Matt Hampton

Just a guy that likes the Las Vegas Raiders, funny tweets, and playing music.

[The Associated Press @AP]

BREAKING: Iranian state television says at least two members of an air defense unit were killed in the Israeli attacks on Monday.

The report represented the first time Iran acknowledged fatalities from the strikes. https://t.co/kWh32jNOEx

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

OH MY GOD NOOOOOOOO!!!

A relationship?!?!??? OH NO!!!

Why is this a story

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

Trump’s egregious (repeat) lie about Jan. 6 in the new NBC interview he walked out of: “They had FBI agents ushering them into the building. They had FBI: ‘Go into the building.’”

There’s precisely no evidence this happened. DOJ’s inspector general found that the FBI had zero undercover agents in the Capitol crowd. Kash Patel has himself debunked a Trump-promoted conspiracy theory on this subject, saying FBI agents were merely deployed to do crowd control after the police declared a riot.

And of the dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who tried a “the cops let me in” defense, just one (1) was acquitted. Even in that case, the acquitting judge said that though the defendant reasonably believed he was being allowed in, the officers in question were actually overrun by the crowd and standing back reasonably and responsibly, not explicitly encouraging anyone to enter. (And they weren’t FBI.)

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

As I said to @patrickbetdavid, and I as I have said to everyone who asks me if I’d like to one day interview Trump and what I’d ask him if he ever (lol) agreed, it would last like two mins tops.

The guy is a snowflake. He’d walk out, I always say. And here he is walking out:

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"Ken Paxton is the embodiment of MAGA - and everything that's wrong with it."

From impeachment to corruption to adultery to pedophile protection to election denial, I deep-dive into Ken Paxton's record & why he is unfit to sit on a schoolboard let alone in the Senate.

Receipts:

[MeidasClips @MeidasClips]

Ben Meiselas reviews the full Pam Bondi interview transcript, laying out how Trump and his corrupt DOJ are orchestrating a cover‑up:

"Answer: I'm not going to discuss any conversation that I had within the department or the administration."

So not only are you not going to discuss any conversations you had with Trump, you're not going to discuss any conversations you had with anybody.

The time limitation before 2024, not discussing it. 2025 and after, not discussing it ...

Do you see how these people take advantage of this? I mean, it's ridiculous.

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Trump Jr. invests in a company.

A Trump White House staffer reportedly calls the Pentagon.

The Pentagon rushes a $620M loan through in weeks.
The company's value jumps tenfold.

Congress must investigate NOW.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

We must impeach and remove Donald Trump. And we will. #NY12

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[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.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

DOGE didn't make a dent in the deficit, but it did bring back screwworm and enable a historically large new Ebola outbreak, so it's not like they didn't achieve *anything*

[Terry Moran 🇺🇸 @TerryMoran]

We’re all supposed to pretend this isn’t happening a lot?

How does this make us look to the rest of the world?

[Kyle Clark @KyleClark]

GOP Gov candidate Scott Bottoms now admits his claim of 50,000 Tren de Aragua gangsters in Colorado is not true.

But he still insists that sheriffs he won’t name will soon deputize special forces veterans to fight the Venezuelan gang.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Lieu: Instead of holding North Korea style cabinet meetings where everyone kisses Trump’s ass, I’m going to ask you to come clean—there is something wrong with Trump. There’s a reason he keeps going to the hospital and they keep giving him cognitive tests. We have not seen him in eight days.

Rubio: I assure this is not a president who sleeps or who is cognitively impaired in any way.

Lieu: I just showed you three videos of him sleeping.

[hasanabi @hasanthehun]

why did dave rubin even choose to do this? he would’ve lost the debate to an empty chair. truly the dumbest the right has to offer

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

What a line.

[Face The Nation @FaceTheNation]

Former Vice President Mike Pence says he has “certainly seen evidence” of the Trump administration deliberately whitewashing the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, but says “an effort by some to rewrite” the history of that day won’t work.

“Particularly, I was offended on the anniversary of January 6, when the White House put out a timeline that literally blamed Capitol Hill police for the riot that took place that day,” Pence tells @margbrennan.

[JΛKΣ @USMCLiberal]

My nephew is 6 years old.

When he learns something new, he explains it to us like we are also learning something new. That’s how the mind of a 6 year old works.

Sound familiar?

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 WTF?! A federal judge explicitly asks a DOJ lawyer if the President can legally fire staff just to create an "all-white" executive branch.

The lawyer stammers and refuses to answer. A completely chilling and unprecedented moment in an American courtroom.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Jennifer Welch: “There is a credible testimony in the Epstein Files with Donald Trump and a 13-year-old girl that she was forced to perform oral sex on him allegedly and that she bit him and then she was slapped or punched. This is a signed affidavit in the Epstein Files”