Sauce? And proof?

Karoline “Lyin’” Leavitt ain’t exactly a good source…

In 2022, Karoline Leavitt ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in New Hampshire’s 1st district, ultimately losing to the incumbent congressman Chris Pappas. The election loss was, however, not the only setback Leavitt faced. That same year, Leavitt found herself in the middle of a campaign finance scandal. In November 2022, End Citizens United, a non-governmental campaign finance committee, accused Leavitt of illegally accepting donations that exceeded the stipulated limit and never repaid her donors. “Karoline Leavitt continues to prove she’ll do whatever it takes to win this race, even if it means breaking the law,” Tiffany Muller, president of End Citizens United, said at the time.

Three years later, Leavitt admitted to the violation after declaring that her failed campaign owed about $200,000 in refunds to donors who contributed over the legal limits. Leavitt’s admission, however, was met with backlash from social media users who quickly reacted with criticism. “So @karolineleavitt stole the money. Campaign Funding is separate entities for a reason … If she took the money from her campaign funds, then she embezzled it, she stole it, thats a crime. Lock. Her. Up.” one person wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter. “When will we as a country start holding these crooks accountable?” another person questioned.

Karoline Leavitt has made a few false claims as the White House press secretary

Since assuming office as the White House press secretary, Karoline Leavitt has faced backlash for making misleading claims. During her first official White House briefing on January 28, 2025, Leavitt alleged that the Trump administration had blocked the release of millions of dollars meant to fund condoms in war-stricken Gaza. “DOGE and OMB also found that there was about to be $50 million taxpayer dollars that went out the door to fund condoms in Gaza. That is a preposterous waste of taxpayer money. So that’s what this pause is focused on, being good stewards of tax dollars,” Leavitt said in the press conference while defending Donald Trump’s freeze on federal grants.

Leavitt’s comment has, however, been dismissed by several experts given the lack of evidence. “It seems clear to me there was no $50 million in condoms going to Gaza. That is, at best, a mischaracterization,” Matthew Kavanagh, Director of Georgetown University’s Center for Global Health Policy and Politics, told CNN. Similarly, Jeremy Konyndyk, president of Refugees International and a former USAID official described Leavitt’s claim as “total garbage.”

The irony of Leavitt spreading misinformation hasn’t gone unnoticed, especially given her past warnings about holding the media accountable for misrepresenting the Trump administration. But perhaps this is a reminder that those in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones.

Mr. Booker goes to Washingon…

Agreed - I’m somewhat disappointed in the toned down language in the article - “accidentally” is doing a lot of heavy lifting in that headline, and “can’t get him back” should be “refuses to even try to get him back.”

FDR has entered the chat…

but please not that… and oh god, and definitely not that:

Dream a little dream with me…

Don’t let me disturb you, I’m just gonna park these here:

Sorry to hear that. Had amazing experience with mine - been using them for 20+ years - never paid a penny in fees, and they turned off OD protection for me when I opened the account. They even refund out of network ATM charges, and offer cashback rewards on my debit card.

You might have better luck with another union - there’s usually more than one in the area depending on where you’re located.

Find yourself a credit union. It will save you hundreds of dollars in fees, and they won’'t have bullshit rules like this.

And at least 3 out of 5 of those people live in California.

Thank you for the detail.

Some additional context from Snopes as to why this is so important in Oregon especially:

Conner O’Shea told journalists he started running when he saw mysterious, armed people wearing camouflage body armor jump out of an unmarked van as he was walking home from a protest in downtown Portland, Oregon, on July 15, 2020.

But his friend, Mark Pettibone, 29, was unable to escape the group of people in military fatigues that was later identified as a team of federal law enforcement agents operating under a plan by U.S. President Donald Trump to quell demonstrations against police brutality and racism in cities nationwide.

According to Pettibone’s account of the incident — which was later publicized widely in news outlets ranging from The New York Times to Fox News — the officers tossed him into the van and took him to a federal courthouse. There, he said, they held him in a cell for about 90 minutes without explaining for what crimes he was suspected, nor identifying themselves as law enforcement personnel.

His alleged experience, as well as reports of viral videos purportedly depicting similar actions on behalf of federal agents in Portland (which we explain below), outraged critics of the Trump administration in July 2020 — including Oregon and Portland officials who said the federal officers and their militarized tactics were not welcome in Portland and violated the rights of citizens.

Personal reports from a friend of mine on the front lines in Portland corroborate this tactic - the group she was with was followed home by one of the vans described above.

Her mugshot (she had been in the system before) then appeared in a line-up banner of “Antifa Criminals” that started circulating around right-wing websites. As she’s trans, she ended up having to move and go underground because of the death threats.

If you’re in any way part of a population that Trump is targeting, be ready to defend yourself. Remember that once you’re in the system, not only will the cops have your data, but it will be leaked to the alt-right thugs willing to do the dirty work the cops won’t.

If she’s a Berkeley professor, and can pull a head slam like that at 70+ years old, I’d say odds are 80% hippie vs maybe 20% mid 70s punk. Tell me she wouldn’t look right at home at a Grateful Dead concert, or rockin out to the Clash for that matter.

Plus, everyone who’s been to college knows that hippies make the best professors.

Some political context from The Dictator’s Toolkit:

Independent judges are a nightmare for would-be dictators. They have the immense power to overturn the abusive actions of creeping authoritarian regimes by acquitting dissidents of bogus charges, holding regime officials accountable, or upholding free and fair elections.

Because of judges’ essential checking power, authoritarian regimes across the globe regularly attack them. At times, they do this very overtly, like, for instance, arbitrarily sacking thousands and arresting hundreds of judges, as in the case of Turkey after the failed 2016 coup attempt. Yet, more often than not, creeping authoritarian regimes use measures disguised as legitimate or reasonable that intimidate and harass judges or otherwise obstruct their work.

These disguised judicial attacks are particularly popular among “hybrid authoritarian” regimes. These are regimes that democracy and freedom indexes like V-Dem, the Economist, and Freedom House recognize have some elements of authoritarianism but are not fully authoritarian yet — largely because the elections that got them into or maintained in office were “competitive” enough that classifying them as authoritarian was inadequate. Thus, these hybrid authoritarian regimes, such as Hungary, Bolivia, Kenya, or India, benefit from the disguise of this “democratic” legitimacy.

Don’t fuck with old hippies. Half of them have been on the front line of protest action since the 60s, and the other half are Vietnam vets. They will kick your ass.

It directly led to the creation of the Conservation Corps which Roosevelt used to offer jobs to all of the affected veterans, and pulled the country out of the Depression. It was also a big reason Hoover’s presidency was defeated.

In essence, it made America strong enough to weather WWII and decisively end it when the other Allies were tapped out. That’s a change worth fighting for.

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It’s a fucking travesty what this country, and particularly this administration, has done to veterans.

But it’s damn good to see them waking up out of the Fox News bubble and starting to fight back.

Why? Because it was when the veterans began to fight back against Hoover, that the real impetus behind the Conservation Corps and the subsequent New Deal started, and real progressive change began in America.

Here’s your daily dose of Historical Context, the Bonus Army of 1932:

The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates. Organizers called the demonstrators the Bonus Expeditionary Force (B.E.F.), to echo the name of World War I’s American Expeditionary Forces, while the media referred to them as the “Bonus Army” or “Bonus Marchers”. The demonstrators were led by Walter W. Waters, a former sergeant.

Many of the war veterans had been out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression. The World War Adjusted Compensation Act of 1924 had awarded them bonuses in the form of certificates they could not redeem until 1945. Each certificate, issued to a qualified veteran soldier, bore a face value equal to the soldier’s promised payment with compound interest. The principal demand of the Bonus Army was the immediate cash payment of their certificates.

On July 28, 1932, U.S. Attorney General William D. Mitchell ordered the veterans removed from all government property. Washington police met with resistance, shot at the protestors, and two veterans were wounded and later died. President Herbert Hoover then ordered the U.S. Army to clear the marchers’ campsite. Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded a contingent of infantry and cavalry, supported by six tanks. The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned.

A second, smaller Bonus March in 1933 at the start of the Roosevelt administration was defused in May with an offer of jobs with the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) at Fort Hunt, Virginia, which most of the group accepted. Those who chose not to work for the CCC by the May 22 deadline were given transportation home. In 1936, Congress overrode President Roosevelt’s veto and paid the veterans their bonus nine years early.

When veterans get mad and organize, real change can happen. They’re the political group that has the most potential to affect real revolutionary change - they’ve received the military training, they know how to organize, and if need be, they know how to defend themselves.

Get mad. Get angry. Get on the streets and join us to take this country back. Stop letting the GOP fuck you.

Minor note: this is repost of my previous comment on another thread just because I think it’s appropriate here, and I believe that the best way to beat the Nazi / oligarch / GOP playbook is to understand what beat it before. Plus it’s a pain to type it all out again.

Pretty much this:

Trump revoking legal status for 530,000 Cubans, Haitians, Nicaraguans and Venezuelans

It’s like watching a blind monkey try to write with an eraser its own shit.

FTFY

So, who’s gonna tell Lutnick that voter turnout for those age 65 and above is 75%+?

And it’s not like old folks like to complain about things just for the fuck of it, right?

Lutnick and Trump are going to discover why they call Social Security the third rail of American politics.