Rick Reiley

Oklahoma born and raised. Older than most everyone I know. I play,sing,write and sit. Not necessarily in that order though. I take up more space than I used to.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Scientists at Trump’s EPA say they are being told to make chemical risks “disappear on paper.” Not to study or manage them, but to make them vanish.

When a safety test on a household chemical shows danger, supervisors reportedly ask to keep shrinking the scenario until the poison looks safe.

They have reassigned senior scientists to paperwork and handed life-and-death risk assessments to staff with less experience. They have installed former chemical industry lobbyists to run the very offices that are supposed to regulate the chemical industry.

A gift to industry, paid for with your family’s health.

They are even throwing out research on how certain chemicals hit certain communities harder, calling decades of established science “DEI.”

You can make risk disappear on paper.

The cancer does not disappear.

The birth defects do not disappear.

The infertility does not disappear.

The kids drinking the water and getting sick do not disappear.

The EPA exists to protect people, not to protect the profit margins of the people poisoning them.

Every American deserves to know what is happening. #TrumpMakesUsSick

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[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

Translation: Whoopsie, we fired everybody. Can anyone help us with this screwworm thing before it gets out of hand? Please???

[MAGA Cult Slayer🦅🇺🇸 @MAGACult2]

Rising prices every day.

[Senator Chris Van Hollen @ChrisVanHollen]

In the midst of an Ebola outbreak: we have no confirmed CDC Director, Surgeon General, or FDA Commissioner. Half of NIH's Institutes & Centers lack permanent leadership.

Meanwhile, RFK Jr. is leaving work at 4pm & spouting conspiracy theories. This is public health under Trump.

https://t.co/deDui6LGiv

[Rick Reiley @Rickreiley]

@live_durable Try eating celery.

[Haley Britzky @halbritz]

New: On April 1, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George requested an in-person meeting with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth — an effort to calm months of tension between Hegseth and senior Army leaders, three officials said.

The meeting never came. The next day, he was fired in the middle of a meeting with Army staff.

“The staff proceeded to, one by one, either go and give him a handshake or a hug,” a Pentagon official recalled. By the next morning, George’s office had been emptied.

Inside Hegseth’s Pentagon, where distrust and suspicions of loyalty are rampant
https://t.co/8scA1rAERd

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

Wow, if you read this you might get the impression that trump is getting ready to steal the next election! And you’d be right.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

Every single Privatized Immigration facility needs to be shut down immediately.Think about it Mass murderers in prison have better living conditions than the Immigrants especially children & pregnant women in these facilities which are getting rich off them & so are Politicians.

[Rick Reiley @Rickreiley]

@lisa_liberal Yes! They all claim to be Trump’s best friend willing to do whatever he tells them to do. It’s ugly!

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

It appears that Trump never posted anything about D-Day, though he had plenty of posts on June 6. It's as if all pretenses are gone, and he's given up even pretending he's interested in honoring anything about America other than himself.

[😱 Scary Larry 😱 🇺🇦✊🏻🇺🇸🗽 @aintscarylarry]

Hitler didn’t report how many people his concentration camps were killing either.

[⚓️Debra ⚓️ @JerZFyreFighter]

@AdamKinzinger @RockyResistor Let’s not forget that he’s using our tax money for his vanity projects, but won’t use it for why we pay taxes, namely to help the less fortunate whether it’s SNAP, or Medicaid, or WIC, or any of the other social programs that this lunatic has cut or eliminated!!

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

“Has a nation ever been so befouled, beclowned and besmirched by someone charged with its care and leadership before? What was so broken in an obtuse third of the American personality that we allowed such an exceptionally awful man to rise to power?

It is no accident that as soon as Republicans began to mildly pushback on Trump, his first response was to immediately lash out at women. (In this week’s case it was again White House reporter and CNN anchor Kaitlin Collins). It’s a deranged form of self-soothing for the deeply flawed, misogynistic, sexual predator/president.

And once he got into office, how was it not plain for all to see that he was not merely a belligerent buffoon, but he was in fact using his power to enrich himself and his family while destroying the very fabric of our society and breaking through the moral barricades of our institutions to allow his criminal scrum of scoundrels to pillage and plunder?

To steal from the neediest among us to further line the greasy pockets of Palm Beach dilettantes and deadbeat debutantes. The sort of people a saner nation would mock mercilessly, or at the very least, invent new forms of sitcoms and comedy to satire.

Instead, these bejeweled weasels inveigle themselves further into the foundation of our society. Buying their way into our media, fashion and attention spans.

Trump himself is like a rabid muskrat chewing on the dining room table’s legs while a dysfunctional family sits down to a Thanksgiving dinner of cold duck and crow.”https://t.co/SfZgeT6SzH

[Eva Cassidy Discussion Group @evacassidy_talk]

Eva Cassidy - A Musical Decathlete
Anniversary Song

https://t.co/7gPosseNy7

Eva sang in no less than ten genres. Blues, Jazz, Folk, Gospel, Sour/RnB, Pop, Country, Rock, Americana Traditional. She had no audible home base style but rather sang each style as if it was her most proficient.

In each genre Eva found the emotional truth of a song underneath the genre clothing which the song was originally wearing - and sometimes the truth lived in a completely different style than the original song suggested.

"Anniversary Song" is perhaps the least discussed but genuinely striking — she found a melancholy in it that the original sentiment doesn't obviously contain.

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

“We all should be ‘really, really freaked out.’ Trump’s power grab over the executive branch is intensifying. Trump is less popular…But it’s as if he doesn’t expect elections to matter because he’s going to do everything he can for them not to matter.”

https://t.co/1ZgfbREaMb

[Bill Madden @maddenifico]

Trump has just destroyed the US beef industry. No country in their right mind is going to import US beef.

After Trump cut funding for Screwworm monitoring programs, the dangerous flesh-eating parasite has been found in US cattle for the first time since 1966.

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

From the heartbeat of the bodhrán to the hauntingly beautiful uilleann pipes to the bouzouki that only arrived in the tradition in the 1960s, here are the instruments that make Irish traditional music one of the great sounds on earth. https://t.co/OsXRyynitE

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

Most independent artists are leaving money on the table every month because they haven't registered with the right organisations. Here's the beginner's guide to music publishing and how to collect every royalty you're owed. https://t.co/y6UDEtoOD5

[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

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[MeidasTouch @MeidasTouch]

FBI records obtained through a Judicial Watch lawsuit reveal that a Butler County Sheriff’s deputy exchanged two emails with Trump shooter Thomas Crooks before the July 13, 2024 assassination attempt. The records remain heavily redacted, concealing the nature of the communications. The documents also reveal a SWAT officer recovered a cell phone and a remote device with an antenna from Crooks after he was killed.