Ascher

SoCal mom of 3. Yoga, tennis, literature, beach, Biewers. 99% of my tweets are political.

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Los Angeles looks a like a warzone right now. Trump has deployed ICE agents in full tactical gear driving armored vehicles and carrying riot shields, rifles, shotguns, and more. Citizens are being hit with tear gas and being thrown to the ground.

It’s horrific.

[Ascher @Ascher1234]

@SenAdamSchiff So the four astronauts on the space station might be stuck waiting for a ride for awhile. Do they have plenty of supplies?

[Ascher @Ascher1234]

@ChrisMurphyCT @CoryBooker Thank you!

[Ascher @Ascher1234]

@SenBooker Thank you!

[Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1]

House Intel Ranking Member Jim Himes tells Tulsi Gabbard and John Ratcliffe it was "by the awesome grace of God that we are not mourning dead pilots right now."

Himes adds: The only response is to "apologize, you own it, and you stop everything until you can figure out went wrong, and how it might not ever happen again."

[Senator Adam Schiff @SenAdamSchiff]

In the last day, Trump said he may set up a fund for those convicted of Jan 6 crimes.

Issued an executive order making it harder to vote.

And declassified documents in Crossfire Hurricane.

The common thread? An attempt to distract from Signalgate.

Don’t fall for it.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

MAJOR BREAKING: Jasmine Crockett unleashes a profane attack on MTG during NPR funding hearing — and it’s glorious.

“To be clear, free speech is not about whatever it is y'all want somebody to say. And the idea that you want to shut down everybody that is not Fox News is bullshit. We need to stop playing because that's what y'all are doing in here. You don't you want to hear the opinions of anybody else."

Who else agrees we need Jasmine Crockett’s voice more than ever?

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

If you live in Wisconsin – or have friends or family who do – there’s an important Supreme Court race happening right now. And there’s only one candidate ready to protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of Wisconsinites: Judge Susan Crawford.

We’ve all seen how important judges are in protecting our rights, so vote early — don’t wait until April 1st. Find your early vote location: https://t.co/oDaQcyU3QJ

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Dear Democrats,

Stop referring to it as "incompetence" or "a mistake" or "mistakenly sent..." and start saying

ONE OF THE WORST NATIONAL SECURITY BREACHES IN HISTORY...

That's the Trump game and it's VERY effective.

PLAY WHERE THEY PLAY.
GO INTO THE GUTTER WHERE THEY THRIVE.

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

Mark Warner calls for Tulsi Gabbard and Trump’s national security team to be fired.

Do you agree that is justified here?

[Don Winslow @donwinslow]

Dear @RepJeffries AND @SenSchumer

1. Donald Trump did sign that "alien enemies" order.

2. Pete Hegseth did break the law and transmit national security secrets over an unsecured network.

THE QUESTION IS WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO ABOUT THIS?

We don't need Tweets.

[Eric Topol @EricTopol]

Does intermittent fasting improve health outcomes?
It's not clearcut.
A very good review of what is known. @Nature
open-access. https://t.co/pGNUP7PPaQ

[Ascher @Ascher1234]

@EricTopol @Nature We've lost a lot under the current administration. Could you please write some posts about how the USA will fare in the upcoming flu season without an updated flu vaccine? And how about the current Covid variants? What are they?

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

The Disappeared: Trump’s Mass Deportation Machine and the Shadow Prison in El Salvador

A Knock at the Door, Then Nothing

🧵1/10: Imagine waking up one morning to discover that your brother is gone.

Not missing—disappeared.

No phone call. No charges. No lawyer.

And days later, a message appears—he’s been deported to a country he’s never been to, locked in a concrete hell designed for gang leaders and killers.

That’s not a story from Argentina’s Dirty War or Stalin’s gulags.

It happened in the United States—in 2025.

And it’s still happening, as you read this.

This is the story of The Disappeared—238 Venezuelan men secretly deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador’s most notorious prison, CECOT—a facility condemned by the United Nations, Amnesty International, and Human Rights Watch for crimes against human dignity.
https://t.co/fmhr3ySYJd

[Brian Maxwell @Brian1247356379]

The push to abolish the Department of Education isn’t about “returning control to the states.” It’s about removing the last federal safeguards that ensure equal access to education.

The Department of Education exists because states—especially those in the South—failed to provide adequate funding, protections for students with disabilities, and compliance with civil rights laws. When education was left purely to the states, segregation was enforced, special needs students were ignored, and funding disparities between rich and poor districts widened into permanent inequalities. Federal oversight is the only reason those failures were ever addressed.

What Abbott and Trump are proposing is not education reform—it’s the elimination of accountability. It’s a deliberate step toward defunding public schools, rolling back civil rights protections, and funneling resources into private, unregulated institutions that serve only those who can afford them. It’s a blueprint for an education system where zip code and wealth determine opportunity, and where millions of students are left behind simply because their states refuse to prioritize them.

Anyone calling to abolish the Department of Education is calling to undo decades of progress and return to a time when education was a privilege for the few, not a right for all. And that is a clock we cannot allow to be turned back.

[Stephen King @StephenKing]

The zeal with which these guys [Trump and Musk] are engaging in increasingly open, authoritarian behavior is unlike almost anything I’ve seen. Erdogan, Chavez, Orban — they hid it,” Mr. Levitsky said.

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

When a judge stops a president from doing something illegal or unconstitutional, that's not a "threat to democracy."

That's democracy working.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Canadian MP Charlie Angus: I am here today to urge Canadians to avoid travel to the United States if at all possible and to call on our government to stand up for our citizens who are being denied their rights through arbitrary detention in the United States.

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

Donald Trump is trying to dismantle public education in America.

To every public school student, teacher, and parent: this is our moment to stick together and fight back.

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

NEWSFLASH: Project 2025 called for ending the Department of Education.

REMINDER: MAGA claimed Kamala was lying. MAGA LIED.