THELilliepi🇺🇸🥥🌴🇺🇦🌻

I write poetry for myself, but I try to live to be good to Earth. We love earth! Normal is a dryer setting.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

I think Ossof’s remarks and the GOP’s meltdown over them is a reminder of why Ossof would be such a formidable 2028 Democratic presidential candidate: he is v good at absolutely nailing Trump, MAGA, the GOP for what they are. And not backing away from it.
Dems need an attacker.

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

KY @GovAndyBeshear: “I have heard nothing back from Mitch McConnell.”

Without proof of life the scam being run on Kentucky taxpayers warrants criminal charges— at the very least his staff is stealing paychecks.

Reminder: McConnell blocks paid leave, universal health care, etc

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Crazy idea: Spend taxpayer money on supplies for our well-trained and modestly paid sailors, not on electric shock gloves for poorly trained and overpaid ICE agents.

[Amy McGrath @AmyMcGrathKY]

We need term limits.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

What a complete fucking disaster.

We’re going to be paying the bill for this presidency for a long time.

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

TODAY, on August 17th, I celebrate 23 years clean and sober.🙏

I am filled with gratitude forgetting a second chance at life, after pulling myself out of the grips of addiction, one day at a time.

I've spoken out about it openly here on Twitter, in the spirit of wanting to help destigmatize addiction... it doesn't matter what political party you belong to, what race or religion.

Small-minded and pathetic lowlifes have tried repeatedly to attack me using lies about my own shared anecdotes, and all I can do is remind them "There, but for the grace of God go I."

Addiction can happen to anyone.
And it destroys lives and families.
If you know someone struggling with it, there is hope.

23 years ago, I admitted that I needed help, that I could NOT do it on my own, and surrendered to my higher power.

But that was only after MANY attempts to stop had failed; three years here, four years there... I was beginning to feel hopeless.

Nothing beats a failure except a try.

It has been a LONG journey, often a daily struggle, and I look forward to (hopefully) 23 more years and beyond of sobriety.

I STRONGLY believe in therapy in addition to the 12 Step programs of AA and NA, because that support system is invaluable. Not just for the addict, but Al-Anon helps the families dealing with it too.

There are MANY of you out there who have reached out and been supportive of me over the years. Know that I love and appreciate you, because this really ain't easy, even after 23 years.

One day at a time.

[Ruth Ben-Ghiat @ruthbenghiat]

Les saboteurs

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

We're losing a war to Iran, we're alienating our allies, we're emboldening our enemies, our stalwart service people are being subjected to deprivations...and this is what the Commander in Chief is doing.

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Ten used jets, supposedly needed for deportation flights, bought through another no-bid contract. The price tag was $464 million.

So where are these jets now? Seven of them have been sitting on a tarmac in Louisiana for months. Three are luxury business jets, with one reportedly sent to FBI Director Kash Patel.

Americans are struggling with higher prices in every aspect of their lives, but sure, let's spend hundreds of millions of dollars on planes that just sit on asphalt for no real purpose.
https://t.co/TdHGEat5YU

[BrooklynDad_Defiant!☮️ @mmpadellan]

Susan Collins' whole Senate career is built on pretending to be a moderate influence "I'm concerned," then turning around and giving permission to the WORST policies.

ICE cannot be trusted, ever.
Neither can Susan Collins.

Stop voting for her, Maine!

[THELilliepi🇺🇸🥥🌴🇺🇦🌻 @TLilliepi]

WTF -

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

Superpower suicide.

[Molly Jong-Fast @MollyJongFast]

What if we’re all just passengers on the decoy plane?

[Judd Legum @JuddLegum]

1. Mitch McConnell suffered a fall on June 14 and has not been in the Senate for two months. But he's continued to get paid his salary of 174K/year.

Since he entered the Senate in 1985, McConnell has voted against creating or expanding medical leave at least 23 times.

[Tom Nichols @RadioFreeTom]

For years I've written how much he despises the military. And all you have to do is take his word for it.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Memo to anybody with access to the database: preserve it somewhere!

[THELilliepi🇺🇸🥥🌴🇺🇦🌻 @TLilliepi]

@JamesTate121 Zeus, my blonde shadow.

[Glenn Tunes @glenn_tunes]

ABSO-FUCKING-LUTELY 💯💯💯💯

[CALL TO ACTIVISM @CalltoActivism]

🚨MAJOR BREAKING: A massive report exposes that Trump purchased $100,000,000 in bonds tied to companies DIRECTLY impacted by his policies. That is slam dunk insider trading and is IMPEACHABLE.

Overall, Trump has made an estimated $3.4 BILLION in just one year and 6 months.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Rogin: in order to buy Scott's defense, you would have to ignore what everybody knows, which is that they set up this ICE system in a hurry with billions of dollars by hiring thousands of unqualified people and denying them the proper training to do that job, and then giving them these quotas for arrests where they let them loose on these communities in a systematic way. The direction came from the top. The system was designed from the top, and it functioned as designed, which was to terrorize these communities.

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

Interesting. It's not as though Congress has anything to do with the war powe— … oh, wait