Elizabeth Dunbar, MD

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[formerly Bri4Change2024, Bri4Change, Bri4Change1 @Bri4Change2026]

@KobeissiLetter Exec Summary

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: “Back when Joe Biden was in office, every MAGA talking head was OBSESSED with the idea that the son of a president might be profiting off of the presidency. They were shocked, they were incensed, they were pearl-clutching until they broke those pearls. They demanded accountability…Let’s fast forward to today, shall we? That’s right. In the middle of a war that the president started, his adult son is the chief strategy advisor of a company that just so happens to be winning multi million dollar Pentagon contracts.”🙄🤦‍♀️

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.

A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts.

In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention.

Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, the Trump family’s deals are expanding, and not a single Washington Republican is willing to say a word about any of it.

This is a corruption of everything the office of the presidency is supposed to stand for, and the American people deserve to know about it.
https://t.co/A4lQE3ktoG

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

If the sitting president repeatedly threatening to use our military to commit war crimes doesn’t meet the threshold for removal from office, then nothing does.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Think about what Washington Republicans are actually asking you to believe: that there are noncitizens so committed to voting illegally that they’d risk deportation, prosecution, and everything we’ve seen ICE do, just to cast a ballot in our elections.  

There is no documented crisis of noncitizens voting. It is already a federal crime, and it always has been.   

Republicans invented a crisis that doesn’t exist so they could sell a “solution” that makes it harder for YOU to vote.  

Call it what it is: the SAVE REPUBLICANS Act.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Donald Trump called mail-in voting “mail-in cheating” on Monday. That same day, news broke that he just voted by mail in a Florida special election.

His polling place is a 15-minute drive from Mar-a-Lago.

He spent the last two weekends there.

He mailed it anyway.

He is now holding the entire country hostage to pass a bill making it harder for you to vote the way he just voted.

Shameless hypocrisy.
https://t.co/EHBpHtPg2a

[Taniel @Taniel]

JUST IN: Democrats tonight have flipped a GOP-held state House seat in Florida.

And not just any seat: This is the district that contains Mar-a-Lago. (It voted for Trump by 11% in 2024).

That's right: Trump will now be represented by a Democrat, Emily Gregory, in Tallahassee.

[Tammy Duckworth @SenDuckworth]

9% of American *citizens* don't have the identification that the SAVE Act requires to vote. Almost 1 in 10.

This is a voter suppression bill.

[Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @JudiciaryDems]

Sen. HIRONO: I want to make it very plain. Senate Democrats support the funding of FEMA and TSA, but we don’t support funding ICE without guardrails to prevent lawlessness.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

BREAKING: Republicans ONCE AGAIN blocked our bill to simply pay TSA agents.

This is the SEVENTH time Republicans have blocked our attempts to fund the rest of DHS while talks to rein in ICE continue.

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

TSA agents could've gotten their paychecks for the first time in a month starting TODAY.

But Senate Republicans blocked our effort.

Your wait times at the airport and TSA employees missing meals are a cost they are willing to pay. It isn’t right.

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

Senate Republicans just blocked my bill that would have paid TSA workers.

My Republican colleagues are saying that if you don't give the President's overgrown paramilitary force of masked agents more money, they're going to leave TSA workers and others unpaid.

I think that's patently unfair.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Here is what’s really going on with regard to the funding stalemate in Congress.

ICE agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens on the streets of Minneapolis.

Democrats then said: before we write you another check, agree to the same rules every police department in America already follows. Judicial warrants before entering homes. Visible ID. Body cameras. No raids at schools and hospitals.

We immediately pushed for votes to fund TSA, the Coast Guard, and FEMA.

Republicans blocked it.

We tried to fund FEMA alone.

Republicans blocked that too. Their position was to fund ICE with no strings attached, or shut the whole thing down.

So DHS shut down.

Then yesterday, the White House sent a letter admitting we were right. But they still won’t agree to judicial warrants or to take the masks off, which means agents can still break down your door without a judge’s approval and you still can’t see their faces when they do it.

We’ve been ready to fund your airport security since day one, not to mention Coast Guard, FEMA and the rest. Republicans chose to protect ICE from accountability instead.

#FundDHSFreezeICE

[Cory Booker @CoryBooker]

Thank you Rep. Huffman for laying it plain.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Shared today by Bev Perry in the Expand Dem Values in the House and Senate Facebook group.

I need to say something that's been bothering me for a while, and I'm saying it as a Marine Corps veteran who leans center-right.
This isn't partisan. This is observation.
We've slow-faded into accepting militarized police as normal, and nobody seems to notice or care.
Even as a USMC pilot, I went through six months of infantry training as an officer before flight school. I've worn the gear. The helmet, the tactical vest, the whole kit. And I can tell you from experience, it changes you.
There's a psychological shift that happens when you strap that stuff on. You feel different. You carry yourself different. You start seeing the environment differently. In the Marine Corps, that shift was appropriate because it's a combat culture and organization.
But these are American streets. American citizens. And we've got law enforcement dressed like they're kicking down doors in Fallujah to serve warrants in suburbia.
What happend to high standards and real policing tactics? Think Adam-12...Officers Reed and Malloy. Crisp uniforms. A revolver. A baton. High standards and professionalism. They looked like public servants because they were public servants. They de-escalated. They talked to people. They were part of the community.
Now? Tactical gear, beards, ball caps, Oakley sunglasses, sleeve tattoos, and a tactical kit that would make special operators jealous. And we've turned it into a fetish. We celebrate it. We assume that because someone looks hard, they must be a professional.
They're not.
I loved the Marine Corps. But I'll be honest, I was also blinded by it for a while. Mission first. Unit over everything. And that mentality made sense in that context.
But law enforcement doesn't get that critical examination. "Back the Blue" has become a shield against accountability. A blanket assumption that a badge plus gun equals hero. That tactical gear equals competence.
It doesn't.
Most people who join law enforcement aren't special operators. They're average people who desperately want to belong to something bigger than themselves. I understand that impulse deeply, it's why I joined the Marines. But wanting to belong doesn't make you qualified. Looking the part doesn't mean you can perform under pressure. And wrapping yourself in warrior aesthetics doesn't make you a warrior.
Old school law enforcement represented something. Standards. Bearing. Discipline. Professionalism that was demonstrated, not costumed. A revolver and a baton meant you had to rely on your training, your words, your judgment, not overwhelming firepower.
What I see now in law enforcement is the costume without the culture. The gear without the training. The authority without the accountability.
Are there good people in law enforcement? Of course. I know some personally. But this reflexive "law enforcement can do no wrong" mentality is lazy, dangerous, and intellectually dishonest.
A woman is dead. And before we sort ourselves into teams and start assigning blame, maybe we should ask harder questions:
Why do we accept a militarized police force as normal?
Why do we assume tactical gear equals tactical competence?
Why have we let "Back the Blue" become a substitute for actual standards?
I wore the uniform. I went through the training. I know what that gear does to your head.
It shouldn't be normalized on American streets against American citizens.
And we shouldn't pretend everyone wearing it is qualified to carry it. The fact that he called her a “fucking bitch” after he shot her three times should be a huge red flag for all of us.

[Sean Casten @SeanCasten]

It is shameful that we have to talk about the President of the United States this way. But it is who he is. He is behaving exactly the way you would expect a convicted felon and adjudicated rapist who was granted immunity by John Roberts to behave. Know your enemy.

[Elizabeth Dunbar, MD @ededmd]

@RepRobertGarcia Thanks Rep Garcia for continuing the work. Proof that lawlessness by the administration will not deflect and distract from the abuse perpetrated by powerful men against minor-age girls.

Walking and chewing gum. Well done.

[Elizabeth Dunbar, MD @ededmd]

@ABC Priorities, you know

A [47 lackey] on NCPC noted that “Trump is hosted at Windsor Castle when he visits the United Kingdom”, but when the King of England visits [he is hosted in a different manner]

Because this is Not A Kingdom and POTUS is not sovereign.
USA ≠ England. Duh

[Elizabeth Dunbar, MD @ededmd]

@ChrisMurphyCT Well said Sen Murphy. The fact this propaganda press release of lies was so immediately released tells me it was pre-written with a few mad-lib fill-in-the-blanks left open for color. This administration EXPECTED this outcome with their ICE iteration of the Schutzstaffel.

[Elizabeth Dunbar, MD @ededmd]

@SenWhitehouse Senator Whitehouse!
Clutches pearls.
JK - well done you.