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[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

🚨 BREAKING: MADISON SQUARE GARDEN ERUPTS IN BOOS AS DONALD TRUMP IS SHOWN ON SCREEN

[Gandalv @Microinteracti1]

The President of the United States is asleep at his desk. Again.

Behind him stand seven grown adults in expensive suits, and not one of them is doing anything about it. One is mid-sentence. Another is gazing sideways with the haunted look of a man whose pension depends on never acknowledging what he can see in his peripheral vision.

The rest of the world is watching, and the rest of the world has noticed something. Americans are terrified of authority. That fear has settled over this administration like a fog, and it turns otherwise functional adults into warm furniture. Nobody moves. Nobody speaks. The paralysis is total.

In any European parliament, in any boardroom from Oslo to Ljubljana, someone would have leaned over by now. Tapped a shoulder. Said, quietly but clearly, that perhaps this isn’t the moment. Somebody would have done something, because the alternative, pretending a sleeping man is running a meeting, would have been too absurd to sustain.

Not here. Here, seven men have collectively decided that the correct professional response to the President losing consciousness in the Oval Office is to carry on as though he were a particularly demanding houseplant.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Donald Trump PLASTERS HIS FACE on new U.S. passports, breaking with every modern precedent.

If your passport is due for renewal anytime soon, you may want to get that renewal processed as soon as possible, at least before the State Department begins issuing the newest editions of US passports.

Why? Well, no modern American passport has ever before featured a sitting president's image. In fact, no foreign passport features the head of state of any country in the world, either.

So, naturally, Donald Trump is about to change that — with his scowling inauguration portrait superimposed over the Declaration of Independence, all signed in gold, in what many Americans would consider the desecration of the 250th anniversary of America edition of US passports.

The Bulwark has learned that the State Department is finalizing a redesign of the U.S. passport to include Trump's likeness on the inside cover. A "limited run" of 25,000 passports is reportedly being planned. The White House confirmed the design by sending reporters a link to a Fox News exclusive.

A Georgetown University passport historian called the decision "wacky." That may be the understatement of the year.

The current passport's inside cover features Francis Scott Key watching the bombardment of Fort McHenry, alongside the closing lines of the Star-Spangled Banner. The back cover features the Earth, the moon, the Voyager spacecraft, and a quote from 19th-century activist Anna Julia Cooper: "The cause of freedom is not the cause of a race or a sect, a party or a class — it is the cause of humankind."

Trump is replacing that with his own face. Scowling. In gold.

This fits a pattern so obvious it barely needs explaining. Trump's signature will appear on U.S. currency. His face is on National Park passes. His name is on the Kennedy Center, the U.S. Institute of Peace, a new class of battleships, a prescription drug website, custodial children's savings accounts, and the One Big Beautiful Bill. His personal branding appears on federal buildings. The White House East Wing was demolished to build him a ballroom.

And now his face goes in your passport. The document you need to leave the country. The document Caitlyn Jenner can't use anymore because of the Trump administration's policies. The document that the SAVE America Act would require every American to present before casting a vote.

Think about that last part carefully. Trump wants his face on the document you'll need to prove you're allowed to vote. The document that, thanks to his own policies, millions of Americans either don't have or can no longer use accurately.

The cause of freedom, Anna Julia Cooper wrote, is the cause of humankind. That Trump replaced her quote with his signature tells us everything we need to know about Trump’s attitude toward freedom.

Please like and share this post if you think your passport should represent America — not boost the ego of its narcissistic, dementia-laden president.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.

A Syrian billionaire needed U.S. sanctions lifted so he could cash in on $12 billion in reconstruction contracts.

In an attempt to influence American foreign policy, he proposed a Trump-branded golf course, cut Jared Kushner & Ivanka Trump into a multibillion-dollar real estate deal for a resort in Albania, and had someone physically deliver a stone engraved with the Trump family crest to a Republican Member of Congress with instructions to take it to the White House to get the President's attention.

Trump threw his weight behind repealing the sanctions. They were lifted. The contracts are moving, the Trump family’s deals are expanding, and not a single Washington Republican is willing to say a word about any of it.

This is a corruption of everything the office of the presidency is supposed to stand for, and the American people deserve to know about it.
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[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: REPUBLICANS WANT TO FUND THE WAR WITH MONEY FROM....YOU'RE HEALTHCARE!!!
Republicans unveil new plan to pay for Trump's Iran war by taking healthcare away from THOUSANDS of sick Americans!

MAHA, my ass! Trump’s MAGA legislators couldn’t care less if you live or die, judging from their latest idiotic scheme.

While working families struggle to afford their prescriptions and doctors’ visits, MAGA lawmakers are plotting to gut the healthcare programs that ordinary Americans depend on — all to bankroll an unpopular war with Iran that Donald Trump started and DHS’s cruel mass deportation machine.

According to a bombshell new report from Axios, top House Republicans are eyeing massive cuts to federal health programs as "offsets" to fund a budget bill containing up to $200 billion for the Iran war and ICE enforcement. You know — the same ICE that just triggered a government shutdown because Republicans refused to stop throwing billions at it.

Let's be crystal clear about what this means: the GOP wants to take health care away from YOU so they can pay for a war that the American people never asked for and never wanted.

House Budget Committee Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX) is already reviving a scheme to gut Affordable Care Act cost-sharing subsidies — a move that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has confirmed would leave 300,000 more Americans without health insurance and force millions more to pay higher out-of-pocket premiums. All to save the government $30 billion. That's $30 billion that will go straight into funding Trump's military adventurism in the Middle East.

Meanwhile, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) had the audacity to dress these cruel cuts up as fighting "fraud and waste and abuse." That's right — the same Republicans who just handed billionaires and corporations a massive tax giveaway are suddenly very concerned about waste. Just not the kind that involves bombing Iran.

And it gets worse.

While Arrington publicly wrings his hands about the "false narrative" of cutting Medicare, he privately told Axios he'd personally LOVE to cut Medicare payments to hospitals and crack down on Medicare Advantage — policies that would directly harm seniors who depend on those programs. He's just worried about how it looks in an election year. Not about the people it would hurt. About how it looks.

On Medicaid, Republicans are already salivating over the chance to strip coverage from vulnerable Americans again — including reviving their disgusting push to ban states from covering undocumented immigrants, ripping away health care from people whose only "crime" is seeking a better life.

Some Republicans, however, are nervous about taking such drastic steps that would harm their own constituents tremendously. Rep. Don Bacon (R-NE), when asked if he was worried about these cuts, could only muster "I'll see." That is the sum total of MAGA's empathy for the 300,000 Americans who could lose their health insurance: "I'll see."

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) said it best: "Republicans in Congress want to cut Americans' health care to pay for more war in Iran. Let that sink in."
These are the priorities of Trump’s congressional sycophants.

Republicans want to take away your health insurance. They want to raise your premiums. They want to kick vulnerable people off Medicaid. And they want to use every single dollar they save to drop bombs on Iran and terrorize immigrant families with ICE raids.

This is not a drill. This is not a hypothetical. This is the Republican Party's agenda — in their own words, confirmed by their own leaders, in black and white.

Please like and share this everywhere. Your neighbors need to know what the GOP is plotting. Because if they get away with it, real people — your family members, your friends, your coworkers — will pay the price with their health, their finances, and potentially their lives.

Like and share this post if you believe no American should lose their health care to pay for an illegal war.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

CPAC Chair: How many of you would like to see impeachment hearings?

Crowd: *cheers*

CPAC Chair: That was the wrong answer...

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[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Thomas Massie goes nuclear on Congress – "I am sorry if one of your billionaire donors is going to get embarrassed because he went to Rape Island ... Some of them need to go to prison!"

The Kentucky Republican congressman delivered a scorching, no-holds-barred speech on the House floor today, warning Senate Republicans not to water down or kill the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Massie blasted any senator trying to "muck this bill up," saying: "If you are a party to that in the Senate, you are part of this cover-up that we are trying to expose."

In a merciless takedown, he added, "I am sorry if one of your billionaire donors is going to get embarrassed because he went to Rape Island. That is what they have coming. In fact, they need to be on the other side of bars, a lot of them. Some of them will be embarrassed, but some of them need to go to prison, and the survivors know that."

Not done, Massie brought a big finish: How will we know if this bill has been successful? We will know when there are men, rich men, in handcuffs being perp-walked to jail. And until then, this is still a cover-up."

This is Massie at his most boldly driven: calling out elite protection rackets, billionaire enablers, and any senator shielding them from full disclosure.

With Epstein scandals exploding – the unredacted videos of minors, survivor-led name lists, Zorro Ranch murder tips, and the downfall of politicians, business leaders, and event royalty – Massie's rage captures the fury that the powerful are still being protected.

Like and share if you think Massie’s outrage will lead to real accountability for Epstein’s rich cronies who had a great old time on “rape island.”

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Massive Jeffrey Epstein BOMBSHELL drops as the pedophile's personal accountant reveals that Epstein's estate paid off one of Donald Trump's accusers.

This isn't a smoking gun, it's a smoking cannon....

Richard Kahn, who served as Epstein's accountant, testified before the House Oversight Committee earlier today. He worked with the billionaire predator for over a decade, offering him unique insight into his shady operations and business practices.

While more details will be released at a later date, Congressman Suhas Subramanyam took to X to share his notes from the deposition. He revealed that Kahn mentioned five "rich and powerful" parties who bankrolled Epstein's operations: Les Wexner, Glenn Dubin, Steven Sinofsky, the Rothschilds, and Leon Black. Kahn also mentioned former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak as having close financial ties to the pedophile.

"A Trump accuser has received $ from the survivor fund managed by Kahn," wrote Subramanyam.

"Guys like Kahn enable billionaires like Epstein to get away with crimes the other 99.9% of Americans couldn't," he added.

If Trump is innocent like he insists, why would his best friend Epstein being paying out money to his accuser? The answer is obvious. Trump is a serial sexual predator and pedophile.

The congressmen went into more detail when speaking with reporters—

“Another person who was an accuser of Donald Trump was given a settlement by Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. We did confirm that,” he said. When asked for more details, he demurred and said that it would be best to wait for the release of the transcript.

“We wanted to confirm that certain accusers had received settlements, and he confirmed that," he explained.

We already know that Trump's name is all over the Epstein files and he has been accused of heinous sexual abuse and rape. In one particular case, he was accused by a woman of sexually abusing her when she was only 13-years-old. Her allegation was so credible that the FBI interviewed her four times. Pam Bondi's Justice Department tried to bury the interviews, but they were eventually uncovered.

Enough is enough. An exhaustive investigation must be launched immediately and this accountant must be forced to reveal everything that he knows.

Please ❤️ and share to demand that Kahn be forced to reveal

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

Five years late, Capitol police officers are honored for their ultimate sacrifice on January 6. Mike Johnson has provided comfort to the mob who battered and abused our law enforcement officers by ignoring the law requiring him to place the tribute plaque.
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[Jared Moskowitz @JaredEMoskowitz]

In Memoriam: Gone but not forgotten

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

It’s about time.
Put the plaque up for the Capitol Hill cops.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Lauren Boebert is asked to define “inflation.” It does not go well.

[LongTime🤓FirstTime👨‍💻 @LongTimeHistory]

Florida man now feels "pain of regret" voting for Trump—after ICE detains his fiancée to deport her back to Cuba.

They were both staunch MAGA supporters—he voted and she "prayed for him" to win.

"We didn't think that he'd ever deport someone back to Cuba," he cries.

"I mean, people say I voted for this... but I didn't vote for THIS!"

Yamile Alcantu has been locked up for the past 8 months—she received deportation order after cops found 3 Xanax pills in her purse during a traffic stop.

Her fiancée and life partner of 20 years, Wayne DeMario, is now left alone to run their guitar store in Miami, Florida.

[Janet Mills @JanetMillsforME]

Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

Children have been raped.
The powerful have escaped justice.
But the AG says we should be talking about the stock market.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

“One of the American soldiers stepped forward and called out in Yiddish: ‘I am also a Jew!’

He showed them the Star of David necklace he wore around his neck.
In that instant, the fear broke.

Prisoners began to cry, to reach out, to run toward him with what little strength they had left. They embraced him, clinging to his uniform, sobbing in disbelief.

After years of being hunted, stripped of dignity, treated as less than human — here stood someone who spoke their language, shared their identity, and had come not to kill them, but to save them.”

[Chuck Todd @chucktodd]

A functioning Congress would have hearings and this gentleman and the officer he’s talking about would both be testifying under oath along with the ICE officers involved with the incident. If you care about ICE’s credibility, you’d want an investigation. Because the allegation is chilling