ME Stumpf

The Trump admin. is a transnational crime organization enabled by a corrupt SCOTUS. All life on earth is at stake. JD @SMULawSchool ; BS @UTHealthHouston.

[ME Stumpf @mestumpf]

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[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

Well @EPALeeZeldin, I know the law. The Supreme Court rejected your argument -- 19 years ago.

The law hasn’t changed, and neither has the science. The only thing that’s changed is the fossil fuel industry’s infiltration of our government.

[GO GREEN @ECOWARRIORSS]

Across the political spectrum from left to right and in every country the unrelenting goal is more economic growth on a finite Earth that cannot take more destruction of the natural world
Its an insanity that will destroy us all
We should be growing nature not economies

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Grow some flowers. Grass is stupid. Grow gardens.

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

From the Texas Tribune:

After Mexican officials confirmed case of screwworm in Nov. 2024, USDA, under Joe Biden, closed southern ports of entry to live cattle imports to prevent spread of screwworm into U.S. Move also strained supply of cattle in Texas....
USDA reversed course in Feb 2025, after Trump took office, announcing opening of ports"

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

That’s the heart of the Trump scheme: deprive ratepayers of low-cost clean energy, to drive electric grids to more expensive fossil fuel plants, in a massive transfer of wealth from regular American consumers to Trump’s big corrupt fossil fuel donors.

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

Constitution requires two-thirds vote from the Senate to bind us to another country.

They hid it in the bill because they knew it was unconstitutional.

It’s treasonous as far as I’m concerned.

Every single person who voted for this needs removed from office.

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

The closure of @USAID by 20-something DOGE bros (who probably thought "screwworm" was a hilarious joke) will haunt us for years to come.

[Karen Kenyatta Russell🍀 @Karen_Russell]

Now I get it!

“The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.”

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

Imagine there were a person so reckless that their actions led directly to the Ebola outbreak, the screwworm outbreak, and millions of people dying from starvation and AIDS.

Would you invest in that person’s company?

[AnnRuth 🇨🇦 ESC @AnnRuth8587]

@maddenifico

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
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[austerity is theft @wideofthepost]

It's so effing crazy that this lady was the founder of LADIES FOR BRETT KAVANAUGH, a right wing op to run interference against his accusers, and the @nytimes never once felt the need to mention this in its story.

[Boston Smalls @smalls2672]

Screwworm is to cattle what maga is to america.

Parasites.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: O.M.G. The woman accusing Graham Platner of "intimidation" has been EXPOSED as a top Republican operative who has worked with his opponent, Susan Collins!

This is EXACTLY what they did to Al Franken…

On Thursday evening, the New York Times ran a story in which a woman, Lindsey Fifield, accused Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner of grabbing her by the arm, twisting her arm, and of standing in a doorway menacingly blocking her exit.

The New York Times could not corroborate any of her accusations, but ran the story anyway, along with allegations from a few other women that Graham Platner could be unsettling, had dark thoughts, and generally had spooky vibes as a boyfriend.

They also spoke to several other women who said he was a lovely boyfriend and they happily supported his candidacy.

It’s now coming out that Lindsey Fifeld is a lifelong GOP operative who has worked with Platner’s Republican opponent, Susan Collins, and successfully persuaded her to vote in favor of Brett Kavanaugh, Trump’s Supreme Court justice who is an ACTUAL rapist.

In one message to a friend, Fifeld wrote “I will personally go campaign for Collins.”

Reporter Ryan Grim at Drop Site News reports that “In 2014, Fifield began work as digital director for American Action Network, a Republican Super PAC that oversees House races. The next year she became social media manager for the Heritage Foundation, where she stayed for the next seven years.”

“In 2022, she joined the Super PAC backing Nikki Haley for president, switching to the official campaign side the next year, and staying until the campaign flamed out. She now lists herself as a visiting fellow at the Independent Women’s Forum, a prominent dark money group that is best known for helping usher Brett Kavanaugh on to the Supreme Court and giving Susan Collins the talking points she needed to make her decisive speech in his favor.“

“The NYT breezed past all this, saying she was ‘a Virginia conservative who has worked for right-leaning groups and Republican campaigns.’”

“Meanwhile, the timeline Fifield gives of their relationship is confusing, because during at least some of that time she was actually dating a different person, her longterm boyfriend who became her fiancee before she called off the wedding in 2018. We all know this because she and [Zionist extremist Bethany] Mandel did a podcast episode on it that went mega-viral in Republican circles back then.”

It should be noted as well that Lindsey Fifeld has a long history of making up baseless lies about Palestinians targeted by the Trump administration like Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk.

Folks, pardon our French, but this is *bullshit.*

This is an abhorrent attempt to weaponize domestic violence and the mental trauma of dealing with PTSD in order to sink a leftist candidate who staunchly opposes the Israeli genocide of Gaza.

Oh, and if that wasn't enough, the reporter on this article is Katie Gluek, an ardent Zionist whose parents are Israeli settler-occupiers in the West Bank.

Platner’s campaign responded with “Let’s be very clear: This is a lifelong G.O.P. operative who’s dedicated her career to electing Republicans.”

What else is there to say?

Graham Platner is obviously a very imperfect person, but we are not electing him to be our boyfriend. He has been very open about his struggles with PTSD; he saw four of his squadmates killed in an IED explosion in Iraq.

This smear campaign, based on uncorroborated allegations by a woman who literally said she would work for his opponent, is part of his punishment for being a progressive who isn’t afraid to stand against Israel, to stand against the health insurance behemoths, and to demand a better life for the American people.

They managed to sink Al Franken like this. They will NOT succeed again!

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

Todd Blanche was behind the Epstein Files cover-up, the rotten cop-beaters slush fund, and a sleazy tax fraud amnesty for the Trump family and businesses; all while causing an unprecedented "fraud on the court" investigation of the Department... 🧵

[Ashleyy @dontsippy]

when the New York Times interview Ken Paxton’s former partners?

[Matt Stoller @matthewstoller]

Running uncorroborated claims on Platner from an ex-girlfriend who is a professional Republican operative is outrageous from the New York Times. It's consistent with their biased treatment of candidates skeptical of Israel.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Graham Platner is an extremely imperfect person and candidate, but the corporate media feeding frenzy that's emerged to try to sink him as grotesque. I know this because I've done a deep dive on his past and therefore know how many claims being casually bandied about are false.

[Cenk Uygur @cenkuygur]

The lone accuser of @grahamformaine is the same GOP operative who was the anonymous source behind the tattoo. And she was founder of Ladies for Kavanaugh! Come on. Is this a joke? Brazen hatchet job. They targeted him and actually got nothing other than the original operative.

[Dr. Genevieve Guenther (she/they) 🪬 @DoctorVive]

Ok I’ve just read the Platner story. It is built entirely on the claims of a Heritage staffer whose accusations lack even one shred of contemporaneous corroborating evidence. Two other women Platner dated felt dissed, but that’s all.

The NYT is running oppo for Collins.