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[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Every president before Trump understood that you cannot accept a $400 million gift from a foreign government and still claim to be working for the American people.  

No president in American history has ever accepted anything like this from a foreign government. There's a reason for that. It's called the Constitution. 

Congress never voted on it. You never got a say. And you’re still paying up to $1 billion to retrofit it, so Trump can fly around in it, and then hand it off to his own personal foundation when he leaves office. 

Yes, you heard that right. The American people don’t get to keep it. His foundation does. 

This cannot be allowed to stand. I am doing everything in my power to stop it. 
https://t.co/yw2SQE4XMQ

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents stalked a U.S. citizen, at a POLLING PLACE, to pressure her into deleting her post, from JANUARY, about indicting ICE agent, Jonathan Ross.

The exact post read: The ICE agent who shot and killed Renee Good in broad daylight has been identified as Jonathan Ross by the Minnesota Star Tribune. I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted!

FEDERAL AGENTS walked into a polling place… one of the most protected civic spaces we have… to intimidate a citizen, over political speech, about holding law enforcement accountable.

The document they handed her said…

“This notice officially informs you that it is unlawful to threaten to assault, kidnap, and/or murder a federal official or that federal official’s immediate family member with the intent to impede, intimidate, and/or interfere with the federal official’s duties or retaliate against a federal official due to the performance of their duties,”

The document also said she could be subject to both federal and state prosecution.

And just to be clear… The post, in question, wasn’t “doxxing.”

Doxxing is releasing private, non-public information. Repeating publicly reported facts… is not that.

Because law enforcement’s identities are not supposed to be private information, especially when they have been involved in the death, or shooting, of a civilian…

But, instead of upholding the constitution, the current administration is attempting to stretch “threatening” language to cover political speech they don’t like.

And let’s talk about election integrity…

Polling places are legally restricted civic spaces. It is illegal to deploy federal troops, or armed federal law enforcement, to any polling place.

Using that space to confront someone, over speech about federal agents, is highly inappropriate at minimum… and potentially unlawful.

And this isn’t the first instance federal agents have hunted U.S. citizens down to silence calls for government accountability.

Which should alarm everyone…

Because a government that punishes scrutiny instead of answering it, is not a government holding its agents accountable…

It’s a system telling you its agents are above it.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

WATCH — @Kanew: “They said the same things about Zohran, now he’s like the most popular guy in NYC. They even said it about Biden. Progressives want you to have health care, good schools, stop dropping 💣 on kids… they’ll call everyone a communist. Don’t buy the fearmongering.”

[Raccoon River Radical @radical_river]

Fascist shit.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump’s ICE goons raid a polling place ON ELECTION DAY and force a woman to delete a social media post about the ICE agent who killed Renee Good!

This is really scary…

Paigelynne Gonyea was working at a poll worker in Syracuse, New York, on the day that primaries were being held across the state.

Two federal agents rolled in and threatened her prosecution unless she deleted an Instagram post in which she named the killer of Renee Good, ICE agent Jonathan Ross.

They accused her of “doxxing” him even though this was publicly available information that was widely reported by the media.

They gave her a document which said they were investigating “threats” against ICE agents. It read “This notice officially informs you that it is unlawful to threaten to assault, kidnap, and/or murder a federal official or that federal official’s immediate family member with the intent to impede, intimidate, and/or interfere with the federal official’s duties or retaliate against a federal official due to the performance of their duties,” the document said.

All her post said was “I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted.”

This is insane. Nothing about this constitutes any threat or “doxxing” in any way – the Trump administration is just so paranoid about any kind of blowback that it’s wasting public funds going after individuals who name and shame the perpetrators of heinous crimes.

And that means they know what they’re doing is wrong – they just don’t care.

More than that, ICE is sending a message by just strolling into a polling place on election day. Congress needs to pass a law keeping these thugs out of our polls IMMEDIATELY.

[Raccoon River Radical @radical_river]

Vouchers are a scam. Always have been. From the start. For 30 years.

[Rob Sand @RobSandIA]

The element of school “choice” is a myth – some of Iowa’s rural communities don’t even have a single private school in their county. It’s the private schools that are getting to choose the students they want to accept, unlike public schools, which take the public. https://t.co/hzMgr8BE5N

[Raccoon River Radical @radical_river]

Let’s hope. Me too

[David Sirota @davidsirota]

My first real job in politics was in the late 1990s working for an obscure House lawmaker named Bernie Sanders. I’ve spent my entire adult life working to end the corporate takeover of the Dem Party. I’m now allowing myself to feel a bit of hope that the fight can be won.

[Raccoon River Radical @radical_river]

Monsters. Resist.

[Jim Stewartson, Decelerationist 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇺🇸 @jimstewartson]

This is pure, unadulterated Nazism. Hitler’s program to remove disabled people from the community to “institutionalize” them was called “Aktion T4.” It resulted in 300,000 disabled people being murdered.

This is Buchenwald.

[Raymond Baker @RayBake]

Iowa voters don't play Where's Waldo. We play Where's @ZachLahn?

And ask why hasn't he held a single public town hall meeting?

Does he even live in Iowa? I mean, Kansas.

[Raccoon River Radical @radical_river]

Incredible

[The White Rabbit @TheWyteRabbit1]

On Israeli national TV:

"I don't feel sorry for starving Gazans. Not for adults, not for the elderly, and not for children."

"We are the real victims. You should feel sorry for us."

"The Gazans? Let them starve to death. Why should I care about them?"

[Rob Sand @RobSandIA]

As governor, I’ll bring real accountability to the voucher program, fund our public schools, & invest in the basics that set kids up for success — like universal pre-K & making sure no child has to learn on an empty stomach. For the sake Iowa’s future generations, we can’t keep going down this path.

[Raymond Baker @RayBake]

Iowa's Attorney General and Trump Junior, @AGIowa Brenna BIrd, has spent taxpayer money prosecuting a few cases of imaginary "voter fraud" in Iowa.

Four cases. Three full acquittals. One deferred sentence.

Voter fraud is rare.

https://t.co/Bdo2zXPOX4

[Mitch Jackson, Esq. @mitchjackson]

Let me be really clear about what just happened.

The head of the U.S. Postal Service sat in front of the United States Senate and said the quiet part loud: no voter list, no mail ballots. Full stop.

You don’t get to look away from this one.

This is a proposed rule. It’s being fought in court. But the fact that it was said — that a federal official openly threatened to withhold your ballot — that matters.

Your vote is yours. Not the administration’s. Not USPS’s. Yours.

Stay informed. Stay loud.

[Rep. Pramila Jayapal @RepJayapal]

This is totally crazy.

Trump cancelled the signing ceremony for a bipartisan housing bill to help lower costs because he’s insisting we pass the SAVE Act to take away voting rights from people across this country.

He’s putting his personal projects before your housing.

[Raccoon River Radical @radical_river]

Full blown fascism here.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

WATCH: Trump’s Postmaster General David Steiner confirms under a new rule the U.S. Postal Service will refuse to deliver mail-in ballots in states that don’t hand over their voter lists to Trump 🤔

We are very far off the cliff, folks 🇺🇸

[Rob Sand @RobSandIA]

AEAs were created to provide special education services to kids in rural schools where support was limited.

But in 2024, politicians gutted the funding, cut staff, and then used that money to pay for the unaccountable school voucher program. That's literally taking money away from rural schools & giving it to wealthy families.

[Rob Sand @RobSandIA]

Iowans deserve answers.

2.5 weeks ago we challenged our opponent to to do his own 100 Townhall Tour and join me for 4 debates.

We haven’t heard a thing and he hasn’t held a single public event in those 2.5 weeks. 🤷‍♂️

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

When anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ, pro-Trump Dems run, it’s “build a bigger tent,” and “vote Blue no matter who.”

When the energy, volunteers and enthusiasm to revive a Dem party that has failed to meet the moment are to the left of the establishment, lobbyists, high-priced consultants and big conservative and corporate donors, it’s “leave the party.”

Maybe pay attention to the voters on this one.

[FireFighterDev @fire_starter457]

A large majority of Americans are still waiting for the killers of Renee Good and Alex Pretti to be charged and brought to justice.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

A Christian. A Muslim. A Jew.

Three people that certain politicians, pundits, and cable news hosts would have you believe are destined to fear each other.

Instead, they’re laughing together, talking together, and enjoying each other’s company.

Turns out ordinary people are often a lot better at coexistence than the people making money from division. ❤️

[Daniel Mayakovski @DaniMayakovski]

"Ganamos esa guerra contra Venezuela en 48 minutos, con su petróleo hemos pagado 28 veces el costo de la guerra en Irán, hemos sacado millones de barriles de petróleo de Venezuela".

El criminal de Trump se vanaglorió de agredir a Venezuela y de robarle su petróleo para costear su brutal masacre contra Irán, pidiendo que se incluya a Venezuela dentro de EEUU como un protectorado colonial.

Hemos llegado a un punto en el imperialismo que ya anuncian a plena voz que andan invadiendo países para robarles el petróleo, ni siquiera se tapan ya estos criminales.