lisa graves

keeping a handle here against impersonating marauders, but putting my posts over where the sky is blue, at thelisagraves

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

When both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal call out Trump’s Iran deal as a U.S. defeat, that’s telling.

[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?

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

Was Trump’s slush fund meant to pay cop-beaters back? Or as an advance? 🤔

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

My friend Jamie Raskin is one of the most careful and principled people in Congress. So when he says the director of the FBI may be running a taxpayer funded slush fund, I pay attention.

Here is what he found.

Kash Patel directed more than $1 million in bonus payments to a small circle of agents in his inner circle and on his security detail.

Some were getting nearly $8,000 every two weeks on top of salaries that were already maxed out at the federal ceiling. A number of them collected close to $40,000 over consecutive pay periods.

The payments came so fast that the FBI’s bonus reserve accounts ran dry and some checks bounced.

So who got the money?

Agents on Patel’s so-called "director’s advisory team."

That is the unit created in 2025 and described internally as a payback squad, built to dig up dirt on the law enforcement officials who investigated Trump and his allies.

Raskin has given Patel until June 29 to account for every payment, every recipient, and any internal review of whether this was even legal.

Patel should answer for all of it.
https://t.co/HZPeRJ2Kqg

[Joyce Alene @JoyceWhiteVance]

Sounds a lot like skirting the constitutional prohibition on involuntary servitude by paying $1/day & claiming that immigration detains volunteered to do that https://t.co/t903IYRALd

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! MS NOW confirms Trump's FBI Director Kash Patel used over $1M in taxpayer funds to illegally reward a secret "Payback Squad" of loyalist agents.

Rep. Raskin reveals they were paid to carry out unlawful orders and cover up Patel's misbehavior!

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Serial child molestor Adam Hoffman has officially been added to the Nebraska sex offender registry based on his charges in Texas.

This comes after Ken Paxton’s plea deal failed to register him as a sex offender in Texas and let him back on our streets.

[YallNuckingFuts @YallNuckingFuts]

@JoJoFromJerz And we will tear it off everything as soon as he’s gone.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

In the USA in 1943 they produced a film 'Don't be a Sucker' about fascism.

It perfectly explains Nigel Farage, Donald Trump, Elon Musk and the entire Right.

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

Hold the fuck up. Hold up.

Those are Honor Guards?

I'm literally flabbergasted. The disrespect is off the charts.

Just fucking wow.
#DemsUnited

[💙Brittney💙 @AZ_Brittney]

OMG! I’m laughing so hard! 😂

This is a much watch if you are anti-Trump!

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Prominent Rep. Jamie Raskin exposes a horrifying reality.

He confirms Donald Trump mass pardoned 97 violent criminals, including a man who went on to sexually assault two children.

The administration is actively protecting the most depraved predators!

[Ronald Kelly @RonK3l]

🚨 SHAMEFUL ERASURE! This corrupt Trump administration ordered the Air Force to scrub the historic achievements of Retired Col. Nicole Malachowski — the FIRST female Thunderbird pilot in 2006! 🔥😡

Pete Hegseth's DEI purge is wiping out documented military history to feed fragile egos. Her legacy is NOT a political slogan — it's FACT! Stop the cover-up!

[Barry R McCaffrey @mccaffreyr3]

A disgrace.

[Lesley Abravanel 🪩 @lesleyabravanel]

Trump called the Epstein files a hoax. Meanwhile, his White House held Situation Room meetings over what might come out. JD Vance was in the room. Blanche was in the room. Put them under oath. On camera. Now.

[Scott Dworkin @funder]

🚨 RED ALERT: Trump nominated his former personal lawyer, Todd Blanche, to run the entire DOJ permanently. A single Republican "no" vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee can sink this nomination. Tell your Senators to vote NO right now: 👇 https://t.co/3UI42ydYSq

[Nathan J Robinson @NathanJRobinson]

Instead of discussing how Elon Musk is now the world's first trillionaire, we should talk about how he killed hundreds of thousands of people through his dismantling of food and medical aid to poor countries
https://t.co/8kY171r5w1

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

.@JamesTalarico: There's been a lot of talk in this race about what it means to be a real man.

Recently on the campaign trail I told the story of my adoptive dad, Mark Talarico. Every Saturday morning, he would mow our lawn, and then without anyone asking him to, he would go next door and mow our neighbor's lawn because she was a widow. My dad never talked about it — he just did it, because that's what a man does.

A man takes responsibility, upholds his commitments to his family and his neighbors, and does what's right, even when no one is watching.

Here's what real men don't do. They don't lie and cheat their way through life, sell their soul to the highest bidder, or steal from other people in order to enrich themselves. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

I welcome this debate about what it means to be a man, and I don't think Ken Paxton or Ted Cruz are in a position to tell anybody what a real man is.

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

Live your life so people don’t celebrate when they take your name off things

[Sheldon Whitehouse @SenWhitehouse]

We choose Earth.