Kathy Harris Cox

mama bear, beauty seeker, live music lover, Coldwell Banker Signature realtor

[Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 @NickKnudsenUS]

Mike Johnson just told you the quiet part out loud: Republicans have a plan to gut Social Security next year.

They’re waiting until after the midterms so you can’t vote against it.

Make this the only issue that matters in November. #HandsOffSocialSecurity

[Kathy Harris Cox @KHCox]

@Osint613 Oops…my bad. $300 BILLION

[Kathy Harris Cox @KHCox]

@Osint613 Like…$300million?? 🤦🏼‍♀️😒 We have GOT to be living in a simulation.

[Kathy Harris Cox @KHCox]

@karma44921039 I think sooo much would be better if we got rid of our smartphones. Go back to the Nokia brick.
Tech “advances” have destroyed our humanity, decency, creativity, and communities.

[Kathy Harris Cox @KHCox]

@WallStreetApes …”discussed” that were never brought up. I’m sure insurance is being billed for the most expensive full exams and “talks” to improve health. It’s insulting to think we are this stupid to not notice we are just a commodity. I’m shocked when a physician actually touches me.

[Kathy Harris Cox @KHCox]

@WallStreetApes I have been chronically ill my entire adult life. I’ve seen tons of doctors and NPs. The only time I’ve had to put on a gown was at the OB/GYN and for surgery or hospital stay. One rheum would exam my joints, but dressed. But it’s always noted I was fully examined and things…

[Moe Davis (U.S. Air Force, Retired) @ColMoeDavis]

Trump was able to quickly put together $300 billion in recovery money for Iran after he decided to bomb it.

He stood in Swannanoa NC not far from my house in October 2024 and said he’d build back bigger, better, more beautiful, and faster than Biden after Hurricane Helene inflicted $60 billion in damage in the Blue Ridge . . . and then he went MIA.

Imagine if @realDonaldTrump cared as much about rebuilding Western North Carolina for Americans as he does about rebuilding Iran for Iranians.

[Crazy Vibes @CrazyVibes_1]

Amanda Nguyen was 22 years old when she was sexually assaulted.
She was a Harvard student. She had just been offered a position in NASA's astronaut training program—a dream she'd worked toward her entire life. And then, in 2013, someone took that sense of control and safety away from her.
She did what we're told survivors should do. She reported the assault to police. She went to the hospital. She endured the hours-long process of a forensic exam—the collection of physical evidence known as a rape kit.
Then she learned something that broke her all over again.
In Massachusetts, where she was assaulted, the law gave her fifteen years to decide whether to press charges. The statute of limitations wouldn't expire until 2028.
But her rape kit—the physical evidence that could prove what happened—could be destroyed in six months.
Six months. That's how long the state would keep the evidence. After that, if she hadn't prosecuted, the kit would be discarded. Her chance at justice would literally be thrown away.
And if she wanted to preserve the evidence, she had to file for an extension. Every six months. For fifteen years.
There was no simple system to do this. No one told her how. She had to figure it out herself, navigate bureaucracy, relive her trauma every six months just to keep her own evidence from being destroyed.
"It really came down to realizing the struggles I was dealing with in the criminal justice system were not exclusive to me," Amanda said later.
She started researching. She surveyed sexual assault laws in all 50 states. What she found horrified her.
The rules were completely inconsistent. Some states kept rape kits for years. Others destroyed them in months. Some charged survivors hundreds of dollars for the collection. Some never notified survivors what happened to their evidence. Some had no process for survivors to even find out where their kit was.
"Justice depends on geography," she told reporters. Your rights as a sexual assault survivor depended entirely on where you happened to be assaulted.
This wasn't just broken. This was a civil rights crisis.
So Amanda Nguyen decided to fix it.
She was 23 years old. She had no law degree. No political connections. No experience writing legislation. She turned down NASA's astronaut program—the opportunity of a lifetime—and founded an organization called Rise.
Her goal: Pass a federal law guaranteeing basic rights to sexual assault survivors.
In 2015, she walked into Senator Jeanne Shaheen's office in New Hampshire. She sat down. She shared her story—the assault, the trauma, the discovery that her evidence could be destroyed while her legal window stayed open.
Senator Shaheen listened. And she committed to help.
Together, they drafted the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act.
The bill was simple but revolutionary. It established that in federal criminal cases:

Survivors cannot be charged for rape kit collection
Rape kits cannot be destroyed before the statute of limitations expires
Survivors must be notified of testing results
Survivors must be notified 60 days before their kit is destroyed
Survivors have the right to request preservation extensions

These weren't radical demands. These were basic rights—the right to evidence, the right to information, the right not to be charged for your own assault investigation.
But getting Congress to pass it was another matter.
Amanda and Rise began meeting with Congressional offices. Hundreds of them. And they were told, over and over:
"This isn't a priority."
"My boss is focused on re-election."
"We don't have time for this."
Some staffers debated Amanda's civil rights in front of her face, as if her trauma were an abstract policy question. Some threatened her for pushing the bill.
"I cannot count how many times I have had to sit there trying to suppress my tears," Amanda said later.
She was 24 years old. She was asking Congress to protect rape survivors. And she was being told it didn't matter.
But Amanda didn't stop. Rise built a coalition—survivors, advocates, law enforcement, medical professionals. They worked across party lines. They met with Democrat and Republican offices. They made the case that this wasn't a partisan issue. This was about basic human dignity.
Senator Shaheen championed the bill in the Senate. She built bipartisan support. And in February 2016, she formally introduced the legislation.
In May 2016, the Senate passed it. Unanimously. Every single senator—Democrat and Republican—voted yes.
In September 2016, the House passed it. Unanimously. Every representative who voted said yes.
This was extraordinary. In one of the most partisan, divided Congresses in American history, a bill protecting sexual assault survivors passed with not a single dissenting vote.
On October 7, 2016, President Barack Obama signed the Sexual Assault Survivors' Rights Act into law.
Amanda Nguyen stood in the Oval Office, watching the president sign legislation she had written. She was 24 years old. Three years earlier, she had been a traumatized Harvard student learning that the system didn't protect her. Now she had changed federal law.
Senator Shaheen said:
"Beginning today, our nation's laws stand firmly on the side of survivors of sexual assault. Sexual assault remains one of the most underreported crimes and I hope that these basic rights will encourage more survivors to come forward and pursue justice. Make no mistake, there's still much more work to be done to change the culture around sexual assault."
Amanda's law only applied to federal cases—about 1% of sexual assaults. But it created a model. Over the next several years, Rise worked with state legislatures across the country. By 2024, over 30 states had passed similar laws, protecting survivors' rights in millions of cases.
In 2017, Amanda Nguyen was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. She was 25 years old—the youngest American ever nominated.
She didn't win. But she didn't need to. She had already won something more important: justice for hundreds of thousands of survivors who would never have to fight the system the way she did.
Today, Rise continues its work. Amanda and her team identify gaps in civil rights protections, draft legislation, build coalitions, and pass laws. They've expanded beyond rape kit retention to military sexual assault, campus assault, and international trafficking.
Amanda Nguyen proved that one person—a survivor with no law degree, no political power, just determination and a belief that the system should protect victims, not re-traumatize them—can change federal law.
She turned her trauma into advocacy. Her pain into policy. Her experience into a movement that has protected countless others.
"Survivors of sexual assault like Amanda need to know the government and justice system are on their side," Senator Shaheen said. "We are committed to changing the culture around how survivors will be treated in our criminal justice system."
Amanda Nguyen made that commitment real. At 24, she rewrote the rules. And thousands of survivors will have rights and protection because she refused to accept that justice should depend on geography.
When the system fails you, do you accept it—or do you change the system?

[Gianl1974 @Gianl1974]

BREAKING: JD Vance just accidentally confirmed the DIRTY SECRET about Trump's Iran deal.

JD Vance went on CBS News and tried to spin Donald Trump's Iran deal. Instead, he CONFIRMED exactly how badly Trump got fleeced.

CBS correspondent Ed O'Keefe asked Vance point-blank whether Iran would have access to a $300 BILLION reconstruction fund. Vance's answer? Essentially yes — "funded by the Gulf Coast coalition so long as they honor their end of the obligation."

So let's do the math that the Trump administration desperately doesn't want you to do. Let's compare Trump's Iran deal to the one Republicans spent a DECADE calling the worst deal in American history — Barack Obama's.

OBAMA'S IRAN DEAL:
• $1.7 billion in unfrozen Iranian assets
• In exchange for a 98% reduction in Iran's uranium stockpile
• And strict limits capping enrichment at 3.7%

TRUMP'S IRAN DEAL:
• $24 BILLION in unfrozen assets and cash
• A $300 BILLION reconstruction fund
• Lifted sanctions
• In exchange for an "opened Strait" under Iran and Oman's control

Read those numbers again. Trump is handing Iran roughly FOURTEEN TIMES the unfrozen cash Obama did — plus a $300 billion reconstruction windfall — after starting a war that nobody wanted, spiking gas prices, and killing the existing ceasefire because he found negotiations "boring." AND the deal just kicks what happens with Iran's uranium stockpile to future negotiations!

Republicans screamed for YEARS that Obama "gave Iran billions" and "appeased the mullahs." They called his deal treasonous. They tore it up. And now their guy is giving Iran an order of magnitude MORE money for a far weaker arrangement.

But here's the part Vance accidentally revealed. He warned that Iranian hardliners would "over-emphasize the benefits that Iran gets while under-emphasizing all the things they have to concede."

That's PROJECTION. Because it's the TRUMP administration that's been over-emphasizing the "wins" while burying the $24 billion, the $300 billion fund, the lifted sanctions, and the fact that the strategic Strait would fall under Iranian and Omani control. Vance is accusing Iran of doing EXACTLY what his own administration is doing — hiding the real terms of the deal from the public.

The man who promised to be tougher than Obama on Iran just handed Tehran the biggest payday in its history — after dragging America into a war first.

$1.7 billion versus $324 billion. That's the difference between Obama's "terrible" deal and Trump's "great" one.

Someone should mention that.

Please like and share!

[Kathy Harris Cox @KHCox]

@TomHollywood54 @DrNeilStone It ABSOLUTELY affects my life. It affects my ability to afford basic necessities and utilities, voice my opinions, support those whom I believe are better representatives of our country. Political ideologies express core, intrinsic values. Politics shape culture and classes.

[MagaSlayer @MagaSlayer47]

@usanewshq Clearly there is absolutely ZERO need for a $500 Million ballroom for “security reasons” after hosting this event at the White House today

[Kathy Harris Cox @KHCox]

@tatereeves Please follow suit. Mississippians DESERVE this protection at the very least. @MSHouseOfRep @gop4presley @MSRepublicans @msdemocrats
@cliffjohnsonms @BrandonPresley @cindyhydesmith @BennieGThompson @thedm_news @Darkhorse_Press
#datacenters #protectyourconstituents

[Mike Netter @nettermike]

One state. One law. One sentence that says everything:
“Big Tech pays its own bills. Not you.”
While Washington D.C. argues, while other states debate, while communities across America watch their electricity bills climb month after month — Oklahoma quietly did something extraordinary.
It passed a law that no other state had the courage to pass first. And it takes effect in just 19 days — July 1, 2026.
This is the story every American needs to read today.

THE LAW THAT CHANGED EVERYTHING — AND THE GOVERNOR WHO SIGNED IT
On Monday, May 11, 2026, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed House Bill 2992 — the Data Center Consumer Ratepayer Protection Act of 2026 — into law.
The name is long. The message is simple.
The law is designed to protect Oklahoma families, small businesses, and traditional utility customers from rising utility and infrastructure costs tied to large-scale energy users such as data centers, cryptocurrency mining operations, and artificial intelligence facilities.
That’s it. That is the entire point. Big Tech builds a data center in Oklahoma — Big Tech pays for the power lines, the substations, and every infrastructure upgrade its facility demands. Not your grandmother. Not the family-owned restaurant. Not the farmer running a well pump. Not you.
The law requires large-load customers that add 75 megawatts or more of demand to sign long-term agreements covering all infrastructure costs tied to their projects — rather than spreading those costs across the general rate base.
75 megawatts. That is the threshold. Any data center, AI facility, or crypto mining operation that demands that much power must foot its own bill — every dollar of it — before connecting to Oklahoma’s grid.
AND THE VOTE THAT PASSED IT LEFT NO ROOM FOR ARGUMENT

The Data Center Consumer Ratepayer Protection Act passed the House floor and the Senate floor with a unanimous vote — winning approval from every single lawmaker who voted on it.
Unanimous. In both chambers. In Oklahoma — one of the most politically contested legislative environments in the country.
The bill passed unanimously in both the House Utilities Policy Committee and the House Energy and Natural Resources Oversight Committee before reaching the full floor.
At least 36 House and Senate lawmakers from both parties signed on as co-authors of the legislation — reflecting broad bipartisan support across the entire Legislature.
Republicans. Democrats. Rural lawmakers. Urban lawmakers. All signing the same bill. All sending the same message.
When a bill passes unanimously in both chambers with 36 bipartisan co-authors

[Kathy Harris Cox @KHCox]

@montana43722 @HunterBiden @theregardedduck @Raindance_33 I was terrified when I got my crowns because I knew they were going to file down my teeth like that. And then cried when I saw it between filing and putting in the temporary crowns. But I’m so glad I did it. I’d waited 45 years to smile without being self-conscious!

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

🚨 BOMBSHELL! Fmr. DOJ Prosecutor Brendan Ballou exposes Trump's massive UFC scam. He confirms the administration is selling $1.5M VIP packages for White House cage fights.

Washington is openly using public monuments to generate private profits. Pure corruption!

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Seven girls—ages eleven to fourteen, six of them visibly pregnant—stood on the train platform at Boston's South Station on September 22, 1920, being led by two men and three women toward a train bound for "St. Mary's Home for Wayward Girls" in upstate New York—when suddenly a woman in the crowd, Mrs. Catherine Walsh, age fifty-two, had shouted "THOSE ARE CHILDREN! WHERE ARE YOU TAKING THEM?"—and within seconds, over thirty women on the platform had formed a human chain blocking the train doors, and Mrs. Walsh had confronted the group's leaders: "Why are pregnant children being taken to New York?"—and one of the women had answered "These girls are unwed mothers going to a home for rehabilitation"—but Mrs. Walsh had walked up to the girls and asked directly "Are you married?"—and five of the six pregnant girls had whispered "Yes" and shown wedding rings, and one girl, age eleven, had sobbed "They told my parents I have to go there after my baby comes to learn to be a good mother, but I heard they take the babies"—and Mrs. Walsh had shouted to the crowd "THESE ARE CHILD BRIDES BEING TRAFFICKED! SOMEONE CALL POLICE!"—and the thirty women had refused to move from the train doors while Mrs. Walsh had kept the group there until police arrived—and investigation revealed the "home" was actually a facility where child mothers were separated from their babies (adopted out for fees), then kept as unpaid labor for years—and all seven girls were taken into protective custody, their "husbands" (ranging in age from thirty-two to forty-seven) were arrested, and the "St. Mary's Home" was raided, revealing forty-three child mothers being held there—and Mrs. Walsh and the thirty women who'd formed the human chain were credited with exposing a multi-state child trafficking operation.
The youngest girl, age eleven, lived until 2005, dying at age ninety-six. Before her death, she reflected: "I was eleven and pregnant, being taken to a train that would separate me from my baby. A stranger on the platform saw us—seven pregnant children being led away—and shouted 'Those are children!' Within seconds, thirty women formed a human chain blocking the train. They wouldn't move until police came. That human chain of strangers saved seven of us and led to forty-three more girls being rescued. One woman's shout, thirty women's bodies blocking a train, changed everything.

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🚨🇺🇸 A terrified Bongino told Tucker that Trump shut down the Butler investigation himself.

Tucker says he accidentally obtained the Thomas Crooks social media posts the FBI claimed didn't exist, then called Kash Patel and Dan Bongino looking for answers.

Bongino, a friend of many years, allegedly became hysterical before finally telling him to take it up with Trump, who he said killed the Butler investigation himself.

Tucker says he still has every text exchange.

"There's no good explanation for shutting down an investigation into your own attempted murder.

This is not what we've been told it was."

@TuckerCarlson @TCNetwork

[Kathy Harris Cox @KHCox]

@LynneBP_294 @HistorianUSA1 She couldn’t walk well. The scooter died. How was she supposed to get inside to ask? If a heart is so stone cold that you’d call the damn cops over .50 to a dollar that is helping someone, you’d have probably said no if she had asked. God forbid his ass ever needs assistance…

[GenXGirl @GenXGirl1994]

FIND YOUR BALLS AMERICA

Thomas Massie said he will introduce an amendment to strike down Section 224 of the NDAA that will further integrate Israel into our military.

Tell Your House Rep to support the Massie Amendment to remove Section 224.
202-224-3121

[Miles Taylor @MilesTaylorUSA]

Yesterday Donald Trump tripled the size of his personal political army inside the government. Illegally. And almost no one noticed.

Here's what happened:

He signed an order converting ~8,000 of the most senior career officials in government into employees he can fire for any reason, or no reason at all.

These aren't rando's. They're the directors, chiefs of staff, and the people who write the rules or decide who gets federal money, i.e. the lieutenants right below his political appointees.

Until yesterday, they answered to the law. Now they answer to him.

A president normally gets ~4,000 political appointees. People he can bring into government and fire at will. I was one of them at DHS. You serve at his pleasure, full stop -- so if you're gonna speak truth to power, you're prepared to quit (or get fired if he doesn't like it).

The rest of the federal government is PROTECTED from firing if they tell the truth.

But Trump just stripped those protections. Adding 8,000 more people to his personal army. Overnight. Without asking Congress.

With the stroke of a pen, those people now serve at the pleasure of the president. They're "his" people, whether they like it or not.

And the chilling effect is real. An official who can be fired this afternoon for "subversion of presidential directives" (the order's own words) doesn't need to be hand-picked to know what's expected of him or her.

The threat does all the work.

By the way, this order is illegal. The law only lets Trump reclassify jobs when "necessary" in exceptional circumstances. And this blows an 8,000-person hole in the merit hiring / firing system created by Congress.

Without permission, Trump has created a whole new category of stormtroopers inside the Executive Branch.

If this doesn't get challenged in court, you're going to see the U.S. government become a very different place.

Here's the full story: https://t.co/mJzrvzhxGR

[one dozen rats at a keyboard @PanasonicDX4500]

I know it’s become pretty cliche and cringey to talk about at this point but if you’re under like 25 I cannot stress enough how one time Obama wore a tan suit and people spent a week arguing over whether or not it was demeaning to the Oval Office and they were serious about it.