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Louisville, Kentucky
Joined January 2011
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“Democracy is the political enactment of a spiritual idea: The sacred worth of all human beings.” —Sen. Raphael Warnock
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Happy Birthday @JohnYarmuth! Hope you enjoy the Blue Wave we got you!
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Given Trump’s belief we can rename things, I’m hereby changing “measles” to “RFK Jr.” because he’s the reason it still exists.
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SCOOP: Republican House candidate Ralph Alvarado is pivoting his message, editing his website to remove Trump mentions and delete a photo of them together.
From “America First Fighter” to “Independent Leadership.”
Trump won KY06 by 15 pts.
nbcnews.com/politics/2026-el…
BEFORE/AFTER
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Don't just do insider trading, monetize it
Truth Social will sell Wall Street firms quicker access to market-moving posts from President Donald Trump, the company said on Thursday.
cnn.com/2026/07/16/business/…
Aaron Yarmuth retweeted
this is jaw dropping. my jaw is dropped. I am having difficulty lifting my jaw back up into closed position.
Truth Social will sell Wall Street firms quicker access to market-moving posts from President Donald Trump, the company said on Thursday.
cnn.com/2026/07/16/business/…
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ICE officer who shot Colombian man in Maine has history of threatening behavior and mental illness, family and court documents say. apnews.com/article/ice-david…
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Update from the reflecting pool! The pool has been drained, and there are no signs of the giant gash that Donald Trump has been lying about. No indications of major vandalism. Just a bad paint job. The only thing that’s been exposed is that Trump has been lying about this.
I believe Scott is letting the “to” in “I spoke to” do a lot of lifting here.
Notably not “spoke with…”
I spoke to my old friend Mitch McConnell this morning, the senior Senator from Kentucky. He’s still recovering in the hospital. We talked for just shy of 20 minutes … about IRAN, UKRAINE, the unfolding situation in MAINE, my visit to the TR Presidential Library, and even a little bit of Senate history. I told him we want to see him back at work as soon as possible.
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More evidence of insider trading based on abuse of power and breach of duty
Investment accounts owned by President Trump engaged in more than 300 previously undisclosed stock purchases on April 8, 2025, one day before his surprise announcement that he would pause a number of his tariffs, his financial disclosure report says. nbcnews.com/business/markets…
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REPUBLICAN SEN. TILLIS: “What Freakin’ parallel universe did I wake up in? You’re telling me — if it’s true — damaging the reflecting pool lining is something Pirro wants to prosecute… yet they’re releasing people who pled guilty to assaulting officers?”
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JUST IN: This Is A Pretty Stunning Observation.
Trump is celebrating a new Iran agreement centered on a commitment that Iran will never obtain a nuclear weapon.
According to ABC's Jonathan Karl, that same commitment appeared in the very first paragraph of President Obama's nuclear deal more than a decade ago.
Think about that.
First came Obama's agreement.
Then Trump tore it up.
Now Trump is celebrating an agreement built around the same core promise.
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"It’s not simply this ocean-monitoring system that’s being dismantled; it’s U.S. science entirely."
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More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group. wapo.st/4o9GMHL
Aaron Yarmuth retweeted
How about releasing your findings to the public so we can see that you are just trying to needlessly create the impression that we have fraudulent elections when we don’t? Which Trump administration job are you auditioning for?
Today, we randomly selected 12 counties for an additional look after last month's primary. We're committed to keeping Kentucky's elections free, fair, and secure.
More here: kentucky.gov/Pages/Activity-…
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Follow the money on this one. It is rotten to the core.
The Pentagon just lent $620,000,000 to a tiny North Carolina startup called Vulcan Elements. The company is two years old.
It had fewer than 50 employees.
And three months before the deal was announced, Donald Trump Jr.’s venture firm quietly took a stake in it.
Here is the part the administration tried to bury.
Of the dozens of companies the Pentagon was weighing, Vulcan was the only deal initiated by a top White House aide. That aide was Peter Navarro, a close friend of Trump Jr. The order came down to move fast.
One official put it plainly: The call came from the White House. We have to get this done.
Staff worked late nights to push it through in weeks. Deals like this normally take many months of vetting. And when it closed, Vulcan’s valuation jumped from about 200 million dollars to roughly 2 billion.
A windfall for the investors, including the president’s son.
This is public money. Your money.
Routed through the Pentagon to enrich the president’s family and their friends. The Bush administration’s own chief ethics lawyer called it corruption we pay for.
And there is more coming.
A drone parts company Trump Jr. holds a stake in is also under Pentagon review.
This is not a one-off. It is a pattern. The president’s family is treating the federal Treasury like a private bank, and the bill lands on every taxpayer.
propublica.org/article/donal…
