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[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be a much bigger story.

The Trump administration is about to hand TotalEnergies, a French oil company, nearly $1 billion of your money to cancel its American offshore wind projects. And they are pulling the cash from an account they are not allowed to use this way.

Here is how it works. The government has something called the Judgment Fund. Think of it as an emergency savings account for when the government loses a lawsuit or settles a real legal fight. It is not a checkbook the President can use whenever he feels like rewarding a company.

To get around that rule, the administration is pretending TotalEnergies was about to sue. But TotalEnergies had no case. The company signed a contract in January 2025 with clear rules: the government cannot cancel these leases unless it first pauses the project for five years. The lease is less than four years old and was never paused. TotalEnergies agreed to those terms. There was no real lawsuit coming.

So the administration invented a fake legal threat to justify raiding an account Congress controls. That matters because the Constitution says Congress, not the President, decides how taxpayer money gets spent.

It gets worse. The White House claimed TotalEnergies would take the money and reinvest it in American oil and gas. The actual paperwork, now public, requires nothing of the kind. The company gets a billion dollars of taxpayer money and owes us nothing.

So Americans are paying a foreign oil company to shut down clean energy projects here at home, using money that was never supposed to be spent this way, with zero strings attached. That is illegal, unethical, and a scandal hiding in plain sight.

[Jasmine Crockett @JasmineForUS]

This morning I called James and congratulated him on becoming the Senate nominee. Texas is primed to turn blue and we must remain united because this is bigger than any one person. This is about the future of all 30 million Texans and getting America back on track. With the primary behind us, Democrats must rally around our nominees and win. I’m committed to doing my part and will continue working to elect democrats up and down the ballot.

[Volodymyr Zelenskyy / Володимир Зеленський @ZelenskyyUa]

Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Montenegro, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, United Kingdom, United States — thank you for your support. Light will prevail.

[Pope Leo XIV @Pontifex]

I invite everyone to pray for the war-torn people of Ukraine and for all those who suffer due to this war and every conflict in the world, so that the long-awaited gift of peace may shine in our days.

[Brian Schatz @brianschatz]

Eric I was there with you last year! It continues to be an important bipartisan trip. This is an odd tweet.

[Rep. Eric Swalwell @RepSwalwell]

How do you know Zelenskyy isn’t a dictator?

Trump doesn’t suck up to him

[Brendan Duke @Brendan_Duke]

The Republican Party spent all of Obama’s term obsessed with building the Keystone XL pipeline so we could import more oil from Canada.

Now they’re spending Trump’s 2nd term angry that we’re importing too much oil from Canada since that’s the reason our bilateral trade deficit.

[Lauren Windsor @lawindsor]

@Scaramucci howwwww is this reality

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

Pathetic @BillHagertyTN. You needed another daddy like Elon to help you do YOUR job? It’s your job to know what’s in the bill. It’s your job to read the bill. It’s your job to come up with the bill to begin with. Don’t cling to your two daddies Elon & Trump. Do your job.

[Talia Jane @taliaotg]

The same day Musk declares “only the AfD can save Germany,” a Musk fan who supports AfD plows through a Christmas market in Germany in what appears to be a deliberate pro-fascist terrorist attack.

Musk boosted 2 far-right accounts posting about the attack before this was known.

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

The IRS rolled out its first-ever free filing program thanks to the Inflation Reduction Act — which every Republican voted against.

This "efficiency" department kicked things off by announcing two people will run it.

Now it's recreating services that already exist. Efficient!

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: https://t.co/JQWy2gTfhs just dropped a new track titled "Yes She Can"—and yes, “She” is Kamala Harris.

This is the anthem America needs to hear right now.

[Josh Shapiro @JoshShapiroPA]

It's time to leave it all on the field, folks.

I'm back in Bucks County with @MunroeforPA and a crew of people ready to get on the doors and help their neighbors make a plan to vote on Tuesday.

If you haven't made yours, head to https://t.co/2cCcwERU6t

And if you have an hour or two this weekend, we need you on the doors in PA. Join us: https://t.co/px7WqK99h1

[MI2Tricky @mi2tricky]

I love my senator @JohnFetterman. Don’t let up the gas.

[John Fetterman @JohnFetterman]

I’ve gone to the smallest rural 🔴 counties to the biggest urban 🔵 ones across PA, and one thing I know for certain:

Pennsylvanians are ENERGIZED and READY to elect @KamalaHarris as our next President.

We have 4 days left. Make your vote count! 🇺🇸

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[ITEP @iteptweets]

Taken together, the tax changes proposed by Vice President Kamala Harris would raise taxes on the richest 1% of Americans while cutting taxes on all other income groups. https://t.co/AIA7sIwgLb

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

2016 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

MICHIGAN
51,463 Votes for Stein
10,704 Trump’s lead over Clinton

PENNSYLVANIA
49,941 Votes for Stein
44,292 Trump’s lead over Clinton

WISCONSIN
31,072 Votes for Stein
22,748 Trump’s lead over Clinton

Never forget what voting “third-party” gets you.

[Greg Bluestein @bluestein]

Just in: Jimmy Carter fulfills wish, votes for Kamala Harris after 100th birthday. His ballot was put in a drop box at the Sumter County Courthouse near Carter's hometown of Plains. #gapol https://t.co/1cgDwVHGkO

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s editorial board endorsed Missouri Senator Josh Hawley’s Democratic challenger, Lucas Kunce, on Sunday, calling Hawley the “worst sitting senator in America right now.”

https://t.co/VBDV1k5S6H