Trung Tien Nguyen

Democracy, freedom, human rights, justice

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

Todd Blanche doesn’t know who wrote the document giving the Trump family immunity to cheat on their taxes.

And yet... he signed it.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

You are right. The hearing will test whether Republican senators still understand their oath as something more than ceremonial upholstery.

Todd Blanche has used public authority to protect Trump, pursue his enemies, pressure the press, and blur the line between presidential power and private revenge. A federal judge has now raised serious questions about his professional conduct.

Cornyn and Tillis are leaving office. They have no primary left to fear, no committee chairmanship worth trading their names for. This should be the easiest no vote of their careers... unless independence has become harder than retirement.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This speech by @StephenM is so deeply evil it’s hard to fathom it coming from a White House employee. This is pure Nazism.

The in-group is “morally superior,” “ordered,” “beautiful” & “normal.” The out-group is “abnormal,” “scarred” & “deformed.”

The in-group goes to church on Sunday (Miller is Jewish).
The out-group is “violent,” “junkies,” & “predators”

This is precisely how the Nazis spoke about their political opposition. It is a full-throated commitment to eugenics as policy.

In reality, you just need to watch Miller to see everything he claims to be afraid of: hatred, jealousy & violence. He is the most “deformed” man in America.

Finally, when Miller brings up the boogeyman of “Antifa,” it’s important to remember the original “Antifa” were antifascists in Weimar Germany who were the first people sent to Dachau.

There is no left vs. right anymore. There is life vs. death.

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“The leftist is fundamentally motivated by envy, by hatred, by jealousy. The leftist looks at what is beautiful and what is good and what is natural and is filled with envy and hatred.

The leftist looks at a perfect family with the perfect life and a perfect job and perfect kids who goes to church every Sunday and is filled with the feeling of inadequacy and jealousy and they covet and they turn those emotions ultimately into a desire to subjugate, to oppress and to inflict pain and suffering.

It's not a coincidence that when you look at these violent antifa demonstrations and you see any photograph of those who were assembled to be blunt, not one of the people that is demonstrating looks like a normal person. Not one looks normal. They're all deformed in some way in their appearance, in their dress, in their mannerism.

Why is that? Why? You look at two photographs and you see a normal American street, you see an antifa protest. Why did the people that are violently demonstrating? Why is there not one normal looking person among them? Every one of them through the course of their life and their decisions has scarred their body and their appearance in many different ways.

The point in which their outer appearance becomes a manifestation of their inner hatred. Trust your instincts to all people and cross all civilizations. You know what normal is. You know what beautiful is. You know what good is. You know that families are right. You know that children are precious and beautiful and must be protected. You know that the criminal and the junky and the predator is a threat to normal, healthy living.

This is so much deeper than issues about taxation and regulation, although they're incredibly important. It's about normal, healthy, ordered living. And the violent leftists for these deep-seated reasons, going back to the earliest wisdom taught to us in the Bible about coveting.

And I'm not talking about rich versus poor. I'm talking about a much deeper kind of coveting. Coveting people who are morally superior. Who are superior in the simple, truthful way they live their lives. People that they look at who are happy and ordered and peaceful and contributing to the communities.

That burns an ember in them and that's how you end up with the horrors we've seen throughout history. Where good families are dragged that into the street and executed.”

[Ed Markey @SenMarkey]

Today I made an unannounced visit to ICE’s facility in Scarborough, Maine. What I heard was unacceptable: no body cameras, no training, and no accountability. Johan Guerrero should be alive. Congress must act. Abolish ICE. End qualified immunity.

[Jacqueline Sweet @JSweetLI]

My name is Lucinda, This is my response to your questions regarding my experience or knowledge of my ex husband, David Brouillette.

Before anything else, I want to express my deepest condolences to the victims, their loved ones, and every person whose life has been forever changed by this tragedy. My heart is with all of those who are grieving.

For several days, I have watched these events unfold alongside the rest of the country. I have intentionally been careful not to speculate about the incident itself. I was not there, I do not know exactly what happened, and I believe the facts should be determined by investigators and the justice system—not by public opinion.

What I can speak to is my own experience.

If you were to ask me whether I believe David Brouillette is capable of this level of extreme violence, my answer is unequivocally yes. That belief is not based on speculation, but on my own lived experiences over many years. Throughout our marriage and in the years that followed, I  have feared for a long time that his anger, aggression, and escalating behavior would eventually result in severe, life threatening violence, and I often believed I would be the one on the receiving end of it.

I was married to David Brouillette throughout his entire military career. During those years, and for many years after our marriage ended, I experienced a persistent pattern of abuse, intimidation, manipulation, fear, and control. On multiple occasions David’s physical abuse was witnessed by friends and family. The emotional, psychological, and physical scars of those experiences have remained with me long after the marriage ended.

One of the most difficult aspects of that relationship was the fear of retaliation. Throughout our marriage and long afterward, I believed that whenever I spoke up, challenged him, or sought help, there would be consequences. That fear influenced countless decisions I made, including when and how I reported what I was experiencing. Even now, I fear speaking the truth of my experiences will lead to retaliation.

David often spoke to me about his military intelligence background and the specialized skills he believed it gave him. He frequently portrayed himself as someone who could manipulate people, deceive others, and stay in control of difficult situations. Whether those statements reflected reality or were intended to intimidate me, they contributed to an environment of fear that made it even harder for me to believe I could safely stand up to him.

Throughout the years, I brought my concerns to law enforcement, the courts, and the Department of Health and Human Services. I tried to explain what I believed was a long-standing pattern of abuse, intimidation, manipulation, and controlling behavior because I genuinely feared where those behaviors could lead. From my perspective, those warnings did not receive the attention I believed they deserved. Feeling unheard while continuing to fear retaliation was one of the most isolating experiences of my life.

The concerns I describe here are not new. They were raised over many years through family court proceedings, reports to law enforcement, and communications with the Department of Health and Human Services. Those proceedings span years and are matters of public record. My purpose in making this statement is not to relitigate those proceedings, but to explain my own experience and why I carried these concerns for so long.

For many years, I questioned whether anyone would believe what I had experienced. Seeing others with firsthand knowledge now come forward publicly has been deeply validating. While I cannot speak for anyone else’s experiences, hearing similar accounts has reinforced that I was not alone in what I experienced.

This statement is not about speculating on the events currently under investigation or influencing the outcome of any criminal case. It is about sharing my own lived experience and explaining why I carried these concerns for so many years.

If there is one thing I hope comes from sharing my experience, it is that patterns of abuse, coercive control, intimidation, and manipulation are recognized and taken seriously before they escalate. I know firsthand how difficult it is to speak up when you fear retaliation or believe no one will listen. If my experience encourages even one person to seek help, or encourages one person, one agency, or one court to take those warning signs more seriously, then sharing my story has served a purpose.

I also ask that people remember something very important. David Brouillette is the individual involved in the criminal case that is currently under investigation. I am not. Our children are not. My family is not. We did not choose this situation, and we should not be judged, threatened, harassed, or defined by someone else’s alleged actions.

My children deserve the opportunity to grow up without carrying the weight of circumstances they did not create. My family deserves privacy, compassion, and the chance to move forward without fear.

My thoughts remain with the victims, their loved ones, and every family whose lives have been forever changed by these events. I hope the investigation uncovers the truth, justice is served through the legal process, and healing can begin for everyone affected.

[Irlandarra @martinez_j7902]

ICE agents entered a kindergarten classroom to detain a five-year-old child

His teacher stood in the doorway and was arrested for obstruction. In court, the judge dismissed the charge, ordered expungement, and referred the incident for review.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Anne Applebaum: "There's a series of institutions that have been created, going back decades…, that are designed to prevent foreign interference and other interference, and … the Trump administration [has] pretty systematically dismantled them.”(2026)

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

A source tells MS NOW that Todd Blanche told Epstein survivors during their meeting, "The FBI has the power to open investigations, not me."

"I'm just the attorney general," Blanche added. https://t.co/bN9k6JICIS

[Sarrah Bellus @sarrah_bellus]

Every time Donald Trump talks about election fraud, remind him of January 2, 2021.

The recording of him pressuring Georgia officials to “find” 11,780 votes after he lost the 2020 election.

The man who tried to overturn an election he lost has no moral authority to lecture anyone about election integrity.

[Niall Ferguson @nfergus]

The goal of my entire career as an historian was to ensure that citizens learned the lessons of history—including the vital lesson that antisemitic rhetoric can be translated into genocidal reality if it is adopted by a modern state. Yet today, as AI permeates social networks, anti-history is spreading like a cancer. The Holocaust is either denied or derided. I have to admit: I failed utterly.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

This point by @marceelias is so important. This was the scariest part of the Trump speech.

[Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman @SenateForeign]

We cannot forget the human cost of China’s crimes. Ekpar Asat, a Uyghur man who visited the U.S. at the State Department’s invitation in 2016, has been imprisoned for over a decade for the “crime” of inciting ethnic hatred. He must be freed. (2/2)

[Acyn @Acyn]

Reporter: 120 children dead, 26 of their teachers, a Sky News investigation released today points to all this being a tragic mistake by the US military, so could you explain please why the president is repeatedly saying it wasn't America? I just want to understand why he consistently says it wasn't us when all the evidence and indeed the preliminary report, and we've spoken to a military insider who says this was human error.

Leavitt: That’t the president’s opinion. He feels that way because he knows that our military always acts in good faith and absolutely never targets civilians or children, unlike the other side of this conflict, Iran. You should focus on that.

[Foreign Policy @ForeignPolicy]

Ukraine’s new offensive on Crimea has military stakes far beyond payback. https://t.co/OufjRJ7qes

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

Undermining trust in the justice and electoral systems, denigrating the media, targeting rivals. I’ve seen this playbook before in Putin’s Russia in the early 2000s.

America’s democratic institutions may be stronger, but we should never take them—or our rights—for granted.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

TRUMP ON HIS POINTLESS WAR: “We’re making a lot of money. The defense companies are doing great.”🤔

Unreal. There you have it, folks.

[Brian Schwartz @schwartzbWSJ]

SCOOP: Top Treausry tax official and acting IRS chief counsel Ken Kies was ousted from his job after he warned that the White House was at risk of violating a federal law prohibiting senior officials’ involvement in IRS audits.

Story w/ @RichardRubinDC and @jdawsey1
https://t.co/r8Mwdso4kP

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Trump says Democrats forgot to rig the election in 2016, successfully rigged it while *he* was president in 2020, then forgot how to rig it again in 2024. So the only election Democrats supposedly stole was the one he himself controlled.

You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this bullshit.

[Adam Klasfeld @KlasfeldReports]

In this section of his speech, Trump is lying about the intelligence community's findings about China's actions in the 2020 election.

This is the actual IC finding, declassified in 2021. https://t.co/fuFYST2pem

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

EX PARDON ATTORNEY CALLS BLANCHE A LIAR: “2 days after Mr. Blanche was confirmed as Deputy A.G., he fired me. I declined to rubber stamp a political favor for Trump's friend and it cost me my job. He sent 🇺🇸 Marshals to my home to prevent me from speaking with Congress.”