Robin Lepak ~ ☮

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

[Nicole Minét @mouvement33]

Oh. So. It's not just algae that's a problem. The Reflecting Pool is now leaking worse than it ever has (which was the reason Trump used to justify this entire project....the leaks) AND it appears the state of the art filter Obama had installed was not re-installed, hence, the algae in just 2 days instead of weeks/months with the filter. Because Obama is black.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

Mark this moment.

This is where the endgame begins—though it might take two years to play out.

A President of the United States is openly linking the *Pentagon* and rigging elections for his party.

He is framing an authoritarian takeover as something the *U.S. military* wants.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Trump is trying to use the U.S. military to carry out his longstanding desire to take control of elections.

The president wants congressional Republicans to include anti-voting restrictions in a multibillion-dollar defense bill.

Here’s why his demand is unlikely to succeed: https://t.co/9Xvik83hBU

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

❌❌❌ DO NOT BE DISTRACTED ❌❌❌

DONALD TRUMP & JEFFREY EPSTEIN ARE SEX TRAFFICKERS and I’m gonna post this every day so nobody forgets exactly who these monsters are and why the incriminating portions of The Epstein Files have suddenly disappeared

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

It's hard to fathom how deeply evil this is, and that we have people running our country who get sick pleasure from sending women fleeing violence in Iran to an African country in the middle of a brutal civil war.
https://t.co/JaN8z2LFI2

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

After the 2020 election, banks and credit card issuers estimated that fraud cases involving WinRed were as much as 3% of their total national fraud workload—more than 800 cases.

MAGA's legislative harassment of, and attempts to prosecute, ActBlue are a confession and self-indictment of WinRed's continuing serious fraud against small Republican donors. If they treat their own donors like that—confiscating their credit cards and signing them up for monthly contributions without their consent—what would they do to the rest of us? Perhaps pick our pockets for a $1.776 billion political slush fund.

[Congresswoman Yassamin Ansari @RepYassAnsari]

The Situation Room is where presidents have gathered to respond to wars, terrorist attacks, and national security crises.

For Trump White House officials, it’s where they plotted the biggest cover up in American history.

Outrageous. Everyone involved must be held accountable.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

I'm shocked they haven't deleted this tweet confirming that DOGE cut the funding for the screwworm eradication program.

Have the plague you voted for!

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING:

Rep. Garcia has formally requested the Oversight Cmte. call in the following Trump officials in the wake of that new NYT report on Epstein:

J.D. Vance
Susie Wiles
Tyler Budowich
James Blair
Karoline Leavitt
Steven Cheung
Kash Patel
Dan Bongino
Stanley Woodward, Jr.
https://t.co/4bUdzhIc9Y

[Fuck You I Quit @fuckyouiquit]

Commercial advertising, product placements, and corporate-sponsored promotions are explicitly prohibited on national parklands. The White House lawn is a unit of the National Park System. It also violates standard Anti-Vending and Solicitation Laws as well as misuse of public funds and government endorsement ethics. Everything this administration does spits in the face of our laws. Everything is a grift.

[JB Pritzker @JBPritzker]

Donald Trump put his face on the Department of Justice for a reason.

The DOJ is supposed to defend the rule of law. Under Trump, it’s being turned into a shield for MAGA allies and a weapon against anyone who challenges him.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

🎥 VIDEO: Trump's war on voting has three fronts:

🎯Restricting voter registration via proof-of-citizenship laws.
🎯Controlling who gets to vote by mail by weaponizing the USPS.
🎯Laying the groundwork for another "stop the count" push.

Marc Elias breaks each of them down in our latest video👇
https://t.co/vH48CncW8n

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: A U.S. citizen was riding his bike in Laredo, Texas… when Border Patrol agents pulled alongside him and illegally tried to block him in.

When he kept riding, they chased him down, physically grabbed him by the arm, and immediately started demanding identification and asking where he was from.

He told them he born in Laredo, Texas.

But that was not good enough.

The agent asked, “What high school did you go to?”

He answered that, too… and they still kept demanding ID, over and over again.

The Fourth Amendment exists for a reason. In America, law enforcement don’t get to randomly stop people, physically grab them, and demand identification because they feel like it.

Being on a bike isn’t a crime.

You also don’t have to carry an ID on you unless you are operating a motor vehicle… which he was not.

So, demanding an ID, without probable cause, is illegal.

And the cherry on top? When the man went to use his phone, an agent tried to stop him by grabbing it… apparently unaware the entire encounter was already being recorded by his glasses.

If Border Patrol can stop an American born citizen riding his bike, demand his papers, and put their hands on him without stating a lawful reason… every American should be paying attention.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

You can’t buy coffee without being kidnapped… or ride a bike. https://t.co/o1NmqenHDp

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

"This Sunday night’s UFC spectacle on the South Lawn...captures something about this moment in our history.

It's vulgar, violent, commercial, grandiose, tacky, and it dishonors a place once thought worthy of care and respect. In other words, it’s Donald Trump."

https://t.co/YSuFldfj70

[Human☮🇺🇸🇺🇦🇺🇸🌊 @4HumanUnity]

Not sure which is a bigger nonsense: wind turbines killing whales, or Iran launching drone swarms across the Atlantic to hit our shores?

Those drones wouldn’t make it a quarter of the way to our East Coast before they run out of juice.

And if they somehow did 10 years in the future, you’re telling me a swarm flies 7,000 miles and nobody detects it until it reaches our shoreline? Complete nonsense.

Even then according to MIT they can suppress the turbine generate interference.

This fear-mongering is straight fossil-fuel industry bullshit, funding politicians to keep polluting.

And what's with Trump clocking out the second Burgum starts talking?

MIT Lincoln Lab demonstrated mitigation techniques can suppress turbine-generated interference
https://t.co/oplwoaUaGg

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

ANOTHER ALERT: Federal judge Christopher Cooper hands Trump a loss at Kennedy Center. Judge rules he will NOT pause today's deadline for stripping Trump's name off building

Judge says Team Trump hasn't proven they'd be "irreparably injured.. given both the de minimis resources that would be required to restore the Center's current name in the event of a successful appeal and the lack of record evidence linking increased donations to the current name"

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Hawaii just passed the first state law in the country banning corporations from making political donations in state elections.

Now a Koch-backed legal group is suing to overturn it.

Big Money won't get out of our politics without a fight — one that we the people must win.

(via @LeverNews)

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

BREAKING:

House Oversight Ranking Member Robert Garcia says he plans to formally ask Chairman Comer to bring JD Vance, Susie Wiles, and Kash Patel before the Committee in light of the new NYT Epstein reporting.

"They're having meetings in the Situation Room about covering up the Epstein files and protecting Donald Trump, and so this is to us a huge smoking gun."

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

New York Times investigative journalists Jonathan Swan and Maggie Haberman are this generation's Woodward and Bernstein.

This story is Trump's Watergate and it's about to EXPLODE:

Vice President JD Vance, White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, former Attorney General Pam Bondi, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, White House Counsel David Warrington, FBI Director Kash Patel, Deputy FBI Director Dan Bongino, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, and former Deputy Chief of Staff Taylor Budowich converted the hallowed Situation Room — America's nerve center for real threats and decisive action — into a pedophile protection racket, where top officials huddled to cover-up the Epstein files scandal and protect a president who used to rape children for fun.