🇺🇸🐱Susan🐱🇺🇸

Army Brat. Naturalized Buckeye.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

You're NOT struggling because immigrants took your job. You're struggling because billionaires took your wages.

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

My kids have measles, I can't breathe the air, I can't afford gas, and I have explosive diarrhea from a parasite RFK Jr. ordered the CDC to stop monitoring. But at least now the Saudis have a nuclear program.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Happy Feast of St. Mary Magdalene!

Remember that in the time between when the Risen Christ appeared to her at the Tomb, and when she announced the news of the Resurrection to the disciples, Mary Madgalene was, in a sense, the church on earth. For only to her had the Paschal Mystery--the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ--been fully revealed.

Any discussion of women's roles in the church must begin with this fact: It was to a woman that the Risen Christ first appeared and a woman who was charged by him with announcing the Resurrection to the rest of his disciples. Thus, her justly exalted title: "Apostle to the Apostles."

Happy Feast!

Image: St. Mary of Magdala Proclaims the Resurrection," by Sr. Margarette Beaudette, SC.

[MM  @adgirlMM]

As Trump and Doug Burgum get ready to cut down DC's oldest grove of cherry blossom trees for a golf course this Sept, understand this.

Trump removed federal protections on 3,000,000 acres of national monuments Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante in Utah for drilling, mining and development.

That reduces the size of those protected wilderness lands by 90%.

To give you an idea of the extent of that loss, 3 million acres is larger than the size of Yellowstone National Park. Imagine Yellowstone completely GONE.

It's the land equivalent of wiping out Los Angeles, Chicago, NYC, Jacksonville, Houston, Phoenix, San Antonio, Dallas, San Diego, Austin. Imagine all those cities flattened and gone.

That's what Trump is doing to our protected public lands.

[David Attenborough @fandom_david]

We can’t survive without bees.
We can’t survive without forests.
We can’t survive without healthy oceans.
We can’t survive without clean rivers.
We can’t survive without fertile soil.

And somehow…
we still act as if humans exist separately from nature.

[S★ @xxyllinn]

I don’t want to "download the app" to pay for parking. I don’t want to "create an account" to see a menu. I don’t want to "provide feedback" on a 30-second interaction. I just want to exist in the physical world without a digital leash.

[David Attenborough @fandom_david]

Canada is on fire.
Europe is on fire.
The Amazon is on fire.
Cities are breaking heat records.
Rivers are drying up.
Other countries are drowning in floods.
Storms are getting stronger.
Seasons don’t feel like seasons anymore.

And somehow…
climate change is still a debate.

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

Lindsey Graham and I had a complicated relationship.

Before Trump, we were friends. We traveled together on congressional trips around the world, including visiting Syrian refugee camps where we met children whose lives had been shattered by war. Those moments reminded us why public service mattered.

After Trump, we went in very different directions, and we eventually stopped speaking. I never hid those disagreements, and I won’t rewrite that history today.

But death has a way of putting things in perspective. I choose to remember the man I knew before our paths diverged—the one who cared deeply about America’s role in the world and wasn’t afraid to see suffering up close.

Rest in peace, Lindsey. My prayers are with his family and all who loved him.

[Hunter Biden @HunterBiden]

When I heard about Senator Graham’s death last night, the first thing I thought about was not all the things he said and did in service of Donald Trump. I thought of the time before Donald Trump when he was a brother to Senator John McCain.

A time when senators from different parties could fight about politics and still be friends. A time when a conservative Republican from South Carolina could say of my father: “If you can’t admire Joe Biden as a person, you’ve got a problem. He’s the nicest person I’ve ever met in politics. As good a man as God ever created.”

That is the Senator Graham I will remember today. Not because I have forgotten what came after. Because in that memory there is hope. Hope for a country where brothers can fight like hell over policy and still share a meal, and a laugh, and the loss of the people they love.

I will choose to remember the time before Trump. Because I believe in an America after Trump.

[Cook Political Report @CookPolitical]

The Cook Political Report is moving five governors' race ratings, all but one in the direction of Democrats. That includes moving Ohio's contest from Lean Republican to Toss Up.

Read more from @JessicaTaylor:

https://t.co/OgjJnieMOg

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Hey @grok, what was the first major U.S. commercial airport named after a convicted felon?

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

Wednesday — Democrats force a candidate out for being a sexual predator

Thursday — Republicans name an airport in honor of a sexual predator

[🇺🇸🐱Susan🐱🇺🇸 @Susan_C_Moore]

@DispatchAlerts This administration’s FDA? Hmmm.

[🇺🇸🐱Susan🐱🇺🇸 @Susan_C_Moore]

@FrankLaRose @darreldrowland Are you staying hydrated, Frank? Irritability and irrational reactions to benign issues can be an indication of a more serious condition.

[🇺🇸🐱Susan🐱🇺🇸 @Susan_C_Moore]

@FrankLaRose Wow. Nick hit a nerve. 👀
Deflect, push back, distract. Hiding much??

[🇺🇸🐱Susan🐱🇺🇸 @Susan_C_Moore]

@RpsAgainstTrump 👀

[Bill Clinton @BillClinton]

Happy 80th birthday to my friend George W. Bush!

Your friendship—and that of your father and your entire family—has been one of the great gifts of my life. It has always reminded me that long before we’re politicians, we’re fellow Americans and, above all, human beings.

And for the next month, I’m especially grateful to finally have someone older than me! Wishing you many more years of good health, happiness, and friendship.

Our country is stronger when we remember that what unites us is greater than what divides us.

[🇺🇸🐱Susan🐱🇺🇸 @Susan_C_Moore]

@AnnieForTruth Not just “guys,” unfortunately. ☹️

[Charles M. Blow @CharlesMBlow]

This is what has been unleashed in this country: a return to emboldened racism. They feel validated and vindicated. They no longer have to couch their bigotry in polite language. It can now, once again, be raw and visceral. This is what we are fighting people.

[J. Dixon Beck @johndixonbeck]

@SandraRodkey