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This is a must watch / listen and why people need to get out and vote blue in 2024.
On July 17, the NYT published an article that EVERY AMERICAN should read, but given itās behind a pay wall, who better than Rachel Maddow to explain exactly what the right, under the direction of the Heritage Foundation is cooking up and saying out loud.
Anyone who might have doubted my post yesterday claiming that if Dems lose next year itās all over, need to listen and learn about
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The end of democracy as we know it. Itās real, itās their plan and they are betting the house on it. This is why they are creating a blizzard of disinformation and misdirection to undermine trust in government.
#DemsAct #DemVoice1 #wtpBLUE #ONEV1 #FAM46
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Republican Senator Rick Scott built a fortune running the company that committed, at the time, the largest health care fraud in American history, then walked away with roughly ten million dollars in cash, three hundred million dollars in stock, and a cushy consulting deal while his company pleaded guilty to fourteen felonies and paid one point seven billion dollars in fines. He pleaded the Fifth Amendment seventy five times under oath and never faced a single criminal charge. Now heās Trumpās guy who sits in the United States Senate writing health care policy and lecturing the country about Medicare fraud.
You canāt make this stuff up.
Hereās what you need to knowā¦
open.substack.com/pub/mitchtā¦
Lindsey Graham dying is like eating out a restaurant and being sent a free appetizer because our entrƩe is taking too long.
Red Ford retweeted
A brand new bridge between Detroit and Canada is finished and ready to open. It would speed up traffic for millions of trucks, cut delays for American businesses, and help the auto industry that employs people in every state. There is just one problem.
Donald Trump wonāt let it open.
Here is why.
The family that owns the old bridge stands to lose business when the new one opens. So in January, they gave one million dollars to a pro-Trump super PAC.
Weeks later they met with Trumpās Commerce Secretary.
He called Trump.
Hours after that, Trump announced he would block the new bridge. The opening was set for June 12. It got canceled the day before. The bridge sits there finished and empty.
Now here is the part that should make every taxpayer angry.
Canada paid for the entire bridge.
Every dollar. And the United States already owns half of it for free. Trump is holding up a bridge we got for nothing, to protect a donor who wrote him a check, while picking a fight with our closest ally and biggest trading partner.
This is corruption in plain sight.
A billionaire pays, and the President delivers. American workers and businesses pay the price.
Open the bridge. A government should work for the people, not for whoever writes the biggest check.
nytimes.com/2026/02/20/us/poā¦
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BREAKINGš· A woman donated $1 million to Trump's super PAC. Three weeks later, her son a convicted tax criminal was pardoned. His pardon application literally mentioned her donation.
Her name is Elizabeth Fago. Her son, Paul Walczak, had pleaded guilty to federal tax crimes. The pardon application filed on his behalf explicitly cited his mother's million-dollar donation to MAGA Inc. as a reason he deserved clemency. Trump signed the pardon. Walczak walked free and was relieved of more than $4 million in restitution he owed.
That is one entry on a donor list of 58 people who gave a million dollars or more.
MAGA Inc., Trump's super PAC, has now raised over $305 million since the 2024 election five times more than any presidential super PAC in history at this stage. The Brennan Center called it "completely unprecedented." Ninety-six percent of it came from donors giving $1 million or more. Sixty-two percent from those giving $5 million or more. This is not a grassroots operation. It is a pay-window.
Here's what the donor list actually shows.
Crypto.com's parent company, Foris Dax, gave $30 million ā while it was under SEC investigation for allegedly trading unregistered securities. The SEC investigation was quietly dropped in March 2025, two months after the donation.
The Winklevoss twins gave $1 million ā also while their crypto platform Gemini was under SEC investigation. That investigation was dropped in February 2025.
Energy Transfer, the Texas pipeline company, and its CEO Kelcy Warren gave a combined $25 million ā while Energy Transfer was actively suing a federal regulatory agency in court.
OpenAI President Greg Brockman and his wife gave $25 million ā as the Trump administration was actively shaping AI policy in Silicon Valley's favor.
Then there are the appointments. Benjamin Landa gave $5 million then became Trump's ambassador to Hungary. Kelly Loeffler and her husband gave $5 million she now runs the Small Business Administration. Warren Stephens gave $2 million now ambassador to the United Kingdom. Jared Isaacman gave $2 million now NASA administrator.
And Isabela Herrera, a 25-year-old self-employed financial consultant whose only prior political donation was $20 to Pete Buttigieg in 2020, somehow contributed $3.5 million to MAGA Inc. Her father a Venezuelan billionaire facing federal bribery charges was pardoned by Trump in January 2026. Campaign Legal Center has filed a formal complaint with the FEC alleging she was a straw donor for her father.
This is not dark money. This is public record.
Every dollar, every favor, every pardon. Filed with the FEC. Sitting in plain sight.
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Red Ford retweeted
MAGA should never be told that a convicted pedophile and his circle of elite friends raping girls when they are 14 or 16 years old is a Democrat hoax.
And I still canāt believe I had to fight President Trump to release the Epstein files, and to this day no one has been arrested or held accountable.
This was what killed MAGA.
I donāt have Trump Derangement Syndrome, I have Trump Disappointment Syndrome.
Red Ford retweeted
MAGA found 34,000 dead people on voter rolls and screamed FRAUD. What they didnāt tell you: ZERO of them voted.
Dead registrations ā dead people voting.
This is a known manipulation tactic-give you a scary number, hide the part that proves nothing happened. Donāt be played.
The Supreme Court is compromised. Future Democratic governments, need to address this. Expand the court?
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson didn't invoke Weimar Germany as a rhetorical flourish. She cited a specific scholar by name in a footnote: Ernst Fraenkel, a Jewish labor lawyer who observed the Nazi legal system from the inside, smuggled his manuscript out of Berlin in 1938, and published "The Dual State" at the University of Chicago in 1941.
Fraenkel's framework is precise. The Nazis didn't immediately collapse Germany's legal system. They left courts functioning - particularly in contracts and economic matters - while placing Jews and political enemies in a separate lawless zone where no legal protection applied. Most Germans lived in the law-bound "normative state." The targeted lived in the "prerogative state." The facade of normalcy was the mechanism of control.
Jackson invoked Fraenkel to name what the court's Republican majority is doing in real time. In 21 consecutive shadow docket cases, the six conservative justices have let Trump opt out of the law - often with no explanation given at all. They blessed ICE racial profiling without citing a single legal justification. They allowed Trump to ignore $4 billion in congressionally appropriated foreign aid. They stripped lower courts of the ability to issue universal relief, meaning only those with resources to file individual lawsuits get protection from illegal presidential action.
Constitutional law professor Evan Bernick put it plainly: "The court is adjusting the law to make place for arbitrary power."
Jackson's dissent is not hyperbole. A footnote citing a 1941 manuscript about Nazi legal architecture is a Supreme Court justice blowing the cover on what her colleagues are building.
The scam big beautiful bill does nothing but benefit millionaires and billionaires and corporations.
ā¼ļøTHE RESULTS ARE INā¼ļø
The results of the Big Beautiful Bill are in and they are NOT GOOD for the working class.
- Middle class earners paid an average of $900 more in federal taxes.
- The top 1% received $117b in tax cuts - annually.
- Foreign investors have saved $32b taxes.
- Corporate taxes have been slashed by $234b , or $1.7t over the course of a decade.
- The bill adds $4.7t in federal debt over the next ten years.
Red Ford retweeted
visits the pope ā pope dies
leads Iran negotiations ā talks collapse
flies to Hungary to prop up OrbĆ”n ā OrbĆ”n loses in a landslide
Manās got a streak.
Trump doesnāt believe in God. #FakeChristians
šØ The Pentagon summoned the Popeās ambassador to a closed-door meeting and threatened him.
Named official. On record.
Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby called Cardinal Christophe Pierre to the Pentagon and delivered this message:
āThe United States has the military power to do whatever it wants in the world. The Catholic Church had better take its side.ā
Then a U.S. official invoked the Avignon Papacy ā the 14th century moment when the French monarchy used military force to physically remove the Pope from Rome and bend the Church to its will.
The Vatican understood the reference immediately.
The Popeās planned visit to America for the 250th anniversary celebration was cancelled.
And then something remarkable happened.
The Pope didnāt retreat. He pressed harder. He called the war unjust. He called Trumpās threats unacceptable. He told Americans to call Congress.
This morning, I asked President Trump if heās okay with the Iranians charging a toll for all ships that go through the Strait of Hormuz, he told me there may be a Joint US-Iran venture to charge tolls:
āWeāre thinking of doing it as a joint venture. Itās a way of securing it ā also securing it from lots of other people.ā
āItās a beautiful thingā
THIS. All of this.
Florida has been controlled by the Republican Party for 30 years. Republican have run all 3 branches of government here in Florida for 3 decades.
So serious question for my fellow Floridiansā¦ā¦
If you are concerned with the homeowners insurance issues we have, the over development of our state, the rising cost of living, the education system not operating to the best of itās ability, and the healthcare system deficiencies we haveā¦ā¦.
Why do you continue to elect the same people that led us here?
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š®š·š“š² Iran is building a permanent toll system for Hormuz and deciding who pays and who doesn't...
Tehran reportedly plans to jointly administer the Strait with Oman, charging $2 million per vessel.
Oman gets a seat at the table as a reward for its mediation efforts and geographic position along the waterway.
But the real story is in the exceptions.
China sails through free.
Pakistan gets 20 tankers. Iraq was declared a "brotherly country."
And days ago, an Egyptian vessel carrying food reportedly passed without paying a cent, a political gesture thanking Cairo for its role in mediation.
Iran is rebuilding the strait as a loyalty program.
Friends transit freely. Mediators get rewarded. Enemies pay or don't pass at all.
The parliament already codified this into law.
The IRGC has the enforcement capability. And Oman's involvement gives it a veneer of international legitimacy.
The U.S. went to war partly to prevent Iran from ever having this kind of leverage over global energy.
Six weeks later, Iran has more control over Hormuz than at any point in its history, and it's institutionalizing that control while the bombs are still falling.
Source: NYT
Medial: @A_M_R_M1
šØš®š· Iranian oil is now more expensive than Brent crude...
Read that again.
For decades, sanctioned Iranian crude traded at a $10-12 discount because buyers needed compensation for the legal risk of touching it.
Dark fleet tankers, fake manifests, ship-to-ship transfers off Malaysia.
Then the U.S. waived sanctions on already-loaded Iranian cargoes to cool global prices.
The discount collapsed overnight from -$12 to zero.
Then it kept going.
Iranian Light crude is now trading at a $1-2 premium above Brent.
Sanctioned oil trading above the global benchmark has essentially never happened before.
The reason is scarcity.
The waiver only covers oil already on tankers.
With Kharg Island under threat and Iranian export infrastructure being bombed, these may be the last legal barrels of Iranian crude available for months.
Asian refineries calibrated specifically for this grade of oil are in a bidding war for the final shipments.
Iran is making more profit per barrel than at any point in the last 48 years while maintaining near-exclusive control of Hormuz.
So yes, the country being bombed "back to the stone age" is selling its oil at a premium the stone age never imagined.
Source: @Spectator_MENA
