Stuart Miller

"All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
-- Gandalf, TFotR, J.R.R. Tolkien

[Andrew Perpetua @AndrewPerpetua]

I know many people are busy with other things and life and whatever but one thing you should know about the US right now:

Trump dismantled all of the safeguards for the election.
He took apart the apparatus for detecting and tracking foreign interference.

He took apart the reporting agencies.

He stopped sharing intelligence with Congress, even the gang of 8. Who knows if that intelligence even is collected anymore.

And this week he went on television and openly invited Russia to attack the election.

Trump's goal here is simple, to use Putin's fear of a Democrat controlled House and Senate to have Russia interfere with the election as much as possible. Trump gets two benefits from this.

First, he can use Russian interference to delegitimize this year's election.

Second, he can can use the Russian interference to pass his Anti-American draconian bullshit laws that aim to kill the possibility of future fair elections in the United States.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

No one hates the constitution or democracy more than conservative dark money groups who refer to themselves as “patriots”

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Liz Oyer: “Two days after Mr Blanche was confirmed as deputy attorney general, he fired me from my position as the department’s career pardon attorney. I declined to rubber stamp a political favor for a friend of the president and it cost me my job. Mr Blanche’s office had asked me to recommend restoring the gun ownership rights of a convicted domestic abuser. I raised concerns about public safety but Mr Blanche’s staff pressured me to go along anyway. I did not, but because this particular domestic abuser had a personal relationship with the president, Mr Blanche’s staff asked me to set aside my concerns. When I wouldn’t, Mr Blanche fired me within hours. He then took extraordinary measures to silence me. He sent US marshals to my home in an effort to prevent me from speaking with members of Congress.” 😳

[Mary @MaryPet85948511]

The constant corruption so blatant is on the GOP for not doing their jobs when situation , not party warrants it . It takes courage to do the right thing but you will be much more settled than if you keep choosing to go down this path . There has to be some of you that know everything is chaos every day !

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This would be a huge scandal for any other president.

A South Korean company challenging Commerce Department trade penalties paid Donald Trump’s holding company $2,000,000 last year.

The payment came from Base Group, the lead investor in Korea Aluminium, which faced penalties after the Commerce Department found that South Korean companies were circumventing trade duties on Chinese-made aluminum. The money surfaced in Trump’s annual financial disclosure released in late June.

The disclosure described it only as a nonrefundable development fee tied to a letter of intent. The Trump Organization says it relates to an unannounced golf course project.

Base Group has courted the Trump family for nearly a decade. It sells Trump-branded wine in South Korea and hosted Eric Trump at its Seoul headquarters in February, where executives discussed expanding trade between the two countries.

As recently as last month, the Commerce Department was weighing whether to raise tariffs further on Korea Aluminium. A preliminary review released last week sided with American aluminum companies. The agency that decides this company’s fate answers to the president. The president took $2,000,000 dollars from its largest investor.

This is one payment. Trump’s holding company collected at least $125,000,000 from foreign sources last year, from more than a dozen countries.

Every president in modern history stepped away from their business to avoid even the appearance of a conflict. This president kept nearly 30 ventures with foreign partners and now profits from companies whose fortunes his own government controls.

This cannot be normalized.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.
https://t.co/pNk74nOKH4

[Chris Porter (💙-check) @ChrisPorter22]

Also, Trump has made cuts to U.S. agencies inside the U.S. for election safety/integrity. They have been cut to include our intelligence agencies.:
CISA (DHS): Election security program largely eliminated, including ~$40M+ cuts, firing of regional advisors and dozens of specialists, defunding of EI-ISAC (threat-sharing hub for states), and halting cybersecurity assessments/incident response for election infrastructure ahead of 2026 midterms.

Election Assistance Commission (EAC): Bipartisan leadership fully ousted in July 2026 (Democratic members fired, Republican resigned), disrupting voting system certification, security guidance, and federal grant coordination for states.

Intelligence/law enforcement elements: FBI disbanded Foreign Influence Task Force and reassigned officials on election interference; ODNI dissolved Foreign Malign Influence Center; State Department closed Global Engagement Center/R/FIMI counter-disinformation office; broader staff reductions in State INR analysts focused on foreign threats.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Anne Applebaum: "There's a series of institutions that have been created, going back decades…, that are designed to prevent foreign interference and other interference, and … the Trump administration [has] pretty systematically dismantled them.”(2026)

[Dittie @DittiePE]

More on the Trump released documents from Thursday.

He keeps saying that he wasn’t briefed. However, there is one problem with that: one of the documents IS a briefing he personally received in June 2020, titled ‘Beijing escalating efforts to shape US policies on China.’

Another ‘proof’ document? An FBI report on a claim that China used TikTok to steal home addresses and cast thousands of fraudulent Biden votes. The FBI’s own notes point out TikTok doesn’t even require a street address. The case had no credibility and was dropped.

He released the evidence that debunks his own claim, because he’s an idiot.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

28% of the U.S. national debt was added during Donald Trump’s presidencies.

[Donald Trump Portfolio Tracker @TrumpsPortfolio]

Martha Stewart did prison time for six months for what Trump does on a daily basis.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Trump dropped bombs on a desalination plant in Iran’s Hormozgan province — cutting off water to 10,000 cilivians across 20 villages.

This is not a military target.

Trump is deliberately bombing critical infrastructure civilians need to stay alive.

[Lorraine E-Van-Off @LorraineEvanoff]

"Turns out that when you spend 45 years transferring the nation’s wealth to the top, the people at the bottom eventually notice.

The new CNBC All-America Economic Survey finds Americans as gloomy about the economy as they’ve been since the pandemic years, with Trump’s approval down to 40% and just a quarter of the country optimistic about the future, with all this despite a booming stock market, (which explains who that market is booming for).

Today 60% of Americans earning under $30,000 are cutting back on essentials, versus 35% of those making six figures or more.

Over on CNN, chief data analyst Harry Enten went to the videotape and came back visibly rattled: among households under $50,000 — the very voters Trump won by a historic margin in 2024 — a mere 16% think groceries are affordable, and his 16-point advantage over Kamala Harris on the economy has become a 39-point deficit. That’s a 55-point swing.

“The working class have turned against Donald Trump,” Enten said. Of course they have. This is the party that broke the unions, froze the minimum wage into a fossil, and has installed a union-busting lawyer atop the Labor Department in every Republican administration since Reagan.

These are not Eisenhower’s Republicans, and they never intended to be. As Warren Buffett told Ben Stein back in 2006, “It’s my class, the rich class, that’s making [class] war, and we’re winning.”

The only question left is whether the GOP can run the old play one more time — point at a migrant caravan, a Willie Horton, a trans teenager, anything shiny — and get voters to forget that 10 of the last 11 recessions started on a Republican president’s watch."

Saturday Report 7/18/26 — Trump’s DHS threatens to jail election officials, Fox pretends the speech never happened, and Texas asks eighth graders to consider whether the Holocaust was God’s fault... https://t.co/fzETJN3BXV

[Stuart Miller @everdawn7]

@fwrenzo1 Mostly inflation from government spending, trade policy/tariffs, monetary policy, labor policy (minimum wage increase to $15+/hr).

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: After Donald Trump spent hours calling Fox News executives and screaming at them for ignoring his fraud claims, one reportedly yelled back, “You told the entire country, on live television, that every president—even Sleepy Joe—has run fair elections EXCEPT you!"

[medoyid_ua @LetsArmUKR]

The more Syrsky squeezes the troops, the more truth leaks out: abandoned wounded from Skala left to die despite available capacity, deliberate torture in the 425th, 75 percent losses in two weeks for the 150th OMBr after garbage training, storm groups burned for nothing near Hulyaipole. This is not friction. This is systemic meat-grinder incompetence from a commander who still hands out Golden Crosses while his own men mock him with dental chairs.

Syrsky has to go. If a shred of honor remains, he should walk before the next scandal buries more bodies than Russian fire ever could. Ukraine cannot win with leadership that treats soldiers as disposable.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

So, the reflecting pool has been drained. There is no evidence of a 350 foot slit that Trump claims. The pool's lining has turned from blue to a grayish color (not blue at all). There is evidence of tire tracks over the sprayed coating from Trump and his motorcade driving over it.

The only thing it reveals is Trump's incompetence as a businessman and a president. He's gonna used the same buddy he hired with a no bid contract to repair it. How much do you think that'll cost the taxpayers this time?

Well, I must admit. Trump is great at one thing, lying.

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Things conservatives told me when I was in my 20’s:

*Character counts
*Crony capitalism is bad
*Russia is our enemy
*Tariffs are taxes
*The Constitution is sacrosanct
*Government power should be limited, restrained, and checked by congress.

Guess they were just joking.

[Stuart Miller @everdawn7]

@SarahLongwell25 Trump and MAGA are anti- conservative. They subverted the title and corrupted many followers and compromised many politicians.

Many of the principled conservatives, Never Trumpers, critics, and red-pilled former MAGA, are politically homeless.

[Stuart Miller @everdawn7]

@Alex1911Kier @NOELreports Sure. Give him that regiment the size of a corps he built up with brutality in the Soviet style and let him defend a sector with it.

[Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63]

Remember that strongmen want to dominate the information space and create loyalty tests for politicians, media, and citizens. Don’t look at the documents or facts. Whatever I say right now is the truth, even if it contradicts yesterday and I will contradict it tomorrow.