Edwin F. Solomon

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

BREAKING: $95 billion on the floor at 4pm today.

$60B for defense.
$13B for the Iran war.
$10B for voter suppression.
$0 for healthcare.

Not one dollar. Not one committee. They didn't even pretend. No one should vote Republican ever again.

#HealthcareNotWarfare

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump’s golden arch POWER GRAB looks to GUT the preservation law meant to protect historic sites.

Donald Trump wants a 250-foot golden triumphal arch built in the heart of Washington DC — despite the fact that it violates height limits, hasn't received required congressional approval, and would block sacred sightlines between Arlington National Cemetery and the Lincoln Memorial.

And now, according to a new Atlantic report, his administration is quietly rigging the rules to ram it through anyway.

The scheme centers on Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, a law requiring federal agencies to consult with preservation experts and create binding plans to AVOID damaging historic sites before construction.

Trump's handpicked vice chair on the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation is now pushing to gut that requirement — allowing officials to simply "minimize" harm rather than avoid it, and to write the mitigation plan AFTER approval instead of before.

In other words, build first, pretend to care later.

Law professor Sara Bronin summed it up bluntly: "If adopted, these regulations will be challenged in court, and I doubt they will survive judicial scrutiny."

And the legal gymnastics don't stop there. The arch would tower well beyond DC's federal 130-foot height limit, so the administration is simply claiming that century-old law doesn't apply to federal buildings — despite nothing in the statute saying so.

For congressional approval, the Justice Department is citing a completely unrelated 1925 bridge design that included some columns, columns that were actually REMOVED from the final plan by President Hoover, as somehow constituting authorization for Trump's golden monstrosity a hundred years later.

The National Park Service's own assessment found the arch would damage the historic character of the National Mall landscape. Public comments called it a "garish, tasteless eyesore" and a "McMonument." Veterans have sued to block it, arguing it would obliterate sacred sightlines between Arlington and the Memorial Bridge. Americans oppose it more than 2-to-1.

None of that matters to Trump. He wants his golden arch, he wants it now, and he's willing to rewrite federal preservation law itself to get it — turning hallowed, solemn ground into a monument to his own ego.

The big question is: When will Congress grow the cojones to stop this out-of-control narcissist?

Please like and share if you think Trump’s desecration of our nation’s capital needs to stop now!

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

So let me get this straight. Taylor Farms lettuce gets linked to the cyclospora outbreak. The CEO visits the White House and donates to Trump. Then the FDA says the positive finding was a “false positive.”

Nothing suspicious about that at all.

[CrazyUs @crazyus]

“Absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

•promised to be a 2 term senator
•said he wouldn’t let anyone talk to his 15yo daughter like that

Then the real power came & now

•he’s stealing our vote
•he’s stealing our public lands
•he spreads hate because he can

UTAH’s MIKE LEE

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Trump FLEES to his helicopter after reporter confronts him about his failed Iran war prediction.

Donald Trump has never been able to face accountability.

The draft-dodging president promised a quick and easy victory with his Israeli-inspired “military operation” — what anybody else would call a war — against Iran. Nearly five months, 17 dead American service members, and one deeply uncomfortable press gaggle later, even he seems unable to explain what happened.

Confronted by a reporter at Joint Base Andrews about his original "four to five weeks" prediction for the Iran war — now stretching toward five months with no end in sight — Trump tried to bluster his way through, insisting the mission had somehow secretly gotten BIGGER. "This is a far bigger job that we're doing," he claimed. "We were doing a little job... Now, we're just ending it."

Then things fell apart. Trump stumbled through a confused timeline, changing his story mid-sentence: "If you look at it, after a week-and-a-half... not four weeks, a week-and-a-half, two weeks..." before catching himself trying to claim victory.

“We stopped them from probably, but I don’t want to have the word ‘probably’...,” he started to declare, before abandoning that sentence entirely and abruptly ending the interview. Rather than answer the actual question, Trump looked into the camera, said "Thank you very much," and walked straight to Marine One.

Press conference over. Accountability avoided.

This wasn't even the hardest question he dodged. Moments earlier, reporters had pressed him on the three U.S. soldiers killed over the weekend alone — bringing the total American death toll in this war to 17. Army Private Isabella Gonzales, just 19 years old, and Army Lieutenant Tyler James Feehan, 25, were both killed in Jordan. A third soldier died in Iraq, still unidentified.

Trump's response? "We feel very badly." Followed immediately by a pivot to claiming Iran has "lost everything, almost, militarily" — a claim he made no attempt to reconcile with the inconvenient fact that Iran resumed active hostilities just last week and continues resisting peace talks.

Nearly five months into a war Trump promised would take five weeks. Seventeen Americans dead. And when asked to account for any of it, the Commander-in-Chief chose to flee to a helicopter rather than answer.

Please like and share to spread the news!

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

Trump's AG nominee finally met with Epstein survivors—but only because a Senate vote forced him to.
Dani Bensky's verdict: he treated it as a "check-the-box exercise" to lock down his confirmation.
She sees right through him. https://t.co/n23g3E9CVh

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

The boos heard round the world.

83,000 World Cup fans just booed the shit out of Trump.

The whole world hates him.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Another US service member was just killed in Trump’s Iran War… and Trump is busy watching the World Cup!

For a war we have been told is for all intents and purposes over, the death toll is rising.

Just one day after the Pentagon announced that two U.S. service members were killed in Jordan during an Iranian missile and drone attack, the U.S. military confirmed Sunday that another American service member was killed in Iraq.

According to CENTCOM, the service member died during the “controlled detonation” of a downed Iranian drone.

The news comes as one American remains unaccounted for following Friday's attack in Jordan but may have been found.

Military officials said Sunday that "unidentified remains" had been recovered and are being examined.

The latest death brings the number of American service members killed since the war began to 17. More than 430 have been wounded.

Trump touted last month’s preliminary ceasefire as a successful conclusion to the conflict. But victories don’t come from press conferences, they come when the enemy stops shooting at you and goes home.

Since the ceasefire, the fighting has resumed, the region has grown more unstable, and more American service members have lost their lives.

Beyond these new tragedies, the United States and Iran are once again exchanging strikes across the region, inevitably sucking U.S. allies into the mire as Iran fires missiles toward Jordan and the U.S. launches new attacks on Iranian targets.

Trump has continued to defend the war as necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. But as the casualties mount, we are left with a simple question:

How many more service members have to die before this war is finally over?

Our leadership doesn't really know what winning looks like any more, if they ever did.

Let’s hope they can get out of it before too many young men women die, and we can send them packing from Washington after the next election.

[Lucas Sanders 👊🏽🔥🇺🇸 @LucasSa56947288]

WATCH: Here’s A confused Donald Trump overstays his welcome onstage and trying to steal the spotlight at the FIFA World Cup winners as they hoist their trophy!

This is so embarrassing to watch! 🤦🏿🤣

[GBC @GBC_Press]

🚨 BREAKING:

​Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu stated that Israel will conclude a defense partnership agreement with the United States very soon.

​Israel is working to diversify its relations from aid to partnership.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Even John Solomon — a conservative columnist and conspiracy theorist who recently took up a temporary White House post probing classified information on elections — had to admit Trump's newly declassify documents didn’t indicate a foreign government changed Americans’ votes.

“I only know the intelligence community has zero evidence that a foreign power flipped a vote in 2020, 2022 or 2024."

[Evan @daviddunn177]

After that speech last night and the declassified documents they released showing Russiagate was real, it makes even more sense now that Donald Trump & Elon Musk cheated the 2024 election.

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

CNN has uncovered audio of RFK Jr. praising a description of Trump and his supporters as “belligerent idiots,” “outright Nazis,” “cowards,” and “bootlickers,” while also comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler. @KFILE (2024)

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Trump has gutted the FBI’s election protection task force, DHS election teams, ODNI cells, and the EAC.

If he’s so concerned about the security of our elections…

…why is he systematically dismantling the tools to protect them?

🤔

[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

Trump’s 9PM speech is really about ramming through the SAVE Act — AKA the SAVE MY ASS ACT — the bill that demands passports and birth certificates just to register, because your driver’s license isn’t good enough for him.

He won’t say the full details because it’s voter suppression dressed up as “integrity.”
Desperate move from a loser scared of real turnout.
#LoserTrumpsElectionLies

[Cuckturd @CattardSlim]

Wut?

Trump accidentally released intelligence that shows Putin trying to help Trump frame Biden on Burisma.

I knew Trump was working with Russia to steal the election!

Lock his traitorous ass up

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

🎯 @chrislhayes: “Every day it gets clearer Trump wants to 1/6 the midterms… he does not believe in free & fair elections… he wants to use any means at his disposal to retain power regardless of what the voters say…”

The correct reaction to his speech. Time to wake up.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

LMAOOO, Karoline Leavitt says that trump repeatedly ignores the fact that AMERICA is responsible for the bombing of an Iranian girls school because it's his opinion that we didn't mean to do it, trust me bro

This regime is a JOKE. 🤡

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

MAJOR BREAKING: Trump just stated that The Trump admin allowed China to obtain 220 million American Voter files and his intel agency downplayed it all!

IMPEACH!