Sam Gray (🚫DMs Please)

Just a normal guy, trying to live well and have some fun along the way. Guitar player, runner/hiker, meditator, amateur astronomer.

[Sam Gray (🚫DMs Please) @SamGrayHereNow]

Our past has made us what we are today. We can’t change it, but we can learn from it. Our future will be the result of the decisions we make now. So, now, let’s all commit to being the best version of ourselves and renew that commitment every day.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: HELL YEAH! Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen defies Trump by boldly declaring that her country will defend “every inch” of NATO as Trump threatens Greenland.

This is true courage in the face of fascism…

“We will defend the kingdom of Denmark,” Frederiksen said at the NATO summit in Turkey.

The remarks came after Trump once again insisted that the United States must annex Greenland for “national security” purposes.

“Greenland is a big problem for us. We need it for protection of the world, not just the United States, and it’s very important,” he said. “It doesn’t help Denmark.”

In reality, Trump’s deranged dreams of territorial conquest have nothing to do with defense. Greenland is part of NATO, so the U.S. already has de facto military control of the island. Simply slapping American “ownership” over it accomplishes nothing beyond flattering Trump’s ego.

And that’s what this is really about.

The same megalomania that possessed him to try in vain to chisel his name into the Kennedy Center and erect a gaudy ballroom is now driving him to gobble up Greenland. Trump wants to be remembered as a President who seized more territory since he has no actual achievements to his name.

Thankfully, the rest of the world is done being pushed around by this dementia-riddled bully.

“We are ready to defend every inch of NATO, including our own territory,” said Frederiksen.

“We are a sovereign state and we need everyone to respect our territorial integrity and our sovereignty,” she added. “Article 5 is our insurance.”

Much to MAGA’s chagrin, the EU is standing with the Danish.

“Decisions about the future of Greenland are for Greenlanders and Danes to decide,” said Olof Gill, a spokesman for the European Commission. “Territorial integrity, national sovereignty and inviolability of borders are fundamental principles of international law.”

The safest bet is that Trump will soon move on to some other distraction after this summit concludes and Greenland will remain free. But the damage he’s done through rhetoric alone is incalculable. Our core military alliances have been deeply shaken and our once close European friends realize that they can no longer trust the United States.

When he finally slithers out of the Oval Office, Trump will leave behind a weaker, less stable, more isolated America than the one he inherited.

Please ❤️ and share if you stand with the people of Greenland!

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Last week, the Trump administration spent $1.5 billion of your taxpayer money to buy two immigration detention centers in California from a private prison company called CoreCivic. The deal closed on July 2.

The government now owns the Otay Mesa facility in San Diego County and the California City facility in Kern County. CoreCivic still runs both places under its existing ICE contracts. This sale demands many questions about what it means for immigration enforcement in Southern California, and I’ll be asking them.

As part of the deal, CoreCivic walks away with an estimated $1.1 billion in profit.

Here’s the corrupt part.

President Trump’s own 2025 financial disclosure lists CoreCivic among the stocks he holds. His administration decides how many billions of dollars flow to CoreCivic. When CoreCivic’s stock rises on a government decision, the president personally benefits.

A president should never be able to enrich himself through a choice his own government makes. That is the entire reason conflict of interest rules exist in the first place. Every modern president before this one either sold off their holdings or used a real blind trust to put a wall between the Oval Office and their portfolio. Trump did neither, and holds stakes in dozens of companies that carry federal contracts, from defense firms to detention operators, and his administration keeps directing public money toward them.

Republicans in Congress need to wake up and open a full and public investigation. Not into one company, but into the entire web. Who across this administration holds a financial stake in the contractors their own agencies pay? Who profited, and by how much, from decisions they had the power to shape?

The American people funded these deals.

They have every right to know who else was cashing in.

https://t.co/7LfTca8og1

[Sam Gray (🚫DMs Please) @SamGrayHereNow]

@SecretaryWright Now if they would only stop subsidizing oil we'd be in good shape.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Swiss farmers planted flowers between their crops and watched pest damage drop by over half. The UK is now running the same trial across 15 farms. The reason this works is embarrassingly simple.

A Swiss study on winter wheat found that fields with wildflower strips had 40 to 53% fewer leaf beetle pests than fields without. Crop damage dropped 61%.

The mechanism is simple. Wildflowers feed hoverflies, lacewings, parasitic wasps, ladybugs, and ground beetles. Those insects eat the aphids, beetle larvae, and caterpillars that farmers would otherwise spray for. A few meters of wildflowers hosts an unpaid pest control crew that would jump at the chance to whoop some aphid ass.

In apple orchards where no insecticides had been used for five years, plots with wildflower alleyways had 9.2% damaged fruit. Control plots without flowers had 32.5%.

The UK is now running a five-year trial across 15 farms placing 6-meter flower strips through the middle of fields, not just at the edges, because the beneficial insects can't reach the center of a large field otherwise.

This works the same way in a backyard vegetable garden as it does on a commercial farm. Plant native flowering species near your tomatoes, beans, and squash. The pests still show up, but the predators show up too.

Study doi: 20151369

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

It really is.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Notice anything?

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: LOL! Hunter Biden hilariously trolls Trump with a fake Nobel Peace Prize nomination — and his reasons have MAGA screeching with rage.

This is an absolute bullseye...

"I am officially nominating Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) for the Nobel Peace Prize," Hunter wrote on X. "No President in History has ended the same war so many times. Our Dear Leader has ended the war with Iran at least 38 times by CNN’s count.

"No President has ever done this before," he added. "And he is nowhere near finished ending it. It’s a record worthy of the Nobel committee’s recognition. Thank you for your attention to this matter!"

The joke, of course, is that Trump has repeatedly promised that a lasting peace with Iran is within reach, only for the negotiations to once again break down and the bombing to resume. There's also the added absurdity of nominating Trump for a Nobel Peace Prize for ending a pointless war of aggression that he launched on Israel's behalf.

You don't get credit for solving a problem that you yourself created!

The simple truth is that Donald Trump is the most warmongering President in modern American history. He slaughtered countless innocent men, women, and children overseas and accomplished nothing in the process. Awarding him a Nobel Peace Prize would delegitimize the prize for all time.

Republicans on social media are predictably incensed over Hunter's joke, with many MAGA accounts responding to his post with personal insults as well as attacks on his father.

That's how you know he hit the mark.

Trump's obsession with the prize is well documented. He aggressively lobbied for one in vain and hates that Barack Obama won the prize. For a racist like Trump, the idea that a Black man could exceed him in so many tangible ways is unthinkable. He deserves to be trolled relentlessly!

Please ❤️ and share if you're a fan of Hunter!

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A wholesome moment.

Mom giving her daughter one of the best experiences — memories that last forever, not just a day.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Vibrio vulnificus — a deadly, flesh-eating bacteria with a staggering 20% mortality rate — is now being detected in multiple U.S. waterways.

And here’s the part you’re not supposed to ignore: this comes after the Trump administration dismantled critical water monitoring systems and gutted CDC programs that were tracking this very threat.

When you defund science and silence public health experts, Americans pay the price.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Remember the stretch of Santa Barbara coastline that was poisoned in 1969, killing hundreds of thousands of seabirds?

The agency born from that disaster - the California Coastal Commission - has guarded 1,100 miles of California shoreline for 50 years.

Under federal law, it has the legal right to review and block federal projects along the coast. Offshore drilling. Pipelines. All of it.

Howard Lutnick just called that "environmental extremism."

The Trump administration has now ordered NOAA — the federal ocean agency - to conduct a formal performance review of the Commission. That review can end in decertification.

Here's what decertification means: California loses its legal authority to weigh in on federal coastal projects. The state no longer gets a say.

Federal agencies can approve offshore drilling, pipelines, and industrial projects along the California coast - without California's input, without California's approval.

The coast that burned in 1969 would have no guardian.

And it’s not hypothetical. Sable Offshore - a Houston oil company - is already drilling in the Santa Barbara Channel right now. Trump invoked the Defense Production Act earlier this year to force their pipelines back online over California’s objections.

The state tried to stop it. A court battle is ongoing. The Coastal Commission is one of the last legal tools California has left to fight back. That’s exactly why it’s being targeted.

Since when is preventing another oil disaster considered "environmental extremism"?

#DemsUnited

[Esta @TheOnlyEsta]

Let’s vote them all out‼️🗳️

Who’s with me?✋🏽

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

🚨 I'm reposting this video every day so we NEVER forget what insurrectionist Donald Trump did on J6 👇

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

Excellent! Climate scientists fired by Trump start their own website to relay trusted climate information! 👏👏👏 https://t.co/dqzHdg6WJd

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: GET HIM! Congressman Jamie Raskin DISMANTLES Mike Johnson after he whined that Democrats will investigate Republican corruption if we win the midterms.

The MAGA Speaker walked face-first into this one...

"If we were to lose the midterms, heaven forbid, these Democrats, y'all impeachment's not even the big concern," said Johnson. "They will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body, and they'll go after the President's family, the Cabinet, his donors and friends, half of you in this room will be targeted. I run the protection program. I’ll take care of you."

Oh, the horror! Imagine if Congress actually exercised its oversight powers to rein in the most lawless President in American history as he loots the treasury, lines his pockets from crypto scams, starts foreign wars on behalf of Israel, and covers up his own involvement in Jeffrey Epstein's massive child sex trafficking ring.

Raskin saw the jaw-dropping Johnson clip and quickly pounced—

"1. Speaker Johnson, you’re obsessing about losing the House but don’t seem to realize it’s because you have no program for the country other than illegal disastrous tariffs, illegal disastrous war and humiliating invertebrate submission to your unraveling cult master," wrote Raskin.

"2. You’re projecting onto us your own comically failed and obsessive investigations into President Biden, the Southern Poverty Law Center, James Comey, George Soros, etc."

"3. We obviously must confront the debilitating corruption and authoritarianism you have enabled, but at the same time we’re going to move America forward on all the public goods you have thwarted, like the health care of the people, increasing the minimum wage and protecting our environment."

"4. I agree that you 'run the protection program' and 'take care' of all MAGA violators!"

That last point is worth paying attention to. Johnson sounds exactly like a mafia don in a low budget gangster flick, which is presumably a habit he picked up from his cult leader Donald. The Republican Party is now indistinguishable from a criminal organization. They violate the Constitution daily while turning a blind eye to Trump's endless parade of lawbreaking.

Johnson's speech has become an accidental campaign ad for Democrats. If you care about upholding the law and restoring our democracy, you have to vote blue.

What do you want Democrats to prioritize when we retake power? Sound off!

Please ❤️ and share if you'll NEVER vote Republican for as long as you live!

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

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[LeftFieldView @TXLeftLib]

@NotAvgLiberal

[Not Your Average Liberal @NotAvgLiberal]

"If we were to lose the midterms, heaven forbid…”

“These Democrats will turn every committee of Congress into an investigative body”

“And they will go after the president's family, the cabinet, his donors, and friends.”

“Half of you in this room will be targeted.” - Mike Johnson

He’s not wrong.

Criminals should be investigated and prosecuted.

[Sam Gray (🚫DMs Please) @SamGrayHereNow]

@mel3labs @PrasantGopinat @SqSehrish That's the way I figured it too.

[Sam Gray (🚫DMs Please) @SamGrayHereNow]

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[Sam Gray (🚫DMs Please) @SamGrayHereNow]

@SandraRodkey A porta potty.