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I’m just an Over-Educated Woman Who Believes In Abortion Access…….

[🪷TXViQueen 🌻 🇺🇦 @ViQueen55]

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[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

Joe Kernen comes close to having a coronary on air as Pete Buttigieg dogwalks him all over the Squawk Box studio about Trump's economic mismanagement and inflation

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

New US strikes on Iran.

Reportedly Iran has already started firing back, too.

If this turns into all-out war again, I fear that we’re going to find out that Iran is better prepared this time. I hope I’m wrong.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Uhhhh...Ron.

[John Anzalone @JohnAnzo]

This comparison to Trump's first and second term job approval rating on the economy says everything about the political environment for the upcoming 2026 midterms

Trump had a +8 approval on the economy at this time in 2018 and still got wiped out in the midterms. His job approval is -34 now! You can't gerrymand out of that

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

Tell us about the time you stole billions from Medicare, Rick.

[𝔗𝔯𝔲𝔱𝔥 𝔐𝔞𝔱𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔰 @politicsusa46]

Just when Trump thought the Epstein files threat was in the rear view mirror, Maggie Habermsn and Jonathan Swan come a knocking on the door of public consciousness again.

Their upcoming book ‘Regime Change’ rips of the festering scab that has grown over the open wound of Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

The regime are going to find this reporting very difficult to brush off as lies and a hit job. It’s just another in a growing list of damaging political threats Trump is unable to fend off.

Thanks to the New York Times for the clip.

🎥 TikTok - https://t.co/jUrKBSubl4

[Wu Tang is for the Children @WUTangKids]

Whoa…The French Air Force display team, La Patrouille de France, just did a flyover at the Statue of Liberty to celebrate the 250th Anniversary of American Independence

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[Frank Brown @FrankBr05713205]

I teach auto shop at a small high school. We work on students cars, teachers cars, students parents cars and some community people cars. We only charge for parts and not labor, so we saved some people a lot of money last school year. This last school year we did 126 oil changes, 68 brake jobs, 85 alignments, 4 steering racks, 22 tune ups, 32 struts, 20 shock absorbers, 4 transfer cases, mounted and balanced 82 new tires, 4 timing chains, 15 valve cover gaskets, 14 thermostats, 4 radiators, 12 in tank fuel pumps, 8 EVAP canisters, 6 exhaust manifolds, 4 mufflers, 15 AC repairs including evacuate and recharge, 8 alternators, 22 batteries, 9 starters and so much more! Proud of those students I am!

[Tom Bonier @tbonier]

I'm not sure what we can do to prepare for this, but given the amount of noise the MAGA echochamber is creating, claiming fraud because they lost an election in an overwhelming Democratic stronghold, we aren't remotely ready for what they'll do when they lose in November.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This Administration has removed the achievements of the Air Force’s first female Thunderbird pilot Retired Colonel Nicole Malachowski. The removal of these articles have sparked criticism because her place in Air Force history is not a Political slogan it’s well documented.

[Jared Ryan Sears @JaredRyanSears]

Social Security does not add to the national debt. It is even prohibited by law from borrowing money.

Politicians who talk about cutting or changing Social Security to address the debt are lying to you.

Here is how Social Security funding works:

Social Security is funded by payroll taxes. When more money comes in from payroll taxes than benefits that need to be paid out, Social Security is obligated to invest the surplus in Treasuries.

Treasuries are bonds. Governments and corporations issue bonds to generate money. A bond is a loan from the purchaser to the issuer.

A bond has a principal, a maturity date, and an interest rate. The principal is the value of the bond. When you buy a bond, you pay the principal. When the bond reaches its maturity date, the issuer is required to pay the principal back to the holder. The interest rate is the amount the issuer pays to the bondholder.

It is similar to how, when you take out a 30-year mortgage, you agree to a repayment schedule and to pay interest until the loan is repaid.

As Treasuries mature, if Social Security doesn't need that extra money, it rolls them over by buying new Treasuries.
When Social Security needs more money to cover benefits, it cashes out Treasuries.

The federal government has had a deficit for the past 25 years. This means that when it has to meet its obligations, it needs to borrow money.

This is how people claim that Social Security adds to the debt. That is ridiculous.

Companies and countries buy US Treasuries. You and I can buy them. Anyone holding a Treasury when it matures isn't increasing the debt. The government’s unbalanced budget is causing the debt.

Cutting Social Security will do nothing to get the US out of debt, but it would create hardship for millions of Americans.

Social Security currently has a shortfall, primarily because people are living longer and the large Boomer generation is retiring. In 1960, there were 5.1 people paying into Social Security. Today, there are only 2.7. The trust fund from past surpluses is keeping it afloat, but it is running out.

The easiest way to address the shortfall is to remove the tax cap on Social Security. Benefits do not have to be increased to do this. This is exactly what was done for Medicare in 1993. The tax cap was removed, and benefits weren't increased to better fund the program.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

The man running the agency responsible for 340 million Americans' health arrives at 10am, leaves by 4pm, skips his own division chief meetings, and when he does show up - scrolls his phone and gets described by colleagues as "checked out."

Ebola is spreading. Six Americans already exposed. He has not briefed himself with CDC scientists. His response to a reporter asking if he was worried: "Yeah, we're working on it."

The CDC is being run by a health economist with no public health experience who already has another full-time job running NIH. Half of the 27 NIH institutes have no permanent director. The top FDA drug regulator got fired in May - Kennedy found out after it happened.
When measles killed two children in Texas, the CDC official leading the response asked repeatedly to brief Kennedy. He was rebuffed every time.

The person actually running HHS operations is a longtime personal adviser whose policy spreadsheet - more than 50 items - is hidden from the department's own policy team. When Kennedy gets asked a question, his standing answer is "just run that by Stefanie."

This is not a management philosophy. This is a vacancy wearing a title.

[Today In History @historigins]

During the 2011 Congressional picnic, Barack Obama became famous for calming a inconsolable little girl after Michelle Obama was unable to soothe her during a meet-and-greet at the White House. ⁠
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The girl stopped crying as soon as the president picked her up, prompting the media and onlookers to humorously dub him “the baby charmer,” while he shot a playful, smug glance at the first lady. ⁠

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

This one hits hard.

[John Collins @Logically_JC]

On behalf of Collins everywhere, I’d like to apologize for Susan.

[Adam Mockler @adammocklerr]

Susan Collins is the swamp Trump promised to drain.

She needs to go!!!

[Ian Weissman, DO @DrIanWeissman]

"Americans have worked hard and paid into Social Security their entire lives, and they deserve to count on it when they retire. No family should see any cuts to what they’ve earned in Social Security. ”
https://t.co/dGpm6VVo7E

[Congressman Greg Casar @RepCasar]

$2 trillion+ for billionaire tax cuts. 

A $70 billion blank check for ICE and CBP.

$1.8 billion for J6 rioters.

Now they say we need to cut Medicare and Social Security.

https://t.co/lJvflUmwu9

[The Mashreq @TheMashreq]

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#BREAKING - @kann reports: At the request of the United States, the UAE delivered a plane carrying $3 Billion dollars in cash to Iran, in exchange for stopping its attacks on Israel

[Patrick Svitek @PatrickSvitek]

"She has worked in politics longer than Joe Biden," Platner says of Collins #MESEN

[🪷TXViQueen 🌻 🇺🇦 @ViQueen55]

@ChrisCuomo @atrupar #Masculine???