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Dean retweeted
Taxpayer overpayment of $420M+ for a facility the state declined at $75M is a legitimate story. So is CoreCivicās inaugural donation. But āblatant regime corruptionā that āisnāt a bigger storyā ignores the GAO report already documenting the waste and the fact that Minnesota officials themselves called the markup unexplainable. Scrutiny yes. Selective outrage, no.
Dean retweeted
This is a textbook example of why so many people have tuned out political coverage. Presenting campaign surrogates and a super PAC treasurer as a ābipartisan panel of ordinary Michigan votersā isnāt journalism ā itās stage management. When networks hide those ties, they donāt just boost a candidate; they train viewers to assume every āreal peopleā segment is stacked. Transparency would have been simple. Omitting it wasnāt.
Nothing says confidence in your Senate candidate quite like assembling a fake bipartisan voter panel, filling it with people who have publicly endorsed him, and having Lara Trump introduce them as ordinary Michigan voters.
Four of the five appeared at Mike Rogers campaign events and endorsed him. One was treasurer of a super PAC that raised more than $5.7 million and spent millions backing Rogers and attacking his opponent.
My favorite line:
Acyn wrote, āApparently, they had to use an astroturfed voter panel because it seems they couldnāt find five non-campaign-affiliated voters who actually support Mike Rogers.ā
Fox News apparently forgot to mention those little details.
And they wonder why nobody trusts their news coverage.
Dean retweeted
More likely, heāll just focus on building his wealth and building, building, building.
"Even if Democrats sweep the midterms, Trump will still be president, and his closing act will likely involve trying to tear the country apart. We canāt allow him to do that."
- @Peter_Wehner
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Dean retweeted
Full transparency on the Epstein files matters for every name in them. Reports show a large FBI team (~1,000) handled the overall review and redactions of a massive document set under standard FOIA privacy rules (private citizens at the time, plus victim protections); claims that it was solely to scrub Trumpās name overstate the documented process, and the DOJ has said the review found no criminal evidence linking him. The underlying crimes by Epstein and Maxwell were monstrous, as court records and survivor statements make clear. Release everything that can be released without harming victims so the public can judge the associations themselves.
Dean retweeted
These are the Democrats who take progressive votes and money, then spend their careers blocking the agenda that got them elected ā for donors, for the media, or for their own brand. The base is done carrying them.
Dean retweeted
Younger voters have historically turned out at lower rates than older voters. Looking at this election cycle, what would actually get more high school- and college-aged people to care and participate once theyāre eligible? Better civics education, different candidates, different issues, or something else?
Dean retweeted
The human cost is realāevery service member lost, and every building hit, is a failure of protection, not just accounting. The WSJ data makes clear that Iran has improved its ability to strike where our people live. Continuing without a clearer end-state or honest public accounting of objectives versus results only compounds the damage. Troops and the public both deserve better.
Soldiers dead and wounded. Billions in damage. All for nothing.
And Trump wants to keep going, firing top generals he doesnāt even know and sliming them with accusations when they offer even the slightest resistance.
All while lying to us and enriching themselves.
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Dean retweeted
Whatever happens on Tuesday, vote.
Aliens can wait.
The lottery can wait.
The worst day of your life can wait.
Voting cannot.
Dean retweeted
This isnāt about celebrating Americaāitās about one man planting a 250-foot monument to himself on the edge of Arlington. When the president said the arch was for āme,ā then pivoted to calling it a military complex stocked with snipers, drones, and ammunition to force it past the courts and critics, the bigger picture snaps into focus. Public land, historic sightlines between Lincoln and the cemetery, and even national security become tools for personal legacy. Triumphal arches have always marked emperors' conquests. This one would mark something else.
BREAKING WaPo:
The D.C. government and the state of Virginia just sued to block construction of Trump's planned triumphal arch ā calling it a "flagrantly unlawful" project that will forever change the landscape of the nation's capital. washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/ā¦
Dean retweeted
As a Mainer, I already voted to retire Susan Collins permanently. Thirty years is enough. Maine needs a senator who actually stands with working people, not the status quo. Troy Jackson gets it
Dean retweeted
Senator, the U.S. does pay more for many brand-name drugs. Those lower foreign prices mainly come from price controls that free-ride on American R&D. Importation is a temporary workaround, not a fix. Real progress means more competition and making other wealthy nations pay their fair share.
Dean retweeted
The Pentagon puts Iran war costs at ~$47B so far. Independent tracking of Venezuelan oil funds under U.S. control is around $13Bānot hundreds of billions, and not āmany timesā the cost. The math doesnāt hold.
Dean retweeted
A last-minute Hormuz deal that lets Iran keep nuclear options or regional leverage while we absorb hundreds of wounded and billions in base damage is exactly the kind of face-saving exit Tehran has been angling for. It would be worse than the JCPOA if it trades away the leverage the military campaign created without permanent, verifiable limitsāand the pre-election timing makes the spin almost inevitable. Calling it a āwinā while oil stays elevated and American costs go unmentioned is the real tell.
Trump claims Venezuelan oil is making America HUNDREDS OF BILLIONS.
The Financial Times estimates just $13 billion in gross oil revenue through July. NOT U.S. profit.
And hereās the kicker: THAT MONEY BELONGS TO VENEZUELA. Trumpās own executive order says so.
Meanwhile, Americans are paying higher energy prices, taxpayers are funding the Iran war, American troops have died, and millions of Venezuelans are struggling to survive.
So WHERE IS THE MONEY GOING?
And what gives Trump the legal right to use another countryās oil revenue to pay for OUR war?
Since when did invading countries and taking their resources become Americaās business model?
Dean retweeted
Lavrovās presence in Atlanta is less a āwelcomeā than the unavoidable cost of keeping the G20 functional while Russia remains a major economy and energy player. Diplomacy with sanctioned officials has continued under multiple administrations precisely because complete isolation has never fully severed Moscowās leverageāon energy markets, nuclear risks, or the Ukraine file. The real test isnāt the optics of the arrival; itās whether any of this produces concrete movement toward ending the war rather than simply managing its consequences. Voters can weigh that outcome next week.
Dean retweeted
A quiet but powerful reminder that spiritual leadership and responsible citizenship are not at odds. Grateful for the Holy Fatherās consistent witness to our duty to participate in democratic life.
Pope Leo XIV has voted in the midterm elections of the United States, expressing his ābelief in the right and the duty of citizens to participate in democratic processes.ā
The Holy See Press Office announced on Friday that Pope Leo XIV, an American citizen, "has exercised his right to vote as a United States citizen, whenever he was eligible to do so."
The Press Office confirmed that, āin keeping with this long-standing practice of civic participation, he has submitted his mail-in ballot in Chicago.ā
āThe Holy Father has also confirmed that, during his years of residence in Peru he exercised his right to vote whenever he was eligible to do so,ā noted the statement.
Dean retweeted
Marshall said he was ādoing so well in the pollsā that Trump had better places to be. Latest numbers show him trailing. Now the rallyās back on. Which version is the real one?
A reminder that Trump snapped at a Reuters reporter yesterday for asking why he was no longer going to Kansas.
Meanwhile, Sen. Roger Marshall offered this explanation for why Trump was no longer coming:
āI think Iām doing so well in the polls, heās probably got better places to spend his time.ā
Dean retweeted
As a Mainer, Iām with you. If Troy wins, heāll be my senator tooāand Iāll be watching to make sure he follows through on working for the people, not the usual Washington games. Ready to see the end of the pearl-clutching āconcernā era. Maine deserves better.
Democrat @TroyJackson207, moments ago in Maine:
"I just feel like I'm one of the people right now that knows that this government is broken and it's time to change it. Because we don't have to settle for the scraps that the billionaires want to give us. We don't have to settle for Donald Trump's corruption, chaos, and crimes. And we don't have to settle for Susan Collins' concern anymore. We can have the government that we deserve and the government that works for us... I don't owe the billionaires a damn thing. I don't owe Donald Trump a damn thing. I'm here to work for the people of Maine."
Dean retweeted
Hegsethās āwarrior ethosā is cover for a culture that punishes breakdowns instead of fixing the conditions that cause them. Eight suicide attempts in one strike group should have been a leadership crisis, not an excuse to strip a sailorās future. Impeach him. The next Secretary of Defense should reinstate McKelvey with full benefits and treat mental health as a readiness issue, not a disciplinary one.
BREAKING: Pete Hegseth PUNISHES the poor sailor who jumped off a US Navy ship -- AND his family -- in a heartless show of cruelty and spite!
Nicholas McKelvey was just 19 years old when he reached the end of his rope aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln.
He had spent 255 grueling days at sea, working 12-hour shifts in punishing heat, often without enough food, while his wife struggled to raise their children back home.
He had missed the birth of his baby daughter. His mother-in-law was in treatment for cancer. And when he sought help for his deteriorating mental health, he says the Navy directed him to a chaplain instead of a mental health professional.
Then, one August morning, McKelvey ran across the flight deck and plunged 67 feet into the Arabian Sea.
A helicopter crew rescued him. But instead of treating his desperate act as a mental health emergency, the Navy accused him of FAKING his crisis to escape deployment.
And on Thursday, the Navy moved to discharge him under conditions that will cost him his G.I. Bill education benefits ā the very benefits he and his wife had been counting on to build a better life for their children.
āThey'd rather blame the victim,ā his wife, Samantha Larry, told The NYT.
McKelvey and Larry have been together since middle school. They became parents as teenagers, dropped out of high school and married last year. He joined the Navy in 2024 in hopes of giving his family some sort of stable future.
What he found instead was life aboard an aircraft carrier whose deployment stretched to a near-record 322 days as the war with Iran dragged on. Food supplies dwindled. Contact with home became difficult. McKelvey told his wife he wasn't sure he could finish the deployment.
āI didn't want to be there anymore,ā he told the Times. āIf I was going to die because of it, then that's just how it is.ā
McKelvey was not alone in his existential angst. According to the Navy's own report to Congress, there were EIGHT suicide attempts among sailors in the Lincoln strike group during the deployment.
The Navy maintains that McKelvey deliberately jumped overboard to get out of his duties. Its records note that he wore a flotation vest and jumped when the sea was relatively calm. But one officer acknowledged in a report that the deployment had been so difficult it was āunsurprising that we might have a jumper.ā
Now McKelvey and his wife are preparing to return to Florida with their 3-year-old son and 8-month-old daughter. They're staying with relatives and in temporary rental housing while they figure out how to support their family.
āWe're going to have to pull out student loans,ā Larry said. āIt is essentially setting us up for just putting us in debt.ā
The Navy kept these sailors at sea for nearly 11 months, sent them into a war zone, worked them through punishing conditions and watched their mental health deteriorate. Eight suicide attempts in a single strike group should have set off every alarm in the Pentagon.
Even if every day of that deployment was militarily necessary, the sacrifices these sailors made deserve recognition, compassion and care.
Instead, when one 19-year-old father finally broke, the Navy accused him of faking it and took away the college benefits he had earned his family's hopes on.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth loves to preach his āwarrior ethos,ā but what kind of warrior culture treats a sailor's psychological collapse as a disciplinary problem rather than a human emergency?
McKelvey gave the Navy everything he had until he had nothing left to give. Now the institution he served is sending him home to his wife and two small children with fewer opportunities than he had when he enlisted.
If this is how America repays the sacrifices of its young service members, the Pentagon has a great deal more to worry about than its recruiting numbers.
