annebgamache

A lover of West Michigan!!! Recently retired after 39 years in the financial industry….

[Overton @overton_news]

This was a STUNNING admission.

David Beamer, the father of one of the heroes of Flight 93, just said the DSA is more aligned with terrorists than Americans.

BEAMER: "Our enemies haven't gone away. Unfortunately, some enemies are now coming from within."

"Their next attack, they have been planning against our way of life, our government, all the institutions. The same things that the terrorists were attacking on 9/11."

"These enemies from within are citizens. They identify themselves as democratic socialists."

"Their platform is one that aims to destroy all the values and the foundations of this country that we've enjoyed for hundreds of years."

"These democratic socialists are really more closely aligned with domestic terrorists."

He's right. It's very scary to see a movement like the DSA, which indeed in some cases side with terrorists, gain power just 25 years after 9/11.

[Overton @overton_news]

This was an incredible segment.

Before ending his interview with CNBC Squawk Box this morning, CMS Administrator Dr. Oz took a moment to sound the alarm on America’s $100 BILLION healthcare fraud epidemic.

And then he dropped a line that really says it all:

“They’re not just stealing your money, they’re stealing your health.”

DR. OZ: “Can I touch on one last thing before I leave you?”

BECKY QUICK: “Yeah, I was going to ask what your biggest goal is for this year?”

DR. OZ: “We have got to deal with the fraud issues, and here’s why.”

“They’re not just stealing your money, they’re stealing your health, because if they don’t care about stealing from poor people, they’ll take your health away, and they’re stealing the nation’s trust.”

“Medicare and Medicaid were created in a high trust environment.”

“We assumed people would do the right things. We now are experiencing about $100 billion of theft a year, much of it because of the Covid pandemic impact on teaching criminals to move into healthcare.”

“And we believe if we could just take the fraud out of Medicare, we would double the life expectancy of the Medicare trust fund, which means not only would you have it for your retirement, but it could be there for your kids as well.”

That last point is the bigger issue Oz was getting at.

And if the administration can actually recover a meaningful portion of that money, Oz says the payoff could extend far beyond the current generation of Medicare recipients.

[Joshua Lisec, The Ghostwriter @JoshuaLisec]

He has always loved America.

[Spencer Pratt @spencerpratt]

750,000 NYC voters have zero memory of this because they weren’t even alive on 9/11. Commie Mamdani won his primary by only 130,000 votes.

How do you think he’d do if he were faced with a terrorist attack like Giuliani was?

[annebgamache @annebgamache]

I have been thinking this for years!

[Anna Hoffman @shoesonplease]

Why does everyone suddenly have a service dog?

These weren’t a thing 20 years ago.
Thoughts? 🐕

[annebgamache @annebgamache]

Wow! What handiwork!!!

[Harmeet K. Dhillon @HarmeetKDhillon]

Knitting done. Time to wash and block. Maybe wear once or twice before the fall.

[annebgamache @annebgamache]

YES! 🇺🇸

[ErikDPrince @realErikDPrince]

Worth defending.

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

Michigan test scores fall to new lows despite increased spending https://t.co/wyqkkOXsZx

[annebgamache @annebgamache]

You just posted what I was thinking @DonnieDetroit19 !!!

[Donnie Detroit @DonnieDetroit19]

She was attacked just like you were kidnapped.

[Joel Pollak @joelpollak]

Kushner negotiated trade deals, the Abraham Accords, and more… what a stupid comment

[Chairwoman Lisa McClain @RepLisaMcClain]

We want a strong trading relationship with Canada, but President Trump isn’t going to make a bad deal just for the sake of making one.

I’ve spoken with @POTUS, and one thing I know for sure: he’s always thinking about the American people FIRST.

[Benny Johnson @bennyjohnson]

Mamdani says he plans to attend the 25th anniversary ceremony of 9/11 despite THOUSANDS of New Yorkers telling him to stay away.

This comes days after he gave a pen he signed 9/11 orders with to the lawyer of An Al-Qaeda terrorist tied to the Pentagon hijacker.

He spent the 4th of July trashing this country and telling everyone what he thinks it means to be an American.

The people don't want him there, his presence alone is a slap in the face to all the victims of 9/11.

Read the room.

[DataRepublican (small r) @DataRepublican]

Hello Senator Thune,

At 3 AM on Friday, March 27th, in a near-empty chamber, you passed a bill by voice vote that excludes all funding for ICE and CBP.

Let me repeat that: voice vote. No roll call. No record of who was there. No accountability. Just you, Barrasso, and a handful of senators shuffling paper in the dead of night while America slept.

You could have demanded a recorded vote. You chose not to.

You could have held the line for five more days until the House returned. You chose not to.

You could have used the same procedural tools Democrats have used against you for 40 days. You chose not to.

Instead, you gave Chuck Schumer exactly what he asked for, DHS funding minus immigration enforcement, and called it a win. Then you walked to the cameras and blamed the Democrats.

Let's be precise about what you did:

1. You caved to a demand Democrats made on Day 1 of this shutdown. Forty-one days of supposed hardball negotiation, and you settled for their opening offer.
2. You handed them a template. The next time Democrats want to defund any agency — ICE, CBP, or anything else — they now know: just shut down DHS and wait. John Thune will fold at 3 AM.
3. You punted to reconciliation. "Good possibility," you said. Not "we will." Not "guaranteed." Just maybe. Meanwhile, ICE operates on fumes from last year's bill with no certainty of future funding.

The precedent you set:

You have argued for months that the filibuster is sacrosanct. That the 60-vote threshold protects minority rights. That we cannot bend Senate rules for policy wins.

But at 3 AM on Friday, you bent every norm that actually mattered:

• Voice vote to avoid accountability
• Empty chamber to avoid debate
• Midnight deal to avoid scrutiny
• Immediate recess to avoid questions

You'll bend the rules to avoid a fight. You just won't bend them to win one.

What you've actually accomplished:

Democrats demanded ICE restrictions. They got ICE defunded.

Not reformed. Not restrained. Defunded.

And you're out here tweeting about how Democrats are the "Defund the Police" party while you just voted to defund border enforcement at 3 in the morning.
The question you should answer:

Why did this deal have to happen at 3 AM?

Why couldn't it happen at 3 PM, with cameras rolling and every senator on record?

You know why. Because you didn't want your voters to see what surrender looks like.

Here's my message: We saw it anyway.

Stop hiding behind "Democrat obstruction." You're the Majority Leader. You set the schedule. You control the floor. You chose this outcome.

Own it.

[annebgamache @annebgamache]

Were you at Film @Jason ?

[@jason @Jason]

Give @nathanfielder the Oscar for Best Doc immediately.

[Visit Telluride @VisitTelluride]

Yo-Yo Ma on Main 🤌🏻

📸: @PalmaCaruso

[John Solomon @jsolomonReports]

Michigan group releases 2020 election report, urges further probes https://t.co/u1DoLqMx17

[Special Envoy Steve Witkoff @SEPeaceMissions]

At President Trump’s direction, United States negotiators visited both Moscow and Kyiv in order to facilitate additional dialogue to end the Russia-Ukraine War. Ahead of the trip, the Russians and Ukrainians agreed to a three-day no-shoot policy to enable these discussions to occur. Special Envoy Witkoff, Jared Kushner, and officials from the National Security Council, State Department, and Treasury Department met with both President Putin of Russia and President Zelenskyy of Ukraine in order to discuss each side’s proposals with the other. In Kyiv, the delegations were also joined by national security advisors from the United Kingdom, Germany, and France to collaborate on the path forward. Substantive progress was made, including movement on scheduling additional trilateral talks. President Trump is working hard to stop the killing and work towards a lasting and durable peace.

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

They hanged him at dawn.💔

The Islamic Republic executed rapper Erfan Mirzaei on Sunday, September 6, at the morning adhan, in Dastgerd Prison in Isfahan. No warning. No last call to his family. The rope and the silence.

He was a young rapper. His crime was standing against a regime that kills to survive. He sang of freedom and hope in a country where a song can cost your life. Those who knew him remember a young man full of fire, art, and big dreams. The regime stole all of it in a single dawn, while the world slept.

He was arrested during the January protests and executed in secret, while the Islamic Republic continues slaughtering January protesters in Iran's prisons under a total news blackout.

His funeral is today, Say his name. Do not let the gallows have the last word.

[Donnie Detroit @DonnieDetroit19]

This graph is brought to you today by Teacher Unions. Sadly, most kids these days cannot read or understand it.

[they call me Pencils @CindySinor]

Today on Labor Day we celebrate the American workers who keep our country up and running. The Lineman by Norman Rockwell (1948)