stephanie blaising

veteran army medic, vegan, working to protect and empower humans, animals, and our environment,

[stephanie blaising @steph50]

@SenRickScott Anti-Zionism is not the same as Anti-Semitism. They are two different things. You should educate yourself and not mislead people.

[stephanie blaising @steph50]

@mhdksafa Unfortunately we are living under the rule of Trump now.

[stephanie blaising @steph50]

Because they're weak and complicit just like the rest.

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

How the fuck did the media just sit there like obedient dogs while the psychotic shitstain took the stage? Walking out en masse would have been the boldest, most legendary act of resistance against creeping authoritarian fascism this country has ever seen.

[jamie @gnuman1979]

Exactly.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Egg producers got caught colluding to inflate prices—and Trump let them off with a measly $3.3 million fine.

One company alone made $1.2 billion in profit last year.

Big corporations cheat, and Trump lets them off the hook.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2026: $719 billion

Jeff Bezos Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2026: $255 billion

Mark Zuckerberg Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2026: $212 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25
2026: $7.25

Obscene. We must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

American citizens across the country are physically cutting down Flock cameras as authorities are losing control as more people are viewing the technology as an unconstitutional form of mass surveillance.

The incidents are being described as part of a growing trend where cordless, battery-powered tools are used to quickly cut down Flock camera poles because they are highly portable, fast, and quiet.

Mass surveillance must be stopped everywhere.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

I hope everyone had a great 4th of July. I know @realDonaldTrump and family did.

250 years ago we declared independence from a king who ran the colonies as a family business. In just 18 months the Trumps have made King George look like an amateur.

A $620 million Pentagon loan, the largest in the program’s history, to a company Don Jr.’s firm bought into three months before.

An Air Force drone contract to a startup the princelings took public through a golf course company they own a piece of.

The Army’s largest drone motor order ever, to a company where Don Jr. sits on the board and holds millions in stock.

A $24 million Pentagon robotics contract to the company that employs Eric as Chief Strategy Advisor.

A stake in the largest undeveloped tungsten deposit on earth, in Kazakhstan, backed by $1.6 billion in US government support.

Jared’s fund seeded with $2 billion from the Saudi crown prince, now $6.2 billion, 99% of it foreign money from Gulf governments. Over $110 million in fees collected from the Saudis alone. He negotiates American foreign policy with the governments that pay him.

$2.3 billion from crypto ventures their father regulates. More than a million people bought in and lost $2.3 billion. The money didn’t grow. It simply moved from the subjects pockets to the crown’s coffers.

And the next one is already drafted. A proposed ATF rule that will allow guns to be shipped straight to your front door. The government’s own estimate is 3.3 million home gun deliveries a year. Don Jr. sits on the board of the online gun megastore built to cash in. He holds 300,000 shares.

And that’s only the fraction they’ve allowed us to see. Not one subpoena served. Not one search executed. Why hide anything when you own the investigators?

Me? They searched a laptop for six years. Federal prosecutors. Grand juries. Subpoena power. Congressional hearings. They found nothing. I made about $200k a year selling paintings when my Dad was President, and they made my paintings part of an impeachment inquiry.

For six years they’ve asked Where’s Hunter? What about the laptop?

Wrong questions. The right one is 250 years old. Does America belong to a family?

They’ve given their answer. Long live the King.

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Comments?

[Rod (Izzy) 🇺🇸🦅 @1zzyzyx1]

Signs of fascism are evident as people in Rhode Island courageously responded yesterday, raising the alarm. #DemsUnited

[Jack Cocchiarella 🌹 @JDCocchiarella]

Gavin Newsom says it’s time to start talking more about Donald Trump’s cognitive decline

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Veterans are suing to stop President Donald Trump’s 250-foot arch near Arlington Cemetery, warning it would disrupt a historic view and alter one of Washington’s most symbolic landscapes. https://t.co/6aVjimhTLy

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

My July 5th Diatribe after Returning from Europe again:

The weirdest thing about leaving America is realizing how much of America is just a sales pitch.

You spend your whole life hearing “greatest country on Earth,” then you go overseas and see clean trains, safer streets, affordable medicine, cities where people can walk without playing Frogger with an SUV, and workers who take vacations without acting like they committed treason.

And then you come home.

You come home to potholes, medical debt, school shooting drills, $17 airport sandwiches, people living in tents under highways, politicians wearing flag pins (or worse, gun pins) while doing absolutely nothing for the people standing in food bank lines, and billionaires being treated like they’re the fragile ones.

And somehow we’re all supposed to stand there, hand over heart, and pretend this is normal.

I don’t hate America. I hate what America has been taught to tolerate.

I hate that we call basic things “radical.” Healthcare? Radical. Paid leave? Radical. Clean air? Radical. Kids not getting shot in math class? Somehow political.

Meanwhile, the loudest “patriots” are usually the same people telling struggling Americans to shut up, stop complaining, and be grateful.

Grateful for what? A flag doesn’t pay rent. A bald eagle doesn’t cover insulin. Fireworks don’t fix bridges. And chanting “USA” doesn’t make a broken system less broken.

America has incredible people. That’s the tragedy. The people are better than the system they’ve been forced to defend.

So no, I’m not going to call America the greatest country on Earth just because it has the best marketing department.

Real patriotism isn’t pretending the country is perfect.

Real patriotism is being angry that it isn’t, and blaming minorities and immigrants for your own piece of shit life that you created.

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

This criminal president made $2.2 billion last year, with plenty of help from his own political decisions.

This is called corruption, folks.

Read more here: https://t.co/yCU6EPwIeX

#TrumpCrimeFamily

Read more here:
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[Desirée Townsend @Cheering4Change]

Senator Mitch McConnell has now been hospitalized for three weeks. The gravity of this situation cannot be overstated, especially given that his wife, Elaine Chao, appeared in China just days after his hospitalization to meet with high-ranking Chinese officials. The question now is about national security: if Senator McConnell has been unable to independently perform his duties, what safeguards exist to ensure classified intelligence briefings, defense appropriations information, or other sensitive congressional matters could not be accessed, discussed, or shared by individuals operating behind the scenes? And given the timing of Chao’s meeting with China’s vice president, what exactly was discussed?

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

U.S. world-famous author Stephen King:

“Trump is a tumor in America’s veins. A tyrant who does not hesitate to set a country on fire for his narcissistic ego. No horror story I’ve written could be as terrifying as this man.”

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

[RT @RT_com]

'SON OF A WH*RE'

Israeli soldier throws STUN GRENADE INSIDE Palestinian car — FORCES ITS DOOR SHUT as it EXPLODES within TRAPPED passengers & driver

Soldier FIRES next to car before walking away — CURSING in Arabic

[Whale Insider @WhaleInsider]

JUST IN: 🇪🇸 Spain blacklists U.S. tech giant Palantir $PLTR from public and private firms over national security data risks.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin says Darializa Chevalier, the fair and square winner of a primary in New York, has "no place to be serving in Congress," and blasts Bernie Sanders as a "socialist communist"

Very dark stuff coming from a supposedly nonpartisan agency head