David Stamper

"Long time listener, first time caller" when it comes to twitter. If you get it you get it. I can't stay on the sidelines any longer. #standwithUkraine

[Nick Offerman @Nick_Offerman]

•The U.S. Senate may hold a floor vote TODAY which would overturn a 20-year moratorium on sulfide-ore copper mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest land in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness in northern Minnesota. The Boundary Waters is the most visited Wilderness in the United States. 

🛶 Enjoying the Minnesotan/Canadian wilderness by canoe or other lesser watercraft is one of our nations greatest available pastimes, and one I have personally enjoyed my entire life. We must protect these public lands from the rapacious capitalists threatening to turn them into a poisoned wasteland.

•This vote in Congress would open the door to copper mining at the headwaters of this entire ecosystem. This kind of mining produces toxic pollution, including acid runoff and heavy metals, that can contaminate nearby waters.

•The Boundary Waters supports a major outdoor economy that sustains thousands of jobs and generates over a billion dollars a year - built on clean water and intact public lands. But this vote would clear the way for toxic mining that puts all of that at risk. It would also set a dangerous precedent, making it easier to roll back protections for public lands across the country, including wilderness areas, national monuments, and national parks. 

•This is a defining moment. If you care about clean water, public lands, and protecting places we can’t replace, now is the time to speak up.
•Protect the Boundary Waters, and vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140. Let’s save this treasured place for all of us—forever. https://t.co/JhNAR6Za2O

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Y'all have to knock off the "but Biden" bullshit, this guy can't even remember that HE appointed Fed Chair Powell, not Biden.

He is 6 cans short of a six pack. He needs to be REMOVED.

This is a national security issue.

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: Officials are finally starting to call the terror ICE is inflicting on communities what it actually is…

Kidnapping.

Officials are now investigating the ICE arrest of a U.S. citizen in Minnesota as a possible kidnapping… along with burglary and false imprisonment.

ICE agents stormed ChongLy Scott Thao’s home… without a warrant… broke down his door, guns drawn, and dragged him out of his home, in the freezing cold, wearing Crocs, shorts, and a blanket…

They didn’t check his ID, or even care that he was a citizen, and they took him anyway.

And now it’s being investigated as kidnapping.

Because that’s what DHS has been doing… kidnapping people.

And if this is what it takes for people in power to finally admit what’s been happening, then the next step isn’t just investigations…

It’s accountability.

Because if regular people did this, they’d be in prison.

So why aren’t the agents?

[Art Candee 🍿🥤 @ArtCandee]

Senator Cory Booker is getting heated:

"If we allow this as a Congress, this is the new standard. Donald Trump can wage war on Cuba next, for 30-60 days, before having to consult Congress. Donald Trump could invade Greenland. These are not hypotheticals. He has said he's going to take Cuba. He said he's going to take Greenland...We are in this situation, not just because of Donald Trump, but because of his congressional enablers."

[Senator Mark Kelly @SenMarkKelly]

Congress controls the purse. That's not a suggestion. It's the Constitution.

The Trump Administration moved $1.25 billion to his “Board of Peace” with no congressional authorization. I introduced the PEACE Act to put a stop to it.

[🇺🇸 Justice @250_Revolution]

Concerning Social Security payments, my contributions were made for 40 years on every salary I received. Those jobs may not have always been the work I wanted to be doing at the time, BUT I always had a job. The Social Security check is now (or soon will be) referred to as a "Federal Benefit Payment?" I'll be part of the one percent to forward this.

I am forwarding it because it touches a nerve in me, and I hope it will in you. Please keep passing it on until everyone in our country has read it. The government is now referring to our Social Security checks as a "Federal Benefit Payment." This isn't a benefit. It is our money paid out of our earned income! Not only did we all contribute to Social Security but our employers did too. It totaled 15% of our income before taxes.

If you averaged $30K per year over your working life, that's close to $180,000 invested in Social Security. If you calculate the future value of your monthly investment in social security ($375/month, including both you and your employers contributions) at a meager 1% interest rate compounded monthly, after 40 years of working you'd have more than $1.3+ million dollars saved! This is your personal investment. Upon retirement, if you took out only 3% per year, you'd receive $39,318 per year, or $3,277 per month.

That's almost three times more than today's average Social Security benefit of $1,230 per month, according to the Social Security Administration. (Google it – it’s a fact).

And your retirement fund would last more than 33 years (until you're 98 if you retire at age 65)! I can only imagine how much better most average-income people could live in retirement if our government had just invested our money in low-risk interest-earning accounts.

Instead, the folks in Washington pulled off a bigger "Ponzi scheme" than Bernie Madoff ever did. They took our money and used it elsewhere. They forgot (oh yes, they knew) that it was OUR money they were taking. They didn't have a referendum to ask us if we wanted to lend the money to them. And they didn't pay interest on the debt they assumed. And recently they've told us that the money won't support us for very much longer.
But is it our fault they misused our investments? And now, to add insult to injury, they're calling it a "benefit", as if we never worked to earn every penny of it.
Just because they borrowed the money doesn't mean that our investments were a charity!

Let's take a stand. We have earned our right to Social Security and Medicare. Demand that our legislators bring some sense into our government.
Find a way to keep Social Security and Medicare going for the sake of that 92% of our population who need it. Then call it what it is: Our Earned Retirement Income.

😡😡😡✅

[Rep. Lizzie Fletcher @RepFletcher]

This isn't just a reorganization of the U.S. Forest Service. It's a dismantling of the agency—an agency that not only provides access to our public lands but protects against wildfires and prevents ecological disasters. https://t.co/H322JHkxfc

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA): “Donald Trump is in the Epstein files thousands and thousands of times. In those files, there are highly disturbing allegations — allegations — of Donald Trump raping children and threatening to kill children.” (2026)

[The Lincoln Project @ProjectLincoln]

Trump's DOJ has been quietly removing Epstein files from the DOJ website since the attack in Iran ; CBS reports.

This is a coverup.

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

Rubio Today: It’s false to say I said the U.S. had to attack because Israel was going to attack. That’s not what I said.

Rubio Yesterday: We knew Israel was going to strike Iran, and that would trigger attacks on U.S. forces. If we didn’t act first, Americans would suffer higher casualties.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🔥@grahamformaine: “Watching people who have no idea what any of this looks like or feels like disgusts me… saying we just need to be prepared for more casualties because ‘that’s what happens’ — it’s not what fucking happens to THEM, it’s what happens to US.”

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Buried in his interview yesterday with NBC, Trump implied that the FBI raided the Georgia election office to "find out the true winner" of the 2020 election.

If that's why they did it, it's a crime -- an unauthorized & unconstitutional recount of a state's election results.

[Mary L Trump @MaryLTrump]

Every American needs to watch this:

[AnthroVet50 @spooked75]

Let me correct this MAGA revisionist history on immigration.

Claim: "Democrats blocked border security"

Reality: Complete nonsense. Here's what actually happened:

1. Biden kept Trump's policies in place

Maintained Title 42 (COVID expulsion policy) for over a year
Continued "Remain in Mexico" under court order Increased border enforcement funding
Kept restrictive asylum processing
Democrats didn't "open the border" - they kept most Trump-era restrictions active. This is documented fact.

2. Republicans blocked EVERY reform attempt

2013: Bipartisan "Gang of Eight" comprehensive immigration reform bill

Passed Senate 68-32
$46 billion for border security
Path to citizenship for undocumented immigrants
Republican House killed it
2021-2023: Multiple bipartisan attempts

All blocked by Republicans in Congress
Zero willingness to negotiate
2024: The smoking gun

Senator James Lankford (R-OK) - one of the most conservative senators - negotiated a TOUGH bipartisan border bill:

$20 billion for border security
Asylum restrictions
More agents and infrastructure
Everything Republicans claimed they wanted
Trump publicly opposed it. Why? He didn't want Biden to "get a win" before the election.

Republicans killed it IMMEDIATELY.

This is on-record, documented fact. Trump literally told them to block border security so he could campaign on it.

3. The pattern is clear

Republicans don't want immigration reform. They want the ISSUE.

Reform passes? Biden gets credit
Problem persists? They can campaign on it
So, they block solutions, then blame Democrats for the problem they refuse to fix.

This is MAGA playbook 101:

1. Block governance
2. Blame Democrats for chaos
3. Campaign on the chaos you created
4. Repeat

I support border security. But I also support HONESTY.

The facts are clear: Democrats tried to govern. Republicans chose obstruction because Trump told them to.

Anyone claiming otherwise is either ignorant of the facts or lying. Pick one.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

The Kennedy Center has been in continuous operation for 55 years.

Trump and Ric Grenell destroyed it in one year by making it so toxic that nobody will perform there.

Now they have to shut it down like a Trump casino.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

Trump reversed decades of national security objections to selling advanced AI chips to UAE. National security experts were alarmed.

But there was a secret. Before the deal, UAE had sent $187M to the Trumps and $31M to the Witkoffs in secret payments.

Mind blowing corruption.

[Tom Santos @tommysantos14]

It is IRRELEVANT if you break the law, the government cannot kill you for it.

It is IRRELEVANT if you protest, record, or annoy ICE agents, the government cannot kill you for it.

It is IRRELEVANT if you lawfully conceal-carry but forget your paper permit at home, the government cannot kill you for it.

And that takes care of 99% of the bullshit MAGA posts on this platform defending the Pretti killing.

[Ben Goldsmith @BenGoldsmith]

They are banning American bison from what’s left of the prairie. It’s the most un-American thing ever. The bison is America’s national animal, and fewer than 0.1% of them remain. Waging war on bison is the most un-American thing ever. Shame on the GOP.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

More and more Americans are voicing their outrage at the tactics being deployed by federal agents in Minnesota. But it’s important to understand the broader implications of what this administration is doing, and the threat it poses to the basic freedoms of every American.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

Truth. 💯