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[Jenni @hashjenni]

Capitalism is better than socialism because one man gets to be a trillionaire instead of everyone having healthcare

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[The potting shed @GardenerFliss]

My heart is full of love for this.

The UK’s first rooftop ICU at King’s College Hospital allows critically ill patients to receive life support outdoors, giving them fresh air, sunlight, and nature to support recovery and wellbeing. Patients reported a 20 percent reduction in pain relief meds required.

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Elias Keane @EliasKeaneBooks]

Trump likes to pick on minorities and portray them as massive bogymen to scare people. It is his MO and uses like a huge hammer. Fox then echoes everything he says. Aren't we all sick of this constant hatred that his Whitehouse spews and Fox repeats with no filter. We need to be building the country stronger and to do that we need people!

[Willie Ross Jr. Knee Deep @RossKneeDeep]

A lot of people voted for Trump because he ran on mass deportations. For anyone who voted for the deportation of brown people, what has that done for your bottom-line?

Has it lower your cost of living? Are gas and food prices lower? Did you get a promotion or a raise at work? Were you able to move into a better neighborhood? Did it stop school shootings? Did the deportations get you better healthcare, a tarriff or DOGE rebate check?

Tell me how has the attack on brown immigrants has improved your life.

[Charlotte Strong @cltncplan]

@Milajoy Every single state ($4+) above the average price during Biden's term ($3.55).

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Good morning.

The President of the United States is currently looting the treasury. He’s just taking your money for his own purposes. Billions of it.

And Republicans won’t do anything because their loyalty isn’t to you, it’s to him.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Britain has 17.5 million hectares of agricultural land.

65% of it cannot grow a single crop.

Too thin. Too high. Too wet. Too steep. The kind of slope where a tractor becomes a story they tell in the village pub for generations.

It grows grass. Because grass is what evolved to grow there.

The cow eats the grass. The sheep eats the grass.

Your stomach cannot eat the grass.

Take the ruminants off and the food production from that land becomes zero.

Not lower.

Zero.

The ruminant is not blocking a better option.

The ruminant is the only option.

The activist who wants the ruminant removed is not reducing meat consumption.

He is outsourcing it. To Brazilian feedlots on cleared rainforest, shipped six thousand miles in a refrigerated container.

The British hill goes to bracken.

The Amazon goes to soy.

The supermarket label changes from Hereford to Mato Grosso.

This is presented as the ethical position.

It is the most expensively packaged self-deception in modern politics.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

Seriously guys, whatever happened to:

• the DOGE checks
• tariff checks
• the Greenland hospital boat
• 10% APR on credit cards
• my meds being 1500% cheaper
• $2 gas
• the Epstein files
• reopening the Strait of Hormuz that was already open
• cheaper groceries
• ending wars in 24 hours
• the “privately funded” ballroom

Any updates?

[NR @nancy875]

@hartfordcourant Goodbye Erin. Time to find a job where you have to do some work.

[NR @nancy875]

@JimJinksCT Let’s go back to the Rowland years! Yay!

[Alfonso Robinson @ctblogger]

Then New Britain Mayor Erin Stewart’s husband turned 40 in 2022. Just days before, she bought gifts and party favors — and paid for them with her city-issued credit card.

There were 40th birthday candles, 40th birthday cocktail napkins, Donald Trump “Let’s make 40 great again” gag cards, an arch made of balloons and gifts — a vest, a hat, swim trunks and T-shirts.

Stewart made the purchases through her personal Amazon account, for which — as was the case with others of her online shopping accounts — her city credit card was the designated payer. On city accounting records, the purchases were listed as office supplies. They were delivered to her house.

https://t.co/1bTYQsNNcQ

#ItsOver #CTPolitics

[Scott Hechinger @ScottHech]

Lying in a legal briefing would get you disbarred as a regular lawyer. But when you’re an unelected, lifetime appointee with powers to write decisions that completely undo & remake the Constitution, the decision gets to stand & you get to keep your lifetime position. Outrageous.

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

There were 3 commercial airline crashes resulting in 11 deaths during the roughly 7-month filming period of the “Great American Road Trip” series.

[chyea ok @chyeaok]

Unbelievable : The corporations sponsoring Sean Duffy’s 7 month reality TV trip are all regulated by the department he leads. They literally paid him to take an extended vacation from doing his job.

[NR @nancy875]

@crystald2_ Congratulations!

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

This is horrifying and barely getting media coverage.

Trump set April 30 as a deadline for the Zambian Govt. They must either accept Trump's new health funding agreement to have access to critical AIDS meds—and thus give the USA expanded access to its precious mineral resources like copper, lithium, and cobalt—or let its citizens die due to lack of vital AIDS medications.

Zambia is 98% Christian. Christians will die as a result of Trump's extortion. Notice how MAGA is wholly silent? Barbaric.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

And there you have it, folks.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Feels like this should be a story the press covers.