Susan Bolle

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Anne Lamott (@annelamott1) I love this so much because I always forget it and think everything is hopeless and doomed: oh Albert! Be still my heart.

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What a gang of mindless amateurs in Washington accomplished in Beijing:

Release The E-Files

Speaker Johnson slashed Medicaid. His constituents could lose health services (NPR) BOSSIER CITY, La. - The sweeping megabillpushed through Congress by House Speaker Mike Johnson could have some of its deepest consequences in his rural Louis...

Just a quick reminder that Mike Johnson sucks!

The changes to Medicaid are expected to generate nearly a trillion dollars in cuts, according to the Congressional Budget Office, which estimates 12 million people will lose their health care coverage.

senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽

Opinion | We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health

REMOVE RFKJr NOW
We Ran the C.D.C.: Kennedy Is Endangering Every American’s Health www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

This is great strategy. Keep concentrating on ONE thing that you can do your best to affect. Ignore the noise. When they flood the zone they are also taking on more than they can.
Remember that.

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Republicans claim to be the party of limited government and constitutional principles.

But when it comes to holding Trump accountable, they're nowhere to be found. It's time for them to put their money where their mouth is and stand up for the Constitution!

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We need to keep up the pressure — it's WORKING!

Republicans are worried that the people are rising up against their crusade to strip Medicaid to fund tax breaks for their billionaire friends.

Republicans need to decide:  whose side are they on?

Save Medicaid

I dare you to read this piece in its entirety, and tell me how this makes anyone safer.
What it clearly does do is funnel hundreds of millions of our tax $$s to certain corps to kidnap, detain and degrade people for absurd reasons or none at all—in the name of the United States.
You ok with this?

I'm basically Attila the Hun about disorder on public transit, but this binary "subways scary, cars safe" stuff drives me up the wall. When I ride the subway I don't worry about being clipped by a crazy driver, about my parked car being broken into, etc etc.

Have you seen this?

Leon is devastated and bewildered as to why he’s the target of protests.

The racist who is pillaging our federal government while stealing food and healthcare from the hungry and sick doesn’t understand where all the hatred is coming from. 🤷🏼‍♀️

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DON’T FALL FOR IT!!!

Nobody wants you on their train, airhead. You'd probably wrap yourself around the pole like a goddamn fireman.

I endorse this message, and urge Ford, GM, Rivian, Hyundai, Kia, and Vinfast to offer similar incentives.

I have a possibly dumb question: Pam Bondi keeps signing every filing in the Alien Enemies Act case. Is she a member of the D.C. Bar? Has she submitted a pro hac vice application in this or any other case at the D.C. District Court? Is there an obscure rule that relieves the AG of that obligation?

The secretary of transportation went on Fox & Friends this morning and trashed air travel, portraying the current air traffic control system as a disaster, and then claimed taking public transit is "dangerous."

I miss the DEI days when it was safe to travel.

Sean, how about you pay attention to a real crisis you created: the mounting dangers of air travel and the firing of air traffic controllers as we approach the busiest air travel season?

Sean have you taken the train

I REALLY beg people to stop treating Trump's autopen claim as if it were true.

You're spreading propaganda disseminated by Heritage Foundation either willfully or stupidly misunderstanding that ALL signatures in Federal Register, including Trump's, are graphics.

The underlying premise is false.

Seriously, no intelligent and honest person who actually believes in “personal liberties and free markets” could possibly think that Trump has a plan to preserve (as opposed to destroy) them. 🙄

Welcome to the Resistance … {blinks} … {blinks again} … {puts on reading glasses} … Trey Gowdy?

DOGE Cuts Reach Key Nuclear Scientists, Bomb Engineers and Safety Experts (Gift Article) Firings and buyouts hit the top-secret National Nuclear Security Administration amid a major effort to upgrade America’s nuclear arsenal. Critics say it shows the consequences of heedlessly cutting th...

The National Nuclear Security Administration lost not only officials deeply steeped in the weapons modernization program, but also a noted arms control expert at a time when Trump has said he hopes to restart talks with Russia & China about limiting nuclear arsenals. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

EXCLUSIVE: Memo details Trump plan to sabotage the Social Security Administration An internal Social Security Administration (SSA) memo, sent on March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, details proposed changes to the claims process that would debilitate the agency, cause sign...

1. EXCLUSIVE

An internal Social Security Administration memo, dated March 13 and obtained by Popular Information, lays out a plan to sabotage the agency.

The memo itself predicts "service disruption," "operational strain," and "budget shortfalls" will result.

Follow this thread for details.

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Elon Musk has pushed several false claims about the nature and scope of Social Security fraud. In a recent interview on Fox Business, Musk suggested that 10% of federal expenditures were related to Social Security fraud. This is false. Social Security fraud does exist, but "improper" Social Security payments amounts to about $9 billion annually — less than 1% of total Social Security benefits paid and 0.1% of the federal budget. Most improper payments are not criminal fraud but the result of beneficiaries or the SSA failing to update records.

2. The memo, authored by Acting Deputy SSA Commissioner Doris Diaz, purports to be motivated by a desire to mitigate "fraud risks."

Elon Musk has pushed several false claims about the nature and scope of Social Security fraud.

3. The biggest change contemplated by the memo is to require "internet identity proofing" for "benefit claims… made over the phone." When an SSA customer is "unable to utilize the internet ID proofing, customers will be required to visit a field office to provide in-person identity documentation"