pfmeyer

Multinational, socially conscious father, husband, real estate principal. ski racer. biker. adrenaline junkie.

[pfmeyer @pfmeyer]

As my parents taught us: treat others how you would like to be treated. We need to listen to the past, to look toward the future.

[Rebekah Jones @GeoRebekah]

This may be the image that defines America's 250th birthday.

A woman sits calmly on a Washington Metro train as masked members of the white nationalist and domestic terrorist group Patriot Front surround her.

They covered their faces.

She didn't.

Earlier in the day, Patriot Front marched through the nation's capital carrying Confederate flags and chanting that America must be "reclaimed," the latest expression of a white nationalist movement that has grown increasingly visible, violent, emboldened, and politically influential in recent years.

Their ideology is explicit.

Their courage, apparently, is not.

Not one of them was willing to show his face.

And then there is her.

No mask. No uniform. No fear.

Just an American woman refusing to surrender an inch of her dignity to a group of men who appeared to be seeking exactly that.

The symbolism is almost too perfect.

250 years after the Declaration of Independence, and six decades after Americans marched and died to make its promises apply to everyone, a group of masked white nationalists rode the socialist Metro home in anonymity.

The woman they tried to intimidate is the one America will remember.

The people who hide their faces do not define this country.

The people who refuse to be afraid do.

[John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz]

America, he is not worth this.

This unrelenting chaos that we find ourselves emotionally drowning in: the manufactured emergencies, fabricated culture wars, and conjured crises that hound us from the moment we rise exhausted, until the second our besieged nervous systems finally allow us a brief, though uneasy respite.

He is not worth the end of our Republic, an imperfect but determined two-hundred-and-fifty-year experiment in Democracy having its life and liberty choked out by a sneering, narcissistic, intellectually fetal, morally bankrupt bottom feeder.

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[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Two hundred and fifty years ago, a group of Americans signed their names to a piece of parchment and made a promise no nation had ever made before: that we're all created equal, endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights — life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We're the only nation in history built not on ethnicity, or blood, or geography but on an idea. That's always been what makes us exceptional. We chose that path 250 years ago but that’s where the work began, not where it ended. Every generation has had to choose it again. At Valley Forge, at Gettysburg, on the beaches of Normandy, in the streets of Selma. Americans recommitted themselves to the principles on which our nation was founded.

Now it's our turn.

There's nothing guaranteed about our democracy. We have to fight for it, defend it, and earn it. Over and over, year after year. That's not a burden. That's what it means to be an American.

250 years in, we still haven't fully lived up to those words in the Declaration. But we've never walked away from them, and this July 4, I hope all of us can commit to one thing: that we never will. I don't believe we're as divided as we're told we are. I've bet my whole life on the American people, and I'm not stopping now.

Happy 250th birthday, America. Our story isn't finished. Let's keep writing it together.

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

People are traveling, gathering together, barbecuing, celebrating the 250th anniversary of this nation in various ways. And then we have this…

An American service member using his right to free speech, guaranteed in our nation’s constitution. A right given to all of us every day. Regardless of your political affiliation, read or watch Major Jason Watson’s full statement. It’s powerful. He has served and is serving. He is speaking up and out, and for that he was arrested.

Free speech, freedom of religion, a free press, the freedom to vote for who you choose, the freedom to love who you choose. These are all things we celebrate on our nation’s birthday. They are what makes us a democracy, among many other things. So as you gather, as you grill, as you plan your day, think of Major Watson, think of the freedoms you hold dear, and don’t just celebrate them, but make sure generations to come will have these rights as well! 🇺🇸

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

🚨NEW: Former Joint Chiefs of Staff CQ Brown, who was fired by Pete Hegseth, calls out the Trump Admin for politicizing the military: “it is not the military's job to save the republic from political impasses.”

RETWEET If you stand with General Brown!

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Major Jason Watson is NOT a Democrat.

His protest was NOT about party politics.

It was about what he believes his oath requires of him—and the price he’s willing to pay for speaking out.

Everyone has seen the arrest.

Now hear the courageous powerful speech that came first:

[Protect Kamala Harris ✊ @DisavowTrump20]

This is U.S. Air Force Major Jason Watson. He was arrested today at the Capitol after calling for the impeachment of Donald Trump and JD Vance.

RETWEET if you are proud to stand with Major Watson!

[pfmeyer @pfmeyer]

@SecretaryWright There is nobody in the world who unbiasedly believes renewables are not the future. Your bootlicking is an embarrassment to the USA.

[pfmeyer @pfmeyer]

@SecretaryWright Renewables are the only fuel type we consumers can invest in. Makes us independent. Guess you don’t like that. 🖕

[pfmeyer @pfmeyer]

@SecretaryWright How embarrassing- you’re the secretary of energy. Every other country in the world is rocketing past the US in energy innovation and you are “thrilled to report” that you’re taking us backwards. You are either clueless, or a bought and paid for shill. Resign!

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Eddie Glaude: “Stephen Miller is a racist. He’s a white nationalist. White nationalists have seized the federal government. Great Replacement Theory motivates this immigration policy. We need to call them for what they are. This is a white nationalist agenda and Stephen Miller and all of these folk are just simply rabid racists”

[ThePatrioticBlonde™🇺🇸 @ImBreckWorsham]

There's a term for what Trump does.

It's called insider trading. And its a federal crime.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇺🇸 Trump's ballroom got a quiet half-billion-dollar deal

The White House handed Clark Construction up to $500 million to build the new East Wing ballroom, and never let anyone else bid for it.

The trick was simple. They ran it through the Executive Residence, the small office that usually just buys the White House furniture and art. It does not have to ask for competing bids or say what it spends, so the deal stayed in the dark.

Trump worked out some of the costs himself, and Clark walks away with tens of millions. The ballroom's price tag has nearly tripled along the way, from about $200 million to close to $600 million.

Half a billion in public money, one company, no one watching. This is the exact deal those bidding rules were written to stop.

Source: The Washington Post / Writer: Daniyal

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Let’s be clear about what the Trump Administration just tried to do.

Trump’s Justice Department issued subpoenas to force reporters from The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal to testify under oath before a grand jury. Not because those reporters did anything wrong, but because they reported the truth about this Administration. Trump wanted to know who talked.

One of those reporters, Ellen Nakashima of the Washington Post, covers Trump’s intelligence officials and the Iran war. Both outlets fought back in court, and the government backed down.

This Administration has also raided a reporter’s home, threatened to revoke TV stations’ broadcast licenses over coverage it didn’t like, and made it easier to secretly search journalists’ phone records. This is not a president who believes in accountability. It is a president who is trying to make sure no one can report on what he’s doing.

A free press exists to hold power accountable. That is precisely why this Administration keeps trying to undermine it.
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[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.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

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[Stew Peters @realstewpeters]

MIKE JOHNSON: “If we lose the midterms, the Dems will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body. They will go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, and friends.”

This is actually the best case I’ve heard for voting Democrat.

[pfmeyer @pfmeyer]

@ByronDonalds Cool so you’re OK with eliminating the right to vote from about half the US population. that doesn’t even include women whose married names may not match.

Can’t win without cheating, can you?

[Feisty is proud to be a Democrat! @FeistyLibLady]

Trump's lying little PAB who calls himself a Christian and current Speaker of the House Mike Johnson once again is preaching to Americans they have to take this election seriously and vote for MAGA GOP in November or America will lose our status as a constitutional republic.

In reality the only party Americans have to fear is the lying dirty politicians who want an absolute monarchy with Trump as King aka MAGA GOP.

America has NO king and we aren't going to vote for MAGA GOP in November.

#VoteBlue2026
#DemsUnited

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: Let's be very clear about what the president is saying to the American people. The president is saying that he will not sign a bill whose purpose is to make housing affordable unless his allies in congress pass a voter suppression bill to rig the election. He is saying, I won't even sign a bill that will give economic relief to Americans unless the rules of this election are changed so that he, Donald Trump, cannot be held accountable for all of his misdeeds because that's what he really fears most of all is that when there is a change in the balance of power, and when we restore checks and balances, he knows that there will be subpoenas flying that officials from his administration will be testifying under oath about the full range of misconduct and corruption that we already know has been happening since the moment he was sworn in.