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[amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17]

I’m back at the reflecting pool, where NPS is working hard to remove the algae.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

This should be on the front page of every newspaper in America.   

Trump’s DOJ just shut down a federal investigation into a coal company owned by Sen. Jim Justice, one of his closest allies, after it racked up tens of thousands of alleged violations for dumping dangerous chemicals into our waterways. A veteran federal prosecutor with 24 years on the job said he had never seen anything like it.  

The man who killed the case was Todd Blanche, Trump’s former personal defense lawyer and current Acting Attorney General. This is the same guy who just gave Trump, his family, and his companies permanent immunity from IRS audits. Now Trump wants the Senate to make Blanche’s appointment permanent too.  

Equal justice under law was never supposed to come with exceptions for the President’s friends.  

The pattern isn’t subtle: protect Trump’s friends, prosecute his critics, and get rewarded with more power. That is corruption, plain and simple. Todd Blanche must not be confirmed.
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[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: “It was supposed to open Friday, it is not open because Trump says he does not want it open. When this bridge does open some day, if Trump ever lets it open, you should know that there is a competing bridge a little way down the river, a privately-owned very old very congested toll bridge that will likely LOSE some of its traffic…because of competition. It will lose some of its traffic to this pretty, brand new bridge that has just been built. The family that operates the competing old bridge, earlier this year, made a $1 million donation to Donald Trump’s super pac. In short order, a member of that family then got an in person meeting with Trump’s Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick. The White House and the pac say that was just a coincidence…but after the million dollar donation, he gets this meeting, and then the SAME day of the meeting, Howard Lutnick calls President Donald Trump and then Trump suddenly discovers new supposedly trade-related reasons why he’s now suddenly against this bridge, even though previously he has been for it.” 🤦‍♀️

[Jake Sherman @JakeSherman]

Bombshell report from the post. Taxpayers funding half of the WH ballroom construction. https://t.co/JosTbv87Md

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Trump has just destroyed the US beef industry. No country in their right mind is going to import US beef.

After Trump cut funding for Screwworm monitoring programs, the dangerous flesh-eating parasite has been found in US cattle for the first time since 1966.

[Steve Schmidt @SteveSchmidtSES]

“The danger doesn’t arrive when tanks appear in the streets. It arrives when leaders lose the ability to say no. It arrives when loyalty replaces judgment. It arrives when public officials preserve powers they would never tolerate in the hands of their opponents.”

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[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

Holy shit. He’s fucking out.

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

Feb. 10: Trump portfolio buys between $1 million and $5 million in stock in Dell.

Feb. 19: Trump at rally encourages supporters to "buy a Dell computer."

May 27: Pentagon awards $9.7 billion contract to Dell.

@maeganvaz https://t.co/f1HqeHqqtV

[The New York Times @nytimes]

Breaking News: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth blocked the promotions of at least seven Navy officers in a move that targeted women and minority officers. https://t.co/1vww7IxOf1

[Eamon Javers @EamonJavers]

I spoke to President Trump on the phone last hour about the end of negotiations with the Iranians. He told me: “I don’t care if they’re over, honestly. I really don’t care. I couldn’t care less. If they’re over, they’re over. If they’re not, you know, I think they took too much time. Frankly, I thought they started to get very boring.”

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[Steven Rattner @SteveRattner]

The Trump economy in a nutshell:

Corporate profits soar as workers’ incomes stay flat.

My @Morning_Joe Chart

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

This is just so mindblowingly corrupt.

And there's something new like this almost every day.

The corruption is beyond staggering.

It's bottomless.

[Paul A Dorfner @DorfnerA]

This photo of Andy Kim in the moments before ICE gassed everyone at Delaney Hall is going into the history books.

We need more of this from our electeds.

[FactPost @factpostnews]

The Trump administration is opening up land for oil and gas drilling in or around:

—The Grand Canyon
—Zion National Park
—Joshua Tree National Park
—Arches National Park
—Grand Teton National Park
—Denali National Park

[Jason Kint @jason_kint]

NYT out with a jaw dropping investigative report on the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. 60 Minutes reported last Sunday on some of this, too. The NYT report is a must-read, the 60 Minutes report should then be watched. 1/3

[Grant Stoll @grantonsoil]

How is it even possible that they’re about to spray glyphosate across Lake Tahoe’s national forests and it’s not front page news

[Jay Nordlinger @jaynordlinger]

From many Republicans, I hear that the government had nothing to do with the cancellation of Colbert's program. Okay, good. "Just regular ol' business." But the FCC chairman brags about the cancellation. And the White House circulates ... this. What are we supposed to think?

[Kurt Bardella @kurtbardella]

BREAKING NEWS @GovernorVA announces at #CAPIdeas that tomorrow, she will sign an executive order directing Virginia’s election/poll workers instructions/guidance on how to navigate federal presence/efforts to intimidate voters.

@amprog

[Randy Rainbow @RandyRainbow]

I get the strategy. But I have needs. 💍

#WhereTheHellIsOurCongress #WeDontWantAKing #NewVideo #parody

[Steven Rattner @SteveRattner]

This is extraordinary. I've been a professional investor for decades and I haven't made this many trades in my career.

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