Karen Wagner

Couldn’t care less about speaking to your manager | ☮️ | Mom/stepmom to 5 YAs | Daily ear worm sufferer | Longhorn🤘| Info junky | Dog enthusiast

[hope now peace @newhopenow3]

@CREWcrew Guess the dumbass didn’t know he had the General Services Administration at his disposal who are in charge of Federal property and know how to do it.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

So absurd. Trump has undercover henchmen patrolling this thing now

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

So let me get this straight: Pulling a chunk of paint out of the Reflecting Pool gets you arrested for vandalism, but trump’s terrorists who attacked the Capitol, killed cops, broke windows, stole shit, and smeared their feces on the walls get to go free?

[KT @kt59601]

@atrupar

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“This is why I knew the version of events we witnessed in Butler, PA, were a stunt - and not the natural reactions of the man whose family I worked closely with in reality TV.

Even Tucker Carlson revealed recently that Dan Bongino told him Trump personally shut down the FBI investigation into his ‘assassination attempt’ when he came back into office.

Which makes total sense seeing how effective the ‘Fight, Fight, Fight’ branding operation had become for him - and how there is no way the events of that day would hold up to further scrutiny. Including the actions of the Secret Service, who seemingly went against all previous training and protocol to allow POTUS the opportunity for a photo op during an attempt on his life.

To put it simply, it doesn’t pass the smell test - and, as I have said many times before, Donald Trump should never be given the benefit of the doubt. Most especially when it comes to choreographed optics that serve the fraudulent image he has spent a lifetime crafting.” https://t.co/6BEIyohg06

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

"Michelle Obama is a man, am I right?"

That's what UFC fighter Josh Hokit said at Trump's $60 million UFC fight on the White House lawn.

After the event, UFC President Dana White said, "hopefully, we created some unity in the country."

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

Heads up: The U.S. Postal Service has proposed a new rule that would allow it to refuse to deliver mail ballots in states that don't turn over voter rolls to the federal government.

Democrats and voting-rights groups say the proposed rule is clear evidence that the Trump admin is trying to unconstitutionally intrude on state-run elections.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“After Elon Musk helped Trump win Pennsylvania using his vast wealth to usurp democracy in the interest of his own ambition, he gutted and destroyed U.S.A.’s global soft diplomacy by ‘feeding USAID into the wood chipper’, basically creating the Ebola outbreak we are now witnessing ravage the Democratic Republic of Congo. Just a fraction of the millions who will suffer and perish as a result of the actions of just a few terrible men, and in DOGE’s case, outright teenagers.

That all of us are afforded an equal say in the ‘beautiful argument’ of our democracy (to quote a Springsteen line) that moves forward the ideals and the patriotic quest of opportunity and freedom for all.

The ‘American Dream’ should always extend across its borders and for much of the last century it did just that - in the form of international aid. Despite the echoes of imperialism so central to our song, we did a lot of good in the world as well. Turning our back on that will only bring the nightmares closer to home.”https://t.co/SfZgeT6SzH

[The Trump-Epstein Reading Room @RedactedReading]

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You can honor survivors and support organizations working to serve and advocate for them. And you can take action to hold these perpetrators accountable.

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[Joe @Joe801494641048]

@Rep_Stansbury Why isn't DC demanding more now that this has been published?

[Andrew Mercado @AndrewMercado]

BREAKING: $1 MILLION BOND, JAKE LANG BOOKED INTO JAIL ON TERRORISTIC THREAT CHARGE

The Trump-pardoned January 6 terrorist Jake Lang has been booked into the Dallas County Jail and is being held on a $1 million bond, according to jail records.

The charge is listed as, you guessed it, Terroristic Threats. A pardoned convicted terrorist making terroristic threats all over the country. Weird. Nice mugshot ya weenie.

Follow @SatireAP for the latest

[Texas Tribune @TexasTribune]

Five cases of New World screwworm were recently confirmed in Texas. The U.S. Department of Agriculture and Gov. Greg Abbott this week held a joint press conference to address the flesh-eating fly that poses a threat to Texas' $15 billion cattle industry.

Here’s what you need to know. 🧵

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

From the Texas Tribune:

After Mexican officials confirmed case of screwworm in Nov. 2024, USDA, under Joe Biden, closed southern ports of entry to live cattle imports to prevent spread of screwworm into U.S. Move also strained supply of cattle in Texas....
USDA reversed course in Feb 2025, after Trump took office, announcing opening of ports"

[Sandi Bachom 📹 @sandibachom]

I was there and I brought my camera. This is how they erase history. It’s never been more important to being an independent journalist and I am grateful for your support.

I was at the Capitol riot for nine hours alone. It was terrifying and violent I will never forget it for one minute.

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

FOX News did to our parents what they thought Pokémon would do to us: it made them believe in imaginary monsters.

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

Canada is the polite kid at dinner realizing his drunk Uncle Sam has found the ceremonial sword.

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The President of the United States is asleep at his desk. Again.

Behind him stand seven grown adults in expensive suits, and not one of them is doing anything about it. One is mid-sentence. Another is gazing sideways with the haunted look of a man whose pension depends on never acknowledging what he can see in his peripheral vision.

The rest of the world is watching, and the rest of the world has noticed something. Americans are terrified of authority. That fear has settled over this administration like a fog, and it turns otherwise functional adults into warm furniture. Nobody moves. Nobody speaks. The paralysis is total.

In any European parliament, in any boardroom from Oslo to Ljubljana, someone would have leaned over by now. Tapped a shoulder. Said, quietly but clearly, that perhaps this isn’t the moment. Somebody would have done something, because the alternative, pretending a sleeping man is running a meeting, would have been too absurd to sustain.

Not here. Here, seven men have collectively decided that the correct professional response to the President losing consciousness in the Oval Office is to carry on as though he were a particularly demanding houseplant.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

So let me get this straight.

Jake Tapper is focused on attacking my Mom.

Jared and Ivanka are building a private island paradise on Albanian protected land.

Don Jr married the daughter of Epstein’s banker, and a startup his fund backs just got a record $620M Pentagon loan.

Eric is taking an Israeli drone company public for $1.5B in the middle of a war with Iran that nobody wanted.

And I know: “But what about your paintings, Hunter?”

Please.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“Nothing is more central to the ruse of Trumpism than making his followers believe he is somehow virile, and in command, on the world stage. He is not.

He is a bumbling, almost-octogenarian drug addict who was so unmanageable in his reality TV show days (in which I worked with his family) that his call times were always late afternoon - and even then, he cancelled much of the time.

Trump simply was not functional - or all that interested in working; a trait he shares with his children. They showed up on the ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ finale tapings as if they were some sort of royal family descending from their penthouse perches to mingle with the commoners for a few hours.

Don Jr. was a notoriously bad drunk who was semi-dry for a while, before slipping in to the obviously coked-out years of his father’s two presidential terms. Working has never really entered his mind. Junior has fleeced the MAGA faithful for years, along with his old man - before now focusing his greedy, beady eyes on the American taxpayer and no-bid Pentagon contracts.

We learned this week that the White House, courtesy of Peter Navarro, intervened on behalf of a $620 million Pentagon loan to a mining company, Vulcan Elements, that Don Jr.’s venture capital firm, 1789 Capital, took a stake in just three months earlier.

Besides the fast-tracked loan, the company also received $50 million in Commerce Department incentives. Don Jr.’s firm’s assets under management has grown from $200 million to $3.5 billion in a year. He refers to this success as ‘Patriotic Capitalism’, but most folks would call it what it is, corruption and graft in plain sight.

The staggering AUM adds to the long list of handouts and kickbacks he and his brother Eric have amassed in recent months by helping themselves to U.S. Defense Department contracts, and trading on their father’s presidency for private, for-profit Trump Organization development deals across the world.

Lest we forget, much of their old man’s last campaign was based around Hunter Biden’s laptop and the fact he had sold a few oil paintings.

Basically, the difference between panhandling outside on the sidewalk or walking in and robbing the bank. The MAGA faithful bought the ‘Biden Crime Family’ BS lock, stock and barrel because they were told to - by the culture that reinforces the Trump clan’s grifting and by the sleight-of-hand Donald employs with his constant demonization of Democrats and his endless dancing in front of flags.”https://t.co/1ulQFV6Odg