News Anchor,Twin Cities Local SAG-AFRTA Board Member. Retweets are not necessarily an endorsement 🌈

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Steve Simpson retweeted
This is your daily reminder that Trump and Republicans are spending billions of your tax dollars on an unauthorized war in Iran and Stephen Miller’s ICE agenda while gutting Medicaid, slashing SNAP, and driving up your health care costs.
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FBI shows up to interrogate a U.S. citizen at his house—for writing an anti-ICE social media post. "This is about comments that you posted online," said agent. Orders homeowner to stop recording—refuses to even tell him which comments. Agent wearing unique World Cup uniform to indicate he is currently assigned to work with ICE on immigration issues. Craig Brittain has been actively documenting and participating in protests at the Delaney Hall ICE detention facility in Newark, New Jersey. His social media posts videos of demonstrations, conflicts with agents, and calls for the facility’s closure.
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Hegseth: Nobody makes better or more munitions than the US. Brennan: But there is a crisis with those stockpiles right now. Hegseth: That is a manufactured story that the media wants to peddle. Brennan: You testified under oath that it would take years to rebuild those stockpiles.
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Steve Simpson retweeted
JD Vance pretending that WWII ended with negotiations when A) LOL and B) the whole point of Trump’s ā€œunconditional surrenderā€ demand was a callback to WWII is just so perfect. Maybe he’s been watching his friend Tucker interview WWII ā€œhistoriansā€ too much.
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Steve Simpson retweeted
History will remember the millions of people who died around the world from preventable deaths because of Musk's DOGE cuts. History will remember Musk's enabling, amplifying, and funding of 21st-century fascism across the West.
History will remember Elon Musk alongside DaVinci, Gutenberg, Fulton, Pasteur, Edison, Ford and Jobs. History will have no recollection of any kind of Ro Khanna.
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Steve Simpson retweeted
Former '60 Minutes' staffers sound off on Bari Weiss: ā€œEverything she’s touched hasĀ turnedĀ to shit... And IĀ don’tĀ thinkĀ she’sĀ showedĀ any talent for this position.Ā She’sĀ only fulfilling other people’s agendas.ā€ variety.com/2026/tv/features…
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Steve Simpson retweeted
For decades, Dan Patrick has sold out the poor, the sick, and the vulnerable to enrich his donors. Love feels like blasphemy when you worship power.
Texas Lt. Governor Dan Patrick says James Talarico is ā€œgoing to Hellā€: ā€œI’ve never seen so much blasphemy from anyone running for office… He’s going to Hell, for sure.ā€
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Steve Simpson retweeted
I'm sure all the people who spent years attacking Obama for giving "pallets of cash" to Iran will be just as outraged by Trump telling the UAE to give Iran $10 billion, right?
The UAE has agreed to release billions of dollars to Iran as Iran and the US move closer to a deal to end the war. Two regional sources told Reuters the UAE had agreed to release a total of $10 billion, more than $3 billion of which had already been delivered.
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Steve Simpson retweeted
I'm shocked they haven't deleted this tweet confirming that DOGE cut the funding for the screwworm eradication program. Have the plague you voted for!
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A government agency spending $300 million in taxpayer dollars to produce sterilized flies sounds like a dream scenario for a DOGE team looking to cut waste, fraud, and abuse. newsmax.com/platinum/screwwo…
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Steve Simpson retweeted
JD Vance went to Ohio State then Yale. But clearly not to study history. WW2 did not end ā€˜with some kind of negotiation’.
JD Vance: If you go back to WW2 or every major conflict in human history, they all ended with some kind of negotiation.
Community note
World War II ended with unconditional surrenders by Germany on May 8, 1945, and Japan on September 2, 1945, rather than negotiation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconditi… archives.gov/milestone-docu… nationalww2museum.org/war/topics/end…
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Steve Simpson retweeted
We’ve had few military heroes greater than Chappie James. This is nothing more than rank racism, plain and simple, and utterly despicable and disgraceful to the Office this traitor holds.
Hegseth removed Chappie James's portrait from the Air Force Art Gallery and left the wall empty. James flew 179 combat missions across two wars. First Black four-star general in US military history. Curry passed that portrait every day for a decade. When it came down, he retired. The wall is still empty.
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Steve Simpson retweeted
I want to give you guys some facts about General Chappie James. He wasn’t a ā€œDEIā€ hire—he was a complete badass that had to overcome MORE than any white pilot. Did 178 combat missions—that’s like 7 bomber tours on a B-17 in WWII. His medal count? Impeccable. 3 Distinguished Flying Crosses, 14 Air Medals, Two Legions of Merit, and a Defense Distinguished Service Medal. One of the original Tuskegee Airmen, the first four-star African American General. Hegseth couldn’t sniff the level of soldiering and warrior that was in Chappie’s DNA. God bless him. And Hegseth took down his picture from a hallway like a racist little child, which is what he is.
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Steve Simpson retweeted
I don’t want to jump to conclusions but I’m starting to think he doesn’t like Black people.
Hegseth removed Chappie James's portrait from the Air Force Art Gallery and left the wall empty. James flew 179 combat missions across two wars. First Black four-star general in US military history. Curry passed that portrait every day for a decade. When it came down, he retired. The wall is still empty.
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It’s not about arguments. It’s about facts. I know one great fact about American elections, and I know it because the Republican Party has proved it to me: There is no election fraud of any consequence anywhere in the United States. The Republican Party and its allies, FOR DECADES, have been searching high and low, in every corner of our country, for evidence of election fraud. This effort has been made with vast sums of money and other resources, and with some of the greatest powers in our nation at the party’s disposal: A presidential commission under President Donald Trump. The Department of Justice under President Donald Trump, armed with the resources of the FBI, and the powers of subpoena. Committees of Congress under Republican control, also armed with the powers of subpoena and the investigative resources of the first branch of government. State legislatures under Republican control, also with subpoena powers, have launched similar efforts to find evidence of election fraud. Republican-controlled states have set up special commissions and task forces, some with subpoena powers, all well-funded and with access to the state’s electoral systems. Conservative academics and think tanks have launched projects seeking out evidence of election fraud. Fox News and the rest of MAGA media have dedicated significant resources to finding evidence of election fraud. What is the result of this enormous Republican effort to find election fraud? Ask The Heritage Foundation. For nearly a decade, Heritage has maintained an ā€œElection Fraud Database.ā€ The database contains ā€œproven instances of election fraud.ā€ It covers elections going back nearly fifty years. That’s billions and billions of American votes. Right now, the total number of proven instances of election fraud that Heritage can document is: 1620. That’s an infinitesimal number, vanishingly small, and it is solid proof of two things: 1. Some individuals commit election fraud. 2. There is no evidence at all of systemic or even widespread election fraud anywhere in the USA. The election-fraud panic is the Big Lie of our time. It is peddled by people who know better. Their own investigations over decades demonstrate that. Stop trying to subvert our democracy. šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø šŸ‡ŗšŸ‡ø
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Steve Simpson retweeted
Cool story, Rick. Hey remember when you stole $1.5 billion from Medicare? Because we do.
50 years ago: Healthcare was about $700 a year for a family of four. Now: It’s over $25,000. Cars cost more. Houses cost more. Starting a business costs more. You name it. Why? Because CONGRESS keeps spending money we don’t have and working families pay the price.
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100 percent false.
Trump: "The whole voting system is corrupt in Minnesota. I won Minnesota three times, easily. I won almost every county but they didn't give it to me. It's a corrupt system."
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Trump: "The strait is open. But the straits have been open for a number of months already and you just didn't know about it."
Community note
The claim that the Strait of Hormuz has been open for months with many ships transiting secretly is contradicted by tracking data showing minimal traffic (2-4 vessels/day) since its effective closure in March 2026. hormuzstraitmonitor.com shipfinder.com/special/hormuz
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Steve Simpson retweeted
New Yorkers definitely want a plumber from Oklahoma telling them what to do
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin on Mamdani: "He and I don't get along. It's shameful. And hopefully people in New York will wise up and get a true leader in there in a few years."
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Correct.
Mehdi Hasan: ā€œSome people say Bari Weiss will be fired because the ratings are going down and the chaos. That misunderstands what’s going on here. She’s not there to make CBS win in the ratings. She’s there to make CBS a safe place for Trump and MAGAā€
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Steve Simpson retweeted
ā€œHe’s going to have the most miserable two years of his life in the last two years of his term, I think, because I think November is going to be a disasterā€ - @JohnCornyn
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