Ruth Schroeder

[Ruth Schroeder @RuthSchroeder18]

#CovidKimExpress @IAGovernor covid response is a train wreck. #IowaMourns Where’s the mask mandate?

[Ruth Schroeder @RuthSchroeder18]

How to describe @IAGovernor covid response: She’s not braking train, choosing to run train off the Kate Shelly bridge, despite 🛑warnings. How many more #Iowans must suffer?
Coronavirus in Iowa: Tracking COVID-19 curve of cases, deaths https://t.co/6m5lAcE12y

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

"A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again"

Trump is talking like dictators of the past.

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Our country was designed to protect us from people like Donald Trump. #NoKings

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Trump has literally pardoned some of the worst convicted fraudsters in the history of the United States because they made large donations to him. https://t.co/sk9xpXYmMW

[Barb McQuade @BarbMcQuade]

In the US, we separate church and state, but as a Christian, I feel to need to speak up and denounce Trump and Hegseth’s exploitation of my religion for political gain.

[Raymond Baker @RayBake]

We've had @DeltaDentalIA dental insurance for a couple of years now.

Learning that the NON-PROFIT company CEO raised her annual pay from $4.5 MILLION to $48 MILLION over 4 years makes me sick.

Non profit, my ass. This is obscene greed.

[Barn Raiser @Barn_Raising]

The Trump administration had slashed budgets and staffing for offices responsible for protecting farmers and consumers against consolidated power in the agriculture sector

https://t.co/mbVAuRI5kL

[Brennan Center @BrennanCenter]

The SAVE Act goes beyond voter ID. It would require a passport or birth certificate to register to vote, which would block millions of American citizens from voting.

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

What the hell—Despite suddenly losing 1.6 million bee colonies to a mass die off in the U.S. in a year, Trump WH is instead planning to close the USDA’s premier bee ��laboratory, worrying beekeepers, scientists and farmers. https://t.co/553KDCke98

[Mark Alfred @byMarkAlfred]

NEW: The White House plans to finance Trump’s proposed arch with $15 million from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

The spending plan confirms for the first time that taxpayer dollars will be used for the project.

https://t.co/FgYGsrTwJK

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

President Trump uttered numerous false claims, including long-debunked lies, at his press conference today - in addition to several very-much-uncorroborated claims, like the one about how every living former president is saying “to their friends” that the US should’ve started this war long ago. 

Quick fact check of some of his remarks:

- Trump repeated his 11-year-old lie that his 2000 book advised the authorities to take out Osama bin Laden. It contained no advice about bin Laden at all, just one passing mention.
- Trump falsely claimed, at a press conference focused on what happened after the US lost two planes to Iranian fire, that “really” the “only” planes the US has lost during the war have been the result of friendly fire.
- Trump repeated his familiar lie that he’s “ended eight wars.” His “eight” list, among various other problems, includes two situations that weren’t actually wars and at least one war that didn’t actually end. 
- Trump again greatly exaggerated the US troop presence in South Korea, saying twice that it’s “45,000.” Pentagon data from year-end says it was 26,722, 23,395 of them on active duty. 
- Trump repeated his assertion that Venezuela’s Maduro “released hundreds of thousands of people from jails into our country,” a claim he and his team have never substantiated even though he’s made it for years now. 

https://t.co/5wOCCqBTgB

[VoteVets @votevets]

This isn’t about left or right. It’s about right and wrong.

[Glenn Greenwald @ggreenwald]

You won't hear a better 55-second description of MAGA and Trump than this: in terms of the perspective of any minimally honest MAGA supporter:

[Kaivan Shroff @KaivanShroff]

9 years ago.

@HillaryClinton warned us:

“This is not someone who should ever have the nuclear codes – because it’s not hard to imagine Donald Trump leading us into a war just because somebody got under his very thin skin.”

[Raymond Baker @RayBake]

Thank a Republican for the financial mess Iowans are dealing with now.

Then make sure you're registered to vote. Vote in the June Primary. And vote in the November mid-term elections.

Vote for Democrats up and down the ballot.

[Katie Smith @_ktmsmith]

The @DMRegister reports a SE Iowa hospital administrator confronted @millermeeks about the devastating impact that her Medicaid cuts will have on rural health care and his hospitals across #IA01

Her jaw-dropping response: well, hospitals were already struggling.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Trump's budget request shows an 866% increase in costs for White House repairs and renovations, going from $39 million to $377 million.

That apparently includes the private donations to Trump's White House ballroom, which raise corruption concerns. https://t.co/99cR8nuQ2b

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨SHOCKING MOMENT: Todd Blanche, Trump's former personal lawyer now running the DOJ, just announced that Trump has a duty to hunt down everyone who indicted him.

This isn't accountability; it's mafia-style retribution dressed up as justice.

[ProPublica @propublica]

The DOJ quietly closed 23,000+ criminal cases in the first 6 months of Trump’s second term, abandoning hundreds of investigations into terrorism, white-collar crime, drugs and other offenses as it shifted resources to pursue immigration cases.

🔗 More: https://t.co/fYMlx6KbbF

[Rachel Chason @Rachel_Chason]

Trump claimed the Christmas night strikes in Nigeria were “perfect.”

But warheads in 4 of 16 Tomahawk missiles appeared not to explode, landing in an onion field, forest & residential buildings.

What actually was hit remains unclear.
https://t.co/jYCBi9TL8x

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Watch this. An expert examination explaining all the ways the ICE agents behaved counter to training and guidelines by 1. being immediately escalatory and 2. By firing at a fleeing vehicle, which they are not allowed to do.

Anyone who listens to me knows I’m often very defensive on behalf of cops. They have hard and dangerous jobs. But a bunch of masked agents acting like unprofessional goons and a government telling lies right out of the gate about the incident, which are immediately disproven by the video footage, does not earn the same benefit of the doubt. At least not from me. This is insane behavior from the ICE agents.

And it is horrifying that so many people don’t hold members of American law enforcement to a higher standard than the behavior on display here.