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CJ Karpiak 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
MacFarlane: Some national park service workers are so alarmed, they leaked internal spreadsheets that show where the money is going.
We added the numbers together and found for the white house grounds for the vanity projects, the beautification and the needed upgrades: They've set aside $323 million for this year…
$323 million compared to $7 million for the white house in 2024. That's a 5,000% increase.
National mall has a ten fold increase from 2024 for projects that are the president's priority.
Doesn't mean the money is directly being starved out of Yosemite, Yellowstone, Mount Zion, Grand Canyon. But we checked those parks all have significantly less funding allotted for them this year than they did two years ago, and there's a $30 billion backlog of deferred maintenance
They are going to have to shortchange important projects throughout America to marshal donated money or taxpayer money on things like a reflecting pool, a helipad, a ballroom, and other vanity projects.
CJ Karpiak 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
A reminder on the evolution of 2020 "stolen election" theories: First we had mail-in fraud + Dominion + "illegal law changes" (Nov–Dec 2020) then → Georgia election workers + foreign interference/Italygate (Dec 2020–Jan 2021, concurrent) then → 2,000 Mules (ballot stuffers) (2022) then → social-media-censorship revival via Twitter Files (Dec 2022) then → renewed foreign-interference claims (2024–present).
Through all this, we've had:
1. Dominion getting $787 million from Fox News for defamation
2. Rudy Giuliani admitting he lied about Georgia election workers (and the jury awarding the workers $148 million)
3. Sidney Powell admitting in court "no reasonable person would conclude" her claims of election fraud “were truly statements of fact"
4. The Gateway Pundit retracting claims of election fraud in Atlanta
5. The Media company that put out D'Souza's 2,000 Mules film apologizing and removing it after law enforcement proved it falsely accused people of fraud
6. Newsmax and One America News Network (OANN) settling with Smartmatic
It is NOT true that none of these allegations have seen a court room. Most have. Of the 64 cases of fraud that Trump and his legal team filed in court, 30 were dismissed that included a hearing on the merits, 14 were voluntarily dismissed by Trump and his allies before a hearing, and just 20 were dismissed for lack of standing before a hearing on the merits. One case, involving far too few votes to impact the election, prevailed in Pennsylvania. That case was about voter ID deadlines, not election fraud.
Those are the facts.
Whatever happens Thursday night, please try to remember them.
CJ Karpiak 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
He fought with U.S. Special Forces for a decade. His wife tried to hand ICE his asthma inhaler when they took him. They refused it. Twenty four hours later he was dead, and DHS claims it has no record he ever served.
An Afghan man who worked with the U.S. military for more than a decade, died after just 24 hours in ICE custody—but the release of his death certificate just brings more questions than answers. trib.al/qgZ9NSF
CJ Karpiak 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Read the timeline again slowly. A man who spent a decade risking his life alongside American Special Forces gets picked up by ICE while dropping his kids at school. He complains of chest pain that evening. By morning his tongue is swollen. Within an hour of that, he is dead.
Out of more than fifty deaths in ICE custody under this administration, his is the first ruled an accident. The death certificate has a date on it that predates his own arrest. The county will not release the autopsy that might explain that discrepancy, because ICE asked them not to. That is not how an accident gets investigated. That is how one gets managed.
An Afghan man who worked with the U.S. military for more than a decade, died after just 24 hours in ICE custody—but the release of his death certificate just brings more questions than answers. trib.al/qgZ9NSF
CJ Karpiak 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
🚨BREAKING: ICE agents were caught, on video, entering a U.S. citizen’s home without a warrant, tackling the father to the ground, while pinning down his 15-year-old grandson.
As the family repeatedly told agents they were U.S. citizens, and demanded to see a warrant, the agents ignored them.
The daughter began recording and repeatedly asked to see a warrant, but they refused. She also told agents her father is diabetic, and that the teenager they were restraining was only 15 years old.
The agents continued to arrest both U.S. citizens from their home, without a warrant, eventually releasing the child but taking the father.
The Fourth Amendment prohibits government agents from entering a home without a judicial warrant.
If federal agents can force their way into a U.S. citizen’s home, ignore repeated demands to produce a warrant, and use force without lawful authority, they aren’t just violating one family’s rights… they’re undermining one of the core constitutional principles America was founded on.
A free country depends on the government being bound by the Constitution. If those limits can be ignored without consequences, we are no longer a free country.
CJ Karpiak 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
In Germany, a talented 14-year-old earns his club money. In America, his parents pay the club $15,000 a year.
That single inversion explains why "we will not" is the most accurate line ever written about US soccer.
FIFA built a global system for this. Training compensation and solidarity payments send a cut of every transfer fee back to the clubs that developed the player, from age 12 onward. Develop one future pro and your academy gets paid for a decade. Barcelona's La Masia, Ajax, every Bundesliga academy runs on this logic. The kid is the asset.
US Soccer refuses to enforce those rules. When Seattle's Crossfire Premier claimed its $60,000 share of DeAndre Yedlin's transfer to Tottenham, it got nothing. Claims on the Dempsey and Bradley transfers died partly because the federation couldn't even produce the youth training records.
So American clubs earn zero dollars when a kid turns pro. They earn when a kid enrolls. Which makes the parent the customer, and the product is whatever keeps the parent writing checks: travel tournaments, hotel weekends, $500 showcase events, private training at $100 an hour. Elite pathways run $8,000 to $20,000 a year. A comparable academy spot in Italy costs about 120 euros.
Follow the incentive one level deeper and it gets darker. A club dependent on fees can't cut its weakest paying players, so rosters optimize for retention over development. The scouting pool shrinks to families who can afford the cliff, which appears around age 11, exactly when development matters most. The country runs a talent filter sorted by household income instead of ability.
Every four years someone proposes fixing this. The proposal always requires the people profiting from the $15,000 model to vote themselves out of business.
They will not.
CJ Karpiak 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
We are ten years into allegations of widespread election fraud - only for elections Trump or republicans lose, mind you - for which Trump and allies have either not produced evidence, or claimed evidence which was subsequently debunked. And blatant contradictions - such as celebrating wins under the same laws and practices while confidently declaring theft for any losses - are now the norm.
CJ Karpiak 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
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.
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CJ Karpiak 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
The Trump administration is DISMANTLING the network of buoys that help California monitor for major tsunamis and earthquakes.
Cool.
CJ Karpiak 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
More than 500 personnel of the State Emergency Service have been involved in dealing with the aftermath of Russia’s overnight attack on our cities and communities. The main strike was on Kyiv, where dozens of residential buildings and other purely civilian infrastructure were damaged again. Tragically, four people have been reported killed. My condolences to all their families and loved ones. At this moment, 38 people are in hospitals in the capital, and all of them are receiving the necessary care.
In Dnipro, a search and rescue operation is ongoing at the site of a four-story apartment building. Part of the building was essentially demolished. Nine people were killed in this attack, including a child. Thirty-five people were injured in the city. The fate of six more people remains unknown. The search for them will continue for as long as necessary.
The Russians also struck energy facilities in the Kharkiv region and critical infrastructure in Kharkiv. Kyiv, Mykolaiv, Zaporizhzhia, Poltava, Sumy, Chernihiv, and Khmelnytskyi regions also came under attack.
In total, overnight Russia launched 656 attack drones and 73 missiles of various types at our people – ballistic, cruise, and anti-ship missiles. A large-scale attack and an absolutely clear statement from Russia: if Ukraine is not protected from ballistic and other missile strikes, these attacks will continue. Europe needs its own anti-ballistic defense so that this war can finally be brought to an end. And assistance from the United States in supplying missiles for Patriot systems is absolutely necessary. We are counting on the support of our partners and on effective responses to today’s attack.
And I thank all Ukrainian men and women for not ignoring air raid alerts.
Glory to Ukraine!
CJ Karpiak 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Trump wears tons of makeup, loves interior decorating, his favorite band is the Village People, and he can’t stop talking about how hot guys are. Just an observation.
CJ Karpiak 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Maggie Haberman put Hillary Clinton's emails on the front page of the @nytimes over 140 times. Hillary did not give Maggie Haberman access and Trump did.
I hate the White House press corps. They are not serious people. They are giddy TMZ gossip columnists who are desperate for clicks and likes. Trump gives them access every day when serious presidents do not because they are actually working.
Corporate media is broken.
CJ Karpiak 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
There is no world in which this is okay.
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney.
His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated.
If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself.
This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it.
The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial. A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next.
The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW.
Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do.
notus.org/us-news/samuel-phi…
CJ Karpiak 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
🚨 HOLY SHIT.
A U.S. citizen just testified before the Senate that ICE agents ignored his passport, detained him, placed him on suicide watch, and released him WITHOUT charges or explanation.
Read that again.
An AMERICAN CITIZEN says he showed agents his passport multiple times…
and still ended up locked in a cell under 24/7 lights, stripped naked, wearing a hospital gown while guards watched him constantly.
His family reportedly had no idea where he was.
Then after all of that?
No charges.
No explanation.
Just released.
CJ Karpiak 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Donald Trump Jr takes a financial stake in a company…
3 months later, the Pentagon gives it $620 million…
after Trump’s White House told them to…
And the company’s valuation rose from
$200 million to $2 billion as a result.
This is corruption.
propublica.org/article/donal…
CJ Karpiak 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Donald Trump’s DOJ got caught DELETING a press release about a cop-beater who is accused of buying a child for sex.
Are you angry yet?
CJ Karpiak 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Congress has allowed non-immigrants to adjust their immigration status from within the United States since the 1950s. The framework was designed, in the words of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, specifically to prevent family separation and allow companies to retain employees during visa backlogs.
A USCIS policy memo issued Friday instructs agency officers to treat those applications as "extraordinary relief" - reversing seven decades of statutory law through an administrative directive.
"You can't, through a stroke of a pen, overturn a statute," immigration attorney Todd Pomerleau told ABC News.
The specific trap: Afghan nationals who assisted U.S. forces and received humanitarian parole are being told their choice to apply for permanent residency inside the United States will count as an adverse factor in their own application. The lawyer ABC quoted said it plainly: many of them have nowhere safe to return to.
Some of those Afghan allies processed through Camp Atterbury in Edinburgh, Indiana after the 2021 withdrawal. They followed the legal process. Tonight, that process has been reclassified.
The administration says it is going after criminals. These are the people it is going after instead.
The Trump administration on Friday issued a sweeping policy directive requiring most temporary visa holders and humanitarian parolees living in the U.S. to return to their home countries to apply for and complete their green card applications. abcnews.link/dhpMoI5
CJ Karpiak 🇺🇸🇺🇦 retweeted
Adjustment of status is LITERALLY the legal immigration process created by Congress in 1952, and does not bypass anything. In fact, DHS is in better position to vet than DOS.
Yet another Congressperson who doesn't understand what they are talking about.
.@POTUS is closing yet another loophole the left allowed to fester for years.
Coming to the U.S. temporarily was NEVER meant to become a permanent stay.
No longer will this be exploited to bypass the legal immigration process.