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This is the President, demanding that money obtained for lobbying for a Presidential pardon, go to his library fund - which is his personal fund.
This is corruption.
Corruption, inflation, tariffs, and wars.
That's what Republicans bring us.
nytimes.com/2026/10/29/us/po…
It’s probably a pretty big deal when you’re an unregistered agent of a foreign government and negotiating on behalf of the United States in every conflict zone where we’re involved and a few where we are not.
Jared Kushner was allegedly paid $50 million by a foreign government to get former Secretary of State Rex Tillerson fired. trib.al/7k8xpk4
Robert Rutledge retweeted
Trump in 2018: Seven rallies in final 72 hours of midterm election.
Trump in 2026: 0 rallies in final 72 hours.
Trump has now canceled both rallies he was planning to hold this weekend (Kansas on Saturday & Iowa on Sunday), his advisers tell me & @Kevinliptakcnn
His team argues it’s so he can cover more ground with tele-rallies
He’ll be spending the weekend at Mar-a-Lago after a rally in Daytona Beach, FL tomorrow
So the White House thought it made Trump look good to over-react insanely wildly when asked if he was cancelling rallies because he was sick of travel.
.@POTUS absolutely DESTROYS Fake News @jacobbogage:
"You are a SICK guy! Reuters is terrible, by the way. Look at this guy — he's way out of shape... You are disgusting. Put yourself in shape. You look like hell." 🤣🤣🤣
Robert Rutledge retweeted
Since Trump’s election:
-Musk got $617 billion richer
-Bezos got $144 billion richer
-Page got $127 billion richer
-Dell got $123 billion richer
-Brin got $116 billion richer
How are you doing?
Let’s stop oligarchy. We must create an economy that works for all.
Also - implicit in the Republican outrage of the Dans Sullivan situation in #AKsen is that Republican Alaskan voters are mostly idiots who can't tell the difference between their incumbent and a distractor candidate.
Look at the ballot: Can you see it?
The irony about the Dan Sullivan situation is that #AKsen is the one race where it doesn't have to matter! Voters can rank the Dans Sullivan 1st and 2nd and that solves the problem.
Robert Rutledge retweeted
The irony about the Dan Sullivan situation is that #AKsen is the one race where it doesn't have to matter! Voters can rank the Dans Sullivan 1st and 2nd and that solves the problem.
I don't know why anyone plays US football.
An estimated 75% of former NFL players who died between 2008 and 2023 had chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, the neurodegenerative brain disease tied to high-impact sports such as football, according to a new study.
espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/5031…
We have corruption, tariffs, inflation and war.
Brought to us by Republicans.
Vote early.
Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
Robert Rutledge retweeted
Obama tonight on his Cheesecake Factory line: "They mobilized a whole of government response to that joke. Not to inflation, but to that joke. The White House even called the Secretary of the Treasury. This is the man who is in charge of the economy. The person who's supposed to be figuring out how to make your life more affordable. The guy who's supposed to be figuring out how to lower inflation. And reduce interest rates. They told him he should hold a press conference in front of the Cheesecake Factory."
Republicans spent $183M on anti-trans ads for this election.
There are about 2.8M trans people in the US. That's ~$65 per trans person that they spent to tell everyone that they hate trans people.
Abominable. They should be swallowed by shame.
apnews.com/article/transgend…
Mr. @Kellen_Browning - why does your piece not mention that Alaska uses Ranked Choice Voting in this race, making the strategy of using distractor candidates to "split the vote" impotent?
Or did you not know that?
This is a pointless article without that fact.
SCOOP: Democrats have insisted they have nothing to do with the other Dan Sullivan on Alaska's Senate ballot.
But aides with the Mary Peltola campaign and DSCC were part of a monthslong secret plan to recruit him to run -- as well as other candidates.
nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/po…
GOP whining about "Daniel J. Sullivan Jr." being included on the Alaska US Senate ballot with "Dan S. Sullivan (Registered Republican) Incumbent" is a nothingburger.
Because of Ranked Choice Voting, Dan Jr will be eliminated in the 1st or 2nd round.
nytimes.com/2026/10/28/us/po…
Arsonist not credentialed to burn down the cathedrals he destroyed.
On March 18, 2025, Secretary of State Marco Rubio handed the reins of the US Agency for International Development to Jeremy Lewin, a 28-year-old graduate of Harvard Law School and DOGE affiliate. But USAID HR said he was not onboarded. wired.com/story/a-28-year-ol…
