Lauren

Blatant corruption on full display.

@houlahan.house.gov I appreciate you/your service. Re: the CNN interview this morning, the word schizophrenic was used to describe Hegseth's waffling on 2016 vs 2025 statements. Use of that word is harmful; it perpetuates stigma. Also, schizophrenia involves hallucinations not dual personalities.

Tucked in President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill was a ban on Medicaid funding for health care providers that perform abortion services and receive more than $800,000 a year in Medicaid payments.

It crippled Maine Family Planning.

Also, could someone please pose the question, Who called off Epstein's suicide watch? They knew he was suicidal. Did calling off the suicide watch not factor prominently in his death? They knew he would kill himself. No one had to even touch him to get rid of him.

What is keeping the committee from meeting with Maurene Comey?

Appeals Court Rejects Trump’s Attempt to Fire Fed Governor Lisa Cook Read more here.

🚨BREAKING: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has rejected President Donald Trump’s bid to remove Federal Reserve Governor Lisa Cook. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

SHAMELESS: Donald Trump is slapping his name on infrastructure projects across the U.S. funded by President Biden’s historic 2021 infrastructure law that Trump opposed and tried to derail. (NYT)

CHICAGO!!!!

he literally thinks he is a king. i mean, this entire media blitz for when he signs executive orders is meant to create the impression that they are royal decrees

Maybe Make America Great Again is referring to pre-Revolutionary War.

A man at Trump’s golf club used an American flag as a drape covering for Trump “art,” then wadded it up in front of Trump, and then placed it in a chair behind him.

Trump was so concerned about flag desecration that he didn’t say anything about it.

Trump’s golf outings cost taxpayers millions. Why don’t Republicans cut these trips instead of school lunches?

They (whomever "they" might be) didn't have to have him killed to be culpable in is death. The man was on suicide watch. Removing the watch could be seen as assisted suicide. If the removal was intentionally ordered by someone/s who wanted him dead, that is involvement in killing him.

EPA eliminates its scientific research arm The move to dismantle the Office of Research and Development comes as Trump officials cut the agency’s total staff by 23 percent.

These corrupt, incompetent idiots are going to kill a lot of us wapo.st/4lWdVEE

I’m surprised he didn’t use the auto pen defense. Oh well, live by the Sharpie, die by the Sharpie.

Donald Trump, please, please, please sue. Go for it. Don’t TACO out!!

don't sell your soul, kids, it's not worth it

Klobuchar dined with Minnesota lawmaker just hours before she was killed The Minnesota senator remembers Hortman, a friend of decades, as a "skilled legislator," she told POLITICO.

Sen. Amy Klobuchar dined with Melissa Hortman, a Minnesota lawmaker and decades-long friend, just hours before she and her husband were shot and killed in what authorities are saying was a politically motivated killing.

“I wish everyone had known her like we knew her,” Klobuchar told POLITICO.

Dan Bongino on his new job as FBI deputy director: "It's been tough on the family. People ask me all the time, 'Do you like it?' I say, 'No, I don't.'"

With all that is bringing us hurt in the world, the sounds and sights (and, depending, the feel😬🥵) of nature reliably bring us so much healing. It's right there for you. Go outside. Open a window. Heal.🐦🐿🐞🐛🌴🦚🍃💨☁️🌼🌞🌧

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President Trump, in a blue suit and long red tie, stands in front of a doorway. A headline reads: "Trump’s Plan to Rename the Persian Gulf Infuriates and Unites Iranians." Photo by Eric Lee/The New York Times.

President Trump has floated changing the name of the Persian Gulf to the Arabian Gulf ahead of a trip to the Middle East next week, infuriating Iran and its people. The body of water has been called the Persian Gulf since at least 550 B.C. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/11/w...

The fact that the attorney general's last job before this one was lobbying for the Qataris is a little on the nose.

The Constitution disagrees. The Emoluments Clause, part of Article I, Section 9, Clause 8, bans office holders from taking ANY gifts from foreign countries. There is no mention of quid pro quo. That is because the Founding Fathers knew that even the *appearance* of corruption promotes corruption.

So many layers of corruption.

Just incredible

Hegseth Said to Have Shared Attack Details in Second Signal Chat The defense secretary sent sensitive information about strikes in Yemen to an encrypted group chat that included his wife and brother, people familiar with the matter said.

BREAKING NYT:

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared detailed information about forthcoming strikes in Yemen on March 15 in a private Signal group chat that included his wife, brother and personal lawyer, according to four people with knowledge of the chat.

Ho-ly sh*t!

This is the #HandsOff protest right now in Nanuet in #NY17, sponsored by @indivisrockland.bsky.social.

And this video is of just *one* of the four corners at the intersection where this rally is being held.

There’s got to be a thousand people here.

Never seen anything like this.

The fact that the Department of Justice has not, and will never, launch an investigation into this massive national security breach tells you all you need to know about this lawless and profoundly corrupt Administration.