Peter

News Cameraman recently left China ( after 15 years) back in beautiful NZ. Father to 3 fantastic nutters, Eli, Mac and Atticus. Proud Kiwi. Minimal outrage

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

The situation with the Kennedy Center has gone off the rails. It has officially reached levels of pettiness I didn’t think were possible, but Trump is once again defying the odds.   

A court ordered his name removed from the building. He lost, fair and square. So, what does he do? He throws a tarp over the sign that says “The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts” and just leaves it there.   

Not for a day, not for a week, but for WEEKS. 

A federal judge is demanding answers, because apparently we live in a country where a sitting president has to be hauled into court to explain why he’s hiding a building from the American public. 

A president with a real legacy doesn’t need to paste his name onto someone else’s. And he definitely doesn’t need to hide a sign because a court told him no. 

A weak man with a bruised ego would. And that’s exactly what’s happening here. 

It’s petty, it’s absurd, and frankly, it’s embarrassing.

[Canada Hates Trump @AntiTrumpCanada]

Go fuck yourself, you feeble-minded shitheel. America doesn’t need patriotism lessons from a convicted felon & adjudicated rapist who incited an attack on the Capitol, tried to steal an election & dreams of being a dictator for life. Fuck all the way off.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Gavin Newsom goes off on the Trump Family corruption:

Newsom: And I’m not talking about the $100,000 watches. I’m not talking about the guitars that he’s selling that you didn’t even know about, or the Bibles, or the sneakers. I’m not talking about all that.

I’m talking about what’s happening substantively with these kids and these investments, and the Pentagon contracts they’re receiving on rare earth minerals and drone companies, and all the stuff that’s happening with the Kushner family, the Witkoff family, the “Board of Peace,” which is about getting a piece of the Middle East.

Let’s talk about the UAE and high-value chips, where they’re getting a piece of our national security, where the Biden administration held off. But as long as you can get a deal done with the UAE on the private family businesses, then all of a sudden national security becomes less of an important talking point.

Or how about the tariff relief in places like Vietnam for the golf courses and the development deals, and the dozen other countries that he’s doing business in? How about all the corruption as it relates to the self-dealing with his resorts and all of his assets that the Secret Service and taxpayers are subsidizing? Or directing G7 investments? Or the emoluments issues across the spectrum every day? Or just the day trading literally behind the Oval Office desk, or showing up on your calendar at a company that you just invested in because you know that stock’s going to pop because you’re going to promote it the next day?

All of this happening—this open sewage system. You talk about draining the swamp. He gave it a presidential suite with gold leaf.

And you’re seeing this gross corruption at a scale and scope never before seen in modern American history. This is stuff I don’t even imagine exists at this scale in a year and a half, even in Putin’s Russia or Kim Jong-un’s North Korea.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨IN HIS DREAMS: Trump thanks the crowd and claims 150,000 people are in attendance, even though estimates put the crowd at roughly one-tenth of that.

Does he think his supporters are idiots?

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

BASH: But it peeled off. Why did that happen?

BURGUM: It didn't peel off. There was vandalism. There was box cutters. There have been 7 arrests.

BASH: There are photographs of people cutting a 350 foot gash in the reflecting pool?

BURGUM: Dana, I'm not sure why you and others in the media wanna keep questioning it

[Dismayed Idaho Agoraphobe @IdahoSpud2025]

@McFaul It's not that complicated.

[Michael McFaul @McFaul]

This is how we lose to the Chinese in the 21st century.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

America is a constant work in progress. Every generation must take up the unfinished work of the last and carry it further—protecting what’s right, fixing what’s wrong, and making our union a little more perfect. 250 years later, that’s more important than ever.

[Peter @peterkalksma]

@AngieNC3 @kylegriffin1 Do you think anyone who runs the largest intelligence network on the planet should have any relevant qualifications? Earnest question.

[Peter @peterkalksma]

@SecretaryWright A case of Moët this insane corrupt cunt is a Christian nationalist

[Peter @peterkalksma]

@virginiafoxx Hey cunt I hear youve sent an insane, vile letter to a 4th grader. Do the right thing and apologise. Twat

[Lisa Nandy MP @lisanandy]

I've decided to leave this platform and my Department will too.

A platform originally designed for free speech and expression now favours abuse and misinformation over meaningful debate.

It isn't healthy for our democracy or our communities and I don’t want to support it.

[Peter @peterkalksma]

@FordJohnathan5 Fuck he’s a lowlife scumbag….in addition to being a sexual predator.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

OMFG.

THERE ARE LITERALLY 7 PEOPLE WATCHING THIS ENTERTAINMENT AT TRUMP’S GREAT AMERICAN STATE FAIR. ONE OF THEM IS ASLEEP.

[Democratic Wins Media @DemocraticWins]

BREAKING: In a stunning moment, Fox News just broke the news that Donald Trump's efforts to strike down birthright citizenship have failed. It's amazing to watch Fox proclaim Trump a loser.

[The Halfway Post @HalfwayPost]

BREAKING: Donald Trump is reportedly "apocalyptically angry" that the Supreme Court's rejection of his E. Jean Carroll guilty verdict appeal, means that he's officially, once and for all, a rapey, raping rapist.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Guess we’ve got a problem, then.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Bill Maher to JD Vance: "Here's my deal breaker for your side, okay? Under Trump, you guys have two outcomes an election can be: Either we win, or they cheated. That shit has to stop."

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: GET HIM! Congressman Jamie Raskin DISMANTLES Mike Johnson after he whined that Democrats will investigate Republican corruption if we win the midterms.

The MAGA Speaker walked face-first into this one...

"If we were to lose the midterms, heaven forbid, these Democrats, y'all impeachment's not even the big concern," said Johnson. "They will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the President's family, the Cabinet, his donors and friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. I’ll take care of you."

Oh, the horror! Imagine if Congress actually exercised its oversight powers to rein in the most lawless President in American history as he loots the treasury, lines his pockets from crypto scams, starts foreign wars on behalf of Israel, and covers up his own involvement in Jeffrey Epstein's massive child sex trafficking ring.

Raskin saw the jaw-dropping Johnson clip and quickly pounced—

"1. Speaker Johnson, you’re obsessing about losing the House but don’t seem to realize it’s because you have no program for the country other than illegal disastrous tariffs, illegal disastrous war and humiliating invertebrate submission to your unraveling cult master," wrote Raskin.

"2. You’re projecting onto us your own comically failed and obsessive investigations into President Biden, the Southern Poverty Law Center, James Comey, George Soros, etc."

"3. We obviously must confront the debilitating corruption and authoritarianism you have enabled, but at the same time we’re going to move America forward on all the public goods you have thwarted, like the health care of the people, increasing the minimum wage and protecting our environment."

"4. I agree that you 'run the protection program' and 'take care' of all MAGA violators!"

That last point is worth paying attention to. Johnson sounds exactly like a mafia don in a low budget gangster flick, which is presumably a habit he picked up from his cult leader Donald. The Republican Party is now indistinguishable from a criminal organization. They violate the Constitution daily while turning a blind eye to Trump's endless parade of lawbreaking.

Johnson's speech has become an accidental campaign ad for Democrats. If you care about upholding the law and restoring our democracy, you have to vote blue.

What do you want Democrats to prioritize when we retake power? Sound off!

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