Katie Penterman

No ICE. No war. No Kings. Release all the Epstein files.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A note to my friends who still back Trump:

I am not here to dunk on you. I am writing because you have a working brain, and this story insults it.

The Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool got a $14 million paint job. Shortly thereafter the water turned green and the new “American flag blue” coating started peeling off the bottom in sheets. Trump says vandals did it. He claims, without evidence, that someone took a knife and cut a 300-foot slit, a number that grew to 350 feet while he was still talking.

Back on May 4, Trump bragged about that same coating and said, if you had a knife, you could not even cut it, so strong, like powerful rubber. He cannot have it both ways.

And the green water?

A George Mason scientist tested it and found ordinary, non-toxic algae, the kind that blooms in any shallow sunny pool. To fight it, crews dumped hydrogen peroxide into the water.

Hydrogen peroxide is also a paint stripper.

That, not sabotage or vandalism, is the obvious reason the paint came off. They wrecked their own paint job, then blamed phantom vandals for it.

The lone "vandal" they paraded is a 67-year-old Olympian who touched a flap of paint already peeling on its own.

Here is the thing. If they will look you in the eye and lie about something this small, something you can see with your own eyes, ask yourself what else they are lying to you about.

Again, you have a working brain. People like Karoline Leavitt are counting on you to stay loyal instead of exercising independent thought.

Prove them wrong.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Republicans looked the country in the eye and made a promise. When they rewrote the food stamp program last year, they said children would not be touched.

Pregnant women would not be touched.

Families with young kids would not be touched. They said it on the House floor, on the record, in front of everyone.

A year later we know the truth.

More than 776,000 children have been cut off from food assistance. In the states that track participation by age, kids make up nearly half of everyone who lost benefits.

These are kids who went to bed hungry because a politician wanted a talking point. 

We must be a country that feeds its children. We used to believe that was the bare minimum. Take care of the kid who is hungry through no fault of their own.

The people who broke that promise should have to answer for it, and in November they will.
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[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.   

Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.  

The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.  

Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.  

The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Kratom is a plant from Asia that hits the same brain receptors as opioids. People take it for energy or pain. It can be addictive and it can kill.

People buy it at gas stations, with no age check and no honest label.

Markwayne Mullin owns up to a million dollars in a kratom company. Then he stood at an FDA podium and pushed rules to crush that company’s rivals. He never sold the stock.

The company was founded by a felon who stole $10 million and did prison time. His kratom shots are tied to liver damage, seizures, and death. The stuff showed up in 5,200 overdose deaths in five years. A 27 year old grad student took it for six weeks and died. His mother says a real ban would have saved him.

You cannot make this up. The same company paid a Trump connected lobbyist $600,000.

Then the payoff. The Justice Department dropped its lawsuit. The FDA scrubbed the warnings off its website. RFK Jr. called Ohio’s governor to kill a state ban. And the company wired a million dollars to a PAC tied to Kennedy.

This is the swamp they swore to drain. It is worse than ever before.

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[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

President Obama shouts out "those ordinary people in the Twin Cities, who braved frigid temperatures, risked their own safety, standing shoulder to shoulder to look out for their neighbors and, sometimes, look out for strangers because they knew that was the right thing to do."

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

It’s almost like outbreaks of sickness are predictable if people don’t take vaccines to prevent them

[Marc Polymeropoulos @Mpolymer]

This. It’s blatantly obvious, the decline. And alarming. I don’t care what side of the political aisle u r on, this is now two in a row for us. As a reminder, at the CIA at the senior operational level, mandatory retirement at 65. For pilots, mandatory retirement at 65. Frustrating (and rather scary, the stakes r too high) to watch the dramatic health decline of a president, again.

[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

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[Niall Harbison @NiallHarbison]

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[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

NEW (gift link) https://t.co/uLMTf0vvSV:

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

Worth a read.
"Have you ever been around someone you just know is evil?" -- Melinda French Gates on meeting Jeffrey Epstein
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[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Friends— If you haven’t read the @nytimes 🚨‼️Bombshell Report🚨‼️on the Epstein Cover Up in the White House, it’s a MUST READ for your weekend reading list!

Article Below—https://t.co/ptmQQCzwqP

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

I'm blown away by this EXCELLENT piece of @CNN reporting. This journalist @katie_polglase demonstrates how to conduct interviews with Epstein associates. She had this guy sweating, because she did her homework. Bravo. (Worth getting through the ad to watch.)...https://t.co/qbzVqDcPbs

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Yup

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

(gift article) Inside Epstein's campaign to influence public opinion https://t.co/8GQyaZLRgG

[julie k. brown @jkbjournalist]

Buried in the story: Ruemmler "will walk away with $25 million for her work last year and $80 million in stock options."
Question not asked: Did you ever consider the girls who Epstein sexually abused? Did you think the dozens of girls who filed lawsuits over the years made the abuse up?
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[Acyn @Acyn]

Lieu: The president is not well. He has tremendous difficulty staying awake on the job. He has repeatedly fallen asleep at Cabinet meetings, at White House events, at a Memorial Day ceremony, and most recently at a very loud NBA game last night.

The White House needs to explain why Donald Trump keeps going to the hospital and taking cognitive tests.

[George Wallace @MrGeorgeWallace]

I hope Spencer Pratt ends up in 5th place as a salute to Riley Gaines and whatnot.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

.@Timodc on Trump storming out of his interview with Kristen Welker:

"It's unbelievable, honestly, that the American people could put this fucking ass clown in the White House."

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

If Democrats were rigging elections, that orange pedophile wouldn’t be president right now. Be fucking for real.