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Army/Navy mom +afflicted student of history, politics, economic justice reform. Vaxx &pass JLVRAA💙

[CSPAN @cspan]

.@jonathanvswan: "For important topics, for things that they actually do want to keep secret, they're very good at keeping secrets, much better than the first term...this is nothing like the first term, this is a country being run by five or six people. A tiny group."

[ProPublica @propublica]

It has been 118 years since the Supreme Court ruled the federal government owes tribes water, but Native American communities in northern Arizona are still fighting for their rights to the Colorado River.
https://t.co/hAnGCpSGCa

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: You’ve got the American government, controlled by Donald Trump, backing a Trump family tungsten mine in Kazakhstan with more than a billion dollars in federal commitments at the very same time that they are cutting health care, defunding hospitals and nursing homes, and doubling health insurance premiums for more than a million Georgians.

We’ve seen 300,000 Georgians lose health coverage in the last six months because they couldn’t find room in the budget for health insurance, but they’ve got room in the budget for a tungsten mine overseas, controlled in part by Prince Don and Prince Eric.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

People can’t afford housing, we pass a big bipartisan bill, and Trump’s review is “big yawn.” Of course it is.

Your rent, your mortgage? None of it registers.

He’s never cared about your problems and he’s not about to start now. The yawn says it all.

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

The kleptocracy never stops. Does any Republican care?

Trump bought as much as $5 million in shares of Axon Enterprise — maker of Tasers, body cameras and policing software — two weeks before ICE sought a five-year, $220 million contract. https://t.co/Xwkc3Z0Nnz

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

The Slaughter case, overturning precedent, returns us to a spoils system where a president can “clean house” every four years, destroying our professional, independent civil service.

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

Today’s decision in Slaughter will destroy the independence of the Merit Systems Protection Board, which will have a cascading effect on all federal employees, who have been free from political interference for 150 years. The spoils system is back, baby!

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Trump said he paid for the new colonnade paving stones. Budget records show taxpayers paid $689,232. A separate document labeled "Rush project at request of POTUS" shows $347,503 to clear the colonnade for gold frames mocking predecessors. National park spending outside Washington is down $854 million - 68%. The Black Canyon guardrail is a documented safety hazard. The Yellowstone roof leaks. 900 projects defunded. The ballroom Trump called taxpayer-free is tracking to $600 million with half from federal accounts.

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

Over 900 years of military experience has been lost due to Pete Hegseth's purge of 25 senior military officers.

"Collectively, they represent over nine centuries of tactical, operational, and institutional experience across every domain of warfare." - Mike Schmitt

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[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Bayer donated $1 million to Donald Trump's inauguration. Then Trump’s Justice Department went all the way to the Supreme Court to help Bayer fight a cancer patient who says Roundup made him sick.

This week, the Supreme Court sided with Bayer 7-2, and the more than 160,000 Americans who have sued Bayer, claiming that Roundup gave them cancer, just lost their ability to sue.

The people who wrote the check to Trump got everything they wanted, but the people who got sick got nothing.
https://t.co/jtvBL7AZak

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Paigelynne Gonyea, poll worker, Syracuse. ICE showed up on Election Day with her social media posts and driver's license. The triggering post: she shared an article identifying the agent who shot and killed Renée Good and expressed hope he'd be indicted. Ross got three days of admin leave for shooting Good in the head, chest, and arm. ICE entered her polling place. Election law prohibits this. Both commissioners confirmed the visit was real.

[Michael S. Schmidt @nytmike]

NEW/EXCLUSIVE: The White House secretly pressured arm of the govt that is supposed to be independent and protect federal workers from unfair political firings. After WH pressure the board made monumental decision in Trump’s favor, expanding his power to fire fed employees like DOJ prosecutors.

https://t.co/n4GmDgosFd

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

Months ago? What are you even talking about? Republicans control all 3 branches of government, and YOU have been running immigration policy from inside the White House since January 2025.

Let's fact-check "mere months ago" line by line.

1- TPS Haitians, here since 2010. Fifteen years. Renewed legally every 18 months under Bush, Obama, and Trump's own first term.

2- Biden's CHNV parole program, those arrivals came in 2023–2024. Not months ago. And here's what Miller calls an "illegal airlift":

✅ Applied online
✅ Passed full federal background checks
✅ Had a U.S. financial sponsor who vouched for them
✅ Bought their own plane tickets
✅ Cleared customs at official U.S. airports

That's not an airlift. That's called a legal visa program.

Miller is deliberately mixing two completely different groups, 15-year residents and newer arrivals, to make the entire Haitian community sound like a fresh invasion.

That's not an honest post. That's a disinformation operation aimed at people who won't look it up. Shame on you.

The History of Haitian TPS https://t.co/7K6Un4SVik

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Before coming to the EPA, the top official in charge of pesticide policy earned nearly $300,000 from the American Soybean Association where he lobbied for a weedkiller that can drift for miles and poison crops. That pesticide has now been reapproved.

https://t.co/W92CQCHWTA

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Trump ripped up the walkway between the West Wing and the mansion to replace it with polished African granite carved in Italy. "Paid for by me," he claimed. Except that's not true. Taxpayers paid $689,232, per documents obtained by @michaelscherer https://t.co/7l2bkD0MIH

[Amy Siskind @Amy_Siskind]

Trump‘s and Lutnick‘s sons have been involved in 14 rare mineral deals that were collectively financed or will be financed by $8.9 billion US taxpayer money, as Trump seeks to find partnerships to get at these minerals. It’s one of the most disgusting displays of kleptocracy so far!
I gifted this article so you can read it.

https://t.co/uo4WXepQzj

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

How else are you going to retool the military to repress US civilians and behave lawlessly abroad? Gotta get rid of anyone who stands for ethics, care, and conscience.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

imagine: a single individual, never elected to any office, deciding that "America's doors are fully closed to asylum seekers...."

so as Hitler ramped up his campaign of genocide against utterly innocent, non-political Jews in Europe, this person, a descendent of European Jews, would have forbidden them / his own ancestors entry?

[Adam Parkhomenko @AdamParkhomenko]

The housing bill would restrict corporate investors from buying up homes regular families could afford. Trump blocked it. He's taking away your chance to buy a home so wealthy investors keep profiting. #SaveHousingFromTrump

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

It’s entirely possible that Hegseth is not a “war fighter”