Michelle Smith

[Chuck Pfarrer | Indications & Warnings | @ChuckPfarrer]

THIS JUST IN: Pete Hegseth has decided to take away the rank from all military Chaplins- because they're not ‘warfighters’. Since WW One, US Chaplins have won 5 Medals of Honor, 26 Distinguished Service Crosses, 1 Navy Cross, 45 Silver Stars and 719 Bronze Stars for valor.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

I'm posting this video every day so we NEVER FORGET what insurrectionist Donald Trump and MAGA did on J6.

[Laiken Jordahl @LaikenJordahl]

DHS is preparing to blast canyons & bulldoze roads through thousands of years of human history along the Rio Grande in Big Bend National Park—where virtually nobody is crossing.

In Arizona, just a month ago, they destroyed a 1,000-year-old sacred site and faced no consequences.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Republicans always claim there is election fraud because they are the ones doing it.

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

I think it was just hate.

By Sincerely, American:

"Trump supporters say, 'We suffered 8 years under Barack Obama.'

Fair enough. Let’s take a look.

The day Obama took office, the Dow closed at 7,949 points. Eight years later, the Dow had almost tripled.

General Motors and Chrysler were on the brink of bankruptcy, with Ford not far behind, and their failure, along with their supply chains, would have meant the loss of millions of jobs. Obama pushed through a controversial, $80 billion bailout to save the car industry. The U.S. car industry survived, started making money again, and the entire $80 billion was paid back, with interest.

While we remain vulnerable to lone-wolf attacks, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully executed a mass attack here since 9/11.

Obama ordered the raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.

He drew down the number of troops from 180,000 in Iraq and Afghanistan to just 15,000, and increased funding for the Department of Veterans Affairs.

He launched a program called Opening Doors which, since 2010, has led to a 47 percent decline in the number of homeless veterans. He set a record 73 straight months of private-sector job growth.

Due to Obama’s regulatory policies, greenhouse gas emissions decreased by 12%, production of renewable energy more than doubled, and our dependence on foreign oil was cut in half.

He signed The Lilly Ledbetter Act, making it easier for women to sue employers for unequal pay.

His Omnibus Public Lands Management Act designated more than 2 million acres as wilderness, creating thousands of miles of trails and protecting over 1,000 miles of rivers.

He reduced the federal deficit from 9.8 percent of GDP in 2009 to 3.2 percent in 2016.

For all the inadequacies of the Affordable Care Act, we seem to have forgotten that, before the ACA, you could be denied coverage for a pre-existing condition and kids could not stay on their parents’ policies up to age 26.

Obama approved a $14.5 billion system to rebuild the levees in New Orleans.

All this, even as our own Mitch McConnell famously asserted that his singular mission would be to block anything President Obama tried to do.

While Obama failed on his campaign pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay, that prison’s population decreased from 242 to around 50.

He expanded funding for embryonic stem cell research, supporting ground breaking advancement in areas like spinal injury treatment and cancer.

Credit card companies can no longer charge hidden fees or raise interest rates without advance notice.
Most years, Obama threw a 4th of July party for military families. He held babies, played games with children, served barbecue, and led the singing of “Happy Birthday” to his daughter Malia, who was born on July 4.

Welfare spending is down: for every 100 poor families, just 24 receive cash assistance, compared with 64 in 1996.

Obama comforted families and communities following more than a dozen mass shootings. After Sandy Hook, he said, “The majority of those who died today were children, beautiful little kids between the ages of 5 and 10 years old.”

Yet, he never took away anyone’s guns........

He sang Amazing Grace, spontaneously, at the altar.

He was the first president since Eisenhower to serve two terms without personal or political scandal.

He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

President Obama was not perfect, as no man and no president is, and you can certainly disagree with his political ideologies. But to say we suffered?

If that’s the argument, if this is how we suffered for 8 years under Barack Obama, I have one wish: May we be so fortunate as to suffer 8 more."

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Trump claimed that he was going to personally pay for the new polished African granite walkway carved in Italy he had installed at the WH. But in fact taxpayers paid all $689,232 for Trump’s vanity project.

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Maggie Haberman exposes a massive White House shakedown.

She confirms Trump's personal lawyer Boris Epshteyn is illegally negotiating massive settlements with private firms.

The administration is systematically extorting millions from US businesses!

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨HUGE: Illinois Governor JB Pritzker says he'll SLAP Donald Trump with a major lawsuit if the USPS refuses to collect and deliver every single valid mail ballot.

"We're going to fight like hell to protect your right to vote…we’ll see them in court.”

HANDS OFF OUR VOTES.

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

A “promise to America” to oppose literally every single policy the people want

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

"The Extreme Sentences Handed to Anti-ICE Protesters Should Terrify Us All"

30-100 years! Perhaps the most important and scary story you'll read all week:
https://t.co/kP6UfwzDBX

[John Harwood @JohnJHarwood]

"I mean, we're 1,000 times
more corrupt and we're still here hahahaha..."

[MM  @adgirlMM]

The whooping crane is one of the world’s most endangered birds. Of the 800 or so left on earth, about two-thirds are wild and migrate every year between Texas and Canada.

So OF COURSE the Trump administration removed all protections and plans to eliminate about 12% of their critical migratory habitat in the wetlands of Texas.

So Trump, Doug Burgum, and their developer buddies can profit off the land.

When these birds are gone, they're gone forever.

Fuck this administration.
ETTD. 🌎

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

The Trump admin is proposing a huge rule change to the Endangered Species Act, redefining "harm" to mean ONLY actual physical killing or injuring of protected species, and NOT loss of habitat, interference w/ breeding, etc.

Enormous negative consequences for endangered wildlife.

[Michelle Smith @MSmith65242]

No!! Stop it!! Get it together, we need to get these fuckers (magats) out by working together. The people want actual change.

[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: 13 moderate Democrats have signed a “Promise to America” pledge vowing to fight against Democratic socialists.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨HOLY SHIT: Thomas Massie is spitting some FACTS right now that should SHUT MAGA UP:

“I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections.”

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Massie: "I think it's ironic that we control the House, Senate, Supreme Court, and the White House, and we're yelling 'election fraud'? I mean, we won all the damn elections."

[Mallory McMorrow @MalloryMcMorrow]

The SAVE Act would require people to show proof of citizenship that matches their current legal name - documents like a passport or a birth certificate.

Only 39.7% of Michiganders hold a passport.

Over 2.2 million married women in Michigan changed their surnames.

The SAVE Act could disenfranchise MILLIONS in our state. But that's what the president wants. Housing crisis be damned.

[HalalFlow @halalflow]

She smeared Zohran Mamdani as a jihadist, while cozying up to Ted Cruz

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

Satan's court has rendered its decision on the mass poisoning of America's food supply.