Chuck McCullagh
@chuckmccullagh.bsky.social
Author, poet, immigrant, PhD, Navy vet, grandfather. I publish under James C. McCullagh
Lying to Congress is still a crime. Not that anyone thinks Todd Blanche will prosecute it www.congress.gov/crs-product/...
Richard Bellikoff@bellikoff.bsky.social · 6h ago"Democratic lawmakers have asked the Justice Department to consider criminal charges against Energy Secretary Chris Wright, accusing him of lying to Congress about whether blue states were targeted in the termination of $7.6 billion in clean energy grants." www.latimes.com/environment/...
🚨 HAPPENING NOW 🚨 Women's Marchers have been arrested in the Capitol for standing vigil for the people killed by ICE. #AbolishICE llustrations by @channeldraw
It’s bad. Ukraine is still effectively hitting both inside Russia and occupied Crimea almost daily, but Putin (as usual) is targeting population centers instead of legitimate military targets.
In the 1950s we had 700 different chemicals in our food Today we have over 10,000 in our food In Europe, they only have 700 still today. Kelloggs makes the safer Canadian version and the American version. Two different options, same manufacturer. Americans have been sold out sadly.
🧵🧵🧵 A scandal that hardly anyone knows happened is Trump giving traitor Michael Flynn $1.25 million in your tax money. Flynn, Trump’s 1st national security adviser, pleaded guilty twice to lying to the FBI but was pardoned by Trump. He sued, alleging "weaponization," and DOJ paid him in March. 1/4🧵
Justice Dept. Settles Flynn’s Wrongful Prosecution Suit for $1.25 Million (Gift Article)
The agreement was an extraordinary example of how the Trump administration has offered legal relief to those aligned with the president.
nytimes.com
Borowitz: "WASHINGTON—In alarming news for Republicans heading into the midterm elections, a new poll released on Monday revealed that Donald J. Trump is less popular than explosive diarrhea."
This report shows exactly how Wall Street protected Epstein and enabled his sex trafficking for decades. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, BofA Enabled Epstein, Wyden Report Says
Democrat Ron Wyden cited nonpublic documents held by the US Treasury in a report that says banks delayed reporting suspicious financial transactions and calls for tougher anti-money-laundering rules, ...
bloomberg.com
Story of many many Americans lives.. the medical stuff shouldn’t be political But somehow that has become Toxic too????
The military accidentally killed a medevac crew this year, and hardly anyone is talking about it. New Wired reporting says a medevac plane lost GPS during an Army jamming exercise near White Sands. In low visibility, it struck a mountain, killing all four aboard. #SheShed 🧵
Russia just used a cluster bomb in Kyiv Cluster bombs used against civilians is a war crime This has to end Putin has to be “put away” People can only take so much and there is absolutely no reason for this other than Russia are blood thirsty criminals
Your groceries need a hazmat team, but sure, let’s hold another hearing about masks.
It's past time for them to pay taxes. This is just the tip of the iceberg, here's the top three: Kenneth Copeland: ~$300 million to $760 million (Kenneth Copeland Ministries) Joel Osteen: ~$100 million to $110 million (Lakewood Church) Steven Furtick: ~$55 million to $60 million (Elevation Church)
@jamestalarico.bsky.social for Texas US Senate gets it - under his opponent Ken Paxton and Gov. Abbott, data centers are running amok in TX. Talarico has a sensible plan to regulate data centers. Texas, he is the right choice for your next senator, not the corrupt, 15 home owning Paxton.
Haley Stevens is a class act in a new statement endorsing Abdul post-primary
Who would have guessed that Republican senator, Tom Tillis would act cowardly? Can you say ANYONE WITH A FUNCTIONING FUCKING BRAIN?? All Republicans must be voted out! #Blues
Just a note that @jbendery.bsky.social is 100% worth following. Always finds stories like these that matter, and yet are a bit under the radar.
Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 10h agoFormer J6 federal prosecutors are begging senators -- mostly GOPers, but a handful of Dems are in there, too -- to stop confirming election deniers to lifetime federal courts seats. “Please stop poisoning our courts." www.huffpost.com/entry/live-u...
Donald Trump told reporters he feels "badly" for Max Miller, a Republican congressman accused of abusing his wife, and hopes Miller can "work it out." The only thing less surprising than a Republican politician abusing his wife is Donald Trump empathizing with the abuser.
If we can't get the GOP to release the Epstein files, or admit their Senator has died, or prohibit the Trump family from raiding our Treasury, or present the ICE murderers for trial, they aren't going to recognize election losses.
