Anne L🦋🌊💙

@anne94.bsky.social

Artist, Econ/Env. Sci degrees. Bus Consult. Followed US politics since the 70's. Supporter of #LGBTQ+ 🏳️‍🌈! #Resistance. #BLM, VoteBlue! 🌊. I block fascists/ignorance, “both-Siders” and chaos trolls.

Shuler: Billionaires can buy their yachts, they can buy their rocket ships, but they cannot buy our democracy, and we are not going to let them try. One midterm election is not going to fix every problem. But winning in November, righting the ship, puts us directly on that path.

the national debt crossed $40 trillion this week and not one person in charge called it unaffordable. that word only comes out for the school lunch, the insulin cap, the raise. the debt isn't a limit on what they'll spend. it's the excuse they save for anything that would reach you.

the largest cyclospora outbreak on record, more than ten thousand people sick, and investigators are still piecing together which farm. the produce traceability rule that would answer that in a day has been delayed for years, after heavy industry lobbying. the not-knowing was bought and paid for.

Cyclospora Outbreak Shows Why So Many Americans Are Angry About Corruption

Following major lobbying and campaign spending from the food industry, an important safety rule has been delayed for years.

brennancenter.org

everyone's stuck on the category error: you can't invade a yield curve. fine. but troops were the answer for the cities, and for oman, and now for the people lending us the money. when that's the only instrument you understand, every problem starts to look like a country.

Trump Suggests He Can Use the Military on Bond Markets: ‘If We Have To Use That, We Will’

Trump was asked by a reporter whether he had directed Bessent to intervene in the bond market and what other options were on the table.

yahoo.com

read that reason again. $10 million left a children's medicaid settlement, passed through a chain of nonprofits, landed at two PACs and the florida GOP — and no charges, because every official on the route can't recall who signed off. amnesia is now a functioning legal strategy in this state.

PolitiFact@politifact.bsky.social · 5d ago

In a copy obtained by CBS, the Hope Florida grand jury report found officials "misappropriated" Medicaid funds but didn't bring charges because no one remembered who made the decision to transfer the funds. Our fact-check on Ashley Moody's role: politifact.com/factchecks/2...

At some point those of us in the pro-democracy movement need to stop worrying about Donald Trump and Republicans attacking us over false claims of voter fraud. Instead we need to take steps to protect and expand voting rights and let Trump call us names.

Indigo Bunting 13cm Summer breeding Eastern Central N America Migrate: S Florida, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean Islands Summer diet insects Winter diet seeds and berries The male molts twice a year, changing their appearance from bright blue to brown. The female Is always light brown.

The number of people in the Guard/Reserve that have reached out to me have grown quickly after this article was published. Our strategic reserve is going to have a major retention problem and is being burned down. www.adamkinzinger.com/p/special-re...

Special Report: Anonymous Q&A With Deployed Soldier

I talk with a member of our armed forces about the challenges of this current deployment and the need for direction in our present military efforts.

adamkinzinger.com

That SOB thinks he owns the United States. He thanks everyone and everything within our borders belongs to him personally to do with as he pleases, and thanks to the immunity granted him by the Supreme Court he'll get away with most if not all of it.

He'd destroying Washington on monument at a time. He puts gaudy gold paint on things, and calls it "classy". He destroys a reflecting pool with his own incompetence, then blames everyday Americans for just touching the water. Hopefully everything he does is reversed, and he lives to see it.

As if I couldn’t hate the orange felon more than I already do, over 60 trees which include historic Cherry Blossom trees were quietly cut down recently in Washington DC without court approval. I’ll never forgive anyone who supports this monstrous hateful destructive criminal.

* CARNEY SAYS U.S. TERMS IN TRADE TALKS MEANT CANADIAN INDUSTRIES EITHER WOULD BECOME U.S. SUBSIDIARIES OR BE WOUND DOWN * CANADA SAYS WE CAN START HAVING TRADE DISCUSSIONS WITH THE U.S. WHEN "AMERICANS STOP DOING MEMES, STOP THROWING SHADE, STOP TRYING TO BE TOUGH AND START BEING SERIOUS"