Minority Whip, Landsraad

Saving the world from the scourge of ear wax, one patient at a time. ⚓️⬇️ I must not fear. Fear is the Mind Killer.

[Tolkien World @TolkienWorldG]

Pope Leo gets it.

[Jamesetta Williams 💕 @jamesetta_w]

This is the type of crisis that a Democratic president would be held personally responsible for by the media. Instead it’s getting virtually no national attention despite the issue being directly connected to federal cuts enacted by the Trump administration

[Fitz @FitzGSN_]

Jalen Brunson

[New York Daily News @NYDailyNews]

NYC crime hits historic lows, with fewest murders, shootings in first 5 months of year https://t.co/uOw1Dae9yb

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Military History Now @MilHistNow]

On this day in 1942, U.S. warships ambush a Japanese task force at Midway. Japan loses four carriers and nearly 250 warplanes in the ensuing battle. It's a turning point in the Pacific War.

[The Washington Post @washingtonpost]

More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group. https://t.co/wEAqxMA7AG

[Mark Warner @MarkWarner]

It seems there is an entirely different set of rules for Republicans and Democrats.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

BREAKING: Financial disclosures show Trump bought stock in UFC’s parent company, TKO Group, before announcing a UFC event on the White House South Lawn, giving massive publicity to a company in which he has a financial stake.

Under any other president, this would be a major scandal.

Source: HuffPost

[Democracy Now! @democracynow]

Dr. Craig Spencer is a public health professor and emergency medicine physician at Brown University who survived Ebola in 2014. He says it's not a coincidence that the world is seeing a new outbreak of the disease, as well as hantavirus and rising rates of measles in the United States.

"If you recall, it was just over a year ago that Elon Musk gleefully declared that they were throwing USAID into the wood chipper. And you may recall that Elon Musk also sheepishly said at his first Cabinet meeting that he mistakenly canceled Ebola prevention but turned it back on. For many folks, the story ended there, but what actually happened was there was an Ebola outbreak, and DOGE and Elon Musk cut all the support that we normally would have been giving to respond to that Ebola outbreak. The result was that exactly USAID, who in the past would have been supporting things like airport screening in Uganda, was not providing that logistical or financial support. USAID and other partners would have been providing support to make sure testing was adequate, to make sure a vaccine rollout could have taken place, but we didn’t have USAID on the ground.

"Similarly, CDC has long had relationships in this part of the continent, in Congo and in Uganda, and a lot of those relationships have broken down and withered over the past year, because we just haven’t been paying. Similarly, the U.S. has pulled out of the World Health Organization over the last year, which means that in normal circumstances our CDC folks are not able to even talk to World Health Organization people, something that is absolutely unbelievable and an incredible mistake for something that we should be able to do and be prepared for at all points.

"And the result is what we’ve seen over the past couple of weeks with hantavirus, we’ve seen with the dramatic increase in number of measles cases in the U.S., and now Ebola in DR Congo and across the border in Kampala. This is not all just a coincidence. This is a consequence of us cutting back our support, not only here at home, but also abroad.

https://t.co/Km03jENTdG

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

NYT out with a jaw dropping investigative report on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 60 Minutes reported last Sunday on some of this, too. The NYT report is a must-read, the 60 Minutes report should then be watched. 1/3

[NBC News Health @NBCNewsHealth]

No child deaths have been definitively linked to Covid vaccines, according to a report from the Food and Drug Administration that was quietly made public last week. The agency’s analysis contradicts claims made by former vaccine chief Dr. Vinay Prasad. https://t.co/IDuPE3zt8d

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

New from the NYT: The failure to detect the new Ebola outbreak in a timely manner, can, in part, be tied directly to the destruction of USAID.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The addendum was not in Monday's settlement.

Signed only by Blanche. No IRS representative signature. No Trump lawyer signature. The original settlement was signed by Woodward, IRS CEO Bisignano, and Trump attorney Daniel Epstein - Blanche wasn't on it. A different set of signatories, one person, posted to the DOJ website at 7:50 AM Tuesday.

When Woodward left his press conference defending the settlement this afternoon, he did not respond to questions about the addendum.

This is not a settlement of a lawsuit about a tax return leak. A one-page document added quietly the next morning made it a permanent waiver of all IRS examination authority over Trump, his family, his companies, and his trusts - with a single signature and no IRS buy-in documented.

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. Number of stories about Trump buying and selling hundreds of millions of dollars in stocks in the first three months of 2026:

CBS: 0

CNN: 0

Fox News: 0

NPR: 0

PBS: 0

Politico: 0

Semafor: 0

Business Insider: 0

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Trump, TODAY, just stole $1.8 BILLION from the U.S. Treasury to hand out to his friends and allies through a fund with zero oversight and that expressly disclaims any responsibility for money lost to fraud!

[Joel Montfort @jmontforttx]

Alligator Alcatraz is closing after one year and wasting $1B to house 1400 immigrants. That's an eye-popping $714,285 per occupant. Everything this administration does is filled with fraud and waste. https://t.co/3DoG1YTjTh

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

NYT confirms — with new details:

Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona.

One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying." https://t.co/wuBwyvxaXY

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Republicans spent years treating the Afghanistan 13 like sacred political talking points. Trump just casually reduced two entire wars to “13 soldiers," and MAGA suddenly forgot how outrage works.