JuxtaposeGOP

Frustrated with lies, hypocrisy, and corruption of certain GOP politicians. Documenting what I come across here. 🐝 🚊 ✈️ 🚙

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Can’t afford your rent or mortgage?

How selfish.

The President has a ballroom to build.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

All the signals are flashing red, the latest being @POTUS's summary dismissal of the remaining Federal Election Assistance Commission members.
Put that together with political hack Pulte's odious appt as DNI; election deniers in the most sensitive oversight positions; Trump's exec order on mail-in voting, and potential use of the Postal Service as a weapon of subversion; his pathological prioritization of the SAVE act, which would be the most powerful voter suppression tool in generations; and his persistent, unfounded claims of election fraud, which he uses to justify extraordinary federal interventions.
On the square, the @GOP would take a beating this fall, largely because of Trump's unpopularity.
So he's setting up Plan B--do whatever you need to do to win. Anything.
Anyone who says "Well, he wouldn't do THAT" hasn't paid attention. He's already proven he will!
So the period AFTER the Midterms may be even more turbulent than the run up to them.
The courts are going to be very busy this fall.

[JuxtaposeGOP @JuxtaGOPosition]

Reminds me of this story from last month: A Muslim Texan sought to find his place in the party at the state GOP convention. He left in tears. https://t.co/wtA9w5hP8d

[Semafor @semafor]

Reid Rasner, an openly gay Republican running for Wyoming’s sole House seat, is spending the final stretch of his campaign on something he didn’t expect: suing members of his own party for calling him a 'pedophile.'

https://t.co/g4u7ZwBD21

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

What absolute liars. "It's categorically false that we would pressure someone to self-deport" ARE YOU KIDDING ME? @DHSgov has been running PR campaigns pressuring people to self-deport!

There are dozens and dozens of documented examples of it happening in detention too!

[Carol Leonnig @CarolLeonnig]

The associate Attorney General left prosecutors slack-jawed when he said he dislikes DOJ criminal investigations of corporations, saying something to the effect of "there is no prison large enough" to imprison a corporation.
That's not how it works.
https://t.co/FwVqqmXqNP

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

NEW: We obtained a classified tranche of documents prepared by the Chinese and Russian military proposing an unprecedented level of integrated aerospace defense between the two countries. One of their targets? The @Starlink satellite constellation, which they see as a major threat, thanks to its use in the ongoing war in Ukraine, and now aim to countermand with cyber attacks or simply by shooting down @elonmusk's property in Low Earth orbit: https://t.co/ZsEfcXXpjJ

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

In February, it was already clear that the administration would make multiple attempts to manipulate the elections. From the Autocracy in America podcast:

https://t.co/u2k62EiW4V

[Marques Brownlee @MKBHD]

Instagram decided to roll out a new “Muse AI” feature, that lets users create AI images based on people’s Instagram photos.

Then they opted in EVERYONE with a public account

To opt out:
Click your profile picture
3 bars in the top right
scroll down to "Sharing and reuse"
Toggle off for both Posts and for Reels

[Ken Dilanian @KDilanianMSNOW]

Damn right.

[ElectionBabe @ElectionBabe]

This decision has massive implications, and it doesn’t matter what your political affiliation is. Replacing commissioners at the EAC is not something that can be done by executive fiat. And we’re currently…commissioner-less.
H/T @Votebeat

https://t.co/cETEzSKgLs

[JuxtaposeGOP @JuxtaGOPosition]

It's all about the grift and benefiting themselves, not doing any work.

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

MS NOW Exclusive: Kash Patel has been demanding special perks from bureau employees during his taxpayer-funded travels throughout the country, including helicopter tours and jet ski excursions, according to whistleblower accounts given to Democrats on the House and Senate Judiciary committees. https://t.co/Lg4sgzxvNz

[Eric Katz @EricM_Katz]

New: At one time, DHS was sending staff to 60 countries around the world to vet refugees. Now they're only in one country: South Africa, to vet white Afrikaners.

A look at how Trump has decimated the refugee system and narrowly focused it to his preference, with @AlmsNatalie 👇

[JuxtaposeGOP @JuxtaGOPosition]

SCOTUS didn't invent birthright citizen last week - the 14th amendment to the Constitution created it way back in 1868. And as for "the entire family" being allowed to follow, it was through such chain migration that the First Lady's parents were able to arrive in the US.

[JuxtaposeGOP @JuxtaGOPosition]

We had a revolution over this.

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Agents must knock and announce before exciting a search warrant unless a judge says otherwise. They can’t just walk into a house to make an arrest, certainly not of a US citizen.

[Topher Spiro @TopherSpiro]

I am shocked, just shocked, that enhanced ACA tax credits lower costs and increase coverage.

[JuxtaposeGOP @JuxtaGOPosition]

The cut to ACA premium tax credits was $31 billion, causing rates to go up by triple digits.

[Stephen Semler @stephensemler]

Through four months, the US has spent $103 billion on the Iran War.

An average of more than $860 million per day.

[Freedom of the Press Foundation @FreedomofPress]

DHS investigated a New York woman for the supposed offense of reposting the news.

The government shouldn't get to decide what journalism is too dangerous to share.
https://t.co/Sh4Zzk2OV1

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

Reuters analysis found that the Trumps have raked in $2.3 billion from 4 different crypto ventures.

Through the same schemes, their investors lost $2.3 billion.

My @Morning_Joe Chart

[Jon Ralston @RalstonReports]

A Nevada federal judge says ICE is ignoring his order to release certain detainees. That is at once shocking and all too believable.

Excellent reporting via @bella_tweetss, who has owned this beat in Nevada.

[Adrienne LaFrance @AdrienneLaF]

New in The Atlantic this morning: an extraordinary cover story by @rosehorowitch.

If you’re generally only reading tweets, emails, texts, and machine-generated sentences, you should really, really read this story (and after that, a novel!):

https://t.co/izCxIr0MW2