Julia M. Payne🇺🇸🦅

“With fear for our democracy, I dissent.”

Donald Trump’s '60 Minutes' interview was heavily edited, despite his previous lawsuit against CBS over alleged deceptive editing. bit.ly/4mV9vQd

NEW: We obtained Palantir’s IRS contract. The documents reveal the huge amount of data plugged into the company’s software and raise concerns about how the government is using the data. The Intercept reported on the records: theintercept.com/2026/04/24/pal…

Meanwhile, while the WHCA dinner attempted shootings made headlines... Former police officer was arrested in Florida with 200 rounds of ammunition and a handgun. He allegedly wanted to kill black people at JazzFest. nytimes.com/2026/04/23/us/…

Trump's '60 Minutes' Interview Heavily Edited, Despite Previously Suing CBS Over Deceptive Editing hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/don…

This is terrible for America - foreign dictatorships owning 50% of the biggest American media companies. But it's good for the Trump billionaires that profit from foreign takeovers of our news, so the FCC will no doubt greenlight it.

If i'm following the congressional GOP position, the ballroom, which was to be paid for with private dollars, will now be paid for with taxpayer dollars in order to, in part, accommodate an event that won't even be held there.

The entire theoretical GOP justification for the reconciliation bill was to provide funding for ICE/CBP because it wasn’t coming in the annual approps process. If it also comes through the normal annual funding bills, then the reconciliation bill supercharges ICE/CBP funding.

the CATO Institute.. a libertarian think tank funded by the Koch brothers.. just published a study showing immigrants paid more in taxes than they received in benefits every single year from 1994 to 2023.. not a left-wing university.. not a Democratic PAC.. the Koch brothers' own research institute.. they reduced the deficit by $14.5 trillion over 30 years.. they earn less per hour but work at higher rates.. which means higher per capita income.. which means higher taxes paid.. the country spent 30 years being told immigrants were draining the system.. turns out they were funding it.. and the people who told you that knew the numbers the whole time

RFK Jr. should be fired immediately.

When @SpanbergerForVA is locked tf in, there is very little you can do about it. She’s delivering up and down the Commonwealth for the benefit of ALL Virginians.

The #WordOfTheDay is ‘boondoggle.’ ow.ly/msI850YMUcb

Imagine if they just let the original investment play out — the jobs created, the money saved on electric bills, the pressure off the outdated grid

These people are so 🦇💩crazy Thought trump already raised $400 million? What does this money pay for? Will every school kid get a new ballroom to hide in too? I’m tired of my taxpayer dollars paying their fealty to Trump

This is one of the people they hired to be an immigration judge; a person who will have to decide on gender-based violence cases.

Ahead of Their Majesties’ State Visit celebrating America’s 250th, we’re highlighting the gardens at the Residence. This Earth Day, Head Gardener John Sonnier shares how sustainable, pesticide free practices keep the grounds ready year-round, echoing King Charles III’s long standing commitment to sustainability at Highgrove. #EarthDay #GreaterTogether #StateVisit2026 #Sustainability #UKUS

He won the Civil War, broke the Klan, went bankrupt at 62, got terminal throat cancer, and wrote one of the greatest books in American literature in the final year of his life. He finished it 5 days before he died. Ulysses S. Grant was born 204 years ago today. His name wasn't even Ulysses S. Grant. He was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio on April 27, 1822. The congressman who nominated him to West Point wrote down the wrong name. Grant kept it. The "S." stands for nothing. He hated his father's tannery and loved horses. Graduated 21st of 39 at West Point. Fought in the Mexican-American War, then came home convinced it was an unjust war designed to expand slavery. He later said he believed the Civil War was divine punishment for it. He married Julia Dent in 1848, into a slave-owning Missouri family. His abolitionist father refused to attend the wedding. In 1859, broke and desperate, Grant freed the one enslaved man he'd briefly owned instead of selling him. He could have gotten a year's wages. In the Civil War he became what no other Union general was: relentless. Vicksburg (July 4, 1863) split the Confederacy in half. Lincoln then gave him every Union army. His Appomattox surrender terms: officers kept sidearms, men kept horses for spring planting, no one prosecuted. As president (1869 to 1877) he did something no president would do again until LBJ: used federal troops to crush the Ku Klux Klan. He suspended habeas corpus in 9 South Carolina counties, prosecuted Klansmen before predominantly Black juries, and broke the first Klan. His presidency was also rocked by scandal: Black Friday 1869. Crédit Mobilier. The Whiskey Ring. Belknap. Grant himself never took a dime. He was just disastrously loyal to corrupt friends. The pattern damaged his reputation for a century. After the White House, he toured the world for 2 years. Dined with Queen Victoria. Met the emperor of Japan. Then in 1884, a Wall Street partner named Ferdinand Ward ran what we'd now call a Ponzi scheme. Grant was wiped out. 62 years old. Penniless. Weeks later he was diagnosed with terminal throat cancer. Mark Twain offered to publish his memoirs. Grant wrote in agony, sometimes 50 pages a day, racing the disease to leave Julia an inheritance. He finished the manuscript July 18, 1885. He died July 23. The book made Julia $450,000, about $14M today. It's now considered one of the finest memoirs in the English language. For decades historians ranked Grant a failure. Since 2000 he's jumped 13 spots in the C-SPAN survey, the biggest rise of any president. Happy birthday, General 🇺🇸

We did! We passed a bill to fund the Secret Service and TSA and FEMA 100-0. If Speaker Johnson would just call it for a vote, it would pass. That’s the problem.

If WaPo is going to print a glowing story on a weather-modification company, it would be useful to mention that the head of that company is a Peter Thiel funded college dropout who brags about how "our guys" from "Thiel's camp" are taking over the government. 1/

NEW: All former Pennsylvania governors released a statement urging lawmakers to ensure Josh Shapiro’s safety after Stacy Garrity, who is Pennsylvania treasurer and the GOP gubernatorial candidate, declined to fund security upgrades for the Shapiro family’s residence. “Last year, Governor Shapiro and his family faced an unspeakable attack while they were sleeping in the Governor’s Residence. Combatting political violence and keeping our elected officials safe should always be nonpartisan and a priority. For us, the attack on Pennsylvania’s First Family was particularly upsetting. In the aftermath of that attack we ask the state’s current leaders and legislators to make the safety and security of the Governor and his family a priority,” they wrote.

The controversial weed killer Roundup is now being deployed in private and public forests at record rates. We go inside the secret plan that helped make it possible. motherjones.com/politics/2026/…