aajane

Political blogger focusing on the Philadelphia suburbs

[Praise @tufpraise]

Hitler killed himself and Germany surrendered. Japan got nuked. Do they teach history in Ohio?

[Frank Luntz @FrankLuntz]

Last month, solar power generated 12.8% of electricity in the U.S. while coal was responsible for 12.2%.

It’s the first time in history that solar accounted for more energy than coal. 🔋 https://t.co/yMxwOduobq

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

If you think fertilized eggs are people but parents who've crossed the oceans with their kids aren't, stop pretending your concerns are religious.

[Jerry_Saiyan @JerryWillResist]

Set your Calendars 💙💙💙

[Patrick Gaspard @patrickgaspard]

First black 4 star General in US Military history who flew 179 combat missions in 2 wars for this nation. We all know why Hegseth is doing this and what he’s in the service of. We need to name it in our politics and stop hiding behind polite euphemisms.

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Elon Musk has just become the world's first trillionaire.

$1,000,000,000,000 is enough money to cover 12.6 million Medicaid enrollees for a decade, provide free school lunch to every kid in America for decades, build up to 2 million affordable homes, or make public college tuition free nationwide for roughly a decade.

[Democrats @TheDemocrats]

The same man who cut children’s cancer research is now a trillionaire.

[Congressman Dwight Evans @RepDwightEvans]

Musk is now worth over $1,100,000,000,000. Yet he pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

As reports show the trust fund will be depleted in less than 6 years, we must #ScrapTheCap so millionaires, billionaires, & trillionaires pay their fair share!

[sean kitchen @pennslinger]

CEO of the company that owns Sesame Place gave himself a 77% raise to $4.89 million in 2025, but State Sen. Frank Farry believes that the park won't be able to afford a $15 minimum wage.

[Mike Young @micyoung75]

Let's walk through what actually happened here, in order.

DOGE cut the USAID program specifically designed to prevent screwworm from crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. DOGE cut USDA's animal disease control and prevention funding. That funding had supported more than 180 outbreak investigations in 22 countries and capacity-building in more than 160 laboratories. The screwworm monitoring and response program that watched the border for exactly this parasite - cut.

Then screwworm showed up in Texas cattle. Texas Governor Greg Abbott declared a disaster for Zavala and Uvalde counties this week.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins went on CNBC this morning and blamed the Biden administration, 17 months out of office.

Her specific words: "obviously not much had been done to push back."

The program that was supposed to push back existed. DOGE eliminated it in March 2025. Rollins has been Agriculture Secretary since February 13, 2025. The cuts happened on her watch.

Beef prices are already high. Ranchers in south Texas are now dealing with a flesh-eating parasite that was eradicated in this country in the 1960s - eradicated, specifically, using the sterile fly program her department defunded.

The flies existed. The program existed. The budget existed.

Until it didn't.

[Fast Company @FastCompany]

"International partners are worried about measles being exported to them after the games." https://t.co/5uiCzQgyGK

[Moms Clean Air Force @CleanAirMoms]

Wow!

For first time, Americans are getting more of their electricity from #solar than coal...

https://t.co/iieArZjjKL

[Machine Pun Kelly 🇺🇦 @KellyScaletta]

So Ken Paxton's wife, co-workers, and lawyer all agree you shouldn't vote for the guy.

That's something worth pondering.

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

It appears that stopping a flesh eating parasite from spreading across the continent was, in fact, NOT waste, fraud, and abuse.
https://t.co/NZuFGFdFhy

[aajane @aajane]

@literaryeric @jongeeting I believe there is a reciprocal tax agreement wherein people pay tax in the state they live in not the state they work in.

[Seth Abramson @SethAbramson]

This isn't complicated.

A federal criminal investigation needs to be launched to investigate if Elon Musk lied on his citizenship application in the 1990s. We know he was an illegal alien when he applied.

If he did lie, he must be deported from the U.S. and never allowed back.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Congress Just Learned Something Pretty Stunning About Jeffrey Epstein’s Operation.

According to Rep. Melanie Stansbury, Epstein’s longtime executive assistant admitted her legal fees are being paid by a fund established through Epstein’s estate.

Read that again.

Jeffrey Epstein died in 2019.

Yet his money is still paying the attorneys of a key witness connected to his network.

Then came another admission.

She acknowledged helping arrange calls between Epstein and Trump, Prince Andrew, and other powerful figures.

Even now, Epstein’s money appears to be shaping who can afford legal representation and who can’t.

That’s a remarkable revelation.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

One of President Trump’s least important but most bewildering lies, which he has told on numerous occasions during this presidency, is that he personally coined the term “caravan.”

Even in the context of modern-day migrant caravans…no.

[Congressman Robert Garcia @RepRobertGarcia]

If you think California is taking a while to count votes, wait until you hear how long the Trump Administration is taking to release the Epstein files…

[The Philadelphia Citizen @thephilacitizen]

House Bill 1663, currently awaiting votes, aims to send a free book a month to every PA child — with a little help from Dolly Parton.
https://t.co/PKsD1D5YpN