Karen Fennell

I compare it to The Hunger Games. Similar to any Toll Plaza in PA or NJ 🥴 When I say that, people relate.

Exclusive | Hegseth Brought His Wife to Sensitive Meetings With Foreign Military Officials The defense secretary’s handling of sensitive information is under fire after he shared details about a strike on Houthi militants in a group chat on a widely used app.

IT GETS WORSE

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth brought his wife, a former Fox News producer, to two meetings with foreign military counterparts where sensitive information was discussed, according to multiple people who were present or had knowledge of the discussions.

New via @wsj.com:

Many People With Disabilities Risk Losing Their Medicaid if They Work Too Much - KFF Health News As politicians demand that more Medicaid recipients work, many people with disabilities say their state programs’ income and asset caps force them to limit their work hours or turn down promotions.

As politicians demand that more Medicaid recipients work, many people with disabilities say their state programs’ income and asset caps force them to limit their work hours or turn down promotions. kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Elon Musk to reporter: “We post our actions to the DOGE website. All of our actions are maximally transparent. I don’t know of a case where an organization has been more transparent than the DOGE organization.”

Here’s the doge.gov website IN ITS ENTIRETY. It’s literally a blank page!

While meeting with the King of Jordan and a visibly uncomfortable Rubio today, Trump now changes his position from yesterday and says the US is not going to buy Gaza, we are just going to take it: “We’re gonna take it, we’re gonna hold it, we’re gonna cherish it.”

WashU Medicine reaches all-time high in NIH funding | WashU Medicine WashU Medicine secured $683 million in NIH funding in 2024, an all-time high that affirms its leadership in shaping the future of medicine.

WashU is the second highest NIH grant recipient, receiving $683 million.

WashU is in St Louis.

St Louis is in a red state.

Afaik red states aren’t included in the judge’s order restoring the allocated NIH funding.

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'Discriminatory!' Republican AG sues Starbucks for becoming ‘more female and less white’ A lawsuit filed by Missouri’s Republican attorney general claims Starbucks is unlawfully using diversity, equity and inclusion hiring practices that ultimately discriminate against its employees. In the lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court, Missouri…

'Discriminatory!' Republican AG sues Starbucks for becoming ‘more female and less white’: A lawsuit filed by Missouri’s Republican attorney general claims Starbucks is unlawfully using diversity, equity and inclusion hiring practices that ultimately discriminate against its employees.

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Smith is a boot licker, plain and simple

Keep up the great work, Rep. Appelbaum!

She helped put a sexual predator back in the Oval Office.

Thank you! We NEED you more than ever!

HB852: Establishes the "Sudden Cardiac Arrest Prevention Act"
Status: Read Second Time (H) 2025-01-14
Sponsor: Jo Doll (D) HD-091

Odin is tired of hearing me yell at the TV during the evening news 🤷‍♀️

Convo with my friend from Hungary tonight who left after Orban’s election.

She said “your head will spin with all the wild stuff they try to pull, new things every day, but don’t take your eyes off the money. It’s all about the money, and what they’re stealing, and for whom.”

The racism is unabashed

One of the few positive articles that I am happy to share!

FBI turns over details of 5,000 employees who worked on January 6 cases to Trump Justice Department, as agents sue | CNN Politics FBI officials have complied with demands to provide the Justice Department with details of thousands of employees who worked on investigations related to the January 6, 2021, US Capitol riot, accordin...

The FBI has turned over to the Justice Department personnel details of 5,000 employees who worked on January 6 cases.

Not for nothing but everyone realizes that these teenagers and 20 somethings who have complete access to the Treasury payment source code are now #1 espionage recruitment targets for Russia and China, right?

Exclusive: RFK Jr.’s Anti-Vaxx Group Paid Nearly $1 Million to Woman Who Accused Him of Sexual Misconduct Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine nonprofit paid a nearly $1 million to a woman who accused him of sexual misconduct, multiple sources told Mediaite.

A woman who worked with the anti-vaccine nonprofit run by RFK Jr. accused him of sexual misconduct and was paid a nearly $1 million settlement as part of a nondisclosure agreement in late 2020, Mediaite reports.
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Donold backed down on tariffs, claimed victory and took credit for things that Biden had already negotiated.

But Canadians will never forget this. He has made a critical error.

You are kidding, right? Since Missouri is a dog hoarder / breeder haven, I *might* be able to connect the dots on dog grooming. But lawn care? OK, all your rich buddies who have contracted out that service will be up in arms about taxing their lawn care! What an absolute JOKE

There is still beauty in this world

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Reminder that the same people pushing for this also say that you can't make college athletes employees because then scholarships would be taxable because they will never care about the cognitive dissonance.

First they came for the immigrants, and you did not speak out, because you were not an immigrant.

Then they came for the trans, and you did not speak out, because you were not trans.

Then they came for porn, and you shouted at the top of your lungs “WTF?! They’re banning porn now?!? Fml.”

Because this is an important bill that needs to be filed and voted on...🙄

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum responded to Trump’s proposal to change the name of the Gulf of Mexico by pointing to a 17th century map of greater Mexico and suggesting a new name for the US.

“We are going to call it América Mexicana. It sounds pretty, no?”

Trump is a global laughingstock. 🤣

Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries tells journalists that they need to contact the Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson to find out why a law requiring a plaque to be installed honoring the police officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 has not been installed.