
- Bruce Springsteen

[Nino America @Nino_Merica]

After watching the footage of a Midland citizen being pepper-sprayed and taken away in handcuffs, we returned to City Hall looking for answers.

In this clip, we confront Strategic Communications Director Stewart Doreen and ask why police were called when the citizen had reportedly never been told to leave.

The citizen was seeking paperwork inside a public building. The encounter ended with pepper spray, handcuffs, a hospital visit, and his eventual release without charges.

We have seen the footage. Midland taxpayers deserve to know who called police, what crime was alleged, and what justified the use of force.

#MidlandTX #GovernmentAccountability #CivilRights

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This is Ronaldo Salgado & his beloved father was shot & killed by ICE in Houston after a traffic stop. His father Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was 52 year old Construction Worker who picking up his coworkers. He lived in the U.S for 30 years & was getting his work permit.

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

Police officer becomes a whistleblower and says that Flock Safety Cameras are not what were being told they are

He says they are not just capturing license plates, they are capturing everything and being used for mass surveillance without a warrant, “It records the make, the model, color, bumping stickers, you name it — it's a very sophisticated AI software that uses a camera system to track and monitor every vehicle that goes by the camera lens”

“This information is shared city to city and even state to state without a warrant”

“Your consent was never required nor even asked for or even thought about when your city governments was putting up this new technology.

For example, the chief of the Pateka Police Department, she was confronted by a local reporter on this very question of what gave them the right to put up these cameras without consulting the public. Her response was, so the criminals wouldn't know about it and avoid detection. So there you go. That's their best argument about”

He says he brought up concerns about privacy and transparency and in return he was suspended without pay

He says we are headed the same way as the soviets and China

He says this is what you’re told by authority, “If you are worrying about it, it's because you have something to hide.

The philosophy that this innovation is already grounded on is already proven to be rotten. It's grounded on this idea that you, the citizen, are first and foremost a potential suspect or potential defendant that needs to be tracked and monitored for your safety and for the safety of others. It's the same philosophy that the Soviets and many authoritarian states during the 20th century adopted, and we all know how that worked out for them. It's the same philosophy that the Chinese are currently adopting right now and they have a similar surveillance system”

Keep in mind I’ve also shared videos of the Flock camera called “Condor”

This goes beyond vehicles and actually tracks you as you walk by. The cameras follow you, can zoom in and automatically detect you in areas

This goes way beyond license plate reading. This is the mass surveillance network being established in America

We are right around the corner from a police state

[Common Sense 🇺🇸💙 @commons96055467]

This America is ugly. This America is sick. This America is trump.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents were caught racially profiling and stalking a U.S. citizen, before pulling him over and demanding he prove his citizenship.

According to the man filming, ICE followed him until they initiated a stop. As they detained the U.S. citizen, an agent reached into his vehicle and tried to take his ID.

The man asked, “Why are you snatching my stuff?”

The agent replied, “I’m not snatching your stuff. This is a lawful stop. Are you going to give me your ID?”

Except… if this man is a U.S. citizen, what exactly was the lawful basis for the stop… and running his ID?

The Fourth Amendment doesn’t become meaningless just because an ICE agent thinks someone looks undocumented.

And here’s what makes even less sense… even if the vehicle was registered to someone who was undocumented, his driver’s license would immediately show he wasn’t that person.

So, why was ICE still running his information through their system?

Because if federal agents can stop Americans, demand identification, and investigate them simply because of how they look, then the constitutional protections, every American is supposed to have, don’t mean anything at all.

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

The Patriots of Mount Rushmore have a singing message for All Americans (no room there for tRump!)... Credit to Michael_Kryton0609

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Everything Trump Touches Dies, or turns to shit.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Republicans love to point fingers — but when it came to Trump, Roy Moore, and Matt Gaetz, they defended the indefensible. Don’t pretend your side is somehow above it. Spare me the whataboutism. Call it what it is. The GOP protected their abusers.

[Nino America @Nino_Merica]

A Midland citizen went to City Hall requesting paperwork.

He sat inside the public building for an extended period speaking with Strategic Communications Director Stewart Doreen. The footage appears to show that he never raised his voice, never became violent, and was not told what crime he had committed.

Then a Midland Police Department officer arrived.

She issued commands, placed her hands on him, and ultimately pepper-sprayed him inside City Hall.

He was taken outside in handcuffs, transported to the hospital, and reportedly handcuffed to a hospital bed. He has a heart condition and had expressed concern about being forced outside into the extreme heat.

After officials reviewed the footage and saw that he had not been acting belligerently, he was released with no charges.

No identified crime. No charges. Yet a citizen requesting paperwork from his government ended up pepper-sprayed, handcuffed, and hospitalized.

What lawful justification was there for this use of force?

#MidlandTX #PoliceAccountability #GovernmentTransparency

CONTENT WARNING / PUBLIC-INTEREST DISCLAIMER: This video contains footage of police use of force, including pepper spray and physical restraint. It is being shared to document an ongoing public-accountability matter involving public officials in Midland, Texas. It is not posted to glorify harm, encourage confrontation, threaten anyone, or promote violence. Viewer discretion is advised.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents were caught, on video, entering a U.S. citizen’s home without a warrant, tackling the father to the ground, while pinning down his 15-year-old grandson.

As the family repeatedly told agents they were U.S. citizens, and demanded to see a warrant, the agents ignored them.

The daughter began recording and repeatedly asked to see a warrant, but they refused. She also told agents her father is diabetic, and that the teenager they were restraining was only 15 years old.

The agents continued to arrest both U.S. citizens from their home, without a warrant, eventually releasing the child but taking the father.

The Fourth Amendment prohibits government agents from entering a home without a judicial warrant.

If federal agents can force their way into a U.S. citizen’s home, ignore repeated demands to produce a warrant, and use force without lawful authority, they aren’t just violating one family’s rights… they’re undermining one of the core constitutional principles America was founded on.

A free country depends on the government being bound by the Constitution. If those limits can be ignored without consequences, we are no longer a free country.