Robin Sparks

Food and social justice advocate. From farms and gardens, ghettos and favelas, fresh, flavorful ingredients are essential. #foodie

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🔥🚨 MAJOR JUST IN: The SAVE America Act Just Failed In The Senate.

The measure, which would have required voter ID and proof of citizenship nationwide, was rejected 48-50.

Republican senators Thom Tillis, Lisa Murkowski, Mitch McConnell, and Susan Collins voted no.

[Tyler McBrien @TylerMcBrien]

NEW: A stunning new project from @lawfare's Katherine Pompilio finds that 97 Jan. 6ers who received clemency for their role in the Capitol riot then got arrested, charged, and/or convicted with subsequent crimes—a number much higher than previously reported.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

Ted Lieu just proved that Marco Rubio was lying under oath about Trump sleeping.

[Jermaine Watkins @JermaineWatkins]

Rest in Power, Peabo Bryson. 🕊️

Can You Stop the Rain

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

Some News:

After 11 years at the Washington Post, I was fired in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing.

This week, I'm fighting back.

My case heads to arbitration on Thursday.

More here:
https://t.co/jlE5tOsEKj

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Did you know that Trump pardoned 77 people that stole from Medicare.
Is Trump selling pardons? That would be enough to send Trump away.

[Michael Freeman @michaelpfreeman]

The nation’s bicentennial celebration was terrific and Gerald Ford didn’t try to make it about him.

[Michael Bennet @MichaelBennet]

Today, Tina Peters is walking free… that should outrage every Coloradan.

I’ll fight back with everything we have.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

There is no world in which this is okay.  

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney. 

His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated. 

If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself. 

This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it. 

The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial. A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next. 

The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW. 

Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do. 
 https://t.co/FV2Tkpz7Dk

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

NEWS: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to remove Trump’s name from the Kennedy Center, ruling that only Congress can change the institution’s name and directing officials to remove it from the building façade, all physical and digital signage, and official materials.

The judge also blocked Trump from shuttering the Kennedy Center.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BOMBSHELL: Former DOJ official Anthony Coley says Pam Bondi held a meeting inside the White House Situation Room to pressure Republican lawmakers against supporting the Epstein files discharge petition.

Think about how extraordinary that allegation is.

The Situation Room is supposed to be associated with war, terrorism, national security crises, military operations.

It was used to coordinate political resistance against forcing the public release of Epstein-related files.

Coley’s point was simple:

Todd Blanche may now be taking the heat publicly…
but Bondi herself was allegedly directly involved behind the scenes trying to stop the pressure campaign from gaining momentum in Congress.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Donald Trump Jr takes a financial stake in a company…

3 months later, the Pentagon gives it $620 million…

after Trump’s White House told them to…

And the company’s valuation rose from
$200 million to $2 billion as a result.

This is corruption.
https://t.co/TLcOxyzOWO

[World Against Trump @AntiTrumpWorld]

Stephen Miller calls SNAP an 'honor system' for hungry kids while his billionaires get trillions in tax breaks.

SNAP has income checks, SSNs & interviews. Improper payments ~11%.

Attacking Somali families to distract from real fraud? Cruel hypocrisy. Hungry kids aren't the enemy.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

The Republican Party quietly deleted their own ad attacking Ken Paxton's record on crime... because Paxton is now the Republican Party's nominee to represent Texas in the U.S. Senate.

Figured if the ad is important enough to delete, it's important enough to see...

[Popular Liberal 🇺🇸 @PopularLiberal]

Retrumplicans are screaming at John Thune for not passing the SAVE Act federally while they control 20 state legislatures with supermajorities.

If this was really about "election integrity," they would've passed it in their own states. They didn't. They need the FEDS to do it for them.

"Party of states' rights" just became "party of federal overreach" because their own states wouldn't touch it.

[Mother Jones @MotherJones]

A panel of federal court judges just issued a stunning rebuke to the Roberts Court.

They found that an Alabama congressional map green-lit by the Supreme Court intentionally discriminated against Black voters.

That means the state will have to use a map with two majority Black districts this November, preserving a Democratic seat in the US House.

And get this: the three-judge panel that rebuked the Supreme Court was made up of all Republican appointees.

[Rep. Shontel Brown @RepShontelBrown]

When Howard Lutnick found out he had to testify in front of the Oversight Committee, he gave $5 MILLION to a House Republican PAC.

Shortly after donating, James Comer announced his testimony would never be seen by the public. This is blatant corruption. He should be fired.

https://t.co/6CQdpD8Mzc

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

In a big win for Democrats, a federal court blocked an Alabama map that would have eliminated a Black-majority congressional seat https://t.co/fOyQMCPGMA

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Massive bombshell. Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah warns that AI will displace human labor on a catastrophic global scale. He confirms tech elites have absolutely no mechanism to share the wealth, leaving the global poor completely abandoned to suffer. He is 100% accurate.

[philip lewis @Phil_Lewis_]

Sonny Rollins, one of the most influential Jazz musicians of our time, died this afternoon. He was 95