Tom 🧨⭕️

Bears, Cubs, Phish

[Amy Klobuchar @amyklobuchar]

With $300 billion, we could end homelessness, fund cancer research for 40 years, and give every child free pre-K for over 7 years. Instead, Trump is sending it to Iran. This is not America First. Not even close.

[Tom 🧨⭕️ @TomTom4208]

@RobertBurns82 Who pays for events like this? Why would NC taxpayers want our money spent on a party in DC?

[Tom 🧨⭕️ @TomTom4208]

@RepLuna Sure would be cool to focus on a healthcare plan or like, making life more affordable.

[Tom 🧨⭕️ @TomTom4208]

@atrupar Hopefully Hassett will just lie and smirk his way straight to prison.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.

More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.

And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.

Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.

The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.

Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.

We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.

https://t.co/4MGFzSseFl

[PBS News @NewsHour]

Starting this month, more than 900 deep-sea ocean sensors will be pulled out of the Pacific and Atlantic oceans off the coast of Washington, Oregon, Alaska, North Carolina and Greenland. https://t.co/jmm86WQNcY

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

President Trump has no public events on his schedule again today. That means it has now been one week since he has appeared publicly for anything besides a pre-taped interview. His last public event was his cabinet meeting last Wednesday, one day after his trip to Walter Reed.

[Tom 🧨⭕️ @TomTom4208]

@Acyn Yes, compensated with jobs, healthcare and affordable costs of living! @RonJohnsonWI

[Tom 🧨⭕️ @TomTom4208]

@DrunkRepub Trump isn’t talking to anyone. Just making shit up day to day. Waiting for Bibi to say it’s ok to end this “war” or the American economy implodes.

[Tom 🧨⭕️ @TomTom4208]

@RepMcDowell https://t.co/OaVFlsZ4UK

Kinda like this? How come you won’t call out your hero for the same behavior?

[Andrea Junker @Strandjunker]

No snark, I genuinely don’t get it. Trump is one of the least masculine, most juvenile public figures out there. He’s needy, whiny, defensive, terrified of strong women, and visibly intimidated by powerful men.

How does his base spin this into the ultimate “strongman” image?

[Tom 🧨⭕️ @TomTom4208]

@atrupar

[Cassie Clark @dogwoodblooms]

🚨HEAD’S UP, NC🚨

Why are power bills going up? I can tell you why in NC.

Duke asked the North Carolina Utilities Commission to approve an increase to customer’s costs by 15% over the next two years.

But why?

Try this on for size: Duke Energy has a net profit of $5B! Yet they expect us to pay for a new fleet, diversified portfolios, coal ash cleanup, solar panels, and a storm reserve.

That’s right. The increase in our cost isn’t for better service. It’s so that they can keep up their profit margins AND expand to rake in even more of our hard earned dollars.

Why are we subsidizing a company’s growth and funding their capital investments?

And is the NCUC going to approve this pay increase?

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

United States tax revenue: $2.66 trillion

Proposed Iran refund: $300 billion

$300b/$2.66 trillion = 0.11.

11% of your federal taxes will be going to Iran.

[Tom 🧨⭕️ @TomTom4208]

@Acyn California has the most people of any state too. So this would make sense. Todd is just an idiot

[Tom 🧨⭕️ @TomTom4208]

@Acyn So nothing is actually happening?

[Tom 🧨⭕️ @TomTom4208]

@RepMcDowell You are doing such a great job in Washington. Check these stats since you started 🙄

https://t.co/YOOr5AmuLq

[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

Economy then vs now:

GDP growth:
2024 2.8%
2026 1.6%

Inflation:
2024 2.9%
2026 3.8%

Wages:
2024 rising faster than inflation
2026 rising slower than inflation

Unemployment rate:
2024 4%
2026 4.3%

Jobs added per month:
2024 >120,000
2026 76,000

Jobs vs Unemployed:
2024 7.6 million job openings vs 6.9 million unemployed
2026 6.8 million job openings vs 7.2 million unemployed

National Debt
2024 $35.5 trillion
2026 $39 trillion

Deficit
2024 $1.8 trillion
2026 CBO projection $2 trillion

Uninsured Americans:
2024 27 million
2026 CBO projection 30 million

Gas prices per gallon:
December 2024 ~$3.00
Today $4.43

[Tom 🧨⭕️ @TomTom4208]

@MollyJongFast Where is JD and his fraud task force?

[Heather Long @byHeatherLong]

This is stunning.
Personal savings rate April 2025: 5.5%
Personal savings rate April 2026: 2.6%

That's a sharp plunge.
It underscores how squeezed Americans are right now with higher prices and incomes not keeping up.
Maybe you can explain some of this away by Baby Boomers retiring, but not all of it.