Lady Playwright

Senate Dems, do not cave. Ensuring healthcare premiums don’t surge is an 80-20 issue. They want to gut the ACA because their disdain for Obama far outweighs their concern for anyone’s health.

Yall, I just dared tell my child he needs to wash his hands EVERY TIME he goes to the bathroom. #Momster

A tweet from Ron Filipkowski reads: “Trump Org’s income in the first half of 2024 was $51 million. In the first half of 2025 it rose to $864 million. A massive percentage came from foreigners. It should be the biggest scandal in the history of American politics. But few even care.” Below the tweet is a Reuters image showing members of the Trump family and associates in suits cheering and raising their fists outside a building with a sign that reads Nasdaq. The caption reads: “Inside the Trump family’s global crypto cash machine.”

I care. I think you do, too. The swamp is now a damn tar pit.

Worth remembering…

When you can’t trust what’s online, remember your local libraries and fight like hell to keep the book burners out of your town

Thou shalt not support a man who bulldozes the White House to build himself a golden ballroom whilst the government is shut down because he doesn’t want the financial records tying him to Jeffrey Epstein to come out.

October is #BreastCancerAwarenessMonth.

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

If not doing bad, why hide face?

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

Only small men wish for war.

How it started // How it’s going

Why Washington Post fired me Read the official termination letter for yourself.

New from me:

There's a lot of misinformation around the reasons I was fired from WaPo.

Here's the official termination letter I got sent by Washington Post.

Read and judge for yourself.

open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Jimmy Kimmel was suspended by ABC after pressure from the United States government. This is a direct attack on the First Amendment.

Everyone who values freedom of speech should be outraged — and they should speak out.

of all the things I am not going to buy, this is the thing I am not going to buy the most

Van Hollen: "Those who cave in -- those like ABC who cave in -- what they do is give the bully an even bigger appetite. When they appease they bully, they put all of us at risk."

Life is crazy, kids. What are y’all doing to stay sane today?

All the actors working for ABC should refuse to show up until Kimmel is reinstated. ABC isn’t a network without the talent.

House votes to charge D.C. 14-year-olds as adults The House also voted to restrict judges from giving lighter sentences to young adults, among 14 D.C. crime-related policy proposals from the GOP.

No 14-year-old should be tried as an adult. None.
www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Comedy. Criticism. Commentary. All protected speech. Pulling Jimmy Kimmel off the air is an outrageous act of censorship.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say.

This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand.

All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

Toxic Gaslighting: How 3M Executives Convinced a Scientist the Forever Chemicals She Found in Human Blood Were Safe Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles wit...

For chemist Kris Hansen, 3M was a family affair; her father was a creator of the company’s N95 face masks.

Yet, after she found 3M’s forever chemicals in human blood, the company repeatedly doubted her work and stopped her research on the chemicals.

(Published May 2024)
By @fastlerner.bsky.social

Jerry leaves Ben & Jerry’s, saying parent company ‘silenced’ activism Jerry Greenfield resigned after 47 years with the company, saying it was “always about more than just ice cream” in a statement co-founder Ben Cohen posted.

Jerry Greenfield, one of the co-founders of the ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s, said he was resigning because parent company Unilever has “silenced” the pair’s core mission of liberal activism.

Mr. President: Operation Warp Speed & the COVID vaccine were a success. As you have stated, they saved “tens of millions of lives.”

Vaccines have also helped eliminate polio, measles and mumps.

Vaccines work. Let us listen to doctors and scientists, not conspiracy theorists.

Tim Walz: "I'll tell you what doesn't make people feel safe -- a tank next to Chipotle. It's stupid and it's for the cameras ... where are the 'don't tread on me' people?"

Kroger will lay off ~1,000 employees.

In December, it announced $7.5B in stock buybacks – which juice stock prices, enriching shareholders and boosting CEO pay.

Just so happens that Kroger's last CEO was paid 457x its typical employee in 2024.

Textbook corporate greed.

An apology is insufficient. Everyone email foxfeedback@foxnews.com and tell them Kilmeade must be fired immediately. #GoodTrouble

I’m the Zipper on Your Preschooler’s Hand-Me-Down Jacket, and I’m Gonna Destroy Your Morning You thought this morning was going well, didn’t you? You even got your kid to put on their shoes without a ten-minute existential crisis about sock...

"Minutes pass. The zipper remains unmoved. Their frustration rises. Tears are forming. The clock is ticking. You can feel your soul leaving your body."