Emily Kokol-Rivera

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Today is world kindness day, and a perfect day to celebrate Fred Rogers and his impact on many of our lives.

He shared innumerable wise words with us, many which have stuck with me and guide me even today, and I'd like to share a few of them this morning.

On Tuesday, Americans sent Democrats a resounding message.

“Fight for us”

“Fight for working class Americans”

“Fight against Trump’s corruption, criminality and cruelty”

5 days later, Democrat Senators sent Americans a resounding message.

“Nah”

Abigail Spanberger won Virginia's Loudoun County by 29 points — a year after Kamala Harris won by just 17 points.

Reminder: Tomorrow’s election closing times.
- 7 p.m. ET - Virginia
- 8 p.m. ET - New Jersey
- 9 p.m. ET - New York City
- 8 p.m. PT - California

I have been saying from the jump that there are three questions about DOGE that have not been answered.

One. What did they bring in?
Two. What did they take out?
Three. What did they leave behind?

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They’re gonna blame us no matter what, you know that right?

JUST IN: All job sectors except healthcare are down. We are in a “no hire” economy. And unemployment for young people just hit 10%. - Bureau of Labor Statistics

From Tragedy to Resolve: Rejecting Political Violence After Orem A call to protect free debate and reject vengeance

“If we choose to fight one another instead of the problem of political violence itself, we will have failed. Let this be the moment when we refuse to be divided, when we prove that our disagreements will be fought with ballots and arguments, never with bullets.”

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Someone recently said to me that things will get worse before they get better, but that is not true. There is no guarantee that anything gets better. Things can just continue getting worse and worse.

I can't stop thinking about that today.

State steps in to ensure access to COVID-19 vaccine Public health order counters potential limitations set by the USFDA

New Mexico is overriding the federal government on the topic of COVID19 vaccines to ensure their residents can access them.

States hold a tremendous amount of public health power. They should use it.

🚨| Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are getting married!!!

“Your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married🧨”

This has been a week full of warnings for the American food supply, at least involving cheese, coffee, and now potentially radioactive shrimp. I'll provide the FDA alerts in this thread.

Cut immigration, cut labor supply, add tariffs on imports… and voilà: higher food prices.

Call me crazy, but my idea of making America great involves a lot fewer kidnappings and concentration camps.

We were wrong. The Senate revision of the bloated budget bill raises the national debt $4.2 trillion, not 3.4 trillion. 12 million people will be thrown off insurance, not 11 million. Some Senators are demanding even more. We are going in the wrong direction! Stop this madness. @lwvus.bsky.social

BREAKING:
 
WASHINGTON (AP) - Supreme Court preserves key part of Affordable Care Act's free preventive health care coverage requirements.

2025’s official slogan is “It Gets Worse.”

At some point we're going to have to stop asking "when is (insert name) going to step up and say he's gone to far" and realize that maybe they are ok with the president's actions. We must realize that no one is going to swoop in and "save" us, it has to be us... we the people.

Good morning

We are like six months from them outlawing seatbelts.

House Republicans just passed the biggest health care and Medicaid cut ever.

The biggest cut to SNAP and nutrition assistance ever.

A massive tax cut for billionaires with tax hikes for millions of working families.

The biggest wealth transfer from working people to rich people ever in one law.

Dear Americans,

Republicans in the House just passed the largest transfer of wealth in history to the top 1%. Those of us with the least amount of money will suffer the most.

How to get to Sesame Street? Kids can now head to Netflix as well as PBS The children's series has found a new streaming home — Netflix, PBS stations and PBS KIDS will air new episodes on the same day. And Netflix will also run 90 hours from the Sesame Street library.

The children's series has found a new streaming home — Netflix, PBS stations and PBS KIDS will air new episodes on the same day. And Netflix will also run 90 hours from the Sesame Street library.

This is still part of the Constitution, FYI: "[N]o Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust... shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State."

While America slept, House Republicans quietly unveiled their Medicaid plan. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office says it strips health insurance from 13.7 million Americans.

An American Pope. Go figure.

Remember calories don’t count on a Monday or if you’re on your (checks notes) third global economic collapse before your first colonoscopy so…

Me: “You know? I feel pretty good. Let me do some chores around the house.”

My body: “If you don’t sit yo ass down somewhere…”

You right. I’m sorry. My bad.

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."