Kurt Carpenter

[Kurt Carpenter @option8films]

@elonmusk Fuck you and the $44 billion dollar Saudi engineered Trojan horse you rode in on.

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

Trump was able to quickly put together $300 billion in recovery money for Iran after he decided to bomb it.

He stood in Swannanoa NC not far from my house in October 2024 and said he’d build back bigger, better, more beautiful, and faster than Biden after Hurricane Helene inflicted $60 billion in damage in the Blue Ridge . . . and then he went MIA.

Imagine if @realDonaldTrump cared as much about rebuilding Western North Carolina for Americans as he does about rebuilding Iran for Iranians.

[Hannibal999 @Hannibal9972485]

Warning ⚠️ to Americans . The “SAVE ACT” is a TROJAN HORSE for “DIGITAL ID” 🚨🚨🚨 🇨🇳

This bill has a massive "Trojan Horse" it functions as a Federal Digital ID Infrastructure.. It is not about protecting the vote from non-citizens. It is a National Database Integration Act designed to bypass state sovereignty and link the U.S. voting system directly to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 🚨🚨

The "Digital ID" system is AFTER this bill intends to MANUFACTURE a CRISIS during election time 🚨🚨🚨🚨

The bill explicitly ties your voting rights to the **REAL ID**.

REAL ID requires a facial scan and a digital database. By mandating that only a REAL ID is acceptable as proof of citizenship without secondary documentation, the bill forces every American who wants to vote to obtain a REAL ID.🚨🚨🚨

- Currently, states run their own elections. This section forces the federal government to become the

for every single voter registration in the country.

It mandates that the State must query federal databases before registering you. This standardizes the voter registration process into a federal format.

So To process these requests within 24 hours, the system must be automated. Automated verification relies on **digital identifiers** (like the Social Security Number and Real ID hashes). This forces states to upgrade their voter registration databases to be compatible with DHS protocols, effectively creating a **Unified Federal Voter Database** without calling it one.🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
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The section 24-HOUR DATA PIPELINE

**Location:** Section 2(f)(3)(5)(A).

This is the mechanism that forces the **Digital Identity Ecosystem** into existence. A state employee cannot manually verify a birth certificate with the federal government in 24 hours through paper mail.

• To meet a 24-hour deadline, the State and Federal agencies must have a connected digital interface.🚨🚨
• The Consequence: This forces every State Election Board to link their voter registration database directly to the federal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Social Security Administration (SSA) databases via an automated API.🚨🚨🚨

The bill claims to be about "preventing non-citizen voting," but it actually mandates the interoperability of state and federal databases. This interoperability is the core definition of a Digital ID ecosystem. It creates a centralized "Identity Trust Layer" controlled by DHS.⚠️⚠️⚠️
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Not only this they’re TURNING DMVs, welfare offices, and unemployment offices as “ IMMIGRATION OFFICER” HUBS 🚨🚨

They’re force low-level state employees to act as immigration enforcement officers. It requires them to verify documents before even giving someone a form.

WHY??? Because it creates a massive bottleneck. The system will become so slow and inefficient that the only solution will be to bypass the human employee.

The states will be forced to adopt automated digital verification systems (scanners and cloud checks) to clear the backlog. This pushes the voting process entirely into the digital realm, where it can be logged, tracked, and blocked remotely.
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This merges the voting booth with the deportation pipeline.

The bill uses the "threat of non-citizen voting" to justify feeding voter data into the DHS deportation machine.

Many naturalized citizens have errors in their federal records. When this automated system flags them, they aren't just turned away at the polls; they are flagged for immigration investigation. This weaponizes the voting system to terrorize naturalized citizens.

The Endgame: It transforms the voting registry into a subset of the immigration enforcement database.🚨🚨🚨
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They are hiding the fact that this implementation will cost states billions in database upgrades and staff training.
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@RepThomasMassie @AOC @RandPaul

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

To everyone so eager to cancel someone for a tattoo they got at age 22, a drunk text, a selfie they took in the middle of a mental health crisis:

Show us your laptop.
Show us your iCloud.
Open your entire digital life to your worst enemy. No context. No filter. No explanation.

You won’t.

You won’t because you know what I know. Any one of us, frozen at our worst moment, photographed in our lowest hour, looks like a monster. Looks like a stranger. Looks like someone who deserves to be cast out.

That is not who we are.

My mom and baby sister were killed in a car accident when I was just a kid. Cancer took my brother Beau, my best friend and my rock. I battled alcoholism. I battled addiction. I chose the coward’s way out more times than I can count.

For years I believed the defining chapters of my life were written by tragedy, loss, and shame.

I no longer believe that.

Pain can shape us. Loss can humble us. Failures can leave scars that never fully fade. But none of them have the authority to define us.

And it sure as hell ain’t the critic that counts.

That authority belongs to us alone-the person in the arena.

Every setback presents a choice. Play the victim, or cut the bullshit and take ownership for who we become next.

Life does not determine our character. It reveals it.

Again and again we are asked the same question. When shit happens, what next?

We are not defined by what happened to us. We are not defined by the worst photo, the worst text, the worst tattoo, the worst night. We are defined by the person we choose to become. And by the courage to choose that person, every single day.

So before you reach for the gavel - show us your laptop.

You won’t.

The whole world saw mine. And I am still here. Still becoming. Still choosing. Still standing.

That is the only definition that matters.

[Michael T. Lester @MichaelTLester]

Trump is once again talking about Kharg Island and saying we can take it "at a time of our choosing."

He's not wrong. We can get troops on that island.

But he's not telling you what happens next.

Kharg Island is 16 miles off the Iranian coast. Iran has every square foot of it registered for artillery and rocket fire. They've spent the last three months laying anti-personnel mines on the beaches, pre-deploying shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, and moving IRGC troops into hardened positions. They know we might be coming.

Every one of our ships in our assault force is 47 seconds from an Iranian anti-ship cruise missile. Every Marine on that island is within rocket artillery range of a coastline that runs 1,500 miles. We can't suppress that effectively even if we used all of our forces

I flew CH-53E helicopters in Desert Storm, and I know what it means to put troops in a fixed position on a small island with no room to maneuver and no friendly territory within reach. The military term for that is a kill box. The political term is leverage. The human term is a body bag.

The analysts are being careful in how they are framing it. Ryan Brobst and Cameron McMillan of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, which is about as hawkish as think tanks get, wrote in March that a seizure and occupation "is more likely to expand and extend the war than it is to deliver any sort of decisive victory." Former CENTCOM commander Joseph Votel said troops on the island would be "very vulnerable" and would require massive logistical backup. Malcolm Davis of the Australian Strategic Policy Institute put it more plainly: "I think the Iranians can probably sit back and attack Americans on Kharg Island, and casualties will mount up."

That's the politically correct version.

Here's what they're not saying out loud: Iran has FPV drones. The same camera-equipped drones being used by the millions in Ukraine. If our troops land on that island, Iranian drone footage of American casualties will be on every screen in the world within hours. Trump will own every frame of it.

Iraq bombed Kharg Island for four straight years during the Iran-Iraq War. From 1982 to 1986, but they never put a single soldier on it. They couldn't. The Iranians rebuilt and kept exporting oil. That's the historical record on what "taking Kharg" actually means.

And here's the part that makes even less sense: seizing the island doesn't open the Strait of Hormuz. Kharg is 300 miles from the strait. The Iranians mine the strait from their southern coastline. You'd have to suppress 1,500 miles of Iranian coast to fix that problem. Kharg is just a political symbol, not a solution.

We can bomb it into rubble. We've already struck over 90 targets there. Trump can destroy every oil facility on that island from the air, permanently. That's a real option with real consequences for Iran's economy and real consequences for global oil markets.

But putting Americans on the ground 16 miles from the Iranian coast, surrounded by water, within range of everything Iran has left?

That's not a strategic or tactical military operation. That's just a sacrifice of American lives.

Are you OK with that?

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This isn’t making enough news.

Cities and states are suing oil companies, alleging they knew about climate dangers and hid them. Those cases go before federal judges.

Meanwhile, a center at George Mason University’s Scalia School of Law has been hosting expense-paid seminars for those same federal judges.

Who funds the center?

ExxonMobil, the Charles Koch Foundation, and others connected to the very companies being sued.

The center even told a funder its goal was giving judges “skepticism” about the science behind the lawsuits they hear.

Who spoke at these closed-door seminars? Chris Wright, then a fracking CEO, now Trump’s Energy Secretary, sharing his skepticism about climate change. His own company was suing the government over climate rules at the time.

So, imagine you’re a referee in a championship game. Before the game, one of the teams pays for you to attend a fancy retreat where their coach explains why the other team’s strategy is illegitimate. Would anyone trust your calls?

That’s essentially what’s happening here.
https://t.co/C0GZQd54Iz

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Hawaii just passed the first state law in the country banning corporations from making political donations in state elections.

Now a Koch-backed legal group is suing to overturn it.

Big Money won't get out of our politics without a fight — one that we the people must win.

(via @LeverNews)

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.

The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.

It had fewer than 50 employees.

And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.

Here is the part the administration tried to bury.

Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.

One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.

Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.

A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.

This is public money. Your money.

Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.

And there is more coming.

A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.

This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.

https://t.co/4kB1cZNmlE

[60 Minutes @60Minutes]

“We spotted nine Polymarket accounts, all connected, who made, collectively,$2.4 million betting almost exclusively on U.S. military operations,” says Nicolas Vaiman, co-founder of the small data analytics firm Bubblemaps.

“And now here's the crazy part: 98% win rate.” https://t.co/T79aYM48ZI

[John Jackson @hissgoescobra]

There is ample basis under Colorado law to impeach Jared Polis. Dems have the majority in the state house and senate, and they should use that power. Right now. Here's the breakdown why:

The Colorado Constitution allows for impeachment if there is a "high crime, misdemeanor, or malfeasance in office." That language is near identical--but broader in favor of impeachment power, as Colorado adds "malfeasance" as a grounds--to the language used in the U.S. Constitution.

The U.S. Supreme Court has interpreted "high crime or misdemeanor" to mean abuses or violations of public trust, and thus NOT requiring indictable crimes. This was discussed in Nixon v. U.S., 506 U.S. 224 and in Federalist No. 65.

Moreover, the term "malfeasance" would be interpreted under canons of statutory interpretation, which means, by its plain and ordinary meaning: "wrongdoing or misconduct" or "the performance of an act that is unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law."

And under those same interpretive rules, we must give different meanings to each of the terms "high crime, misdemeanor, or malfeasance." Think about that. It is a much broader word than high crime or misdemeanor.

So he could absolutely be impeached and special treatment for Tina Peters, which is fundamentally a breach of the public trust and inherently discriminatory against those inmates who didn't have political connections to Trump.

A Republican inmate was treated better than a Democratic inmate. Intolerable. Clemency is supposed to be about objective criteria such as rehabilitation, a change in the law that makes the original sentence unjust, good conduct, true remorse, terminal illness, and the like.

And I'm not pulling this out of thin air, I have a degree in criminology. The corrupt use of the clemency power serves no legitimate penological or governmental interest. Period.

Jared Polis should be impeached. Also, when will Jared Polis release all the certified transcripts of his calls with Donald Trump?

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

Trump is allowing 500k more Chinese students to enter America, and he's allowing the Chinese government to buy more American farm land while 46% of American farms are on the brink of foreclosure. Did you vote for this, MAGA? You did.

[Colorado Attorney General @COAttnyGeneral]

Attorney General Phil Weiser released the following statement regarding the governor commuting the sentence of convicted former Mesa County clerk Tina Peters: https://t.co/o8ZErUI08A

[Senator John Hickenlooper @SenatorHick]

Tina Peters is guilty as sin and a disgrace to Colorado.

She tried to undermine Colorado’s free and fair election system. When she was caught red-handed, she was prosecuted by a Republican district attorney and rightfully convicted by a jury of her peers.

Reducing her sentence sends the wrong message to those seeking to undermine trust in our elections and it will do nothing to deter Donald Trump’s illegal attacks on Colorado. I strongly disagree with this decision.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

This is absolutely insane, and @GovofCO Jared Polis should feel shame.

Trump is already giving election deniers free passes. We don’t need Dems doing the same

[Marshall Cohen @MarshallCohen]

Still, Polis is granting clemency against the wishes of (1) the GOP prosecutor who took Peters to trial, (2) the Colorado AG, a Dem, (3) the Colorado SOS, a Dem (4) all 66 Democrats in the Colorado state legislature, (5) a bipartisan coalition of Colorado election officials.

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

One of our greatest challenges after Trump is gone will be rebuilding the DOJ and preventing future prosecutorial abuses — no more 'seashells cases.'

We must codify new guardrails to protect the DOJ’s independence for good.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

We need to do this across the country!🇺🇸

[Nicole Minét @mouvement33]

Yeah, that's because fascism only exists on the right. The extreme right, to be precise. The opposite of fascism is communism. Liberals...the ones you call communists the most...are nowhere near communists...they are centrists. You guys literally make fun of the middle by calling them extreme, and you idiots don't know it because you're too stupid to research what you say you believe in...so here's an easy chart for you. Most former MAGA are now finding they are more liberal than modern-day conservatism because the GOP has been taken over by literal pedophiles. You guys just don't have a fucking clue what you're talking about. It's sad to watch. Especially for a decade.

I'm in the center. I've always been here. And I'll tell you this. You are a fascist. I am a liberal. And people who follow Bernie are socialists. There is no communist movement on the left. You are parroting leaders who are lying to you about the left and stealing your fucking money and civil rights as they do so. Our extreme is not the problem. Your extreme is. That's not up for debate. It's just facts you can't admit. Again, it's sad to watch.

[capitolhunters @capitolhunters]

@KFaulders @PCCharalambous Language is important here: Trump directing his own government to give him taxpayer money is not a "settlement". Nor is it "extortion". It's closer to "embezzlement", but not quite that either. It's a unique new form of corruption, and needs a new word.
https://t.co/A1G20sHXfx

[CCJ @NastyOldWomynII]

@capitolhunters @KFaulders @PCCharalambous It’s embezzlement to the letter: “fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom it has been entrusted (as of…public funds by the officer in charge).”