Matthew Beeghley

Soccer. Australian football. Financial planning.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Theodore Roosevelt said the national parks were the greatest gift this country ever gave itself, and the greatest idea we ever gave the world.

More than 100 nations copied it.

Donald Trump looks at that gift and sees a piggy bank for his own pet projects.

This week we learned where our national park money has been going. Not to Yellowstone. Not to Yosemite. To the walkway outside his office, where Trump ripped out American flagstone and laid down Italian granite at a cost of $689,000 to taxpayers. He said he paid for it himself.

That was a lie.

To cover his vanity projects, they are robbing the parks. Spending on parks outside Washington is down $854 million. More than 900 projects went unfunded. They even pulled money from a guardrail on a Colorado cliff that the Park Service flagged as a safety hazard.

I serve on Appropriations.

The power to spend belongs to Congress, not to a king redecorating his palace. These parks are not Trump’s to loot.

They belong to all of us, and I will fight for every dollar.

[Lars Sivertsen @larssivertsen]

I am not entirely convinced this part of the VAR protocols was followed here.

[RedditCFB @RedditCFB]

Friendly reminder that FIFA golden boy Messi received no punishment after this foul earlier in the tournament.

[Steve Rattner @SteveRattner]

The number of financial side deals the Trump family is running is so shocking it can sometimes be hard to track.

According to @Reuters, their crypto ventures alone have delivered $2.3 billion to Trump & co. while creating a similar-sized loss for investors.

[Matthew Beeghley @matthewbeeghley]

@brfootball Do USA-Germany in the 2002 World Cup

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION CANCELED GRANTS FOR STREET SAFETY, PEDESTRIAN TRAILS, AND BIKE LANES, CITING PROJECTS “AREN’T DESIGNED FOR CARS”

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Reminder: If Bernie's Social Security bill was signed into law, Social Security would be solvent for the next 75 years, benefits would go up by $2,400 & the bottom 91% of Americans would not pay a penny more in taxes.

Instead, Republicans want you to work until you drop dead.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

We’re in the second Gilded Age just like the first — when America’s wealth was in the hands of a few, money corrupted politics, and working people were abused and exploited.

It can be easy to feel discouraged, but the first Gilded Age teaches us lessons on how we can fight back.

[NCR @NCRonline]

Kirk is not a modern day St. Paul, despite what Cardinal Dolan says. The only thing that such myth-making achieves is fomenting resentment, curtailing dialogue, and stifling action to otherwise prevent this tragedy from happening again. https://t.co/Hqx9nyMeg7

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

In 1983, 50 companies controlled 90% of the U.S. media market. That number is now down to 5.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Art of the Deal.

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

GOP Rep. Tim Burchett tweets “never forget” today but voted against permanent funding for the families of 9/11 victims

[Polling USA @USA_Polling]

That's how you handle an insurrection

[PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes]

In 2022, Dan Crenshaw voted against compensation and relief to the victims of 9/11 and their surviving family members

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

There are more home buyers over the age of 70 in the U.S. than under the age of 35, per NAR

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

They think you're stupid or have amnesia.
https://t.co/YbS3A8f1fR

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.
https://t.co/PVZXsMljc0

[Lakota Man @LakotaMan1]

When President Clinton banned assault rifles in 1994, mass shootings dropped by 43%. After Republicans let the ban expire in 2004, they increased by 243% — please don’t tell me bans don’t work, because I don’t want to hear it.

[OpeyDope @ChopCheese93]

Remember when @ColumbusCrew tried to keep Zelarayan by buying down Nagbe but the league wouldn’t let them. Weren’t the Crew trying to push boundaries @TaylorTwellman?