dfellows @dfellows

Billionaires who want to rig the rules to screw you are trying to buy this election. Don’t let them.

InteractivePolls @IAPolls2022

2 weeks ago

NYT: Elon Musk quietly drops $276M on GOP midterms—$158M alone to Senate super PAC in one of the largest political donations ever. Biggest known donor trying to save Republican majority nytimes.com/2026/10/12/us/…

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This guy right here voted against lowering prescription drug costs *19* times.

Mike Rogers @MikeRogersForMI

a month ago

Pharmaceutical companies are ripping us off. In the Senate, I’ll take on big Pharma, insurers, and hospital monopolies to put Michiganders first.

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More Trump corruption! Trump commuted the prison term of David Gentile, founder and former CEO of GPB Capital after he served only 12 days of a 7 year prison sentence. This was a $1.6 billion fraud case that harmed 10,000 people. 🤬 …eintellectualistofficial.substack.com/p/trump-frees-…

For Republicans, this is called an INCONVENIENT FACT.

Consider this:

I have to say something there. There is a clip circulating WILDLY among conservative commentators and right-wing pundits of a woman who spoke this morning at a press conference with myself and Abdul. She had never spoken at a press conference before. Beforehand, she shared with me that she was really nervous. But she told me it was important for her to be there as a UAW member because she believed in using her voice for her fellow members and for working families. Doing something new is HARD. And scary. She started speaking and got stage fright. What you can't see in the video is that under the podium, she reached back. When I saw it, I grabbed her hand. Abdul did as well. We both stepped forward to stand with her. But the way you all are tearing her apart. God forbid anyone ever step out of their comfort zone. God forbid anyone ever try. It's callous, cruel, and it's no wonder why so many people absolutely despise this moment that we're in. Because God forbid you're not perfect. God forbid you show fear. God forbid you mess up. I am always proud to stand with people using their voice even when they're scared, for trying something new, for stepping out of their comfort zones. We need a lot more of her - people wanting to use their voice even when it shakes - and a lot less keyboard warriors who could care less about how needlessly cruel they are if it means getting a like or a retweet or some views.

Trump and his family gained their present wealthy by a) accepting payments from persons and entities seeking favors from the US government; b) selling tokens rapidly revealed as worthless; and c) moving markets by use of office and trading on advance knowledge of those moves ...

President Trump is timing personal stock trades around government actions. The President also just recently pocketed $15.5 million from recent trades in oil stocks. Trades that he made after his own Iran War decisions sent oil profits soaring. This is on top of the thousands of stock trades he’s made in 18 months back in office. It’s shameless self-enrichment and it should be illegal. People who use their government jobs to get rich should pay severe legal and financial penalties. We have a bipartisan bill to do just that. forbes.com/sites/zacharyf…

A Texas man was charged with repeatedly sexually abusing a child. Ken Paxton offered him a plea deal of 1 day in jail.

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In 2000, Adam Kidan and lobbyist Jack Abramoff bought the SunCruz Casinos gambling fleet for $147.5 million. They didn't have the money. They invented a $23 million wire transfer to convince lenders they'd made a down payment, then used that fiction to obtain a $60 million loan. Both pleaded guilty to fraud and conspiracy in 2006. Both got 70 months. Kidan served less than half and walked out in 2009. The court ordered $21.7 million in restitution, owed jointly with Abramoff to the lenders they deceived. Interest has been accruing since March 2006. There is no indication in Kidan's Miami court file that he ever paid a dollar of it. Among those owed: Aristotle and Alexander Hren-Boulis. Their father, Gus Boulis, the Greek immigrant who built SunCruz and Miami Subs from nothing, was shot dead on a Fort Lauderdale street in February 2001, during the fallout from the SunCruz deal, by a Mafia hitman. A mob associate Kidan had brought into the business later pleaded guilty in connection with the killing. Kidan was never charged in the murder and testified against the men who were. Since 2017, Kidan has given millions to Trump's campaigns, Trump committees, the RNC, the NRCC and Republican candidates nationwide. Over $1.13 million during the 2024 run. Just under $1 million more in this cycle alone. He was married at Mar-a-Lago in 2023 with Trump in the photos, at a club whose initiation fee that year was $700,000. On June 30 he wrote $2,600 to the leadership PAC of Rep. Ryan Mackenzie, a Pennsylvania Republican in one of the country's tightest races, a week after Trump campaigned in his district. On July 3, Trump pardoned him. The felony is gone. The $21.7 million is gone. His name never appeared in the Justice Department's clemency database. He didn't wait in line, because he didn't have to. One week later, Trump denied 5,607 commutation applications and 300 pardon requests. People with no donors, no lobbyists, no Mar-a-Lago membership, who filed the paperwork and waited their turn. Boulis's sons will never collect. Kidan has a clean record. That is the entire pardon system in one file.

The United States extradited a former head of state, tried him in New York, and convicted him of running cocaine into this country with the Sinaloa cartel. 400 tons. Cooperating witnesses testified against the man who had commanded their country's army and police. Merrick Garland called it one of the largest and most violent trafficking conspiracies in the world. Bloomberg called the verdict the capstone of one of the most ambitious narcotics investigations DOJ has ever run. His name is Juan Orlando Hernández. He was sentenced to 45 years. He served 18 months. Trump pardoned him on December 1. He walked out the same day. The announcement came in the same post endorsing a candidate in the Honduran election, days before the vote. Meanwhile this administration is firing missiles at boats in the Caribbean and calling it a war on drugs. The men on those boats never see a courtroom. Hernández got one, lost, and got a pardon anyway.

“An investigation from Nikkei Asia revealed that Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle are carrying $1.65 trillion in debt that doesn’t appear on their balance sheets. That’s in addition to the roughly $1.35 trillion in debt they officially report.” @profgalloway @Bloomberg

Michele Fiore raised $70,000 to build a statue for a Las Vegas cop killed in the line of duty. She spent it on cosmetic surgery, her rent, and her daughter’s wedding. A jury convicted her in two hours. Trump pardoned her before she was ever sentenced.

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Paul Walczak took $10.9M out of his nursing home employees' paychecks: their Social Security, their Medicare, their taxes, and bought a $2 million yacht. Sentenced to 18 months and $4.4M restitution. His mother attended a $1M-a-plate Mar-a-Lago dinner. Twelve days later: full pardon. He never spent a night in prison.

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ProPublica: Trump's FCC Chairman Brendan Carr and fellow Republican commissioner Olivia Trusty received pricey gifts valued at tens of thousands of dollars from Paramount while the company had deals pending before the commission. Among them, Carr and his wife sat in a private skybox at the Kennedy Center with David Ellison and other Paramount and CBS executives that are typically sold for $125,000 a ticket. propublica.org/article/paramo…

Under Trump, U.S. federal debt has surpassed 100% of GDP for the first time since WWII. And it's on track to beat that all-time record by 2030.

The Trump admin has appointed Matthew M. Wielicki to oversee the National Climate Assessment. Wielicki is a climate change denier with zero training as a climate scientist.

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Cyclosporiasis, the parasite causing the current explosive diarrhea outbreak, is at a level 20x higher than its yearly average. This comes just 1 year after the Trump admin removed a cyclospora tracking mandate from the 'Foodborne Disease Active Surveillance Network.'

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Translation: Trump’s Qatari jet is compromised. The whole gift thing was a cover, and the US has a major intelligence failure.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar

4 months ago

Q: But why aren't you flying the new plane home? TRUMP: Uh, it's flying to Europe to one of the big bases where we can show it to the people. And we'll be going home by uh normal methods

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Under Trump, pardons have a price, and criminals know it. Trump has erased a growing number of criminal convictions – and $1.5 billion in penalties and restitution owed to taxpayers and victims – for his donors and friends. My @Morning_Joe Chart