Peter Fimrite

Writer & @sfchronicle vet who specialized in science, the environment & good yarns. Community theater writer/actor & sports fan who plays pickle ball, bocce.

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: Last September, the President of Kazakhstan calls Donald Trump and says he wants to grant tungsten mining rights to an American company. And the very next month, Eric and Don Jr. get a stake in the American company pursuing the mining deal.

Six days later, six days after Prince Eric and Prince Don get their stake, Kazakhstan announces this company will get, “The largest known undeveloped tungsten resource in the world.” A few more weeks go by, and then the U.S. government, run by their father, sets aside 1.6 billion of your tax dollars to fund and finance their mining project. In Kazakhstan.

All this while you pay more for gas, for groceries, for health care, and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[Peter Fimrite @pfimrite]

@magachrchpastr @bellwetherSF So you admit you are a hypocrite.

[Peter Fimrite @pfimrite]

@RCJdpoctner The investigation found that there, in fact, was something to it. So Blanche is just lying right off the bat.

[Demand Justice @WeDemandJustice]

Mitch McConnell blocked Merrick Garland for 422 days. Then turned around and confirmed Amy Coney Barrett weeks before an election. The Republicans packed the Court then, but call the idea radical now.

The result: an illegitimate 6-3 Court dismantling voting rights, workers' rights, and reproductive freedom. We need reform now.

[Peter Fimrite @pfimrite]

@speedmaverick It was like that when I grew up too, but then football became ridiculously commercial, with TV timeouts and baseball began changing the rules, mandating the DH etc. Nobody plays either game in the streets or sandlots anymore. I got into soccer. My son plays it. I love it.

[Peter Fimrite @pfimrite]

@tylerjohntyler9 @MLSist But it is his job. No excuse there. IT IS HIS JOB!

[Peter Fimrite @pfimrite]

@BWrld22 @MLSist Most people can care less about the bullshit carnival hype. It’s just as enjoyable to ruin the hype as it is to read the leaked information a week early.

[Peter Fimrite @pfimrite]

@GoldieLocks1776 The fact that some protesters filed out peacefully after desecrating the capitol and participating in an insurrection is irrelevant.

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Facts are annoying to Republicans.

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

They want you to forget. They don’t want you to see this.

Keep sharing this so we can’t forget what they did to us that day.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

If you give a politician $5 to influence a vote, it’s bribery.

If billionaires spend $50 million to influence an election, it’s legal.

That is what a corrupt campaign finance system looks like.

[Team Ossoff @TeamOssoff]

Ossoff: You all probably saw over the last week that the President of the United States, who sued the U.S. government for $10 billion, then settled that lawsuit with himself to try and create a nearly $2 billion slush fund for the folks who sacked the United States Capitol and attacked those Capitol Police officers and tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power when Georgia ejected Donald Trump from the White House the first time…

You all also probably saw that as he continues his project of turning the White House into his royal palace, he's demanding vast sums of money – your money, the people's money – for his ballroom. And this is just the tip of the iceberg in a pattern of corruption and abuse unprecedented in the history of the Presidency, but you can rest assured that both of my opponents would be voting for this insurrectionist slush fund and would be voting for this crooked ballroom.

[Peter Fimrite @pfimrite]

@gothburz Oh shut up. And learn to write!

[GBX @GBX_Press]

DEAR WE THE PEOPLE! According to my calculation, it doesn’t look good for Mr. Trump involving a 13-year-old girl in 1994. Here is that girl, Katie Johnson, at age 35 giving a full description of what Trump did to her.
Hey, media, it has always blown my mind that this never got more traction. There are even three separate sworn witness statements and plenty of references to Trump making threats against them should they come forward, which in the end was enough to get them to drop the charges.

LOCK HIS ASS UP!

[Ounka @OunkaOnX]

Bernie Sanders: "Massie was defeated by $9 million from AIPAC and $7 million from Trump mega donors. His great crime? Opposed the war in Iran. Demanded the Epstein files be opened. Refused to be a rubber stamp."

The system isn't broken. It's working exactly as designed. To crush anyone who threatens the donor class. Anyone who puts America before Israel. Anyone who opens files that powerful people want closed

[Acyn @Acyn]

McGovern: It took us forever to compensate the victims of 9/11, and here you have this $1.8 billion slush fund that doesn’t go through any committees or hearings. All of a sudden, they have the money to compensate convicted felons—people who attacked our democracy and tried to overthrow a free and fair election.

This is the most corrupt administration in our history.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

🚨 Every Republican present in the House Appropriations Committee last night voted to make THEMSELVES eligible to collect from Trump's $1.8 billion January 6th slush fund. I am not making this up.

I introduced an amendment to stop Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President from collecting a single dollar from Trump’s slush fund unless a court actually orders it.

Every single Republican who cast a vote was AGAINST my amendment, making themselves eligible for settlement funds.

Members of Congress, the President, and the Vice President, have no business lining their own pockets by claiming they were victims of government weaponization. Trump set up this fund, now MAGA Republicans in Congress are ensuring they all can collect from it.

That is exactly the kind of self-dealing corruption the American people are sick of.

[MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸 @MAGACult2]

“I have never cared about what a president has done before. This will set us back 50 years!”

[Erin Burnett OutFront @OutFrontCNN]

Former Trump White House lawyer Ty Cobb rips Trump’s $1.8B defense fund: "this is really just a criminal conspiracy to steal money from the taxpayers."

[Peter Fimrite @pfimrite]

Me and my girl