Kim M. Simpson

Washington, D.C. Public Affairs Pro // Fundraiser // Politico // Photographer // Founded I Resolve To® . . . 2005 // Sponsor @TheFluffball // 📓 HaikuResolve 📷

[Kim M. Simpson @KimMSimpson]

"Where you see wrong or inequality or injustice, speak out, because this is your country. This is your democracy. Make it. Protect it. Pass it on."

- Thurgood Marshall

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Epstein survivor on Todd Blanche “Blanche spent 9 hours meeting with Ghislaine Maxwell. He did not even spend 9 minutes meeting with the survivors.”

Horrifying.

[Senator Reverend Raphael Warnock @SenatorWarnock]

First, they sent the FBI to seize ballots in GA. Then, they tried to get data on election workers in Fulton County.

Now, they’re threatening to imprison election officials.

This is escalating quickly. Every single American should be alarmed.

[Crazy Moments @Crazymoments01]

"Daisy came to us as a puppy in 2013. Adopted, returned. Adopted again, returned again - four times total. As she got older, gray around the muzzle and cloudy-eyed, people stopped asking about her. Our staff loved her, but she lived in kennel #7 for twelve years.

Yesterday, Helen, 74, who'd just lost her Beagle of fifteen years last winter, walked through our doors. Staff kept showing her younger, "adoptable" dogs. Helen shook her head at each one, then asked: "Who's been here the longest?" We brought out Daisy. Helen looked at her gray face and cloudy eyes and said: "Perfect. We match now." She signed the papers and took her home yesterday afternoon.

Twelve years. 4,380 days in that kennel. The wait for an American shelter dog is finally over. It's never too late.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🎯 @chrislhayes: “Every day it gets clearer Trump wants to 1/6 the midterms… he does not believe in free & fair elections… he wants to use any means at his disposal to retain power regardless of what the voters say…”

The correct reaction to his speech. Time to wake up.

[Bécquer 🇪🇸✒🔡 @GustavoAdolf_]

Sheldrick Wildlife Trust es una de las organizaciones de conservación más famosas y respetadas de África, conocida mundialmente por su trabajo pionero en el rescate, rehabilitación y reinserción de elefantes huérfanos. No dejar a ningún elefante atrás, es un valor bajo el cual viven los elefantes: son increíblemente leales y solo abandonarán a los suyos en las circunstancias más extremas. Durante la sequía, la búsqueda de agua de una madre y su cría se convirtió en una trampa mortal. Atrapada sin escapatoria, la madre continuó protegiendo a su pequeño de la única manera que podía: escudándolo con su trompa. Su bebé fue igualmente valiente, corriendo de vuelta hacia su madre y negándose a apartarse de su lado.
Fue una operación monumental rescatar a la pareja, en colaboración con el Servicio de Vida Silvestre de Kenia (KWS), pero lograron liberar tanto a la madre como a la cría. 🐘❤️

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Epstein survivor Annie Farmer on meeting with Acting AG Todd Blanche:

"I feel even more confident in urging senators to vote against his confirmation as the United States' Attorney General. I found him abrasive, condescending, and intentionally noncommittal to survivors — a marked contrast to his public testimony during his confirmation hearing. While quick to point to the failures of previous administrations, he refused to take accountability for mistakes made under his own leadership."

[Crazy Moments @Crazymoments01]

"Filmed four days ago at Memorial Hospital in Seattle, Washington.

Eight days ago, Officer Ryan Mitchell, 32, Seattle PD K9 Unit, and his six-year-old Belgian Malinois partner Atlas responded to an armed robbery call. Mitchell was shot twice in the shoulder and side. Atlas stood over him growling at everyone even paramedics until they convinced him they were helping.

Mitchell survived surgery but spent eight days in ICU. The department pushed hard for a hospital exception, explaining Atlas had been inconsolable - refusing food, refusing other handlers, just pacing and crying. The hospital agreed to one visit.

Footage shows Mitchell bandaged in bed as Officer Garcia brings Atlas in on leash. Atlas stops completely, staring, like he can't believe what he's seeing. Mitchell extends his arm: "Come here, buddy." Atlas breaks into a careful run, jumps onto the bed, and lies down across Mitchell's chest, deliberately avoiding his injuries. Mitchell wraps both arms around him and cries. Atlas presses his head under his chin and stays perfectly still.

"We've never allowed a K9 in ICU before," Mitchell's doctor told us. "But that reunion made me understand why we had to. That dog needed to see his partner alive and breathing."

Atlas refused to leave the bed after his hour-long visit - it took twenty minutes to coax him down. Mitchell goes home to Atlas next week.

Sometimes your K9 partner stands guard over you when you're down, and all you need is to hold each other again.

[Homeland Dems @HomelandDems]

"I only need 11,000 votes, fellas. I need 11,000 votes. Gimme a break."

In case anyone forgot: the only person caught trying to rig the 2020 election was Donald Trump—and it's on tape.

Every accusation from this insecure little man is projection.

[redball @redball2]

🌳🌿🐓🐓🐓🐓 ‘popularity’ .. Sam Neill peacefully with friends at home on the farm in July 2021

[Hillary Clinton @HillaryClinton]

Trump's embarrassing rant last night about an election he lost six years ago made two things very clear:

1. He's not focused on making life better for Americans. Not even close.

2. We should act now to counteract any efforts to undermine our elections. https://t.co/L63hCChOn6

[FactPost @factpostnews]

Shapiro: I was Pennsylvania AG in 2020 when Trump's enablers took me to court 43 times to try and throw out votes. Every single time they went to court, they lost. They went 0-43, and I went 43-0, because they could never produce the evidence to back up the president's BS.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

This is a 25th Amendment moment.

I just watched the ramblings of a mad king and what else can I say — the only thing missing was tin foil.

Donald Trump is trying to rig our elections and we have to stop him.

Show up and VOTE this November.

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

PBS fact-checked Trump’s speech:

1. CLAIM: China accessed voter files.
*The files were public voter rolls from 6 states in 2022, not the 2020 election. No evidence votes were changed.

2. CLAIM: Voting machines are vulnerable.
*No evidence any machines were hacked in 2020. Paper ballots and audit trails protected election results.

3. CLAIM: 278,000 non-citizens were registered.
*Registration isn’t proof of voting, and the WH provided no evidence for the claim.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

The constitution provides that states run elections. The federal govt does not. There is no legal authority for Mullin to take over elections, issue mandates & rules, or threaten elections officials with prison for failure to comply with unlawful orders. https://t.co/DYLOt47jAS

[Chris D. Jackson @ChrisDJackson]

And there you have it.

Donald Trump released these documents tonight believing they would finally prove the 2020 election was rigged against him.

Instead, his own release reinforced the exact opposite: Russia interfered to damage Joe Biden and benefit Donald Trump.

The central @HunterBiden -Burisma bribery smear was built on fabricated claims from an FBI informant with Russian contacts, a man now serving six years in federal prison. Meanwhile, Hunter Biden is winning millions in court over defamatory lies.

Trump tried to expose a conspiracy against himself and accidentally exposed the operation that benefited him.

Absolute, breathtaking incompetence.

Thanks for releasing the receipts, Donald!

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

Every American has the right to vote.

But the President continues to attack that right, including once again voting by mail (which he has done himself).

He's relitigating an election he lost six years ago instead of focusing on what he should be fixing: costs are up for families across the country and his war has no end in sight. Despite everything he said tonight, Americans will go to the polls this fall because they don’t want more rubber stamps of Donald Trump.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

NEW: ABC, Meta, and Paramount gave Trump's presidential library up to $56.5 MILLION to settle lawsuits.

Now, financial disclosures show missing money and millions in expenses with no explanation.

Where is the money? Americans deserve answers. I'm pressing for them.

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Trump has gutted the FBI’s election protection task force, DHS election teams, ODNI cells, and the EAC.

If he’s so concerned about the security of our elections…

…why is he systematically dismantling the tools to protect them?

🤔

[Michael Steele @MichaelSteele]

Trump, you lost the 2020 election. If the election was rigged, it was rigged by your administration as your administration was in charge leading up to, during and after the election. There was no foreign interference. There was no fraud. The election was not stolen. You lost old man. I would say deal with it, but that would require a level of emotional maturity you obviously lack.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Quick question, whatever happened to:

- The DOGE dividend checks
- Tariff rebate checks
- Slashing energy prices
- 10% APR on credit cards
- 1000–1500% cheaper meds
- $2 gas
- The Epstein files
- Reopening the Strait of Hormuz that was already open
- Cheaper groceries
- Ending wars in 24 hours
- The "privately funded" ballroom
- All the jobs
- Lower interest rates
- That great healthcare plan

Any updates?