Susan R

Passionate Public Educ advocate & NEA member: 38 yrs teaching K-12 Special Education in OK & KS advocating for students with mild, moderate, & severe challenges

[ABC News @ABC]

Melinda French Gates will expand her giving to improve women’s health globally, pledging another $215 million to support contraceptive access and maternal care, as well as initiatives aimed at middle-aged women, including further study of menopause. https://t.co/05ECF1Q1DI

[Peter Baker @peterbakernyt]

At least 97 of the nearly 1,600 people who were charged in connection with the Capitol riot have been accused of new crimes since Jan. 6, 2021, according to a study released from @lawfare. @lukebroadwater https://t.co/KdixHNBElX

[Jake Justice @jakecobb]

Keep posting this so nobody forgets that this was one of the worst events in American history.

Never has a sitting president encouraged his supporters to believe a lie so deeply that they’d be willing to attack or democracy.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Who agrees because I do ?

[ABC News @ABC]

President Trump announced he has issued a pardon to former Republican Rep. Stephen Buyer of Indiana, who was convicted of insider trading after leaving office.

Read more: https://t.co/6SyyIO5ZSp

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Since the @WhiteHouse and @POTUS is mad about this, please don’t retweet or share

[Jason McEndoo @JasonMcEndoo]

Grit. Fortitude. Service. Sacrifice.
#DDay 🇺🇸🫡

[Anderson Cooper 360° @AC360]

Watchdog group Public Citizen found that White House ballroom donors won more than $50 billion in government contracts after giving to the project. One of the authors of the report says, "the donations from these companies... are no gift, they're a grift."

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This is really stupid, and it’s not getting enough attention.

The Trump administration is pulling a working $368 million ocean monitoring system out of the water, equipment taxpayers already bought, built, and sank into the deep ocean.

And they are doing it right when the oceans are behaving in ways that alarm the scientists who study them.

Record-breaking temperatures.

A system of Atlantic currents that may be lurching toward collapse.

The response?

Yank out the instruments and walk away.

That is not budgeting. That is smashing the gauges while the engine is on fire and calling it efficiency.

For what? The Trump administration dressed it up as a “nimbler approach” and “smart lifecycle management,” which is fancy nonsense for “we shut it off and hoped nobody would ask why.” There is no return-on-investment analysis. They cannot show taxpayers save a dime, because the gear is already paid for and the science it produces protects real money and real lives.

The kicker: the same people killing the monitors want to mine the deep sea for minerals. So they are destroying the only tools that could measure what that mining does. That is not an accident.

That is the point. You cannot see the damage if you break the instruments first.
https://t.co/MzE4AW1QBv

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

These are all programs that Trump has cut funding for and I’m curious where all this money went! Why aren’t we asking questions. Why isn’t Congress asking questions! 🤬

[Elizabeth Warren @SenWarren]

At 4am, Senate Republicans gave the greenlight for the IRS to drop ALL investigations into Trump and his family.

That means if Trump is evading taxes, we’ll never know.

I have a bill to make this illegal. And I won’t stop fighting to get it done.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

The family of a child who was repeatedly raped by a man who Ken Paxton let off with no new jail time is speaking out:

“The fact that Attorney General Ken Paxton allowed this man to get away with molesting and sexually abusing [our] son for three years is completely disqualifying.

Adam Hoffman could have faced life in prison. Instead, Ken Paxton and his office offered him a deal that kept him off the sex-offender registry and included no new jail time.”

[leonie haimson @leoniehaimson]

Hegseth takes six of his children to France on official trip, as increased security costs including details on 2 of his former wives have caused a struggle to provide adequate training for its agents & Army criminal investigations have been curtailed. https://t.co/uw4G8PBfaJ

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨 UNITEDHEALTHCARE DENIED A PREMATURE BABY’S NICU COVERAGE — AND THE LETTER WAS ADDRESSED TO THE BABY

A father is going viral after revealing that he and his wife received a letter denying coverage for their twins' NICU stay.

But that's not the part that has people furious.

According to him, the denial letter wasn't addressed to either parent.

It was addressed directly to the baby.

The father says his premature newborn's first piece of mail was a healthcare coverage denial.

His response?

“If the baby was still in the womb, would you have sent the letter to my wife and had her eat it so the baby could read it?”

The clip is now exploding online as people debate:

• how insurance companies handle claims
• who is actually making these decisions
• and whether the healthcare system has completely lost its humanity

The comments are pouring in:

• “This can't be real.”
• “We've become numbers, not people.”
• “The baby got denied before it could even talk.”
• “Healthcare in America is broken.”

At what point does an insurance company stop feeling like a healthcare provider and start feeling like a claims-denial machine?

📹: Instagram/blakewexler

[Kristy Greenberg @KGreenberg_]

The Trump administration wants you to believe Trump’s $1.8 billion slush fund is dead. It’s not. The Acting AG didn’t kill it. A judge didn’t kill it. The plan to use your taxpayer money to pay Capitol rioters is still very much alive.

[KAKE News @KAKEnews]

Today marks the 82nd anniversary of D-Day -- a WWII invasion in which more than 150,000 Allied troops stormed the beaches of Normandy, France.

The invasion was originally scheduled for June 5, but storms forced a 24-hour delay.

[alex kershaw @kershaw_alex]

The last living officer to fight on Omaha Beach, Major General John Raaen, 104.

In 1944, right now, he wades ashore. “We landed at 7:50 a.m. where there were breakwaters and we had plenty of cover.” Even so, Raaen came under a “tremendous amount” of small arms fire from the nearby bluffs and several German strongpoints. There was “constant noise,” a ceaseless “roar.” Bullets cracked in the air, “pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, above you. The machine gun fire was absolutely continuous.”

When I met Raaen back in 2018, he told me he could still hear the sound of those bullets snapping over his head, the wall of noise that greeted him as he waded ashore. He crossed Omaha Beach, moved up steep bluffs, reached Vierville sur Mer around noon then set up the 5th Rangers’ first command post in Normandy. His first, critical mission was to organize the relief of fellow Rangers, surrounded and fighting for their lives five miles away at Pointe du Hoc, having scaled vertiginous cliffs under fire. These men from the 2nd Ranger Battalion had carried out one of the now legendary feats of D Day, described by Omar Bradley as the “most dangerous mission”.

See more: https://t.co/kdNsJD04vx

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

California just held an election with paper ballots, signature verification, audits, bipartisan oversight, and public vote counting procedures.

You don’t get to yell “fraud” every time voters make a choice you don’t like.

Take the whiny little b*tch act somewhere else. We’re not buying that bullshit in this state!

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

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[Morgan J. Freeman @mjfree]

💔 I'm gonna post this everyday so MAGA never forgets what Trump did on Jan 6 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸