Carol Perry

Rhode Island native living in a Mass border town. Red Sox and Patriots fan. Super The Chosen and Dallas Jenkins fan.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

NEVER FORGET when trump said he can't do child care, Medicare, and Medicaid because he's too busy with the military dropping bombs.

That's not America First.
That's America LAST.

Remember in November.

[Lovable Liberal and his Old English sheepdog @DougWahl1]

SHOULD HE HAVE TO PAY FOR THE REPAIRS?

This is Trump's friend, who he hired- with a no bid contract- to paint the Reflection Pool. Now Trump's own DOJ says the problem with the pool wasn't vandalism, but flawed installation.

Does he need to be cutting the US a check?

[Joe Walsh @WalshFreedom]

THIS IS WHO ICE HIRES.

Not just police rejects, but people a mall wouldn’t hire to play Santa.

https://t.co/du9bv2U4pY confirms: David Michael Brouillette, the ICE agent who shot and killed 25-year-old Johan Guerrero in Biddeford, Maine, on July 13, has been accused of child abuse, domestic violence and other violent behavior. Multiple protection orders were sought against him.

PAXIS can’t stop a bullet from a violent ICE agent, but it can help people prepare for unlawful ICE encounters and deal with the aftermath. It is trained on constitutional and immigration law.

PAXIS is free. Help us keep it that way: https://t.co/Hi5Yo2N2N2

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

They won't believe it until it happens to them.

[Senator Patty Murray @PattyMurray]

Trump's lawyers ADMITTED to STEALING money from blue states, just because they didn’t vote for him.

I am demanding every last cent be restored. This isn’t Trump’s money. These are taxpayer dollars and I won’t let this kind of lawless corruption stand.

[PatriotDaughter @Cubfan13241]

I will never forget this portrait composed of the faces of healthcare workers across the world who died from Covid. These are the heroes who should never be forgotten.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY 💯💯💯💯💯

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump overrules his own Coast Guard and orders 11 giant Arctic icebreakers just because Russia has more – leaving taxpayers holding the multi-billion dollar bag!

Donald Trump reportedly ignored his own Coast Guard experts and ordered the purchase of 11 massive Arctic icebreakers after getting obsessed with the fact that Russia has a bigger fleet, according to a new New York Times investigation.

The Coast Guard’s most recent assessment said the country only needs four or five heavy icebreakers.

Admiral Kevin Lunday, the Coast Guard commandant, told the Times straight up: “The number 11 came directly from the president. This was the president’s number and the president’s decision.”

The Times notes the deal was born as much out of Trump's personal enthusiasm as military planning. After a round of golf with Finnish President Alexander Stubb, Trump reportedly called him late one night and announced he no longer wanted one used icebreaker.

He wanted an entire fleet of brand-new ones instead.
The ships alone are expected to cost nearly $7 billion. The administration also bypassed normal competitive bidding by invoking a rarely used “public interest” exemption so the contracts could move forward without competing bids.

And here’s the kicker: while they found billions to buy the ships, there is no plan yet to pay for the crews, ports, maintenance, and infrastructure needed to actually operate them – costs that could run into billions more.

Where did the money come from? The administration redirected billions from the Republican spending law’s border security funding after Trump decided he wanted more ships than Congress had originally approved.Trump has never hidden his reasoning:

“We only have one,” he complained during his first term. “Russia has 40.”

Experts note that comparison is nonsense. Russia has a far larger Arctic population and relies on icebreakers to keep northern ports open year-round. The United States has completely different needs.

Even the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office is sounding the alarm likening the Coast Guard to “a lottery winner who spends all their money buying the mansion, and then goes broke once they realize they don’t have the money to maintain it.”

This is a perfect example of Trump’s government-by-fiat: decide he wants the biggest, the most, or more than the other guy – then leave everyone else to figure out how to pay for it, staff it, and make it work.

The man is treating the national budget like his personal toy store. If Trump’s ego-driven $7 billion icebreaker shopping spree has you seething, like and share this post.

[ᗰᗩƳᖇᗩ @LePapillonBlu2]

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[Carol Perry @rimom5]

@TomBradyEgo Daryl Stingly

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: Trump's Kennedy Center just canceled its free public tours for the first time in 50 years — because an 87-year-old volunteer told the truth about its Trump-era collapse.

An 87-year-old tour guide told the OBVIOUS truth about the Kennedy Center. Donald Trump's response was to punish everyone.

For the first time in five decades, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts has paused its beloved free tour program — and the timing makes the reason unmistakable. The move came directly after longtime volunteer Sandy Weiswasser gave a candid interview to the New York Times describing exactly what Trump's takeover has done to America's national theater.

According to the NY Times article she was quoted in, “Once she was among 140 volunteer guides who gave tours in 10 languages to up to 400,000 people a year. Last week on her Monday shift, only five out of more than a dozen tour guides showed up, and only three people took a tour.”

"This place used to be really thriving and busy and crowded," the 87-year-old Weiswasser told the Times. "Now it's a black hole."

That's it. That's the offense. An elderly volunteer, describing what she's personally witnessed after decades of service, told a reporter the honest truth. Days later, the Kennedy Center's director of the volunteer program quietly announced a "temporary pause" on tours — the exact outcome three separate volunteers had privately worried about before the memo announcing the pause was even circulated, anticipating retaliation.

Petty vindictiveness is who Trump is. Not content with seizing control of one of America's most beloved cultural institutions, purging its board, and driving away artists who refused to perform under his takeover, he's now apparently willing to punish an entire volunteer program, silencing public access to the building itself, because one honest 87-year-old described what everyone can already see.

And remember, this is the same Kennedy Center Trump previously tried to shut down entirely for two years under the guise of "renovations," after his own name change proposal drove away performers in protest. His name was eventually scraped off the building's wall — and now the facade remains hidden under a massive tarp, a fittingly literal metaphor for an institution being suffocated from within.

America's national theater used to belong to everyone. Now it's become a monument to one man's ego and his intolerance for even the gentlest criticism, even from an 87-year-old grandmother simply telling visitors what she's seen with her own eyes.

Please like and share.

[🪴Laurie @Laurieluvsmolly]

@TheTNHoller @dccc They do NOT care! The Trump admin cut programs in a worldwide AIDS program started in 2003.

[Ruth🟧🟦 ,💔 @BoughRuth]

@TheTNHoller @dccc They the ave nothing to say

[Jonathan Lemire @JonLemire]

“Scientists discovered and developed the COVID vaccines that brought the pandemic to an end. It’s the anti-vaxxers, not the scientific community, who should stand indicted in the light of 2026” https://t.co/FHYjZnqZp3

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨BOMBSHELL: While Republicans drag Dr. Fauci, Gov. JB Pritzker just revealed that during COVID, Donald Trump told him he would only send life saving equipment if he agreed to praise him on the Sunday talk shows.

Is Donald Trump evil or just completely fucking deranged?

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Breaking with bipartisan precedent, Trump overruled his own agencies and denied sending disaster aid to four Democratic-led states this month, despite FEMA and NOAA's determination that those states met the thresholds for receiving aid.

https://t.co/Cux5wbjTU6

[Carol Perry @rimom5]

@svdate And how much did this fiasco cost the ex Olympian in lawyer fees???