Deborah Kiley

Family Nurse Practitioner, Lifestyle strategies & Func med
3rd Degree Judo Black Belt.
FearlessWellness.Locals
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[Mike Lee @BasedMikeLee]

Please share if you agree that the Senate should not recess until it has (1) fully funded DHS, and (2) passed the SAVE America Act

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Senator Thune,

Let's expose what you're really doing with "reconciliation."

You announced it yesterday, eleven months after the House passed the SAVE America Act. You're not trying to pass this bill. You're trying to kill it in a way you can blame on process.

Here's how we know:

Reconciliation requires the Senate parliamentarian to rule that provisions are "budgetary." Citizenship verification is not budgetary. Photo ID mandates are not budgetary. The parliamentarian will gut the bill. Then you'll shrug and say "we tried." We see through you.

Meanwhile, you WON'T use the tools that actually work:

Rule XIX limits each senator to two speeches per legislative day. Keep the Senate in continuous session, file cloture daily, and the filibuster exhausts in ~12-20 days. You dismissed it as "complicated." Because if you tried and succeeded, you'd have to actually pass the bill.

Harry Reid nuked the filibuster in 2013 when he wanted results.

Mitch McConnell changed Senate rules THREE times and canceled the August recess.

Chuck Schumer used reconciliation within months on a 50-50 Senate.

You have 53 seats. You've changed nothing, canceled nothing, and waited eleven months.

Now let's talk donors:

• Goldman Sachs: $150K to you - top H-1B user
• Google: $75K - lobbies against E-Verify
• Meta: $72.5K - Zuckerberg's FWD[.]us pushes mass immigration
• Wells Fargo: $90K - banks undocumented immigrants

Same corporations sponsor Punchbowl News, where you sit for "Fly Out Days" which nobody watches except Congress staffers and K Street lobbyists who pays premium bucks for legislative intelligence. Their reporter then telegraphs to the audience the SAVE Act "will ultimately fail."

Corporate money flows to you AND to the outlet that frames your inaction as inevitable.

We see the loop.

You called grassroots anger a "paid influencer ecosystem." YOU are the paid influencer. You take the wrong side of a 80% issue because you are indistinguishable from a K Street mouthpiece, and an ineffective one to boot who won't bend the rules to get anything passed.

What we want:

1. Force a real talking filibuster.
2. Stop hiding behind process.
3. Pass the SAVE America Act.

YOU will become the reason that we will have our butts kicked in midterms. Not Candace Owens, not Nick Fuentes, not anyone else. You and you alone, and all because you want to make the 200 or so viewers of Punchbowl Fly Out Days happy. You're living in a K Street information bubble, addicted to the comforts and praises of lobbyists masquerading as journalists. You mistake the steak and martini dinners you get invited to as your own constituents.

You are not "moderate." The SAVE America Act has 98% support among Republicans. Name one other thing that has 98% support. You are an extreme minority who prides himself on being a calm leader, when in reality you are well in the running for the most ineffective Majority leader of all time.

Prove me wrong. Do the bare modicum of effort. Not symbolic. Actual effort. Cancel the recess. Get SAVE America Act passed.

[Howard Luks MD @hjluks]

None of this is complicated, but it does require consistency over the years.

Strength, power, bone density, joint health, recovery, and protein — each one is manageable on its own.

The physiology is on your side if you work with it.

[AJ Inapi (Allan) @aj_inapi]

When I see Team USA freestyle skiers saying ICE does not represent them, my mind goes back to 2012.

Seventy-six of us - Papua New Guinean students - arrived in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Thousands of miles from home. Different weather, different culture, different everything.
That first night, during dinner, one of our own stood up and sang our national anthem.

Grown men and women cried.
Not because life was easy - but because we knew what it meant to represent your country far from home.

We were carrying our people, our families, our land with us - quietly, respectfully, proudly.

That’s why this hurts to watch.

These athletes live in the most developed country on Earth. They train in world-class facilities. They enjoy freedoms and protections most humans will never experience.
Yet when they step onto the global stage, they find it easy - almost fashionable - to trash the country that gave them everything.

Every nation has flaws. Every government has problems.
But the global stage is not the place to air domestic political grievances.

I remember @GavinNewsom at Davos. Same issue.
What happens at home should stay at home.
Abroad, the American brand should be unified - not fractured for applause.

Then there’s Billie Eilish - living in a mansion, private security, completely insulated from everyday reality - proudly chanting “ICE out.”

Let me offer perspective.

In America, you dial 911. Police, fire, ambulance show up - minutes, maybe hours.

In Papua New Guinea?
There is no 911.
In rural areas, there is often zero police presence.
Murderers, rapists, violent criminals live in the same communities as their victims.
If something happens, you either find a police station - or defend yourself. Sometimes you just say goodbye to your loved ones.

That’s not theory. That’s life for millions.

In America, you don’t even have to leave your house.
Food shows up. Packages show up. Transportation shows up.
You drive or walk to a polling booth. Ballot boxes arrive easily. Voter registration is accessible.

In PNG - a country that’s 80% rural - people carry ballot boxes on foot, climbing mountains, crossing rivers, just to vote.
Services don’t reach the people - but the ballot boxes do.

And still, people complain.

As much as Americans may struggle - your reality is the lifelong dream of millions who will never experience it. Not once. Not ever. Not even for a generation.

When you stand on the world stage, fly your flag with humility and pride.
Critique your country at home if you must - but don’t forget how rare, how privileged, how blessed your position truly is.

Some of us know what it means to represent a nation - because we come from places where survival isn’t guaranteed, and opportunity isn’t assumed.

And we still sing our anthem with tears in our eyes.

To conclude, as mentioned above, in PNG services rarely or if not ever reaches the rural populace but they consider it their civic duty to vote when the ballot boxes reaches them. Knowing full well that one day, their vote will help secure their children and grandchildren's futures.

What excuse do you have for sitting out the primaries and the midterms?

[Andy Biggs @andybiggs4az]

When Arizona Republicans passed a bill to lower the cost of groceries, Katie Hobbs vetoed it.

Arizona families cannot afford four more years of Katie Hobbs!

[Deborah Kiley @Debkiley]

@money_cruncher Checklist

[AANP @AANP_NEWS]

National NP organizations are deeply concerned with the Department of Education’s recent negotiated rulemaking. The negotiators and the Department agreed to a definition of ‘professional degree’ which would prohibit NPs from being eligible for higher federal student loan limits. This action would have a damaging impact on patient access to health care. We call on the Department to amend its definition to ensure that NP programs are recognized as professional degree programs and NP students have access to education and financial support to continue to serve their communities. Learn more: https://t.co/ZEVoJkipRe.

[Deborah Kiley @Debkiley]

One of a handful of true patriots. Thank you@harmeetDillon

[Harmeet K. Dhillon @HarmeetKDhillon]

Tremendous honor!

[Benjamin Bikman @BenBikmanPhD]

I both appreciate and am dismayed by the obsession with longevity. In our quest for longevity, we tend to treat aging as an adversary. I think there's a selfishness at the heart of this. Such a view misses some real benefits. Getting old brings wisdom, new priorities, and strong family connections across generations.
As a dad, any physical aches I feel are more easily forgotten or tolerated when I focus on my children. The real secret to longevity is your offspring.
If you want to live forever, have kids!

[Deborah Kiley @Debkiley]

Thank you for pointing out the dangerous side of these drugs. Someone needs to tell him

[The HighWire @HighWireTalk]

🚨🧵President Trump announces pharmaceutical giants Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk "have agreed to offer their most popular GLP-1 drugs...at drastic discounts," stating:

"So far, I've never heard anything bad about them. I only hear good about them. Is there anything bad about them, Bob, or anything? Someday, maybe it'll come out, which will notify you immediately. But so far I haven't heard that."

See the comments below for reporting done at "The HighWire" on this family of drugs.

What do you think?

[Eli Steele @Hebro_Steele]

I’m not a good or natural public speaker and I was somewhat nervous before my panel at the Thomas Sowell conference this past Monday. There are things that I wished I had said that I didn’t.

I had been invited to speak alongside Clarence Thomas, Victor Davis Hanson, Ayaan Ferguson (Hirsi Ali), Kemi Badenoch, and Coleman Hughes — on the many contributions that Thomas Sowell has made throughout his life. As the date neared, part of me was ambivalent. Deep down, I doubted that Tom would show up even though his name was on the schedule. He had not come to the Old Parkland Conference several years ago where he was similarly honored. Tom does not live for the honors. He lives for the work — that’s his reward. Sure enough, the Thursday before, we learned Clarence Thomas would replace him.

I came to honor my father’s deep and lasting friendship with Tom. Before my afternoon panel, I listened — rather, I lipread. Aside from a few, most speakers spoke from the heart about what Tom meant to them. At one point, someone asked, “Who’s the next Thomas Sowell?” In my head, I answered: No one.

That answer was clear to me after listening to Clarence Thomas speak for over an hour about his friendship with Tom. He described discovering Sowell’s work in the 1970s and was stunned to find another man who thought like him. He told the story of seeking Tom’s autograph, only to be invited to that legendary 1980 gathering of black intellectuals at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco—Tom, Walter Williams, and a young Clarence Thomas among them.

He spoke of how meeting Tom changed his life and gave him the spine to walk his own path, no matter the consequences. Again and again, the Justice returned to the one foundational belief that he shared with Sowell and I am paraphrasing here: no matter your life condition, “there is always a way out.” Those who’ve read Justice Thomas’s memoir know his grandfather was the greatest man he ever knew. Tom, he said, belongs in that same company. Thomas became overwhelmed with emotion and paused for a good minute before he could continue.

It was at this moment that it occurred to me that Tom didn’t just write books. He created a whole world for men to exist in, including Thomas and my father. We praise his mind, his unparalleled nerve. We miss his quietest gift: generosity. There have been men who possess great power and intellect but fear sharing the stage and losing the limelight. Not Tom. When he saw talent, he pulled it close, and made room. Over decades he created a world bound by truth, not tribe. But, as Thomas (and Victor Davis Hanson) pointed out, this generosity was conditional. Tom expected the same respect that he gave. Those who did not honor that, fell out of favor.

When my panel came—Kimberly Strassel, Kemi Badenoch, Michael Steadman—I meant to speak of Tom’s generosity, the world he built. But I’m deaf. Half of my mind is always focused on articulating the consonants and vowels, making sure the room understands me. I’d even made a note before we started. By the time it was my turn to speak, the thought was gone.

If I could do it all over again, I would have said something like this:

In the 1970s, one of my father’s students handed him a book by Thomas Sowell. My father glanced at the cover, said I can’t be seen with this, and flung it across the room. Later, alone, he read it. Tom’s words opened his mind to the possibility that the path of the black identity and the associated liberal politics might not be the right one.

He began writing and published in the late 1980s. The backlash was brutal—detailed in our coming film White Guilt.

That’s when Tom, up the road at Hoover, reached out. He and his wife, Mary, invited us to dinner in Palo Alto. Then he and Mary came to our house. Many people had visited before, including magazine editors, but my father always sat at the head of the table. The night Tom visited, my father gave him the head seat without a word and I knew then there was something different about Tom.

Those dinners and unparalleled conversations began a lasting friendship between him and my father. Tom along with Hoover boss, John Raisian, brought my father to Hoover.

In doing so, Tom open his world to my father. The bond they had was fearlessness. They didn’t care what others thought. They knew the truth and fought for it. One has to wonder what it would have been like for my father if Tom had not come before him. He would have found his own path but it would not have been this one. Now, their names often travel together.

One of the many people Tom introduced my father to decades ago was Clarence Thomas. I had never met him — didn’t have the chance to introduce myself at the Old Parkland Conference. I’m usually shy in public but I forced myself across the aisle to where Thomas was sitting and introduced myself. When he realized who my father was, his eyes lit. “Your father is a great man,” he kept saying. “Shelby Steele was the one who wrote that I was the ‘freest black man alive’ and defended me during my hearing. I will never forget him for that.”

That’s the world Thomas Sowell built—one table, one book, one open seat at a time.

[Deborah Kiley @Debkiley]

#peace is the prize

[General Mike Flynn @GenFlynn]

This is well deserved and the American people should be deeply honored by @MariaCorinaYA ‘s selection. This is recognition for the global leadership of our @POTUS @realDonaldTrump . Without his personal and committed leadership globally, wars would be breaking out everywhere.

The real winners here are the people of Venezuela, the American people and freedom lovers everywhere.

When Venezuela returns to democracy, the world will benefit.

Congratulations to @MariaCorinaYA and thank you @realDonaldTrump for your support and leadership.

Another globalist domino falls!

[Deborah Kiley @Debkiley]

This looks like an honor roll. Who wouldn't want to be on a list with these smart people?

[Tim Noakes @ProfTimNoakes]

What does the asterisk next to some names indicate? In what network?

[Deborah Kiley @Debkiley]

This is a beautiful quilt

[Glenn Beck @glennbeck]

From @charliekirk11’s chief of staff:
Pastor Son was arrested right after Charlie left [South Korea]. Charlie met him backstage at the event and took a photo with him. After the picture CK said ‘I took that photo so if they arrest you I can post it all over social media.’

You know what to do, America.

[Deborah Kiley @Debkiley]

@GovernorHobbs . Stop endangering and embarrassing Arizona

[Mary Fraser @Mizmac9]

@drsimonegold Everyone in Arizona should print this out and send it to the Governor! This is Dr. Joseph Ladapo, a Harvard trained MD.

[Nina Teicholz, PhD @bigfatsurprise]

Our nutrition guidelines have reduced protein recommendations over the past 20 years, despite overwhelming evidence that protein supports satiety, immune function, weight stability, and metabolic health.

Today, school meals often rely on incomplete, plant-based proteins that lack key amino acids.

We’re not feeding kids enough of what actually keeps them well. We need more complete protein. Not less.

[SaltyGoat @SaltyGoat17]

WOW just WOW!!🔥🔥

I can't even put it into to words how good this is. I literally had tears running down my face.

For Charlie! We'll never forget you brother!!

[Larry P. Arnn @DrLarryArnn]

I am saddened to record this. I am a better man for having known my friend @charliekirk11, just as this country is better for his work. Charlie had a curious mind and wanted to improve it. He sought to know the basic things of this Earth and how they reach to Heaven, where he must be now. My wife and I, and all of @Hillsdale, send our condolences to Erika and the children.

[Ginger Taylor, MS @CombatingAutism]

"My friend Bobby," is a phrase you will hear spoken widely if you pay attention. Those calling for the resignation of Kennedy do not seem to understand that he spent the last 20 years crossing in the country advocating for people.

Not holding fundraisers for his political career, but showing up to testify in little state houses like Maine to defend mothers of vaccine injured children. This is 2015 when Bobby answered my call for him to come to Maine and help us preserve our religious vaccine exemption.

He didn't ask for money he just showed up. Call mothers in any state who needed help to hear the story about how he was a friend to them.

Kennedy is the only cabinet member in history with his own constituency. He leaves, and the Trump support takes a big dive.

He didn't survive two assassination attemps only to quit when the democrats have a temper tantrum. Like and share if Bobby is a friend to you.