Aware&awake

Mom of 2 boys • Lifelong Learner

[It'szooq @Itszooqc15]

Continue discussing the Epstein Files.

Another video that is linked
The truth cannot remain hidden indefinitely.
Everyone must receive justice.

[Spencer Hakimian @SpencerHakimian]

You are not angry enough.

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

It should have been all over when he said, “find 11,780 votes.”

[Acyn @Acyn]

Jeff Bridges: It’s really not about what political party you belong to. I think we can all agree that our kids, in one of the wealthiest countries in the world, shouldn’t be struggling with hunger this way, and that parents shouldn’t have to choose between paying rent and putting groceries in the refrigerator.

[Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw]

Good to see this reversal of Secretary Hegseth's ill-fated policy:

"The Army, Navy and Air Force are once again requiring flu shots for basic trainees."

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[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍�� @LongTimeHistory]

UPDATE: Man films ICE tackle his brother to ground—who is U.S. Army veteran.

"He's fully legal! He's a veteran!" man tells them.

Agents just laugh—then threaten to taze man filming.

"You think you're funny—we're going to sue your ass!"

"We're legal under 1st Amendment bitch!"

The brothers are community observers who were just documenting the scene after being alerted to ICE in the area.

The incident occurred on Route 311 in Marydel, Maryland—near the Delaware border.

People Over Papers doesn't have an account on this platform—so first posting of their unique video angle here.

[𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖_𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @SundaeDivine]

The reflecting pool debacle is the perfect visual metaphor for the Trump Administration - superficial approaches to complex problems leading to worse outcomes than if he had done nothing.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Lieu: Trump overpaid on a no-bid contract to a pool guy who was a total amateur and messed up the Reflecting Pool, and now Trump’s fragile ego has him trying to cover this up by saying someone did a 350-foot gash in the pool. This pool has 24/7 cameras on it. So we’re in a place where the president is just lying because he can’t handle that he totally screwed up the Reflecting Pool.

[Acyn @Acyn]

PabloReports: What do you make of this reflecting pool controversy?

Amo: The pool of scum? I think it’s a terrible waste of taxpayer money, a waste of resources, and a waste of time we should be using to focus on finally ending a war in Iran and, of course, dealing with the cost challenges people are facing. Trump is always fixated on the project of the day. He doesn’t know anything more about fixing that pool than I do. Huge waste of time.

[Libertarians against Trump @jeffersonation1]

Stop telling me to vote third party in the midterms.

Not this time.

The priority is removing power from this corrupt, pedo protecting, authoritarian, war-hungry administration. That means helping Democrats win enough seats to investigate, block, expose and impeach these people.

[Tim Hannan @TimHannan]

MAGA will believe the Reflecting pool was vandalized with no video proof but deny an insurrection happened when it was on live television. These people are cult fanatics.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Tillis: I’ve asked the police officers here: Do they feel like it was OK to give pardons to people who beat them and to prosecute people who, let’s assume for the sake of argument the facts are true, cut a pool lining and get 10 years?

You beat a cop, you get out free and potentially become eligible for restitution.

That seems unequal to me.

[Acyn @Acyn]

CNN doing a side by side of Vance and Obama talking about nuclear inspections

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Hayes: “Acting AG Todd Blanche told Congress not to worry about the $1.8 billion slush fund for insurrectionists…The DOJ then told the court the same thing—don’t worry, it’s moot, it’s dropped, and then last week, the judge said okay, fine, put it in writing. She ordered Blanche and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and an associate AG to all sign ‘a declaration under the penalty of perjury, they will not take any action to create or operate the anti-weaponization fund and that the anti-weaponization fund will not proceed in any manner or under any name.’ Well, today was the deadline for that and guess what? They came back to the court and they said no, we’re NOT doing it. We’re NOT filing any declaration to officially kill the fund, which probably means the slush fund is NOT dead.”🙄🤦‍♀️

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

People struggling to pay bills are cheering on the president and his allies become richer at their expense.

All because he claims to hate the same people they do.

Culture war is powerful, and awful.

[Wayne Waldrop @WayneWaldropW]

It sure would be a shame if we all reminded everyone that Howard Lutnick lied about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein by spreading this picture around again.

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

Turned out the Epstein files are full of billionaires and trillionaires, not immigrants.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Brennan: Our CBS news poll out this morning shows that more than three-quarters of Americans want to end the conflict now, with 69% saying the conflict with Iran was not worth the costs. More than half say the president's war with Iran created more problems than it solved.

[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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