Sara J. Gerving 🌊

[Sara J. Gerving 🌊 @sgerving]

"The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it." [John 1:5]

[Acyn @Acyn]

Ossoff: He’s trying to put his face on the money. He's building a monument to himself . But see, Atlanta, he's doing these things now because no one will honor him when he’s gone… because he's a failed president and a national disgrace.

[Damon Linker @DamonLinker]

Unlike Obama unfreezing $1.7 billion in Iranian funds held since the 1979 revolution, Trump is offering Iran a $300 billion outright bribe to let him get out of the mess of the war he started so he can claim a victory and move on.

[Anna Kramer @anna_c_kramer]

SCOOP: Trump admin is paying millions to quickly cover four enormous bronze horses with extra-thick 23.75 karat gold leaf.

The money for the rush job is coming from National Park Service. In total, I found ~$100 mil spent on new DC beautification projects
https://t.co/iCgnL1sFon

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

Read this as @SecMullinDHS claims that everyone in ICE custody is held in perfectly clean and sanitary conditions.

[YpsiGal🇺🇸🌎☮️ @YpsiGal]

@atrupar @Kims_basement This has been debunked improving false repeatedly.
Plus the hypocrisy is tratostratostopic.
Trump has PARDONED his buddies for fraud including the restitution they owed.

[Eric Feigl-Ding @DrEricDing]

I don’t think we have a functioning CDC anymore—RFK Jr’s CDC is now asking volunteers to goto airports to screen passengers for Ebola… to stand in line at airports to look for sick people… unpaid.

[Just Women’s Sports @justwsports]

The triple espresso front line back together 👏

[Covie @covie_93]

Jan. 6 happened and everybody saw it with their own two eyes. Deleting information about it from the DOJ website doesn't change that.

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

The difference between Iran and Vietnam is that Trump knew how to get out of Vietnam.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Saying “I didn’t expect the corruption to be quite as widespread as it has been” is admitting that you knew he was corrupt, and endorsed him anyway.

[Zach W. Lambert @ZachWLambert]

Four years ago today, a gunman entered Robb Elementary in Uvalde and opened fire—killing 19 fourth-graders and 2 teachers.

Here’s how our Governor and Attorney General reacted:

“It could have been worse.” Greg Abbott

“We can't stop bad people from doing bad things.” Ken Paxton

VOTE THEM OUT.

[Rep. Jim McGovern @RepMcGovern]

Remember: it was like pulling teeth to get Republicans to fund the 9/11 Victim Compensation Fund.

But it took them no time at all to create a $1.8 billion Insurrection Slush Fund to pay off the legal fees of the January 6th rioters who beat cops.

These are sick, corrupt people.

[Greg Lukianoff @glukianoff]

Larry Bushart spent 37 days in jail for posting a meme on Facebook.

I’ve been doing this work for 25 years, and I can honestly say this is the worst First Amendment case I’ve ever seen.

Not because Larry threatened anyone. He didn’t. Not because he committed violence. He didn’t. Not because this was a close call. It wasn’t.

He posted a political meme — the kind of thing millions of Americans do every day — and local officials decided to treat it like a crime.

And because they had badges, prosecutors, jail cells, and the terrifying machinery of the state behind them, they got away with it for 37 days.

Larry is a retired police officer and National Guard veteran. The meme he shared quoted Donald Trump’s “we have to get over it” comment after a 2024 Iowa school shooting. Whatever you think of Trump, the meme was plainly political commentary. Perry County officials knew what it referred to. They knew it wasn’t a threat against a Tennessee school.

They arrested him anyway.

In the middle of the night.

They set his bond at $2 million.

He lost his job. He missed family milestones. He sat in jail for more than a month before the charges finally collapsed — because, of course, there was no crime here.

Today, @theFIREorg secured a measure of justice: Perry County agreed to pay Larry Bushart $835,000 for violating his constitutional rights.

This case should scare the hell out of people across the political spectrum.

Because if the government can jail you for a meme by pretending not to understand obvious political commentary, your rights are only as secure as the good faith of the most authoritarian official in your town.

That is exactly why we have the First Amendment. Not for speech everyone likes. Not for opinions that flatter the powerful. Not for the bland, safe, committee-approved stuff.

It exists for moments when fear, outrage, politics, and authority all line up and say: “Surely this is the exception.”

No. It isn’t.

I’m incredibly proud of @theFIREorg’s legal team. And I’m even prouder of Larry Bushart for refusing to let the government get away with treating his constitutional rights like a suggestion.

But despite the correct verdict, I'll probably always get angry every time I think of this case.

Let’s make this the last time anyone in America is arrested — let alone thrown in jail — for a meme.

Celebrate your independence. Defend your First Amendment.

https://t.co/7ADQTxeHsL

[Alex Wayne @aawayne]

NEWS: Trump's stock trades included up to $680,000 in Eli Lilly as his administration was preparing policies that would benefit the drug company's GLP-1 business. $LLY

Trump signed the disclosure personally.

By @dariustahir

https://t.co/EqCrAc4eNB

[Rep. Shontel Brown @RepShontelBrown]

Trump plans to give billions in taxpayer dollars to his allies. 

Meanwhile working Americans pay more, lose health care, and get nothing. Absolutely shameful, corrupt, and just plain wrong. 

https://t.co/UG7wJPsNKx

[Pedro L. Gonzalez @emeriticus]

The Trump-Vance administration has quietly lifted restrictions on M44 cyanide traps. These are essentially cyanide bombs that indiscriminately kill anyone or anything that interacts with them, not just pests. In one case, the Department of Agriculture planted a bomb near the home of an Idaho family. Their 14-year-old boy and his dog found it and accidentally triggered it. It killed his dog and severely injured him.

Biden’s BLM banned their use in 2023. The Trump-Vance admin is bringing them back. You could not dream up a more cartoonishly evil White House than this, and the icing on the cake is how it has integrated themes like protecting the “homeland” into its propaganda, when it is quite literally poisoning the homeland in more ways than one.

[Home of the Brave @OfTheBraveUSA]

Kash Patel assembled a "payback squad" of FBI agents to go after more of Trump's perceived political enemies.

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: Trump purchased up to $630,000 worth of Palantir, $PLTR, during the first three months of the year.

In March alone, Trump made at least seven purchases of Palantir totalling as much as $530,000.

A month later, Trump literally wrote on TruthSocial: “Palantir Technologies (PLTR) has proven to have great war fighting capabilities and equipment."

[Richard Stengel @stengel]

George H.W. Bush kept his assets in a blind trust, as did Bill Clinton. Neither Obama nor Biden traded stocks or bonds while in office. 3,700 trades is probably more than all the trades of all the presidents until now. And he is trading stocks that are affected by his decisions. A walking conflict of interest, at the least, and perhaps insider trading. Just as members of Congress should not be able to trade stocks, so too the president. https://t.co/yDqVXWfDgc

[Molly Ploofkins @Mollyploofkins]

Reporter: “To African-Americans concerned this is going to draw Black members of congress off the map, what do you say?”

TRUMP: “I think it's been a wonderful process.”