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Patricia

Patricia

@SebastianTCat13

“Those who corrupt the public mind are just as evil as those who steal from the public purse.” Adlai Stevenson. No DMs w/o invite

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Patricia@SebastianTCat13·
@JonathanTurley So they want to include more criminals in their community, and make them feel more welcome?
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Jonathan Turley@JonathanTurley·
I had to check to be sure that this was not a hilarious addition to the Babylon Bee. The Democratic city council of Ann Arbor, Michigan, unanimously voted to order the removal of anti-crime signs in order to be more "inclusive"... foxnews.com/politics/liber…
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Patricia@SebastianTCat13·
@BskiMike22802 @RepJerryNadler No, I did not know the Court cited census data. I do know, however, that Democrats use every opinion they disagree with as justification to pack the Court.
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mike bski
mike bski@BskiMike22802·
@RepJerryNadler "Shivers down the spine of American democracy." I will pause right there. We are not a democracy. We are a constitutional republic. Article IV, Section 4 guarantees "to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government." The word "democracy" appears exactly zero times in the Constitution. Madison warned in Federalist No. 10 that pure democracies "have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention." But please — continue having shivers about a system that does not exist. Now. What the Court ACTUALLY said. Louisiana v. Callais, decided today. Justice Alito, writing for the majority: "Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act was designed to enforce the Constitution — not collide with it." Louisiana was ordered to draw a second majority-Black district or face a Section 2 violation. They drew it. Then a different court said that same district was an unconstitutional racial gerrymander under the Fourteenth Amendment. The state was simultaneously violating the law by NOT sorting voters by race, and violating the Constitution BY sorting voters by race. The majority resolved that contradiction the only logical way: you cannot force states to draw districts primarily based on race, because that is... racial discrimination. Even when Democrats demand it. Here is the part that should really embarrass you. The Court's own opinion cited U.S. Census Bureau data showing that "Black voters now participate in elections at similar rates as the rest of the electorate, even turning out at higher rates than white voters in two of the five most recent Presidential elections." Your own government's data, Congressman. Black voter turnout exceeding white voter turnout. And yet here you are, demanding we keep sorting American citizens into boxes by racial identity because... disenfranchisement? What disenfranchisement, exactly? Justice Thomas said the old interpretation led to legislatures "systematically divid[ing] the country into electoral districts along racial lines — 'black districts' and 'black representatives'; 'Hispanic districts' and 'Hispanic representatives.'" He called it "repugnant to any nation that strives for the ideal of a color-blind Constitution." The conservatives are telling you to stop sorting people by race. You are outraged about that. Quinn's Law 22: Liberals love democracy unless it doesn't go their way. Quinn's Law 26: Liberals like the courts unless the decision doesn't go their way. And your immediate demand to "reform the Supreme Court" — meaning pack it — every single time a ruling displeases you is exactly that. Nine justices. Fixed since 1869. Even FDR's own party killed his court-packing scheme in 1937 because they understood what it meant. You have been in Congress since 1993. Thirty-plus years. What have you actually done for the people you claim to champion? Because the answer your post suggests is: written press releases mischaracterizing court decisions you did not read, and threatened to dismantle any institution that does not deliver your preferred outcome. But what do I know — I am only a science teacher who actually read the opinion, the dissent, and the Constitution, instead of getting my legal education from a party that spent a century drawing district lines to suppress Black votes and now wants credit for drawing them to sort Black votes. IF you agree: LIKE this post so the algorithm shows it to people who need to read it. SHARE this. COMMENT below — did you know the Court cited census data showing Black voter turnout EXCEEDING white turnout? Tell me. JOIN Bski's Classroom community on X or YouTube. @JoJoFromJerz @GuntherEagleman @catturd2 #MAGA #Veterans #Trump
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Rep. Nadler
Rep. Nadler@RepJerryNadler·
Today's Supreme Court decision eviscerates the Voting Rights Act in ways that should send shivers down the spine of American democracy. In this abhorrent verdict, the Court bowed to the wishes of MAGA Republicans and gutted the Voting Rights Act – opening the door for the disenfranchisement of millions of Americans. Now more than ever, Congress must pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act to protect all Americans' fundamental right to vote in free and fair elections and reform the Supreme Court to bring balance back to a court that has skewed so far to the right in recent years that it has lost sight of its fundamental mission to provide equal justice under the law. washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/…
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☘️𝕃𝕦𝕔𝕜𝕪 Ƒʉͫcͧкͭιͪηͣ 𝕄𝕔𝔾𝕖𝕖‎
My favorite part of King Charles appearing before Congress was the part where all the liberals who refused to stand or applaud for Angel Moms or a kid with cancer, and who constantly scream “NO KINGS!” give a 3 minute standing ovation for a literal king. 🙃 What a bunch of disingenuous hypocrites.
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Ageandude
Ageandude@ageandude·
@__Injaneb96 @iranidaturan @SecRubio There are unfortunately no sane, logical and secular people in politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran 🇮🇷, everything in their mind and view is extreme, their 12er Shia Mythology Religion, their Idealogical view, and their World 🌎 view…
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Sana Ebrahimi Ledene@__Injaneb96·
Marco Rubio, @SecRubio, gets the Iranian regime better than almost anyone in Washington, and honestly, probably better than a lot of Iranians themselves. In the whole Trump administration, and maybe in the entire history of U.S. presidents dealing with the Islamic Republic since 1979, I’ve never seen an American politician who actually understands these mullahs this clearly. “The best way to understand Iran is you have a political class. Now, I think… look, people talk about moderates and hardliners. They’re all hardliners in Iran. But there are hardliners who understand they have to run their country and an economy, and there are hardliners that are completely motivated by theology. The hardliners that are motivated by theology are not just the IRGC officials but obviously the supreme leader and the council that surrounds him. And then you’ve got the political class, the foreign minister or the president, the speaker of the Majlis. These guys, they’re hardliners too. But they also understand the country has to have an economy, people have to eat, they have to figure out a way to pay salaries in their government. And so you see tension, and you always have in that system, between the Iranians who understand ‘let’s be hardliners but let’s also balance that with the need to… run our country’ and the hardliners who don’t care and have this apocalyptic vision of the future. Unfortunately, the hardliners with an apocalyptic vision of the future have the ultimate power in that country. That tension is pronounced now that you have a supreme leader…”
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Patricia@SebastianTCat13·
He gets it. Wars and acts of aggression can be negotiated when there’s something that can be offered; territory, raw materials, access to a waterway, etc. But there’s nothing we can offer Iran’s theological leaders. We will not allow them a nuclear weapon, the destruction of Israel, nor the chaos needed to “bring back” al Mahdi. We can only hope that by destroying their economy, the people will rise up and retake their country.
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Patricia@SebastianTCat13·
The left has entered the abyss of moral depravity. Just when you think they’ve reached the bottom, you learn there is no bottom. For the left, no words are too vile, no actions too violent, and no matter how malignant, always justifiable. It borders on psychotic behavior, and yet their minds are sound, which can only mean they possess an abundance of evil. They are the verbal equivalent of Genghis Khan.
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Alec Lace
Alec Lace@AlecLace·
🚨 MUST WATCH: Johnny Carson (a Democrat) opens the 1981 Oscars, a day after the assassination attempt on President Reagan, with genuine class and respect. The entire liberal Hollywood crowd erupts in applause. Today? Jimmy Kimmel jokes about Melania Trump becoming a widow.
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Patricia@SebastianTCat13·
@epaleezeldin @LeeMZeldin @rosadelauro Wow. He’s right. She doesn’t know the law, and she doesn’t care. She’s just using her time to make a political attack, and he exposed her ignorance perfectly.
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Lee Zeldin
Lee Zeldin@epaleezeldin·
Nothing infuriates an uninformed Congressional Dem more than when they realize they voluntarily triggered a debate with someone who actually knows what they are talking about, reads federal statute and adheres to Supreme Court precedent. Today’s self-implosion by @rosadelauro was quite remarkable to witness. Without apology or regret, I will always adhere to the best available reading of federal statute pursuant to the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright.
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Patricia@SebastianTCat13·
@MarkMantis @mazemoore Only about 30% of Americans are on X. And you didn’t comment on the attacks on Musk, or innocent people who just happen to own a Tesla. The real problem is the difference between the anger on the right, and the irrational rage on the left.
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Metal Mark 🇺🇸
Metal Mark 🇺🇸@MarkMantis·
First paragraph - you could’ve stopped there. You badly minimized Trump’s behavior. Ignored right wing media and Twitter behavior… and went right to gaslighting about how awful the left is. For all the awful things said, back and forth - my experience is that right wingers make far more threats. To their credit - they haven’t attacked as much LATELY. And that’s the most important thing, right? It all should stop but that NEEDS to stop. So knock it off with the “your rhetoric is worse than ours” stuff. It’s combat all day on Twitter. Your rhetoric is rotten. People need to not act out. No threats, no violence.
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MAZE@mazemoore·
Trump insults people. Call it unbecoming or unpresidential, but comparing it to what the left has been systematically doing with its rhetoric over the past decade is absolutely ridiculous. The left has a system. They demonize and dehumanize a person (usually by repeatedly calling someone a nazi, fascist or racist) and then set out to convince people that the person is a direct threat to their lives. Every Democrat talking point is geared around painting someone as a threat. Then they preach about the need to resist that evil threat. That's been the entire Democrat platform for a decade now. That's how they attempt to stay in power. Through fear, not popular policies. They do not care about what happens when someone takes the rhetoric seriously. In fact, they use whatever violence results by claiming it was caused by the person who was attacked. Joe Biden declared his candidacy for President in 2019 by claiming that he had to run because Trump wouldn't condemn nazis. It was a complete lie but the MSM played right along. Biden then hit the campaign trail and declared repeatedly that Trump was an existential threat to the world. An existential threat. Sounds pretty serious right? Biden said that America could never survive another four years of Trump, that democracy would collapse because Trump was so evil. That was his entire campaign for President and the MSM backed him up. Gavin Newsom's campaign for President is pretty much the same as Biden's was in 2020. Trump is evil and wants to hurt you so vote for me. By nature, the rhetoric of the left incites violence because every word is geared towards making people believe that someone is a threat to their lives. Eventually, some people will take that rhetoric seriously. "But Trump causes it all." Really? Consider Elon Musk. The left did not like what Elon was doing early last year so what did they do? They called him a nazi and a fascist. They said that he was pure evil. Then daily for months Democrat politicians claimed that Musk was out to hurt people and their families. They told people that Elon was trying to directly hurt them. They accused him of stealing Medicare money and pensions so that he could enrich himself. Think about how ridiculous that was. Still, they repeated it over and over again and they had the help of the MSM. They accused Elon of stealing grandma's money so he could add to his bank account. They accused him of killing people all around the world. Everyday on CNN there was a new BS claim about another 10,000 people somewhere that starved because of Elon. Reminds me of the ubiquitous Covid death counter that magically disappeared when Biden became President. The MSM repeated the Democrat talking point. "Elon is killing people and he's trying to hurt you." Then the protests started. The paid agitators hit the streets and did what they do. People were marching in the streets, calling for Elon's death. I've posted clips of everything I'm writing right now. It's all true. Do people forget the guillotine shirts and posters at the Elon protests? Eventually, some people became so fearful and INSANE that they couldn't even look at a Tesla without trying to destroy it. Same as the reaction the crazies used to have to the red hats. Then the crazies turned on the Tesla owners. They started following them and attacking them. It became a risk to drive a Tesla in a major city. People were wiping feces on Teslas. Think about how insane one has to be to do that. Then people started firebombing Tesla dealerships. They were bombing dealerships. The entire time Democrat politicians and the MSM just kept repeating the lines that Elon is a nazi and he's out to hurt people. Elon was only heavily involved in politics for a few months but if he had continued, somebody would have tried to take his life. Guaranteed. The MSM downplayed the violence. MSNBC and CNN kept repeating the lie that the protests were peaceful. People started claiming that it wasn't just the left, it was both sides. Both sides were doing it. Sound familiar? Then a bunch of Democrat mouthpieces and politicians brought up...you'll never guess...January 6th. "This is no where close to as bad as the insurrection!" I've posted the clips. The late night shows cheered on the violence. Jimmy Kimmel made jokes about it and passively encouraged people to keep attacking Tesla dealerships. The left has a system. They paint people as threats and encourage people to fight those threats. That's the Democratic platform and it's been that way for a decade. It's what Biden ran on and what Newsom is running on. Do not compare it to insulting or ridiculing someone. There is no comparison.
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Cynical Publius@CynicalPublius·
Let me explain the four major differences between leftwing political violence and rightwing political violence: 1. Rightwing violence comes from the fringes of the conservative movement. Leftwing violence comes from the mainstream of the progressive movement. 2. Conservatives rarely encourage or glorify rightwing violence. Progressives routinely encourage and glorify leftwing violence. 3. Leftwing violence is such a common event that we hardly take notice of it unless it involves assassinating a major political figure--think of how routine Antifa/BLM style destruction of our cities has become. Rightwing violence is notable in its rarity. 4. Leftwing violence is often falsely attributed in the mass media to conservative beliefs. The opposite never happens.
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Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley@JonathanTurley·
California is witnessing a form of economic Darwinism where the slowest billionaires are about to be culled from the herd. The Service Employees International Union just announced that it has enough signatures to put the billionaire tax on the ballot... foxbusiness.com/politics/calif…
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Patricia@SebastianTCat13·
I think they view it as a partnership out of necessity. They need radicals to help facilitate the destruction of Western values, whoever they may be, and whatever their motives. So deep is their commitment to kill the West, they’re willing to sleep with the devil to accomplish it.
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Alexia Peterson
Alexia Peterson@alexia_pet·
@AliCologne @GoldsteinBlum Ich glaube das nicht mehr, dass der Westen naiv ist. Weil eine solche Naivität schlichtweg nicht mehr möglich ist. Welche Motive der Westen auch immer hat, es ist das bewusste Zulassen der Zerstörung westlicher Werte, innerer Sicherheit, unserer Kultur.
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Ali Utlu
Ali Utlu@AliCologne·
Warum ich als Ex-Muslim und schwuler Mann echte Angst vor dem Islam habe und warum ihr sie auch haben solltet. Nicht vor einzelnen Muslimen. Sondern vor der Ideologie selbst. Der Islam ist keine Religion wie das Christentum, das sich reformiert und gezähmt hat. Er ist eine totalitäre politische Doktrin, die sich selbst für perfekt und unveränderlich erklärt. Deshalb: Apostasie (Austritt) wird in der Mehrheit der islamischen Länder mit dem Tod bestraft. Eine Religion, die dich nicht gehen lässt, ist ein Kult, keine Religion. Homosexualität wird in 11 Ländern mit Steinigung oder Sturz von Gebäuden bestraft. Frauen haben halben Zeugenwert, halbes Erbrecht und dürfen geschlagen werden (Sure 4:34). Weil sie "unvollständig" sind. Das steht nicht irgendwo am Rande, das steht im Koran und in den Hadithen. Und es wird bis heute in großen Teilen der islamischen Welt so gelebt. Die größte Gefahr für den Westen ist nicht der einzelne Islamist mit Messer, den könnte die Polizei schnell neutralisieren. Die größte Gefahr ist die schleichende Islamisierung durch Demografie, Parallelgesellschaften und den organisierten Druck schon ab 10 % Bevölkerungsanteil. Den erleben wir schon in Schulen, Gerichten, Unis, Medien etc. Wer das leugnet, hat entweder keine Ahnung oder lügt bewusst. Ich habe keine Angst, weil ich „islamophob“ bin, sondern weil ich weiß, wie schnell aus "ein bisschen mehr Muslime" eine Gesellschaft wird, in der Freiheit, Menschenrechte, Frauenrechte und Schwule keine Chance mehr haben. Der Westen muss endlich aufhören, naiv zu sein. Der Islam ist keine Bereicherung. Er ist ein Eroberungssystem, das schon einmal fast Europa überrannt hat. Und er versucht es gerade wieder - nur diesmal von innen.
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Patricia@SebastianTCat13·
Maybe look at the way MAGA reacts vs the way the left reacts. MAGA gets angry, but doesn’t turn to violence. The left gets angry, and burns cities, attacks law enforcement, threatens their families, throws bricks, concrete blocks, and Molotov cocktail bombs, and tries to kill people, sometimes succeeding. They are not the same.
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Jon Favreau
Jon Favreau@jonfavs·
Sincere question: do Trump supporters who genuinely want to reduce political violence actually think that lobbing transparently hypocritical accusations about the left's rhetoric is in any way effective? Are we really gonna go through another cycle where MAGA folks point out incendiary rhetoric on the left without ever acknowledging that some of the most violent and incendiary rhetoric in America comes from the President and his supporters? Do you not think the rest of the country has eyes and ears? It's truly awful that President Trump has been the target of political violence. It's also truly awful how he's frequently talked about his political opponents: accusing them of treason, amplifying calls for their execution, publicly celebrating their death, calling them scum, garbage, vermin, animals. It was like 3 weeks ago that he threatened the annihilation of an entire civilization! It was just a few months ago that he and his White House knowingly smeared two Americans who'd been killed by federal agents as domestic terrorists! I hate political violence. I hate what happened last night. Probably 99% of Americans agree. But let's not insult everyone's intelligence by pretending that the most powerful person in the world isn't a huge part of the problem here.
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Blake Neff
Blake Neff@BlakeSNeff·
The left will simultaneously stand outside an event with signs promoting political murder, hysterically scream about impending fascism, do podcast interviews explaining why political murder is justified, and explain why assassination victims had it coming, then also confidently declare that when one of their own takes them literally and attempts an assassination, that it must be staged.
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Peter Girnus 🦅
Peter Girnus 🦅@gothburz·
I have two stacks on my desk. The left stack is financial disclosure forms from members of Congress. The right stack is waivers for members who filed their financial disclosures late. The right stack is always taller. On Wednesday morning, I watched a soldier get arrested on CNN. I am a Disclosure Analyst for the House Ethics Committee. I have held this position for eleven years. My job is to receive the forms, verify their completeness, and file them. I do not investigate. I do not flag. I do not refer. I file. I have a lanyard. The lanyard says ETHICS. The soldier's name is Gannon Ken Van Dyke. He is thirty-eight years old. He was stationed at Fort Bragg. He was Special Forces. In December, he created an account on a prediction market called Polymarket. On January 2nd, he bet $32,500 that the president of Venezuela would be removed from power. On January 3rd, he helped remove the president of Venezuela from power. He collected $409,881. He has been charged with five federal crimes. Commodities fraud. Wire fraud. Unlawful use of confidential government information. Theft of nonpublic government information. Unlawful monetary transaction. The Department of Justice called it "the first-ever insider trading prosecution on event contracts." I watched this on the television in our break room. Then I walked back to my desk and processed a late financial disclosure from a member of the House Financial Services Committee who purchased $250,000 in bank stocks eleven days before his subcommittee held a closed-door hearing on proposed capital reserve changes. The filing was forty-seven days late. The STOCK Act requires disclosure within forty-five days. The penalty for late filing is $200. I waived it. I waive most of them. In 2021, fifty-four members of Congress and senior staff violated the reporting rules. The fines were minimal. Most were waived. I have a form for the waiver. The form has a box that says "Reason." I write "administrative delay." In ethics, "administrative delay" means the member's office forgot and then remembered when a reporter called. My approval rate is one hundred percent. In any other field, that number would trigger an audit. In mine, it is called thoroughness. Let me show you what I processed this year. January. A senator on the Armed Services Committee sold defense contractor shares worth $1.2 million. Three days later, his committee received a classified briefing that the Iran campaign had exceeded its projected cost by 340%. The stock dropped 8%. He filed the disclosure sixty-one days late. I calculated the fine. $200. His chief of staff asked if it could be waived. He did not ask what the senator traded on. Nobody asks that. The form does not have a field for it. I waived the fine. The senator's portfolio returned 23.4% in 2025. The S&P 500 returned 16.8%. February. A representative on the Energy and Commerce Committee bought pharmaceutical stocks worth $400,000. Two weeks later, her committee advanced a bill that would extend patent exclusivity for the exact drug class she purchased. The stocks rose 14%. She filed on time. There was no fine. There was no investigation. There was nothing to investigate because buying stocks in companies regulated by your own committee is not illegal. It is legal. The STOCK Act made it legal by making it disclosed. In Congress, disclosed means legal. In my office, legal means filed. March. A member whose spouse manages a portfolio worth $9.2 million reported forty-three separate transactions in a single quarter. Twelve of them were in sectors directly affected by legislation the member co-sponsored. The timing on eight of those twelve was within a two-week window of committee action. I logged all forty-three. None were flagged. We do not flag. We file. I asked my supervisor once what would happen if I flagged a filing. She said we do not have a form for that. I never asked again. In 2020, I processed 847 disclosures. In 2023, 1,211. In 2025, 1,614. The number of enforcement actions in each of those years was zero. The numerator changes. The denominator does not. I want to tell you about the soldier again. He made $409,881. He tried to delete his Polymarket account by calling customer service and saying he lost access to his email. He moved his profits into a foreign cryptocurrency vault and then into a new brokerage account. He used his real identity. He placed thirteen bets. Every single one was connected to an operation he personally participated in. In my eleven years, I have processed disclosures from members of Congress who traded on: Pending FDA approvals they learned about in committee. Defense appropriations they voted on. Trade policy they negotiated. Pandemic response measures they drafted. Interest rate decisions they were briefed on before the public. None of them have been charged. None of them have been investigated by the Department of Justice. None of them have been referred to the SEC. The STOCK Act has produced zero prosecutions since it was signed on April 4th, 2012. Fourteen years. Five hundred and thirty-five members. $635 million in trades last year alone. Zero cases. My daughter asked me once what happens when someone breaks the rules. I told her we write it down. She asked what happens after that. I said it depends. She was nine. She is twenty now. It does not depend. Nothing happens after that. The soldier made $409,881 and faces decades in prison. Nancy Pelosi entered Congress in 1987 with a portfolio worth approximately $785,000. It is now worth $133.7 million. That is a return of 16,930%. The Dow Jones returned 2,300% over the same period. Professional fund managers who beat the market for three consecutive years are considered exceptional. She has beaten it for thirty-seven. If a hedge fund produced those returns, the SEC would subpoena the records on a Thursday. She produced them from a building with a chapel and a gift shop. She announced her retirement last year. No investigation was opened. No disclosure was flagged. Her filings were on time. In my office, on time means compliant. Compliant means closed. I want to tell you about the fine. $200. That is the maximum penalty for violating the STOCK Act's disclosure requirements. $200 for a member of Congress whose portfolio gained $4.7 million in a single quarter. I calculated what $200 represents as a percentage of $4.7 million. It is 0.004%. I could not find a comparison that made it meaningful. It is less than the price of the parking pass in the Rayburn garage. It is less than lunch at the members' dining room if you order the crab cakes, which I am told are excellent though I eat at my desk. Since 2012, thirty-one bills have been introduced to restrict congressional trading. I keep a list. The list is longer than the STOCK Act itself. On March 5th, 2026, a representative from Michigan introduced the thirty-second. He called it the "No Getting Rich in Congress Act." The bill would prohibit the President, Vice President, members of Congress, and their spouses from trading individual stocks, cryptocurrency, futures, and commodities while in office. The bill was referred to committee. The committee has not scheduled a hearing. The committee is chaired by a member whose spouse executed $2.1 million in trades last year. The bill will be reviewed. In my office, reviewed means read. Read means acknowledged. Acknowledged means a status has been assigned. A status is the absence of an action that has been given a name so it looks like one. The soldier used classified information to make $409,881 on a prediction market. He has been charged with five federal crimes. The Department of Justice announced the case on the same day I processed three disclosures from members who traded on committee knowledge worth a combined $3.8 million. The difference between the soldier and the members is not what they did. It is the building they did it in. He did it from Fort Bragg. They did it from the Capitol. He used a prediction market. They used the New York Stock Exchange. He bet on a military operation. They bet on the legislation they write. He did not write the law. They did. They wrote the STOCK Act. Then they funded its enforcement at zero dollars. Then they set its maximum penalty at $200. Then they gave my office the authority to waive it. Then they traded $635 million. The soldier flew to Caracas. He breached a compound. He put his body between a mission and a bullet. The people who ordered the operation were in a building with a credenza and sparkling water. They did not go to Caracas. They went to their brokerage accounts. The soldier made $409,881 and is now in federal custody. The people who knew what he was going to do before he did it made more and filed less. His prosecution is not a failure of the system. It is the system. One conviction per decade, at the lowest level, so the briefing slides can say enforcement exists. The $409,881 is not the crime. It is the cost of making $635 million look supervised. In my field, we call this self-regulation. The soldier's Polymarket account has been frozen. His military career is over. He will spend years in federal prison. My office will process every congressional disclosure filed this year. Every trade logged. Every $200 fine calculated and waived. The system is immaculate. Fourteen years. Zero prosecutions. $635 million a year. A 16,930% return. I have not leaked a document. I have not filed a complaint. I have not deviated from the process one single time. The process was written by the people whose forms I process. As long as the disclosures go up and the cases don't, my performance review says I am meeting expectations. My lanyard still says ETHICS. In eleven years, nobody has asked me to define the word.
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Rod D. Martin
Rod D. Martin@RodDMartin·
🚨 I TOLD YOU THEY WERE GUILTY. The noose is tightening on ActBlue — and the Democrats have a massive problem. So bad that top ActBlue officials pled the Fifth an incredible 146 times! ActBlue — the Democrat fundraising juggernaut that poured over $16 BILLION into their candidates and causes — is now exposed for vast illegal foreign donations, money laundering, “election interference,” and illegal straw-donor schemes… followed by a massive cover-up to keep Congress and the DOJ in the dark. House Republicans just released a devastating interim staff report from the Administration, Oversight, and Judiciary Committees. What they uncovered is every bit as bad as I’ve been warning you. Two ActBlue officials, including Alyssa Twomey (their former VP of Customer Service who oversaw fraud prevention during the 2024 cycle), plus three former company lawyers, refused to answer EVEN ONE substantive question under oath. They invoked their Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination a staggering 146 TIMES. Even worse? The report reveals the entire legal and compliance team “appears to have left the platform after the 2024 election because of its ‘knowing and willful’ acceptance of illegal foreign contributions, and the subsequent cover-up.” House Chairmen Bryan Steil, James Comer, and Jim Jordan also allege that CEO Regina Wallace-Wells made false statements to Congress — and that ActBlue withheld subpoenaed documents (some of which were discovered by the leftwing New York Times: ouch!). This is not a fishing expedition, and it won't end in a "strongly worded letter." This is the walls closing in. 1. The DOJ has opened a full criminal investigation into ActBlue’s role in facilitating foreign interference in U.S. elections. 2. 19 state attorneys general are actively investigating ActBlue for fraudulent fundraising, potential money laundering, and misuse of donor identities. 3. On Monday, Texas AG Ken Paxton filed a landmark civil lawsuit against them. The numbers aren’t small. We’re talking thousands of donations from foreign IP addresses using prepaid cards — the perfect vehicle for money laundering. Some of ActBlue's straw donors even "gave" thousands of separate donations EACH over just a few days. Wait, what?! The question is no longer whether ActBlue is corrupt. The question is: how deep does the rot go, and how far up the Democrat food chain does it reach? Serious people could be facing serious prison time. And Democrat fundraising could collapse if they’re suddenly forced to rely only on legitimate donors — especially while the giant taxpayer-funded Democrat slush funds (USAID, NED, EPA, Planned Parenthood, etc.) are being cut off left and right. They thought they were untouchable. They acted like it. Big mistake. Full Deep Dive (with all the receipts) is in my reply 👇 RT if you want real election integrity in 2026.
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A Gene Robinson
A Gene Robinson@AlBuffalo2nite·
Living in the ghettos of Buffalo NY, I’ve read 6 of Thomas Sowell’s books and every single day I watch his detailed truths play out in brutal real time. Fatherlessness. Rampant crime. Abortions. Godlessness. Overdose deaths claiming lives left and right. Metabolic syndrome destroying bodies and futures. setting up future Big Pharma patients. Shattered family dynamics. Entire generations locked into downward trajectories. All of this was predicted with painful accuracy in the Moynihan Report of 1965, written just a couple years before I was born. Trying to make sense of all this. Dr. Sowell has proven it for decades: there are no solutions, only trade-offs. Good intentions and bad policies ignore incentives, family structure, culture, and personal responsibility - and they leave communities devastated while claiming to “help.” This is what the democrats do. This is how they stay in power. How they 'eat'. Ive written two books myself about my observations and studies. They have plausible deniability. This harsh reality is exactly why I do what I do. Happy 95th, Dr. Sowell. Your data-driven wisdom still cuts through the noise and equips people like me to see clearly. #astonegroove
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Jonathan Turley
Jonathan Turley@JonathanTurley·
Page County Democratic Committee had put up a billboard suggesting that Trump is telling voters to say "Yes" on the gerrymandering vote. The move is only the latest example of why the Washington Post denounced the Democrats as pushing gerrymandering in "the most brazenly dishonest way imaginable"...
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Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich@newtgingrich·
The Iranian forever war: while many “experts” worry about President Trump getting us into a “forever war” with Iran the reality is that we have been in a forever war with Iran since 1979 when they seized the American Embassy, held 66 diplomats hostage for 444 days and began chanting “Death to America” while describing the United States as “the Great Satan.” Matt Turpin on substack outlined the history of the Iranian war against the United States: “Over the past five decades, the Islamic Republic of Iran and its proxies killed over a thousand Americans. “There was the truck bombing of the U.S. Marine Barracks in Beirut and killing of 241 American service members on October 23, 1983, the deadliest day for the USMC since Iwo Jima. Those Marines were there as a part of a multinational force that was meant to provide peace and stability during the Lebanese Civil War as Iran sought to use Hezbollah to destabilize the country and the rest of the Arab world, spread its Islamic Revolution, and attack Israel. In March 1984, Iran’s Hezbollah kidnapped, tortured and killed CIA Station Chief William Buckley on his way to work in Beirut and six months later conducted a car bomb attack killing 23, including two U.S. service members, at the U.S. Embassy annex in Beirut. “In December 1984, they hijacked a Kuwait Airlines flight to Pakistan and tortured and killed two U.S. government officials on the flight. In June 1985, they hijacked a TWA flight from Athens to Rome, found a U.S. Navy diver on the flight, tortured him, then shot him in the back of the head and tossed his body on the tarmac in Beirut. In December 1989, they killed U.S. Marine Colonel William Higgins after torturing him for a year. He had been serving on the United Nations peacekeeping force in Lebanon, a mission authorized by the United Nations Security Council. In April 1995, Iran used their other proxy group, Islamic Jihad to conduct a car bomb attack in the Gaza Strip which killed eight, including one American who was likely the target. In 1995 and 1996, Iran conducted a number of attacks in Israel targeting Americans and Israelis resulting in seven Americans killed and more than 100 wounded. Iran used Hezbollah again in 1995 and 1996 to conduct attacks against American service members in Saudi Arabia, killing six in a car bombing in November 1995 and another 19 at Khobar Towers in June 1996. In August 1998, Iran and Hezbollah assisted Al-Qaeda suicide bombers in simultaneously attacking two U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, killing 224 people including 12 Americans. Between 2001 and 2003, Iran and its proxies killed another 13 Americans in Israel. During the Iraq War, Iran was linked to killing at least 600 U.S. troops. This was roughly one in every six fatalities in Iraq. One attack was January 2007, when a dozen men from Iran’s IRGC Quds Force disguised themselves as U.S. soldiers and entered the Provincial Joint Coordination Center in Karbala and killed five U.S. soldiers and wounded three others.” Let’s be clear President Trump is trying to END the 47 year long forever war and forced Iran into peaceful policies. Those who favor being soft on the religious dictatorship are in fact perpetuating the forever war not ending it.
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