GOP in a nutshell... #Iran #Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Damn straight it's corruption. Mob Boss. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Murderboats

Trump fits right in.

Ultimately, They want to Deport Americans who Can Legally Vote Against Them….

Trump wants $1.7 billion in taxpayer dollars for a slush fund to pay his allies, including January 6 rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol and beat police. So not only will he pardon criminals who support him, he will PAY them and make the American people foot the bill.

Lawfare? They want to pay people who attacked cops, invaded the Capitol and smeared 💩 on the walls? How about pedophilia? You want to pay someone - pay the victims.

Big day for criminals to get a windfall payout from taxpayer dollars so they can retire early and put their feet up after beating cops and smashing windows to storm the Capitol - orchestrated by Republicans. A transfer of money from hardworking law-abiding citizens to scum.

If JD Vance has real evidence of fraud, by all means, prosecute every last one of the fraudsters. Instead, he’s withholding $1.3 billion in Medi-Cal funding from California.    Prosecuting fraud and withholding care from vulnerable people are not the same thing, and one doesn’t require the other.

And this is why they are so desperately trying to entrench themselves in education and government. They’re hoping to create generations of captive users who have no other choice but to use their tech if they want to read, work, write or think

We keep hearing folks rejecting the warning bells about the trans genocide, saying “it’s not like there’s gas chambers & ovens”. Aside from the reality that the Holocaust didn’t start w/ gas chambers & ovens, this comes from an ignorant understanding of what a genocide is. Let’s talk about it. 1/15

Wait. So banning abortion didn't decrease abortions and it only made them more deadly? WEIRD.

Breaking news from the Axios foreign bureau desk, Berlin, Germany, circa 1938. Intelligence information shared by those close to Adolph Hitler suggest Czech forces might respond to German attempts to seize the Sudetenland. This information could become a pretext for Herr Hitler to invade.

Mike Johnson is a typical Christian Nationalist, full of ahistorical disinformation about the United States. "In God We Trust" was not a motto from this nation's founding. It was added in 1956, at the height of the Cold War, as a Christian Nationalist rebuke to the Soviet Union.

🚨 BREAKING: The Senate parliamentarian struck the GOP provision that would have spent $1 billion in taxpayer money on Trump’s proposed White House ballroom, according to Senate Budget Committee Democrats. The parliamentarian ruled that the provision violated the Byrd Rule.

Xi gifted Trump rose seeds. I bet the not-so-subtle dig went right over Trump's head. 🤪

The hantavirus outbreak on a cruise ship has potentially exposed passengers to a deadly disease. Most returning Americans are now housed in Nebraska. Some may be cleared to quarantine at home. n.pr/4tDnFXU

As part of its news “counterterrorism” strategy, the Trump Administration just announced that they’re coming for “anti-fascists.” Let me say that again: An American presidency is openly declaring war on Americans who oppose fascism... johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/the-trump-...

New data shows Trump will cost the average American family $5,000 MORE this year. People are already struggling. We can’t afford Trump or Republicans. #WeCantAffordTrump

(ABC News) - Grocery prices in the U.S. soared faster in April than any month in nearly four years .. abcnews.com/Business/tom...

Today's cartoon by Chris Britt:

Arizona State University 2026 graduation commencement address by Harrison Ford🙏🏼

Eric Trump joining Donald Trump on an official state visit to China is much more corrupt than anything involving Joe and Hunter Biden, yet New York Times coverage indicates the opposite. I show the contrast here, and challenge anyone to explain how it isn’t media bias in Trump’s favor.

It is an obscene, irrational, irresponsible, and unprecedented massive increase in military spending not seen since 1942 after we entered a World War on two fronts with a small military. It also comes at a time when our national debt accelerates and zooms past $40 trillion.

PATTY MURRAY: Your budget cuts housing. Can you help more families with housing with $84b or $73.5b? SCOTT TURNER: Here's what I'll say. In the previous four years-- MURRAY: Ok. This is the go-to answer for every secretary is to go back to Biden. I'm asking you about your administration

Exactly..

Rest assured, a wealthy Republican CEO in Hawaii is likely to challenge the decision all the way to the Supreme Court, where it is anticipated that the ruling may be overturned by a 6 to 3 vote. This outcome would not be unexpected for many.

This a disgusting abomination. Republicans are going to make hard-working, law abiding taxpayers pay off the thugs and criminals who beat cops on J6 and were convicted of various other crimes. Vote every Republican out of office this Nov. abcnews.com/US/trump-poi...

Pennsylvania, you have the duty to fix this problem. BREAKING: GET HIM OUT! Traitor Senator John Fetterman casts the deciding vote to block an Iran War Powers Resolution.

If they want to investigate Medicare fraud, look at Rick Scott and the rich people he pardoned. wcvb.com/article/trum...

Suspending the gas tax: Dumbest thing I've ever heard of. It will spike inflation. It's treacherous. wrong , and we can't let it happen. Oops, that's what we said when Biden asked for it. Now, we're for it thehill.com/policy/energ...

BURGUM: I'm thrilled Americans are paying about a buck less for gas than they did during the Biden administration. That's exciting HUFFMAN: There's a real disconnect here. Americans are not celebrating this spike in gas prices, and your only answer is to harken back to the depths of the pandemic

HUFFMAN: Do you agree most Americans are struggling right now to afford basic necessities because of rising costs? BURGUM: This administration inherited the highest inflation in 40 years H: Are families struggling w/ rising costs? Yes or no B: During the first yea- H: You're deflecting to Biden

this is very funny because inflation was objectively much worse for both Carter and Biden I have a couple hypothesis but the main one is that people were unhappy with the other two for not doing enough to solve inflation but they are madder at Trump for causing it (tariffs, iran)

Remember when a very particular kind of abundance bro was like "no Burgum is a good pick"

RANDALL: Look at this safety hazard. There's $300m in repairs needed for Olympic Park. Now look at this AI image Trump posted of draining the reflecting pool. Which do you think should be higher priority? BURGUM: We have issues all over the US R: Yes! And you prioritize Trump's vanity projects

Plans to build Australia’s first Trump Tower have been scrapped just three months after it was announced, with the local developer saying the Trump brand has become “toxic.” “Let’s just say that with the Iran war and everything else, the Trump brand was increasingly unpopular in Australia.”

tRump’s Iran war just ballooned to $29 BILLION — up $4B in weeks — while families choke on sky-high gas prices and a shaky ceasefire crumbles. Pentagon won’t even break down the costs or admit the real tab could hit much higher. mcsp.short.gy/6KqK

New: Democrats in the Senate say the easiest way to lower gas prices is to end the war in Iran. But Democrats like James Talarico and Graham Platner support a gas tax holiday or repealing it altogether www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Watch as U.S. senators react to Trump saying he doesn’t think about Americans’ financial situation when making decisions about the war with Iran.

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Today's calls to Congress: 1) Dr. Oz's "one in three Americans are #under-babied." grotesque, white supremacist, snd inaffordability=low birthrates. 2) #IranWar and bypassing #Cingress to suspend #GasTax, jeopardizing the American #economy 3) hell no to $1B #SecurityBunker

Senate Republican leaders plan to turn the political fight over the $1 billion request for security upgrades tied to the new White House ballroom into a referendum on President Trump's safety.

My statement on Georgia Senate Republicans' sham hearing:

Trump's trying to make the Epstein files a Democrat v. Republican thing. They're not. They're a bad men v. innocent girls thing - and it's past time for the bad men to be held accountable.

Water this color reminds me it’s time to flush.

Alabama House speaker said he hopes SCOTUS “will overturn Amendment 14,” the one that made Black people citizens and guaranteed equal protection under law. It wasn’t just a slip. Today’s newsletter. 👉 link.al.com/public/45636...

If Republicans enact their planned gerrymandering, they can lose the popular vote by *4 percent* and *still keep the House.* www.nytimes.com/2026/05/08/u...