Ginny Armstrong

New study: researchers looked at hospital visits after a coal plant was closed near Pittsburgh
--> immediate 20.5% decrease in weekly respiratory emergency dept visits
--> immediate 41.2% decrease in pediatric asthma ED visits
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40691837/

“Both of them.”

We’re losing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting but worry not, the part-time golfer president is getting a golden ballroom.

If my taxes don’t pave my roads or fix my bridges or keep my schools open 5 days a week or pay local teachers a living wage or help keep my hospital open or help my neighbor’s kid eat lunch or fund public television or my healthcare…

Why the f’ck should I pay taxes?

If I could give myself...or anyone else...just one piece of advice for this week, it would be this: Post, share, retweet, etc. at least 4-6 things related to Epstein and the WH coverup...Every.Day.

#KeepItGoing #EpsteinCoverup

If you’re taking selfies in front of a sign for a concentration camp, I hope your grandchildren see those pictures in history books.

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.

If no one calls out Karoline Leavitt for knowingly lying about Social Security taxes in the bill, then honestly, everyone in that room is failing the public and shouldn't keep their jobs. Accountability matters — truth shouldn't be optional.

BREAKING: Trump admin is releasing three-time felon Jose Ramon Hernandez Reyes and sparing him from deportation in exchange for "testifying" against Kilmar Abrego García. 🤔 Trump is trying to keep this plan quiet. You know what to do.

Preserving CFPB and Public Company Oversight Board Kept some Food Stamp funding and benefits Limited a rule trying to prevent states from regulating AI Eliminated an attack on the judiciary’s ability to enforce contempt Prevented DOJ from punishing sanctuary cities Thwarted Mike Lee’s bid to sell off public lands Combatted several attacks on renewable energy and defeated an effort to exempt offshore oil drilling from the NEPA process Preserved civil service protections for Federal employees Defeated an effort to attack unions Killed a plan to get rid of USPS’ elective vehicles Protected some ObamaCare provisions Exempted existing student loan borrowers from an effort to restrict access Defeated a bunch of attacks on Medicaid Protected Medicaid funding for gender-affirming care Eliminated vouchers for religious schools Killed a tax exemption written just for Hillsdale College Defeated an effort to decriminalize gun silencers

Here's a very partial list of what Dems have succeeded in getting excluded from the Big Ugly via Byrd Rule challenges.

It makes the bill less-shitty and may create a delay Dems can use to exacerbate the unpopularity of the bill.

www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/27/h...

Obama appreciation day

this is a day for those of us who have spent the last six months terminally online. this is for us and honestly, we deserve it.

So many good places in Iowa.... to die.

#raygun www.instagram.com/reel/DKaMWi9...

If someone isn’t parking a TACO food truck outside the White House, what are we even doing with this stupid timeline!?

Media....please, please...go after all of them like this.

Hound them. Go on the offense. Show them running away from you like cowards. Bait them into getting mad. Mock them to get a reaction.

Drop the gloves. Normal is gone.

Get into some GOOD TROUBLE!

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The biggest Nazi concentration camp wasn't in Germany itself. Trump and Bukele aren't special and new, they're shitty and old.

Sure, Kamala Harris would have have preserved our global power and domestic prosperity. But she would have done so as a Black woman.

by Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller

Is this the new " infrastructure week" ?

It's the new "infrastructure week."

DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Codebase In Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse Social Security systems contain tens of millions of lines of code written in COBOL, an archaic programming language. Safely rewriting that code would take years—DOGE wants it done in months.

BREAKING: DOGE is starting to put together a team to migrate the SSA's computer systems entirely off one of its oldest programming languages in a matter of months, potentially putting the integrity of the system—and the benefits on which tens of millions of Americans rely—at risk.

Definitely getting my money the next time I'm in Indy.

WATCH: This is the story you need to start your week. I celebrate 60 Minutes - never miss it. And this is why. Please lift up 60 Minutes for airing this story. @60minutes.bsky.social

www.cbsnews.com/video/marine...

Wikipedia image of Major General (Ret.) Charles C. Rogers

Defense.gov google return: Medal of Honor Monday: Army Maj. Gen. Charles Calvin Rogers

Defense.gov 404 - Page Not Found

https://www.defense.gov/News/Feature-Stories/Story/Article/2824721/deimedal-of-honor-monday-army-maj-gen-charles-calvin-rogers/

This is blood-boiling. Charles Rogers was awarded the Medal of Honor in Vietnam after being wounded three times leading the defense of a position.

Google his name and the entry below comes up. When you click, you'll see the page has been deleted and the URL changed to include "DEI medal."

ProPublica just obtained a remarkable directive to those remaining at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then ... "Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break." The email came from from the agency's acting executive secretary. I asked Kel McClanahan, a national security attorney, if this was legal. He said: "No it is not," citing the Federal Records Act. "Classified records are still federal records."

@propublica.org reporter Brett Murphy with an explosive scoop. This is insanity.