Whitney Lucas

Traveler. Lawyer. Lover of brunch, sports and cute animal stories.

[PoliticsGirl @IAmPoliticsGirl]

Rose garden, colonnade, oval office, East wing, reflecting pool… and now the cherry blossoms? This guy is single-handedly destroying Washington history and the Republicans just keep allowing it. Aren’t they supposed to be conservative??
Conserve something.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

To everyone celebrating the first flight on Qatar Force One today, understand what you are actually applauding.

A foreign government handed the sitting President of the United States a $400 million plane. American taxpayers then paid to retrofit it, with an estimated cost of at least another $400 million (some estimates far higher), for security and communications work in a Texas hangar since last September.

When Trump leaves office, the plane does not stay with the government. Ownership transfers to his presidential library foundation. In other words, he keeps it.

You are being asked to treat pure corruption as normal, to shrug at a President personally profiting from a foreign gift the taxpayers paid to upgrade.

In any other administration this would be the scandal that ends a presidency.

With Trump, it’s Wednesday.
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[Polymarket @Polymarket]

JUST IN: U.S. Department of Transportation reportedly moving to roll back an Obama-era rule requiring airlines to prominently display total ticket prices.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Theodore Roosevelt said the national parks were the greatest gift this country ever gave itself, and the greatest idea we ever gave the world.

More than 100 nations copied it.

Donald Trump looks at that gift and sees a piggy bank for his own pet projects.

This week we learned where our national park money has been going. Not to Yellowstone. Not to Yosemite. To the walkway outside his office, where Trump ripped out American flagstone and laid down Italian granite at a cost of $689,000 to taxpayers. He said he paid for it himself.

That was a lie.

To cover his vanity projects, they are robbing the parks. Spending on parks outside Washington is down $854 million. More than 900 projects went unfunded. They even pulled money from a guardrail on a Colorado cliff that the Park Service flagged as a safety hazard.

I serve on Appropriations.

The power to spend belongs to Congress, not to a king redecorating his palace. These parks are not Trump’s to loot.

They belong to all of us, and I will fight for every dollar.

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

Guess what changed after the supreme courts birthright decision?

Literally nothing. The right is acting like they just fell out of a helicopter and panicing

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

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[Clue Heywood @ClueHeywood]

@EndWokeness what other thing that's been legal for 160 years do you wanna get mad about today

[Alex Vindman 🇺🇸 @AVindman]

My family immigrated to the U.S. to flee communism when I was three — this decision is a victory for every family, like mine, who has ventured to America in hopes of building a new life.

For our nation's entire history, immigrants have made invaluable contributions to the fabric of our country, and this ruling reaffirms a foundational principle of our nation: Citizenship is a constitutional guarantee, not a political bargaining chip.

[Be A King @BerniceKing]

52 years ago today, my paternal grandmother, Mrs. Alberta Williams King, from whom I get my middle name, Albertine, was shot and killed while playing “The Lord’s Prayer” at Ebenezer Baptist Church.

Her life was rooted in faith, music, family, and service. She helped shape my father’s spiritual foundation and poured love, strength, and dignity into our family.

To remember her is to remember that violence does not have the final word. Love, faith, and legacy still speak.

I honor her today with deep gratitude. The music and the memories still live on.

#AlbertaWilliamsKing #MLK #KingFamily #EbenezerBaptistChurch

[Chris “Law Dork” Geidner @chrisgeidner]

BREAKING: The Supreme Court holds that the Fourteenth Amendment protects birthright citizenship, blocking Donald Trump's executive order to end it.

Roberts has the opinion for the court, which is 5-4 on the constitutional question and 6-3 on whether federal law protects birthright citizenship.

[Martín Gallegos @MartinJGallegos]

Batting 7th and playing third base for the A’s tonight: Max Muncy (birthday: Aug. 25)

Batting 7th and playing third base for the Dodgers tonight: Max Muncy (birthday Aug. 25)

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

The most common way people take Jesus’ name in vain today isn’t using his name as a cuss word.

It is putting his name in their bio and then posting slurs and being really hateful online.

[Whitney Lucas @whitneylu16]

@LUFC1992_v2 I love that you guys are fitting in all her HGTV/DIY stuff along with all the soccer (and beer). Very cool trip for the both of you

[Chris Vannini @ChrisVannini]

Algeria fans made a "Thank You Lawrence" banner for their last group game.

Rock Chalk Algeria

[Rev. Benjamin Cremer @Brcremer]

Imagine not wanting the government to infringe on your freedoms as a Christian while simultaneously working to have the government infringe on the freedoms of others in the name of Christianity and refusing to admit the blatant hypocrisy.

[Dr. Annie Andrews @AnnieAndrewsMD]

I am currently playing the license plate game with my kids on the way to drop them at summer camp. So radical.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Elias's comparison is the one worth sitting with. When Bill Clinton briefly boarded Loretta Lynch's plane on a Phoenix tarmac in 2016 and they talked about grandchildren and golf - no documented request, no documented outcome, a conversation - the media treated it as a scandal that required weeks of coverage. Trump stood at a podium in Pennsylvania, described personally calling a federal prosecutor to investigate an election while his preferred candidate was losing, and the Pennsylvania federal prosecutor was sitting in the audience being publicly thanked. Elias: none of the reporters present found this worthy of a question.

The normalization that allows that to happen is not benign. When the president describes using the federal prosecution apparatus to intervene in a state election and it registers as a moment of rally color rather than a constitutional question, the mechanism that would otherwise produce accountability has been eroded. That erosion is itself the story underneath the story.

[Joel Goldberg @goldbergkc]

What a special moment at Rate Field. The Royals and White Sox gathered along the foul lines to cheer on Melanie Marquez as she rounded the bases. The 4-year old is battling brain cancer.

[Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski]

Trump claimed that he was going to personally pay for the new polished African granite walkway carved in Italy he had installed at the WH. But in fact taxpayers paid all $689,232 for Trump’s vanity project.