lynn hazen

Blue dot in FL. Don’t blame me, I voted for KAMALA. 🐝❤️ dogs, travel, music, B’way, sports, politics, food & wine, family & friends. 🚫DMs

[lynn hazen @LHwanderlust]

@iamchanteezy And oh, so much more.

[Rep. Malcolm Kenyatta @malcolmkenyatta]

A man who owes a woman $5 million for sexual assault and was besties with a pedophile should STFU about protecting women and girls.

[Democratic Coalition @TheDemCoalition]

We're not distracted.

KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.
KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.
KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.
KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.
KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.
KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.
KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.
KEEP TALKING ABOUT THE EPSTEIN FILES.

#TrumpEpsteinCoverUp

[Janai Nelson @JNelsonLDF]

The first paragraph of Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s concurrence is a devastating takedown of Justice Thomas’s heinous opinion:

“The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.”

[LanaQuest aka RosaSparks @LqLana]

Daniel "Chappie" James Jr. was a fighter pilot in the Air Force.

He flew over 100 combat missions in Korea and 78 in Vietnam.

In 1975 Chappie became the first African American to reach four-star General rank.

He had attended Tuskegee and instructed Black pilots during WWII.

Hegseth and Trump consider him DEI, meaning he didn't get to where he did with merit and have removed General Chappie’s portrait, essentially trying to erase his accomplishments.

Neither Hegseth nor Trump have earned the positions they hold. They are inexperienced and insecure among other things.

Salute to the accomplishments of General Daniel Chappie James, Jr.
#DemsUnited

[Jesus Freakin Congress @TheJFreakinC]

🚨BREAKING: In Norman, Oklahoma, ICE agents illegally surrounded U.S. citizens, and demanded they prove their citizenship.

The Fourth Amendment doesn’t allow law enforcement to detain people without reasonable suspicion that they’ve committed a crime.

“Looking Hispanic” isn’t a crime.

And because ICE is a federal agency, targeting people based on race, or ethnicity, is a Fifth Amendment equal protection concern.

And then, after ICE agents demanded that two American citizens prove they belong in their own country… they just went back to their cars and drove away, like they didn’t just violate the constitution.

Imagine being surrounded by unmarked vehicles, treated like a criminal, and forced to prove your citizenship because of how you look.

This is exactly why constitutional rights exist. They’re supposed to protect us from the government abusing its power.

When agents think they can stop anyone they want, demand papers, and drive away like nothing happened, that’s how constitutional rights become meaningless.

[Janice Hough @leftcoastbabe]

GOP lost their minds when Lloyd Austin did not divulege he was hospitalized for two weeks after prostate cancer surgery in 2024.

Meanwhile Rep. Tom Kean was MIA for four months

And has anyone in GOP released ANY update on Mitch McConnell who was hospitalized over two weeks ago?

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Theodore Roosevelt said the national parks were the greatest gift this country ever gave itself, and the greatest idea we ever gave the world.

More than 100 nations copied it.

Donald Trump looks at that gift and sees a piggy bank for his own pet projects.

This week we learned where our national park money has been going. Not to Yellowstone. Not to Yosemite. To the walkway outside his office, where Trump ripped out American flagstone and laid down Italian granite at a cost of $689,000 to taxpayers. He said he paid for it himself.

That was a lie.

To cover his vanity projects, they are robbing the parks. Spending on parks outside Washington is down $854 million. More than 900 projects went unfunded. They even pulled money from a guardrail on a Colorado cliff that the Park Service flagged as a safety hazard.

I serve on Appropriations.

The power to spend belongs to Congress, not to a king redecorating his palace. These parks are not Trump’s to loot.

They belong to all of us, and I will fight for every dollar.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Catholic Sister released from ICE custody after being detained while on her way to Mass
https://t.co/zbK3vW01KX

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Donald Trump told you the ballroom would not cost taxpayers a dime. He told you donors were covering it. He even claimed the builders offered to do it for free.

None of that was true.

New reporting shows the White House secretly handed out a no-bid contract worth up to $500 million.

They routed the deal through the Executive Residence office, the one that normally buys White House furniture and art, because it is exempt from the competitive bidding rules every other federal agency has to follow. They even claimed disclosing the project would compromise national security.

The cost estimate has already tripled, from $200 million to $600 million, with half of it landing on taxpayers. The contractor stands to clear tens of millions in profit.

A federal judge already ruled the president has no authority to demolish the East Wing and build this thing. He is doing it anyway.

This is your money, spent in secret, on a vanity project, with the rules deliberately dodged.

More corruption, plain and simple.

https://t.co/ESgm65Trde

[lynn hazen @LHwanderlust]

@gggirl924 And generally have the disposable income to buy products🤣

[Trump Lie Tracker (Commentary Account) @MAGALieTracker]

BREAKING: Bombshell new reporting from CNBC reveals that Trump bought millions in Axon stock just two weeks before ICE sought a $220,000,000 deal to buy tasers from Axon.

This raises serious questions about insider trading as Trump continues to profit off of the presidency.

[lynn hazen @LHwanderlust]

@KwikWarren Thanks for sharing, hadn’t seen this.
Saw them a couple of years ago at JazzFest and was blown away.

[Stella Parton @StellaParton]

If we acknowledge the power and privilege in America is all controlled by the White Male population.
Fear based religion, fear based misogyny and fear of losing control of the narrative.
Drain the swamp of the white male political class and we might start to clean up the mess

[Acyn @Acyn]

Kamlager-Dove on Rubio Iran Briefing: I have to say, the highlight—or lowlight—for me was when Secretary Rubio was asked about the difference between this MOU and the JCPOA. And Marco Rubio essentially said the JCPOA, Obama’s nuclear deal, was a real agreement with criteria, benchmarks, and thresholds.

And this MOU is just a signed piece of paper saying we’re going to continue to talk about talking. So you should ask yourself, a hundred-and-something billion dollars later, what are these people doing with our money and our national security?

[Rep. Dr. Jasmine Clark @jasmineforga]

Here is the Georgia Medicaid application. Social Security number is the very first question. Why must they lie?

https://t.co/B1JJJ3GP0y

[lynn hazen @LHwanderlust]

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[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

A young woman named MacKenzie Tuttle graduated from Princeton in 1992 with a degree in English. One of her professors was Toni Morrison, who later described her as one of the finest creative writing students she had ever taught.

After graduation, MacKenzie took a job at the New York investment firm D. E. Shaw. There she met a colleague named Jeff Bezos, who had an ambitious idea: selling books on the internet.

She didn’t laugh at the idea.

They married in 1993, and the following year drove across the country to the Seattle area to build what would become Amazon.

In the beginning, there was no global empire.

There was a garage.

MacKenzie handled accounting, wrote business materials, answered customer emails and phone calls, and packed orders alongside Jeff. Like many startups, everyone did whatever needed to be done.

As Amazon grew, MacKenzie stepped away from day-to-day operations to raise their four children while continuing to pursue her own passion for writing.

Her debut novel, The Testing of Luther Albright, won the American Book Award. She later published a second novel and quietly built a respected literary career.

Meanwhile, the story of Amazon became one of the most famous business stories ever told.

Jeff Bezos became one of the world’s most recognizable entrepreneurs.

MacKenzie’s role was rarely part of the public narrative.

She never seemed interested in changing that.

What many people don’t know is that she also knew financial hardship.

Her family filed for bankruptcy while she was still a student, and she has spoken about the kindness of people who helped her through difficult times—acts of generosity she never forgot.

In 2019, after her divorce, MacKenzie Scott received approximately 4% of Amazon’s shares.

Almost immediately, she made a decision that surprised the world.

She signed the Giving Pledge, promising to donate the majority of her wealth during her lifetime.

Then she did something even more unusual.

Instead of building a massive public foundation or attaching her name to buildings, she began giving away billions of dollars through large, unrestricted grants.

Universities.

Food banks.

Housing organizations.

Rural communities.

Women’s health initiatives.

Tribal colleges.

Climate organizations.

Small nonprofits that had never imagined receiving gifts of that size.

Many recipients reportedly thought the phone calls were scams.

They weren’t.

Since 2019, MacKenzie Scott has donated tens of billions of dollars to thousands of organizations, making her one of the most significant philanthropists of the modern era.

Despite giving away enormous sums, her fortune has remained substantial because of Amazon’s continued growth.

The woman who once packed Amazon’s first orders is now helping fund opportunities for millions of people she will probably never meet.

She never asked for buildings in her name.

She never demanded headlines.

Sometimes the greatest legacy isn’t the company you help build.

It’s what you choose to do with the success that follows.

[Republicans against Trump @RpsAgainstTrump]

Ronald Reagan: “You can go to live in France, but you cannot become a Frenchman…But Anyone, from any corner of the Earth, can come to live in America and become an American…This, I believe, is one of the most important sources of America's greatness.”🇺🇸

[lynn hazen @LHwanderlust]

@krassenstein If Lara Trump performs the number will drop to zero🤣🤣🤣