Kat Packer

#GoPackGO! Midwest born & raised.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

Notice how the factions emerging on Iran in this administration are also the factions on Russia/Ukraine.

[Kat Packer @PackerKats]

@NotHoodlum I had forgotten all about him.

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

The fact that the Epstein Estate ACTUALLY PAID a settlement to one of the women who alleged that Donald Trump raped her as a minor, and it was paid AFTER Epstein died, as told under oath by Epstein's longtime accountant, should be a more significant story. The fact that Trump said he wasn't ever on Epstein's plane and now we found out he was, should be a more significant story. The fact that senior officials gathered in the Situation Room to concoct and coordinate an Epstein coverup IS a significant story, and being treated as such, but in light of all the rest and his behavior throughout, it should be the end of his presidency.

[Kat Packer @PackerKats]

Desperately hoping a member of the Kennedy family silently walks into frame and drags that tarp down in one fell swoop.

https://t.co/o2fY0jnYKn

[Kat Packer @PackerKats]

@ThatEricAlper ET. Saw it at the drive in as a little kid in my Pjs in the back seat.
Sobbed uncontrollably when ET left.

[Kat Packer @PackerKats]

How many hours does that leave in the week I’m too tired to do math.

[Brad Wilcox @BradWilcoxIFS]

🚨Married dads engagement on the home front has *tripled*. "Married dads of young children in 1965 did, on average, less than 10 hours a week of any kind of child care or help around the house. Dads in 2024 contributed nearly 30 hours a week." @lymanstoneky

[Rotimi Adeoye @_rotimia]

Wow I can’t believe they did the meme

[Kat Packer @PackerKats]

@jimstewartson And the bending over backwards patting themselves on the back for ‘helping people’.

[gremlin @queerlilgremlin]

“almost four” sure sounds like he doesn’t consider the fetus she’s pregnant with to be a real person yet

weird

[CBS News @CBSNews]

President Trump's investment accounts traded between $212 million and $695 million in stocks and other securities in the first three months of the year — an unprecedented sum for a sitting president. https://t.co/ZgTlwWOcXW

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Trump is giving $300 billion to Iran. This could pay for:

— Student debt elimination for 7.6M Americans
— An end to homelessness in America
— Healthcare subsidies for 22M Americans for nearly a decade
— Medicaid coverage for 3.2M Americans for a decade
— Food assistance for 41M Americans for 3 years
— Federal cancer research for 40+ years
— Free school lunch for every kid in America for over 4 years
— Replacing every lead pipe in America
— Free pre-K for every child in America for over 7 years

[Kenneth P. Vogel @kenvogel]

SCOOP from @By_CJewett & me:

Markwayne Mullin urged @HHSGov to remove warnings from the @US_FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom.

Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited. https://t.co/rzkImei3VI

[Kat Packer @PackerKats]

@feederofcats Dweeb is looking great! Looks like he’s going to floof up some more. Too cute.

[Luke Miani @LukeMiani]

> save $15M a year by cutting a screwworm monitoring program

> screwworm outbreak almost immediately

> $1B to combat it

Government efficiency

[Nikki Fried @NikkiFried]

Billionaire Jeff Yass's net worth increased under Trump $40B. He is buying Donalds now so he can own Florida's education system tomorrow.

You think these guys care that we pay our teachers 50th in the nation?!?

[Izzy Gardon @iGardon]

👀HUGE scoop from @CarolLeonnig.

MS Now confirms the Trump administration has been pressuring career civil servants to “COME UP with a case against Gavin Newsom.”

[Pat Dennis @patdennis]

Are you telling me my tax dollars are being sent to rebuild all the shit that Pete Hegseth blew up also with my tax dollars

[Sammi🦋 @StoriesBySammi]

Tennessee is sending letters to immigrant parents of disabled and terminally ill children enrolled in a last-resort public health program — kids on ventilators, kids with cancer, kids in wheelchairs - telling them that if their child keeps receiving medical care after June 30, the state will report them to ICE.

This program has existed for over 50 years. It has never required immigration status. Until now.

Children's Special Services is Tennessee's last-resort public health insurance program for low-income kids with the most severe disabilities and life-threatening illnesses - kids with no other coverage, no other options. The state just sent letters to at least 90 Nashville families giving them an impossible choice: keep your child alive, or stay invisible.

One mother, Gabriella, has a 10-year-old son born with spina bifida who requires near-monthly emergency care. They're six months from a final ruling on their asylum case. She said if they're sent back to Honduras, "he's not going to make it."

Here's the part that should make your head explode: the law Tennessee is using to justify this explicitly applies only to people 18 and older. These are children. Pediatricians, advocates, and lawmakers are all saying the state is misapplying its own law to reach kids it was never meant to cover.

The Tennessee Justice Center says the directive is unlawful and is preparing a legal challenge. But families are afraid to come forward as plaintiffs. Because coming forward means being seen.

The state health department has not responded to a single press request for comment.

What kind of government sends a letter to the mother of a child on a ventilator and calls it immigration enforcement?

📷 Jose Carlos Cerdeno/Getty

#DemsUnited

[Paul Graham @paulg]

This is the weakness of autocratic governments. If you can figure out how to push the buttons of the (80 year old) leader, you own the whole country.