Michelle Rightmyer

Mother; Transplant Dietitian

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Karoline Leavitt is leaving the White House to spend a little more time… with the truth.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Healthcare spending per person
1973: $441
2026: $15,474

Home Price
1973: $35,500
2026: $475,400

Rent
1973: $133
2026: $2,017

Public College Tuition/Fees
1973: $514
2026: $11,950

Has your income kept up with these rising prices? Probably not. That's why so many are struggling.

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Qatar gifting Trump a $400 million jet shouldn’t dictate our foreign policy.

But the sad reality is that Americans now don’t know if our actions in the region are in the national interest or just Trump’s personal interest.

Americans deserve better.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Newsom: "That $400 million Qatari plane? That's not a $400 million gift. It cost you $936 million. That was what was appropriated as he's cutting food stamps and cutting your Medicaid. He put a billion dollars in the Pentagon budget to retrofit his private plane because that's going with him after the presidency. That has happened on our watch ... this Board of Peace in the Middle East? That's so he can get a piece of the Middle East."

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

America isn’t left vs. right. It’s top vs. bottom.

There is too much money and power concentrated in too few hands.

This is the fight that unites people — and the Democratic Party.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

We’re all getting screwed—Democrats and Republicans alike.

The billionaires who run this country don’t care about your politics, they only care about their profits. They don’t see Red or Blue—they see Green.

They see us as one opposing team. So we might as well act like one.

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

If you line up everything @POTUS has said about the war since he launched it, you'd have to say his handling of it has been clueless and incompetent--a crazy stew of shifting goals & rationales, bellicose posturing & mind-boggling misreadings of the Iranian regime.
https://t.co/0iR6CA3Xaf

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

Richard Nixon resigned in disgrace 52 yrs ago today amid revelations about the shocking corruption of the WH staff, DOJ, FBI, CIA & IRS to punish his poltical enemies and cover up their crimes.
But would he have quit today, w/Fox News & the Right-wing media infrastructure behind him?
Would Republicans in Congress, who admirably cooperated in a probe of the president and his men, have done so if conditions were what they are today?
Given today's extreme partisanship, would conservative icon Barry Goldwater have visited the president at the WH to tell him that if there were a vote to convict him in the senate, "You would have five votes, and mine would not be among them?"
The sobering reality, quite probably, is no.
Nixon would have pulled a @realDonaldTrump and blustered his way through it.
Nixon's Republican successor as president, Gerald Ford, joined the Congress in a season of reform, to set up firewalls and protect the rule of law against future incursions.
Many of those firewalls and reforms have been shredded today.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

So…can we talk about these 300 Capitol One accounts of Trumps that were closed because of anti-money-laundering concerns in 2021?

…. There’s an awful lot of schemes with unaccounted finances. Is this why he doesn’t want his finances investigated and why he had Blanche trump up an IRS immunity deal?

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

You cannot be the people’s lawyer and the President’s personal lawyer at the same time.

Todd Blanche has already shown us which client he intends to serve.

He secured extraordinary protection shielding Trump and his family from audits of past tax returns. He tried to create a $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded slush fund for Trump’s allies. And his Justice Department has already found ways to hand out seven-figure taxpayer-funded settlements benefiting people in Trump’s orbit.

Now Senate Republicans have put him in charge of the Justice Department.

Blanche is there for one reason and one reason only: to be Donald Trump’s henchman.

He is wholly unfit to serve as Attorney General.

And my Republican colleagues in the Senate knew it.

They knew he had already used the power of the Justice Department to protect Donald Trump and reward the people around him. They knew his loyalty was to one man, not the law. They knew exactly what he would do with even more power.

And they confirmed him anyway.

This was not a mistake. It was not carelessness. It was not a lapse in judgement. It was a conscious decision to place Donald Trump’s personal interests ahead of the rule of law.

Every Senator who cast that vote chose Donald Trump over the rule of law, and they should be ashamed of it.

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

This is how democracies rot.

In the dead of night, the MAGA-controlled Senate bent the knee again — confirming Trump’s personal attorney as Attorney General.

This is corruption on a staggering scale. There must be accountability — and reforms to ensure a lawless DOJ can NEVER happen again.

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

As I said in his confirmation hearing, the fundamental problem with Todd Blanche isn’t that he’s inexperienced or unintelligent. It’s that he’s never been able to shed his role as criminal defense lawyer for Donald Trump. He cannot and will never do it.

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

❌Mishandling the Epstein files
❌Targeting the president's enemies
❌ Creating slush funds for cop beaters and sham tax settlements for the President

None of this was enough for Senate Republicans to stop Blanche's nomination.

The President will continue sending us unfit nominees if we don’t demand better.

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Standing with the Ukrainian people has never been more important than now, as the war reaches a critical turning point.

This bill reaffirms our commitment to Ukraine by enacting the sanctions needed to curtail Russia’s primary source of income and cripple its war effort.

It may also be the single most important thing the U.S. government can do to bring an end to Russia's war of aggression.

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

BREAKING: Senator Cassidy is voting to confirm Todd Blanche as Attorney General.

He will be confirmed.

Republicans have blood on their hands.

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Trump's judicial nominees are still afraid to say who won the 2020 election.

If they can't rely on the truth to answer a simple question, they can't be trusted to rely on the facts as a judge.