We will rise

The new dawn blooms as we free it.
For there is always light
if only we're brave enough to see it,
if only we're brave enough to be it.
-Gorman

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Just saw this image going around:

[Tim Hogan 浩勤 @TimInHonolulu]

Every person who knew of the criminal purpose and agreed to advance it committed a crime. Trump is immune but others are not. If the money movement involve state crimes the involved states can begin to break up the Trump criminal enterprise.

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

Mr. President: I have a windfall excess profits bill you could support.

Big Oil already pocketed over $40 billion in excess profits from gouging U.S. consumers since Hormuz. (On top of their regular profits, which are plenty!)

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

This is ABC journalist Jonathan Karl’s video of the peeling paint that Trump claims implicated the reporter in a crime.

Looks like he’s simply doing his job.

Maybe the President should do his!

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Congress passed a law ordering the State Department to spend $9.4 billion on global health and more than $5 billion on humanitarian aid, covering HIV treatment, tuberculosis, malaria, and nutrition for starving children.

This was no suggestion, it was the law of the land. The President signed it.

Now ProPublica reports the administration is simply refusing to follow it.

By the end of March, of more than $9 billion Congress directed for global health, the administration had obligated just $190 million, which is 5% of the normal pace. 

Russ Vought, the dangerous, unaccountable extremist who runs the Office of Management and Budget, is labeling money “unallocated” so they can sit on it until the clock runs out and the funds expire. Letters from Congress go unanswered, required reports go unfiled, clinics close, and people die, including children.

The Constitution gives Congress the power of the purse for a reason, and when a President takes money we lawfully appropriated and decides on his own which laws to obey, that is not policy, that is a President placing himself above the law.

I sit on the Appropriations Committee, where our job is to decide how this government spends its money on behalf of the people who sent us here.

I will not stand by while this administration treats our votes as optional and human lives as expendable.

We are going to demand answers, and we are going to demand every dollar be spent as the law requires.https://t.co/lcW9wTruMU

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

If you are on this list, whatever political side you pretend to represent, you can fuck yourself forever. You are the Epstein class.

All of you. No exceptions.

[Badd Company @BaddCompani]

Everybody forgets about Michael Reinoehl; I don't.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

NEW: Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) launches probe of Trump ballroom project

In memo to lead building, Blumenthal demands info by July 1 about:

"When did Clark Construction first become aware that the White House ballroom and East Wing demolition project would likely exceed the initial $200 million cost estimate?"

"When did Clark Construction become aware that taxpayer funds would be needed to complete the construction of the White House ballroom?"

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

We spent over $70B bombing them.
We will spend $300B to rebuild them.
We lost this war, and now we will be funding Iran.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

The fact that the Epstein Estate ACTUALLY PAID a settlement to one of the women who alleged that Donald Trump raped her as a minor, and it was paid AFTER Epstein died, as told under oath by Epstein's longtime accountant, should be a more significant story. The fact that Trump said he wasn't ever on Epstein's plane and now we found out he was, should be a more significant story. The fact that senior officials gathered in the Situation Room to concoct and coordinate an Epstein coverup IS a significant story, and being treated as such, but in light of all the rest and his behavior throughout, it should be the end of his presidency.

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

How the fuck do we have $300 billion to rebuild Iran after we spent $80 billion bombing it, when we don’t “have the money” for pediatric cancer research?

[Badd Company @BaddCompani]

Not their job.

[LC2007 🇺🇸🇬🇧🌻🦋🦋🦋🦋 @angelbeech59]

@BaddCompani Facts!

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“As the U.S.A. barrels towards its semiquincentennial under the heat and funk of what has become of our bloated empire under the careless and corrupt, so-called leadership of the worst POTUS in our history, we are treated to spectacle and spurious celebration.

In stark contrast to the well-earned, inclusive and historic joy that erupted in NYC in the wake of the Knicks becoming NBA Champions for the first time in over half a century.

The UFC cage match at the White House on Sunday evening represents the apex of a culture that Donald Trump has long sought to co-opt.

A carnival for the carnivorous and the careless. Pyrotechnics and steel where roses once grew. Closed fists in lieu of open hearts and optimism. The bacchanal of the bellicose and the brutal.

The toxic masculinity we see on display now, in all forms of MAGA iconography and the creatine-spiked machismo of inebriated clowns like Pete Hegseth, were always catnip to the manicured old man who turns 80 today.

Trump used to hang out with mobsters and goons in his NYC days. He would post motorcycle gang members at the entrance of his ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ afterparties and employed a personal security team that could best be described as Cro-Magnon.

It was always an act, of course; performative tough guys encircling the softest man on the planet. Donald is physically lazy, intellectual incurious and possesses all the bravery of a tadpole. Feathers make him flinch.” https://t.co/6BEIyohg06

[D. Lowther @dlowther715]

"A carnival for the carnivorous and the careless. Pyrotechnics and steel where roses once grew. Closed fists in lieu of open hearts and optimism. The bacchanal of the bellicose and the brutal." ⬇️

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“DJT’s entire career has been an illusion designed to mask both the criminal underbelly of his eponymous organization and his own crimes.

We have seen further evidence of this ongoing strategy this week in the revelations of how senior Trump administration officials, including his under-qualified Vice President, JD Vance, gathered in the Situation Room to discuss options for keeping Donald’s decades-long involvement with Jeffrey Epstein, and his prominent role the Epstein files, from being revealed to the American people any more than they already had been.

The administration was in damage control over the soon to be released Wall Street Journal article further illuminating DJT’s close relationship with the notorious sex trafficker, including his infamous birthday card.

‘Public servants’ were colluding to protect the President of the United States from his criminal sexual predation, the abuse of sex-trafficked women and girls - even going so far as discussing the graphic nature of his proclivities (which align completely with what my friend who spent time in Epstein’s East 71st Street mansion with both men described to me).

That’s the thing with Trump - the multiple allegations against him always have the same set of details and circumstances, describing the same sort of behavior over and over again.

Behavior that was no secret in certain circles in New York City and Palm Beach, and certainly not to his immediate family, including his children and former and current wives.”https://t.co/6BEIyohg06

[We will rise @dregne21]

@krassenstein He’s here to not only bankrupt us, but to desecrate any and all of our symbols of power. #tRUmp

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

According to a new report released today by the Miami New Times, Trump threw and funded underage sex parties at his Palm Beach golf course.

The president was made aware of the pending publication 2 days ago.

Maybe now you understand why we struck Iran last night.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it." - Roald Dahl

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨 HEARTBREAKING: Scott Pelley Sounded Like A Man Attending A Funeral.

Not for a person.

For a profession.

🔥 That’s why his defense of journalism hit so hard.

Scott Pelley confirmed on the record that CBS management ordered him to “inject falsehoods” into 60 Minutes coverage.

He named Bari Weiss directly. He said she was brought in to neutralize independent journalism inside the network.

He told 60 Minutes’ new leadership she was “murdering the show.”

Pelley spent 24 years at CBS News.

He just put his name on the record against the institution that built his career.

The Paramount-Skydance merger closed.

The new ownership installed Weiss. Pelley is the most senior on-air voice at CBS News describing what’s happening inside.

This is what institutional capture sounds like from inside the institution.