Joe Trask @trask3rd

WOW! AMERICA DO YOUR JOB: Vote them out. This is why they're terrified of Democrats flipping the House. Rep. Jared Huffman made it clear: America is watching, we demand transparency, and the people are furious. Trump created Freedom 250—a Delaware shell company inside the National Park Foundation—to hide donors and sell access to the presidency. Congress gave $150 million for America's 250th. The real commission got $25 million while Freedom 250 siphoned over $80 million in taxpayer cash. Then the quid pro quo. Lockheed Martin, ExxonMobil, Chevron, Mastercard, United Airlines, UnitedHealth, Oracle, and Palantir—all with billions in federal contracts—paid for access. $500K for a Trump photo. $2.5M for a speaking slot. While they paid, Trump bought their stocks and posted tickers on Truth Social. Palantir jumped 3% in minutes. Up to $24 million in defense stocks while he pushed a $1.5 trillion Pentagon budget. That's insider trading. Freedom 250 CEO Keith Krach flew to Davos asking foreign governments how to "shape America's birthday." Fundraisers allegedly bait-and-switched donors by giving Freedom 250's banking info to people who thought they were giving to the real commission. That's wire fraud. And the Trump family? Eric and Don Jr. own up to 75% of World Liberty Financial. They sold 49% to a UAE sheikh for $500 million four days before inauguration—$187 million straight to Trump's pockets. Kushner's fund got $2 billion from the Saudis. All while deregulating crypto from the Oval Office. This is corruption. This is fraud. This is insider trading. A president who sold America's birthday—and America's honor—for cash.

..y'know when it *never happens? Super Bowl ads, the State of the Union, the morning-shows-ad-cavalcades.. There's something about carefully-crafted comedy that corrodes & loosens modem wires. WT actual F?!? Okay, I'm done--for now. --The Wheezing Geezer /2

While I'm earning the middle-income to afford &1-200/mo. for streaming, a comedian is writing, editing, honing material in tiny rooms with half drunk crowds, but once they're on stage & I'm watching: "Your internet is down. Check your connections, call the help line." But:../1

A video that shows the importance of where you stack things.

Floridians: you can find a sample ballot online to be sure you don't pull *that lever. It looks like the Dems' ad writes itself, just by showing & quoting Lang honestly. Hm. That tactic may be useful in '28, as well.🤔

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Jake Lang was indicted on 11 federal counts for January 6. The government's filing lists sixteen timestamps in a five minute span at which he beat police officers with an aluminum baseball bat, stopping only when a rubber bullet hit his foot. One officer limped for days. Lang

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Remember when we warned that SAVE Act would create unnecessary barriers for eligible voters? The response was always the same: “Just get the paperwork.” Well, Florida is showing us what “just get the paperwork” actually looks like. A Florida woman and Army veteran found that out when she ran into problems getting a REAL ID because she couldn’t produce a marriage record from 50 years ago to connect her name history. Think about that. A citizen and Army veteran stuck because one old document was missing. Now expand that across the country. Millions upon millions of Americans have identity histories that don’t fit into one perfect government record. Marriage, adoption, divorce, immigration, court-ordered name changes, and simple clerical errors all create gaps. The SAVE Act would add more opportunities for those gaps to become barriers. As is being proven in Florida. Republicans have been lying to you.

@KerryBurgess So, "conspiracy to commit insider trading"; sounds to this non-lawyer like a felony..Legal experts? Any thoughts?

..get this on WHYY-FM's app, or other audio feeds, so I suspect it may be a WNYC issue..?? /2

@BrianLehrer @WNYC : Are any other listeners/members experiencing drop-outs during Brian's show? Restarting the WNYC app doesn't always fix it, so I went to the .org website "listen live" button & still get drop-outs of 3-11 seconds..OR maybe it's my phone or home wifi? I don't/1

..had to pull way back. So, I'm basically a lurker who vents, occasionally.. 3. If you decide to unfollow me bcs I'm not holding up my end, or bcs *you're cutting back on your "X"-time, I get it. I'll still repost stuff I feel is interesting or needs attention. Happy scrolling!/2

Quick note to my followers: 1. Thank you! It's humbling. 2. I apologize for not following back; I haven't taken the time to check each of your pages to ensure I *want to follow each of you, & I'm guessing that's basic Twitter manners. This became a rabbit-hole for me, so I ../1

@thecurioustales Time for another mental deep-dive at Einstein's model, because it's not yet my brain's default understanding in my grasp of our solar system & galaxy. Okay, I'm old, but I still ought to get past Galileo in my conceptual sense. Geezer problem, I guess.

@nettermike I'm mangling the quote, but "Disclosure Day"'s Hugo explains to Scanlon that empathy is the *highest step in evolution thus far. We're in an object lesson demonstrating the serious consequences of gov't. leaders & their followers who do not practice-let alone understand-empathy.

..parts of the far right who are *not overtly violent--that is, they may not b0mb or sh0ot people directly, but their policies make life more painful, even intolerable, in their real-world effects on women, girls, minorities, & our most vulnerable fellow citizens. /3

..& if you search 'misogyny ^ "white supremacists" ', you'll find a *lot of scholarly research citing evidence from w-s manifestos & other writings showing this major misogynistic element in their thinking. It's cautionary to consider the anti-women policies proposed by the../2

The largely overlooked role of vitriolic misogyny in the white supremacist belief system, in a deep dive on NPR../1 npr.org/2026/05/27/nx-…

@EdKrassen Canadians don't blame us for wildfires here that send smoke into Canada. they send pilots to help fight them. one recently died fighting a Colorado fire theguardian.com/us-news/2026/j…

@EdKrassen ..Not to mention the blatant hypocrisy of attacking Canada's forest management when this "Administration" has gone to crazy lengths to dismantle our EPA's & Interior's best efforts to manage our forests & protect our air & water. The arrogance defies understanding.

@EdKrassen Just posted about ancient Persian leader Xerxes, who ordered his soldiers to lash the ocean waves because they wouldn't follow his orders..And now this.

As a kid, I learned about Xerxes, the ancient Persian leader who ordered his soldiers to lash the ocean waves because they would not follow his orders..Now I hear of an American leader who wants to charge Canada tariffs because smoke from its wildfires is blowing across the US.🤪