Maria Brucculeri

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Make it make sense.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Here's how the corruption works:

Thursday: RJ Reynolds donates $5M to Trump

Saturday: Trump invites RJR execs to Mar a Lago; execs ask to loosen regs on flavored vapes; Trump calls up RFK Jr. and tells him to change it

Friday: FDA changes the policy
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[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

When Donald Trump heard Robert Mueller had died he posted “Good, I’m glad he’s dead”

When Donald Trump heard Robert Reiner had been brutally murdered along with his wife in his own home…
Trump said “I bet he died because he had Trump Derangement Syndrome”

When Donald Trump heard Paul Pelosi had been savagely attacked with a hammer, his skull fractured and almost died…
Trump got on stage, mocked the attack and everyone laughed.

Donald Trump accused 5 Congressional Democrats of Treason…

Trump said they should be “Put to Dearth”

Donald Trump accused his hand picked Chairman of the Joint Chiefs General Mark Milley of treason…

Trump said General Milley should be executed.

Trump encouraged his followers to attack the Capitol on January 6th and overturn the election results.

His supporters attacked the Capitol, built a Gallow and looked to execute Mike Pence and Nancy Pelosi.

Trump stood by for 186 Minutes and let the violence ensue.

Hundreds of Capitol Police Officers were injured.

4 Capitol Police Officers Died.

Trump has encouraged his supporters to “Knock the hell out of them” referencing protestors at his rallies.

Trump even stated he pay their legal fees.

This is the same motherfucker calling for the firing of Jimmy Kimmel because of a comedy skit.

The same motherfucker who just had James Comey arrested for posting a meme on Twitter.

If anyone needs to tone down the rhetoric.

It’s this piece of shit.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Chief Justice John Roberts hit with SURPRISE DISBARMENT complaint over undisclosed $20M conflict of interest.

John Roberts has spent two decades attempting to position himself as the Supreme Court's institutional conscience — the careful steward protecting the Court's legitimacy.

Now, a bombshell investigation reveals he may have been protecting something else entirely: his household's $20 million in income from the very law firms arguing cases before him — and an independent journalist named Christopher Armitage is filing a disbarment proceeding against the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court because of it.

The facts are not in dispute. Roberts's wife Jane earned $10,323,842.70 in documented commissions over seven years at a legal recruiting firm — placing senior lawyers at firms that then argued hundreds of cases before her husband's court. For sixteen consecutive years, Roberts mislabeled this commission income as "salary" on his mandatory federal disclosure forms. He omitted his wife's equity stake in her employer for three consecutive years, later attributing it to "inadvertence." He never recused himself from a single one of the 500-plus cases argued by firms paying his household.

Richard Painter — chief White House ethics lawyer under George W. Bush, the man who prepared Roberts for his confirmation hearings — said Roberts "fudged the details, misleadingly describing his wife's earnings as salary." A legal ethics professor retained by a whistleblower concluded the false characterization is "incorrect as a matter of law."

Federal statute is unambiguous. Title 5 makes willful false disclosure a civil violation — $50,000 per count. Title 18 makes knowing false statements to the federal government a felony — five years per count. Title 28 mandates recusal when a spouse has a financial interest in firms before the court. Roberts appears to have violated all three, repeatedly, across two decades.

In response, Roberts designed the Court's first ethics code himself — and engineered it to have no enforcement mechanism, no complaint process, and no sanctions authority. The Brennan Center called it "designed to fail." He declined a Senate Judiciary Committee invitation to testify, citing separation of powers.

Now, Armitage has filed the disbarment complaint and is inviting every American to do the same. The DC Bar accepts public complaints. The address is 515 Fifth Street NW, Building A, Room 117, Washington DC 20001. The relevant rule is DC Rule of Professional Conduct 8.4(c). The relevant statutes are 28 U.S.C. § 455, 5 U.S.C. § 13106, and 18 U.S.C. § 1001.

Clarence Thomas took luxury vacations. Samuel Alito took private flights. John Roberts took law firm money through his wife's commission checks and called it salary for sixteen years.

The system they built assumes nobody is paying attention, but not only is Christopher Armitage paying attention, but the rest of us are too.

Please like and share this post if you believe the Chief Justice of the United States needs to be above reproach!

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Too on point not to share, “Aussie reply to Trump rant about NATO not being there for us.

Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage.
You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail.
Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates.
Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you.
And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again.
And you're calling Greenland poorly run?
Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no.
"NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years.
And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess.
So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your fucking mouth. Credit (borrowed from) Jim Scroggins - original author 📷 unknown”

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

The “billionaire” who hides his tax returns. The “genius” who hides his college grades. The “businessman” who bankrupted 3 casinos and lost over $1B in 10 yrs. The “playboy” who pays for sex. The “virologist” who knows more than Dr. Fauci. The “leader of the free world” who said he “fell in love” with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. The “Christian” who doesn’t go to church. The “President” who committed TREASON by turning a blind eye to Russian bounties on our soldiers. The “unifier” who calls white supremacists fine people. The “philanthropist” who defrauds charity. The “patriot” who dodged the draft five times. The “innocent man” who refuses to testify. The “President” who takes no responsibility. The “tough, strong” man who wears makeup and hairspray. The “deal maker” who has yet to close a deal.

THIS IS THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES who claims he’s making America great? 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

[Rich From CA @therichfromca]

Right now the United States is going through exactly what Franklin D Roosevelt warned us about over 80 years ago.

"We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests."

-Franklin D. Roosevelt 1941

💙♻️ if you agree!

[Feisty is proud to be a Democrat! @FeistyLibLady]

Well Trump is finally right about something.

Voter fraud was finally found in Georgia.

Problem for Trump is the voting fraud was committed by MAGA Republicans.

In November 2024, Musk's America PAC sent pre-filled absentee ballot applications.

However, the PAC failed to make it clear that they were not official government documents.

Please tell me again how MAGA GOP never commit voting fraud.
#DemsUnited

[Ted Lieu @tedlieu]

Donald Trump is deeply corrupt. That’s another reason the American people have turned against him and his corrupt Administration.

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Spot on! 🎯 Unfortunately, the MAGA have zero common sense or critical thinking skills!

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

So we are now going to sell F 35 to Saudi Arabia? Will be interesting to see what kind of deal the Trump kids get. I wonder how many new hotels or cryptocurrencies for this one.

America is for sale.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The President gets no special new powers during a shutdown. He can't eliminate agencies. He can't use federal funds to punish his political opponents.

As Trump's illegality grows during the shutdown, Democrats' spines should stiffen to oppose his corruption.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Meiselas: Ask yourself a basic question:

Why did Donald Trump not allow the press to be there in the White House to record the meeting with the Democratic leaders, when the Democratic leaders wanted the press there? Ask yourself another question: why, if Donald Trump claims he brought in $17 trillion, are we even facing a crisis at all about the government shutdown?

Because if he brought in $17 trillion, there’s just so much money to go around that there’s no need to have these types of funding discussions. You know, I think you know the answer—because there was a $2 trillion deficit in the past fiscal year, and there’s a major deficit each and every month.

And then finally, ask yourself this question: why did MAGA Mike Johnson and the Republicans cancel work on Monday and Tuesday, the two critical days before the shutdown?

I think if you ask yourself those questions, you come to a logical conclusion: Donald Trump wants a shutdown. Then you can ask yourself, why does he want a shutdown? And I think he wants a shutdown because he wants to blame Democrats for the mess that he created. He wants to utilize a shutdown to behave even more as an authoritarian.

He wants to get rid of Bureau of Labor Statistics data reporting, which he can use the shutdown as pretext for. He wants to cover up the release of the Epstein files. Those are among the handful of reasons that I think he wants a shutdown.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

President Biden’s farewell address:

"I want to warn the country of some things that give me great concern. That's the dangerous concentration of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people … Today, an oligarchy is taking shape.” @atrupar

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

OMG The Former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper talks about how Trump wanted him to have the Military shoot unarmed citizens in the legs while they were Protesting because he didn’t like it! This is what is about to happen now and Hegseth will enjoy watching it because he’s evil

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Hakeem Jeffries just called out Trump and MAGA for their blatant lie that they keep repeating about Democrats wanting to shut down the government to give healthcare to undocumented immigrants:

“Federal law prohibits the expenditure of taxpayer dollars on providing healthcare to undocumented immigrants. No where have democrats suggested that we are interested in changing federal law.”

[Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice]

The White House knows exactly what it was doing when they published a list of Democrats who have used their voice to call out Trump & Miller’s ICE abuses.

The list is now being used by the far right as an enemies list. It’s reckless. It’s dangerous. And it puts lives at risk.

The Governor has made it clear, consistently, that violence is never justified. Trump must tone it down.

[Joe G @EastEndJoe]

The internet never forgets.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BREAKING: The White House has placed a photo of an auto-pen instead of a portrait of former President Biden on the “Presidential Walk of Fame”

This is the most immature and stupid presidential administration in history.