vaughn burkamper

i'm cool.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Psaki: “Do you remember last year when Trump announced his massive across the board tariffs…He called it liberation day, it actually led to a stock market crash. That liberation day announcement was made on April 2nd of last year, and Trump’s financial disclosures show that he made 327 stock purchases six days later, on April 8th, while the market was down…So he makes those purchases on April 8th. The next morning, just after the market opened, he told his followers on Truth social: ‘THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY.’ Hours later, he paused his tariffs and the stock market had a historic rally, so historic in fact, it represented the biggest single day gain in the history of the Bloomberg billionaires index. To put it simply, it appears an official act by Trump cratered the stock market. Trump then bought the dip and then used another official act to bring the price of the market back up. Trump of course insists that all his stock transactions are handled by his two adult sons [@EricTrump & @DonaldJTrumpJr] without his involvement or knowledge of the individual trades carried out on his behalf. When asked about the timing of these specific trades, the White House told us tonight that President Trump only acts in the best interests of the American public, saying there was no conflict of interest. The White House also directed us to the Trump Organization. We’ve reached out to them, but we haven’t heard [anything] back.”🤦‍♀️

[Just An Indiana Girl @JustIndianaGirl]

If elections aren't secure... none of you are legitimately elected, and should therefore resign.

But you don't really believe that. You just want to disenfranchise millions of legit voters.

The SAVE ACT is voter suppression.

[Jeremy Konyndyk @JeremyKonyndyk]

What’s insane is the idea that the world’s richest country can’t spend a rounding-error of our wealth to save millions of lives overseas.

In polling, huge majorities of Americans support this. Empathy is an American value; just not to sociopathic weirdos like Rufo & Elon.

[Jon Ossoff @ossoff]

Do you think Jared Kushner would get special island-buying privileges if he weren't the President's son-in-law?

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

This is how we end. And make no mistake, this will end us. Unlimited money spent by those who want to keep unlimited power.

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

Fighting for kids to receive state-mandated Bible instruction while fighting against those same kids receiving free lunch is exactly the kind of religious hypocrisy Christians should stand against.

This is what it looks like to take the Lord’s name in vain.

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

He wasn’t found liable for allegedly assaulting her, he was found liable for actually assaulting her.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Ossoff: "You've got the American government controlled by Donald Trump backing a Trump family tungsten mine in Kazakhstan with a billion plus dollars of federal commitments at the very same time that they are cutting healthcare, defunding hospitals, and nursing homes, and doubling health insurance premiums."

[Brian J. Karem @BrianKarem]

However, if you vandalize the Capitol you can get a pardon.

[David French @DavidAFrench]

Trump's pardons will be the capstone on his corruption. He's going to prove the anti-federalists right. An unchecked pardon power is a grave mistake that an unscrupulous president can use to wreck the rule of law.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Nailed it.

[Sean Padraig McCarthy @SeanMcCarthyCom]

Buying rent stabilized property with the goal of lobbying the government to jack up working people’s rent is such scumbag behavior. Guy is already worth $100 billion but he wanted to put families out on the street to grab a few more crumbs. Sociopathic economic system

[Scott Lincicome @scottlincicome]

New research from @nytimes finds that the US government is actively doing "critical minerals" deals with FOURTEEN different companies that have financial ties to the Trump and/or Lutnick families - deals worth around $9 billion in all:

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Abbott donated $500,000 to Trump’s inauguration fund, and now a federal investigation into them has been dropped.

Under the Trump administration, you can poison babies for a price.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

James Talarico: “Every bar has that one guy. He’s loud, he’s obnoxious, he makes all the women in the bar feel uncomfortable. He hears you say your name to the bartender and then adds his drink to your tab when you’re not looking. That’s Ken Paxton. And I don’t know about y’all, but I’m done picking up his tab”

[Frank C @FrankCMYK]

"I just want to find 11,780 votes," –Donald J. Trump

Isn’t it ironic that the guy caught on tape trying to overturn an election is the same guy screaming about mass voter fraud?

That’s the psychological voodoo Trump pulled on America. He convinced millions of people that a voting system that worked for generations suddenly became “broken” the moment he lost, and broken in a way only he could fix.

But Trump doesn’t fix systems. He breaks them, blames someone else, and then sells himself as the repairman.

Trump is the mass voter fraud.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Tonight, I gave Notice of Intent to bring forth a Privileged Resolution to force a vote on releasing the names of Congressmen who used taxpayer funds for sexual misconduct settlements.

The Speaker has two legislative days to consider the timing of the vote. Stay tuned.

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Sen Tammy Duckworth: “If you have a different name on your birth certificate than is on your drivers license, you CANNOT vote, and so for the 69 MILLION American WOMEN who took their husband’s names, you cannot vote. That birth certificate is not valid. By the way, military IDs will not be valid for you to be able to vote, neither will your REAL ID…So you have to go in with a passport that matches your current ID, and you know how hard it is to get a passport? Number one, it’s expensive and number two, theres such a backlog in the State Department, some people are waiting 3-6 months to get a passport. And so, think about the 69 million American women who married and took their husband’s name, you can no longer vote under the #SAVEAct…and in order to have housing for young people who…don’t see home ownership as being something that they can achieve, he’s going to hold women who are married and took their husband’s name hostage.” 🤦‍♀️

[Patrick Skinner @SkinnerPm]

Dear Washington Post. Once a guilty verdict has been rendered, it’s no longer an allegation. It’s a fact. The jury did not find that the disgraceful president allegedly sexually assaulted & then defamed Jean Carroll. The jury found that he did sexually assault & defame her. Duh

[No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen @NoLieWithBTC]

He’s literally blocking a bill that would make it easier for you to afford a home because he wants to be able to suppress voters ahead of the midterms.