Carl

Came to Twitter for sports but now staying to see the downfall of trump and the Republican Party he has infected.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

A brand new bridge between Detroit and Canada is finished and ready to open. It would speed up traffic for millions of trucks, cut delays for American businesses, and help the auto industry that employs people in every state. There is just one problem.

Donald Trump won’t let it open.

Here is why.

The family that owns the old bridge stands to lose business when the new one opens. So in January, they gave one million dollars to a pro-Trump super PAC.

Weeks later they met with Trump’s Commerce Secretary.

He called Trump.

Hours after that, Trump announced he would block the new bridge. The opening was set for June 12. It got canceled the day before. The bridge sits there finished and empty.

Now here is the part that should make every taxpayer angry.

Canada paid for the entire bridge.

Every dollar. And the United States already owns half of it for free. Trump is holding up a bridge we got for nothing, to protect a donor who wrote him a check, while picking a fight with our closest ally and biggest trading partner.

This is corruption in plain sight.

A billionaire pays, and the President delivers. American workers and businesses pay the price.

Open the bridge. A government should work for the people, not for whoever writes the biggest check.
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[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Trump is trying to turn every federal grant into a political loyalty test.

Before any grant for things like medical research, housing, public health, and more gets approved, a political appointee would have to sign off that it serves Trump’s personal agenda. If they don’t like what you’re working on, the funding disappears.

The Founding Fathers gave Congress the power of the purse precisely so no president could ever do what Donald Trump is trying to do right now. It is the most fundamental check in our entire system of government, and Republicans are forfeiting it without a fight.

Where on earth are my Republican colleagues on the Appropriations Committee? You and I spent the last year fighting for every single dollar of this funding. Every. Single. Dollar. And you are letting this president TRAMPLE all over Congress and your own job.
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[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

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[Carl @malman2]

@infosciencehd @Acyn @davematt88 Not million but billion

[Carl @malman2]

@JimEatock @Acyn Trump dropped the irs case so actually the $1.776 billion is not related to the irs case. The judge in the case had serious concerns about the case. The case and the money are not connected at all.

[Carl @malman2]

@shane99691 @LDS_Dems The irs case was dropped without prejudice so the $1.776 billion is not connected to that case at all. The judge had serious concerns about the case so what justification is there for the irs to provide this slush fund for convicts?

[Carl @malman2]

@LDS_Dems Trump dropped the irs case so actually the $1.776 billion is not related to the irs case. The judge in the case had serious concerns about the case. The case and the money are not connected at all.

[Carl @malman2]

@nickyssle Hi

[Carl @malman2]

@peasterly0 @Andrew_FBB I know Naylor has struggled but he shouldn’t be on the waiver wire

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement. https://t.co/ehhCCzys1D

[Carl @malman2]

@VinnysCorner1 Larry Walker and Randy Johnson

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Trump’s $10 BILLION lawsuit against his own government just hit a wall.

A federal judge says the case looks collusive, raising serious concerns that Trump is trying to use the courts to get a payout from the Treasury Department.

Now the judge is demanding answers, ordering Trump or his administration essentially to explain why this isn’t a fraud on the court.

One possible outcome? The judge could pause the entire case until Trump leaves office—so that a real adversarial process can exist.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

No president in modern history has used the office to enrich himself the way Donald Trump has. That's not a political opinion. It’s the conclusion of ethics watchdogs who have spent their careers watching this stuff.

The crypto ventures. The foreign deals with the Saudis, the Qataris, the Emiratis. The $400 million Qatari jet. The $90 million in media settlements. The gold golf balls from the Japanese.

This is the man who told you he was going to clean up Washington.

For this President, the presidency isn’t about protecting our democracy or the public trust. It’s about turning the highest office in the land into a personal cash register, and he’s been doing it from day one.

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

Judge Cannon blocked this part of the report

Bondi was in such a rush to try and frame Jack Smith that she accidentally ended up releasing files that show why.

Trump profited from classified information as a private citizen.

He didn’t declassify it as president.

He didn’t just fail to return it.

He knowingly kept, shared and monetized sensitive US information,

Including information that only 6 people had access to that was deemed a “severe national security risk”

[Former Republican 🇺🇸 @Sjacobs2020]

Here's 15 Reasons Why the "SAVE America Act" is Nothing More Than VOTER SUPPRESSION.

1. Mass Disenfranchisement of Eligible Citizens: More than 21 million Americans lack ready access to the required documents (passport or certified birth certificate). These are fully legal voters who could simply be locked out of registering under the new rules.

2. It Functions as a Poll Tax: Because passports and similarly costly documents are not available for free, requiring them to register to vote would function like a modern-day poll tax, echoing the fees Southern states once used to keep Black citizens from the ballot before the Voting Rights Act of 1965. A passport costs at least $165 plus photos, and getting an official certified birth certificate can cost up to $100. The poll tax was outlawed for federal elections by the 24th Amendment in 1964.

3. No Fee Waivers or Expidited Process: There is no provision for expedited or urgent processing for voter registration purposes, nor are application fees waived. Making matters worse, the State Department has cut its passport office in half and removed the ability to submit applications at local libraries, meaning physically going to an official office — which for many would mean traveling hundreds of miles.

4. The Married Women Name-Mismatch Problem: An estimated 69 million American women and 4 million men do not have a birth certificate that matches their current legal name. The bill requires voters who don't have a passport to present a birth certificate that matches the name on their REAL ID or driver's license — which married women who took their spouse's name simply cannot do. They may have to show a birth certificate, plus a marriage certificate, plus a photo ID — all linked together — creating a multi-document, multi-cost burden that other voters don't face. Exactly what supplementary documents would be accepted, and how consistently, is not spelled out in the bill, raising fears of uneven enforcement across jurisdictions.

5. Stricter ID Than Any State Currently Requires: The act would implement a national voter ID requirement more burdensome than almost every single state voter ID law currently in effect. Specifically, the bill prohibits the use of student IDs even from state universities, and accepts tribal IDs only with an expiration date, even though many tribal IDs do not contain one. Military ID cards are listed as qualifying documents, but must be accompanied by a military record of service showing the person's birthplace was in the U.S. — a requirement the standard DD214 discharge form does not currently fulfill.

6. REAL ID Doesn't Even Qualify: REAL IDs generally don't demonstrate proof of citizenship, and similarly, state-issued IDs can only be used if they include proof of citizenship — which most states do not include. This means the ID that millions of Americans obtained specifically to comply with federal requirements won't be enough under this bill.

7. Eliminates Convenient Voter Registration Methods: In 2022, more than seven million Americans registered to vote by mail, and almost 11 million registered online. The bill would severely threaten mail registration and require online systems to be completely overhauled. Campaign Legal Center Only 6% of voters currently register in person at an elections office — meaning the in-person requirement would be a dramatic and disruptive change for the vast majority of Americans.

8. Re-Registration Triggered by Ordinary Life Events: The bill would affect already-registered voters too. Any time someone updates their registration — if they change their address or political party — they would need to provide these citizenship documents all over again. This means moving, getting married, or switching parties would each trigger a new documentation requirement.

9. Error-Prone Voter Purges: The act mandates that states conduct frequent voter purges based on faulty data, a practice that removes registered voters from the rolls. A precedent already exists: in 2018, a federal judge struck down Kansas' proof-of-citizenship law after it was shown that more than 30,000 voter applications — about 12% of new registrations — were suspended or cancelled illegally.

10. Federal Seizure of Sensitive Voter Data: Every state would be forced to submit its voter rolls to DHS for comparison against the agency's flawed citizenship database, with no restrictions on what the federal government can do with that sensitive data once received. This is particularly alarming given that the administration previously conceded that DOGE team members agreed to turn over state voter rolls to an outside advocacy group seeking to find evidence of voter fraud and overturn election results.

11. Criminal Penalties for Election Workers: Election workers could face up to five years in prison for helping someone register without the correct documents, even if that person turns out to be a citizen. There is already a high turnover rate in election offices due to threats and harassment, and the additional legal risk could exacerbate that further.

12. No Implementation Timeline or Funding: The SAVE Act does not provide any money to help states and local governments implement the changes or promote them to voters. For most provisions, the bill contains no phase-in period, meaning its documentary proof-of-citizenship mandate would apply immediately and be in place for the 2026 midterm elections.

13. Solving a Near-Nonexistent Problem: Even the Heritage Foundation has uncovered just 100 instances of noncitizen voter fraud since 2000, out of roughly 1.5 billion ballots cast in federal elections — and there is no evidence noncitizen voting has ever affected the outcome of any election. The bill imposes sweeping costs on tens of millions of eligible voters to address what amounts to a statistically invisible problem.

14. Disproportionate Economic Impact: People with lower incomes or less education are far less likely to have a valid passport or the means to obtain one -meaning the financial and logistical burdens of this bill fall hardest on communities that have historically already faced the greatest barriers to voting.

15. End Mail Voting: Trump has repeatedly pushed to expand the legislation to end most mail-in voting, which would affect 36 states and D.C. that currently allow no-excuse mail voting or conduct elections entirely by mail.

Bottom line: Taken together, critics argue the SAVE America Act layers financial costs, bureaucratic hurdles, strict new ID rules, and criminal penalties on top of a registration system that already legally requires citizenship attestation — all to address a problem that evidence consistently shows is vanishingly rare.

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[Natasha Korecki @natashakorecki]

Last week, FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff as retribution for a Trump probe.

The group Patel targeted? An elite counterespionage unit that specializes in Iran.
@CarolLeonnig builds off of New York Sun reporting.

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[Carl @malman2]

@ImBreckWorsham If Clinton said he knew Trump was involved he would be incriminating himself because trump may be stupid but he is not going to brag to Clinton that he raped an underage girl.

[Carl @malman2]

@GogolsGhost @conquistadorof1 @ArthurMacwaters The Save Act requires states to send voter data to the federal government where data will be compared to SSN database which was compromised by Doge. The constitution says states are responsible for voting not the federal government.