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[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

Every morning, when I head outside to go to work, I look back and see my 5-year-old daughter Noa. Everything I do, I do for her.

And this week, we watched as the President of the United States hosted a UFC fight in front of the White House where the winning fighter spewed the vile lie that First Lady Michelle Obama is a man.

This is not the country I want my daughter to grow up in. There is so much on the line. And it’s up to all of us to fight the right fight.

[evanneste @evanneste]

@GwenGraham @davidjollyfl Great news! Two decent, intelligent people with common sense!

[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

[Brad @BraddrofliT]

Every voter should ask themselves why this ok.

[Florida Education Association @FloridaEA]

A state audit revealed millions in voucher overpayments. Auditors recommended stronger oversight. Lawmakers didn't act.

Now, taxpayers may never recover those funds, yet FL is set to spend another $4.5B on vouchers next year.

Accountability matters.

🔗 https://t.co/jz6CzEiNIt

[evanneste @evanneste]

@JeffreyBrandes @NancyRiley If your local officials aren't good stewards of your money - vote them out!

[Senator Carlos Guillermo Smith @CarlosGSmith]

In the rush to ram his reform thru the legislature, the governor’s office completely forgot supervisors of elections, property appraisers, and tax collectors offices are funded by property taxes and had to amend their half baked proposal to make it make sense. 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Mary Ellen Klas @MaryEllenKlas]

Florida needs property tax reform, just not the Soviet style version of centralized government they just put on the November ballot. Best to reject it and come back with something that preserves representative government. Gift link: https://t.co/bJ4M5NBz6Y https://t.co/AuVe7tfegc

[Jeff Brandes @JeffreyBrandes]

“The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist.” - The Usual Suspects

The greatest trick DeSantis ever pulled was convincing Floridians that local government is the problem and state government is the solution.

If your mayor, sheriff, and county commission have to fly to Tallahassee every year to ask permission to fund basic services, the state didn’t shrink government.

It just moved it farther away and gave you less control.

[evanneste @evanneste]

@JeffreyBrandes If you aren't happy with the way local elected officials spend money, then vote them out! Do you want state officials determining h

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE

[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

After Nixon’s “I am not a crook” tax scandal, the IRS mandated that the president’s tax returns be audited yearly.

Every president since Nixon (except Trump) publicly released theirs.

With the new DOJ settlement ending his audits, Trump is essentially announcing “I am a crook.”

[Richard Stengel @stengel]

George H.W. Bush kept his assets in a blind trust, as did Bill Clinton. Neither Obama nor Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office. 3,700 trades is probably more than all the trades of all the presidents until now. And he is trading stocks that are affected by his decisions. A walking conflict of interest, at the least, and perhaps insider trading. Just as members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks, so too the president. https://t.co/yDqVXWfDgc

[Adam Schwarz @AdamJSchwarz]

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister.

Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

[evanneste @evanneste]

@ethanmwolf Florida already has a constitutional amendment to prevent this.

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

An hour after announcing his resignation, the US Army Chief of Staff says: "A madman is about to lead the great US military to ruin."

[evanneste @evanneste]

@loonlake55 No Bachelorette weekends, no baby moons. As Newlyweds we had liver and onions once a week and lots of beans and rice.