Earth Lawyer

Attorney. Democrat. 🇺🇸 Believer of facts & the rule of law.

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

Rachel Maddow tonight talking about how Trump is trying to stop the opening of the US Canada Gordie Howe International bridge.

Because while the bridge was 100% funded by Canada, Donald wants half ownership for the US.

We don't have a president. We have a mob boss.

[theleahfiles @leahfiles]

This will probably get suppressed, but I don’t care. It’s time.

Elon Musk promised DOGE would save taxpayers $1 TRILLION. But, it actually just paved his path to become a trillionaire. Let’s follow the money.

- “Claimed savings”: Final DOGE claim was $214B saved. The independently verifiable amount was less than 5% of that, not including the actually costs.

Costs
- The firing-and-rehiring churn cost ~ $135B.
- Week one: 17 inspector generals fired who return $26 per $1 spent and catch the very things happening right now with the Trump family ventures, Elon’s ventures, AI, etc.
- They didn’t touch the $850B Pentagon budget that has never passed an audit.
- Also untouched were the $38B in government contracts flowing to Elon.
- Data privacy breaches by DOGE employees

And before you say that he worked for free, he did not have to file a financial disclosure because he "worked for free". This looks more like a workaround.

Elon donated over $290M to Trump’s campaign. The morning Trump was sworn in, Musk's companies faced $2.37B in legal exposure across 11 federal agencies.

Then he was handed power over those same agencies. Inside the first quarter, six of the regulators investigating Elon’s companies were cut, closed, or told to stand down.

So, he spent ~$290M to elect Trump and he left office with his cases dead and SpaceX ~$6B RICHER in NEW defense contracts.
That is not a Department of Government Efficiency.

And as someone who was on the inside when this all went down, the strategy behind finding these contracts was incredibly inefficient and just caused defense contractors, such as Booz Allen Hamilton, to merely change their name from consulting to technology. It merely caused word changes in contracts. Contracts that are bloated and should be cut, weren’t even looked at. And in the end, it cost tax payers exponentially more than it saved, including data privacy,

Just want to call out the reality of how Space X and this shady IPO even came about.

[Negan @Roger_Negan]

This

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

So if Kamala Harris had started a war with Iran, gas prices doubled, and then held a UFC fight on the White House lawn, MAGA would’ve been totally normal and reasonable about it, right?

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

The single biggest irrigated crop in America isn't corn, wheat, or soybeans. It's not even avocados or almonds. It's lawn.

We grow more grass than any food crop in the country, around 40 million acres of it, and almost none of it feeds a single living thing.

Think about how strange that is. We took a grass that isn't even from here, planted it coast to coast, and now we pour water, fertilizer, and pesticide into keeping it short, green, and perfectly useless.

To a bee, a butterfly, or a bird hunting caterpillars for its chicks, a manicured lawn is a desert. Nothing to eat, nowhere to nest, mile after mile of it.

But here's the good news, maybe the easiest win on this whole account: you don't have to fix the entire desert. You just have to claw back a corner.

Pick one strip. The hellstrip by the sidewalk, the run along the fence, that awkward patch you hate mowing anyway. Stop mowing it and plant it with native flowers, a few black-eyed Susans, some bee balm, a couple of coneflowers. That's it. No ripping out the whole yard, no fight with anybody. Just convert one piece.

And that piece stops being dead space and starts being habitat: bees, butterflies, and birds showing up to a spot that offered them nothing a year ago.

Now picture your neighbor doing the same, and the one after that. That's how a desert turns back into a meadow, one reclaimed corner at a time.

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

Share, Share, before it DISAPPEARS .

This is #SaschaRiley, a veteran of the Iraq War. He says Donald Trump raped him when he was a child. He’s reported to the FBI. He has receipts. He’s willing to testify.

Sascha reported this and he has emails and recordings of his calls with the FBI. He’s willing to testify against Trump as well as Andy Biggs, Jim Jordan, Lindsey Graham and Clarence Thomas.

This is Sascha Riley, a veteran of the Iraq War. He says Donald Trump raped him when he was a child. He’s reported to the FBI. He has receipts. He’s willing to testify.

Sascha reported this and he has emails and recordings of his calls with the FBI. He’s willing to testify against Trump as well as Andy Biggs, Jim Jordan, Lindsey Graham and Clarence Thomas.

[Matt @mattsaymyname]

Always angered by “Michelle is a man.”

I’m not maga, so I don’t worship political figures.

But she has been in the public eye for decades and hasn’t done anything to anyone. Just tried to do good.

It’s racist, sexist, homophobic, and hateful.

Should never be normalized.

[keepitquarterly @keepitquarterly]

SEC Rule S7-2026-15 would let public companies stop filing quarterly reports and hide financials for six months. Your savings are in those stocks. Comment is open right now.

[Jamie Bonkiewicz @JamieBonkiewicz]

It’s impossible to overstate how fucking stupid the United States looks on the world stage right now.

[Eric Lee @EricLeeAtty]

Staggering that the NYT reports Trump/Miller are plotting to suspend habeas corpus (i.e. end the constitution) & by the end of the day it's treated as a non-story, not anywhere near top of major news' outlets websites.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

New “Art of The Deal” is out, and it’s short:

“Give your opponent everything they ask for and declare victory”

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

One sign of a dying empire is having gladiator fights at the Capitol for the emperor's amusement.

[Americans For Tax Fairness @4TaxFairness]

SNAP helped 42 million people afford groceries each month in 2024.

They each got about $6 a day.

Take a look at this economy.

Does it really make sense that we just took $6 a day away from 3.5 million people to give billionaires more tax breaks?

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

The fact that the Epstein Estate ACTUALLY PAID a settlement to one of the women who alleged that Donald Trump raped her as a minor, and it was paid AFTER Epstein died, as told under oath by Epstein's longtime accountant, should be a more significant story. The fact that Trump said he wasn't ever on Epstein's plane and now we found out he was, should be a more significant story. The fact that senior officials gathered in the Situation Room to concoct and coordinate an Epstein coverup IS a significant story, and being treated as such, but in light of all the rest and his behavior throughout, it should be the end of his presidency.

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

The U.S. government just made a land deal with the world's first trillionaire. Not a sale. A trade.

Because apparently that's how we do things now.

715 acres of the Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge - built by Congress in 1979 to protect one of the most biodiverse wildlife corridors left in North America - handed to SpaceX.

Endangered ocelots. Aplomado falcons. Piping plovers. Land the Carrizo/Comecrudo Nation of Texas has called sacred since long before there was a United States.

SpaceX built a rocket launch site next door. Then came the explosions. Concrete and metal hurled six miles across refuge land. A 2024 study found that after one launch, every single monitored shorebird nest near the site suffered egg damage or loss. The Fish and Wildlife Service's response was not enforcement. It was a land swap.

FOIA documents show internal planning for this transfer started as early as April 2025 - while Musk was running DOGE and threatening to fire federal workers who didn't justify their jobs to him. The agency developed what they called "the most expedited schedule possible" to get it done.

Part of what's being handed over includes the Palmito Ranch Battlefield - the site of the last battle of the Civil War. A National Historic Landmark. Once transferred, SpaceX can restrict public access whenever they want.

25,000+ people submitted public comments. Most opposed the deal. The government moved forward anyway.

A coalition of tribal and conservation groups filed a federal lawsuit this week to stop it. Because someone has to.

Why are we cutting real estate deals with a trillionaire when we could have just made him pay for it?

#DemsUnited

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Sheryl Crow speaks out after Trump’s UFC 250 event: “To stay quiet means to turn a blind eye. And so I am saying this. What happened last night on the lawn of the White House was disgraceful and void of decency. Powerful, rich people filled the lawn to watch a violent sport that ended with a vile and racist comment. All while the average American cannot afford healthcare, gas, and cost of living. Do not be fooled. This administration is corrupt and does not give a damn about the American people. It only cares about making money hand over fist at the expense and in spite of our democracy. If we continue to support this kind of distraction from reality, we are no better than them. Let's be better, America.”

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

How the fuck do we have $300 billion to rebuild Iran after we spent $80 billion bombing it, when we don’t “have the money” for pediatric cancer research?

[Jo @JoJoFromJerz]

So, Trump is gonna give Iran $300 billion to open a strait that wasn’t closed, so long as they promise not build a nuke they didn’t have?

Do I have that just about right?