MBayles

[VoteVets @votevets]

We fixed Donald Trump's taxpayer-funded ad, free of charge. You're welcome @WhiteHouse.

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

They misspelled “Paid for by US taxpayers”

[MBayles @missmertzel]

@Cline4Virginia Hey Ben... Is this ok with you?

@papergirlmacy Vote Beth Macy for VA06!!

[Richard W. Painter @RWPUSA]

This is a political ad, and it is ILLEGAL for the White House to pay for it with taxpayer funds.

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

This may be felony criminal theft and conversion of government property for political campaign purposes. 18 U.S.C. § 1641. It is a Hatch Act violation for any government employees who worked on it or used government resources to make it. It is blatantly unethical under numerous federal ethics provisions proscribing the use of government resources for political campaigns.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BOMBSHELL: DOJ Whistleblower Ryan Crosswell and over 50 former federal prosecutors will add their voices to a lawsuit against Trump’s plan to sell early access to Truth Social posts for up to $100,000.

They were pushed out for prosecuting corruption. Now they’re fighting BACK.

[MBayles @missmertzel]

@Acyn

[MBayles @missmertzel]

@MAGACult2 .38 and they would pump it for you.

[STEELE🟧 @real_steelee]

@McFaul

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

[MBayles @missmertzel]

@Denver4VA I would have liked a follow up question to learn why stealing money from your employer is not automatically disqualifying anymore, ya know, in the offender/victim bullshit justification narrative.

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

Welcome to “the largest public corruption announcement in U.S. history,” bailing out Trump’s big fossil fuel donors by letting them pollute your air and atmosphere for free. Fossil fuel wins; you pay.
https://t.co/zZECdG3yZP

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Yesterday, Trump blocked $25 million already approved for national parks like Yellowstone, Yosemite, Zion, and Joshua Tree, over 130 projects, rejected, with no warning.

Interior's excuse? These groups are supposedly "working against the best interests of the American people." That's it. That's the whole explanation.

Trump has spent his second term purging anything tied to DEI, climate change, or anything he considers "woke" or liberal. This fits that same pattern.

A former NPS acting superintendent and wildlife biologist, Elaine Leslie, asked the obvious question out loud: "The real question is where did this $25 million go to? Where is it?"

This isn't the first time this has happened this year. Park entrance fees are supposed to stay with the parks. Instead, $323 million of that money got redirected straight to his vanity projects. In 2024, that number was only $7.5 million.

This money is supposed to stay at the parks. Instead, it's funding a loophole nobody's bothered to close. Democratic senators keep demanding transparency. Republicans haven't lifted a finger.

These are our lands. Public lands.

Tell Congress to fully fund the National Park Service and hold Trump accountable. Link in first reply👇

#DemsUnited

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: While the world burns and you pay more for everything—your tax dollars become the royal family's wealth. Because it pays to be a Trump, especially when the whole world knows daddy's a crook

And while Pete Hegseth squanders our military power—his Pentagon funnels your money to the first family. Just listen to this.

Five days after his father was re-elected, Prince Don Junior becomes a partner at 1789 Capital, a venture firm founded by right-wing activists and Trump donors. 1789 Capital then buys a stake in Vulcan Elements, a tiny startup that says it plans to produce the high-tech magnets needed in drones, missiles, and satellites.

And about a month after Don Junior’s venture firm buys its stake in Vulcan Elements, Pentagon officials learned that Peter Navarro, a convicted criminal, Don Jr.’s close friend, and a top White House official, wants the Pentagon to give your tax dollars to Vulcan Elements.

One Pentagon official said, quote, “The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.”

To be clear, getting this done means funneling your money to the president’s son’s investment. And so, of course, like clockwork, on November 20th, just three months after Don Jr. and his friends bought their stake, Vulcan gets a $620 million taxpayer loan from Pete Hegseth’s Pentagon, paid for with your money.

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

.@jaredkushner @SteveWitkoff @FLOTUS @realDonaldTrump this is the win win? Russia is attacking civilians…is time to support them fully!

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

A little something for your Ponderation. The federal government has borrowed money from the Social Security Trust Fund and owes approximately $2.56 trillion as of 2026.

This represents the total cumulative amount of surplus revenue that has been borrowed from Social Security over decades to fund general government spending.

This is why they fight tooth and nail to end social security. So they won't have to pay the money back.

[VoteVets @votevets]

Some ground isn’t for building on.

Arlington National Cemetery is the final resting place of more than 400,000 service members and their families. A 250-foot arch, with a tourist observation deck, would go up at its entrance, changing that ground forever.

Families bury their dead there every weekday. Construction could run three years, 20 hours a day, close to those services.

Veterans are in federal court right now trying to stop it. Before the commission votes, you can help:

→ File a public comment with the commission
→ Call your representative and your senators
→ Share this

This isn’t about politics. It’s about letting a burial ground stay a burial ground. @OfTheBraveUSA

[MBayles @missmertzel]

@realLizUSA

[VoteVets @votevets]

Trump is breaking ground on his 250-foot vanity arch before he even has final approval, all while a veterans’ lawsuit to stop it is still pending in court.

Construction 20 hours a day, for years, at the gates of Arlington where we have buried our nation’s heroes.

Absolutely disgraceful.

[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

We’re back in DC after five weeks away—and what are Republicans focused on? Gutting environmental protections for one of the most endangered species on Earth: right whales.

Nothing to end the war. Nothing to help lower costs. Nothing to fix our broken health care system. Just more cruelty. There are only 380 of these whales left on planet earth. Disgraceful. I’m a HELL NO!

[Maj. (Ret.) Richard Ojeda @Ojeda4America]

Donald Trump, Marco Rubio and anyone else in leadership that decided that it was okay to grab Afghan interpreters who stood by our sides in combat and deport them to gulags in Africa is a damn traitor that has turned their backs on the very people that we relied on in combat.

Without these interpreters it would have been impossible for us to accomplish our mission and communicate with the people. I had no air support where I was most of the time. There was only 4 of us on my team, me, my NCO, my interpreter and a mechanic. I had 8 Afghan police stations that I was responsible for providing equipment for to defend themselves against the Taliban. What do you think would’ve happened if we had no means to communicate with the Afghan police?????

This entire administration is criminal. These people risked their lives for us. They are disappearing these folks to third world countries. The cruelty is unacceptable. When this nightmare ends, this entire corrupt administration must be held accountability. There is nothing patriotic about this.